Moray Libraries Book News April 2016

Top Ten Fiction in March 2016 Top Ten Non-Fiction in March 2016

Make Me by Lee Child

The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson

15th Affair by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

Howard’s End is on the Landing by Susan Hill

In the Cold Dark Ground by Stuart MacBride

Paradox: the nine greatest enigmas in science by Jim Al-Khalili

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

St Kilda: a people’s history by Roger Hutchinson

Cometh the Hour by Jeffrey Archer

Where Memories go: why dementia changes everything by Sally Magnusson

One Good Turn: a jolly murder mystery by Kate Atkinson

The Feelgood Plan: happier, healthier & slimmer in 15 minutes a day by Dalton Wong

Property of a Noblewoman by Danielle Steel

Foolproof Cooking by Mary Berry

Coffin Road by Peter May

Busy Mum’s Cookbook: 100 simple, delicious family meals by Annabel Karmel

Blue by Danielle Steel

Dog Soldiers: love, loyalty and sacrifice on the front line by Isabel George

A Summer at Sea by Katie Fforde

The Outrun by Amy Liptrot

Here are the most popular books borrowed from Moray Libraries in March 2016.

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Reading Group Reviews

Forres Library Thursday Reading Group read Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan and discussed this unusual novel at their most recent meeting. Only a few group members found the character interesting with some finding the book quite enjoyable. Some of the group members however found it hard to imagine that computers hold so much power and acknowledged that this was in fact quite true. Some of the plot was unbelievable and most group members wouldn’t recommend this title.

A historical title Blood on the Strand by Susanna Gregory was the topic for Forres Library Wednesday afternoon reading group. Unfortunately the group members were disappointed with the book, stating that there were too many characters and that it was quite anachronistic in language and humour. Those who finished the book enjoyed the plot and the twist at the end. The majority of those attending however wouldn’t recommend this story.

Forres Library’s Tuesday evening book group looked at No! I Don’t Need Reading Glasses by Virginia Ironside at their last meeting. Only two of the group members enjoyed the book finding it humourous and entertaining and they would recommend it. However, the remaining members of the group felt it was difficult to get into and that the main character was not very likeable and for those reasons would not recommend this novel. A mixed reaction!

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler was discussed by Elgin Library Evening Reading Group recently. Most of the group members enjoyed this contemporary American novel. The reading group found the strong female characters well portrayed and the family history type story very believable and it had well-constructed plot – even though the placing of the earlier story of Linnie Mae at the end of the book seemed a bit out of ‘synch’. Although this was a novel where nothing much happened, it was a believable and engaging tale of a typical American family. A ‘thumbs up’ for this choice this time!

Aberlour Library reading group recently discussed Howard’s End is on the Landing by Susan Hill. Most of the group found the book impersonal and full of name-dropping and a dull catalogue of no interest to others. Some group members read only a quarter of it as the thought it repetitive and not developed enough. One group member enjoyed it stating that the writer had an enviable life with ‘money, brains and capability’.

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April book highlights

The Blade Artist by Irvine Welsh

Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. 'The Blade Artist' marks the return of one of modern fiction's most infamous, characters -Francis Begbie from 'Trainspotting'.

The 14th Colony by Steve Berry

Shot down over Siberia, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, a man whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the USA.

Paris Spring by James Naughtie

Paris in 1968. In a city alive with talk of revolution, Will Flemyng finds himself in the thick of the action, a young spy whose first adventures behind the Iron Curtain have already given him a secret glamour. But now he gets news that threatens the closest and most complicated relationship in his life, with his younger brother.

Dilly’s Hope by Rosie Goodwin

Dilly Carey has struggled out of poverty to make a successful life for herself. Dilly is still troubled by the one secret she must never share. Olivia, the daughter Dilly gave away at birth, cannot find out the real truth about her parentage. As she finds the strength and courage to visit her son's grave on the battlefields of the Great War, will she also find a way to a new happiness - and a new love?

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