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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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Tom Joad

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

On the Beach or The Beach? Two very different books!

Just to add confusion I meant on the Beach by Chute.. sorry my typo caused confusion

Monkeybonkers

Ringolevio:A Life Played for Keeps by Emmet Grogan

Say it Aint So

Submarine by joe dunthorne

WesternNight

Finally getting around to reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. It's been on the bookshelf for ages.

Callan57

Solar by Ian McEwan

Tom Joad

Started The Kite Runner by Hosseini - already nearly half way through it already - its a very compelling book even though it is infuriating me at times but yet I can't put it down..

IvyTheTerrible

Flowers for Algernon.

It's giving me a lot to think about.

Callan57

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Flowers for Algernon.

It's giving me a lot to think about.

A brilliant but disturbing read

Ipso

The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy.

Callan57

Vengeance by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)

emeraldstar

Ashenden by Elizabeth Wilhide. I love Big House novels, but this is rather dull.

adrian522

adrian522 wrote: »

Just finished News of a Kidknapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Excellent account of the political kidnappings that took place in Colombia during the early 1990s and the events of the time. focuses on 9 particular victims.

Currently reading Far to Go by Alison Pick. Seems good. It's a novel based aroud the time just before and just after the Nazi occupation of Czechzlovakia. Made the 2011 Booker long list (I'm planning to read all of those books, this is the 4th one I've tried and they've all been pretty good).

Far to go was good, but I thought the present day stuff wasn't nearly as the bit set during the War. It lost a bit of momentum towards the end an the ending was a bit of letdown, but overall decent book and well worth the read.

Currently reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

emeraldstar

adrian522 wrote: »

Currently reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

How are you finding this? I hated it

adrian522

Only about a quarter way through so I'll reserve judgement, does seem pretty slow paced at the moment though...I'll post back next week once I've finished it.

Im_That_Girl

Right now I'm reading The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore for my online book club. It's not great, but it's okay so far.

old gregg

Just started The Infinite Tides by Christian Kiefer. Too soon to tell but have a feeling this might be a slow one to get through.

Callan57

adrian522 wrote: »

Currently reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

I cried buckets over that book, (any book that has a child or children being hard done by will have me in floods), as with The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, I knew nothing about the book before reading it - went for it purely because it was Ishiguro & I had really loved The Remains of the Day (cried over that one too!). I'm an emotional wreck really :rolleyes:

eire4

Finished a re read of John Connolly's Bad Men. A supernatural kind of crime novel. Still as enjoyable a read again as his earlier novels.

Callan57

Finished my latest Benjamin Black & tonight I'm going to start Stasiland by Anna Funder. Read her All That I Am last week & was really impressed.

baconsarnie

Finished "the collector" by John Fowles

Just started "beloved" by Toni Morrison

DarkDusk

Reading "The Hobbit" at the moment, whilst listening to "Life of Pi" on the side. 2 great books!

lazorgirl

Just started reading "Ancient Light" by John Banville

old gregg

Callan57 wrote: »

Finished my latest Benjamin Black & tonight I'm going to start Stasiland by Anna Funder. Read her All That I Am last week & was really impressed.

I loved Stasiland. When I finished it I jokingly emailed her to say that I wished the Berlin Wall had stayed up for another 20 years so the book would be even longer. She replied back with a lovely message full of

's at my review. Hoping you enjoy it.

Busi_Girl08

Absolutely demolishing The Virgin Suicides at the moment. Brilliant book.

IvyTheTerrible

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

A really interesting account of what happened the night Titanic sank. And no love stories to be seen!

old gregg

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

A really interesting account of what happened the night Titanic sank. And no love stories to be seen!

On the inside back cover there's one of those little button things you see on birthday cards, when you press it plays My Heart Will Go On

IvyTheTerrible

old gregg wrote: »

On the inside back cover there's one of those little button things you see on birthday cards, when you press it plays My Heart Will Go On

Kindle version, home free! :P

Reekwind

Just finished Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky's Gulag Boss, a Gulag memoir written from the perspective of a NKVD officer in the 1940s. As with all memoirs it comes with its own set of questions but it was a fascinating account nonetheless of life inside the NKVD system

SarahBM

I am so not liking the life of pi. I think I might read the hobbit again

Belle E. Flops

Finished the Hobbit Monday, absolutely loved it, and after seeing the film I kind of want to read it again.

I'm about halfway through the Perks of Being a Wallflower, which I am really liking even though I thought I wouldn't when I began reading it.