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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 x_Ellie_x
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    I've just started The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 tinyk68
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    I read "The Joy Luck Club" when it first came out and really enjoyed it. Just finished "August" by Gerard Woodward. Unsettling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 mickoregan
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    DAVID COPPERFIELD.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,118 AnnyHallsal
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    I loved On Beauty.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 Callan57
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    The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year by Sue Townsend


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 Monkeybonkers
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    Just starting The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 HavingCrack
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    Dracula and the Green Mile at the same time, slightly confusing actually :o.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 T954


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 Callan57
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    Starting Hunting Unicorns by Bella Pollen


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,466 tim_holsters
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    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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 Snako
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    Just started Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman, Asweh, It's bo-styles


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 Callan57
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    Pulse by Julian Barnes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,396 lindtee
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    Reading "Gone" by Michael Grant between doing assignments and study and enjoying it so far.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,688 johnny_ultimate
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    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 GusF


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,291 eclectichoney
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    Chinafoot wrote: »
    Just finished 'Plainsong' by Kent Haruf.

    Beautiful book.

    Eventide is similarly awesome.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,101 Antibac
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    Just started The Abduction by Mark Jiminez. So far so good!


  • 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 875 triseke
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    started "the fellowship of the ring" again this week. Love it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 x_Ellie_x
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    I've just started reading Second Glance by Jodi Picoult.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 _petulia_
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    I'm practically racing through The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens. Love it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,479 highlydebased
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    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 Callan57
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    The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,928 eire4
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    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 emeraldstar
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    The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Gothic-y :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 Callan57
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    Started 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff today .... saw the movie years ago & loved it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 875 triseke
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    Reading "Timequake" by Kurt Vonnegut as my commuting book


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 Callan57
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    The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,479 highlydebased
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    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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 IvyTheTerrible
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    No and Me by Delphine Le Vigan. Great so far.


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