Last 3 Books You Read

[Eve]

What were they and were they good?

I've just finished Lauren Beukes' The Shining Girls - good, a grittier read than I normally go for but interesting, not as gripping as I thought it'd be though.

Cecelia Ahern's 100 Names - ok but not as good as some of her others; and

City of Lost Souls, the fifth in the Mortal Instruments series - enjoyed them all, quite teenage style but a nice easy read to shut out the world to.

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is next and I spotted.

[Eve]

Thanks pastafreak, will definitely look out for that then as I was pretty gripped by Gone Girl.

[society]

Aesop Fables, Goodnight moon and The Hungry Caterpillar. These books were very good and I had fun reading them to the nieces and nephews. I especially loved Aesop Fables.

[viv38]

Just read Martina Cole's The Life, before that Martina Cole's The Family and before that Maeve Binchy's The Glass Lake. Thoroughly enjoyed all three.

[China Doll]

I also just finished Gone Girl - really can't work out if I liked it or not!

[viv38]

I didn't like it.

[pusskin]

Looking back Josephine Cox
Child of the North " "
Please Daddy No Stuart Howard. Well worh a read.
I've got to read all J Cox books now , their brilliant

[Siracusa8]

Just finished 'the Chaperone' by Laura Moriarty. Some excellent reviews on Amazon and our reading group selection. A fascinating story based on the real-life Louise Brooks ( dancer and actress in the 20s &30s era of prohibition,) but much , much more. I couldn't put it down.

[HowardLink]

1,Learning how to ask.
2. Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
3, A song of Ice and Fire

[zebo]

Firewall, a Kurt Wallender story from Henning Mankell, one of the best I've read.

Green Darkness, Anya Seton, haven't read it for years 'til I liberated my copy from my daughter's shelves.

The Scnet of the Night, Andrea Camiller, a Montelbano story, a bit formulaic but still enjoyable.

[T&S]

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall - very hard going
Stephen Lloyd Jones - The String Diaries - excellent
Dan Brown - Inferno - Don't judge me! (It was pants though)

[ChillDoubt]

My Time - Bradley Wiggins

7 Deadly Sins - David Walsh

The Secret Race - Tyler Hamilton

Wiggins book was mediocre IMHO, Walsh pursued Lance Armstrong for most of LA's career after the cancer because he couldn't and wouldn't believe that such feats were possible without doping. He was villified by colleagues and riders alike but was obviously vindicated in the end.
If you want to know what really happened at US Postal, just how pervasive doping was in the peloton and the narcissisistic, destructive and manipulative character of Lance Armstrong, Hamilton's is THE book to read.
It deservedly won the 2012 William Hill Sports Book of the Year.

[carolegif]

Inferno - Dan Brown - been to Florence, so liked remembering the places.

Appetite - Philip Kazhan - again set in Florence and other parts of Italy. Loved the history.

2 Inspector Montalbano novels - great!