This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

UpCork

I finished 'The Legacy' by Katharine Webb on a flight home yesterday - brilliant!!!

Just started 'Ellis Island' by Kate Kerrigan last night

Kalimah

Just finished The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Would recommend very highly.
Also finshed Lustrum by Robert Harris. I really liked that. And finally Alone in Berlin which was full of atmosphere and dread. An excellent translation too. I ususlly have two or three books on the go together!

tHE vAGGABOND

Just finished the Millennium Trilogy [very good, but totally understand who many people dont like the 3rd book as much as other two]

Ive now gone back to Crime and Punnishment [the book, rather than lifestyle choice!]

Slaygal

Hi,
I'm new to this forum, thanks for the great recommendations I'm reading Call The Midwife by Jennifer Worth. It's her memoirs of working as a Midwife in the East End of London in the 1950's and I'm really enjoying, it's well written.

kylith

Dead in the Family by Charlene Harris, gods help me.

Busi_Girl08

Finished The Butcher Boy. Jaaaaaysus.

I'm now about 50 pages into The Historian.

So far, it's pretty interesting. I've heard mixed reviews, so hopefully it lives up to my expectations.

Monkeybonkers

Roots by Alex Haley

Kevlyn20

Also just finished The Help by Katherine Stockett, really enjoyed it.

Reading Let the Great world Spin, Colum Mc Cann now, also a great read so far.

What next methinks?

Sergeant

Just started Red Plenty by Francis Spufford.

Got it from the bookdepository.co.uk website. Series of short stories on the Soviet planned economy and the affect it had on its citizens, mixing fact and fiction. Very enjoyable so far.

Kalimah

I loved The Historian but I know a huge number of people hated it

Callan57

Kalimah wrote: »

I loved The Historian but I know a huge number of people hated it

Brilliant book ... found it revetting.

politicsdude

Kalimah wrote: »

I loved The Historian but I know a huge number of people hated it

count me amongst them

politicsdude

was reading assasins apprentice by robin hobb - very good but a hard read if your an animal lover

Busi_Girl08

politicsdude wrote: »

count me amongst them

I'm about 100 pages in. The whole "I could see my father struggle, and knew he didn't want to tell me anymore, but he had to..." spiel is wearing a little thin.

emeraldstar

Kevlyn20 wrote: »

Also just finished The Help by Katherine Stockett, really enjoyed it.

Reading Let the Great world Spin, Colum Mc Cann now, also a great read so far.

What next methinks?

Fab book! Read it a couple of weeks ago.

Currently reading Gaston Laroux’s ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ – enjoying it!

kylith

Just started Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov. I very much enjoyed the first two in the series, and am very much looking forward to this one.

RolandIRL

Ringworld by Larry Niven. good sci-fi book and easy to follow and get through. reading through it for the second time

filmfan

Reading Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol and 61 Hours by Lee Child. As soon as Autumn starts to kick in I'm going to start reading The Lord of the Rings again, perfect time of year to get started:)

Callan57

Just beginning another Jonathan Kellerman book 'Evidence'

Busi_Girl08

Still tackling my way through The Historian.

I'm just wondering,

While the daughter is reading her father's letters, did she ever once wonder "Dad, stop ****ing on about Turkish and Hungarian infrastructure. What happened to my mum?!!"

:pac:

I also can't help but chuckle about the fact that the whole book is written in the first person, by at least 3 different characters.

Kurtosis

Finished The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins. I really enjoyed it and found it very informative. Although I like his style I don't know if I'd be keen on reading any of his other books any time soon, he seems to cover some of the same ground across a few of them.

I'm about two thirds of the way through 1984 now, enjoying it so far.

Busi_Girl08

Finished the Historian. The ending was quite rubbish.

3 words, Kostova; Less. Is. More.

Up next; Brave New World.

Callan57

Completely disagree with you ... I loved that book

Busi_Girl08

Meh. It was at least 200 pages too long, the main characters were annoying and the whole notion of

Dracula looking for scholars to look after his library

was just stupid.

If you are interested in long-winded descriptions of Eastern European infrastructure, then this is the book for you


But then I have heard a lot of good reviews about it, so maybe I'm missing something.

Ho hum...

Paddy Samurai

About 60% through it ,and finding it hard to finish.Keep hoping it will get better,hate giving up on a book.
Decided to take a break from it tonight and started The Taking by Koontz. Already a third into it,easy reading with a good story.:D

The Cool

Is anyone else reading Room by Emma Donoghue?

http://www.emmadonoghue.com/room.htm

I bought it just the other day and am in the last few pages, couldn't put it down, it's the first book in a while that's gripped me in ages. A must-read.

Isle

At the moment I'm reading Stephen King's Dolores Claiborne. I've only got about 30 pages left. It's a quick read... there's only 300 pages in it. It's one of his best books if you haven't read it yet.

Kalimah

The Taking frightened the living daylights out of me. I had dreams about it off and on. One night on hols I had a very vivid dream/nightmare and woke up in a terror. It was just like the beginning of the book with the storm. We did have a storm the next night! After that I was nearly ready to go back to Mass again!

bullpost

Reading "Leni" by Steven Bach.

This is the biography of Leni Riefenstahl , the film director and photographer who directed those iconic propaganda films for the Nazis .

She always denied knowledge of Hitler's intentions but this book exposes her complicity in those events. She lived to the ripe old age of 101 and only died in 2003.

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780349115535/Leni

emeraldstar

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. I'm only about 90 pages in but so far it's good and I'm preferring it to The Little Stranger. I love WW2-era novels set in England.