What are you reading? Book recommendations please! 📚️

Keep me posted on To Kill a Mockingbird @Holly_Scope I've got it on the e-reader, but remembering the movie I am not sure if I feel up to such a heavy theme. On the other hand… in this day and age perhaps we should for that very reason.

New to me, but yeah on my want-to-read list now, thanks @Mary_Scope

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Its an old favourite I reread every few years. They adapted it for TV with David Tennant and Martin Sheen. Personally I always prefer a book 100% of the time as nothing on camera can live up to the pictures created in my brain.

I've been in an energy crash the last few weeks so not much reading, but I've read If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable by Daniel Trilling. I would highly recommend it as it is short, explains things in plain language, and maybe provides some hope that not all is lost yet.

Hi there @MissMarple I've been thinking about you, so glad you surfaced here again! And that you feel well enough to talk books, but I am sending you well-wishing for lots more energy. I know it doesn't work that way (if only), but hopefully it feels as a gentle pat on your back.

And what a book you've been reading while feeling low, I cannot recall where I've heard about it before - I thought it was here, but apparently not. Impressive, I cannot always put myself to that sort of heaviness with the current state of the world. Geez.

Are you a fan of Michael Robotham? I've finished his 20th book last week, it was my 2nd and I am hoping to read more books by him. Whodunnits but with well-developed characters (as opposed to the stereotype of killers who happen to have mental health problems which always annoys me).

Hello @SmellyBin Thank you for your kind words. Unfortunately the crash is still ongoing and the only reason it hasn't got worse is because I simply haven't done some important things that should have been done. Reading is relatively low effort compared to, say, workmen coming to fix things. I read one book by Robotham. I can't remember the title, it was some child psychologist man getting accused of murder. I liked it but found it too long and not that compelling. I would give him another chance if I happen to find a book in audio version.

I've just got the new Jo Callaghan, Body of Lies in her AI detective series. I'm really looking forward to seeing how the AI develops in terms of decision making and its relationship with the human characters.

I'm listening to audio book I downloaded from our library. Listening to Mirror and light the last part of the series Wolf Hall, which was on tv. About Thomas Cromwell during King Henry V111