This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

WesternNight · 12-06-2011 04:27PM

Just started The Kite Runner. Already I get the feeling there may be tears.

Travel is good · 12-06-2011 04:51PM

Today I started "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery.

narky · 12-06-2011 06:30PM

I've just finished Life of Pi. I really enjoyed it. I've started Conrad's Heart of Darkness today.

AnnyHallsal · 12-06-2011 09:21PM

A volume of Christopher Hitchens's essays/articles: Love, Poverty & War

His style is so incredibly fluent, it reminds me most of George Eliot.

cloud493 · 12-06-2011 11:50PM

I'm reading Martin Gilbert's history of the first world war.

Callan57 · 13-06-2011 11:03AM

Just started 'The Winter Ghosts' by Kate Mosse

pavb2 · 13-06-2011 11:11AM

Halfway throughThe Year Of The French -Thomas Flanagan for about a month (can't find the time) but don't want to rush it anyway.

Very rich descriptions,good characters you can tell he knows his stuff re Irish history.

One of those books you wonder why you didn't read it sooner. Definitely recommend it so far. Only problem is we know what happens. Still the journey is good.

Callan57 · 14-06-2011 02:35PM

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Travel is good · 14-06-2011 03:15PM

Another World Book Night book : "Stuart - a life backwards" by Alexander Masters.

tHE vAGGABOND · 15-06-2011 01:31PM

Taking a short break from fiction/non-fiction and reading some Managment style books for a couple of reasons...

Just finished the prince by machiavelli, [excellent, if a little hard to understand at times, it being 500 years old odd].

and started into 48 laws of power, by Robert Green

AnnyHallsal · 15-06-2011 07:15PM

Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

Dibble · 16-06-2011 03:22PM

Started Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan last night.

Looking Glass · 16-06-2011 04:28PM

About to start Les Mis. I bought it from TBD for a steal at 7.79, and it arrived this morning. The last book I read was Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - it's good for the soul to read something vapid like that every once in a while!

AnnyHallsal · 16-06-2011 09:14PM

What a testament to art The Hare with Amber Eyes is. Through all this, the Ephrussi wrote, created, and collected. What they left, so valuable, exhorts us all to write, create, collect. So de Waal has done, so beautifully.

I enjoyed it

tim_holsters · 16-06-2011 10:12PM

A Woman In Berlin by Anonymous.

A spellbinding account of a woman’s experience’s in war devastated Berlin. Starts two weeks prior to the Russians entering the city and finishes about four weeks after the occupation. One of the best WWII memoirs I’ve read.

cloud493 · 17-06-2011 03:35PM

Scarred - its hard to keep a secret when its written all over your body. Good. Like, really good.

Vim Fuego · 18-06-2011 05:22PM

Old Man's War by John Scalzi.

I thought I would like this a lot more than I did. There wasn't much to dislike about it. It has an interesting premise and some exciting technology, and it comes off a bit Futurama-like with all its different alien races but it was just too breezy or something. It felt like a novel for teens, despite the occasional suggestion of sex. The main character is just too bloody good at everything and loved by everyone so there isn't a huge amount of excitement to be had. I'm not going to bother with any of the sequels, I definitely prefer the style of Iain M Banks compared to this lighter fare. Can't quite understand the universally positive good reviews for this either. I think a lot of the joy towards it comes from the huge debt to Heinlein, but I haven't read any of his work so that all sailed over my head so I'm probably just missing out.

Coeurdepirate · 18-06-2011 05:57PM

I'm reading Catcher in the Rye for about the millionth time. I bought The God Delusion and A Thousand Splendid Suns today, looking forward to reading them.

Travel is good · 19-06-2011 12:49PM

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

What a testament to art The Hare with Amber Eyes is. Through all this, the Ephrussi wrote, created, and collected. What they left, so valuable, exhorts us all to write, create, collect. So de Waal has done, so beautifully.

I enjoyed it

I really liked this book too. Such a lovely story.

I just started "Falling Man" by Don DeLillo

fontanalis · 19-06-2011 04:08PM

Reading Salems Lot again, great book. Might try The Prestige afterwards.

Callan57 · 19-06-2011 08:12PM

The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Only started it last night but I'm finding it really addictive ... lovely book so far

ReacherCreature · 20-06-2011 02:50PM

American Caesars by Nigel Hamilton.

tim_holsters · 20-06-2011 10:51PM

Travel is good wrote: »

Today I started "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery.

I think about this book every now and again. One of those that stay with you for a long time.

Travel is good · 20-06-2011 11:31PM

tim_holsters wrote: »

I think about this book every now and again. One of those that stay with you for a long time.

Interesting. It was our Book of the Month for the Book Crossing meet up which is tomorrow night. It will be interesting to see what the other readers think of it.

I'm having a good run lately, so next on my list is "Mistaken" by Neil Jordan.

mochroicat · 21-06-2011 01:08PM

I just finished reading The Name of the Wind and A Wise Man's Fear. I definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a fantasy narrative that's not all elves and dragons. Warning: there are some harsh elements - it's not a happy fluffy piece.

Looking forward to the third book!

AnnyHallsal · 21-06-2011 06:11PM

Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

ValJester · 22-06-2011 06:32PM

The Rotters Club-Jonathan Coe

And very good it is too.

Blobby George · 22-06-2011 07:41PM

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry.

AnnyHallsal · 22-06-2011 10:16PM

Dennis Potter, The Singing Detective and E M Forster, Howard's End. Love a bit of Forster.

Callan57 · 23-06-2011 10:54AM

Starting The Fields of Death by Simon Scarrow

This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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