What are you reading? Book recommendations please! 📚️

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  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Community Member Posts: 593 Empowering

    Some authors, like Joanna Cannon or Sally Jenkins or Cecilia Ahern, write books that can be so different to my personal opinion. One or two wonderful books, yet another completely disappointing. I even had it with Belinda Bauer's 2nd book of the Exmoor trilogy. Good thing these days I am finally getting the hang of listening to my annoyance and not plod on @MissMarple

    If you wanna have a laugh, I read Swept Away last week and started Book Lovers by the same author this weekend. But it was completely different and also set in the US, not the UK with me being a bit confused. So it turned out that Beth O'leary and Emily Henry are not the same people 🤭

    I have another voucher for the online book service (only 1 euro for a month, who can resist that) and somehow keep coming back to Karin Slaughter.

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 4,221 Online Community Team

    @66Mustang I just noticed that you're reading My Neighbour Totoro! Are you enjoying it? I absolutely love all of the Studio Ghibli films. Have you seen them? I've got The Cat Returns manga.

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 6,351 Online Community Team
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    I finally finished this at the weekend after a period of not picking a book up much. It was probably one of my favourite books to read so far @SmellyBin. It's not as heavy as I expected throughout, there's so much more to the book. Quite a lot of warmth and humour. I'd highly recommend.

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 6,351 Online Community Team

    Has anybody used World of Books?

    If you don't mind reading second hand books and don't get an opportunity to get out much to shops etc, it's a great place. I've used it a few times and would highly recommend.

    Link here - World of Books | Buy cheap second-hand books online | Wob

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 4,807 Championing

    Yes I have used World of Books and would also recommend them. @Holly_Scope

    I read To Kill A Mocking Bird several years ago and again recently. It is a powerful story about human nature and justice.

    I enjoyed reading Where The Crawdads Sing, not sure if anyone has mentioned this book.

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 6,351 Online Community Team

    It's such a good story isn't it @Bluebell21- not at all how I expected it to be before reading it either. I'll definitely be keeping it to re-read too 😊

    I think I've heard the name. I'll get it on my list to order when I do my next 3 or 4 book purchases (hopefully early next month). I've just started Moby Dick but it's very long 😅 Thanks so much for the recommendation. If there are any more you have, please let me know.

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Community Member Posts: 593 Empowering

    Lovely to read all the recommendations, especially To Kill A Mocking Bird which is now definitely on my (already rather long) to-read list.

  • ea4683
    ea4683 Community Member Posts: 2 Listener
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    Hi @SmellyBin have you read The Gin Shack on The Beach by Catherine Miller? It’s similar to How to Age Disgracefully.

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Community Member Posts: 593 Empowering

    Cool, thanks @ea4683 What are you reading yourself right now?

  • ea4683
    ea4683 Community Member Posts: 2 Listener

    @SmellyBin I have just started Love Untold by Ruth Jones. I think Grace one of the main characters is definitely going to be fun. Have you read Love Untold? Are you still enjoying The Authenticity Project? I’ve not yet read it.

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Community Member Posts: 593 Empowering

    Morning @ea4683 That is a new to me author and she writes big books which I always prefer. I am gonna keep an eye on her titles.

    How is everyone doing with this weather? Feet up and nose in a book, taking it slow? I am getting a bit nervous with the temperatures rising here in the NL.

  • ncat
    ncat Community Member Posts: 1 Listener

    I have been reading this amazing book called “everything I know about love” by dolly alderton, which is a deep and hilarious autobiography. It touches on some sensitive topics and made me feel understood.

  • MissMarple
    MissMarple Community Member Posts: 441 Empowering

    The conversation in another thread about the NHS rewards for walking scheme reminded me of this book: It's On You by Nick Chater and George Loewenstein. It's a non fiction book about how "corporations and behavioural scientists convinced us that we are to blame for society's deepest problems". E.g. obesity has skyrocketed the last few decades. What we hear is that we just need more discipline, make sensible food choices and move more. Which is fair enough, but how come that this wasn't a problem up to 50 years ago? Were our ancestors so much more disciplined and wiser than us? Or maybe, it's actually something to do with how the world has changed, fewer stay-at-home mums, junk food pumped with addictive ingredients etc. The book analyses different areas (e.g. climate change, retirement savings) and shows how industries fund initiatives to place the blame and the solution on the individual, instead of changing their own practices.

  • StarryEyed
    StarryEyed Community Member Posts: 1,586 Championing

    Hi! Civil rights is something that really interests me, so I've just read two books on the topic, both on Audible. They're both serious reads, but that's the kind of reading I like.

    "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin is written by a white man who colours his skin to disguise himself as a black man in 1959 while travelling in the southern US. It's brilliant.

    "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela is his autobiography, focusing on his battles against apartheid in South Africa. Also brilliant.

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 6,351 Online Community Team
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    I think I'd enjoy these @StarryEyed - thanks for sharing. I'm going to write them on my ever growing list of books. Still battling Moby Dick but hoping to have that finished soon then I can order the next batch 😊

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 5,186 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    I finished Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash last week and I absolutely loved that. It wasn't what I was anticipating at all as I thought it was going to be quite an intense and hard hitting read but it turned out to be really funny, witty and light hearted! Has anybody else read that?

    I started You'd Look Better as a Ghost by Joanna Wallace yesterday @MissMarple and I'm really enjoying it! I'm hoping to finish it before the end of the week so I'll give you a proper review then but so far, so good!!😊 Thank you again for the recommendation, it really is right up my street. Have you read any of Joanna's other books?

  • MissMarple
    MissMarple Community Member Posts: 441 Empowering

    I'm glad you're enjoying You'd Look Better as a Ghost @Mary_Scope I read Joanna Wallace's second book too (liked it) and her third is coming out soon! 🙂

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Community Member Posts: 593 Empowering

    Joanna Wallace's new book is available on Netgalley, free in exchange for a review.

  • MissMarple
    MissMarple Community Member Posts: 441 Empowering

    That's great @SmellyBin I could never commit to writing reviews, but I'm grateful for them as they help me choose my next reads.

  • Rag_793
    Rag_793 Community Member Posts: 57 Contributor
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    In the future I am wanting to adopt a cat, so I have bought a few books second hand on Amazon for research. While I was town last week, I nipped in the charity shop and bought three books, Aretha Franklin Autobiography, Sir Bradley Wiggins and Seve Ballesteros the latter three for £1.00. Another addition to the 150+ books I have in storage.

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