What are you reading? Book recommendations please! 📚️

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  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,239 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: 300 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: 3,829 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: 3,829 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: 3,829 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: 109 Empowering

    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: 15,388 Championing

    I'm currently reading Somewhere beyond the sea TJ Klune

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 4,218 Scope Online Community Coordinator

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

  • Passerby
    Passerby Online Community Member Posts: 1,141 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: 3,022 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: 15,388 Championing

    I'm currently reading The God of the Woods

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Online Community Member Posts: 65 Contributor

    Someone mentioned T.J. Klune, I've got Under The Whispering Door waiting for me, but haven't started it yet. Is it any good?

    I've just finished The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths that is a whodunit with a time-travelling aspect. Her books are always a pleasure to read.

    And Tara Brach's Radical Compassion is on its way to me. For this I am hoping to find a book buddy…

    And for those who love to read but not that much money to spend on books I can recommend Netgalley - both co dot uk and dot com. Being new means I cannot share URLs just yet.

  • Kookee
    Kookee Online Community Member Posts: 570 Empowering

    I love to read. I like fiction (but not horror or crime thrillers). I also like non fiction and this is my current read (I’m loving it).

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  • Hopeless
    Hopeless Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 975 Pioneering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1077998#Comment_1077998

    I’ve recently read this. It’s a bit confusing with going back and forward in time but once I got the hang of it I really enjoyed it

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 3,032 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    I've just finished The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware and I gave it a solid 3.75/5 on Storygraph!

    I can't decide what to read next, it is between The Couple at No 9 but Claire Douglas or Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth….has anybody read any of these before?

  • Kookee
    Kookee Online Community Member Posts: 570 Empowering

    I enjoyed Animals 😊

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 3,032 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    Oooh what did you like about it @Kookee?

    I read Emma's latest book about 2 months ago (the title I can't type on here as it goes against OSA guidelines 😄 but I hope you know what book I mean😄) and really enjoyed that! Have you read that too?

  • Kookee
    Kookee Online Community Member Posts: 570 Empowering

    @Mary_Scope It was a long time ago but I found it kind of relatable and it was weird, and I like weird books lol.

    I’ve not read any more of her books. I’d forgotten all about her till you mentioned it so will go look now!

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