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mel_4ears

What are you reading at the moment? What have you just finished? Or what are you eyeing in the bookshop?  

I am currently reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R R Martin.

Pride and Prejudice: it is actually the first time I've read it, and I haven't seen any adaptations (I've been avoiding them on purpose). My first Jane Austen was Northanger Abbey, which I read last year and really enjoyed.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is my first George R R Martin book. I'm really, really enjoying it.

dolfrog

Well, My temporal Auditory Processing Disorder (APD), the brain having problems processing the gaps between sounds, is the underlying cognitive cause of  my developmental dyslexia. So i have been avoiding books all of my life lol, I prefer to watch films or television series based on books for me a better way of doing things.  

ScoliFibroGirl

I’m currently reading Limitless by Alan Glynn

Richard_Scope

I'm about to start 12 Rules for Life. The author, Jordan B. Peterson, seems to be a polarizing character.

Chloe_Alumni

Hi @mel_4ears, I love this idea! I have just finished reading Matt Haig's books: Notes from a nervous planet and reasons to stay alive. I found both of them so interesting! At the moment I have just started little fires everywhere by Celeste Ng and I'm loving it at the moment. It was a recommendation from my aunty an it is yet to disappoint!

Connie00

Hello everyone 

I find it really difficult to sit and read, I don’t do sitting for very long, I love my Audio Books my favourite author is Martin Cole and all read by Anne Aldington . it takes me back to my childhood my life London, I have read 28 of her books, she is a brilliant author,  she mainly writes about crime, the mob the underworld, I can’t get enough of it. Anne Aldington she is an excellent Narrator.

I tend to listen to these stories when I do ironing or just daily chores, they keep my mind off my pain, and allow me to do a bit more housework.

@Connie00

April2018mom

I’m currently reading what is your child’s learning style. We are trying to determine this. 

Ails

Hi @mel_4ears,
Jane Austen's books are wonderful and Pride and Prejudice is a classic.  I'm sure that you would enjoy film/tv adaptations of her books too as they are really good.  I like Jane Austen novels too, but am currently reading A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness.  I am getting really caught up in the plot and find it hard putting the book down at times to get on with other things - lol!  I find reading really relaxing. 

brydiedwards

I've just finished A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis... Very enlightening. I love Jane Austen and have started so many of her books but can never seem to get all the way to the end! When you've finished I highly recommend the Joe Wright adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, I've seen it a million times with my mum and it never gets old. 

debbiedo49

I've just read "every colour of you" by Amelia Mandeville on Kindle, an interesting fictional insight into being a friend of someone with depression.

bonnielassie

I've just started reading 'Find me' by J S Monroe. I'm really enjoying the way it is drawing me in to the plot. I got it from Kobo (the slightly cheaper version of Kindle!). I've noticed a couple of typos so far but nothing that has put me off!

mel_4ears

@Chloe_Scope Matt Haig's books are amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed his Reasons to Stay Alive and I've just bought Notes on a Nervous Planet. I love his kids' books too. The Christmas ones and the troll ones. How did you get on with Little Fires Everywhere? I've heard a lot about that but never read it.

@Connie00 Well thank gosh for audiobooks! I'm glad you still get to experience stories and novels. Do you have a favourite narrator?

@Ails I really want to get to Deborah Harkness. Have you finished it yet? Did you enjoy it?

@brydiedwards I am one chapter into the last volume of Pride and Prejudice and I am struggling. I managed to finish Northanger Abbey though, but I had to keep taking breaks from it and reading other things. And I was enjoying that one much more than this one. The first volume was ok but volume two lost me. I've come this far though, I WILL finish!

I am currently reading The Bone Queen by Alison Croggan. It's quite a dense literary fantasy set in a mining village. I am falling in love with the mining aspect. It's so nostalgic.

brydiedwards

@mel_4ears  Mansfield Park is the Jane Austen book I've managed to get the furthest into but I can't even remember why I stopped reading. I'm sure you will! It's a shame when it becomes a struggle to get through it but almost makes it more gratifying once you've finished. 

Chloe_Alumni

@mel_4ears, you'll definitely love his second book! I'm really enjoying it, even if I am about a third of the way through it. Unfortunately I've been quite busy so haven't had chance to read much!

bonnielassie

I finished 'Find me' last night. What a fantastic book! I usually go for murder/mystery/thrillers, and thought this would be the same. It was a thriller but had a lot of different themes which were really interesting and enjoyable. I recommend it!
On a different topic, but one that has been mentioned above a few times, I read Mansfield Park for my English literature A-level. I really enjoyed it, and don't know why I didn't read more of her books. I'll keep them on my 'must read' list then I should get round to it..

Ails

Hi @mel_4ears,
Deborah Harkness writes so well.  This is the first book of hers that I have read and am really enjoying it.  I will be trying more of her books after this one.  I am still currently reading "A Discovery of Witches" and am dipping in and out of it just now in-between doing other things, but I intend finishing it soon.  The series on Sky was great too! 

Waylay

Just started reading "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", by Yuval Noah Harari, but it'll take me a long time - my concentration is too bad to be able to read much of it at once.

Have been reading "Where Song Began", by Tim Low, for a while. Again, requires a lot of concentration, so going slowly, but it's fascinating! It tells the story of the evolution of songbirds, which occurred largely in Australia, and how Australia's birds are more likely to be "intelligent, aggressive, loud, long-lived, and to live in complex societies."

Also dipping in and out of "The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma", by Bessel van der Kolk, but I find it to be very emotionally taxing, so I only read a bit at a time.

My go-to read is "Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People", by Frances Ryan, the Guardian columnist. Her writing could use a bit of editing, but the content is great. She pulls together everything that has been done to us in the past 9 years, and gives case studies. Well worth a read!

deb74

I am just about to finish death day by Shaun Hutson. He is a brilliant author if you like horror and thriller books. He has got an amazing imagination!

Iamgettingthere67

I haven't really settled to a book these last few weeks although I am "sort of" reading a couple. I am interested in the praise on here for Matt Haig. I haven't read any but I do have "The Humans". Has anyone read it? Is it any good?

sheZZa

I haven’t been able to concentrate enough and to follow the storyline to read a book  for the past few years despite trying often. However, this past week, I have managed, to read two to three pages at a time of High Murder.  I’m only a chapter in but it’s good so far. Fingers crossed I’ll finish it. 

bonnielassie

Hi @sheZZa
I used to be like that- I used to be a fast knitter but I've got a cardigan in my bag that's taken about 6 years because of my lack of concentration. Now I'm flooring about like a butterfly. I've started loads of things but finished none. However I've chipped away at it and started to feel some kind of achievement! I'm definitely working on the thing I have reneging and 1x1. I'm getting them finished! Keep it up - 3 pages will soon become half a chapter, then a full chapter and so on. You'll be finished a book before you know it. Is the book a story you are enjoying, cos that's really important, otherwise you're living room starts to feel like school!