The Friday Five: Books

[smallhobbit]

Questions from thefridayfive 

1) Have you read more books, or fewer books, this past year than usual?
More - less travel and then less work hours has meant more time to read.

2) What book are you reading now (or what book did you read most recently)?
I finished A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll yesterday; I'm reading Knitting Bones by Monica Ferris at the moment; I'm about to start Suicide Excepted by Cyril Hare and Two-Way Murder by E C R Lorac should arrive tomorrow.

3) What is the best book you read in the past few years?
I don't think I can decide - E C R Lorac is my new favourite author though.

4) Do you read more than one book at a time, or just one?
Generally two, sometimes three and occasionally four when they all arrive from the library at the same time

5) How big is your to-be-read pile (or list)?
Over 50 books

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

50+?! Do you have an actual TBR list?

[smallhobbit]

That's the books on my planned lists for reading this year, plus additional ones that are on my library lists, plus the ones which I wasn't going to buy this year but seem to have done so ...

[annofowlshire]

...

*goes and gets first Monica Ferris book from the e-library*

[smallhobbit]

Very much of the 'cozy mysteries' genre, but I find them entertaining.

[annofowlshire]

I really like cozy mysteries and occasionally go on binges (I was really into revisiting The Cat Who... series a few months ago), but they’re sporadic. And the market is so flooded with them that sometimes I want a good cozy and I start looking and then I back away because there’s too much to try to choose between.

[smallhobbit]

I read a lot of The Cat Who ... series some years ago and enjoyed them.

I've also been reading Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity series which are fun. They're set in the Cotswolds, although there are some things which are clearly written by an American as for instance their view of the English educational system.

[solosundance]

Good luck with your very tall TBR pile :-)

[smallhobbit]

Thank you. It is more than one pile so it doesn't fall over!

[moth2fic]

I always have at least two books on the go, sometimes more. The default is a fiction book in the lounge and a non-fiction one in the kitchen, with a scattering of magazines upstairs. But the default can be expanded...

[smallhobbit]

I fully understand that opinion :)