Books & Reading Thread 2025

RobMCFC said:
Hopefully you can find some interesting stuff on this thread and last year's:-

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Reading Challenge 2022

@ob @Paladin @JRockBlues @stoneblue @bennyboy It's a new year. so let's have a new thread. For one reason or another, I didn't read over Christmas but started a new book yesterday. A few of us enjoyed contributing to the reading thread last year - sharing our good and bad reading experiences...
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Thanks! I'll take a look
 
Read a few Sarah J Mass books last few months very good easy ready good story and the type of books I like and can’t put down!

I’ve read the two books of Throne of glass series and nearly finished Heir of fire! If your going to start them start with The assassin’s Blade first that introduces you to the main character..


Sarah J Maas

Author Sarah J Maas's complete list of books and series in order, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability.
www.fantasticfiction.com

Also I’ve read the first two books of Mike Shackle series loved them and be starting the third book after I’ve finished Sarah J maas Heir of fire..

Mike Shackle

Author Mike Shackle's list of books and series in order, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability.
www.fantasticfiction.com
 
RobMCFC said:
What types of book do you normally read? What genre?
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I was born in USSR so basically it was all the classics. Entering the western culture in the 90's I started to read almost everything. Lee Child, John Sandford, Joe R Lansdale and so on. In the summer of 2021 I found this gem: A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole and earlier this one: A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman. This kind of literature is very difficult to find and I'll be thankfull for those who'll help me to find something similar.

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I was born in USSR so basically it was all the classics. Entering the western culture in the 90's I started to read almost everything. Lee Child, John Sandford, Joe R Lansdale and so on. In the summer of 2021 I found this gem: A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole and earlier this one: A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman. This kind of literature is very difficult to find and I'll be thankfull for those who'll help me to find something similar.

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Can't say I've read anything like those two you mention.

I notice that A Man Called Ove is now a film starring Tom Hanks, with "Ove" now retitled "Otto".
 
Hoping this year to spend more time reading and less doomscrolling. Was a fairly consistent reader before the kids came along and as they increasingly find us embarrassing to associate with (other than for lifts) might try and return to being more of one.

My 'plan' is to alternate between my guilty pleasure of Italian noir (of varying quality tbf) and some classics. For the 'good' stuff I'm starting with Graham Greene, some of which I read when I was younger.

I'd be up for reading a communal book or two.
 
The Lost Painting....The search for a Caravaggio masterpiece.
Jonathan Harr.
Loved it.Brilliantly told search for a lost Caravaggio masterpiece The Taking of Christ.
The detective work involved by art scholars trying to find a lost Caravaggio I found fascinating.

8/10
Now onto Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris.
 

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I can't believe I've only just found this thread! My favourite on Bluemoon.

About half of my reading is by audiobook whilst out running, but that is curtailed at the moment due to injury. I'm hoping to get out again soon though.

Thanks for tagging me on a few posts. All my browsing is via Tapatalk, and the tagging function isn't alerting me right now, hence not picking up on the tags.

I'm definitely up for reading a few communal books, and would hope for something outside of my go to genres. There are a few titles that have already caught my eye after catching up on this thread.

I used to really enjoy Britain's Lost Masterpieces on TV, and I might give The Lost Painting a go when I've finished my current two books.
 
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Paladin said:
I can't believe I've only just found this thread! My favourite on Bluemoon.

About half of my reading is by audiobook whilst out running, but that is curtailed at the moment due to injury. I'm hoping to get out again soon though.

Thanks for tagging me on a few posts. All my browsing is via Tapatalk, and the tagging function isn't alerting me right now, hence not picking up on the tags.

I'm definitely up for reading a few communal books, and would hope for something outside of my go to genres. There are a few titles that have already caught my eye after catching up on this thread.

I used to really enjoy Britain's Lost Masterpieces on TV, and I might give The Lost Painting a go when I've finished my current two books.
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If you are going to the Spurs game I have an old paperback version I could give you.
A bit of folded corners on the outside but in good condition for reading.
 
Paladin said:
I can't believe I've only just found this thread! My favourite on Bluemoon.

About half of my reading is by audiobook whilst out running, but that is curtailed at the moment due to injury. I'm hoping to get out again soon though.

Thanks for tagging me on a few posts. All my browsing is via Tapatalk, and the tagging function isn't alerting me right now, hence not picking up on the tags.

I'm definitely up for reading a few communal books, and would hope for something outside of my go to genres. There are a few titles that have already caught my eye after catching up on this thread.

I used to really enjoy Britain's Lost Masterpieces on TV, and I might give The Lost Painting a go when I've finished my current two books.
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Glad you found us again! I thought the tag was the best idea but maybe I'll send you a PM next year.

A few people have expressed an interest in the communal read idea so I'll have a think about how we can best go about this and post something in the next few weeks.
 
1. Star of the North - D B John

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My first read of the year is an unusual political thriller. The story starts when a young girl and her boyfriend disappear from a South Korean beach not far from North Korea.

The narrative picks up 12 years later and focuses around 3 characters; Jenna Williams, the missing girl’s twin sister who has never accepted the explanation (drowning) for her sister’s disappearance. The 2nd a high ranking North Korean official, Cho, who fears he may be descended from a traitor. In North Korea the sins of parents and grandparents are visited on their children.
The 3rd is an old woman who lives and works on a penal farm - she uses items she finds from an International Aid Balloon to her advantage. The story arcs of these 3 characters are separate initially but weave together as the book progresses.

I enjoyed this book, the story is engrossing and the North Korean elements harrowing in parts.

The author is one of few Westerners to have visited North Korea and co-authored "The Girl with Seven Names" with a woman who escaped North Korea and so can speak with some authority about the regime.
 
Reading Mike shackle 3 series fantastic reading if you like fantasy books! 5/5

Mike Shackle

Author Mike Shackle's list of books and series in order, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability.
www.fantasticfiction.com

Half way through the Novel by Colleen Hoover called Verity very good something different to what I usually read..

Verity by Colleen Hoover

Verity by Colleen Hoover - book cover, description.
www.fantasticfiction.com
 
waspish said:
Reading Mike shackle 3 series fantastic reading if you like fantasy books! 5/5

Mike Shackle

Author Mike Shackle's list of books and series in order, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability.
www.fantasticfiction.com

Half way through the Novel by Colleen Hoover called Verity very good something different to what I usually read..

Verity by Colleen Hoover

Verity by Colleen Hoover - book cover, description.
www.fantasticfiction.com
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Mike Shackle's books sound interesting - comparisons have been made to Joe Abercrombie and Ed McDonald.

Joe Abercrombie is my all-time favourite author, and I've read Ed McDonald's books, so this might be up my street.
 
RobMCFC said:
Mike Shackle's books sound interesting - comparisons have been made to Joe Abercrombie and Ed McDonald.

Joe Abercrombie is my all-time favourite author, and I've read Ed McDonald's books, so this might be up my street.
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Yep couldn’t put the books down especially the last one of the series.
 
1. Cunning Folk – Adam L.G. Nevill - 8/10
2. Bad Apples – Will Dean – 7/10

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For the fourth year in succession, I’ve read one of Will Dean’s Swedish-based thrillers. The fourth in the Tuva Moodyson series, Bad Apples, sees reporter Tuva taking on more responsibility and covering news stories for another town up the hill from her home in Gavrik. The residents of Visberg are another bunch of eccentric characters. They like to celebrate something called Pan Night – which seems like Halloween on steroids - and when a man is found decapitated in the woods (nothing to do with Pan Night as it’s at the start of the book), there’s no shortage of suspects. There’s the woman and her oddball son who run the self-storage depot, the twins who run a gaming café, the Bosnian who is rumoured to have killed may during the Balkans war, the town’s dentists, the Austrian clockmaker and various others. As ever, the story is well written and moves at a brisk pace. It’s a fairly easy read, but I enjoy the author’s first-person style and the characters and locale depicted in this series. I’ll definitely be back for more, especially as it ends on one hell of a cliffhanger.
 
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