Opher Goodwin – My recent reads – Any suggestions?

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I must say I haven’t found the time to do a lot of reading. I thought that when I retired I would do a lot more. I am an avid reader and love losing myself in a good book more than just about anything else.

The main trouble is that I have been writing so much that I have had little time to fit it in.

Here is a list of the books I have read recently. You can see that I have nearly read 200 books in the five years since I retired. That is only 40 a year – less than a book a week! Not as much as I hoped.

I like a range of reads and often have a few books going at any one time to suit my moods. I like the light entertaining reads and go for Stephen King and my new discovery (courtesy of Virginie) Jasper Fforde. For books with more substance I go for Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Iain Banks, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie.

I like variety. The trouble is that I have read all the books by my favourite authors. So if anyone has any suggestions to make I am open – fire away.

152. The Song of the Quarkbeast Jasper Fforde
153. One of our Thursdays is missing Jasper Fforde
154. No Matter What Sally Donovan
155. The story of my heart Richard Jefferies
156. Time must have a stop Aldous Huxley
157. Immortal coils Kurt Vonnegut
158. Chavs Owen Jones
159. Revival Stephen King
160. In God I doubt John Humphrys
161. Phil Ochs Death of a rebel Marc Elliott
162. In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan
163. Blues for Mr Charlie James Baldwin
164. Stone Mattress Margaret Atwood
165. The Music of Captain Beefheart Chris Wade
166. Something rotten Jasper Fforde
167. From Here to Infinity – Scientific Horizons Martin Rees
168.  Laughter and forgetting Milan Kundera
169. Saturday Night & Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe
170. Black dogs Ian McEwan
171. This Boy Alan Johnson
172. Please Mr Postman Alan Johnson
173. If this isn’t nice what is? Kurt Vonnegut Jnr
174. Lunar Notes Zoot Horn Rollo
175. The Martian Andy Weir
176. Afterlife Colin Wilson
177. Revolution Russell Brand
178. The buried giant Kasuo Ishiguro
179. Sons and lovers D H Lawrence
180. Women Charles Bukowski
181. Collected stories Philip K Dick
182. Murder on the Marco polo Clive Leatherdale
183. The colour purple Maya Angelou
184. Reader Noam Chomski
185. Magic seeds V S Naipal
186. Notes from a small island Bill Bryson
187. Tortilla flat John Steinbeck
188. The heart goes first Margaret Atwood
189. Finding Son House Richard Shade Gardner
190. The big over easy Jasper Fforde
191. Lost in a good book Jasper Fforde
192. The Eyre affair (again) Jasper Fforde
193. The Fourth Bear Jasper Fforde
194. Sunstorm Arthur C Clarke
195. Bazaar of Bad Dreams Stephen King
196. Wind/Pinball Haruki Murakami
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9 thoughts on “Opher Goodwin – My recent reads – Any suggestions?”

  1. You should check out The Handmaids Tale by Margret Atwood. It’s really interesting and I think you would like it.

    1. Thank you for that. Unfortunately I’ve already read that one. I like Margaret Atwood a lot – one of my favourite writers and really enjoyed that book. As you suggested – right up my street. Thanks for the follow, likes and taking the trouble to comment – I appreciate it.

  2. Like you, I often have several books going at once. I just recently finished – wait for it *drum roll* – the whole series of Sookie Stackhouse vampire stories! I know, tragic. I was coerced into dipping my toe into them and found myself immersed. Vampire stuff has never been my thing. But it was light hearted entertainment in a different genre, sort of Harry Potterishy.
    There are some very good Aussie authors – anything by Bryce Courtenay is brilliant.I started with the trilogy of The Potato Factory, following Irish settlers to Tasmania. The Power of One of course is brilliant.
    Colleen McCullough is good but I found her Roman series hard going albeit brilliantly researched. Neither did I like her later venture into murder mysteries.
    A new author on the horizon for me is one of our actors by the name of Judith Nunn. She writes historical Australian novels. Very good.I have only read one to date, her latest called The Ghan.

    1. Thanks Raili – I’m not sure the vampire books are quite my thing but I’m tempted by Bryce Courtenay and Judith Nunn. I’ll look them up.

      1. I would never have read the vampire ones if I hadn’t promised to have a peek 🙂 I think you’ll like the other two authors.

  3. Have you read “A Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood? One of my favorite. I have “Never Let Me Go” by kazuo ishiguro on my TBR shelf. I STILL find it hard to believe he wrote “Remains of the Day!” Here’s one you may not have heard of (in fact there’s a trilogy, but I’ve only read the first one) “Wool” by Hugh Howey. I love sci fi (and yes, I have your book on my wish list on Amazon!) and this one was quite different from my usual fare. In fact, it’s been made into a movie. Not sure when it’s to be released.

    1. Yes I’ve read The Handmaid’s Tale and most of her other books – she’s one of my favourite writers. I’ve also read most of Ishiguro and, like you, can’t believe Remains of the Day (A book of such great understatement). I haven’t read any Hugh Howey though – I’ll check that out. Thanks Cheryl.

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