What book are you currently reading?
Watch this postThought this would be a good place to share your taste in literature! What books have you read recently, what are you reading now and how would rate them? Would you recommend anything to a fellow Silverhairs friend?
Do you use a Kindle or similar or do you prefer a real book to hold?
I have just finished reading the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, which my youngest daughter is studying for ‘A’ Level. It is a devastating, masterful and painfully honest story … it tells the gripping account of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and ruthless evil.
The Kite Runner is an astonishing, powerful book that had me riveted from the first to the last page. It is a story of fierce cruelty and yet redeeming love, as well as of an intimate account of family and friendship.
I found it compelling and disturbing and opened my eyes to how evil reigns in the Middle East. Next on my list is A Thousand Splendid Suns written by the same author.
How about you?
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Not sure what will be next.
I'm currently reading The Ice Princess (Fjällbacka #1)by Camilla Läckberg, Steven T. Murray (Translator) on the Overdrive app on my tablet.
I've recently read:
Red Dwarf Omnibus: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers & Better Than Life (Red Dwarf #1-2) by Grant Naylor in paperback
Coyote by Allen Steele in paperback
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey on Kindle.
I enjoy reading in both electronic and hard copy formats. I have no preference other than cost of the book.
The title coming from my mam who often threw this phrase at me, only with the added embellishment of a really meaty swear word tucked neatly in the middle! The book tells the story of my impoverished life through WW2 and the following decades. Its done really well and is on sale in Waterstone's or Gardners Books online. On the strength of it, I now write regularly for the Nottingham Post newspaper and had an account only yesterday of my first kiss! Ahh, so THAT'S where the noses go!
I'm only halfway through, but it is extraordinary !!!