Book thread: what are you reading?

[tim2]

Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy.

We had a look at Hardy's poetry at our poetry group and the novels were mentioned. I've never read this one, and it's the one that killed off Hardy's novel writing because it had a bad critical response.

As one of the printing apprentices said in Tom Sharpe's Wilt, "It's about a bloke called Jude"

[The Hallucinating Goose]

This morning I purchased 15 novels of Julian Stockwin's Thomas Kydd series in a local charity shop. I've not read any of the series or know much about it particularly but I'm a big fan of Patrick O'Brien so thought I'd give these a go.

I bought them as soon as I saw them because about a year ago, the same charity shop had a lot of Alexander Kent's novels but when I decided a few days later to get them they had already gone, and I've been struggling to find them ever since. 

[DavidM]

I read the Railway Detective series and I’m on book 21 . 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

2 hours ago, DavidM said:

I read the Railway Detective series and I’m on book 21 . 

I read them all last year, not the best quality writing but entertaining enough nonetheless. 

[DavidM]

4 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I read them all last year, not the best quality writing but entertaining enough nonetheless. 

Yeh entertaining fluff really

[The Hallucinating Goose]

On 18/04/2024 at 07:22, The Hallucinating Goose said:

3 down, 10 to go. Sword Song next! I love Bernard Cornwell!

4 down, 9 to go. The Burning Lands next! They just keep getting better!