What are you reading in 2026?

[littlebittybobby]

okay----i am not reading ANY books, since books tend to clutter everything up. Yup. Instead, i spend all my time tidying up and getting rid of ANYTHING i am not using. So yeah---my place looks as if no one lives here, and is move-in ready. How do you kids like that? Ha.

[rosarugosa]

Rosa have you read “ A Little Life” by Hanya H…..?

I’m dipping into a bit of it and it’s holding my attention, but I keep wondering if the abuse the character Jude experienced in his childhood is going to be too much.

I have not, and it isn't on my TBR list based on the reviews I've read. I've seen it referred to as "suffering porn" or "abuse porn" - I forget which, but it didn't entice me.

[rosarugosa]

Iris: Please do let us know what you think when you're done. I'll admit that I have Wally Lamb's latest on my TBR list, and I've heard consistently that it is relentlessly depressing, and no happy ending.

[KayLR]

I read The River Is Waiting, and though it isn't rainbows and unicorns, I didn't find it unreadable. I wouldn't use the word "enjoyable" but perhaps " thoughtful." I had no problem getting through it and I have put down plenty of books.

[rosarugosa]

Thanks, Kay. That is reassuring and Wally will stay on my list.

[iris lilies]

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it should be on everyone’s reading list to read next! Ha ha, just kidding here.


The lying, felonious, former superintendent of Des Moines public schools, Dr.Ian Roberts, has just released a book from prison. He’s sitting in prison now waiting for his May trial. In it he offers “leadership “ideas. I’m sure he is instructing his fellow prisoners in all kinds of useful cons.

The thing is, he could really write a Frank Abagnale type of “catch me if you can “ book that could be entertaining, but I don’t think this mess masquerading as sincerity is that thing.

don’t give this felon any of your cash. Let’s all wait for the TV movie, it COULD be fun in the right hands. I could see someone making a really fun film out of this guy’s life, a kind of “how far can I dupe the dumb white people and the dumber people in the education factories” production. It would be a light-toned conman story showing the destruction (wives and girlfriends, fatherless children, lawsuits at employers) he left behind at each job.

[hana]

The St Mary's Cipher the Homefront Sleuths, already returned the book and can't remember the authors' names. The good guys and bad guys have noticed the activities of the Homefront Sleuth. British intelligence asked Blake to decipher messages from an agent that has gone dark in France, they suspect a mole in the agency. Frank intercepts a message from a German agent targeting Crofter Green's St Mary's church during Easter services. Frank only tells Rev Markham, but a small village has ears everywhere so naturally everyone knows. Then Evie goes on a secret mission to extract a French resistance agent from Brittany, and uncovers larger threats to Crown and Country. All in a day's work for a small English village.

Murder Me Tomorrow by Russel Cooper Cedric and Ambrose are celebrating their birthdays and lamenting the lack of cold cases to solve. While reading their birthday cards they find a letter from a former colleauge from French intelligence asking for their help solving the murder of her late husband. He was found on the grounds of an English manor and the local police quickly ruled it a suicide.

Method Actor: Leo is an actor in the regional theater circut when he goes from being killed on stage to the bedroom of a Chinese inspired fantasy world. He is now the unfavored eldest son of a wealthy merchant family living in exile in a remote outpost. Leo now Jian Li decides to changes his fortunes. The interesting thing about this series is that the mechanism for gathering resources is belief. If you can get someone to believe you have 10 gold coins in your purse, you have 10 gold coins in your purse. You also get bonsues and advance levels based on what people believe but who believes. Leo uses his acting ability to the limits, this time if he bombs the consequences are worse than a bad review.