What are you reading 2024 ?

[GJW]

Thanks so much everyone.

I use Libby for reading and after noticing Olive  mentioned Kingsolver, went and did a search, all of her books are out, and the wait time is about 6 weeks, so have put about 5 on hold. 
Ordered a couple of murders by Hakan Nesse, the first one seems good but only a couple, of chapters in so far.
Will check out McLaughlin and borrow those as well.
Problem is I love reading and nothing else seems to get done once the nose is in a book

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Reading is the greatest gift we can give ourselves, imo. Where else do we get to travel, feel, learn, laugh, cry...

And all the rest?

[Lilith7]

Have read all of CJ Box books, I seem to like books with a main character. Also have read all of the Amish series, cannot remember the author but the main character Is Kate Burkholder. Also finished all of Robert Galbraith books for a second time, this time I read them in sequence!! Hanging out for the 8th one.
Struggling at the moment to find something to get my teeth into.

Try Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead.

Oh I KNOW! Brilliant, read it recently & was inspired to re read David Copperfield. She's so good...

[Olive]

Try Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead.

Oh I KNOW! Brilliant, read it recently & was inspired to re read David Copperfield. She's so good...

I'm re-reading her earlier books now and enjoying them a lot more this time around, I think because the environmental message is now so relevant.   Almost finished Animal Dreams.

I've also just finished reading Birnam Wood, which I deferred for ages.   What a ripping yarn!   Riveting, very funny, and a merciless allegory

[Lilith7]

I must get around to reading Birnam Wood; I didn't much like her earlier one but this is said to be very different.

Just started The twat files, Dawn French, so far, so funny.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Peter May's A Silent Death. A Scottish cop in Spain with all the usual drugs and guns and interesting characters.

He writes rather well, a reliable author...

[Olive]

Thanks Hunni, I've ordered it.     Our library has very recently launched a reservations app, and it works!   

So I'm having a lovely time getting back into actual books.  

I still prefer reading the Kindle in bed, but the frugality of library books has great appeal.   If only their ebooks were compatible with a Kindle...

I've just finished Ann Patchett's Tom Lake, which was a bit folksy and winsome for my taste but I did find it hard to put down.

[Lilith7]

I seek a kind person, Julian Borger. Prior to the kindertransports, there were newspaper adverts,mainly in the Manchester Guardian which sought homes for Jewish children from Austria. A very engrossing read, but also difficult.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/f...-the-nazis

[Lilith7]

Life of Dai, Dai Henwood, really enjoying it too.

https://www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/book/9781775542551

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Pierce Brown, the Red Rising series. Blood and thunder with a hint of the classics. But it definitely needs dragons.

[Lilith7]

Which reminds me, havn't read Anne McCaffrey for a while. Dragons are so brilliant that they ought to exist.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

You can never go back...

After GoT...

[Lilith7]

You can never go back...

After GoT...

That may well be true..slightly nervous about trying really. But then probably the print will be really small for my eyes now too.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Navola, by Paolo Bacigalupi, who wrote The Windup Girl (another unforgettable novel), is a long fantasy pseudo historical power family novel that uses Italy as a base, along with the convoluted politics and scheming of her ancient families. It is long, and slow in parts, before it suddenly ramps up into something gripping. It is very beautiful, as well as dark, and engaging.

I can't wait for the next one...

Oh! And it has dragons. Well, a bit of one anyway...

[Lilith7]

Found a Joanne Harris book, Broken Light which is extremely interesting. A middle aged woman is shocked when there's a murder in her neighbourhood but it sparks a return of her forgotten powers which leads her down some new paths.


https://www.roeliareads.co.za/what-i-rea...ne-harris/

[Lilith7]

Reading There's a cure for that, Dr Emma Espiner & enjoying it. I had no idea that there were so many 'roadblocks' for want of a better term put in the way for Maori Drs/medical students.


https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/23-05-202...ma-espiner

[Lilith7]

Southern Style, Craig Marriner, read it years ago when it came out now reading it again & enjoying it just as much.

[Lilith7]

Presently reading Moths, Jane Hennigan. Dystopian sci fi & quite different to anything I've read; some interesting ideas. There's apparently a sequel in the works.


https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comment..._hennigan/


https://www.addictedtomedia.net/2022/06/...nigan.html

[Lilith7]

Just started Lost ark dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, sci fi. Interesting so far; the tower idea reminds me a bit of the Hugh Howey trilogy.

https://thequilltolive.com/2024/04/17/lo...ok-review/

[harm_less]

Well into The Price is Wrong by Brett Chistophers. It so much explains the folly of how New Zealand's electricity sector's maneuverings are so much not the way our energy generation and consumption should be positioning itself.