What book or books are you reading or listening to this week? We’d love to know!
For me, it’ll be all about upcoming discussion books the next couple of weeks. I’m finishing up The Memory Library, and next on my list will be Babylonia.
I was lucky enough to score a copy of Orbital, so that’s coming up too.
And I’m still working my way through the Slough House series in Audible. Started book 4 (London Rules) yesterday.
I am currently listening to Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers but it is not capturing my attention, so I plan to begin listening to either The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr or The Story Catcher by Evie Woods.
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I’m finishing up a memoir, Mill Town by Kerrie Arsenault that has been languishing on my unread bookshelf.
Next I’ll be starting The JFK Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer.
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I’m reading Huck Finn prior to reading James!
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I’m reading The Grey Wolf, the new one by Louise Penny. It’s complicated and I’m working to keep all the characters straight but it’s starting to come together for me.
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I am reading Great Americans by Rachel Khong.
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I just looked up the Slough Horse series. Another bunch of books for the TBR!
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I am still slow reading “The Time of the Child,” while juggling books that are getting ready to return on Libby. Such a “first world problem” - love it.
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I would like to say that the first book was hard to follow in audio format, at least at first. The narrator is great (Gerard Doyle) but there are a lot of characters and it was hard to determine which character was speaking at times. It wasn’t helped by scenes switching without much break between them. I had to pay attention more than normal when listening to it. Great series, though! Very entertaining.
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Just finished James. Thought it was excellent. Hope you enjoy it.
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I’m reading Table for Two by Amor Towles. Thoroughly enjoying it. Have sought out everything he’s written ever since I read A Gentleman in Moscow.
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I’ve disappeared into the medieval period with Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth and The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak, one in print and the other as an audio book.
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Hi Anne - it’s a tiny bit off topic as it’s not strictly a book, but if you enjoy the Brad Meltzer conspiracy books, I think you’ll appreciate BBC Radio’s Central Intelligence, a dramatization of the early years of the CIA. All ten of the 30-minute episodes are currently available to listen to but they generally archive the recordings after a bit so I don’t know how long they’ll be around for.
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Man, The Pillars of the Earth has been on my TBR forever, @Davina_Morgan-Witts. So many books, so little time! I remember several years ago that you wrote a blog about what percentage of books published every year it’s even possible to read - it was something well under 1%. I’m not sure if that’s comforting or depressing!
I finished Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky a few months ago & really loved it. You’ll have to let me knwo what you think of Forty Rules.
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