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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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  • #7902
    Wyldwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭Wyldwood


    The Foundling by Stacey Halls. Finally a book that I got engrossed in during this mess.

    Love the way Halls can weave a story based on historic happenings. The Foundlings came about after she visited the Foundling Hospital and heard the stories of how women had to leave their children there with a token to identify them should they be in a position to retrieve them at a later date.


  • #7903
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan


  • #7904
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,866 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Boulevard Wren by Blindboy Boatclub

    Gripping, bizarre, surreal, stomach churning - like a set of David Lynch films set in economically deprived parts of Ireland. The writer is clearly amazingly well read himself.

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  • #7905
    KJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭KJ


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Boulevard Wren by Blindboy Boatclub

    Gripping, bizarre, surreal, stomach churning - like a set of David Lynch films set in economically deprived parts of Ireland. The writer is clearly amazingly well read himself.

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    I preferred his first book. I found the second one trying too hard and showing too much of his Kevin Barry influences. Still enjoyable though.


  • #7906
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭eire4


    Finished Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Lady of Avalon which is another historical fiction novel from her Arthurian series and carries on from where The Forest House left off. Definitely an improvement on the previous book but still not much better then slightly above average for me. The way the book is put together it is almost like 3 mini books in one that lead into one another.


  • #7907
    Wyldwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭Wyldwood


    Enjoyed The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor. Based on the true story of Grace Darling and written with two parallel related stories a century apart one in in the 19thC and one in the 20thC.


  • #7908
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭eire4


    Finished a re-read of The Adventures of Tintin Volume 3 which contains The Crab With the Golden Claw, The Shooting Star and The Secret of the Unicorn. Always was my favourite graphic novel/comic when I was a kid and even now still a fun re-read.


  • #7909
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Starting Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman


  • #7910
    Sinister Kid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,503 ✭✭✭Sinister Kid


    I've been reading more chick lit than usual lately. I think my brain needs a soft squishy distraction from the chaos in the world at the moment.

    Since the lock down began I've read...

    Interlude in Death - J.D. Robb
    Grown Ups - Marian Keys
    The Husbands Secret - Lorraine Moriarty
    Can You Keep a Secret - Sophie Kinsella
    Postscript - Cecelia Ahern
    My Sister The Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
    The Hunting Party - Lucy Foley


  • #7911
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Sinister Kid wrote: »
    I've been reading more chick lit than usual lately. I think my brain needs a soft squishy distraction from the chaos in the world at the moment.

    Since the lock down began I've read...

    Interlude in Death - J.D. Robb
    Grown Ups - Marian Keys
    The Husbands Secret - Lorraine Moriarty
    Can You Keep a Secret - Sophie Kinsella
    Postscript - Cecelia Ahern
    My Sister The Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
    The Hunting Party - Lucy Foley

    Havent read the Braithwaite book but didnt think it came under the 'chick lit' banner. Also, I'd strongly advise ever using that term within 400 yards of Marian Keyes and only then if you have your best trainers on ;-)


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  • #7912
    Sinister Kid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,503 ✭✭✭Sinister Kid


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Havent read the Braithwaite book but didnt think it came under the 'chick lit' banner. Also, I'd strongly advise ever using that term within 400 yards of Marian Keyes and only then if you have your best trainers on ;-)

    Very true! The chick lit I was referring to would be Sophie Kinsella & Cecelia Ahern... I definitely would't put the others into that category!
    I enjoyed My Sister The Serial Killer but I don't think it deserves the all hype it has gotten.


  • #7913
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Sinister Kid wrote: »
    Very true! The chick lit I was referring to would be Sophie Kinsella & Cecelia Ahern... I definitely would't put the others into that category!
    I enjoyed My Sister The Serial Killer but I don't think it deserves the all hype it has gotten.

    Ha! Was only kidding really. I read the other one on the booker list, Girl, Woman, Other and liked it a lot. Was disappointed they felt they had to give Atwood the prize as well because i didnt think her book was quite in the same league.


  • #7914
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,866 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    KJ wrote: »
    I preferred his first book. I found the second one trying too hard and showing too much of his Kevin Barry influences. Still enjoyable though.
    I'm about half way through the second one, so it's difficult to compare. I've put it to one side to accommodate the book club schedule. The second book seems marginally less gut-churningly gross than the first one. The guy obviously is amazingly well read.


  • #7915
    Xofpod
    Registered Users Posts: 755 ✭✭✭Xofpod


    Sinister Kid wrote: »
    Very true! The chick lit I was referring to would be Sophie Kinsella & Cecelia Ahern... I definitely would't put the others into that category!
    I enjoyed My Sister The Serial Killer but I don't think it deserves the all hype it has gotten.

    My sister the Serial Killer is in my pile (actually bought it for my wife but I don't think she was too impressed) - what's the general verdict?


  • #7916
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Xofpod wrote: »
    My sister the Serial Killer is in my pile (actually bought it for my wife but I don't think she was too impressed) - what's the general verdict?


    I read it back in Dec & I enjoyed it. Very original but dark & oddly funny. It's a short but intriguing read.


  • #7917
    Daisies
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,644 Mod ✭✭✭✭Daisies


    Flew through My Friend Anna in 3 days. Started Born A Crime last night.


  • #7918
    Sinister Kid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,503 ✭✭✭Sinister Kid


    Callan57 wrote: »
    I read it back in Dec & I enjoyed it. Very original but dark & oddly funny. It's a short but intriguing read.

    I agree with this but on the other hand, I think because of the hype surrounding it, I was expecting something less predictable, a twist or something a bit more dramatic.


  • #7919
    KJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭KJ


    Really enjoying Senan Moloney's The Phoenix Park Murders at the minute.


  • #7920
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Finished Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman ... amazing insight into a Hasidic community in NY. I was aware of the existence of this orthodox Jewish community but didn't know it was so introverted and fundamentalist nor did I know it's origins are only post WW11, I had assumed it went back much further.
    I've now read Educated, Unfollow & Unorthodox so I think that is more than enough of ultra-conservative sects for a while.

    Next is Scrublands by Chris Hammer


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  • #7921
    The White Feather
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,574 ✭✭✭The White Feather


    Callan57 wrote: »

    Next is Scrublands by Chris Hammer

    I really enjoyed that book. Reviewed it as well


  • #7922
    farmerval
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 690 ✭✭✭farmerval


    Reading lots through the lock down, finished;
    The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz. Really good read.
    Normal people, Sally Rooney, good book, started really well, faded somewhat.
    Idaho, really disappointed in this, very well written, too much left unsaid in it.
    Blood and Sugar, Thriller set around slave trading, really excellent thriller.
    The Killer in me, Olivia Kiernan, Irish set crime novel, thoroughly enjoyed it.
    Where the Crawdads sing. Good book, read it straight after Idaho, possibly too much slow moving, very detailed descriptions in two books in a row. Way better than Idaho though.
    Willie Carlin, Thatchers spy. Good read. Good insight into the times, also good insight into mentality of various factions at the time.

    Thanks to all who put up what they've read and what they thought of it, this thread is currently my first port of call when looking for new books.


  • #7923
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd


  • #7924
    Wyldwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭Wyldwood


    Finished The Sleeper Lies by Andrea Mara. A good crime thriller with a couple of unforseen twists and turns. Will look for more books by her.


  • #7925
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,210 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    Finished Dracul - Enjoyed it, but its original cast a very very big shadow over it.
    Reading the Hidden Girl and Other Stories - Very interesting selection of short stories, all with a bit of a Black Mirror/Love Death and Robots vibe
    Reading Us by David Nicholls - for an online book club I joined for next week - Enjoying it so far, a nice light bit of relationship commentary.


  • #7926
    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    Wyldwood wrote: »
    Finished The Sleeper Lies by Andrea Mara. A good crime thriller with a couple of unforseen twists and turns. Will look for more books by her.

    She has two others, 'One Click' and 'The Other Side of the Wall'. I think 'The Sleeper Lies' was the best of the three but the other two are definitely worth a read, I enjoyed all of them.


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  • #7927
    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    Currently reading Blood Orange which I am enjoying, easy enough read and find myself looking forward to reading another bit - always a good sign.


  • #7928
    Daisies
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,644 Mod ✭✭✭✭Daisies


    Just finished TinMan which I really enjoyed.

    Starting The Education of an Idealist tonight.


  • #7929
    The White Feather
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,574 ✭✭✭The White Feather


    At the moment I am reading Pandemic by AG Riddle

    A pandemic breaks out and the W.H.O races to stop it.

    How do they think up these far fetched plots?!!

    It is very good so far. (May as well read it as we are living in one!)


  • #7930
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    It by Stephen King.

    I've been a King fan since I was twelve or thirteen but I've only read the Shining, Misery and Doctor Sleep, though I've re-read the Shining a dozen times and obviously find myself appreciating even more about it. I am a bit daunted by the size of his collection, tbh. It seems to be his mangum opus so I wanted to give it a go.

    I think It is brilliant so far. I'm about 400 pages so still a fair whack to go.


  • #7931
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Finished How to Measure a Cow by Margaret Forster last night .... really enjoyed it but felt the ending was unsatisfactory.

    Next is Princess by Jean Sasson


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  • #7932
    Xofpod
    Registered Users Posts: 755 ✭✭✭Xofpod


    HalloweenJack wrote: »
    It by Stephen King.

    I've been a King fan since I was twelve or thirteen but I've only read the Shining, Misery and Doctor Sleep, though I've re-read the Shining a dozen times and obviously find myself appreciating even more about it. I am a bit daunted by the size of his collection, tbh. It seems to be his mangum opus so I wanted to give it a go.

    I think It is brilliant so far. I'm about 400 pages so still a fair whack to go.

    If you like his stuff that you've read to date, you absolutely HAVE TO read the Stand, for the times that are in it....


  • #7933
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    otnomart wrote: »
    Just started: The Snakes by Sadie Jones
    Was not gripped by this one, although I could well picture a movie made from it, as the descriptions were good. Disappointing and pointless ending in my opinion.


    Just started Those People by Louise Candlish and finding it a real page turner.


  • #7934
    Wyldwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭Wyldwood


    Enjoyed The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal, although it did jump around from present to past at a dizzying pace at times.

    Next up The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell who owns the Bookshop in Wigtown in Scotland. Recommended by Rick O'Shea on his Facebook book club.

    In case any one hasn't seen, Rick is doing live podcasts on Mon, Wed & Thurs.. interviewing a different author each night. Worth a look. I think the archived podcasts are on youtube also.


  • #7935
    The White Feather
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,574 ✭✭✭The White Feather


    The White Feather wrote: »
    At the moment I am reading Pandemic by AG Riddle

    A pandemic breaks out and the W.H.O races to stop it.

    How do they think up these far fetched plots?!!

    It is very good so far. (May as well read it as we are living in one!)

    This turned out to be even better than expected. Thought it was a medical thriller but turned into the Bourne Identity mixed with the tv show Lost.

    Now I am reading its sequel called Genome


  • #7936
    Xofpod
    Registered Users Posts: 755 ✭✭✭Xofpod


    Finished Wolf Hall, and it is every bit as good as they say it is. The other two will definitely be going into the pile and I intend to get to them a lot sooner than I did with this one.

    On to A Thousand Moons, Sebastian Barry. Adored the first one so hoping for more of the same.


  • #7937
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,210 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    Finished The Hidden Girl and other stories - loved nearly every story, great sci-fi stories with a not-so-thinly veiled eco-warning message.

    Starting Circe by Madeleine Miller next. Not my usual kind of thing but it comes recommended.


  • #7938
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Finished Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese ... the depth of medical detail was overdone I felt but an interesting and gripping read nonetheless.

    Next The Rearranged Life of Oona Lockhart by Margarita Montimore


  • #7939
    The White Feather
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,574 ✭✭✭The White Feather


    Reading Finders Keepers by Mark Bowden

    Its a true story about a guy who found 1.2 million dollars that literally fell off an armoured car! It was made into a movie "Money for Nothing" starring John Cusack that I saw years ago. The true story is way different to the movie!


  • #7940
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Finished The Rearranged Life of Oona Lockhart ... it was an OK read

    Starting AKIN by Emma Donoghue this evening


  • #7941
    KJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭KJ


    Reading Pieces To Weight by the literary icon 50 Cent. Sometimes I just like to take a break from heavy reading.


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  • #7942
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Finished AKIN by Emma Donoghue last night ... beautiful book, I loved it.

    Next is Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano


  • #7943
    Xofpod
    Registered Users Posts: 755 ✭✭✭Xofpod


    Was a bit disappointed with A Thousand Moons (Sebastian Barry), but maybe only by comparison with Days Without End, which is one of my favourite books of recent years


  • #7944
    Wyldwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭Wyldwood


    Callan57 wrote: »

    Next is Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

    Nearly finished Dear Edward and loving it. Hearbreaking and heartwarming, want to give him a cuddle.


  • #7945
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭eire4


    Finished Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon. Historical fiction that follows on from The Forest House and Lady of Avalon and gets to the whole Arthurian period. Was ok but must admit nowhere near what I was hoping for.


  • #7946
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Poisonwood Bible. Really enjoying it so far.


  • #7947
    Daisies
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,644 Mod ✭✭✭✭Daisies


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    The Poisonwood Bible. Really enjoying it so far.

    One of my favourite books.

    Just finished Such a Fun Age which I enjoyed but felt the author could have delved into certain issues better.

    Now reading Homo Deus


  • #7948
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Recently finished "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion. It's a novel about her dealing with grief at the death of her husband. It's quite heartbreaking in parts and underlines how people grieve (and deal with grief) in many different ways.

    I also just finished the audiobook of "Crash" by JG Ballard. I really liked how messed up the story is, but also how it's dealt with quite clinically. I always love finding books that are nothing like anything else out there. I watched the film of it at the weekend and it's just as f@*ked up.

    I have just started "Adjustment Day" by Chuck Palahniuk. I always plough through his books but always feel a bit let down about halfway through. This one is no exception.


  • #7949
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Just finished Narrow Dog To Carcassonne by Terry Darlington - hilarious travel book


  • #7950
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    The Five: The Untold Stories of the Women killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold


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  • #7951
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭eire4


    Finished Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 a classic and really a must read and sadly quite topical today with so many authoritarian regime's around the world today.


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