Audiobooks ALWAYS count! I agree Donna that I tend to space out while reading, and I find audiobooks help me pay attention to detail I might have skipped over. I tend to choose longer audiobooks so they can be my commute entertainment for a week or 2. Highly recommend both Trevor Noah’s book and Michelle Obama’s - both read by the authors.

I have just read the autobiography Educated by Tara Westover and found it thought provoking and inspiring.

Love these threads! I also just finished Educated and found it fascinating.

I just finished "The Tuscan Child" by Rhys Bowen, set in WWII and the present, a family story and a bit of a mystery. "A Gentleman in Moscow" is one of those books that makes you want to go back and read it again.

So two questions really, what is fast paced and entertaining and what have you been reading.

I read a lot, but one that is "fast paced and entertaining" is "I'm your biggest fan: awkard encounters and assorted misadventures in Celebrity Journalism" by Kate Coyne.  She worked for Good housekeeping and People magazine.Nice, easy read.

In terms of what I am reading in general, because I like these thread for recommendations

Like the cat I read the bible everyday. This year I'm following a plan to read the whole bible in a year and a different genre every day

I read out aloud to my DD11 a lot. Really enjoying Five children and it by E Nesbit, having read the Phoenix and the carpet (out of order) already to her. She's really quite an amusing author.  DD is young enough to have missed out of stuff I read her older sisters so am enjoying reading again to her.

I read the Children Act a few years ago - would love to see the film. rather confronting!

A couple of interesting books from the last few days

Letters to the Midwife:correspondence with the author of  Call the midwife

Romantic Outlaws : the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley

Also, I've been recently been listening to a podcast called Chat10looks3. It's by some very senior Australian female journalists but is NOT about politics, but about books, films and cooking. I've picked up heaps of recommendations from them in the last 6 months

BTW on one of these threads a while back someone mentioned a book about the St Lawrence river, but not the title. 

Keen to read achtung baby.

Pics of some other books I've read recently

I'm on a historical fiction kick lately. Love and Ruin (Paula McLain) and
Circe (Madeline Miller) are both fabulous! I just ordered Song of Achilles (Madeline Miller's fist novel), too. Greek mythology + historical fiction is a match made in heaven for me!

I really enjoyed Michelle Obama's Becoming. I read, but don't always love, Anne Tyler -- I'm in the middle of A Spool of Blue Thread, which actually relates to my off-topic post recently about aging parents.

I recently read I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara who passed away suddenly before she finished it. Her husband, the actor Patton Oswalt and others finished some of the chapters after she died. True crime, truth is stranger than fiction stuff. She was a great writer.

Anne, Good question.

‘Becoming’ - not fast-paced. I have to take so many breaks to think about what I have read.

Martian - fast-paced and entertaining.

Lab Girl - fast-paced and entertaining