What are you reading? Book recommendations please! 📚️

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  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,211 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1072295#Comment_1072295

    He's the best crime writer I know of

    He's written hundreds of books

    Start at the beginning with along came a spider, then kiss the girls

    Those 2 have been. Made into a movie

  • StarryEyed
    StarryEyed Online Community Member Posts: 198 Empowering

    @Albus_Scope are you on Audible? What kinds of audiobooks are in your collection?

    I only know one person IRL who likes audiobooks - my sister, and she's the one who kept urging me to try. She's been an avid reader since she was a little kid.

  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 3,607 Championing
    edited October 4
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1072257#Comment_1072257

    The book is in no way 'high brow', as if it were, I wouldn't be reading it! I just thought it was probably a bit niche.

    I'm only reading it because my daughter bought me it for my last birthday. I wouldn't have chosen it.

    Actually, it's growing on me. I find it amusing that they considered anything post Chaucer as modern!

  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 3,607 Championing

    The Midnight Folk, and The Box Of Delights by John Masefield. For children, and i read them both to mine.

    There are some children's novels i can still read, especially if I grew up reading them!

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I am on Audible @StarryEyed I've got quite the collection of audiobooks now thanks to their sales, but they're mostly sci-fi or self help books. Many of my friends like audiobooks for relaxing in the bath, or when they're driving.

    I prefer audiobooks now, as I find it hard to concentrate for too long with books, plus I'm staring at screens all day, so it's nice to give my eyes a break.

    The Midnight Folk is such a classic @Chris75_ can't go wrong with that one on a dark night. 😁

  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 3,607 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1072499#Comment_1072499

    I remember the children's tv adaption of The Box Of Delights, and i have a copy on dvd. Both my daughters enjoyed it growing up. I imagine The Midnight Folk was too daunting a prospect for tv in the mid 1980s.

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Oh I remember that series @Chris75_!

    A friend told me Amazon Video now has all of Jim Henson's The Storyteller, so I may go take a trip down memory lane tonight. Even if some of the puppets did freak me out a bit.

  • NeuroEve
    NeuroEve Online Community Member Posts: 93 Contributor

    I bought my sister the Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore for her birthday as she was going on holiday, thought it was a romance set around a cafe. Oh my she said it was a fabulous but a bit spicy in a different way. So I have downloaded it onto my kindle ha ha.

  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 15,320 Championing

    I'm currently reading Somewhere beyond the sea TJ Klune

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 4,152 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I'm reading The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf and a little Hamlet 😊

  • Passerby
    Passerby Online Community Member Posts: 994 Championing

    This is the book I'm currently reading, which I bought a few days ago. Although it's quite interesting, it might be a matter of subjective preference and not to everyone's liking. It was originally published on 14 May 2020.

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  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 2,853 Championing
    edited October 24

    Virginia Roberts Giuffre - Nobody's Girl 😪

    (A memoir of Survivng Abuse and Fighting for Justice).

    RIP 💔. Here's hoping she gets that, albeit from beyond the grave.

  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 15,320 Championing

    I'm currently reading The God of the Woods

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