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Post by kakewalk on Dec 5, 2023 1:33:31 GMT
I’m currently reading and enjoying The Trial by Rob Rinder. I wasn’t expecting a lot and am pleasantly surprised although I haven’t finished it so time to go off the boil I suppose, 😂. I’ve been meaning to get that, Marion. Thanks for the reminder 👍 |
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Post by linseed on Jan 14, 2024 22:27:03 GMT
Currently reading The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood. He is the writer behind Death In Paradise, and I saw it in my local library so thought I’d give it a go. Very enjoyable cosy murder mystery so far!
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Post by kakewalk on Jan 15, 2024 1:04:30 GMT
Really enjoyed Rob Rinder’s book. I’m now onto one by Anthony Horowitz (not one of his Bond for children stories). Called The Word Is Murder. Very readable.
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Post by Miranda on Jan 15, 2024 15:10:30 GMT
I'm on the reserved list at the library for the Rinder book
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Post by Malyndi on Jan 15, 2024 20:07:48 GMT
Hurrah, thanks to Lovely Cousin 1 - for the first time since Dad's initial onset of illness last March - I am back into reading an actual book (as opposed to newspapers and magazines, though I still enjoy them too). Dad and I used to love the Ken Follett historical novels and eagerly sought out anything written by him (he penned a few spy thrillers among other things). Our favourites were the Kingsbridge series, concerning the building of a cathedral in the Middle Ages and the lives of those involved in it. Cousin 1 lent me the prequel, 'The Evening and The Morning' on Boxing Day and I've almost devoured it...
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Post by kakewalk on Jan 15, 2024 20:12:59 GMT
I read that Ken Follett book, Mal. Pillars of the Earth if I remember correctly. Didn’t know there was a prequel. Will have to find a copy. Cheers.
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Post by marion on Jan 15, 2024 20:23:51 GMT
I’m reading Yellowface by Rebecca Kuang. It was a big hit, but I’m not enjoying it much. It’s about a white writer who rips off the unpublished novel left by her deceased Chinese friend. So in top of a basic theft you’ve got cultural appropriation, social meeja trolling, and possibly more but I’m not that far into it. It questions if a white writer can write a novel based on the experience of Chinese soldiers in WW1. There was a bit of a dig at sensitivity readers which was quite funny, but it’s all a bit laboured. And all a bit po-faced New York I think, but it is supposed to be savagely funny! Maybe I need to let it roll on a bit, but the lack of sympathetic characters is another drawback. I might try to speed read it.
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Anymore to come?
