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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)
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Have that on my ginormous "To Read" pile.
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I think you will enjoy Dubliners a lot when you get to it. Very enjoyable. Great dialogue.
On your recommendation I have picked it up and I'm reading a story each night just before I go to sleep. Great little stories and knowing the places he writes about so well makes it even better!
Currently reading the Miniaturist by Jessie Burton, about halfway through and loving it so far, very difficult to put down, proven by the fact that I'm currently barely surviving on coffee and sugar at work right now between the book and the McGregor fight last night! :P
Just finished that this evening, I flew through it. Great tale and wouldn't know much about Dutch history, but it definitely made me want to read more about it. Unputdownable!0 -
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Finished The Miniaturist during the week, got through it in about a day and a half, it was such an enjoyable read! So readble and difficult to put down, I love historical fiction and this was an area I wasn't previously familiar with but thoroughly enjoyed!
I also read The Guts by Roddy Doyle, which I just finished last night. Doyle isn't exactly my cup of tea, fantastic wit and he really captures the human condition but I find the reams of dialogue a bit frustrating at times, it'd make an amazing play or film but I find it quite hard to get into as a novel... I don't normally pick up his books but this was a book club read.
Despite my intitial trepidation I really got into it and was loving the novel as I neared the end, I didn't want it to end. It's a sequel of sorts to teh Barrytown trilogy and was so well written, and equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking. I can definitely see myself readig my of Doyle in the future, any suggestions welcome!
This week's book is The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, I'm looking forward to see if it matches all of the hype! 0 -
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Well, I liked it :P
Finished 'Ghostwritten' by David Mitchell the other day, mostly enjoyed it, a good debut, good to see the beginnings of some characters that pop up in his other books.
Reading 'Driven' by James Sallis at the mo, nice and short existential pulp, sequel to 'Drive', not bad.
I love all David Mitchell's books with The Thousand Autums possibly being my absolute favourite. Haven't got to The Bone Clocks yet but it's looking at me from the shelf 0 -
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I'm more than halfway through The Goldfinch now, I'm actually really enjoying it! Not sure if it's really a Pulitzer Prize winner, I recall a lot of better books released in 2014, but it certainly has it's merits! The long descriptions of EVERYTHING are a bit grating at times and it could do with being a few hundred words shorter but on a whole I'm really liking it so far!
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I'm more than halfway through The Goldfinch now, I'm actually really enjoying it! Not sure if it's really a Pulitzer Prize winner, I recall a lot of better books released in 2014, but it certainly has it's merits! The long descriptions of EVERYTHING are a bit grating at times and it could do with being a few hundred words shorter but on a whole I'm really liking it so far!
I really liked the start of it as well, but found that it loses its way somewhere after the halfway point. It was such a pity because I was really getting into the story at the beginning but that good feeling was ruined by the end. I hope you continue to enjoy it
I decided to finally get The Woman in White off my todo list since seeing good reviews of it on this thread. I'm about 75% of the way through now. It's a much longer read than I had expected but I'm very happy with it so far!0 -
I really liked the start of it as well, but found that it loses its way somewhere after the halfway point. It was such a pity because I was really getting into the story at the beginning but that good feeling was ruined by the end. I hope you continue to enjoy it
I decided to finally get The Woman in White off my todo list since seeing good reviews of it on this thread. I'm about 75% of the way through now. It's a much longer read than I had expected but I'm very happy with it so far!
I agree about The Goldfinch, I was fully on board with it until Theo went to Vegas. It lost me after that.
I am also reading The Woman in White! I've only just started it though, finding it a bit hard to get into.0 -
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Just finished The Three Evangelists this morning. Not overly impressed to be honest. The Three Evangelists were interesting characters alright, but the story wasnt very original or special I thought. I wouldn't be running out to get another one of her books.
On to Still Alice which is for Cinema Book club. Its about a 40 yr old woman who gets Alzheimer's Disease.
Film is supposed to be great and Julianne Moore has an Oscar nomination, so I am looking forward to the book. The thing I love about book club is you get to read books that you either never heard of or would never be bothered to pick up yourself.
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Just finished the Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Though I thought the first 500 pages or so were amazing, and I was thoroughly enjoying it, that last quarter of the book just fell completely flat and left me so cold. Not impressed. A very disappointing end to a very promising book. Still though, I got through it in only a week so it didn't consume too much of my time, and [EMAIL="I@m"]I'm[/EMAIL] still 4 books ahead of schedule on Goodreads! :P
Going for a bit of crime drama next, have Dark Places by Gillian Flynn loaded up one the kindle next, I enjoyed Gone Girl and I loved Sharp Objects, so [EMAIL="I@m"]I'm[/EMAIL] feeling optimistic about this one! 0 -
Just finished the Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Though I thought the first 500 pages or so were amazing, and I was thoroughly enjoying it, that last quarter of the book just fell completely flat and left me so cold. Not impressed. A very disappointing end to a very promising book. Still though, I got through it in only a week so it didn't consume too much of my time, and [EMAIL="I@m"]I'm[/EMAIL] still 4 books ahead of schedule on Goodreads! :P
Wow, that's good going. It took me over a month, I think, to get through it. I'm already behind on my Goodreads too, which isn't a great sign this early in the year
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TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »Wow, that's good going. It took me over a month, I think, to get through it. I'm already behind on my Goodreads too, which isn't a great sign this early in the year
I spent a good deal of last week commuting to and from work, so two huors of travelling each day really helped me polish it off!
I'm only upto date with my Goodreads at the mo because I picked a load of really easy to get through books, have Moby Dick and Les Miserables on my to-read pile though so I can see them impeding my progress a lot! :P0 -
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