LifesGood Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 I just finished Honeybee and have started Promised Land by Barack Obama. I read Becoming by Michelle Obama about a year ago so it will interesting to see how they align (or don't). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riotproof Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 Just finished The Godmothers by Monica Mcinerney.. I do love her. Such a great story and for people who like audiobooks, the narration is good. Three different people. Eliza is read by the actress who plays bess on upper middle bogan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomviv Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Currently reading One To Watch by Kate Stayman-London. One of the best romcoms I’ve read in a long time... about a plus sized influencer who writes a take down of a show with The Bachelor vibes that goes viral - and she ends up as the next Bachelorette. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooguru Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Ooh nomviv I'll have to look into that one. I love a good romcom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riotproof Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 Currently reading One To Watch by Kate Stayman-London. One of the best romcoms I’ve read in a long time... about a plus sized influencer who writes a take down of a show with The Bachelor vibes that goes viral - and she ends up as the next Bachelorette. Would you say it’s about body positivity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomviv Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Currently reading One To Watch by Kate Stayman-London. One of the best romcoms I’ve read in a long time... about a plus sized influencer who writes a take down of a show with The Bachelor vibes that goes viral - and she ends up as the next Bachelorette.Would you say it’s about body positivity? Yes definitely - the main character loves her body as it is but also has insecurities like we all do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riotproof Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 Thank you [mention]nomviv[/mention] viv, I'll keep it in mind for my challenge. I have started The invisible life of Addie Larue by VE Shwab. Interesting, I am only a little way through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABabyPlease Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 Rodham by Curtis SittenfeldA fictional view of Hilliarys life if she hadn't married Bill.I really enjoyed this one by a favourite author. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifesGood Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 Currently on Barack Obama's 'A Promised Land' - very enjoyable, I like his writing style - very personal and you can feel his warmth and humanity. However, having also read Michelle Obama's 'Becoming' I know a lot of the story from a different angle and I like her storytelling better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daffy2016 Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 I've just finished a re-read of "A Night to Remember" by Walter Lord, a 1955 telling of the Titanic sinking. Good book. Then I read (first time) "The Other side of the Night" by Daniel Butler. This is the story of the two other ships most involved - Carpathia, which came to the rescue of the Titanic survivors, and Californian, whose captain paid no attention despite being in visual range of Titanic the whole time. His crewmen reported Titanic's distress rockets to him, and he paid no attention. They watched Titanic sink from a few miles away and did nothing, while Rostron (captain of Carpathia) raced 60 nautical miles in an unsurpassed example of leadership and seamanship, and rescued over 700 people. I'm interested in human factors - why people do what they do. I've done a presentation on the Carpathia's rescue for the uni students, when I had to do a presentation on leadership. Also, I like old books. It's easy to forget how different things were in the past - for example that fact that there wasn't really such a thing as adolescence the way we see it today. Both captains started their training going to sea at ages 12 and 13. My uncles all left school and went to work at 12, and my dad and two brothers emigrated to Australia from England on their own at ages 16, 17, and 18. They had 5 pounds money each, and had to make their own way from there. Bit different from now. Coming late to the party, but [mention]sueratbag[/mention] you might like Carpathia by Jay Ludowyke. Brilliant account of the ship’s history, including that night, intertwined with the story of a group of divers wanting to dive the wreck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImperatorFuriosa Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 Lady Audley's Secret By Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Evicted by Matthew Desmond, Deep South by Paul Theroux, Maid by Stephanie Land, Broke USA by Gary Rivlin, The Working Poor by David K, Shipler and Fastfood Nation by Eric Schlosser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maliwoo Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 I just finished The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. It is excellent, such deep involving characters, and great twists with lots to think about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverstreak Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 Almost finished reading the scandalous Peyton Place, about small town intrigue and I'm about to start Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, I was feeling like a working class lads book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riotproof Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share Posted April 10, 2021 I just finished The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. It is excellent, such deep involving characters, and great twists with lots to think about. I have that one. I loved her book the mothers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maliwoo Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 Riotproof, I haven't read that one! I must look it up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ker Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 I'm trying to hurry up and finish the latest James Patterson Michael Bennett book. The newest Lisa Regan book drops in 2 days and I have it on preordained. I hate reading more than 1 book at a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antifa Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Re-reading the Drumberly trilogy by DE Stevenson. If you want gentle feel good books set around the 1930s - 1950s in England and Scotland,her novels are great. There are heaps of them on Kindle and they're around the $5 mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverstreak Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Slowly making my way through the Little House books. Have read Little House in the Big Woods, Farmer Boy, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek and now I'm up to By the Shores of Silver Lake. There are eight books in total and Farmer Boy is about the author's husband when he was a boy.These books are really fascinating, I love reading about people building log houses, making butter and building furniture etc. A hard life though and I'm getting frustrated with Pa, who seems to drag his family across America. He decides they should settle in Native American lands that they have no right to occupy, proceeds to build a log house and starts farming, only to up sticks again when they get kicked out. Then he tells his wife "It's only a year wasted, we have our whole lives together etc.' His wife must have had the patience of a saint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonetAgain Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 I've finished the Vanishing Half and would recommend it. Just started Midnight Library by Matt Haig and it is looking promising. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 Currently reading The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham set in WW2Such a good read on my exercise bike - before you know it 1/2 hr has gone by.The author is a midwife so her storytelling of babies she has delivered is riveting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sancti-claws Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 That J&J one looks interesting. Was it good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImperatorFuriosa Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 That J&J one looks interesting. Was it good? I haven't finished it yet, but so far so good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippityroo Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 Slowly making my way through book #3 in the Daevabad trilogy, by S. A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold. I badly want to get through it, but other things are distracting me, so it’s a very slow process at the moment. It is good though, as were the other two books in the trilogy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sancti-claws Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 Re-reading The Dressmaker as I have been given The Dressmaker's Secret and have found that I can't remember who is what or why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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