This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Corruptedmorals · 16-07-2012 06:48PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Going to start Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies tonight

Loved it, I think it's better than Wolf Hall.

I am re-reading The Lost Daughter by Diane Chamberlain. Just before it I read Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel and A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir.

TheEscapist · 16-07-2012 11:33PM

Think I'll start Cloud Atlas tonight, have no clue what it's about so I'll just jump in head first and hope for the best.

Monkeybonkers · 17-07-2012 07:05PM

Running the Table: The Legend of Kid Delicious by L. Jon Wertheim

Huzzah! · 17-07-2012 07:42PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Going to start Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies tonight

Just finished it, and I loved it. Read 50 Shades of Grey to see what the fuss was about - and that's enough said about that.

Started The Man of my Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld, who I love. It sounds chick litty, but it's not overly so.

Callan57 · 17-07-2012 08:01PM

Huzzah! wrote: »

Just finished it, and I loved it. Read 50 Shades of Grey to see what the fuss was about - and that's enough said about that.

Started The Man of my Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld, who I love. It sounds chick litty, but it's not overly so.

I'm 200+ pages into Bring Up The Bodies and loving it

OakeyDokey · 18-07-2012 02:49PM

Started 50 Shades Freed last night and I'm over 40% through.

eire4 · 18-07-2012 05:54PM

OakeyDokey wrote: »

Started 50 Shades Freed last night and I'm over 40% through.

Did you like it? I have heard mixed reviews.

eire4 · 18-07-2012 06:25PM

I finished a re read of Harlen Coban's Fade Away myself last night.

OakeyDokey · 18-07-2012 07:20PM

eire4 wrote: »

Did you like it? I have heard mixed reviews.

Honestly I preferred the story behind all the erotica, It felt like they put in a sex scene whenever they needed space filled. I think there was no need for a third book and could have fitted it all into two books, it was repetitive and spent too long dwelling on certain topics and not enough time on others.

While I don't hate the books I just found them to be frustrating at times and Ana's character was very contradicting. They are books I'd never feel the need to read again.

Monkeybonkers · 18-07-2012 09:56PM

A return to the hilarious Flashman series with Flashman at the Charge by George MacDonald Fraser

techsavysista · 19-07-2012 07:42PM

emeraldstar wrote: »

techsavysista wrote: »

the girl with the dragon tattoo is next up on my list, excited, currently reading Eat, Pray, Love, anyone any thoughts on that?

On Eat, Pray, Love? Greatest heap of shite.

I couldn't get past page thirty! Tripe!

Callan57 · 19-07-2012 10:53PM

Finished Bring Up The Bodies .... great read

Next up is This Is How It Ends by Kathleen MacMahon

old gregg · 20-07-2012 03:27PM

Just finished Niccolò Ammaniti's - I'm Not Scared. I read it almost in a single session, fairly grips from the start.

emeraldstar · 20-07-2012 09:42PM

White Teeth by Zadie Smith. I'm only as far as page twenty-something but already enjoying it a lot.

mickoregan · 20-07-2012 11:04PM

THE GORSE TRILOGY by Patrick Hamilton.

I've fallen in love with this guys writing though I have to say, this is the weakest of his stuff.

On deck:

THE BEGINNER'S GOODBYE - Anne Tyler.

fifi234ie · 20-07-2012 11:34PM

emeraldstar wrote: »

White Teeth by Zadie Smith. I'm only as far as page twenty-something but already enjoying it a lot.

I love that book so funny, they did a mini series, on Channel 4 I think, of it too.

Belle E. Flops · 22-07-2012 11:27AM

Still reading Life by Keith Richard's - really enjoying it.

Also reading The Complete Maus - which is a graphic novel about the Holocaust. The Jews are drawn as mice and the Nazis are cats. It sounds a bit mad, but it is actually very good.

growler · 22-07-2012 10:06PM

started and had to give up on Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon after 100 pages, think this the first book I've ever found to be utterly unintelligible.

highlydebased · 22-07-2012 10:22PM

The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell- have read a book of his a day for the past week!

Monkeybonkers · 23-07-2012 10:57PM

Flashman in the Great Game

Callan57 · 24-07-2012 08:34PM

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

fifi234ie · 24-07-2012 11:57PM

The Secret River by Kate Grenville

x_Ellie_x · 25-07-2012 12:26AM

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Good book so far.

Cokeistan · 25-07-2012 11:08AM

Ready Player One Ernest Cline

Only about 40 pages in but a fantastic read so far, would recommend to anyone who likes video games or has a thing for 80s nostalgia

sunshine and showers · 25-07-2012 02:19PM

I've finished Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut both of which I'd really recommend.

On to Nineteen Eighty-Four now. I do love a bit of Orwell!

MagicMarker · 25-07-2012 09:28PM

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

Really interesting so far..

mrblack · 26-07-2012 02:58PM

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Am slowly getting through it -Good thought provoking read I think.

MrBlack

Callan57 · 26-07-2012 09:15PM

Starting The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory

Monkeybonkers · 26-07-2012 10:41PM

Flashmans Lady by George MacDonald Fraser

skeleton_boy · 27-07-2012 12:43AM

Must be one of the last people in the country to be getting stuck into Keane:The Autobiography

This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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