This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

x_Ellie_x

I'm try to read at least one classic per month so this month I've decided to read The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.

AnnyHallsal

American Vampire by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque and Stephen King

BopNiblets

Walk This Way, Autobiography of Aerosmith, it's ok.

Previously read Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, and a bit of Mindfulness in Plain English.

eire4

I finished an enjoyable re read of Harlen Coben's Back Spin.

techsavysista

On to Nineteen Eighty-Four now. I do love a bit of Orwell!

My favourite book!

NapoleonInRags

What is the What - The Autobiography of Valentine Achak Deng, by Dave Eggers

AnnyHallsal

The Berlin Novels, Christopher Isherwood

techsavysista

techsavysista wrote: »

My favourite book!

Agreed. I found 1984 to the be saddest thing I have ever read...

Just finished A sense of an ending (Julian Barnes). Enjoyed it, although I found the ending a little contrived and the narrator somewhat self-pitying.

Just starting Solace (Belinda McKeown)

OakeyDokey

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Callan57

The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler

OakeyDokey

I started Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom last night and have ti finished. Great book

emeraldstar

Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco

johnny_ultimate

The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, the follow up to All The Pretty Horses. An effecting, unromantic and generally well-realised coming-of-age tale. A few sections where minor characters tell lengthy, obtuse tales with unusual thematic resonances are challenging, as are the frequent lapses into Spanish language. But mostly it's a cynical, unpredictable and realistic tale.

Callan57

Solace by Belinda McKeon

tim_holsters

Will begin The Poisonwood Bible by B Kingsolver later this evening, if it's as good as The Lacuna I'll be happy.

AhInFairness

Just finished 'Before I go to sleep' by SJ Watson. Enjoyed it a lot.

About to start 'The tie that binds' by Kent Haruf. I absolutely adored Plain Song and Eventide so I'm really looking forward to reading his first novel.

SarahBM

A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde. enjoying it. going to see the play in a few wks time. really looking forward to it.

old hippy

Another Nesbo, gods help me :rolleyes: they're addictive but dammit, he is not (as the stickers proclaim) the "next Stieg Larsson"!

AhInFairness

old hippy wrote: »

Another Nesbo, gods help me :rolleyes: they're addictive but dammit, he is not (as the stickers proclaim) the "next Stieg Larsson"!

Why would he want to be?? :P

wilkie2006

Finished Kevin Barry's "Dark Lies the Island" a few days ago. Wow, what an excellent series of short stories. Maybe the best ones I've read since William Trevor. Would really recommend.

Am just about to finish Martin Amis's "Lionel ASBO". Again, would heartily recommend it. Although it sounds like a classist narrative (council-housed career criminal wins £150m in the Lottery), it's actually about a lot more than that. Also, while Amis is quite a divisive character, I don't think could question his ability as a writer - there are some amazing, amazing pieces in this novel.

Travel is good

On the George Orwell theme, I just finished "Down and Out in London and Paris", loved that book.

This evening I finished "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick. I'm half way through "Other People's Money" by Justin Cartwright, and "Arguably" by Christopher Hitchens.

Sorry, but I read a lot! Once I start a book, I find I have to finish it.....eventually.

Monkeybonkers

Going to take a break from the brilliant Flashman series to finish the Millennium trilogy with The Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

eire4

I finished a re read of Harlen Coben's Just One Look the other day and really enjoyed.

Callan57

Started Eclipse by Richard North Patterson today ... going well so far:)

Belle E. Flops

I started House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.

I've been meaning to read it with months because it's written unlike any book I've ever read before. Some pages have only a few words, some have only a few sentences, some sentences are written upside down, mirror writing etc.

This is the description on Amazon

'Johnny Truant wild and troubled sometime employee in a LA tattoo parlour, finds a notebook kept by Zampano, a reclusive old man found dead in a cluttered apartment. Herein is the heavily annotated story of the Navidson Report.

Will Navidson, a photojournalist, and his family move into a new house. What happens next is recorded on videotapes and in interviews. Now the Navidsons are household names. Zampano, writing on loose sheets, stained napkins, crammed notebooks, has compiled what must be the definitive work on the events on Ash Tree Lane.

But Johnny Truant has never heard of the Navidson Record. Nor has anyone else he knows. And the more he reads about Will Navidson's house, the more frightened he becomes. Paranoia besets him. The worst part is that he can't just dismiss the notebook as the ramblings of a crazy old man. He's starting to notice things changing around him . .'

I have to say that from the first few lines I read I've been intrigued. I can tell this is going to be a hard one to put down. Really enjoying it so far.

fifi234ie

Blue Eyed Boy by Joanne Harris

AnnyHallsal

The Complete Maus

CL7

A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield. I like it so far.

Callan57

Going to start The Lady of the Butterflies by Fiona Mountain ..... historical fiction set in the period of the Monmouth Rebellion

Monkeybonkers

Have to finish the Harry Potter series so I'm reading 'HP and the Half Blood Prince'