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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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    #1592
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Just starting Chicago by Alaa Al Aswany ..... he wrote The Yacoubian Building so it should be good.


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    #1593
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,302 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Miss Fluff wrote: »
    to remind myself what real writing is :)

    I know that feeling.:)

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    emeraldstar
    Registered Users Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    cosmic wrote: »
    Sebastian Faulks - A Week in December
    Read this last year - was disappointed! How do you find it?


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    #1595
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine


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    x_Ellie_x
    Registered Users Posts: 513 ✭✭✭x_Ellie_x


    The Reader by Bernhard Schlink


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    #1597
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    x_Ellie_x wrote: »
    The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

    Loved that book ... and the movie


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    #1598
    HavingCrack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    Just finished Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar, excellent book if you're anyway interested in Soviet history. It's a fantastic portrait of the private life of Stalin and his cronies, pretty frightening in a way to be honest.


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    Kiva.D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,162 ✭✭✭Kiva.D


    Just started reading the Winter Book Clubs selection,The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern... Thoroughly enjoying it.


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    Linguo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭Linguo


    Reading The Lord of the Rings, perfect time of year, loving every page!:)


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    #1601
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Starting Death Comes To Pemberley by P D James


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    #1602
    AnnyHallsal
    Registered Users Posts: 4,117 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal


    Callan57 wrote: »
    Starting Death Comes To Pemberley by P D James

    Let us know what you think - saw it in the Sunday Times books of the year.

    A A Gill, The Angry Island


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    Captain Graphite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Captain Graphite


    I started reading We Need to Talk About Kevin last night. After about two pages, I gave up on it. If the story was directed towards the reader, it would have been ok but are we honestly supposed to believe that a woman would write letters like that to her husband? The whole "Dear Franklin..." writing style annoyed me way too much to bother continuing with it.

    So I'm reading Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf instead. It looks frightfully dull but I've never read anything by Woolf before and my library didn't have much choice so it'll do.


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    Belle E. Flops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Belle E. Flops


    I'm still reading Jane Eyre as haven't had time to read at all over the last few weeks. But started back at it again last Fri night and got up at 7am Sat morning to read it and I'm not a morning person. I am absolutely loving it. I don't want it to end.


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    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users Posts: 17,756 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    After a 3 month break from reading thanks to college I decided to get back into it. Just started Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo.

    It's a bit of a slow starter but I like hte writing style so I'll stick at it for a while :)


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    x_Ellie_x
    Registered Users Posts: 513 ✭✭✭x_Ellie_x


    I've just started Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden this evening.


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    giddybootz
    Registered Users Posts: 867 ✭✭✭giddybootz


    Finished 'Room' by Emma Donoghue last night I loved it.

    "The story is told from the perspective of a five-year-boy, Jack, who is being held captive in a small room along with his mother. Donoghue conceived the story after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case" - from Wiki

    I really recommend it!

    Now I'm reading the Alice in Wonderland books....first time in years!!


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    triseke
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭triseke


    Reading "the hare with the amber eyes" by Edmund de Waal.

    Just got my hands on "Gardens of the Moon" by Steven Erikson, can't wait to get stuck in!


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    emeraldstar
    Registered Users Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Just started Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities this morning, as I've never got around to reading it before.


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    Censorsh!t
    Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭Censorsh!t


    Reading The Third Policeman by Flann O Brien.

    It is of course all types of madness, but I really like it. I love his humour.


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    tim_holsters
    Registered Users Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭tim_holsters


    Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissenger.


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    grizzcol2
    Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭grizzcol2


    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre


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    cynder
    Registered Users Posts: 4,128 ✭✭✭cynder


    re reading the hunger games trilogy for the 3rd time.... cant wait for the film


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    Belle E. Flops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Belle E. Flops


    Finished Jane Eyre last night, absolutely loved it. Best book I've read in ages. Halfway through The Rum Diary by Hunter Thompson now
    giddybootz wrote: »
    Finished 'Room' by Emma Donoghue last night I loved it.

    "The story is told from the perspective of a five-year-boy, Jack, who is being held captive in a small room along with his mother. Donoghue conceived the story after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case" - from Wiki

    I really recommend it!

    Now I'm reading the Alice in Wonderland books....first time in years!!

    I personally wasn't overly impressed with Room. It was grand but it wasn't a book that made me stay up late and get up early to read it.
    Love Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Great books


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    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    AnnyHallsal wrote: »
    Let us know what you think - saw it in the Sunday Times books of the year


    Death Comes To Pemberley is a very enjoyable read. Happily P D James does not interfere with Austin's much loved characters but IMO she does a very credible job grafting a murder mystery onto the lives of the Darcy's, Bingleys et al.


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    beeroclock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭beeroclock


    Emperor's new mind - R.Penrose


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    flyaway.
    Registered Users Posts: 519 ✭✭✭flyaway.


    Secrets by Freya North


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    #1618
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Started Roddy Doyle's The Dead Republic last night


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    girlonfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭girlonfire


    The Little Friend, Donna Tartt. Really enjoying it so far.


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    cynder
    Registered Users Posts: 4,128 ✭✭✭cynder


    My husband picked up a Danielle steel book from dunnes and its the biggest heap of trash ever ( i never read her books), i have to read it though but cant wait to re-read the hunger games for a 4th time, after that its 'Feed' and maybe 'let me in'.


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    #1621
    flyaway.
    Registered Users Posts: 519 ✭✭✭flyaway.


    Wicked by Gregory Maguire


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