Hello and welcome to this week's blog. Here are some highlights from last week's thread.
elinwyn89 writes:
Reading Great Expectations for the first time, quickly making its way onto my list of favorite books. Thank goodness that I'm reading it on my Kindle though or I'm sure I would have been put off by the size of it. Superb.
I'm fascinated by The Bellwether Revivals at the moment, one of those books you don't want to end. One of the best novels I've read in a while.
Bacaberylaisne writes:
Celebrating the octave of 23 April with Muriel Bradbrook's "Shakespeare The Poet in His World", the second-best book on Shakespeare after Kermode's "Shakespeare's Language".
tenuousfives reminds us that Hilary Mantel's eagerly anticipated follow up to Booker winner Wolf Hall, is out soon. Bringing up the Bodies has already received a very positive review from James Wood in the the New Yorker, but tenuousfives remembers the concentration the book required:
Wolf Hall gave me pause, at times. Am I following this? Who is this character now? Who said that? Suffolk? Norfolk? Cromwell? But when I got into it, it was rewarding and brilliant. Cromwell is a superb character- I like to think of him as an entire fox hunt rolled into one leviathan of a man- the learning, social awareness and grace of the upper class rider, the loyalty and tenacity of the bloodhound, the cunning and evasiveness of the fox and the bravery and blooded-mindedness of a saboteur!
If you would like to tell us what you're reading and share recommendations, join the thread below, or search for the book page and write a review. You never know, it might be picked out for special mention in our weekly readers' review blog and reward you with a free book. As frustratedartist wrote:
The reader reviews are a nice feature, because they allow readers to adjust the balance of the site to reflect their own reading interests, which aren't always the books that are getting a lot of press coverage.
Here are some of the books we will be covering this week, subject to last minute changes.
Non-fiction
• The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited by Stephen Armstrong
• My Sister Rosalind Franklin by Jenifer Glyn
• In the Shadow of the Sword by Tom Holland
• Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Suprising Appeal of Living Alone by Eric Klinenberg
• The Juice by Jay McInerney
• If You Sit Very Still by Marian Partington
Fiction
• In One Person by John Irvine
• Galore by Michael Crummey
• Light of Amsterdam by David Park
• Seven Years by Peter Stamm
• Flight by Adam Thorpe
