What Are We Reading In October?

[Ally]

Working my way through my book mountain and I've just started reading The Family by Martina Cole.

[Diflower]

Summer at Shell Cottage by Lucy Diamond, really enjoying it, full of family secrets

[Diflower]

Loved Summer at Shell Cottage, perfect holiday reading
Now started The SW19 Club, rather brutal subject matter (woman loses twins and then can't have more children) but that's the starting point.

[miasmum]

I'm reading that now Di, Summer at Shell Cottage that is. Really enjoying it

[Aggers]

I've downloaded on to my Kindle the complete works of H G Wells.

That will keep me going for quite a while.

[debih]

I'm reading Sue Perkins autobiography, Spectacles.

It's brilliant.


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[Paddypix]

I'm just finishing Dictator by Robert Harris, the third in his Cicero trilogy. Fantastic story teller and as true to history as he can possibly make it.

[Kaz]

I read Summer at Shell Cottage whilst away, what a shock when I found out who the secret boyfriend was Really enjoyed it, but then I also enjoyed Beach Café, her last one

I also started an anthology of short stories put together by Victoria Hislop, they've been a mixed bag but great on the whole. "The Story: Love, Loss & the Lives of Women: 100 Great Short Stories"

[Osc]

I've just finished Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova, she also wrote Still Alice. It was about a man who gets Huntingdon's Disease and the effects on his four grown up children, who would have a 50/50 chance of getting it. It was ok but as they were an American/Irish catholic family in Boston, certain things about it annoyed me intensely. However I learned a lot about Huntingdon's disease Off to the library today - can't be without a few books waiting to be read.

Kaz, I can't be doing with short stories at all, my sister loaned me a book of them when we were going to Lisbon and I hated them....all wishy washy, no proper beginning, middle or end. I don't think I have ever read a short story that I have liked.

[Kaz]

Ah, fair enough Osc I found them good as a) Some were by fab authors such as Doris Lessing and Katherine Mansfield, and b) Ideal for dipping in and out on holiday, when you have other things to do like swimming or eating

I've never actually bought a book of short stories before, they wouldn't be my usual choice