This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

A V A · 15-08-2012 10:03PM

saints and sinners by edna obrian

cynder · 15-08-2012 10:13PM

On Monday I read still missing by Chevy Stevens 4 stars.

Tuesday lost river by Stephen booth 3 stars.

Today I read iron house by john hart 5 stars. It was fantastic

eire4 · 16-08-2012 04:57PM

Just finished a re read of The Keepers of Truth by Limerick born author Michael Collins although the whole novel is placed in the US Midwest.

AnnyHallsal · 19-08-2012 11:11AM

Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

SarahBM · 19-08-2012 11:55AM

I am in awe of those people who can read whole books in a day. Im a very slow reader so takes me ages to read anything. Im still on Dr Zhivago. Im only about a quarter of the way through, but its hard to keep track of who is who.

OakeyDokey · 21-08-2012 04:36PM

Reading Salem Falls by Jodie Picolt.

johnny_ultimate · 21-08-2012 08:17PM

Blood Meridian - brutal, nightmarish, engrossing.

Monkeybonkers · 21-08-2012 08:54PM

It's time for the final showdown: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Necronomicon · 22-08-2012 12:26PM

Travel is good wrote: »

This evening I finished "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick.

What's it like? I really like the concept, though I'm not sure whether to read that or Robert Harris' Fatherland.

I'm on a major espionage kick at the moment, so I've started reading Flemming's Bond books in order. I'm on #2 at the moment, Live and Let Die. After this I think I might hop over to John le Carre's Smiley series, I picked up Call for the Dead last week.

old hippy · 22-08-2012 12:40PM

Elmore Leonard - Up in Honey's Room. Just started, am pretty sure am going to enjoy it. EL is usually quality.

Callan57 · 22-08-2012 02:28PM

Necronomicon wrote: »

What's it like? I really like the concept, though I'm not sure whether to read that or Robert Harris' Fatherland.

I'm on a major espionage kick at the moment, so I've started reading Flemming's Bond books in order. I'm on #2 at the moment, Live and Let Die. After this I think I might hop over to John le Carre's Smiley series, I picked up Call for the Dead last week.

Fatherland is absolutely brilliant, couldn't recommend it highly enough

xerces · 23-08-2012 01:28PM

The Catcher in the Rye

Bout halfway through, really enjoying it. I'm not sure if I'm meant to find it so humorous though?

Callan57 · 23-08-2012 01:41PM

After listening to the interview with the author, on Monday's Pat Kenny Show, I'm starting In God's House by Ray Mouton

MagicMarker · 23-08-2012 01:42PM

Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson

Really interesting so far.

tinyk68 · 23-08-2012 07:16PM

Just finished Beauty by Raphael Selbourne. Really interesting look at rascism from lots of different perspectives. Highly recommend it.

x_Ellie_x · 24-08-2012 03:23PM

The Last Girl by Jane Casey and One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf.

fifi234ie · 25-08-2012 11:41AM

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Bears and Vodka · 25-08-2012 09:56PM

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

Belle E. Flops · 27-08-2012 12:21PM

Still reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski which I'm enjoying but I also started 'The Psychopath Test' by Jon Ronson which is very good so far.

RoutineBites · 27-08-2012 03:47PM

I just finished reading Meg Rosoff's, "Just In Case" based on a recommendation from a work colleague. Absolutely bizzare to be honest. :S

I can't fathom any adolescent relating to the protagonist. "Justin" is a schizophrenic teenager who holds an irrational faith phobia. The plot meanders about without any direction. Being kind, the characters in the novel could only be described as, "lightweight". Everyone of them disappear as quickly as they are introduced. I'm not certain if Rosoff was trying to go for a, "pop philosophy" novel like "Sophie's World" (which is infinitely better than Just In Case). If Rosoff's original intention was to cause her readers to cogitate over the existence of faith she failed.

Just avoid it.

Callan57 · 27-08-2012 10:08PM

Just finished In God's House .... highly recommended it even if it is a harrowing, upsetting and heart breaking read.

Next on my list is A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous

MagicMarker · 28-08-2012 08:38AM

It - Stephen King

Really enjoying it!!

Ostrom · 28-08-2012 05:21PM

Have a week off finally, started The Count of Monte Cristo on Saturday. Loving it so far, beautifully written and excellently paced. Have Jules Verne's 'The Mysterious Island' also, but I think the former may outlast the week....

[-0-] · 29-08-2012 12:34AM

Nineteen Eighty-Four by Orwell, amazing.

Just finished Why Orwell Matters by Hitchens for the second time.

OakeyDokey · 29-08-2012 04:54AM

Aerosmith - What it Takes by Dave Bowler & Bryan Dray

old hippy · 29-08-2012 12:32PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Blood Meridian - brutal, nightmarish, engrossing.

Somebody has the film rights to it. When I finally finished it, I thought "how the hell will that translate to the big screen?"

Not read anything quite like it before.

Ri na hEireann · 30-08-2012 12:11AM

Reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde. First time reading anything at all by him. Tend not to read very many plays or much poetry so I said I'd give this a bash first.

marozz · 30-08-2012 12:18AM

The End of Mr. Y. by Scarlett Thomas ......... pretty good!

tbh · 30-08-2012 07:25AM

Just finished Reheated Cabbage by Irvine Welsh. I love his universe, but reading a whole book in one sitting has uh tendency tae mess wi mah internal monogue, ken? pure confusin', man.

old hippy · 30-08-2012 12:45PM

Hong Ying -Daughter of the River.

Just started, true story of a girl (from Yangtze River region) who grew up under the brutalisms of Mao. I expect much misery.

This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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