This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Hermy · 15-10-2011 03:23PM

Lisha wrote: »

Penny Vincenzi, THe decision.......Prob not high brow enough for this thread but its great...

If it's a book then I think it's worthy of inclusion.

kerash · 15-10-2011 03:27PM

Finished The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike, I enjoyed it! A good book to read around this time of year too.

Callan57 · 15-10-2011 11:51PM

Loved Fatherland by Robert Harris so I'm going to read The Ghost next

supersaintpats · 16-10-2011 08:58AM

Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War (Pan Military Classics Series) by Chris Bellamy; a very detailed new history of the war between germany and USSR, full of incredible new insights and perspectives, moving well beyond the stereotype of the USSR army as simply a human steamroller, engrossing all the way

Belle E. Flops · 16-10-2011 12:33PM

kerash wrote: »

Finished The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike, I enjoyed it! A good book to read around this time of year too.

I've just started this, enjoying it so far even though I'm only a few pages in!

Hermy · 16-10-2011 01:14PM

Belle E. Flops wrote: »

I've just started this, enjoying it so far even though I'm only a few pages in!

Me too.:)

Miss Fluff · 16-10-2011 07:37PM

Started Truman Capote's In Cold Blood today - a book I've been meaning to read for ages and already engrossed!

EmmaAstra · 16-10-2011 07:56PM

Just started 'The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency'

flyaway. · 16-10-2011 10:21PM

The Luxe by Anna Godbersen

Hermy · 18-10-2011 12:50AM

Callan57 wrote: »

Loved Fatherland by Robert Harris so I'm going to read The Ghost next

I enjoyed Fatherland too. I'll be interested to hear what you think of The Ghost.

Amomymous · 18-10-2011 10:40AM

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

flyaway. · 18-10-2011 11:41AM

Breaking the Silence by Diane Chamberlain

Callan57 · 18-10-2011 04:44PM

Hermy wrote: »

I enjoyed Fatherland too. I'll be interested to hear what you think of The Ghost.

Really enjoyed The Ghost .... and I watched the movie a few months back & I actually fell asleep before the end. The book is a dam good read though.

I'm now reading Not the End of the World a book of short stories by Kate Atkinson. Read her Left Early, took my dog a few months back & loved it.

old hippy · 18-10-2011 05:07PM

Amomymous wrote: »

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

Good luck with that; it's the only Flann I couldn't finish

Hermy · 18-10-2011 05:55PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Really enjoyed The Ghost .... and I watched the movie a few months back & I actually fell asleep before the end. The book is a dam good read though.

I hated The Ghost. Having enjoyed everything up until that book I was shocked by how badly written it was and how shoddily the plot was strung together.

tim_holsters · 18-10-2011 07:37PM

Hermy wrote: »

I hated The Ghost. Having enjoyed everything up until that book I was shocked by how badly written it was and how shoddily the plot was strung together.

I went off Harris a bit too, I've read 3 or 4 of his books but not The Ghost. It's a cracking movie though I really enjoyed that.

tim_holsters · 18-10-2011 07:45PM

Strange Days Indeed:The Golden Age Of Paranoia by Francis Wheen. An acerbic look at the 70's. I knew Richard Nixon was a bad egg but I didn't realise how truly bonkers he was.

flyaway. · 18-10-2011 09:00PM

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Maximum 40 Characters · 19-10-2011 01:08PM

Better Than Sex-Mick Fitzgerald

The title gets ya quite a few 2nd glances on the bus. Fitzgerald comes across as a really genuine lad who really appreciates how lucky he's been in his riding career. He recounts some great stories about Richard Dunwoody and their love/hate relationship. His stories about some of the great horses he has ridden including See More Business, Fondmort and Katarino to name a few of many brought back a lot of memories.

Monkeybonkers · 19-10-2011 03:56PM

The Alienist by Caleb Carr.

Seemingly was a smash hit when it was released in 1994 so I'll give it a spin. A historical thriller with Theodore Roosevelt as one of the main characters.

flyaway. · 19-10-2011 05:57PM

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

Callan57 · 19-10-2011 10:27PM

As Julian Barnes got the Booker for The Sense of an Ending, which I really liked, I'm now starting Arthur & George

AnnyHallsal · 19-10-2011 10:33PM

Callan57 wrote: »

As Julian Barnes got the Booker for The Sense of an Ending, which I really liked, I'm now starting Arthur & George

You're in for a treat.

I thought it should have gotten the Booker the year it was nominated. I still think of the characters fondly

Sergeant · 20-10-2011 03:14AM

I´ve just completed A Game of Thrones. The first novel of the sort I´ve tried to read since I threw Lord of the Rings on the ground when I was 14. I loved it. Pure wonderful escapism.

IvyTheTerrible · 20-10-2011 09:18AM

Maximum 40 Characters wrote: »

Better Than Sex-Mick Fitzgerald

The title gets ya quite a few 2nd glances on the bus. Fitzgerald comes across as a really genuine lad who really appreciates how lucky he's been in his riding career. He recounts some great stories about Richard Dunwoody and their love/hate relationship. His stories about some of the great horses he has ridden including See More Business, Fondmort and Katarino to name a few of many brought back a lot of memories.

That's why I love the Kindle! :P

Aparently some of the biggest selling ebooks are erotic literature!

flyaway. · 20-10-2011 06:56PM

Scarred by Julia Hoban

Miss Fluff · 20-10-2011 09:12PM

A friend lent me Room by Emma Donoghue today so about to start that shortly - have ten more pages left of In Cold Blood - can't recommend it enough, will be going on a Capote spree after this methinks!

Lisha · 20-10-2011 09:24PM

A friend lent me Room by Emma Donoghue today so about to start that shortly

Miss Fluff, enjoy Room its quite a read, it might take a bit to get into it but when you do you wont want to leave....

perri winkles · 20-10-2011 09:24PM

Finished Slaughterhouse 5 about two weeks ago. I don't think I got the point of it at all, read rave reviews about it but I think it went way over my head

Very strange altogether.

Started The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat: and other clinical tales. Mostly reading it for college but its a really fascinating read anyway if your interested in the brain/ brain abnormalities.

20-10-2011 09:24PM

read cloud atlas, temeraire and now "the end specialist"

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