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I was given the Salt Path for Mother’s Day. I thoroughly enjoyed it but I’ve walked much of that coast path so bought back happy memories.
I was wondering about reading the next book Vera but may wait until it’s available on BorrowBox.

I eventually finished The Wild Silence, Rayner Winn's follow up book to The Salt Path. It is such an interesting true story, which includes a trek through Iceland, that I feel almost guilty at saying that I sometimes find "Ray", the author a rather irritating character. The book ends a bit inconclusively so I wonder if there is more to come.

I then read a couple of detective type books which were OK but nothing special to say about them. Then I read West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge. This is based on a true story of two giraffes who are rescued from a hurricane at sea and driven 3200 miles through America to San Diego Zoo. It takes place in 1938 and Lynda Rutledge has wound a totally fictional story around the true story of the journey. I found it hard to get into at first but I really enjoyed it in the end. Sometimes when I get to the end of a book I've already forgotten what I read at the beginning but I think this is a story that will stay with me.

No Jude not read that one, let us know what it is like.

I have just ordered " Weight in Ink"...:) x

Has anyone read "The Weight of Ink" by Rachel Kadish. My cousin has just read in New York and says its brilliant, but maybe heavy reading.....might g et it..

It does sound interesting Tawny. I like Alison Weir but I know what AnnG means. Her books can be very dense sometimes with all the facts and dates and characters. One of OH’s Christmas presents was A.W’s book on Eleanor of Aquitaine which he has now read and enjoyed so I shall be reading that before long. She’s one of my favourite historical characters.

At the moment I am halfway through Wild Silence by Raynor Winn, a follow up to her book The Salt Path

Sounds interesting but I do find Alison Weir a bit hard to read as she gives so many facts my poor brain can’t keep up.

My latest read is Mary Boleyn-The Great and Infamous.... by Alison Weir.

It is a non fiction book about Mary Boleyn. It starts with the reputation that she gained and then looks at it in more detail to see if her reputation was really deserved. It goes on to also look at how Mary was treated by the other people in her life too.

I am about half way through The Salt Path that AnnG recommended. Some lovely descriptions of nature but it’s quite an emotional read and at times I feel that I am struggling with them through both the physical pain and the emotions. At times it is hard reading for me as I have just lost my brother to a terminal illness and I know that in his last months he found solace in the natural world.

I am sometimes finding it a little bit repetitive but I am interested enough in the story to order the follow up book The Wild Silence as an ebook through the Libby app. Apparently there is a wait of about 6 weeks for it so it must be popular.

Just finished the Clockmakers daughter by Kate Morton I did enjoy it but found it a little confusing as it covered linking family stories in several different eras

I can’t remember whether I’ve ever read any Jojo Moyes but I do like horses (I learnt to ride in my late fifties). I’ll give it a go if I see it. I will look out for The Salt Path as it sounds a good read.

I’ve been reading my way through the library’s stock of police/detective type books using Libby. A while ago Detective recommended a series of books by Linda Costello. I’ve managed to read two of them, Sworn to Silence and Shamed, and really enjoyed them. They are about crimes in a small American town where the ‘English’ and the Amish exist side by side. The Chief of Police, Kate Burkholder, was brought up Amish but left the community. I found it very interesting learning more about Amish culture and beliefs.

Read that one quickly. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn. True story couple made homeless, he is ill with a terminal illness. The choose to walk the South West Coastal path. Very well written and very emotive. I enjoyed it even though with so many memories at times it was hard going.

Just finished The Horse Dancer by Jo Jo Moyes. I really enjoyed it even though not being somebody mad on horses. I found it fascinating and I do always like her books.

I loved Wild Swans

Tawny, I bought Wild Swans off a second hand book stall years ago and still haven’t read it but OH did. He thought it was very good so I must get around to tackling it. Did you enjoy it?

Wild Swans by Jung Chang is my latest read. It is biographical/autobiographical as it starts with her grandmother’s life during the time of the foot binding and ends with her own life and her scholarship to Britain in the early 90s.

Just checked my list and so far this year I have read 41 books, quite a mixture of authors, Just finished Nora Roberts one The MacGregors, Daniel and Ian. Quite light reading but all I seem to want to read at the moment. Now reading one by Judy Finnigan Eloise picked up on the free book stall we had until the end of September. Again fairly light but set in Cornwall which I like.

I’ve been reading all the time but nothing very special. However I thought I’d add something to the thread as I would hate to see it fade away.

I’ve mostly been reading detective type novels. I’ve read one or two Michael Jecks medieval mysteries, a couple of Ann Cleeve’s Shetland books and a couple of her earlier ones about a birdwatching detective, one or two David Baldacci books, and two Peter Robinson books featuring DCI Banks.

I never did replace my broken kindle and I am not confident about spending time in the library so I am using the Libby app which has been a boon. I can’t get everything I want as not all the library books have been digitised yet but the app has certainly helped me through lockdown.

Just fisishes The House Share by Kate Helm (who also writes as Kate Harrison.

I found it hard to put down, creepy and gripping.

Immi thinks she has found the perfect new home in The Dye Factory with Camille Ashleigh, Dex, Bernice, Lucas, Veronica and Zoum but when sharing a house with 7 murder suspects you can' lock the danger out

Just finished At the edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier. It took me a while to get into it because it was so descriptive that it read like a text book. But once I did get into it I really enjoyed it. The book cover doesn't really describe the part of it that I enjoyed and found the most interesting. While the apple orchards methods and family trials were very readable, for me it was the other story about William Lobb (he was a plant collector in 19th century) and the story worked around him and the giant Sequoias of California. Having seen a few of them it was easy to picture.