Friday reads

   

    I'm currently in Edwardian Suffolk in the good hands of Michelle Paver, reading her new novel for adults Wakenhyrst.

    Thus far we have a historian obsessed with a medieval mystic, a young girl making sense of the adult world, the discovery of a disturbing ecclesiastical painting, and more than a hint of 'unhallowed forces' at bay. It's very well-constructed and nicely gripping - as you'd expect from MP - so I read on with great interest.

    Where's your reading taking you this weekend?

Comments

[Toffeeapple]

I shall be reading Last Train to Hilversum which I won courtesy of Dovegrey Reader. I have been saving it for a weekend where I need not go anywhere or do anything other than read, eat and drink tea. I won't mind what the weather does either.

[cath]

The 12th Canto of Dante Alighieri's Paradiso. I promised myself to (finally) finish The Divina Commedia before my upcoming birthday. That being near the end of this month I can't afford to skip a day. If you sense I am having some difficulty, you are right. Maybe I should think of some reward reading..

[Cornflower]

I love the sound of that book, and I hope you'll have a splendid weekend, Toffeeapple!

[Cornflower]

You certainly deserve some reward reading, Cath, and let us cheer you on to the finishing line!

[Mr Cornflower]

Dividing my time between Andrew Roberts' chunky new biography of Churchill and - for light relief - PG Wodehouse's "Lord Emsworth and Others". Both warmly received presents from Cornflower.

[Cornflower]

A good pairing, I should think.

[Dark Puss]

Jo Nesbo; drug addiction and hideous ways of killing people :-) I am reading Phantom.

[Dark Puss]

No books such as Drummond & Hillery's The Quantum Theory of Nonlinear Optics? Ah well one can but hope ...

[Cornflower]

Sweet dreams, DP!

[Dark Puss]

They very rarely are :-)

[Cornflower]

Wishing you more peaceful rest.

[callmemadam]

I felt the need for a *real book*, so I'm reading David Copperfield for the nth time.

[Cornflower]

Good old faithfuls!

[Nora]

I am enjoying, in a literary sense, a stay at the grand Metropol hotel in Moscow...and loving every moment.

[Cornflower]

Oh good! (I have that one waiting to be read.)

[Nora]

It is beautifully written and has sent me down a rabbit hole of future reads (greek mythology, Pushkin, 1001 Arabian Nights [currently listening to the Op.35 of Scheherazade])…I love books that broaden my mind and send me down the reading 'hole.'

[Cornflower]

That's splendid, Nora - just what you want from a book.

[LizF]

I have just finished Meet Me At The Museum, which I very much enjoyed and am now continuing with After the Party (which I had to pause so I could read the former which the library wanted back) and beginning When All Is Said by Anne Griffin: having to read them in tandem as they have both also been requested so have to be read sooner rather than later!
Btw: one of my favourite reads recently was Once Upon A River which I could hardly bear to put down!

[Cornflower]

Isn't it wonderful? So glad you enjoyed it, also Meet Me at the Museum.

[Curzon Tussaud]

Horizon, by Barry Lopez. His Arctic Dreams was very influential in leading Robert Macfarlane to his destiny as a writer.

[Missi]

I recently finished The Perfect Predator, a true medical story of a man who caught a Superbug while on vacation with his wife. Fascinating medical mystery!! His wife wrote the book. They are both scientists. I thought it was excellent!

[Cornflower]

In that case we are in his debt! Thank you, Curzon.

[Cornflower]

That sounds good (if very scary!). Thank you, Missi.