A lot of truth in this…
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I love getting “lost” in a good book…One series of books I read a while ago now were by Belinda Jones and each book was set in a different country ,all were lighthearted romantic comedies but every time I read one I felt as though I was on holiday in that country it was such good writing and I hated getting to the end of the story 
When I get to the end of a good book or series of books it’s like losing a friend !
I find it difficult to start another book after I’ve finished reading a good one.
I really must stop buying books. I keep telling myself that but it doesn’t work. They are just too tempting in the charity shops. I read all sorts (just finishing a book by Eve Ensler which is very good), nothing I would call favourite except the one I’m reading at the moment. I’ve got piles of books hidden all over the place. Good thing is they can always go back to the charity shops after. Same goes for music, bought about 15 cds in Oxfam last week.
The worst thing was finishing The Shepherd’s Crown & knowing it wasn’t just the end of a brilliant book & the end of the Tiffany series, but also the very last one that Terry Pratchett would ever write.
I get at least three books from the library at a time, usually two out of three are good reads. Mostly Victorian crime novels or Alexander McCall Smith.
There’s a Book Barn nearby, most books are £1 and it’s deadly! You could spend a week in there, the smell is wonderful, they have a lovely cafe too!
I usually come out with something very old, smelly and falling to bits (book not a man) and thoroughly enjoy it.
McCall Smith writes the sorts of book that are easy to sink into and before you realise they have ended and it’s time to search for the next one. I find that Kate Atkinson books have the same effect.
McCall Smith is a very good observerer of people , I love his Ladies Detective Series, he has the African characters just right.
I don’t know Kate Atkinson, I’ll have to look out for her!
Yes the Lady Detective series is fun. I also enjoyed the Scotland Street and Isabel Dalhousie books. With Kate Atkinson the Jackson Brodie books might be a good place to start, they did televise them but they are better read. The first one is One Good Turn, followed by When Will There be Good News and then Started Early, Took My Dog
Yes, don’t start with Atkinson’s most recent books (Life After Life and A God in Ruins) as they are quite different from the Jackson Brodie series which I loved but I found those quite hard to get engaged with.
I’ve just discovered a really good crime writer - Laura Wilson - set in war and post war London with a lovely detective called Ted Stratton. Not gory or forensic but very carefully researched for the period.
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Loved this book about a boatman on the Thames who gets sent to Australia and ends up on the banks of the Hawkesbury River in Sydney, where my daughter and her family currently live. Great page turner.
I loved this auto biography of an English boy who left home ( never to return ) and became one of the great characters of the Northern Territories.
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When i get the time to read, i enjoy Harlem Cobern, and Sidney Sheldon novels…
That’s how I feel too.
After reading The Road Less Traveled, The Power of Now, Conversations with God books and many more, and losing many of my family members over a couple of years, I decided it was time to lighten up a bit and so I’ve now immersed myself in light reading with a bit of humor, I’ve found a couple of Irish Writers who fit the bill, Marian Keyes & Cecilia Ahern, both have a touch of humor injected into their writings, and as someone said above it’s a great way of escaping for a couple of hours.
Ive read some marian Keyes novels…i enjoyed them…
I also love all Alexander McCall Smith’s books and there are some real laugh out loud moments in them.
I read somewhere a description of how you feel at the end of a good book - calling it a “book hangover”. I’ve had many of those!
Me Too.
And me - I always enjoy Marian Keyes books.
I think the book which had the most effect on me was Grapes of Wrath. I felt I was on that journey with them and was drained at the end. I have never been able to bring myself to re-read it.