This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Xofpod

ahlookit wrote: »

What was that like? Heard him reading at Electric Picnic last year and meant to look him up after that, but forgot about it until your post just reminded me

Good so far. I don't think it'll measure up to Donal Ryan's The Spinning Heart and the Thing about December but maybe the comparison isn't fair.

ahlookit

Xofpod wrote: »

Good so far. I don't think it'll measure up to Donal Ryan's The Spinning Heart and the Thing about December but maybe the comparison isn't fair.

yeah, you're setting the bar pretty high with those two books. Will definitely look Barrett up, thanks.

Kerrydude1981

Sent off for "The Hurley Makers Son" after reading about it at the weekend,should be a good read.

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-hurley-maker-s-son-by-patrick-deeley-review-the-making-of-a-poet-1.2603454

eire4

Fathom wrote: »

The Silmarillion by J. Tolkien

Along those lines I finished a re read of Tolkien's classic The Hobbitt the other night.

SarahBM

Got the Hours for cinema book club. only like 20 pages in but I don't think it isn't really my cup of tea.
The other book I am reading at the moment is Insurrection. I really like it but it is a bit heavy going. I also have Sapiens on the go, but it can get a bit boring.

Aenaes

I finished Wuthering Heights. I struggled a little at the beginning to get invested in the story, mainly because of the confusing (for me, at least) inter-family relationships.
Overall, it was a well written and interesting story. I found it slightly depressing but my main gripe was

don't talk to Heathcliff, don't listen to Heathcliff, don't help Heathcliff, don't follow Heathcliff and don't TRUST Heatchliff!

Now I'm reading The Red Room by Nicci French. I think I've read one book by the author before and I found it poor. I'm inclined to think the same of this one.
A psychologist/psychotherapist is brought in by the London police to look into a murder. She listens to a tape of a man supposedly confessing and she tells them it's inadmissible as evidence. They believe her rather than knowing themselves having conducted thousands of investigations or consulting their legal advisors first. Sure, let's just believe the doctor.

Dial Hard

Academic year finally finished last Tuesday and the reading for pleasure began in earnest; I've read two-thirds of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy and am about a third of the way through the last book. As with most of Atwood's dystopian fiction, it's scarily plausible and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Up next after this is Michael Punke's The Revenant and after that I think I might re-read the Song of Ice and Fire series.

Callan57

Finished Upstairs At The Party ... tedious enough reading to be honest

Now it's on to City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris

Xofpod

ahlookit wrote: »

yeah, you're setting the bar pretty high with those two books. Will definitely look Barrett up, thanks.

Finished Young Skins - excellent stuff and really marks him out as a writer to watch.

Fathom

Aztec by Gary Jennings

Fathom

Fathom wrote: »

Aztec by Gary Jennings

Poor choice. Returns.

Xofpod

Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane.

HamsterFace

Xofpod wrote: »

Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane.

We did that for our leaving cert! I remember not loving it but think I might give it another go.

ahlookit

Recently finished "all the light we cannot see" by Anthony Doerr. Set during WW2 era in Europe, story of a blind French girl and a German boy genius. Thought it was well written, some parts of the book were a tough read given the subject matter. Definitely worth a look for anyone who likes WW2 set books.

On a lighter note, read the 100 year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared. Swedish novel by an author called Jonas Jonasson, a real shaggy dog story, some very dry humour in it. Very quick and easy read. Currently reading another one by the same writer called the Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden. Similar style and sense of humour to his first book. Nice to see Scandinavians also produce books that aren't about grisly murders and alcoholic detectives.

Das Kitty

ahlookit wrote: »

Recently finished "all the light we cannot see" by Anthony Doerr. Set during WW2 era in Europe, story of a blind French girl and a German boy genius. Thought it was well written, some parts of the book were a tough read given the subject matter. Definitely worth a look for anyone who likes WW2 set books.

On a lighter note, read the 100 year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared. Swedish novel by an author called Jonas Jonasson, a real shaggy dog story, some very dry humour in it. Very quick and easy read. Currently reading another one by the same writer called the Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden. Similar style and sense of humour to his first book. Nice to see Scandinavians also produce books that aren't about grisly murders and alcoholic detectives.

I'm currently reading both All the Light We Cannot See and The Hundred Year Old Man.

Loving the first, the second I'm not finding that funny.

Loafing Oaf

Winter Is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones
by Carolyne Larrington

Joe_ Public

Das Kitty wrote: »

I'm currently reading both All the Light We Cannot See and The Hundred Year Old Man.

Loving the first, the second I'm not finding that funny.

Love World War 2 books, All the Light We Cannot See was a terrific read.

Aenaes

1984 by George Orwell.

minnow

Just finished An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan. Fantastic book!

Callan57

Starting Slade House by David Mitchell

Callan57

Callan57 wrote: »

Starting Slade House by David Mitchell

Brilliant read ... what an original author

Next for me is The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne

SarahBM

Finished Insurrection and I am dying to read the other two books since I discovered at the end it was a trilogy.
Read the Hours for cinema book club and hated it. Hopefully the film will be better.
Back to reading Sapiens again. But want to start something else. And since I did a lot of damage in Chapters and Eason today, I cannot decide.

ahlookit

Callan57 wrote: »

Brilliant read ... what an original author

Must go back at some stage and read all his books in one go - I'm sure I've missed lots of references and characters popping up in the different novels. I love the way all the different stories exist in the same universe.

Loafing Oaf

Uprooted: On the Trail of the Green Man by Nina Lyon, finished this evening

Joe_ Public

ahlookit wrote: »

Must go back at some stage and read all his books in one go - I'm sure I've missed lots of references and characters popping up in the different novels. I love the way all the different stories exist in the same universe.

Only read one, The Bone Clocks, which I have to admit just didn't click with me. Faced quite a struggle to get to the end of it.

ahlookit

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Only read one, The Bone Clocks, which I have to admit just didn't click with me. Faced quite a struggle to get to the end of it.

you wont be waiting with bated breath for this then!

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/30/david-mitchell-buries-latest-manuscript-for-a-hundred-years

Joe_ Public

ahlookit wrote: »

you wont be waiting with bated breath for this then!

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/30/david-mitchell-buries-latest-manuscript-for-a-hundred-years

No, I don't have that much faith in medical science, but it is very encouraging to know there will be at least one library left in 2016.

Xofpod

Callan57 wrote: »

Brilliant read ... what an original author

Good read, complemented the Bone Clocks very nicely.

Must be one of the worst book covers in recent years though.

Xofpod

Just finished "Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?". Short and a bit preachy but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

eire4

Finished a re read of JRR Tolkein's The Fellowship of the Ring the first book in the classic fantasy trilogy the Lord of the Rings.