Books 2014

[kalkan4eva]

What is everyone planning to read this year?
I've ordered "The Things We Never Said", "The Foster Husband", "Necessary Lies" and "Life After Life" - sorry I'm a proper book person as opposed to Kindle.
We were away at the start of the year and I read "Me before You", The Light Between Oceans" and "The Husbands Secret" - all good holiday reads if anyone is after recommendations.

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[Lizilu20]

I read both paperbacks and kindle books. I have joined the amazon prime scheme which allows me to borrow for " free", a book a month from the kindle lending library so I've read all sorts of diverse books - some that I would never have normally contemplated. At the moment I am reading "the Hangman's daughter" series, which German books that are translated into English amd I'm really enjoying. They are set in a small Bavarian hamlet circa 1600 and are basically murder mysteries, with a load of folklore thrown in. Believe it or not, they are really good books and I'd never in a million years usually pick something like this.
Another good read was "Splinter", a thriller by Sebastin Fitzek, again a foreign author, translated into English but totally unputdownable. The Husband's secret was one I thoroughly enjoyed too. While we were in Kalkan recently, I bought "Apple Tree Yard" from WHSmith which was a good holiday read, about a 50 something year old professioonal woman, who has an affair with deadly consequences and starts with her in the dock at the Old Bailey, but we don't know why. A kind of back to front book but very good. I also read "The Fault in Our Stars" after our girls had finished it as I'd nothing better to do. This was more for teenagers really, but was a decent read for adults too. It was about a terminally ill teenage child and her relationship with her boyfriend who also has cancer. I felt for the parents in the book, whereas my girls identified more with the protagonist.
I can recommennd anything by Peter James, a crime writer and a really good novel I read last year was called "The Drowning Guard" which is a story about the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century, by Linda Lafferty. Fab book. I couldn't put it down.
I love Kate Atkinson too and also have "life after life" on my wish list too.
I'm really looking forward to everyones recommendations.

[Blue Lizard]

I tend to read things that are not too taxing as I have the attention span of a moth......Anything by James Patterson is fine ..this years 2 are "Private Berlin" & "Kill Alex Cross"

[Babs]

One plus one by Jojo Moyes is a good holiday read.....was quite said when I finished it! I also enjoyed The flavours of love by Dorothy Koomson and the Rosie Project made me laugh!
Have life after life and apple tree yard on my kindle really to go.
This time last year I converted to a kindle.....I really thought I would miss holding an actual book but I don't! And the way I read when I go away means there is more room to being goodies back!

[Pompeyalbie]

Usually too lazy to read books but this time I'm taking All Night Long by the old Radio London DJ Dave Cash, it's a fictitious  story about a pirate radio station in the 60s.

[kalkan4eva]

Forgot to say, I also take a stash of magazines which I buy at the Airport and they weigh as heavy as the Duty Free BH buys things like "Practical Classics" but then I catch him reading my Harpers Bazaar or Red magazines - funny, you don't catch me reading his mags about cars

[Lizilu20]

I like my mags too but found myself in the wilderness a few years ago when I seemed to grow too old for some of the glossies eg marie claire and cosmo - they seemed more aimed at young girls on the pull and were just full of "what's your most embarrassing sex tale!!!" .  I then found Red thank goodness!
Made me laugh re your BH. Mine is a sucker for 'take a break' although he will deny it to the hills 
Some fab recommendations as well peeps. I'm adding to my wish list nicely thanks.

[Livingproof]

I've got 4 Harlan Coben books on my e-reader: Play Dead, Gone For Good, Hold Tight & No Second Chance. Most if not all his books are firmly in the 'not-put-downable' category (best I've read so far is Tell No One). I've only read his standalone thrillers, not yet tried his Myron Bolitar series. Another to read is Sycamore Row by John Grisham. I used to enjoy his earlier books but feel he's gone off the boil a bit.

Other favourite authors are Linwood Barclay, whose style is similar to Harlan Coben but slightly grittier, Dan Brown, who just needs to be more prolific (I just hate waiting 2-3 years between novels) and Sam Bourne whose books The Chosen One, The Last Testament & The Final Reckoning are very much Dan Brown-esque and very, very good.

One thing's for sure: I'll need to get more books for the summer hols as I usually get through 7-8 in 2 weeks!

[Lizilu20]

Love your recommendations livingproof, you must read the myron bolitar series as they are fab too!