Books #4 the book lovers thread!

[Oohthedrama]

Best thread on tattle life number 4!!

Books #3 the book lovers thread!

Thread 3, of the best thread on tattle life. 🥰 last thread Thread 2 (currently everyone seems to be reading and loving “Last One At The Party” by Bethany Clift) 📚📘📖

tattle.life

Books! #2 What are you reading, recommendations & reviews

Thread two! 🥰 Has anyone read The Flight by Julie Clark? It was recommended to me months back and it’s 99p on kindle now . but because I don’t remember who recommended it I don’t know if it’s genuinely good 🤣 thread 1...

tattle.life

Books! What are you reading, recommendations & reviews

I love me some youtube drama ? and despite my awful grammar on here I actually love reading. It’s usually books from the contemporary fiction/chick lit genre if I’m honest. I’m not going to start discussing 1984 and Animal Farm, I started this thread because I’d love to know your best reads...

tattle.life

 

[50sGirl]

Just finished The Five. Not read a non fiction book in years so it made a change.
The book delves into the lives of the five Jack the Ripper victims. I found some of the stories more interesting than others and I also felt, on occasion, the other was using poetic licence with some of her facts/assumptions. That said, I found it interesting to read a bit about the social history of the time.
My great grandmother was born in Whitechapel in the summer of 1888 so no doubt her mother felt great fear. One of the streets mentioned in the book where a victim lived was described as the worst/poorest street in London. My great grandmother was born in the adjacent street. I knew my family were poor, but that brought home to me just how poor they really were.

 

[Oohthedrama]

I’m audio booking books I’ve already read just finished something borrowed/something blue (which I forgot how much I liked ) and now I’m looking for a new one.

the library apps are bloody brilliant until you realise a book is reserved until October 2022

 

[blondelolita]

I’m audio booking books I’ve already read just finished something borrowed/something blue (which I forgot how much I liked ) and now I’m looking for a new one.

the library apps are bloody brilliant until you realise a book is reserved until October 2022

e-licenses are too expensive to have lots of availability. That’s why the YouTube audio books get deleted for copyright so often!

 

[Oohthedrama]

e-licenses are too expensive to have lots of availability. That’s why the YouTube audio books get deleted for copyright so often!

I’m so annoyed because I had a new release that was available right now, I was stupid and thought I’d go in and use a loan on it later, because I was just about to return a book, went to borrow and it’s already at November 2020

 

[blondelolita]

I’m so annoyed because I had a new release that was available right now, I was stupid and thought I’d go in and use a loan on it later, because I was just about to return a book, went to borrow and it’s already at November 2020

Hahaha literally this has happened so many times to me too.

 

[Oohthedrama]

Hahaha literally this has happened so many times to me too.

still, having said that the library has been one good thing to come out of this pandemic (and more so this thread this year!!!)

new appreciation for it

 

[Heidi88]

Just finished Malibu Rising. I enjoyed it but thought the ending was cliched.

Just started The Rose Code by Kate Quinn. I loved the Alice Network so i hope this is good.

I just got a new Kindle Paperwhite to replace by 10 year old basic Kindle. The paperwhite is a joy to read on.

 

[Oohthedrama]

Just finished Malibu Rising

love the plot, it started well, but like with 7 husbands I feel TJR gets lazy and uninterested in writing her own novels, so kind of half arses the second half

 

[Pocuspeg]

thanks to this thread I've joined my local library and got myself ebooks!! What joy! haha! I hadn't used a library in so many years! I've managed to start Holly Bourne's Are we all Lemmings and Snowflakes.. I'll let you know how I get on with it.

 

[Oohthedrama]

thanks to this thread I've joined my local library and got myself ebooks!! What joy! haha! I hadn't used a library in so many years! I've managed to start Holly Bourne's Are we all Lemmings and Snowflakes.. I'll let you know how I get on with it.

same!!!! It’s something I’d never done before and I’m like a pig in tit kid on Christmas morning

 

[thegirlscout]

@JLXRD - finished Dolly by Susan Hill and have to say don’t bother. It’s the most pointless book ever. Giving it 1 star is generous.

 

[smellsofbiscuits]

Am loving the Tik Tok these days. Can anyone recommend any good bookish Tik Tokers to follow?

 

[slugella]

Just finished The Five. Not read a non fiction book in years so it made a change.
The book delves into the lives of the five Jack the Ripper victims. I found some of the stories more interesting than others and I also felt, on occasion, the other was using poetic licence with some of her facts/assumptions. That said, I found it interesting to read a bit about the social history of the time.
My great grandmother was born in Whitechapel in the summer of 1888 so no doubt her mother felt great fear. One of the streets mentioned in the book where a victim lived was described as the worst/poorest street in London. My great grandmother was born in the adjacent street. I knew my family were poor, but that brought home to me just how poor they really were.

That's one of the reasons I found it interesting to read too, the author gave a really good sense of what life was like at the time and some of the things I learnt were really shocking.

I just bought The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See, it's 99p on Kindle:

Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger.

The Island of Sea Women is an epic set over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War and its aftermath, through the era of cell phones and wetsuits for the women divers.

The reviews look good, and I've just looked into the author's other books and she has a few others with v good reviews too.

 

[Bubblesandflowers]

A new thread

I'm still reading Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson. I'm enjoying the book but life just seems so busy right now I am struggling to find time to read.

 

[Lola123]

currently Reading good omens, if you need someone new to listen too Neil gaiman has the most relaxing and soothing voice!

 

[GoofyPrincess]

Finished What She Knew yesterday. Absolutely loved it, raced through it from start to finish desperate to find out what happened.

 

[Katykatykaty]

Finished What She Knew yesterday. Absolutely loved it, raced through it from start to finish desperate to find out what happened.

Definitely needs to be my next read by the sounds of it…if I ever finish Her Last Breath. I’m 70% of the way through and with every chapter I think ‘that’s it, I’m giving up’ but then I remember I hate giving up so plough on more. It’s just so dull and long, it’s only 289 pages but I reckon the story could be told in 150 if the author cut out the stupidly long and pointless conversations in every chapter.

 

[nbt]

Finished What She Knew yesterday. Absolutely loved it, raced through it from start to finish desperate to find out what happened.

Ooh I’m about 75% in so looking forward to finding out! Not sure if all will be what it seems…

 

[HoGi]

Ooh I’m about 75% in so looking forward to finding out! Not sure if all will be what it seems…

I'm 58% through, enjoying it so far