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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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Hagseed by Margaret Atwood.

What other Margaret Atwood would people recommend?..Maybe apart from Alias Grace and the handmaids tale?..

Oops69

Finally got round to reading Arthur Miller's 'Death of a salesman' last weekend , it blew me away, intense and profound , went out today and bought 'All of my sons ' and 'The crucible ' for second hand in chapters , looking forward..

Callan57

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

The White Feather

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

The Passage by Justin Cronin.
I'm only 5% in but I'm hooked already!

I have this book too.Be interested to see what you think of it when you read more or finish it!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Wyldwood wrote: »

Finished Kirstin Hannah's The Nightingale. WW11 and the French Resistance. Very good read.

I read this a while ago, was quite good. I believe they're making a film of it too.

Wyldwood

Finished Kirstin Hannah's The Nightingale. WW11 and the French Resistance. Very good read.

IvyTheTerrible

The Passage by Justin Cronin.
I'm only 5% in but I'm hooked already!

New Home

I've only just started Fredrik Backman's "A man called Ove". Just a suggestion, don't start reading it in public places like public transport or waiting rooms, unless you like being looked at in a funny, slightly worried way by strangers. I started laughing on page one. By page three I was red in the face from trying not to laugh out loud. By page six I was breathless. Then I had to put the book down, 'cause there wasn't a toilet at hand and I was afraid of what might have happened if I had kept on reading. If the rest of the book is like this, I'll have abs of steel and permanent, Joker-like spasm to my face.

Fathom

Aenaes wrote: »

Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada.

Reading this too.

Xofpod

Aenaes wrote: »

Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada.

Great book

Aenaes

Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada.

Callan57

A Woman of Note by Carol M. Cram

eire4

Finished Niamh O'Connor's crime thriller Taken. First book I have read from the author and was pretty average stuff I must say.

Xofpod

The Sympathiser, Viet Than Nguyen

eire4

Finished Tim Pat Coogan's The 12 Apostles which is focused on The Squad as Michael Collins special unit become know. It is a great read with some crazy individual stories.

Callan57

The Golden Bowl by Henry James

Callan57

Oops69 wrote: »

was dreading getting this , thankfully it never arrived , the theme is just a bit too forbidding for me now .

I was a tad apprehensive of it after reading a couple of reviews but I am actually really enjoying it. Unusual writing style but once you get used to that it trips along very nicely and oddly, given the subject matter, some of it is quite funny .. or maybe that's just my weird sense of humour!

It reminded me of Cré na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain which I read in translation, as The Dirty Dust, early last year.

Daisy78

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Next up

A visit from the goon squad - Jennifer Egan

Wyldwood

Read The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne over Christmas and I quite enjoyed it. It's beautifully written and the pain and loneliness of the protagonist are very vividly portrayed. The dialogue is a little questionable at times, particularly between the young Cyril and Julian, I felt it was a bit too adult to be realistic. Overall though it's a good read.

Oops69

Callan57 wrote: »

Slowly working through the Xmas gifts .... Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

was dreading getting this , thankfully it never arrived , the theme is just a bit too forbidding for me now .

marienbad

Don Marcelino's Daughter - Tim Cunningham

Big Maggie - John B. Keane.

A Climate Of Fear - Fred Vargas

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Struggling to finish Mrs. Caliban..it's meh..

Callan57

Slowly working through the Xmas gifts .... Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

marienbad

The Tain - Translated by Ciaran Carson

Vertigo : The Making of a Hitchcock Classic - Dan Auiler

Callan57

Mythos by Stephen Fry

Arghus

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - First time I read anything by Virginia Woolf. I'll probably seek out more after this. I wasn't necessarily blown away by the narrative of the novel, but I found it pretty amazing in terms of how it works as an example of highly experimental prose, but it still manages to have heart and a depth of feeling towards its characters. Her understanding - or at least how she conveyed that understanding on the page - of the issue of shell-shock feels very real and compassionate - as well as being terrifying. And her portrayal of a rigidly stratified society populated with people whose minds are a mess of living in the past and projecting themselves into the future reads like the work of an artist who had an appreciation of what it means to be human - and all the glory, sadness and madness that brings.

eire4

Finished Harlan Coben's The Final Detail. A good thriller crime drama novel.

Oops69

The White Feather wrote: »

It is not possible unfortunately as the Nobel Foundation states it cannot be awarded posthumously

John Banville better stay alive so .

The White Feather

Oops69 wrote: »

yes , the Nobel foundation should award prizes/ honours posthumously if possible.

It is not possible unfortunately as the Nobel Foundation states it cannot be awarded posthumously

Oops69

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Also, it was Rosalind Franklin that took the picture that confirmed the structure and Watson & Crick basically nicked all her work and took the credit.

yes , the Nobel foundation should award prizes/ honours posthumously if possible.