The Mock Turtle

I love the JB books, but would take or leave her other stuff, as Bats says they're too vague for me.

I have finished Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie, which I enjoyed and which really chilled me at the end (apart from one niggle nobody seems to know the answer to) and I am now on Fred Vargus: Have Mercy On Us All which is rather good. A town crier starts proclaiming the plague. A little too timely, maybe.

lazzbo wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 9:43 am
I need some pure escapism so I'm reading The Last by Hanna Jameson and am loving it, fifty pages in.

The ending of this was beyond shite, so don't waste your time reading this, Turtles. Save yourselves!

I'm reading the new Mhairi McFarlane and really enjoying it, so thanks for the heads up, Lora!

I decided to try and finish The Wytch Elm while I was away. The pace was picking up and I left it in my hotel room. Will I ever find out what happened?

I'll check it out the library once I finish the small pile I have here.

That's so frustrating!

I started The Testaments last night. Loving it.

indigo wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 12:11 pm I started The Testaments last night. Loving it.

Oh, enjoy! It was my book of the year for 2019, digs. I couldn't get enough of it, read it in about 48 hours.

That's on my 'maybe try this year' list. Wych Elm. Let me know how you get on when you've got to the end eventually, Duo. I count you amongst 'people I trust on crime recs'.

I am on Jackson Brodie 4 and I've definitely read them all before except Big Sky. But now I suspect Jackson Brodie will be irritating me too much by the end of this one for me to bother getting hold of Big Sky.

lazzbo wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 12:12 pm

indigo wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 12:11 pm I started The Testaments last night. Loving it.

Oh, enjoy! It was my book of the year for 2019, digs. I couldn't get enough of it, read it in about 48 hours.

I've also got The Last in my to-read pile.

I read The Door into Summer by Robert Heinlein. I was drawn to it because there was a cat but it was only ok and had a quite creepy romance.

I'm now reading Timeline by Michael Crichton. I'm trying to tidy up all the nonsense on my Kindle.

indigo wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 12:20 pm

lazzbo wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 12:12 pm

indigo wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 12:11 pm I started The Testaments last night. Loving it.

Oh, enjoy! It was my book of the year for 2019, digs. I couldn't get enough of it, read it in about 48 hours.

I've also got The Last in my to-read pile.

It ain't a patch on The Testaments, that's fo' sho'!

Bat Macdui wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 12:13 pm That's on my 'maybe try this year' list. Wych Elm. Let me know how you get on when you've got to the end eventually, Duo. I count you amongst 'people I trust on crime recs'.

Hoi! I recommend it.

I’ve just finished Motherwell, Deborah Orr’s autobiography, published posthumously. Truth be told, she always struck me as a bit of a nightmare, but I thought it was very interesting (and horribly sad). Mostly I just feel so sorry for her. The book seemed to end so suddenly, too, just as I thought we were getting to the heart of it all.

I’ve finished Spring, and liked it a lot more than Winter. Now I’m reading My Brilliant Friend.

Motherwell is on my library reservation list.

I have just finished After The End by Clare Mackintosh. I nearly didn't read it as I thought it would be a Jodie Picoult-a-like, and much as I like her I wasn't in the mood for one of hers. But in fact it was incredibly good - very difficult to read, but well worth it. I need a bit of light relief now though.

I loved My Brilliant Friend so much.

I'm trying to decide whether to splash out on the new Marian Keyes or wait until my library has it.

I read a total piece of fluff called California Girls this weekend while lounging with a sick child. Absolutely harmless and mindless.

Mum sent me a book a while back because she loved it. I looked at briefly and then put in a safe place. I can’t for the life of me find it now

I really couldn't get excited by the Brilliant Friend trilogy at all. I really tried and I feel sad that I didn't like the books as I think I've missed out.

I also read Girl by Edna O'Brien about girls stolen by Boko Harem (sp?) which was beautifully written but very disturbing, and am now on Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner.

I enjoyed My Brilliant Friend, but not enough to get round to reading the rest of them. I should really.

I've just finished In Extremis, the biography of war correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum. It was fascinating, I really enjoy war/foreign correspondent memoirs anyway, but this was a particularly good one.