Literature What are you currently reading?

Chryssie said:
I just finished a really good book called "Perfectly Nice Neighbors" by Kia Abdullah. It takes place in London and was published this year. Salma and Bil Khatun and their teenage son Zain move to a house in the suburbs after Zain has some trouble and their restaurant fails because of the pandemic. They hope to start a new life away from the ethnic community they had lived in. They are Bangladeshi and the new neighborhood is white. From day one, they seem to have antagonized their next door neighbor and things escalate quickly. This book gives perspective to both families and as the tension grows, there is no one totally innocent. It is a tense thriller and speaks to how things can get out of hand.
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I'm going to read that thanks, sounds interesting.
 
I couldn't find it and I think that it is called Those People Next Door here.
 
Chryssie said:
It's a new book. Why would the title be different?
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It is a different name for the book in the UK for some reason.

The book is very good so far. The character of the mother works in a school in Ilford which is about 15 minutes from where I used to live in London, weirdly!

Why do I start reading books so late at night?😆 I always want to stay up to see what happens next.
 
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I had to go to sleep last night, but I will carry on with the book today. I think I will read her other books after this one. I was just looking at her Amazon page.
 
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Today I finished "Dead Mountain" by Preston and Child. It is a new book and part of a series featuring Nora Kelly, an archeologist. It is a mystery revolving around the 2008 disappearance of some hikers in the mountains of New Mexico. Nine people disappeared and only 3 bodies were found until now when two frat boys seek shelter in a cave during a blizzard and discover 2 bodies. The FBI is called in and the search begins for answers to this cold case. A good story with interesting characters and a good fast read that I enjoyed.
 
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I started reading another Kia Abdullah book called Next of Kin. Very dark subject matter and I wish I hadn't started it now. I will probably have to find out the ending, though.
 
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SuicideBlonde said:
I did get through the Palahniuk book, but it was not super fond of it. I like other books of his better.
I picked up "Leave the world behind" the other day.
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Leave the world behind was a tease. It hardly went anywhere and did not explain anything. It is going to be a netflix movie. It was about the interactions real explanations of what is going on. Frustrated me.
 
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Chryssie said:
I was thinking I would look for other books by her after reading the neighbors one.
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It was quite horrible to read. I did buy two more of her books so I'm going to check the subject before I decide to read the next ones.
 
Chryssie said:
Today I finished "Dead Mountain" by Preston and Child. It is a new book and part of a series featuring Nora Kelly, an archeologist. It is a mystery revolving around the 2008 disappearance of some hikers in the mountains of New Mexico. Nine people disappeared and only 3 bodies were found until now when two frat boys seek shelter in a cave during a blizzard and discover 2 bodies. The FBI is called in and the search begins for answers to this cold case. A good story with interesting characters and a good fast read that I enjoyed.
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thank you for the recommendation - I have put it on Hold and downloaded Old Bones which is the first in the Nora Kelly series

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This afternoon I read "Shelter" by Harlan Coben. My sister recommended it. It is a YA book, the first in a trilogy about Mickey Bolitar who is the nephew of Myron Bolitar, a character in another Coben series. I have read a few of those and liked them quite a lot so I knew I would enjoy these. Since it is YA it was a really fast read. It was really good with great characters and an intriguing mystery which has elements of drug addiction, missing persons, human trafficking, and the Holocaust.
 
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Chryssie said:
This afternoon I read "Shelter" by Harlan Coben. My sister recommended it. It is a YA book, the first in a trilogy about Mickey Bolitar who is the nephew of Myron Bolitar, a character in another Coben series. I have read a few of those and liked them quite a lot so I knew I would enjoy these. Since it is YA it was a really fast read. It was really good with great characters and an intriguing mystery which has elements of drug addiction, missing persons, human trafficking, and the Holocaust.
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I watched the UK version of the TV show recently and we liked it. I had read the books too. I think it was Unovegan on another forum who used to read them too.
 
Sorry, it was a US version of Shelter, I meant.

I did start to watch some of his books that were turned into UK versions, but I didnt stick with them.

I hope there is a second season (and maybe third) of Shelter as there are three books.
 

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