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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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Irish_rat

Just starting The Man In The High Castle.

Hrududu

La Belle Sauvage by Phillip Pullman. Did not like it at all. First half I kept thinking "When is something...anything going to happen?" Then it did and I kind of missed the first half, because the second half was awful.

marienbad

Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys , A prequel of sorts to Jane Eyre

The Fall - Albert Camus

HistoryMania

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The White Feather

Darktown by Thomas Mullen

Callan57

Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

branie2

The Big Fellow by Frank O'Connor

Wyldwood

Read The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and I'm at a loss to know why this got such rave reviews and was made into a film which I haven't seen, I hasten to add.

It's a long drawn out repetitive tale of woe. Cycles of neglect, abuse and descriptions of poverty repeated over and over. I'm sure the author had a very traumatic childhood but I have to doubt that her memory of events and conversations held when she was as young as three could possibly be accurately recalled. I can barely recall things that happened in my early teens. I also felt that a lot of the events were dramatised and exaggerated somewhat. Overall it wasn't for me.

Beethoven9th

The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn
Debut novel. Decent thriller

marienbad

The Accordionist - Fred Vargas

Honeymoon - Patrick Modiano

Michel Deon - Horseman , Passy By

Unspeakable verse - Sel. Michael Grigson .

Dibble

Just started The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan.

LionelNashe

Beethoven9th wrote: »

The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn
Debut novel. Decent thriller

I wonder if books with "The Woman.." in the title are set to take over, just like in recent years ago it was Girl with Dragon Tattoo, Girl on Train, Gone Girl etc.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-gone-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-on-the-train/

Arghus

Libra by Don Delillo.

marienbad

Arghus wrote: »

Libra by Don Delillo.

I would be interested how you find it , I have always shied away from Dellillo for some reason

Callan57

Finished Fall On Your Knees ... terrific read, highly recommend

Now it's on to The Murder Bag by Tony Parsons

Aenaes

Strike From The Sky: The Battle Of Britain Story by Alexander McKee.

Callan57

Shining Through by Susan Isaacs

marienbad

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan - Frank Ledwidge

Irish Poems - Edited by Matthew McGuire

Kurtosis

Finished Bill Bryson's Road to Little Dribbling yesterday. I'm a big fan of his, and although this is probably a bit grumpier than some of his other work, it's still a good read.

Next up is The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez.

eire4

Finished Michael Connelly's The Drop. An enjoyable addition to the author's Harry Bosch crime drama series.

Callan57

Deposed by David Barbaree

PMBC

Finished John Grisham's The Whistler - a bit disappointing compared to earlier work.
Just finished Bernard Mc Laverty's Midwinter Break - terrific read

Just started Paul Simon bio Homeward Bound by Peter Carlin, remaindered in local Spar for E4.99

No problem staying in bed for the day today and reading!

DunnoKidz

Wuthering Heights, at the suggest of the AMA writer

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

DunnoKidz wrote: »

Wuthering Heights, at the suggest of the AMA writer

What's an AMA writer?

Wuthering Heights is one of my faves. So dark and twisty.

New Home

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

What's an AMA writer?

Wuthering Heights is one of my faves. So dark and twisty.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057843849

marienbad

Germany - Neil MacGregor

Sundays In August - Patrick Modiano

The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy

Oops69

tried to hunker down into Virginia Wolff's ' to the lighthouse ' for a second attempt with the 2 days off for the snow , failed after 35 pages , it's now buried in the back of a wardrobe so it can't taunt me until someone refers to it and I have to give it a go again.

Callan57

The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble

Arghus

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

What's an AMA writer?

Wuthering Heights is one of my faves. So dark and twisty.

Did it for Leaving Cert.

I like to think of it as the best book I was forced to read.

Wyldwood

The Woman in the Window, predictable but worth a read.