This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

eire4

Finished John Connolly's The Whisperers another of his Charlie Parker PI series of books. Not as good as some of the earlier ones but I still enjoyed and liked it overall.

marienbad

Speak,Memory- Vladimir Nabokov

eire4

Finished Isaac Asimov's The Caves of Steel the second book in his robot series although it is totally unrelated to the first one being a murder mystery done within a science fiction format. A fun read.

biZrb

EoghanIRL wrote: »

Just finished reading 1984.

Blown away by how good this book is.

Is it worth reading his other books (other than animal farm as I already read that)?

I really enjoy his essays

Fathom

House of Spies
by Daniel Silva

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
It's very good. And funny.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates.

It's about a family in 1970's up state NY and something happens to the teenage daughter that nobody talks about and the repercussions of that. When the book is actually talking about the girl and what happened to her it's pretty good but I'm 100 pages in and it's only just sort of revealed what happened. Most of the chapters before are filled with random stories about the other family members. I guess it's establishing the environment or whatever but at times it feels like she was struggling to hit her word count. I mean there's a whole page describing the various clocks the mother has in the house.

marienbad

The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry .

So far so good .

Callan57

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates.

It's about a family in 1970's up state NY and something happens to the teenage daughter that nobody talks about and the repercussions of that. When the book is actually talking about the girl and what happened to her it's pretty good but I'm 100 pages in and it's only just sort of revealed what happened. Most of the chapters before are filled with random stories about the other family members. I guess it's establishing the environment or whatever but at times it feels like she was struggling to hit her word count. I mean there's a whole page describing the various clocks the mother has in the house.

The book that introduced me to Joyce Carol Oates & I have recommended it to so many since ... superb read IMHO

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Callan57 wrote: »

The book that introduced me to Joyce Carol Oates & I have recommended it to so many since ... superb read IMHO

It was overdue at the library and I very nearly just brought it back yesterday but I decided to persevere.

4Ad

Trying to finish The Girl In The Spiders Web..struggling..

Fathom

4Ad wrote: »

Trying to finish The Girl In The Spiders Web..struggling..

Slow read? Plot? Character development?

4Ad

Fathom wrote: »

4Ad wrote: »

Trying to finish The Girl In The Spiders Web..struggling..

Slow read? Plot? Character development?

Sorry..
Very slow. It takes about 150 fairly boring pages before anything exciting happens. Alot of computer technical and scientific talk which is very confusing.
And it jumps all over the place with no flow...maybe thats just me.
And very little of one of the more interesting characters Lisbeth Salander,180 pages in.
Just my opinion.

Fathom

4Ad wrote: »

Sorry..
Very slow. It takes about 150 fairly boring pages before anything exciting happens. Alot of computer technical and scientific talk which is very confusing.
And it jumps all over the place with no flow...maybe thats just me.
And very little of one of the more interesting characters Lisbeth Salander,180 pages in.
Just my opinion.

Stieg Larsson's Millennium 3-book series were good reads. Larsson died 2004. I've not read David Lagercrantz's theme continuation 4th book The Girl in the Spider’s Web.

lockman

The Man Who Planted Trees, Jean Giono

Fathom

THE LYING GAME
by Ruth Ware

Oops69

Primo Levi, The Periodic Table , wonderfully rich book , one where you wish you could read in the original language (Italian )To appreciate the depth.

lockman

Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad

LionelNashe

Just finished "Get Carter" by Ted Lewis. The film that was based on it is probably my favourite film ever.

The book is a 1st person noir. I flew through it very quickly, in about the same time it would take a young Michael Caine to cut a murderous swathe through Newcastle.

I liked it, but I know the film so well that it was hard for me to mentally separate the film from the book. There are a couple of sequels. I might read the 2nd one, which seems to be set in London. Kindle edition is £7.50, which I think is a bit steep for a 50-year old book that went out of print for decades.

Callan57

Echoland by Joe Joyce

miamee

Currently reading a book aimed at children (8-12 year old girls), "Murder Most Unladylike". If it had been around when I was that age, I'd have loved it. I'm enjoying it nonetheless and have another of the series at home to read next.

Callan57

The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson

LionelNashe

Two books at the moment:

The Big O, a modern noir/crime novel by Declan Burke.
Back from the Brink; Paul McGrath's autobiography, written with Vincent Hogan.

Also started an audiobook the other day, but then kind of forgot about it, but I'll return to it: The Fourth Monkey, by JD Barker: A serial killer/police procedural. This one starts with a body, but it's the killer's body. It's a nice touch. I read a couple of crime books by Howard Linskey recently, and he often presents the opening murder with an unusual angle as well, which is refreshing.

lindascribbler

sup_dude wrote: »

Is it bad that this actually causes me physical pain in my gut when I listen to it? Much like missing a loved one terribly...

I so totally agree with you...love love this theme music and while I don't long to read the books again I know exactly where youre coming from

Fathom

Journey of Crazy Horse
by Joseph Marshall

Kurtosis

Finished up War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans last week. It was quite good but think I found the style a bit difficult to get into.

Now on number9dream by David Mitchell. Liking it so far, Murakami-esque in parts.

Xofpod

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe.

miamee

Reading Arsenic for Tea at the moment, follow on from the previous Murder most Unladylike both by Robin Stevens.

marienbad

All For Nothing - Walter Kempowski. January 1945 Prussia and a German family awaits the advancing Russian army. Enthralling ,compassionate , objective .

The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry. 1890's Essex and London and a group of disparate people are brought together by tales of a serpent appearing on the beach in a village in Essex . Science , religion , superstition , mass delusion , love . What's not to like .

A Horse Walks Into A Bar - David Grossman . A stand Up Comic walks on to a stage in a run down venue in a rundown town in Israel and thus starts one of the most extraordinary 200 pages I have ever read . Simply magnificent .


I really am on a roll this year

Missyelliot2

I am midway through 'Small, Great Things', by Jodi Picoult. I started reading this book before the awfulness of Trump really became apparent this week. Without giving the plot away, this book is so relevant to the issues facing people living under Trump and racism.