What Are We Reading In August?

[Aggers]

Di - At the moment I am not looking for any more books to download.

I have the complete works of H Rider Haggard, Sir Arthur Connan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, and Jules Verne, -- four of my favorite authors.

I reckon there must be getting on for two hundred books in all.

In fact I doubt whether I shall ever get through them all.

[Diflower]

Lovely to have all that choice though Aggers

[debih]

I've nearly finished The Mountains Echoed. I'm sure I've read it before!!!

I picked up two books from the library today - Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell and Life after Life by Kate Atkinson.

I think I will start with the Heatwave one - I'm not really sure about the other, it sounds a bit odd!!!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Instructions-fo ... a+heatwave

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-After-eboo ... after+life

[Diflower]

It came out in May Debih, so it couldn't have been long ago

Both of those are on my list; obviously this Kate Atkinson's different from her others but I still fancy it

[Fugitive]

'Instructions for a Heatwave' is a brilliant read. Hope you enjoy it Debih.

[debih]

I can't have read it then. It seems very familiar though

[miasmum]

obviously this Kate Atkinson's different from her others but I still fancy it

does that mean it's not her usual depressing read then?

[Diflower]

obviously this Kate Atkinson's different from her others but I still fancy it

does that mean it's not her usual depressing read then?

I don't find her books particularly depressing, I probably should but I don't

[miasmum]

To be fair I didn't until I read When Will There Be Good News and wanted to slit my throat

[Kaz]

I read a very good book on my kindle on holiday - Nina Todd has Gone, by Lesley Glaister. It was either a freebie or very cheap bargain from Amazon, can't remember which now, but was a cracking read!

The story is written as a first person narrative, by two people - one woman and one man - and as it unfolds you realise just what the connection is with the two - and I couldn't wait to find out what happened at the end! The ending was a real twist, as it happens

I am also about halfway through The Secret Keeper, the Kate Morton. It's very good, but not grabbing me as much as The Forgotten Garden somehow