Tea with Tales April Catch-Up

One week later than usual, due to Easter, we enjoyed cheese scones, shared what we wished we had said yes to when we were younger and chatted about the books we had been reading in the previous month.

We started with a short reading from Colleen Hoover’s November 9. Told from the point of view of Fallon and Ben who after falling in love in their first meeting agree to meet on November 9 for the next five years. The excerpt featured a somewhat racy sentence that got the group talking about Olivia Coleman’s latest movie Wicked Little Lies and the use of swearing in books and movies.

Recommendations from last month The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams were slow starts for one reader but recommended persevering as you warm to the characters and they are both good reads.

Thriller I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes was another recommendation from last month and was definitely not for the faint heartened. Even so it was hard to put down.

Another thriller that was a very good read was Michael Robotham’s The Suspect. Gripped from the first line our reader really enjoyed this book.

Gruesome but interesting was Victor Gregg’s autobiography. King's Cross Kid: a London childhood between the wars. He tells the story from aged five when he went into Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children, through his young years in street gangs until his enlistment aged eighteen.

Linda Castillo’s Kate Burkholder series is a favourite mystery series for one of our readers and she recommends An Evil Heart.

The Women by Kristin Hannah tells the story of a young women following her brother to the Vietnam War and the real battle that occurs when she returns home to a hostile American people.

Our Clive Cussler fan is branching out to read Agatha Christie after watching a movie recently on the television. We wait to see if Christie can hold his attention as much as Cussler has.

Danielle Steel’s earlier books were highly recommended. In particular Malice and Journey which are both excellent reads with happy endings.

Tea with Tales - our book group for readers with impaired vision - meets on the first Monday of the month at Hastings War Memorial Library.

16 April 2024

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