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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Sammy Jennings · 2009-06-21 06:48:22

...continued from this thread A Good School by Richard Yates Slight, but some great moments

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#7082 15-02-2018 04:01PM

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Just starting The Man In The High Castle.

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#7083 15-02-2018 10:22PM

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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.

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#7084 16-02-2018 05:40AM

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

The Fall - Albert Camus

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#7085 16-02-2018 06:21AM

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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

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#7086 16-02-2018 07:32PM

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Darktown by Thomas Mullen

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#7087 17-02-2018 01:38PM

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Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

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#7088 17-02-2018 07:48PM

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The Big Fellow by Frank O'Connor

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#7089 18-02-2018 12:01AM

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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.

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#7090 18-02-2018 11:42AM

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

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#7091 19-02-2018 10:33AM

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The Accordionist - Fred Vargas

Honeymoon - Patrick Modiano

Michel Deon - Horseman , Passy By

Unspeakable verse - Sel. Michael Grigson .

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#7092 21-02-2018 03:45PM

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Just started The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan.

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#7093 21-02-2018 03:55PM

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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/

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#7094 22-02-2018 02:15AM

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Libra by Don Delillo.

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#7095 22-02-2018 10:33AM

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Arghus wrote: »

Libra by Don Delillo.

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

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#7096 22-02-2018 11:11AM

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

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

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#7097 22-02-2018 01:08PM

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

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#7098 24-02-2018 11:34AM

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Shining Through by Susan Isaacs

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#7099 25-02-2018 04:25PM

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Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

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

Irish Poems - Edited by Matthew McGuire

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#7100 26-02-2018 07:08PM

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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.

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#7101 26-02-2018 07:19PM

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

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#7102 01-03-2018 01:48AM

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Deposed by David Barbaree

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#7103 01-03-2018 09:52AM

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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!

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#7104 02-03-2018 11:24PM

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Wuthering Heights, at the suggest of the AMA writer

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#7105 02-03-2018 11:29PM

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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.

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#7106 02-03-2018 11:37PM

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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

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#7107 03-03-2018 12:27AM

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Germany - Neil MacGregor

Sundays In August - Patrick Modiano

The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy

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#7108 03-03-2018 12:59PM

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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.

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#7109 07-03-2018 12:29AM

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The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble

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#7110 07-03-2018 03:26AM

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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.

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#7111 07-03-2018 11:13AM

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

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