Finished Deep Water by Patricia Highmsith yesterday. Though I admit I skimmed through the last ten pages Was kinda disappointed with the ending

The Priory of the Orange Tree- On pause

This book is boring AF. I spent almost 3 hours listening to the audio book yesterday. Instead of continuing to waste my time and or resorting to You Tube and all the crap that contains, I listened to a book called Love at First Psych. It's a rom com that ends as all rom coms do, but it was only a couple of hours long and was entertaining.

I also have the physical version of this The Priory of the Orange Tree. I haven't tried reading the physical version, yet. I can't decide if the book is actually boring or if it is the narrator of the audio book version that is making it boring. The person reads in a very monotone voice so every character sounds the same.

Whether I get through this or not, I'm not buying the second book. If I never speak of this book again, it means it was DNF'd and donated.

I am currently working my way through a set of volumes given to my late father for his birthday in 1938. Having always been kept in the box they were delivered in, they are in near perfect condition, although inevitably a little yellowed with age. But I do love the smell of old books! Each of them contains fifty short stories on different themes, written by some very famous authors. But the volume I'm presently reading is "Fifty Amazing Stories of the Great War" (or World War 1. as we now call it). It is a fascinating collection, for the stories are all eye witness accounts by people who were actually there: soldiers, sailors, air men, nurses, ambulance drivers, even spies. Some are accounts by high ranking officers, some by ordinary soldiers and civilians.

This book tells it how it was, pulling no punches. It is all in there: the mud, the blood, the stench of death, the horror of gas attacks and of relentless bombardments; the abominable and useless waste of lives in those futile charges across no man's land. But there is also the courage and the heroism, the comradeship, and even humour in the midst of so much death and privation.

I wonder how many other copies of this book still exist. I don't expect, even if rare, that they are particularly valuable in money terms. But, as with all books, their true value lies in what they have to say. And each one of them ought to be kept and treasured by their owners, so that these brave men and women and their stories will never be forgotten. Along with all those thousands who did not survive to tell their stories.

I recently read Lisa Jewell's book "Then She Was Gone" (thanks to @Bigsimsfan12 )
I liked the book, but kept trying to figure out how it would end. Unfortunately it lacked a good plot twist, but the author mentions in her thanks that the whole book was a crazy idea so I guess it might not represent what she usually writes.
Should I read another one?

I just finished Camino Ghosts by John Grisham, which is on par with his other recent stuff: it's an okay enough way to spend time, but not impressive.

Oooh I've not read that one. Did you figure out how it would end? Since you said it wasn't a good plot twist. I always try and work out the ending but I hate when I'm right

Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis