What are you reading? Book recommendations please! 📚️

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  • StarryEyed
    StarryEyed Online Community Member Posts: 1,024 Trailblazing

    @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.

  • Albus_Alumni
    Albus_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 11,423 Championing

    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. 😁

  • Albus_Alumni
    Albus_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 11,423 Championing

    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: 148 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: 15,455 Championing

    I'm currently reading Somewhere beyond the sea TJ Klune

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 4,794 Scope Online Community Coordinator

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

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  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 3,775 Championing
    edited October 2025

    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: 15,455 Championing

    I'm currently reading The God of the Woods

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Online Community Member Posts: 415 Empowering

    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.

  • Hopeless
    Hopeless Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 1,004 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: 4,220 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?

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 4,220 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?

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 4,220 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    Ah that sounds right up by street @Kookee, think it'll have to be my next read now!

    Me too, I really like a youtuber called WhatRaeReads that I will link too, she creates videos on weird books recommendations and a lot of the book she recommends have been really good so far😊

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 3,775 Championing

    Oooh Sir Anthony Hopkins' memoir, 'We did OK kid' is being published. I like him but never seen his films.

    He's on BBC2 1930hrs on Weds, 'A Career in Character'.

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 3,189 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I have lots to catch up on! I'm in a bit of a reading lull. I started reading Now You See Me by Sharon Bolton but only made it about 50 pages in and I haven't read in a couple of weeks. I'll make a list of what you're all reading and find something to get me back into it. I miss my cosy evenings reading!

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 4,220 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    I started Animals last night @Kookee, I'm a couple of chapters in but enjoying it so far!😊

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Online Community Member Posts: 415 Empowering

    I got a book voucher and am thinking of buying Linda Green's In Little Stars. Anyone ever read something by Linda Green?

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Online Community Member Posts: 415 Empowering

    Started Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson, found it in the little free library. It is light of tone so far, but it seems a bit much about wealth with able-bodied characters…

  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 15,455 Championing

    Murder most festive

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