The Book Nook

birdwatcher

I'm reading The chimney sweeps son. Can't go to sleep until I've read a couple of chapters of whatever book I'm on. Then I've got another Richard Osman lined up. I've always said I'll not go in a home but would make an exception for the one his characters live at😁
Does anyone else take theirs to the charity shop and come back with different ones once they've read them?

CountryMimi

Ohhh @birdwatcher that sounds interesting!

😂😂😂 You'll go into one where his characters live

No, I haven't done that, but I've taken some to a free little library and taken some before

FluffyCatMeow

(I know this thread is a year old, so I’m sorry if I’m not meant to post on it)

What is everyone reading at the minute?

I’ve got a few books on the go, including a manga called Undead Unluck which is quite good so far

jau231

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/852887#Comment_852887

I do this too, I will take a book or two to the charity shop or one of the book exchanges in a telephone box. I cannot resist picking up another, sometimes more than one too. I am quite guilty of re-reading and do keep a hold of most of my books. But ones that I know I will not read again, I will definetly donate.

jau231

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/999727#Comment_999727

I too have a few on the go! I generally have a couple going at a given time, it is sometimes a non-ficiton with a novel but if they are very different it is fine and not confusing! I am reading Swimming for Beginners by Nicola Gill- the cover almost put me off but I am very intrigued by the story, it is an easy sounding read about a career driven woman who is thrust the responsibility of a little girl of six who gets left behind in an airport by her mum. I am also reading Graham Nortons latest Frankie, it is the first of his I have read and it is good. It is set in modern day and flashes back to Ireland then London in the 50's and 60's, great characters and it just reads itself.

My favourite reads so far this year have been Nesting by Roisin O'Donnell and The Rules of Seeing by Joe Heap.

Mary_Scope

What a great thread!! I love talking about books😄

Literary contemporary fiction is my favourite with a strong focus on stories on complex female characters. Does anybody have good recommendations for that criteria?

FluffyCatMeow

I finished vol.2 of Undead Unluck and so back to the nonfiction book The House Divided by Barnaby (love that name) Rogerson

Albus_Scope

I've just started reading Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. It's very Douglas Adams in it's style. a tale about the worlds buildings (and anyone in them) vanishing and the survivors having to go under the earth into dungeons, but like a computer game. Hard to explain, but very silly fun.