This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Tom Joad

After just about finishing Cloud Atlas which I hated, am quarter of the way through Les Miserablés by Victor Hugo - absolutely loving it... already one of my favourite books of all time..

SarahBM

finished The Reckoning. Going to read the Tree of Seasons by Stephen Gately.

MagicMarker

Just finished Animal Farm by Orwell.

I think I'm going to try and tackle War and Peace by Tolstoy next.

Hope O_o

I haven't the concentration for heavy reads these days.

I'm halfway through Echoes by Maeve Binchy - its entirely lovely

Callan57

Starting Affinity by Sarah Waters today

emeraldstar

Callan57 wrote: »

Starting Affinity by Sarah Waters today

Not quite as great as Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet, but I'd rate it a decent enough third. Enjoy! Interested to hear how you find it.

libra02

Just finished A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. First book in the All Souls Trilogy

Very enjoyable and nothing like Twilight despite the comparions on the back of book from a Sunday paper review.

Looking forward to starting the next installment Shadow of Night.

Callan57

emeraldstar wrote: »

Not quite as great as Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet, but I'd rate it a decent enough third. Enjoy! Interested to hear how you find it.

I loved Fingersmith, The Little Stranger & The Night Watch ... wasn't that mad about Tipping the Velvet though.
I'm liking Affinity so far but only 30 or so pages into it.

emeraldstar

Interestingly, The Little Stranger and The Night Watch are the two I was least fond of. I seem to much prefer her Victorian-era novels.

I liked Tipping the Velvet but I love Fingersmith. It's one of my absolute favourite books.

eire4

I just finished a re read of Volume 1 of the Collected Works of James Connolly. Given the state of Ireland economically today while some of his analysis is obviously dated much of it is still very relevant and makes for great reading and interesting thinking.

Necronomicon

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. His writing style is so damn infectious.

Arlecchina

Necronomicon wrote: »

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. His writing style is so damn infectious.

I re-read Neverwhere a couple of weeks ago. Gaiman never fails to please.

I'm currently reading Jo Walton's 'Among Others' (which just won the Hugo for best novel), and I'm also dipping in and out of some Italo Calvino short stories.

shopaholic86

I'm just after finishing Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult - her books are always amazing, can never put them down. Currently re-reading Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy for about the 4th time - really love that book.

Callan57

The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh

Honey-ec

Re-reading "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy. You'd think I'd be reading brain fluff, considering I had to deconstruct that book to death for college last year, and will be receiving my Lit reading list for this year at some stage this week. Clearly a glutton for punishment.

IvyTheTerrible

Honey-ec wrote: »

Re-reading "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy. You'd think I'd be reading brain fluff, considering I had to deconstruct that book to death for college last year, and will be receiving my Lit reading list for this year at some stage this week. Clearly a glutton for punishment.

Great book though!

SarahBM

Just finished The Tree of Seasons. I loved it! Thoroughly enjoyable!

Now back to Dr. Zhivago. I am determined to read this because I enjoyed the film so much.

I think I'll read the Lord of the Flies next. Its on so many lists of books you should read etc.

Honey-ec

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Great book though!

Agreed. I suspect it's one I'll keep coming back to.

bullpost

The Forsaken by Tim Tzouliadis.

Its a book about the thousands of Americans who emigrated to Russia during the great depression (yep you read that right).

This was at a time when the Communist state was still viewed in a positive light in the USA. Most of those who went fell foul to the Great Terror.

Interesting stuff so far.

WesternNight

Just finished To Kill a Mockingbird. For some reason I'd never read it before. A really delightful book.

IvyTheTerrible

WesternNight wrote: »

Just finished To Kill a Mockingbird. For some reason I'd never read it before. A really delightful book.

Oh how lovely! I'd love to go back and read it for the first time, if you know what I mean!

Callan57

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

johnny_ultimate

2666 by Roberto Bolano. The first in a trio of weighty tomes I intend to tackle before the end of the year (Anna Karenin and The Pale King being the other two). Only started last night but I'm already hooked by the extremely readable, witty and poetic prose. It's far too early to comment on it in depth (I believe it takes radically different tones throughout its 900 pages) but the opening sections have assured me its length is not to be feared.

Belle E. Flops

Just after starting The Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling's new one.

SarahBM

Just finished the Lord of the Flies. Not impressed at all, I didn't enjoy it one bit. Cannot understand the hype.

On to Tess of the D'Urbervilles which I am quiet looking forward to.

Black Swan

The Collected Works of Jack London.

Honey-ec

"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf.

Hello academic year, bye bye reading for pleasure...

mejulie805

Just finished The Great Gatsby, on to the Casual Vacancy..

IvyTheTerrible

Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir.

I am reading "The Corner" by David Simon. Absolutely gripping.