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What are you reading?

Finished The Scarred Woman, it was quite a twisted plot.
Now started The Silent Twin by Caroline Mitchell, a detective thriller, seems to be a mix of police procedural and a bit supernatural, so far.
 
Finished Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson this morning - not what I expected but I did enjoy it.

Next up is Tomás Nevinson by Javier Marías which at some 550ish pages is one of those books that make my fingers ache when holding it.

Despite the similarities between the author name Thomas Levenson and the book title Tomás Nevinson, they are not in any way connected.
 
Finished The Silent Twin, had a few twists, guessed the culprit was dodgy but not how excatctly.
Now started The Ups and Downs of 2021 by Nick Abbott.
 
Dishevelled said:
Finished Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson this morning - not what I expected but I did enjoy it.

Next up is Tomás Nevinson by Javier Marías which at some 550ish pages is one of those books that make my fingers ache when holding it.

Despite the similarities between the author name Thomas Levenson and the book title Tomás Nevinson, they are not in any way connected.
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I am not reading much at the moment but have lots of books to read! One of the books is Berta Isla which is the book before Nevinson. Have you read it? I used to read Marias columns in El País. It is a very fat book and as it is in Spanish I will need to have time to read it.
 
saffron15 said:
I am not reading much at the moment but have lots of books to read! One of the books is Berta Isla which is the book before Nevinson. Have you read it? I used to read Marias columns in El País. It is a very fat book and as it is in Spanish I will need to have time to read it.
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Yes, I have read Berta Isla and really enjoyed it. I read that one in Spanish and would have read Nevinson in Spanish too but I was given an English version so that's what I'm reading.
I also read some of his El Pais columns and my dad corresponded with him for a number of years so I sort of feel I knew him a bit.
 
Dishevelled said:
Yes, I have read Berta Isla and really enjoyed it. I read that one in Spanish and would have read Nevinson in Spanish too but I was given an English version so that's what I'm reading.
I also read some of his El Pais columns and my dad corresponded with him for a number of years so I sort of feel I knew him a bit.
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Wow I'm impressed your Dad corresponded with him. Did they meet? I knew he lived in Oxford for a while. Is your father Spanish? I am a bit slow reading in Spanish. I learned it in the sixth form decades ago and in retirement go to a class. I also enjoyed reading Almudena Grandes columns and have a book of some of her columns.
 
saffron15 said:
Wow I'm impressed your Dad corresponded with him. Did they meet? I knew he lived in Oxford for a while. Is your father Spanish? I am a bit slow reading in Spanish. I learned it in the sixth form decades ago and in retirement go to a class. I also enjoyed reading Almudena Grandes columns and have a book of some of her columns.
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No they never actually met but my father's background at Oxford and the Foreign Office was of interest to him. My father wasn't Spanish but was excellent at languages.
 
Finished The Pier, bit of a twisty plot.
Now reading now reading Lady's Well by L.J.Ross, one of my favourite authors.
 
I finally finished 'House of Earth and Bood' earlier this week! The last 200 pages were a lot more fast paced (it was a big book, 807 total!). A few plot twists.

This month's book is 'Five broken blades' by Mai Corland. Another dark fantasy, it is told from 4 different points of view and from the bit I read is looking quite good.
 
Finished Ladys Well, enjoyed it as I usally do L.J.Ross's books. Guessed early on that a body had been disposed of in a septic tank.
Now started The Morals of Murder by Roger Silverwood.
 
grovesy said:
Finished The Silent Twin, had a few twists, guessed the culprit was dodgy but not how excatctly.
Now started The Ups and Downs of 2021 by Nick Abbott.
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The same Nick Abbott who is on LBC? If so, he is hilarious.
 
Sharron1 said:
The same Nick Abbott who is on LBC? If so, he is hilarious.
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Yes it is the one and only.
It is the A to Z of things that happened in the year, he has a phone in at the end of the year where listeners ring in.
 
grovesy said:
Yes it is the one and only.
It is the A to Z of things that happened in the year, he has a phone in at the end of the year w
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grovesy said:
re listeners ring inoh
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I listen to him regularly at weekends, and especially the Xmas- New Year A-Z phone in. So much fun.
 
Finished The Morals of Murder, had a bit of an unexpected twist to the story.
The Savage Altar, by Asa Larssson.
 
Happy birthday @PattiEvans ! Best wishes for Julian as well. Funny how your birthdays are so close together!
 
Finished Maybe, Perhaps, Possilby by Joanna Glen at 3:00 am this morning. I could not put it down.
Looking back it is similar structure that Joanna Glenn uses with two characters in different places,often with dis functional families. So a little bit sandy, but still for me gripping.
I really like how she develops the characters
 
Elenka_HM said:
Happy birthday @PattiEvans ! Best wishes for Julian as well. Funny how your birthdays are so close together!
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Ooooops! So that´s why I couldn´t see my post in the Morning BG thread and I had to type it again. Got it in the wrong place o_O

Finished `Five broken blades´yesterday. I mentioned it is told from 4 POVs, there´s actually 6. I enjoyed it, although they got a bit repetitive with the internal monologues about how they can´t trust nobody. I am returning it to the library today, a couple of days before it is due.

Currently reading `Bookshops and bonedust´, a prequel for `Legends and lattes´. I also have 'Onyx Storm' calling me from the bookshelf but I think I will wait. I feel better reading one book at a time.
 
Read two very enjoyable novels recently:

Peng Shepherd's All This & More, which is sort of kind of Choose Your Own Adventure but for grown ups, crossed with a deeply weird reality TV. Highly recommend you read in physical form if you're like me and like to read all the pathways in these sorts of books, as I can imagine ebook wouldn't work as well. Really beautifully done.

Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time. This one had been on my TBR for ages and picked up a copy in Smith's on my way out of town the other week. I'd been avoiding it because I was worried it would disappoint me (it looked like it would be good for a future research project but I'm constantly disappionted by similar titles...), but I nearly read the whole thing in a single gulp. Really fun stuff and didn't even go splat at the end. Though very much less about time and more about the immigrant experience, which I found intriguing, being an immigrant myself.
 
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