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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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A Good School by Richard Yates

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marienbad

The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry

Claude Wilton

Children of the Dead End by Patrick MacGill.

echo beach

Claude Wilton wrote: »

Children of the Dead End by Patrick MacGill.

Read it and never understand the line up at the annual MacGill summer school.

Slippin Jimmy

The Force by Don Winslow

marienbad

Purgatorio - Dante Translated by Clive James

Reservoir 13 - Jon McGregor

Callan57

Echobeat by Joe Joyce

PMBC

Read two by John Grisham and am half way through 'Vietnam - A view from the trenches' by Anthony Weist.
I'm hooked on Grisham; not literature but great stories.

Arghus

Struggling to get into Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.

Fathom

Construction of Human Kinds
by Ron Mallon

autumnbelle

Girl number one by Jane Holland, very easy read. Looking for a great book next!

kirk buttercup

autumnbelle wrote: »

Looking for a great book next!

Aren't we all

Ipso

autumnbelle wrote: »

Girl number one by Jane Holland, very easy read. Looking for a great book next!

American Tabloid by James Ellroy. You're welcome.

Fathom

SLEEPING BEAUTIES
by Stephen King and Owen King

marienbad

marienbad wrote: »

Reservoir 13 - Jon McGregor

Just a quite brilliant book .

Now reading History of the Rain - Niall Williams

Callan57

The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova

server down

La belle Sauvage by Pullman. Same universe as the dark materials but back a bit in time.

Dibble

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.

crustybla

Finished The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd. Really enjoyed it. An interesting story of slave and high society life in Charleston in the 1800's. Didn't realise until I read the author's note at the back that it's based on real characters and events.

Finders Keepers, Stephen King next.

Callan57

crustybla wrote: »

Finished The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd. Really enjoyed it. An interesting story of slave and high society life in Charleston in the 1800's. Didn't realise until I read the author's note at the back that it's based on real characters and events.

Finders Keepers, Stephen King next.

Brilliant as is The Secret Life of Bees

marienbad

Paradiso - Dante - Translated by Clive James

Xofpod

Freaky Dancin, Bez.

Gonzovision

Just finished, 'The Gulag Archipelago', a book that will stay with me for a very long time.

OwaynOTT

History of Loneliness and The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne.

Both very good books and The Heart's Invisible Furies is quite funny.

OwaynOTT

Callan57 wrote: »

Echobeat by Joe Joyce

I've read the three of these, they're quite good. You might enjoy the 3 Swallow books by Conor Brady. Set in the 1880s Dublin.

Callan57

Daisy Miller by Henry James

Daisy78

Lily and the octopus by Steven Rowley

eire4

Finished Greg Bear's legacy which is a prequel to his the way series. I enjoyed the original 2 books but the prequel was pretty average really.

Callan57

Da Happie Laand by Robert Alan Jamieson

Fathom

Call of the Wild
by Jack London

Oops69

Virginia Wolff , To the lighthouse, just started , can't make head nor tail , 12 pages in and thinking of ' giving it a break ' , I know she's supposed to have had an innovative writing style , is it worth my perseverance ?, any help much appreciated !.