This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

x_Ellie_x

I've just started The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

tinyk68

I read "The Joy Luck Club" when it first came out and really enjoyed it. Just finished "August" by Gerard Woodward. Unsettling.

mickoregan

DAVID COPPERFIELD.

AnnyHallsal

I loved On Beauty.

A biography of Eugene O'Neill by Arthur and Barbara Gelb for me.

Callan57

The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year by Sue Townsend

Monkeybonkers

Just starting The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne.

HavingCrack

Dracula and the Green Mile at the same time, slightly confusing actually .

T954

HavingCrack wrote: »

Dracula and the Green Mile at the same time, slightly confusing actually .

Both good books Had forgotten about the green mile really enjoyerd it when I read it along time ago now! Recently re read dracula....great book.

Callan57

Starting Hunting Unicorns by Bella Pollen

tim_holsters

wilkie2006 wrote: »

Yea, I would say it's good but not amazing. About the same as "The Autograph Man". Even if you're not really enjoying "On Beauty", I'd recommend you read "White Teeth", which really is very good.

I thought On Beauty was amazing, streets ahead of The Autograph Man which was good but not as good as White Teeth.

Snako

Just started Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman, Asweh, It's bo-styles

Callan57

Pulse by Julian Barnes

lindtee

Reading "Gone" by Michael Grant between doing assignments and study and enjoying it so far.

johnny_ultimate

Just finished The Corrections over two weeks of endless commutes. A rather brilliant and bewitching novel. Some slight flaws - especially the odd direction Chip's story takes - but it's so acute in its observations and so grand in its vision that it's hard to begrudge. Even the more absurd tangents tend to have a worthy end-point.

GusF

Started And Having Writ... by Donald R. Bensen yesterday.

eclectichoney

Chinafoot wrote: »

Just finished 'Plainsong' by Kent Haruf.

Beautiful book.

Eventide is similarly awesome.

Antibac

Just started The Abduction by Mark Jiminez. So far so good!

Pintoplain

Just finished The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco. Absolutely brilliant. A book dealer has suffered a particular type of memory loss: he doesn't remember or recognise his family, but remembers every book he's ever read. So as he re-acquaints himself with the world, all his experience is mediated through literary references. Then, through old school copybooks and comics, he gradually finds out about his boyhood in wartime Italy. The final line is devastating.

triseke

started "the fellowship of the ring" again this week. Love it.

x_Ellie_x

I've just started reading Second Glance by Jodi Picoult.

_petulia_

I'm practically racing through The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens. Love it.

highlydebased

The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest. Read through the first 2 books in the last month, pretty good going because I hit a reading slump that took quite an effort to get out of!

Callan57

The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi

eire4

I am currently re reading "Oh Hampden in the Sun" by Peter Burns and Pat Woods. It is an interesting book not just for the indepth insight it gives on the 1957 League Cup Final. But also for the overall look at what life was like in general in the Glasgow of the 1950's.

emeraldstar

The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Gothic-y

Callan57

Started 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff today .... saw the movie years ago & loved it

triseke

Reading "Timequake" by Kurt Vonnegut as my commuting book

Callan57

The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli

highlydebased

Finished the Millennium trilogy...now I have "The man from Beijing"- Henning Mankell, "The Draining Lake"- Arnaldur Indridason and "The hypnotist"- Lars Kepler on my desk having arrived from Awesomebooks this morning. Which to read first...

IvyTheTerrible

No and Me by Delphine Le Vigan. Great so far.