This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

cynder · 07-01-2012 01:37AM

Just finished maze runner. will read the other 2 books in the coming days..

ChewChew · 07-01-2012 01:40AM

In the middle of too close to home by Linwood Barclay. It's odd. But it's ok.

cynder · 07-01-2012 03:47PM

ChewChew wrote: »

In the middle of too close to home by Linwood Barclay. It's odd. But it's ok.

I find linwoods novels easy to read, quite light and story lines are ok, nothing spectacular but readable.

Monkeybonkers · 08-01-2012 12:13AM

Really enjoyed Nevil Shutes novel. Didn't realise he had such deep Irish connections (his father worked in the GPO during the Rising). Next up: Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord

IvyTheTerrible · 08-01-2012 11:40AM

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

Really enjoyed Nevil Shutes novel. Didn't realise he had such deep Irish connections (his father worked in the GPO during the Rising). Next up: Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord

I really like Nevil Shute's writing and find he is under-rated. Try "On the Beach", chilling.

Monkeybonkers · 08-01-2012 06:15PM

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I really like Nevil Shute's writing and find he is under-rated. Try "On the Beach", chilling.

I enjoyed his style too. I'll check out 'On the Beach'. Thanks

cynder · 08-01-2012 08:46PM

finished the scorch trials, bit peeved that i cant get hold of 'the death cure' until april, may have to order it off amazon.com

Started karlology, his a gas man...

wilkie2006 · 09-01-2012 01:31PM

I've just started reading the new Shrlock Holmes novel, "The House of Silk" by Anthony Horowitz. It's great and I'd really recommend it.

Initially I was quite skeptical of a new SH novel but then reasoned that, since I'm enjoying Stephen Moffitt's BBC series so much, new isn't necessarily bad.

baconsarnie · 09-01-2012 01:44PM

deem79 wrote: »

Mario Vargas Llosa - The Feast of the Goat

Fantastic read.

Just started "White Noise" by Don DeLillo. I just finished "There but for the" by Ali Smith.

Callan57 · 09-01-2012 03:55PM

About to begin Praetorian by Simon Scarrow

wilkie2006 · 09-01-2012 05:53PM

baconsarnie wrote: »

I just finished "There but for the" by Ali Smith.

What did you think of that? I read about 80 pages and, 5 months later, still haven't gotten back to it. Like "The Slap", I found the premise interesting but it just didn't deliver enough of a story

Slippin Jimmy · 09-01-2012 08:47PM

ChewChew wrote: »

In the middle of too close to home by Linwood Barclay. It's odd. But it's ok.

Stated reading this myself two last night. 27% the way through it now according to my kindle. Read never look away earlier in the year, enjoying this so far.

rainshowers82 · 09-01-2012 09:03PM

Just finished We need to talk about Kevin .. tough going but enjoyable! Also just finished The girl with the dragon tattoo ... Yes i jumped on the bandwagon ha ha i actually enjoyed it and im toying with the idea of reading the final two

flyaway. · 09-01-2012 09:30PM

The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe

cynder · 11-01-2012 10:00AM

Read 'the enemy and the fear' started reading 'th fear' all about zombies, plenty of deaths though not too graphic.

Monkeybonkers · 11-01-2012 04:37PM

Stairway To Hell by Charlie Williams

Hells Belle · 11-01-2012 04:57PM

Got a kindle at Christmas and I haven't put it down:

Read The Hunger Games trilogy last weekend, I only bought it because I kept seeing the name pop up but I really enjoyed it.

On the recommendations of you guys I'm reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, can't believe I never read it before, really enjoyable,thanks

(and free on kindle)

Just finished Work! Consume! Die! by Frankie Boyle, I don't like his comedy and I don't know why I bought it but some of his thinking is bang on. Some of it is off the wall with long rants. If you like crazy Scotsmen then this is for you.

Nineteen Eighty Four is next, wish me luck!

Belle E. Flops · 11-01-2012 10:26PM

Just after starting the Hunger Games. I hope it lives up to the hype because every second person seems to be raving about the trilogy!

flyaway. · 11-01-2012 10:43PM

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

x_Ellie_x · 12-01-2012 12:03AM

I just started Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs tonight and I haven't been able to put it down. I'm already halfway through it.

emeraldstar · 12-01-2012 02:37PM

x_Ellie_x wrote:

I just started Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs tonight and I haven't been able to put it down. I'm already halfway through it.

Just looked this up - sounds interesting!

I'm currently reading Northern Lights by Philip Pullman.

x_Ellie_x · 13-01-2012 08:07PM

emeraldstar wrote: »

Just looked this up - sounds interesting!

It's a great book! I really enjoyed it and I loved all the old photos. They fit in perfectly with the book. A word of warning though, the book leaves off on a cliffhanger and the sequel won't be coming out for another 14 months which is really frustrating. My advice: buy the book now (just in case they start reprinting it without the wonderful photos like they did with Sara Gruen's Water For Elephants) and hold off reading it until its closer to the release date for the sequel.

I'm just about to start reading East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

WoundedRhino · 14-01-2012 08:21PM

I've just polished off "Survivor" by Chuck Palahniuk, which was excellent. I'm also midway through "The Death Of WCW" by RD Reynolds, which is really only of interest to those of us who like the peculiar sport of oiled-up muscly men in tights pretending to hit each other.

lestat21 · 15-01-2012 04:31AM

Belle E. Flops wrote: »

Just after starting the Hunger Games. I hope it lives up to the hype because every second person seems to be raving about the trilogy!

Just read the entire Hunger Games series in four days. Its act a brilliant read even though people keep comparing it to Twilight. I couldnt stop crying in some bits and I just love how the author takes the series in realistic but completely unexpected directions.

Im now looking for something new to read... Only four?/five? years til the next George RR Martin book

SarahBM · 15-01-2012 03:05PM

Finished Bad Science. - love it.

picked up Persuasion - again

Love Austen.

bitlocked · 15-01-2012 06:25PM

Two chapters away from finally finishing Ulysses! So that's a few months in other words.

Monkeybonkers · 15-01-2012 08:48PM

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Tesco Massacre · 16-01-2012 04:44AM

The City & The City by China Mieville.

cynder · 16-01-2012 11:05AM

Finished 'Little Star' yesterday morning finshed 'Clockwork Angel' yesterday eveing and finished 'Clockwork Prince' at 1am this morning.

Callan57 · 16-01-2012 11:51AM

I finished my latest Jasper Fforde last night so for something completely different I am taking up Road of Bones by Fergal Keane

This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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