This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Huzzah! · 26-03-2012 09:57PM

Honey-ec wrote: »

Read The Hunger Games trilogy during the week, started "Skippy Dies" last night.

I enjoyed "Wolf Hall", although Mantel uses a very irritating narrative device throughout the book. I won't say what it is, or it'll annoy you even more, but I'll be interested to hear whether you notice it yourself.

I just finished Wolf Hall - yeah, it took me a while - I really enjoyed it. I noticed one or two "quirks" in her style but nothing too irritating.

I'm interested to see how you get on with Skippy Dies; I read it last year and, tbh, I wasn't blown away.

Just starting the God Delusion now by Richard Dawkins.

Kiva.D · 27-03-2012 05:14AM

Just starting to read The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

OakeyDokey · 27-03-2012 05:16AM

Finished reading The Tales of Beedle and Bard last night and enjoyed it. Not sure what to start now.

old hippy · 27-03-2012 12:54PM

Jo Nesbo - The Redbreast.

Belle E. Flops · 27-03-2012 05:29PM

OakeyDokey wrote: »

Finished reading The Tales of Beedle and Bard last night and enjoyed it. Not sure what to start now.

Cannot wait to read that! I've it ordered so hopefully should arrive soon.

OakeyDokey · 29-03-2012 03:24AM

Belle E. Flops wrote: »

Cannot wait to read that! I've it ordered so hopefully should arrive soon.

It was such a sweet book! It's nice to have a bit of the Harry Potter world still living in other books.

:D Hope you enjoy it

Necronomicon · 29-03-2012 12:19PM

Decided I'd like to start Ian Fleming's Bond books, so I'm going chronologically with Casino Royale first. Nearly finished it - a short but very enjoyable read.

triseke · 29-03-2012 09:06PM

finished "when your engulfed in flames" by David Sedaris yesterday. Loved it!

Started "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire today. Seems good so far.

Seifer · 30-03-2012 12:04PM

Finished the "His Dark Materials" trilogy last night. Up there with the best books I've ever read and the ending

Going to read "The Great Gatsby" next.

x_Ellie_x · 31-03-2012 08:20PM

I decided it's about time I started reading more classics so I've started reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

AnnyHallsal · 31-03-2012 08:25PM

Philip Larkin's Letters to Monica

OakeyDokey · 31-03-2012 09:04PM

Started reading Catch 22 on the third chapter and no sure about it yet.

Callan57 · 31-03-2012 10:45PM

OakeyDokey wrote: »

Started reading Catch 22 on the third chapter and no sure about it yet.

I hated that book ... took me nearly 20 years to make myself read it but I did so it's off the Bucket List

emeraldstar · 31-03-2012 11:15PM

OakeyDokey wrote: »

Started reading Catch 22 on the third chapter and no sure about it yet.

Why not start on chapter one?

OakeyDokey · 31-03-2012 11:20PM

emeraldstar wrote: »

Why not start on chapter one?

I meant I was on chapter 3 now

I did start from chapter 1.

Callan57 · 01-04-2012 10:19AM

'Armadillo' by William Boyd

Gordon Gecko · 01-04-2012 11:26PM

Bought "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote, but promised I won't read it until after exams!

eire4 · 02-04-2012 02:06AM

I have been on a little sports book kick lately and right now I am really enjoying "Rhapsody in Green" by Tom Campbell and Pat Woods. It is a collection of significant moments in the history of Celtic. I also like how they intertwine observations on social trends and what was going on in the world at the same time.

rainshowers82 · 02-04-2012 07:41PM

I just finished the Hunger Games ...... not sure about it !

IvyTheTerrible · 03-04-2012 10:01AM

rainshowers82 wrote: »

I just finished the Hunger Games ...... not sure about it !

I didn't particularly like it either, I thought I was the only one on the planet that didn't!

tim_holsters · 03-04-2012 05:48PM

Callan57 wrote: »

'Armadillo' by William Boyd

I thought Armadillo was so so but if you haven't read Any Human Heart check it out, very enjoyable read.

Callan57 · 03-04-2012 07:55PM

tim_holsters wrote: »

I thought Armadillo was so so but if you haven't read Any Human Heart check it out, very enjoyable read.

Haven't read 'Any Human Heart' but it's on the list ... not really loving 'Armadillo' but I read 'Ordinary Thunderstorms' & thought it brilliant.

Peed · 05-04-2012 10:13AM

Enjoying Other peoples money by justin cartwright.

Callan57 · 05-04-2012 10:38AM

Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates

UpCork · 06-04-2012 06:44PM

Am reading " A Small Island" by Andrea Levy.

Not really enjoying it - finding it a bit dragged out and boring, but am loathe to give it up.

OakeyDokey · 07-04-2012 04:46AM

rainshowers82 wrote: »

I just finished the Hunger Games ...... not sure about it !

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I didn't particularly like it either, I thought I was the only one on the planet that didn't!

I was unsure about them as well, I think it was the love triangle that turned me off! Way too much focus on that and Katniss came across as a bit of a player! I would have like to have more input on other things as well.

Still reading Catch 22 and finding it ever so boring!

Callan57 · 07-04-2012 10:12AM

OakeyDokey wrote: »

I was unsure about them as well, I think it was the love triangle that turned me off! Way too much focus on that and Katniss came across as a bit of a player! I would have like to have more input on other things as well.

Still reading Catch 22 and finding it ever so boring!

Oh Thank God it's not just me then ... I hated that book can't understand what people see in it.

x_Ellie_x · 08-04-2012 04:02PM

I'm reading The Pearl by John Steinbeck

AnnyHallsal · 08-04-2012 04:20PM

Death of a Salesman

Callan57 · 08-04-2012 11:03PM

"Oh Play That Thing" by Roddy Doyle

This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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