My dad was more into technical books but my mum loved a good crime novel or a true story.
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This thread is the worst. Your TBR just gets bigger and your bank balance gets smaller. Don’t say you weren’t warned.I can't believe as a VIP tattler and a book OBSESSIVE that I've only just found this thread!!! I've read this whole thread and added the Strike books to my wishlists and looked up a few others so this may be a bad idea!!!! I have over 500 books on my kindle, two bookcases full - one fiction, one non fiction plus there are book cases in most rooms in the house as well. I will read quite a wide variety of books but really into history at the moment and I will NEVER be doing a 'not buying anymore books till I've read all the TBR' challenge!!! I am a trustee for our local library and I find it impossible to even go in for other things without bringing at least one book home!!!! I always think it could be worse....could be drugs!!!
I usually aim to read 52 books a year (one a week) but have only managed to do it since having kids once but this year I'm on 29 books read already - partly due to deleting tik tok off my phone! So looking forward to chatting books with you all! <3
My Dad just isn't interested in reading but my Mum loves historical fictional i.e. romance books set in World War 1/2 yet she isn't interested in thrillers/murder mysteries in the slightest, yet in this book it had the following characters in it and I asked her to guess the murderer and she guessed who it was (correctly) without even reading the book.
The Cheltenham Square Murder is a good book though. John Bude wrote some good stuff.
Yeah, it is a very good book but the first time I decided to get unhaul it thinking oh I won't read it again, but then I regretted it and couldn't find it for ages until I saw it in a charity shop on Monday. I am definitely not getting rid of it this time though.
It was one of the 4 I bought in a charity shop of the British library crime classics series that got me subscribed to that and am now slowly working through all 100+ books released in that series.
Which one of the British library crime classics has been your favourite so far @StephenTJackson?
Ooh, you do ask difficult questions.
The Lake District Murder, also John Bude was a great one.
Mr. Pottermack's Oversight was brilliant, I loved the different perspective that one took.
Tea on Sunday, another good one.
The Santa Klaus Murder - a nice cheery Christmas murder.
Not sure I could honestly pick one favourite. I've liked a lot for different reasons
Although I can give dishonourable mention to The Port of London Murders which I really didn't enjoy.
I have to ask difficult questions as this is what the thread is for.
@StephenTJackson I don't know about you but I always seem to prefer the murder mysteries that are in set in the 1920s/1930s.
Take a rucksack and fill it with lots of lovely books
I like that there is a crochet club too - 2 birds, 1 stone!
So nice to hear there's someone worse than me for obsessing over books.
Family think I'm quite weird wanting to read books.
my mums a reader but we have very different tastes which she showed as she handed me my Xmas present of a book and said you really read some weird stuff It was the golden age in that era and just a bit later. Obviously with Agatha Christie but just in general a murder mystery does belong in that era. It feels right.
If you are ever looking for more Murder Mystery books set in the 1920s/1930s I would recommend the following:
The Cressida Fawcett series by Fliss Chester
The Lady Eleanor Swift series by Verity Bright
The Miss Underhay series by Helena Dixon
Thank you. I shall look into these. Though resist purchasing until I make my way through existing tbr reading projects I have going on.
I have only read a few of them but they have all been good so I thought I would recommend them to you. I really need to get round to reading some more of them but I have so many books on my tbr that I need to read first.
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I knew At The Quiet Edge sounded familiar
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My parents both love reading, I lightly bully them into books I enjoy so we can discuss
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