What are we reading in June?

[debih]

I really wouldn't bother with it Jo.

I was talking to a colleague today who also listened to it on audio book and her reaction was the same as mine and Di's.

I am struggling to get into This is How it Ends. I will give it another go as the R&J podcast really did make it sound brilliant.

I picked up a new book from the library - May we be forgiven by A M Homes today - which sounds really good.

[debih]

I'm just about to start The Red Queen by Phillipa Gregory, read The Lady of the Rivers a few weeks ago and although I couldn't get The White Queen (which is the next one) in the library, I thought I'd read the Red Queen anyway. Appetite whetted by the new tv series!

I loved The Red Queen Osc. I think it was my favourite of that series.

It does help to read them in order but I think you will pick up on it easily enough. It really just tells the same story from a different angle! That's what I really loved about the whole series - the same story told from different sides.

[miasmum]

Debih I am really loving One Day I haven't got far to go now and it is one of those books I shall be sad to finish

[Diflower]

I really wouldn't bother with it Jo.

I was talking to a colleague today who also listened to it on audio book and her reaction was the same as mine and Di's.

I am struggling to get into This is How it Ends. I will give it another go as the R&J podcast really did make it sound brilliant.

I picked up a new book from the library - May we be forgiven by A M Homes today - which sounds really good.

Debih I have a note of the AM Homes from a review in the Times, it won a prize didn't it?
I might have to see if Tesco have it in their deals, as I know there's at least one book Bb's after.

[debih]

I have given up on This is How it Ends - it just wasn't my sort of book.

I have started May we be Forgiven instead.

[Fugitive]

I have given up on This is How it Ends - it just wasn't my sort of book.

I have started May we be Forgiven instead.

'May we be Forgiven' is the craziest, funniest, off-the-wall book I've read since a Tom Sharpe novel. I'm loving it.

[debih]

I have given up on This is How it Ends - it just wasn't my sort of book.

I have started May we be Forgiven instead.

'May we be Forgiven' is the craziest, funniest, off-the-wall book I've read since a Tom Sharpe novel. I'm loving it.

Oh thats good. I'm only a couple of chapters in but am really enjoying it.

Isn't the writing tiny!

[Fugitive]

Don't know about the tiny writing Debih as I'm Kindling it. It is a long book so maybe the printed version does small print to save paper? The author, A M Homes, is a woman but if I didn't know that I would have bet this was a male writer as she 'gets' men completely. She beat Hilary Mantel to win The Woman's Prize for Fiction 2013.

I am 40% through and the momentum keeps going. No let up as it goes seamlessly from one catastrophe to the next one. I can't even begin to predict what will happen next. Just like Tom Sharpe. I was creased up laughing yesterday when he was trying to help his niece who had phoned him because she had put her first ever tampon up 'the wrong hole' and she was distressed. So funny!

In a serious way though, it is more like real life as most of us seem to stagger from one fraught situation to another but hopefully we handle it better than our 'hero' in the book.

I'm already seeing it as a film.

[Kaz]

I agree about the Philippa G books, they tell the same story just about but from totally different P's OV So the order in which they are read is not as important as it might be

[miasmum]

I am reading If I Was which is Midge Ure's autobiography and really enjoying it