What book are you reading at the moment? Are you reading on paper or on an e-reader?

The following is a quote from a review of Trollope's Daughters-in-Law
"But the crazier the world gets, the more there are times when quiet compassion for the vagaries of the human condition is balm for the reader. This time, like every other, that is exactly what Trollope delivers."
Sounds good to me. I'll read it.
 

I am reading the biography of Billy Graham's wife. She was a remarkable woman. Also a true story of a Doctor in the Amish communities in Pennsylvania. I only read non-fiction and watch only true stories on Tv.
 
I've not been having the best of luck with reading materials of late. The last relatively decent book I read was "Boy In The Suitcase." Well my substitute brick and mortar library will be closing this weekend and the original newly rebuilt one won't be open till end of Jan, but, at least I'll still be able to download materials via the main system's website. :) But at the same time my phone is getting worn out from me downloading so many books that turn out to be duds.
 
Just finished reading 'Bring Up The Bodies' by Hilary Mantel, it's the sequel to 'Wolf Hall'. Just brilliant.It's about the life and times of Thomas Cromwell, Master Secretary and right hand man to King Henry the eighth of England, it's fiction based loosely on events happening around the time of Anne Boleyn .It's written in the present tense, so it's very immediate, as if events are unfolding around you , and it's a real page turner of a book. I read it in paperback not on my e-reader, as I have Wolf Hall in paperback as well.
 
It is called.....wait for it... Thomas Cromwell.
written by Tracy Borman.
she is a friend of my son and Daughter in law...so my copy is signed!
i have met her once; she is one of a group of 30something historians; together with Lucy Worsley, and is joint curator of the Royal Palaces. Her little girl had her birthday party at Hampton Court; difficult to beat!
 
I just finished a book from the "cozy" series with an amateur sleuth named Ivy Malone. She is in her 60s and I am nuts about her. She like to call herself an LOL (little old lady) and she recently decided she must be invisible, the older she gets the less people notice her. She also decided this can be a big PLUS, LOL!!

Invisible by Lorena McCourtney

The next one I read was a short one I found for free in my library to go on my Nook (all my reading is on my Nook right now). This one was called "Mystery of the One-Armed Man" by Liz Dodwell, and it is a Captain Finn Treasure Mystery. It was only 10 chapters but it was the neatest story, love the characters;) I didn't know a shorter book could have so much punch, and tie it all together;)
 
I just finished one good book and am about halfway through another: "Ruth's Journey" and "Rhett Butler's People" by Donald McCaig. He was authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate to write these books. "Ruth's Journey" is Mammy's story and the other book is how Rhett Butler got to be the way he was. So far "Ruth's Journey" is better than the Rhett Butler book. If you are a fan of "Gone with the Wind", I'd recommend these.
 
Vivjen said:
It is called.....wait for it... Thomas Cromwell.
written by Tracy Borman.
she is a friend of my son and Daughter in law...so my copy is signed!
i have met her once; she is one of a group of 30something historians; together with Lucy Worsley, and is joint curator of the Royal Palaces. Her little girl had her birthday party at Hampton Court; difficult to beat!
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Thanks for this info, I will have to try and get this book. I see that Wolf Hall is going to be on tv from the 21st of this month, and has some very good people acting in it, so it's a must see for me.:)
 
I recently finished "The Lay of the Land" by Richard Ford. I very much enjoy introspective stream of consciousness novels but most of these are by woman and about woman. I haven't found many examples in this genre with a male protagonist and in the case of this book a man somewhat past middle age. This book is actually part of a trilogy and I tried one of the other titles with the protagonist here a much younger man and didn't enjoy it all that much. I did enjoy Lay of the Land but I doubt there are many of you who find the introspective reflections of New Jersey real estate salesman terribly exciting.
 
Josiah09 said:
I recently finished "The Lay of the Land" by Richard Ford. I very much enjoy introspective stream of consciousness novels but most of these are by woman and about woman. I haven't found many examples in this genre with a male protagonist and in the case of this book a man somewhat past middle age. This book is actually part of a trilogy and I tried one of the other titles with the protagonist here a much younger man and didn't enjoy it all that much. I did enjoy Lay of the Land but I doubt there are many of you who find the introspective reflections of New Jersey real estate salesman terribly exciting.
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Oh I don't know, they can be good, think of Death Of A Salesaman and Glen Garry Glen Ross?
 
Some great books I read last year [that I had almost forgotten] were Dream Science by Thomas Palmer and The Missing and also
The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux. All by American authors and brilliant books.Dream Science is a novel about alternative realities and the Tim Gautreaux books, are set in Louisiana after the first world war.Try and find these in paperback or for your e-reader, although the Thomas Palmer book may be out of print.
 
I'm currently reading 'A Silent Witness' by R. Austin Freeman and on a Kindle! He must be rolling in his grave. :D

First published in 1914 (so Google tells me) it's interesting to see how much the language has changed. I find I am constantly looking up words in the Kindle library, words for which incidentally, it often can't find a definition. I am enjoying the experience though.
 
I'm reading Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife, Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng and The Far Empty by J. Todd Scott, along with about six other books, all of them on Kindle.
 
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