What Book/Books Are You Reading?

[Denv12]

I got to admit,I love reading at the best of times.Those of us who love to read tend to get the most out of books.I'm a big fan of books that I can learn from.Self help books,relationship books,etc.There's something worth learning.I even read up on dating books just to relearn some skills.As a guy I also love the guy stuff,cars,hobbies,interests,man cave,etc.

What book are you reading? What books are you reading? What helps you?

Thanks.

[Nico_B]

Hi all!

I just read Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney which was a brilliant easy read! Sally is amazing and I also loved "Normal People" which I read a few months back. Currently reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Loving it through mixed emotions of sadness and devastation, but also warmth and inspiration 🙂

Nico

[Guest_1643]

Hey Suzy - have you ever tried Elizabeth Gilbert. Her self-help book on creativity Big Magic references Brene Brown a lot.
She is the same woman who wrote Eat, Pray, Love, whih I think got a bad rap as being tacky chic lit, but was a fantastic, and well written tale of travel and self-discovery

[Guest_1643]

I love the cover of that book!
I'm reading George Saunders, 10th of December I think it's called?
Very hyped up short stories, they are average I feel but something different

[Summer Rose]

Hello all

Just finished Sons and Soldiers by Bruce Henderson. If you have an interest in the second World War, this is for you.

It tells the true story of several Jewish men who escaped the Nazis alone as children and then returned to fight in the war as American soldiers. All had specialised training to work as POW interrogators due to their language skills.

Their stories are fascinating, from how they were persecuted and escaped as children, to how they built new lives to what happened to their families and to them after the war.

[Guest_1643]

Hello Summer Rose, That sounds very interesting. Amazing story

[Nimi]

Hi guys, thought I would drop in!

I love reading books but sometimes I find it hard to get started! That being said, I most recently read the old Deltora Quest books I used to read as a kid... it was so fun! I have also been thinking about reading the Discworld Guards series again... I saw that Neil Gaiman was mentioned here and I think if you have an interest in Good Omens then it's definitely worth trying out some of the Discworld ones too!

They can be a bit confusing sometimes, but it's good fun!

[BOC64]

Hi

I hope that everyone is doing well.

I am currently going through two books Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. I would be very interested to know if anyone has read either and what their impressions are.

BOC

[Nico_B]

Deltora's Quest is an AWESOME suggestion Nimi! What an incredible blast from the past 🙂

Nico

[Katyonthehamsterwheel]

I've just read that Audible have released a number of audiobooks for free on their website. Apparently they're predominantly children's but there is also YA and classics. As I do so much reading for uni, it will be nice to just lay on the floor and listen to a book for respite 🙂

[babyde]

I love reading! I read all sorts of stuff and I find myself getting lost in fiction and non-fiction

At the moment I'm reading a Jodi Picoult book called Small Great Things. I love Jodi Picoult, she is such a good writer, very realistic and her books are full of such detail. Always interesting story lines. This one is about race and how an African American labour and delivery nurse is on trial. it is way more interesting than it sounds and it's so captivating. Very moving, too

I love books that envoke emotions because you can get so lost in them