What are you reading?

Another unforgettable book is Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follet. Also a war story. Also amazingly good.

Thanks, @hopeful33250 That definitely sounds like a future read for me.

A book that really touched me and that was about a topic I was totally unaware of is "Surviving the Forest".
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43906443
It is based on a true story and is really heart-wrenching to read what many Jewish people had to endure during WW2. I would highly recommend it.

There are a number of other WW2 books that I have found very worthwhile to read also but this one really struck me.
JK

Christiania:
You are so right about how they shouldn't take "ugly issues" out of children's books or anyone's for that matter. Everyone needs to know what really happened whether it was good or bad and why it was good or bad. I like reading original manuals written by the person themself. Samuel Pepys Diary is a good example.

The Green Book sounds like an interesting movie! Was the black musician Louis Armstrong?

Keep reading! It's so much more fulfilling than today's TV shows!
PML

Dear @pml,
It was not Armstrong but an extremely talented black pianist, whose name I still can't recall :<

@colleenyoung Hey Colleen, it's so good to know you're another lover of Canadian authors!
There are so many outstanding Canadian writers. As I mentioned in my previous post, I particularly search out the winners of awards and/or best sellers, and can hardly ever go wrong. I do read works by many American and British authors but my preference is to find those gems written by some of our own brilliant wordsmiths.
And all these days later, I'm still slogging my way through Jane Urquhart 's "A Map of Glass" but intend to stay with it to the finish line. Not capturing my interest.

I've found a book by Charles Dickens that I haven't read, "The Uncommercial Traveler", written in 1861. By reading the book, I discovered that "uncommercial" meant that he was not a traveling salesman. The main character of the book is a man who travels around England and surrounding areas to observe what life was really like from work houses for the poor, to tramps, (Their name for homeless.), nurses and doctors, average families etc. Of course being set in 1861 travel was by horse and buggy or carriage, train or foot which makes for a very interesting book.

Great enjoyable book, would read to my seniors at assisted living facility. Great discussions facilitating communication from individuals who lived in Europe during WW II.

OOPS, my comment was meant for Book Surviving the Forrest, Sorry about this.'

Here are some great book many of us seniors have read:

Woman of Substance/Barbara Taylor
Celestine Prophecy/ James Redfield
Any of Elizabeth Allende's Books. Magical Realism. Her father was cousin to Salvador Allende Chile

I love reading books! I have a Nook Book program on my tablet but I really like reading real books! When life gets a little crazy and unpredictable like it has lately, I find a quiet time and read a book. I'm currently re-reading the Diary of Samuel Pepys written in 1659. It takes you back to a very different time from what we are living in now; no computers or TV, no radio and very few books or newspapers! More importantly, no inside toilets! People often had to kill dinner. (It was a normal thing to do then.) Also you ate what was in season; berries in July, apples in September and beef when it was grown. Everyone went hunting and often with only knives. Guns were very uncommon. Samuel Pepys was a clerk for the Queen's Navy. His escapades in London were very interesting; losing his new belt in an outhouse, suffering the rain because he forgot his hat and umbrellas hadn't been invented! Put that together with his pet lion, Growly who got so big he had to put him in the zoo, life was interesting in 1659 but not always fun.