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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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  • #6632
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Ithaca by Alan McMonagle


  • #6633
    marienbad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭marienbad


    For The Most Beautiful - Emily Hauser


  • #6634
    Fathom
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    Fathom wrote: »
    Stranger and Friend
    by Hortense Powdermaker
    Qualitative methods. Reads like novel. Interesting.


  • #6635
    marienbad
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    Plays 1 Brian Friel


  • #6636
    lockman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 550 ✭✭✭lockman


    Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol


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  • #6637
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    We Are All Made Of Glue by Marina Lewycka


  • #6638
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    FINALLY finished Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series. I really don't know what to make of them. First two were decent enough but the 3rd and 4th seemed overly long and unnecessary. The 3rd in particular was a real struggle to get through. The 4th picked up again slightly but by the end I was glad to be finished.


  • #6639
    Fathom
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    lockman wrote: »
    Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol

    Good read.


  • #6640
    Sapphire3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭Sapphire3


    Just started reading "Conclave" by Thomas Harris, not bad so far.


  • #6641
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    ^^ Is that the one where Hannibal Lecter becomes Pope?


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  • #6642
    Xofpod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 792 ✭✭✭Xofpod


    Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer.
    Deeply creepily brilliant.


  • #6643
    Fathom
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 9,419 CMod ✭✭✭✭Fathom


    Silent Wife
    by Kerry Fisher


  • #6644
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne


  • #6645
    Fathom
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 9,419 CMod ✭✭✭✭Fathom


    Callan57 wrote: »
    The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
    Good read? Fast page turner?


  • #6646
    Daisy78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭Daisy78


    Where Angels fear to tread by E.M Forster.

    Next up Elinor Oliphant is completely fine.

    (And Harry Potter: The Chamber of Secrets, read the first one over 15 years ago and only getting to the rest of the books now!).


  • #6647
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Fathom wrote: »
    Good read? Fast page turner?

    Real page turner .. and 600 to turn :)
    Loving it


  • #6648
    [Deleted User]
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    Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine.
    It was brilliant.


  • #6649
    Daisy78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭Daisy78


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine.
    It was brilliant.

    It seems to be getting great reviews.


  • #6650
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Daisy78 wrote: »
    It seems to be getting great reviews.

    Yeah, it was just a lovely read..read it in a day pretty much..laugh out loud funny at times..


  • #6651
    Fathom
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 9,419 CMod ✭✭✭✭Fathom


    Callan57 wrote: »
    Real page turner .. and 600 to turn :)
    Loving it
    Thanks. Put on list.


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  • #6652
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Fathom wrote: »
    Thanks. Put on list.

    Just finished it ... highly recommend, flew through the 600+ pages


  • #6653
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    The View on the Way Down by Rebecca Wait

    It's about a family struggling to deal with the death of one son and the "disappearance" of the other shortly after. It's told from a few different points of view and one section is entirely rambling unanswered letters from one character to another. It all fits together really well though and I am flying through it.


  • #6654
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Black Water by Louise Doughty


  • #6655
    Solomon Pleasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 540 ✭✭✭Solomon Pleasant


    I'm currently 3 chapters into Derek Landy's 8th book in the Skulduggery Pleasant series.

    This is quite possibly the finest piece of young adult/teenage fiction that I've ever read. Honestly I've enjoyed it more than the Harry Potter books. Landy has produced a masterpiece, not just with one book, but with the entire series. I feel that words such as captivating, gripping and scintillating are often overused when describing a book, but they sum up the Skulduggery Pleasant series with such accuracy.

    The author's ability to build characters who are genuinely intriguing and really contribute to the plot is electrifying. He does it so well that it creates this special connection between reader and character, enticing the reader to keep reading. It's truly enthralling and a fantastic achievement by the author.


  • #6656
    Xofpod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 792 ✭✭✭Xofpod


    The Incarnations, Susan Barker.
    It sat on the bookshelf for about two years but I'm really enjoying it now that I've started.
    Considerably more vicious than I would have imagined...


  • #6657
    ahlookit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ahlookit


    Enjoyed Graham Nortons debut novel "Holding", I'll definitely read any other fiction he writes.

    Just finished Val McDermid's "The Mermaids Singing", I was looking for a new detective series to get stuck into so decided to give her Tony Hill/Carol Jordan books a go. Decent opener, will give the next one "Wire in the blood" a try.


  • #6658
    marienbad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭marienbad


    The Occupation Trilogy - Patrick Modiano . Just outstanding


  • #6659
    Kurtosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Kurtosis


    Currently reading Silence by Shusaku Endo. It's been in my To Be Read pile for far too long.


  • #6660
    Fathom
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 9,419 CMod ✭✭✭✭Fathom


    North Water
    by Ian McGuire


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  • #6661
    marienbad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭marienbad


    A Country Road , A Tree - Jo Baker - a fictionalised version of Samuel Beckett's war .

    Brilliantly done - I really am on a roll with my book choices so far this year.


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