What Are We Reading In June?

[JoM]

Aww I finished The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry this afternoon, what a fabulous book.

[Diflower]

Glad it's so good, I have it waiting

[JoM]

Di, I just looked on Amazon (it's only £1.99 on Kindle btw if anyone wants to buy it) to see what others had to say, and I bought it exactly a year ago today

Forgot to say that I'm now going to read You Had Me At Hello by Mhairi McFarlane which is another that was hiding way, way down on the to read list.

[Ally]

I've just read a book in practically one sitting (excluding the Don on the roof incident!)

Marian Keyes Anybody Out There.

I've had it in my bookcase for years and finally got round to reading it.

It was fab!

[Diflower]

That's the car crash one isn't it Ally? - I loved that

[Ally]

It is Di.

For a 'chick lit' I was really hooked by it - some of it was very poignant and the end.....a little tear escaped from my eyes.

[Diflower]

Marian Keyes is terrific when she's on form.
A bit like Jilly Cooper in that I think her best books are those where the same characters appear, even if only fleetingly - she 'knows' those people best, and writes them best.

When she completely departs, it doesn't quite come off, to me anyway.
Then again, she also suffers from depression, and maybe the ones that aren't quite so good have something to do with that too.

[Osc]

I've just started A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby - so far so good. I see it has been made into a movie with Pearse Brosnan on whom I have some kind of old lady crush so that will have to be found and watched I have bought myself a very large guilty pleasure for my holidays - the latest Penny Vincenzi book, A Perfect Heritage. It's one of Miss Osc and my "things" that one of us buys her books and we share them. I texted her when I bought it that the good news was I had bought it, but the bad news was I was taking it away on holiday with me

[Ally]

Marian Keyes is terrific when she's on form.
A bit like Jilly Cooper in that I think her best books are those where the same characters appear, even if only fleetingly - she 'knows' those people best, and writes them best.

When she completely departs, it doesn't quite come off, to me anyway.
Then again, she also suffers from depression, and maybe the ones that aren't quite so good have something to do with that too.

I agree fully about Ms Keyes - most of her books have been a delight. Full of laughs and characters that you'd like to have a drink with.

Whereas - I'm thinking perhaps 3 that I've read - I've forced myself to read them because of who she is and hoped they'd get better - these may well have been written when she wasn't 'well'.

[Diflower]

I so look forward to her new books Ally, as I'm sure do thousands of others - I really hope she's back before long.

Osc I read that quite a long time ago, I like Nick Hornby too
Love love Penny, can't manage her 'real' books at all - too big/heavy, so will have to look out for that as a kindle deal