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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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  • #1862
    x_Ellie_x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭x_Ellie_x


    I've just started The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan


  • #1863
    tinyk68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭tinyk68


    I read "The Joy Luck Club" when it first came out and really enjoyed it. Just finished "August" by Gerard Woodward. Unsettling.


  • #1864
    mickoregan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭mickoregan


    DAVID COPPERFIELD.


  • #1865
    AnnyHallsal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal


    I loved On Beauty.

    A biography of Eugene O'Neill by Arthur and Barbara Gelb for me.


  • #1866
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year by Sue Townsend


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  • #1867
    Monkeybonkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭Monkeybonkers


    Just starting The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne.


  • #1868
    HavingCrack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    Dracula and the Green Mile at the same time, slightly confusing actually :o.


  • #1869
    T954
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭T954


    HavingCrack wrote: »
    Dracula and the Green Mile at the same time, slightly confusing actually :o.


    Both good books :) Had forgotten about the green mile really enjoyerd it when I read it along time ago now! Recently re read dracula....great book.


  • #1870
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Starting Hunting Unicorns by Bella Pollen


  • #1871
    tim_holsters
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭tim_holsters


    wilkie2006 wrote: »
    Yea, I would say it's good but not amazing. About the same as "The Autograph Man". Even if you're not really enjoying "On Beauty", I'd recommend you read "White Teeth", which really is very good.

    I thought On Beauty was amazing, streets ahead of The Autograph Man which was good but not as good as White Teeth.


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  • #1872
    Snako
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭Snako


    Just started Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman, Asweh, It's bo-styles


  • #1873
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Pulse by Julian Barnes


  • #1874
    lindtee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,397 ✭✭✭lindtee


    Reading "Gone" by Michael Grant between doing assignments and study and enjoying it so far.


  • #1875
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 31,064 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Just finished The Corrections over two weeks of endless commutes. A rather brilliant and bewitching novel. Some slight flaws - especially the odd direction Chip's story takes - but it's so acute in its observations and so grand in its vision that it's hard to begrudge. Even the more absurd tangents tend to have a worthy end-point.


  • #1876
    GusF
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭GusF


    Started And Having Writ... by Donald R. Bensen yesterday.


  • #1877
    eclectichoney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭eclectichoney


    Chinafoot wrote: »
    Just finished 'Plainsong' by Kent Haruf.

    Beautiful book.

    Eventide is similarly awesome.


  • #1878
    Antibac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭Antibac


    Just started The Abduction by Mark Jiminez. So far so good!


  • #1879
    Pintoplain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭Pintoplain


    Just finished The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco. Absolutely brilliant. A book dealer has suffered a particular type of memory loss: he doesn't remember or recognise his family, but remembers every book he's ever read. So as he re-acquaints himself with the world, all his experience is mediated through literary references. Then, through old school copybooks and comics, he gradually finds out about his boyhood in wartime Italy. The final line is devastating.


  • #1880
    triseke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 875 ✭✭✭triseke


    started "the fellowship of the ring" again this week. Love it.


  • #1881
    x_Ellie_x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭x_Ellie_x


    I've just started reading Second Glance by Jodi Picoult.


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  • #1882
    _petulia_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 ✭✭_petulia_


    I'm practically racing through The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens. Love it.


  • #1883
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest. Read through the first 2 books in the last month, pretty good going because I hit a reading slump that took quite an effort to get out of!


  • #1884
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi


  • #1885
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,061 ✭✭✭eire4


    I am currently re reading "Oh Hampden in the Sun" by Peter Burns and Pat Woods. It is an interesting book not just for the indepth insight it gives on the 1957 League Cup Final. But also for the overall look at what life was like in general in the Glasgow of the 1950's.


  • #1886
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Gothic-y :)


  • #1887
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Started 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff today .... saw the movie years ago & loved it


  • #1888
    triseke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 875 ✭✭✭triseke


    Reading "Timequake" by Kurt Vonnegut as my commuting book


  • #1889
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli


  • #1890
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    Finished the Millennium trilogy...now I have "The man from Beijing"- Henning Mankell, "The Draining Lake"- Arnaldur Indridason and "The hypnotist"- Lars Kepler on my desk having arrived from Awesomebooks this morning. Which to read first...


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  • #1891
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    No and Me by Delphine Le Vigan. Great so far.


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