This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

A Dance with Dragons
George R. R. Martin

Hrududu

Finished reading It by Stephen King before I see the film. Frustrating in places, he really could have edited it more. Would have been much stronger if he dropped the entire adult storyline completely.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I'm still reading The Underground Railroad. It's kind of strange, I like it while I'm reading it but have no great desire to get back to it when I'm not. If that makes sense.

Daisy78

Autumn by Ali Smith.

Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling ... good laugh - kind of Bridget Jones meets Mrs Brown

Last weekend I started & finished Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine ... a thoroughly brilliant book

Now I'm on 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster ... 250 pages into it & totally addicted, most unusual style but I really am loving it.

The Divided City - Luke McCallin .

French Poetry, From Medieval to Modern Times edited by Patrick McGuinness

Xofpod

World Gone By, last part of Denis Lehane's historical trilogy. The shortest of the three, possibly the best.

Dante's Inferno translated by Clive James

thisistough

Seneca On the Shortness of Life

eire4

Finished Greg Bears Slant an interesting look at a dystopian future world where nano technology has become central to how life is lived.

Xofpod

Started The Passage, Justin Cronin.

miamee

The Lady of the Rivers - Philippa Gregory. I can see me getting stuck into the whole series over the next few years, love that feelibng with so much ahead of me to read

cee_jay

Callan57 wrote: »

Last weekend I started & finished Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine ... a thoroughly brilliant book

I finished this book 2 weeks ago, and it is indeed brilliant. Loved it.

This week I am reading Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. Not my usual type of book, but a number of people recommended it to me, and I am enjoying it. Perfect time to have read it with The Book of Dust soon to be released.
I have bought His Dark Materials trilogy for my godson this week too as it is his 12th birthday and think he will love it.

ahlookit

Xofpod wrote: »

Started The Passage, Justin Cronin.

Read the trilogy last year. It's not perfect, but some excellent parts.

Currently working my way through Val McDermids Carol Jordan Tony Hill series at the moment. Enjoyable, but they do get a bit repetitive at times. I suppose any series needs to put in a certain amount of backstory in each book so that new readers can catch up quickly.

Also read Forever Young, Oliver Kay's biography of Adrian Doherty. A young lad from Northern Ireland who went to Manchester United and was regarded as Ryan Giggs equal if not better when they played youth football. Excellent read

LionelNashe

Just started 'The Cards of the Gambler' by Benedict Kiely. I had bought a second hand copy in a jumble sale in Howth about 15 years ago, and really liked it, but loaned it to somebody and didn't get it back. I think I looked online once or twice and couldn't find it in print. The copy I picked up recently in Chapters is a reprint from 2010.

..they all sit together looking for hours at a green field where kings and queens and jesters in two different colours, red for blood and black for death,
lie on beds of red diamonds, dark trefoil, bleeding hearts, the heads of black spears.

Never Never
by James Patterson and Candice Fox

The Last Hundred Days - Patrick McGuiness

Set in Romania during the disintegration of the Ceausescu regime . Gripping .
Despite all its faults we really have been lucky in the Republic in the last hundred years when you see what some of our continental neighbours have had to endure

Victoria Four-thirty by Cecil Roberts

The Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt

Hrududu

After enjoying the film of The Martian when it came out I decided to give the book a go.

It's a very strange book. At the start he spends maybe one paragraph describing how he got stranded. Something along the lines of "The satellite blew over and hit me, they thought I was dead and left" Then after very little description of this big deal he spends pages upon pages upon pages describing how to grow potatoes and make water. But it's written almost like a technical manual. I can never tune in and start picturing what's happening as I'm constantly reading details about how much oxygen this can produce in this many hours. I'm less than 10% in and I'm already glazing over all this detail that's bogging the story down.

I'll keep with it a while longer but if it doesn't change soon I'll probably drop it

Belle E. Flops

'Something Wicked This Way Comes' by Ray Bradbury, it being the time of year for it.

Echowave by Joe Joyce

The Third Wife
by Lisa Jewell

5rtytry56

The Case for Impeachment [of President Trump]
by Allan J. Lichtmann.

Gonzovision

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

They Wanted to Live by Cecil Roberts

Ipso

5rtytry56 wrote: »

The Case for Impeachment [of President Trump]
by Allan J. Lichtmann.

I'm sure it's a level headed objective book.