This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

miamee

Reading 'Into the Grey' by Celine Kiernan - another kid's book but this time a ghost story. I can see how it would be fairly scary for kids. Just about able for it myself

Callan57

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Everyone getting their first taste of David Mitchell would do well to check out Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. Cloud Atlas is great and all, but de Zoet is just a beautifully vivid and unusual piece of work.

Agree totally ... I'm almost at the end & it's magnificient. Awesome writer

Belle E. Flops

Reading 'This Side of Paradise' F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel (which I just bought in Shakespeare and Company).

sunshine and showers

Belle E. Flops wrote: »

Reading 'This Side of Paradise' F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel (which I just bought in Shakespeare and Company).

I'm still trying to get through that one. It's a bit heavy at times, language wise.
It's still good, though.

Callan57

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ... it's been on the shelf for ages

mickoregan

IN ONE PERSON - John Irving

This is the second book this year by a favourite author which has disappointed me.

highlydebased

Just finished "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon, a very interesting read.

IvyTheTerrible

Purge by Sofi Oksanen. Intriguing so far.

emeraldstar

The Chaperone, by Laura Moriarty. It's okay so far.

Monkeybonkers

Fermats Last Theorem by Simon Singh

WesternNight

Currently reading No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. Interesting style.

Honey-ec

WesternNight wrote: »

Currently reading No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. Interesting style.

His writing style actually reminds me of Roddy Doyle's, only without the humour, obviously.

Finally finished "Mrs. Dalloway" last week. Now let us never speak of it again...

"Grapes of Wrath", here I come.

Censorsh!t

Reading Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. Like it a lot so far.

miamee

I'll be starting Terry Pratchett's 'Dodger' shortly.

Merkin

Just finished Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay which was alright, if a little disappointing. Started on Secrets of the Tides by Hannah Richell last night and have finished half of it, really engaging!

SarahBM

Just finished reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Very disappointed with the ending. Totally enjoyed it up until the last 2 chapters.


Going to start Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell. Havent read one of her books in a while.

eire4

Finshed a re read of John Connolly's second novel Dark Hollow. What a great follow up to his great debut novel.

Callan57

Starting ..... This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun

marozz

Just starting .... The Wrong Kind of Blood by Declan Hughes

Callan57

The Nightmare by Lars Kepler

coolhull

Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, by Alan Bulloch....... Old, but brilliant

Censorsh!t

Finished The Awakening by Kate Chopin the other day.

And I am now half way through Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, which I'm really enjoying.

Going through books at the speed of light these days.

eire4

Finished a re read of John Connolly's The Killing Kind last night. Another action packed and enjoyable read from the Dubliner.

miamee

Reading 'Dark Lies the Island' by Kevin Barry as well as 'Dodger' by Terry Pratchett.

Reading two as Dodger is hardback and too heavy to carry on the bus to work!

Callan57

Finished Lars Kepler's The Nightmare and now I'm moving on to The Misunderstanding by Iréne Némirovsky

Daisy78

Wuthering heights, its been on my bookshelf for ages. After that its the master and the margherita.

Censorsh!t

Daisy78 wrote: »

Wuthering heights, its been on my bookshelf for ages. After that its the master and the margherita.

The Master and Margarita is a brilliant book.

I'm currently reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, often described as the first dystopian novel.

Minderbinder

I'm getting through some real classics lately. Nineteen Eighty Four and now I'm reading Crime and Punishment. The former was much easier to get through but both very enjoyable.

Callan57

Starting The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín

johnny_ultimate

Finished 2666 yesterday. Wonderful, exhausting, terrifying, beautiful, funny and upsetting - is this five part epic a genuine masterwork? From its witty, almost lighthearted opening segment about the complex relationship that forms between four literature academics, to the fourth which features almost three hundred pages of unrelenting murder, despair and violence, we're led through a huge spectrum of emotion. Although Bolano's outlook on the contemporary word - personified through his vivid realisation of the the Mexican city of Santa Teresa (a fictionalised version of Ciudad Juárez) - is inherently bleak and pessimistic, there is a deep and frequently moving sense of humanity at the core of the novel that keeps you hooked. It's a self-reflective work at times, occasionally referencing the sheer bulk and ambition of the great novelists, but hardly arrogant. Section two, perhaps, feels a little thin compared to others - possibly explained by the fact Bolano rushed its completion as his health declined - but mostly the book feels fully formed. As you finish the last pages - semi-demystifying the cult author Benno von Archimboldi after the academics of section one were almost consumed by their search for him - you'll feel thoroughly satisfied even if it ends on a cheeky open-note rather than a definitive punctuation mark. Not anywhere near as challenging or obtuse as the sheer bulk of the tome might suggest, this is engrossing literature, and recommended to anyone.