This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Hrududu wrote: »

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.

Just finished this. I was perfectly happy with the slow pace of the first half, kind of like a comfortable pair of slippers...
The second half was - OK, but I always had the feeling that there was going to be a lot more to it, and then it ended.

The White Feather wrote: »

Just started The Outlaw Josey Wales by Forrest Carter. (It was also known as Gone to Texas)

I loved the movie that it was made into that has Clint Eastwood in it!

I enjoyed reading that a few years ago.

I'm currently reading The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carrè. It's the sequel to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

The Maiden Dinosaur by Janet McNeill

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I had ruled it out before because it's kind of presented as short stories, which I generally don't enjoy, but it's a collection which more or less ties together around this woman Olive Kitteridge. She's the main character in some, a bit part in others, and a tiny reference in others but the whole thing is lovely. Would recommend it, and have just started The Burgess Boys by the same author.

Finished Declan Hughes The Price of Blood a pretty wild crime drama set in the world of horse racing. A decent read although a fairly complicated plot line.

Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane

Xofpod wrote: »

Any good? I'm a fan of Lehane but I haven't heard great things about this...

I'm 41% in & its OK but so far not on a par with Mystic River, Shutter Island or The Given Day but I remain optomistic.

Just starting The Passage by Justin Cronin.

There are 10 glowing reviews/blurbs on the cover and 3 on the back! One saying its a blend of Michael Crichton and Stephen King and as I like both of them, it made me want to read it.

marienbad wrote: »

For me it has been a great year - best fiction - A country Road,A Tree -Jo Baker or Reservoir 13 -Jon McGregor.

Best non fiction Savage Continent -Leith Lowe and the Victor Klemperer Diaries .


Biggest disappointment - Lincoln In the Bardo , I just didn't get it but I will give a go again in the new year , so many people liked it it just has to be me .

Just finished reservoir 13. I loved it, very different.... thanks for the heads up. On to Lincoln next.. can't see it pleasing me as much though

Irish_rat wrote: »

Finished The Man In The High Castle, thought it was very good, it does need to be read slowly I find and take in each chapter, I like the chapter analysis online too.

Think I'm going to start Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy

Great choice but don't forget to have your towel with you when you do

Finished Dancing to the Precipice ... excellent evocation of ancien régime and the build up to the French Revolution and beyond. Really liked it.

Now it's on to The Gordian Knot by Bernhard Schlink

Finished 'The Sinking of the Lusitania' by Patrick O'Sullivan. Highlights lots of British inaction and possible skull duggery by Churchill and others so as to draw the US into WW1.

Finished Anne Rice's Pandora from her New Tales of the vampire series. Really great read very enjoyable.

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Great choice but don't forget to have your towel with you when you do

It's fantastic, already halfway through totally engulfed!

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Donal Ryan’s new book ‘from a low and quiet sea’ is extraordinary but what else would you expect?

Ah! I read a review of the new book (in the Guardian) and it sounds good.
Loved his writing in "The Slanting of the Sun"- I don't think I've read anyone who can catch you off guard the way he does (maybe a bit like Heaney?).