This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Paddy Samurai

Only a chapter in but not really mad about it so far.For some reason the first line of the book put me off .But I like McCammon so hopefully things will change.

World Fantasy award-winning, bestselling author Robert McCammon makes a triumphant return to the epic horror and apocalyptic tone reminiscent of his books ''Swan Song'' and ''Stinger'' in this gripping new novel, ''The Border'', a saga of an Earth devastated by a war between two marauding alien civilizations.

Callan57

Tonight I am starting The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan

Thomas998

Red Notice, but I already think I love it.

SarahBM

Finished the Reckoning was brilliant! I loved it.

Starting the silence of the lambs now!

Birneybau

SarahBM wrote: »

Finished the Reckoning was brilliant! I loved it.

Starting the silence of the lambs now!

Great book, 'Red Dragon', the first in the series is also worth a read. Yet to get onto the prequels myself.

I'm currently reading 'The Girl In The Spider's Web' at the moment, and halfway through am feeling it's all a bit meh.

SarahBM

Birneybau wrote: »

Great book, 'Red Dragon', the first in the series is also worth a read. Yet to get onto the prequels myself.

I'm currently reading 'The Girl In The Spider's Web' at the moment, and halfway through am feeling it's all a bit meh.

It's for the Light House Cinema Book Club, and I haven't seen the movie in years, so really looking forward to it. I'm only 2 chapters in but I like it already.

I recently received a gift of the Millennium Trilogy on audio book. And I got the first book for a Euro in a second hand shop, so having avoid them because I thought they had been over hyped, I think I will give them a go.

But keeping in the Halloween Theme, Frankenstein is next.

Das Kitty

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler

Just done with it. There's some lovely prose in there. The subject matter is also interesting. But the story is slight. So slight that to provide page-turning tension, the author relies on concealing information from the reader. Which I'm generally okay with, but in this case you're given a version of events, and then later told it wasn't true, which annoyed me.

Now, a major theme is how human memory functions, the forgetting, the creation of false screen memories we make to deal with hard things. And in the cases in the book where it's dealing with that, I'm A-OK with it. But there are a lot of times where the narrator knows the truth, but tells the story differently for not good reason other than to maintain the tension. Maybe I'm mis-reading it. But I did find it irritating.

Wyldwood

Just finished Regeneration, the first book in Pat Baker's World War 1 trilogy. Despite it's very disturbing subject matter, post traumatic stress disorder, it's a great read.

Barker mixes fact with fiction in the story of how the war affected those in the thick of the action watching friends and foe die all around them. Very well written, although a lot of the medical terms went over my head and kindle dictionary came into it's own. It's certainly a book that makes you think carefully of the futility of war and the attitude of those in command.

Must get the next two books in the series now.

Aenaes

I finished The Power And The Glory by Graham Greene. I didn't realise it was actually historical and that Mexico tried suppressing Catholicism by force.

Now reading "The Day Michael Collins Was Shot by Meda Ryan.

SarahBM

Aenaes wrote: »

I finished The Power And The Glory by Graham Greene. I didn't realise it was actually historical and that Mexico tried suppressing Catholicism by force.

Now reading "The Day Michael Collins Was Shot by Meda Ryan.

I read that book when I was 14 and decided to do my leaving cert history essay about the assassination of Michael Collins. Very interesting book. Enjoy.

Belle E. Flops

Seeing as it's coming up to Halloween I've decided to start 'The Monk' by Matthew Lewis. It's been on my shelves for a few years but just haven't gotten around to it.
Also downloaded 'Carrie' by Stephen King and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' by Washington Irving. So I'm looking forward to getting through them.

Mr.Nice Guy

I finished Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy and very much enjoyed it. I liked Hardy's writing style and I found Bathsheba a really likeable character.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I finished Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy and very much enjoyed it. I liked Hardy's writing style and I found Bathsheba a really likeable character.

I read this a year or so ago. Loved it, one of my all time favourites.

Leocolceathrar

Just finished " A short history of Ireland" by John O'Beirne Ranelagh.

Moving on to "Fatal Path" by Ronan Fanning.

Dial Hard

Finally finished Martin Amis' "The Zone of Interest" last night. It took me weeks as I just wasn't enjoying it at all.

Unfortunately that was also my last "for pleasure" read before college kicked back in for the year :-(

eire4

Finished a re read of Gemma O'Connor's atmospheric mystery novel Walking on Water.

Mr.Nice Guy

I read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and enjoyed it. I had seen the Keira Knightley film version a few years back, and liked that too, so I did know what to expect with the story. I think reading the book gives a greater understanding of the social issues of the period, which is important to the story.

It's a pretty easy read and I liked many of the characters. Lydia Bennet was a real pain in the neck though. What a spoiled brat!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

It's a pretty easy read and I liked many of the characters. Lydia Bennet was a real pain in the neck though. What a spoiled brat!

Have you seen/read Death Comes to Pemberly? It's a recent sort of sequel, although in no way officially connected to Austen, obviously. Anyway... Lydia is even worse in it. I only saw the TV adaptation and she was hilariously over the top in it.

Ipso

Reading Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke. Really enjoying it so far.

Aenaes

I found Pride and Prejudice very funny in parts which was a nice surprise.

Callan57

Aenaes wrote: »

I found Pride and Prejudice very funny in parts which was a nice surprise.

Agree, I always found Mr & Mrs Bennett highly entertaining.

Dibble

Currently reading The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood.

keane2097

Have just started Robert Harris' Dictator, which is the last of his trilogy about Cicero. Took him long enough!

Mr.Nice Guy

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Have you seen/read Death Comes to Pemberly? It's a recent sort of sequel, although in no way officially connected to Austen, obviously. Anyway... Lydia is even worse in it. I only saw the TV adaptation and she was hilariously over the top in it.

I haven't heard of that. I'll look out for it. What surprised me about Lydia in the story was that when I saw the film the character didn't make a strong impression on me. Perhaps I wasn't paying enough attention, I dunno. But when I read the book I found her one of the most irritating characters I've read in a long time!

Callan57

The Blue Guitar by John Banville

Swiper the fox

I'm reading Dub Sub Confidential, it's an autobiography of the former Dublin sub Goalkeeper, never got a chance as Stephen Cluxton was ahead of him. Very honest and different to any other GAA biography I've read, had a lot of trouble with drink, drugs and women before settling into his spot on the bench, very insightful into reasonably modern GAA mentality, tactics etc but I think things have moved on to another level in very recent years. I would highly recommend this to sports lovers in particular, he has written it by himself and he writes very well.

eire4

Finished a re read of Gemma O'Connor's After the Wake the sequal to Walking on Water.

eire4

Finished a re read of Gemma O'Connor's Following the Wake the sequal to Walking on Water. Word of advice do not read this book without first reading Walking on Water or you will know the whole plot of the first book.

keane2097

Finished Dictator. Of similar quality to the first two. A most worthwhile series.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

The library have sent me a letter demanding I return War & Peace. I'm nearly finished. ...... kind of.