Book Club

[dandysmom]

Night, CM. sleep well!

[dinahsmum]

I think the book club questions from the book is an excellent idea. I haven't got them in my edition but I have seen them before (In the Rebus book, Exit Music) and thought it a really good idea.)
I wonder if everyone is ready to go with Nineteen Minutes? If no-one has done it yet I'll do a heading and ask how it's going. I'll have to do some revision - I think I finished it between xmas & new year.

Did we ought to chose our next book? Any ideas?

[dandysmom]

I need t brush up on 19 Minutes also, finished it weeks ago. I agree it's time for the next selection; Someone had mentioned A Mercy; just read a critical review saying it was a difficult read and confusing the way the author switched from voice to voice of the characters. Just posting this FYI.

[dinahsmum]

All readers might be interested but I am thinking particularly of Dandysmom and have put this link to a very good (so far) book I am listening to in dramatised parts.
It's a crime novel but with reading and a book club involved. The police are sent a novel written by a reclusive author, apparently recently deceased, which the anonymous sender maintains is actually a confession to murder.
I've only heard two parts but am enjoying it greatly.
You can listen again via the links, or simply get the book and read it, I guess.

[dandysmom]

DM, you're certainly spot on about my tastes in fiction! That sounds exactly the sort of light reading police procedural I'd enjoy....but neither the library nor Amazon have it! Drat!

I'm currently reading another Jodi Picalt I got at the library, The Tenth Circle: basically same plot, high school traumas, rape, suicide, small town setting, eccentric father, mother having an affair with a student.... but a good relaxing read!

[dinahsmum]

D'you know, I think this is so brand new it's not even in print yet? I've googled but the only references I find are to the BBC dramatisation.
Can you not use the iPlayer to listen to it DM? You can catch up the two episodes already broadcast and listen to the rest daily. I think the whole lot will remain available till Friday of next week

[dandysmom]

Since we haven't decided on the next book thought perhaps we could mention what we're currently reading. I'm about half way thru Jeffrey Archer's A Prisoner of Birth. It's supposedly a modern retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo. I read that in my teens and can't truthfully remember much of it (will read a precis after I've finished this one). Basically, it's about a lower class London lad who's falsely accused and convicted of a murder by a close-knit group of four upper class friends from Cambridge one of whom is the actual murderer!) Won't go into any spoiler details, but this is a page turner. A nice long read, almost 500 pages.

[dandysmom]

bump ........

[yola]

Well I'm embarrassed to say I'm still on The Time Traveller's Wife, but loving every page of it . . . and raving about it so OH is planning to read it after me. Apart from the classics I know little about what's good currently so picking up the odd snippet here and there from you bookworms is excellent for me

[smokytopaz]

I read a lot so this thread seems interesting - I read Time Travellers wife ages ago and loved it.. so what is the current read? I suppose I could backtrack through the post to find it.

Ny tastes in books if really catholic, is it in a book? Have I read it before, no? ok I'll read it.

I got the Sony portable reader as a pressy six months ago or so, and I love it, really light weight and it goes in my handbag all the time. Really useful as I spend a lot of time in waiting rooms at the moment (my elderly Mum is sick, she has cancer) so I take her and wait around a lot. My Sony reader comes with me!