This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Caros · 28-07-2011 09:39PM

x_Ellie_x wrote: »

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Oh I cried so much with that book, loved it!

smilerxxx · 28-07-2011 11:34PM

I just finished the devils star by jo nesbo. Really enjoyed it. But since i've just read the first three in the Harry Hole series I think I'll give them a break and go back to The Slap (it was my night shift book however I've had a lot of busy nights so I've lost the flow)

Niles · 28-07-2011 11:46PM

Stephen King's The Shining. Finally getting all those references in the Simpsons! About half way through, good so far. Of King's work I've only read The Dark Tower series and Cell to date but his stories seem to "flow" well in an accessible way.

29-07-2011 10:45AM

bluewolf wrote: »

Started Reading Lolita In Tehran which is very interesting so far, but I am waiting for Lolita itself to arrive in the post before I can read any more of it. Finished Oryx and Crake last week, still getting through Middlemarch.

Forgot to add I started A dance with dragons of course, that is my main in-progress right now.

Lolita arrived, so can add that to the list. Only about halfway through ADWD and still working on Middlemarch. Long weekend ahead so I can finally get through them...

Asphyxia · 30-07-2011 08:21PM

I started Plain Truth by Jodie Picolt this morning

scotty_irish · 30-07-2011 08:23PM

swapped some james patterson pi*s for 1984 in a hostel swop shelf. now just mentally preparing myself for a challenging read.

TanG411 · 30-07-2011 08:27PM

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.

tHE vAGGABOND · 30-07-2011 08:33PM

On Holidays I finished Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin [song of fire and ice, books 1 and 2]

Three guesses what Im reading now

flyaway. · 30-07-2011 10:43PM

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. It's all right so far but nothing special.

Belle E. Flops · 31-07-2011 01:03PM

Just after starting Mr. Nice by Howard Marks

Callan57 · 31-07-2011 08:12PM

Heartstone by C J Sansom

MsJenjers · 31-07-2011 11:18PM

Catcher In The Rye

Cows Go µ · 01-08-2011 05:25PM

Just finished Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiousities, going to read The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales until I can get my hands on Fatal Voyage by Cathy Reichs. Listening to A Short History of Nearly Everything in the car as well. Wow that sounds like a lot!

x_Ellie_x · 01-08-2011 07:28PM

Just started reading Crow Lake by Mary Lawson this afternoon.

TanG411 · 01-08-2011 08:28PM

'Less Than Zero' by Bret Easton Ellis.

emeraldstar · 01-08-2011 08:41PM

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

flyaway. · 01-08-2011 10:34PM

I'm reading The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It's a collection of short stories and I'm really enjoying it so far.

Niles · 02-08-2011 04:51PM

HG Wells' The Shape of Things to Come. Might be tough going keeping this one up...

AnnyHallsal · 02-08-2011 07:25PM

Giving Don Quixote a go.

Arlecchina · 03-08-2011 03:25PM

RE: Zoo City.

Blush_01 wrote: »

Loved it too! Not mad keen on the ending, but it wasn't terrible. So glad someone else has read it and enjoyed it!

This was pretty much my reaction, too! I won't spoil it for anyone else, but it all seemed to get a bit rushed at the end. The rest of the book was amazing, though — definitely a 2011 fave. Really glad to hear you enjoyed it, too.

Just finished Michel Faber's 'Under the Skin', which was just astounding. Now, after a little breather from Westeros, I'm moving on to GRRM's 'A Feast for Crows'.

Travel is good · 04-08-2011 04:00PM

emeraldstar wrote: »

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

I just finished that book, I loved it. I'm really interested in WW2 literature, so this book was really up my street. I love those post WW2 American writers.

I just received "Breakfast With Champions" by Kurt Vonnegut also, so I'm just about to start that.

I also started "A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute, it's Book of the Month for the Book Crossing meet up next week.

I'm also up to about page 70 of "Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin.

And finally, I'm still reading "Matterhorn" by Karl Marlantes.

I kinda like war/history/cult fiction books.

Travel is good · 04-08-2011 04:04PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Heartstone by C J Sansom

I have this book on my shelf, waiting...to be read. I really enjoyed Dark Fire and Sovereign. I was lucky to receive a copy of Dissolution for World Book Night, so have to read that yet.

What do you think of Heartstone? I like the fact of the series being set in Tudor times. I'm a fan of the Tudors on TV also, and some of the same characters come up in the books.

Callan57 · 04-08-2011 07:26PM

Travel is good wrote: »

I have this book on my shelf, waiting...to be read. I really enjoyed Dark Fire and Sovereign. I was lucky to receive a copy of Dissolution for World Book Night, so have to read that yet.

What do you think of Heartstone? I like the fact of the series being set in Tudor times. I'm a fan of the Tudors on TV also, and some of the same characters come up in the books.

Loving it ... I have Sovereign on standby & I've already read Dissolution, Dark Fire & Revelation. I don't think I lost anything by not reading the series in order ... they are very much stand alone books. Likewise I love the Tudor period & I love how Sansom doesn't just concentrate on the lives of the 'previledged' .. I really enjoy all the detail about the difficulties of travel, food provision, sleeping arrangements etc.
Have you read his 'Winter in Madrid' ... centered on the Spanish Civil War & its aftermath? ... also brilliant IMO.

tim_holsters · 04-08-2011 07:50PM

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

Giving Don Quixote a go.

Good luck with that.

IvyTheTerrible · 04-08-2011 08:04PM

Travel is good wrote: »

I just finished that book, I loved it. I'm really interested in WW2 literature, so this book was really up my street. I love those post WW2 American writers.

I just received "Breakfast With Champions" by Kurt Vonnegut also, so I'm just about to start that.

I also started "A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute, it's Book of the Month for the Book Crossing meet up next week.

I'm also up to about page 70 of "Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin.

And finally, I'm still reading "Matterhorn" by Karl Marlantes.

I kinda like war/history/cult fiction books.

Oh I LOVED A Town Like Alice! (the film is a real tearjerker!). Another classic by Shute is On the Beach.

TanG411 · 04-08-2011 10:29PM

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk.

flyaway. · 05-08-2011 01:53AM

Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink

Callan57 · 05-08-2011 11:20PM

Beginning The Infinities by John Banvile

flyaway. · 06-08-2011 02:37AM

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

Einhard · 06-08-2011 04:16AM

A Death in Tuscany by Michele Giuttari.

Written by the former head of police in Florence. I hope to God he was a better policeman than he is a writer.

This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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