This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

OakeyDokey · 18-05-2012 01:49PM

Finished Chamber Music by James Joyce today, nice little book of poems and would suit a Joyce fan.

OakeyDokey · 19-05-2012 03:35AM

Finished The Perks of Being a Wallflower and was surprised at how much I liked about it. Finally a main character that's likable.

Huzzah! · 19-05-2012 11:17AM

I just started the Picture of Dorian Gray. I'm not finding it easy to get into, but will hopefully get into it soon.

Busi_Girl08 · 19-05-2012 11:38AM

Powering through Let the Right One In. Loving the gore.

Dibble · 19-05-2012 12:54PM

The Old Man and the Sea by Hemmingway. I read this book years ago, but am enjoying it more the second time around.

Belle E. Flops · 19-05-2012 05:26PM

Dibble wrote: »

The Old Man and the Sea by Hemmingway. I read this book years ago, but am enjoying it more the second time around.

I read that last year or the year before and I hated it. I just found it so monotonous.

MedGirl17 · 19-05-2012 09:01PM

The leaving cert is forcing me to reread 'Wuthering Heights' once again, but I'm looking forward to 'The Age of Innocence' by Edith Wharton come the 19th of June!

Callan57 · 20-05-2012 11:09AM

Well into "The Spellmans Strike Again" by Lisa Lutz ..... I just loving these funny, witty and weird books

SarahBM · 20-05-2012 10:28PM

Just finished Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James. Couldnt put it down! I loved it!
Its a must for Jane Austen fans.
I have another crap book on the go but think I might drop it for Lord of the Flies. My brother read it in school and I have heard a lot of people say it was good.

Toby Take a Bow · 21-05-2012 10:09AM

Of Human Bondage. I was expecting it to be more difficult and weighty. A surprisingly light read, if not dominated by a fairly irritating, stupid and immature main character (which is, I suppose, kind of the point).

OakeyDokey · 22-05-2012 04:48PM

Huzzah! wrote: »

I just started the Picture of Dorian Gray. I'm not finding it easy to get into, but will hopefully get into it soon.

This year I have been reading lots of Oscar Wilde's work. I might give this one another read.

Starting the Wind in the Willows.

Callan57 · 23-05-2012 06:54PM

Finished The Spellmans Strike Again

Now for something totally different I'm starting We The Living by Ayn Rand have been meaning to read this for a long time & finally I'm getting around to it

girlonfire · 23-05-2012 07:47PM

I'm reading The Secret History at the moment. It's fantastic!

baconsarnie · 23-05-2012 10:08PM

Back from holidays, bumper readathon. The popes by John Juliud Norwich, Red heat by Alex Von Tunzelmann, Rabbit at Rest by John Updike, Snowdrops by AD Miller & the Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach.

Not sure what I'll get started this evening

old hippy · 24-05-2012 12:43PM

"Logicomix" - graphic novel about Bertand Russell, mathematics and logic. Not as dry as it sounds

OakeyDokey · 24-05-2012 09:03PM

Stared Agnes Grey by Ann Bronte

My first book from this Bronte sister, really enjoying it.

x_Ellie_x · 25-05-2012 12:06AM

I'm reading Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris and White Orleander by Janet Fitch.

cynder · 31-05-2012 04:49PM

Ive started bear grylls, mud, sweat and tears, loving it.

also have the exicutioner to read by chris carter.

AnnyHallsal · 31-05-2012 04:49PM

Strindberg's Miss Julie

wilkie2006 · 31-05-2012 05:23PM

Have just finished "The Sisters Brothers" and would highly recommend it. It's an excellent novel.

Am about half way through Colm Toibin's "Brooklyn". It's fantastic; certainly one of the most enjoyable books I've read in a long time.

Lector · 31-05-2012 06:49PM

I've just finished "City of Bohane" and I enjoyed it a lot. It's hard to describe but great fun to read - think Flann O'Brien doing "Gangs of New York" in a sort of post-apocalyptic city full of skangers and thugs!