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Guys I've just got the Audible 30 day free trail and 2 credits, what books do recommend I listen too to get me going? I prefer to read books and i can imagine the setting better but willing to give anything a go asking reading so many good reviews on audiobooks!
My suggestions are always KL Slater books for Audible. They’re included so no need to use credits.

My top rated of hers are Blink, Closer, Liar, Single, The Marriage and The Silent Ones.
 
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Secrets of Strangers was my first 5* book of the year.

Has anyone read any of Charity Norman's other books?
I got this as one of my audiobooks to try after seeing a few of you loving it! I also got A Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, just scrolled through the app and it came up recommended from what I’ve bought on kindle 😂
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My suggestions are always KL Slater books for Audible. They’re included so no need to use credits.

My top rated of hers are Blink, Closer, Liar, Single, The Marriage and The Silent Ones.
If I get on with the other audiobooks I will look into these thank you 🥰
 
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I loved Boys Don’t Cry so much 🥹 my favourite book of last year! Heartbreaking but just beautiful, absolutely loved Finn bless him

My suggestions are always KL Slater books for Audible. They’re included so no need to use credits.

My top rated of hers are Blink, Closer, Liar, Single, The Marriage and The Silent Ones.
I’m listening to Liar at the moment and enjoying it.

My favourites on Audible have mostly been autobiographies as I find them easier to listen to, and I’m seriously sounding like a broken record at this point but Young Mungo, the narrator was the first fiction audio to really grip me and not lose me the whole book
 
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I'm currently reading The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches and it's so so good. I didn't expect that.
 
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I'm currently reading The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches and it's so so good. I didn't expect that.
What’s it about? Would you recommend it?
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Also does anyone have any tattoos related to books? I’m thinking of getting one but I just don’t know what 😂😅
 
Foster is beautiful. I think I prefer it.
Good to know. It came today but I'm saving it for my early finish tomorrow. The weather looks like it's going to be appalling (keep warm everyone!) so it'll be ideal for another sofa session with a tea.
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I felt exactly the same about this book. Massive mug of coffee, some biscuits and 2 hours with the house to myself 😂 I sometimes like a book that doesn't quite end where you think it should (trying to avoid spoilers here!). Would also recommend The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber for a similar ending style.
A kindred spirit! I also really liked The Crimson Petal and the White. I know there is a short story collection that supposedly follows it that goes some way to tying up loose ends but I've never read it and haven't ever seen it in a bookshop either. Maybe a sign that it's best left unsaid.

Small Things Like These and an uninterrupted couple of hours was just bliss.
 
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What’s it about? Would you recommend it?
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Also does anyone have any tattoos related to books? I’m thinking of getting one but I just don’t know what 😂😅
I'm so bad at describing books. I'll try.
but it's about witches (obviously) and they aren't allowed to tell anybody. In the past 300 years or so the parents of the witches died just after the birth so the witches were orphaned. Mika, the protagonist, for example, was raised by different nannies and tutors in the house of another witch. She never felt like she belonged anywhere and had a lonley childhood. Now she has to teach three young witches (who shouldn't even live together, according to the "Rules", but here they are!). She doesn't tell the other witches because they would freak out. Then she learns about the real reason why so many baby witches were orphaned and a lot more. And also, of course, she starts to belong and feel loved for the first time.
it sounds like a children's book, but it's definitely for adults. There is also a bit romance (which I like to read despite my always complaining about it. But this books feels different. Maybe because of the magical stuff.)
 
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I'm currently reading The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches and it's so so good. I didn't expect that.
I started that this morn and am 3 chapters in, came highly recommended by a friend so I was very pleased it was on a 99p deal!
I’ve recently finished The Stalker by Lisa Stone, really enjoyed that!
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i have the death eater mark from hp 🐍💀
I’ve got the Deathly Hallows symbol 🙈
 
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I started that this morn and am 3 chapters in, came highly recommended by a friend so I was very pleased it was on a 99p deal!
I’ve recently finished The Stalker by Lisa Stone, really enjoyed that!
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I’ve got the Deathly Hallows symbol 🙈
I have a HP quote 😂
 
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I don't have any tattoos but if I did it would be from an Emily Dickinson book of poetry and would be a feather with the word Hope entwined.

"Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
 
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i'm loving the short chapters of the housemaid, makes it easy to speed through. plus it's pouring rain outside ☺🫠📖
 
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I don't have any tattoos but if I did it would be from an Emily Dickinson book of poetry and would be a feather with the word Hope entwined.

"Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
We read that at mum’s funeral, just gorgeous.
 
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Good to know. It came today but I'm saving it for my early finish tomorrow. The weather looks like it's going to be appalling (keep warm everyone!) so it'll be ideal for another sofa session with a tea.
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A kindred spirit! I also really liked The Crimson Petal and the White. I know there is a short story collection that supposedly follows it that goes some way to tying up loose ends but I've never read it and haven't ever seen it in a bookshop either. Maybe a sign that it's best left unsaid.

Small Things Like These and an uninterrupted couple of hours was just bliss.
Ah, Michel Faber feels like such a niche fan club sometimes 😜 The collection is called The Apple but probably leaves so many questions unanswered too 🙈 I do like his short stories though so give it a go if you happen to see it in a bookshop. His introduction to the stories is really interesting as a book is just a book for him. He seemed quite surprised at how personally some readers took the ending!
 
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I’m alone in the office today so I have my headphones in and am listening to “You’re the Only One I’ve Told”. Great recommendation from this thread again and so easy to read whilst I am working :)
 
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