bookworm87 Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 (edited) BOOKS READ IN 2013 (20TH MAY-DEC)Here goes – the start of my Reading Log 2013!I’ve never recorded how many books I read before, so it’ll be really interesting to see how many I actually get through.I plan to use the following rating system (which I shamelessly stole from bobblybear’s list because I liked it ):1/6: I didn't like it2/6: It was okay3/6: I liked it4/6: I really liked it5/6: It was amazing6/6: On my 'best of all time' listCurrently Reading: Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England - Amanda Vickery No Angel - Penny Vincenzi May 2013: The White Queen - Philippa Gregory (finished 30/05/2013)June 2013:Moranthology - Caitlin Moran (finished 03/06/2013)The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce (finished 09/06/2013)On Beauty - Zadie Smith (finished 27/06/13) July 2013 Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (finished 07/07/13) Bridget Jones Diary/Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason The Chimp Paradox - Dr. Steve Peters August 2013: Ausperity: Live the Life You Want for Less - Lucy Tobin (finished 02/08/2013) Lancaster and York: The Wars of the Roses - Alison Weir (finished 08/08/2013) Holy Fools - Joanne Harris (finished 15/08/2013) September 2013:October 2013:November 2013:December 2013: Edited August 21, 2013 by bookworm87 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm87 Posted May 20, 2013 Author Share Posted May 20, 2013 (edited) BOOKS TBR I think there are probably quite a few more to add to this list as I recently moved in with my boyfriend and my big bookcase is still at my parents’ house, so I haven’t had time to rifle though the shelves and see what’s there! FICTION On Beauty – Zadie Smith Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell Gillespie & I – Jane Harris Bared to You – Sylvia Day An Experiment in Love – Hilary Mantel The Sister – Lynne Alexander Restless – William Boyd The Stranger’s Child – Alan Hollinghurst The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides Starter for Ten – David Nicholls The Children’s Book – A.S Byatt The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing The Alexandria Quartet – Lawrence Durrell Tides of War – Stella Tillyard Pure – Andrew Miller Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell Death Comes to Pemberley – P.D. James To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee Wideacre - Philippa Gregory The Favoured Child - Philippa Gregory Meridon - Philippa Gregory The Red Queen - Philippa Gregory Lady of the Rivers - Philippa Gregory The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce NW - Zadie Smith Possession - A.S Byatt Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn The Kingmaker's Daughter - Philippa Gregory Ignorance - Michele Roberts Mrs Robinson's Disgrace - Kate Summerscale May We Be Forgiven - A.N Homes Flight Behaviour - Barbara Kingsolver The Girl Who Fell From The Sky - Simon Mawer Watch Over Me - Daniela Sacerdoti Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory Where'd You Go Bernadette - Maria Semple The Case of the Missing Boyfriend - Nick Alexander White Teeth - Zadie Smith The Winter King - Bernard Cornwall The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley Umbrella - Will Self Bridget Jones’s Diary/Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason – Helen Fielding A Spell of Winter – Helen Dunmore Fred and Edie – Jill Dawson Life After Life – Kate Atkinson She Rises – Kate Worsley The Last Runaway – Tracy Chevalier The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath London - Edward Rutherfurd The Waves - Virginia Woolf The Secret History - Donna Tartt One Step Too Far - Tina Seskis Queen's Gambit - Elizabeth Fremantle The Forbidden Queen - Anne O'Brien The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory The Greatest Knight - Elizabeth Chadwick The Scarlet Lion - Elizabeth Chadwick Lady of the English - Elizabeth Chadwick The Silent Duchess - Dacia Maraini NON-FICTION Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted – Andrew Wilson The Horologicon: A Day’s Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language – Mark Forsyth The Time Travellers Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century – Ian Mortimer Thomas Hardy: The Time Torn Man – Claire Tomalin Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution – Simon Schama London: The Biography – Peter Ackroyd John Adams – David McCullough What Matters in Jane Austen? - John Mullan Lancaster and York: The Wars of the Roses - Alison Weir Moranthology - Caitlin Moran Operation Mincemeat – Ben Macintyre Double Cross – Ben Macintyre Agent Zigzag– Ben Macintyre The Journals of Sylvia Plath - Sylvia Plath Country Girl - Edna O'Brien Wild Swans - Jung Chang River of Destiny - Barbara Erskine POETRY The Complete English Poems – John Donne Sylvia Plath Poems chosen by Carol Ann Duffy - Sylvia Plath Edited July 7, 2013 by bookworm87 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm87 Posted May 20, 2013 Author Share Posted May 20, 2013 (edited) CLASSICS TBR I’ve done a separate section for this because I own a lot. Almost all of these are from either the Penguin English Library or Penguin Clothbound Classics series. If anyone is looking to buy a Classic, then I would really recommend these books. They’re beautifully designed and as soon as I saw them it was love at first sight. Anyway, as you can see, I’ve collected quite a few. Some of these I have read before, but plan to re-read. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases – Arthur Conan Doyle Hard Times – Charles Dickens Evelina – Frances Burney Ivanhoe – Walter Scott The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens Bleak House – Charles Dickens Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James Under the Greenwood Tree – Thomas Hardy Wives and Daughters – Elizabeth Gaskell Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins Washington Square – Henry James David Copperfield – Charles Dickens Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell Middlemarch – George Eliot A Room with a View – E.M Forster Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens The Wings of the Dove – Henry James Sons and Lovers – DH Lawrence Mansfield Park – Jane Austen Villette – Charlotte Bronte The Mystery of Edwin Drood- Charles Dickens Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton New Grub Street – George Gissing Dombey and Son – Charles Dickens The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy Barnaby Rudge – Charles Dickens Daisy Miller and the Turn of the Screw – Henry James Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy Dubliners – James Joyce Shirley – Charlotte Bronte Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray Emma – Jane Austen The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell The Time Machine – HG Wells The War of the Worlds – HG Wells Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales – Edgar Allen Poe Two on a Tower – Thomas Hardy The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell Frankenstein – Mary Shelley Where Angels Fear to Tread – EM Forster Dracula – Bram Stoker Howards End – EM Forster The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte Daniel Deronda – George Eliot The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy Lady Audley’s Secret – Mary Elizabeth Braddon Pride & Predjudice – Jane Austen Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald Lady Chatterley’s Lover – DH Lawrence Sense & Sensibility – Jane Austen Persuasion – Jane Austen Great Expectations – Charles Dickens Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert Edited May 31, 2013 by bookworm87 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm87 Posted May 20, 2013 Author Share Posted May 20, 2013 (edited) WISHLIST I didn’t think I would have many titles on this…..Ha! Moon Tiger – Penelope Lively Brooklyn – Colm Toibin Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides Country Girl: A Memoir – Edna O’Brien John Saturnall’s Feast – Lawrence Norfolk Ignorance – Michele Roberts The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen The Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen Brick Lane – Monica Ali The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen NW – Zadie Smith Beautiful Ruins – Jess Walter Where’d You Go Bernadette? – Maria Semple The Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of an Ordinary Lady – Kate Summerscale Life After Life – Kate Atkinson Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill – Antonia Fraser Blood & Beaty – Sarah Dunant Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln – Doris Kearns Goodwin The Innocents – Francesca Segal How Should A Person Be? – Sheila Heti Sweeth Tooth – Ian McEwan The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London – Judith Flanders A Possible Life – Sebastian Faulks The Scapegoat – Daphne du Maurier Fall of Giants – Ken Follett Merivel: A Man of His Time – Rose Tremain Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis The Diviners – Libba Bray Tigers in Red Weather – Liza Klaussman The Daylight Gate – Jeanette Winterson Beautiful Lies – Clare Clark Complete Short Stories – Elizabeth Taylor An Education – Lynn Barber The Kindly Ones – Jonathan Littell An Instance of the Fingerpost – Iain Pears Peaches for Monsieur le Cure – Joanne Harris The Glass Room – Simon Mawer The Girl Who Fell From The Sky – Simon Mawer The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner Property – Valerie Martin Regeneration – Pat Barker Agent Zigzag – Ben Macintyre The Uninvited Guests – Sadie Jones The Chemistry of Tears – Peter Carey The Amateur Marriage – Anne Tyler The Pinecone - Jenny Uglow Elizabeth Gaskell; A Habit of Stories - Jenny Uglow A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration - Jenny Uglow George Eliot - Jenny Uglow The Red Queen - Philippa Gregory The Lady of the Rivers - Philippa Gregory The Kingmaker's Daughter - Philippa Gregory Falling Angels - Tracy Chevalier Queen’s Gambit – Elizabeth Fremantle One Step Too Far – Tina Seskis The Woman Upstairs – Claire Messud Reconstructing Amelia – Kimberly McCreight Kiss Me First – Lottie Moggach Too Much Happiness – Alice Munro Asylum –Patrick McGrath Secrecy –Rupert Thomson Talking to the Dead – Helen Dunmore The Siege –Helen Dunmore Lucky Bunny –Jill Dawson Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Housekeeping– Marilynne Robinson Gilead –Marilynne Robinson The Idea of Perfection – Kate Grenville Eveless Eden– Marianne Wiggins The Lacuna –Barbara Kingsolver Painter of Silence – Georgina Harding The Promise –Ann Weisgarber The Long Song – Andrea Levy The Secret Scripture – Sebastien Barry Stoner: A Novel – John L Williams Fever – Mary Beth Keane Instruments of Darkness – Imogen Robertson The Lady and the Unicorn – Tracy Chevalier The Virgin Blue – Tracy Chevalier The Help –Kathryn Stockett Passion –Jude Morgan Flappers:Women of a Dangerous Generation – Judith Mackrell The Suspicions of Mr Whicher – Kate Summerscale Servants: A Downstairs View of 20th Century Britain – Lucy Lethbridge A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided - Amanda Foreman The Bone Season - Samantha Shannon Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s - Liza Picard Dark Fire - C.J Sansom Russka - Edward Rutherfurd Paris - Edward Rutherfurd The Little Friend - Donna Tartt The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller Edited June 29, 2013 by bookworm87 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Janet Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 WISHLIST I didn’t think I would have many titles on this…..Ha! I hope we're okay to post now - if you haven't finished compiling your thread, please say and I'll delete it and post again later. Welcome to the forum! I have to admit a giggle to the bit above - if you think it's bad now, just wait until you've been here a while and added other people's recommendations! I haven't got my wish list written down anywhere but I have about 8 different classifications of wish lists on Amazon and I dread to think how many books in total are on there! That's quite a Classics list you have there. Happy reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm87 Posted May 20, 2013 Author Share Posted May 20, 2013 I hope we're okay to post now - if you haven't finished compiling your thread, please say and I'll delete it and post again later. Welcome to the forum! I have to admit a giggle to the bit above - if you think it's bad now, just wait until you've been here a while and added other people's recommendations! I haven't got my wish list written down anywhere but I have about 8 different classifications of wish lists on Amazon and I dread to think how many books in total are on there! That's quite a Classics list you have there. Happy reading. Hi Janet, Yes this post is now open for comments I know - there's a few years worth of classics there for me to get through. I'll be pretty pleased with myself if I can eventually work my way through them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodkafan Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 I share (unread) most of the classics on your TBR with mine, although I have read almost all the Jane Austens already (Sense And Sensibility still to go). A couple each off your other TBR and your wishlist I have read, I think The Time Traveller's Guide To Medieval England was one of the first books I read when I first got here! There is a thread on it somewhere a few folks have enjoyed it. A lot of your titles are new to me though. So good luck and look forward to reading your reviews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Nice lists! A lot of the classics on your list are on my TBR as well . I wish you a good time reading! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Fabulous lists, Lauren! Lots of good books on your lists, and I can guarantee your wishlist will grow exponentially now you're a member of the forum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm87 Posted May 20, 2013 Author Share Posted May 20, 2013 Thanks chesilbeach, vodkafan and Athena - I'm sure you guys will have a few suggestions to make that wishlist even longer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Thanks chesilbeach, vodkafan and Athena - I'm sure you guys will have a few suggestions to make that wishlist even longer! Ahhh, we do our poor best..... Welcome, and btw, great lists! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Love those lists - there are some fabulous books on them. You include at least three of my favourite writers in your non-fiction list: Claire Tomalin, Simon Schama and Peter Ackroyd. I can also thoroughly recommend the biographies by Jenny Uglow - her most recent, The Pinecone is one of my 6 star books (but then, Schama, Tomalin and Ackroyd have all scored 6 stars as well - we both use the same rating system). I equally love your fiction TBR list: I can particularly recommend the Lee (but then you knew that!), the Miller and the Boyd, whilst the Classics list is just that - classic! Happy reading, and look forward to your reviews! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devi Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Hello Lauren! Welcome to the best book forum around i have a few of the books on your TBR pile in mine too. Happy reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm87 Posted May 22, 2013 Author Share Posted May 22, 2013 Ahhh, we do our poor best..... Welcome, and btw, great lists! Thank you pontalba Love those lists - there are some fabulous books on them. You include at least three of my favourite writers in your non-fiction list: Claire Tomalin, Simon Schama and Peter Ackroyd. I can also thoroughly recommend the biographies by Jenny Uglow - her most recent, The Pinecone is one of my 6 star books (but then, Schama, Tomalin and Ackroyd have all scored 6 stars as well - we both use the same rating system). I equally love your fiction TBR list: I can particularly recommend the Lee (but then you knew that!), the Miller and the Boyd, whilst the Classics list is just that - classic! Happy reading, and look forward to your reviews! Hi willoyd, I have heard of Jenny Uglow, I think she has done a book on Charles II that I was interested in too, so I'll take a look and add her to my wishlist I am saving my Schama and Ackroyd for when I feel I can give them my full concentration as they are both big books! I love Claire Tomalin too, I've read her biographies of Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens and each one was amazing Hello Lauren! Welcome to the best book forum around i have a few of the books on your TBR pile in mine too. Happy reading. Hi Devi, Thanks for the welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 (edited) I have heard of Jenny Uglow, I think she has done a book on Charles II that I was interested in too, so I'll take a look and add her to my wishlist Yes - it's a study of the first decade of the Restoration. (I was given a hardback copy for my last birthday, but have yet to read it). Aside from The Pinecone, I can thoroughly recommend her biogs of Hogarth and Thomas Bewick, the engraver, and her collective biog of members of the Lunar Club who were amongst the great instigators of the Industrial Revolution - The Lunar Men. She's written a couple of others I want to read at some stage on Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. (Later edit - but I see you've already added these to your wishlist - that was fast!). If you like Claire Tomalin (I think she's brilliant!) you may also like some of Lisa Jardine's books. She's done two excellent biographies on Robert Hooke and Sir Christopher Wren (and I love her other books too, including her essays from Radio Four's A Point of View. Sorry - I'm in danger of already loading up your wishlist, but you've touched on one of my favourite areas of reading! Edited May 22, 2013 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexi Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Hi Lauren, I have a lot of the classics on your list languishing somewhere on my TBR also - desperately trying to get through more of them! lots of books you have are unfamiliar though, so I will be watching with interest hoping you've uncovered some gems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Nice to see another new member getting straight down to business with a brand new reading log! I’ve never recorded how many books I read before, so it’ll be really interesting to see how many I actually get through. It'll be really interesting I hope you have a great reading year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm87 Posted May 31, 2013 Author Share Posted May 31, 2013 (edited) Review: The White Queen by Philippa Gregory Synopsis (from back cover) 1464. Cousin is at war with cousin, as the houses of York and Lancaster tear themselves apart… …And Elizabeth Woodville, a young Lancastrian widow, armed only with her beauty and her steely determination, seduces and marries the charismatic warrior kind, Edward IV of York. Crowned Queen of England, surrounded by conflict, betrayal and murder, Elizabeth rises to the demands of her position, fighting tenaciously for her family’s survival. Most of all she must defend her two sons, who become the central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing Princes in the Tower. Review I have always enjoyed Philippa Gregory’s historical novels, and I was expecting The White Queen to live up to what I’ve read before. Like many people, I saw that the book is becoming a BBC drama, so I was keen to read it before the TV programme aired. Gregory moves away from the Tudor period this time and choses the War of the Roses as the setting – a period that I have to admit I’m not that familiar with (although being from Leicester, Richard III is someone I’ve heard a lot about recently ). Overall, I really enjoyed this novel and I will definitely be reading the others in the series. It also inspired me to read more about this period in history, as it genuinely is fascinating and anyone who enjoys Game of Thrones will notice marked similarities – York and Lancaster/Stark and Lannister, need I say more?! I warmed to Elizabeth Woodville as a character and I think that’s because Gregory is not afraid to show us her flaws. She is ambitious, sometimes to the detriment of those she loves and she condemns others for qualities she herself shares, but I couldn’t help but like her fighting spirit and her bravery in some truly terrifying situations. The character that really made an impression on me however, was Elizabeth’s mother Jacquetta. She is a really likeable and intriguing character and I’m looking forward to reading the Lady of the Rivers (the third book in the series), where she takes centre stage. If you’re looking for spot on historical accuracy, then you might not be too pleased with some of Gregory’s plotlines. She weaves a strong magical element through the book and while I liked it, I can see how it might put others off. She also has a very interesting take on the Princes in the Tower’s fate that would be very exciting if it were true! There were some things I disliked about the book. I find the way characters speak in Gregory’s books quite contrived sometimes; they often repeat certain phrases and refer to other characters by their full title - e.g. George, Duke of Clarence – which I don’t think is particularly realistic. I also found the jumps in time which occur throughout meant that it was hard to get a clear picture of Elizabeth and Edward IV’s marriage. We’re told they are very much in love, but it isn’t really demonstrated and I felt quite distant as a reader from them together. I give this book a strong 4 out of 6: I enjoyed it, it inspired me to find out more about the period and the characterisation was excellent Edited May 31, 2013 by bookworm87 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm87 Posted May 31, 2013 Author Share Posted May 31, 2013 Nice to see another new member getting straight down to business with a brand new reading log! It'll be really interesting I hope you have a great reading year Thank you Frankie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm87 Posted June 4, 2013 Author Share Posted June 4, 2013 Review: Moranthology by Caitlin Moran Synoposis (from amazon.co.uk) Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How To Be A Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. In MORANTHOLOGY Caitlin 'gets quite chatty' about many subjects, including cultural, social and political issues which are usually left to hot-shot wonks and not a woman who sometimes keeps a falafel in her handbag. Review Caitlin Moran writes columns for The Times newspaper as well as the book How To Be a Woman, which I really enjoyed when I read it last year. She’s a very skilled writer who writes both movingly and humorously on every subject under the sun, so this collection of her articles was ideal for a quick, enjoyable read in between more serious novels. Whilst I liked the collection overall, I thought it could have been longer and a bit better structured. For example, all the interviews she does could have been put together rather than scattered randomly throughout. Some of the pieces in here are brilliant, especially her reviews of the BBC TV programme Sherlock, where she talks so passionately about it that it makes you want to run out and buy the box set! I give this collection another 4/6! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm87 Posted June 10, 2013 Author Share Posted June 10, 2013 (edited) Review: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce Synopsis (from amazon.co.uk) When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life. Review As I read this for the July Reading Circle, I’m not going to do a full review. However, I will say that after I finished this book I felt very disappointed and I struggled to explain why. As I was reading, I knew I was meant to be finding the story moving/life affirming etc., but the reality is that I didn’t. For whatever reason, I couldn’t connect with the characters and I found the whole thing quite predictable and even boring at points. I have a feeling I’ll be in the minority on this one, as it has rave reviews elsewhere, but hey – sometimes a book just leaves you cold and this was one of those books for me. That’s not to say there weren’t any positives at all, but I give this book 2/6 – it’s not one that I’ll be reading again in a hurry. Edited June 10, 2013 by bookworm87 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Sorry to hear the book didn't really move you. I'll be reading it in July (or close to) for the Reading Circle so I look forward to discuss it with you then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Oh no, that doesn't bode well. The synopsis sounds interesting, so I hope I enjoy it more than you have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm87 Posted June 11, 2013 Author Share Posted June 11, 2013 Oh no, that doesn't bode well. The synopsis sounds interesting, so I hope I enjoy it more than you have. I hope you do too! I don't think it helped that I was reading it with a raging cold, so I was in a bad mood to start with I'm quite glad I didn't love it, because sometimes it adds a bit of extra interest to talk about a book you don't like rather than one you do, so I'm really looking forward to the reading circle and finding out what others thought of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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