What are you reading in 2025?

[Richards]

Relatedly for gifts, also was gifted the first volume in MC Beaton's Hamish Macbeth series, Death of a Gossip. I have a bunch of the later volumes that I bought for a $1 but my brain needs me to read them "in order".

My wife's a big fan of Beaton's "Hamish Macbeth" series. This year, I picked up the last four in the series (so far) for her for Christmas, as she'd gotten behind in her reading due to some ongoing cataract issues (that have since been resolved).

There was a TV series made a few years back and I watched a few episodes with my wife, but I'm not sure how closely they match up with the books.

Johnathan

 

[Richards]

As for me, I'm currently reading The Beatles by Richard Havers, and it's pretty quick going because the whole 320 pages is mostly photos with captions. It was a Christmas gift from my family, who know I enjoy their music.

Johnathan

 

[pukunui]

My mother managed to find me a decent used copy of Hell Bay for Christmas. It’s the only one of Will Thomas’ excellent Barker and Llewelyn detective series that’s no longer in print* (and was thus the only one aside from the newest book not in my collection).

I’d read it before, having borrowed a copy from the library. Reread it in about a day.


*I asked the author about it once, and he was surprised to hear it was out of print!