What books are you reading now?

[OldFeller]

I just got a new Kindle Paperwhite. The first book I'm reading is The Enchanted April, a 1922 novel by British-Australian writer Elizabeth von Arnim.

There is a movie version but it doesn't do the book justice. The author is an intelligent observer of her characters.

The book is known for delivering the restorative benefits of having taken a vacation yourself when you're done reading it.

There is a movie version but the strength of the book is in the writing of it. It reveals a lot of truths about people that make you stop and think.

I think its going to end up being one of the best books I've read in my lifetime.

Four women from London, who start out as strangers, share the rental of a castle on the coast of Italy during which they all go through a personal transformation.

 

[Wombat]

I have just started "The Mushroom Tapes" about the Erin Paterson poisoning trial. It is written by three well known female writers who attended the trial in relays

For this extraordinary book, the lone wolves became a team. Garner, Hooper and Krasnostein tracked Erin Patterson’s preliminary hearings and trial, joined the media scrum at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts, slept over in Morwell and spent countless hours in fervent discussion of the case and the themes it raises: love, hate, jealousy, revenge, marriage, money, mycology and murder.