Love a psychological thriller .... joined Kindle Unlimited recently, there's loads of them included in the monthly fee. I'm enjoying the Tom Douglas series of books by Rachel Abbott.
Hi Mockingbird. When do you find is the best time of day to read? I struggle to read a book unless it gets under my skin. Haven’t picked one up for months!
Post by cheshirecat2023 on Sept 22, 2023 10:38:40 GMT
I am just about to start reading it ends with us by colleen hoover, very basic i know but i got through it ends wiht us very quickly so need to give this a try. Has anyone read this, what does everyone think?
I started to read the book for a book club CC2023, but didn't finish it, I felt the book wasn't worth my time and definitely not worth all the hype.
The book centres around a child witnessing sexual and domestic abuse throughout her childhood and how this impacts on the rest of her life and the decision she makes.
Hoover is very graphic in the detail of the sexual abuse and violence, and I found this incredibly disturbing and disappointing. When dealing with such a subject, if the author has intelligence , sensitivity and empathy, there is no need to go into such graphic detail, and on multiple occasions ,as she has done in this book.
I understand the book is recommended for a reading age of 17 and above, but of course it has had a high readership amongst much younger readers, and I fear that for some of those readers, the language used when describing such events, will have been a trigger.
There is a sequel, my advice is , don't waste time or money on it, you will regret it.
I've just read The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, and very much looking forward to ready the three other books she has penned. A moving, and true story of love, and endurance
I have read the Salt Path VW, I did love it too. Although, there were one or two aspects I found a bit frustrating, as in, considering how ill Moth was, how on earth could they forget to pack his medication when they started their adventure? Also, they bought very cheap sleeping bags, they forgot to take head cover or sun screen, how daft was that?
The way I read it, the legal battle which resulted in them losing their home, Raynor did the defence herself due to cost, it appears in retrospect, they could have won their case if a crucial document, proving they had been wrongly advised, was submitted to the court, which she forgot about. How could that happen when so much depended on it?
They had a bit of luck with being able to get a roof over their heads by working on friends properties for a while.
I wondered if Raynor was happy with the way the published book read, or if she thought maybe the publishers had 'polished' it up a bit too much. The success of the book must have been a life saver for them.
I have just finished reading 'Venomous Lumpsucker' by Ned Beauman
Absolutely brilliant, this review below is the best one for describing the book I thought,
'Screamingly, bleakly funny . . . Beauman has a superlative knack for quotable, witty, and wince-inducing lines, stuffing every page with the kind of exhilarating humour borne of both despair and empathy. A thriller motivated by deep-sea mining destruction and mass extinction, a gut-punching satire of the failure of the carbon offset project: unfortunately, it's the beach read we deserve. Fortunately, it's a savagely entertaining one ― Chicago Review of Books'
There are not many books that i would read twice, but this would definitely be one of them. It is very funny, and very detailed re the future of climate change and species extinction, but the humour is absolutely brilliant and saves the book from being heavy and difficult to read.
I am always reading library books. No, let me correct that: I am trying to read all my library books. I just don't have time to read as often as I used to. But I CAN read at night in my bedroom. In fact, that is what I'll do. On an ideal day I do like to sit down with my library book and read for four hours. Reading a novel in one sitting is what I like doing. It is frustrating not being able to do this more often.
I am always reading library books. No, let me correct that: I am trying to read all my library books. I just don't have time to read as often as I used to. But I CAN read at night in my bedroom. In fact, that is what I'll do. On an ideal day I do like to sit down with my library book and read for four hours. Reading a novel in one sitting is what I like doing. It is frustrating not being able to do this more often.
But I shall try!
I managed to read my library book yesterday evening in one sitting. It was an enjoyable story and extremely well-written. It was a romance novel I'd read again. Plus, it had a happy ending, which I always like.
I'm still reading factual atm, Floriography and one I've got my eye on is Death in the garden: Poisonous plants and their use throughout history, sounds a blast
There is a lot to be said for being part of a group, and the support and friendship that is gained from this.
Just reading Richard Osman's book 'The Bullet That Missed' - I have already read and enjoyed the first two about the Thursday murder club and once I've finished this one he has a fourth out. It's short chapters, amusingly written and easy to dip in and out of, so suits my reading style very well.
I've just finished reading Ken Follett's " The Armor of Light" , new (and last?) volume of the series that began with "the Pillars of Earth". [...]We find ourselves in Kingsbridge and its surrounds in 1792, the year that marks the beginning of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. At the same time, steady advances in industrial mechanization are fast laying waste to traditional ways of life. In Kingsbridge, a center of woolen textile production, work is moving from the homes of hand carders, spinners and weavers to mills equipped with vastly more productive machinery. Combined with the inflationary effect of the wars and the government’s crackdown on “sedition” — usefully construed by the propertied classes as associations of working people — survival for workers has become a very grim business.[/...] (Washington Post) Really it !