Libor Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 I'm now reading The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James and It's amazing book. I red previously The Singapore Story by Lee Kuan Yew. Can you also recommend me some classics? I'm now on Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary and really enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSchultz19 Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 I'm happy you did, it's an amazing book, one of my top 5 reads ever! Too bad you're not getting into Les as easily, but I hope it'll soon get better for you It is definitely one of my favorites! I foresee myself reading it again at some point. As far as Les goes, I'm about 65 pages in and hoping it gets better, which I think it will. It usually takes me the first 10% or so of the book to get interested. Then I can't stop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Started The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett.x I hope you enjoy this one! I'm awaiting the paperback release. x Can you also recommend me some classics? I'm now on Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary and really enjoy it.x I have a lot of classics, however most of them are on my TBR, so unfortunately I haven't read enough to recommend much (other than Dutch literature, but I don't think you know Dutch?). I loved Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre, I didn't like Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's (though I liked In Cold Blood) and should really read more classics. I also read some children's classics, but don't think that's what you're looking for. I have a lot of classics on my TBR though and I've heard good things about those. But I can't give you a more personal recommendation at this point in time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86WM Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe. An amusing story, a bit racist by todays standards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simongrant Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Mid way through the good guy by dean koontz, a decent thriller thus far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 While We're Apart is moving a bit too slow for my liking. The story itself is interesting, it's just that things seem to move at a snail's pace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisD Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Still moving along with Empires of The Sea (Roger Crowley), albeit slowly, but having read more than I thought. Turns out the last 25% of the book (from Kindle's book percentage) is bibliography and indexes so I'm about a third of the way through so far. Very enjoyable and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with Malta. I've also just started the third in the Dexter series, Dexter in the Dark, I'm only about a fifth of the way in but I can already see why the reviews had this marked as one of the not so good Dexter books. I will persevere as I'd like to finish the full series for the TV series conclusion as well but I've already got the feeling that I might be quite disappointed with this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 I'm about three quarters of the way into Fibber in the Heat and I'm loving it. A mixture of travel, memoir and cricket - what more could you want! Should hopefully finish tomorrow and be fresh and ready to start new books for the read-a-thon a the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Finished Ratlines by Stuart Neville, and will begin The White Princess by Philippa Gregory later today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidsmum Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Still reading Shift Hugh Howey i'm nearing the halfway mark but finding it hard now to find time to fit in the reading with all the children at home for the holidays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 I only realised it myself today I'm now feeling quite awkward, having had this long relationship with a 'he' and not having even known about it... Must be a 'he' because it's awkward .. a 'she' would be much more accommodating. A 'she' would have gone to the shops and bought me cake to go with a cuppa and then gently nudged the book under my nose Have read a few more pages of The Knot .. hope to read a few more later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 (edited) Can you also recommend me some classics? I'm now on Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary and really enjoy it.Classics are massively varied in nature: the only thing they have in common are that they are books deemed, by general approbation, worthy of still being read and studied a hundred or more years after publication. It's thus hard to recommend classics without knowing a bit more about what you enjoy reading. However, if you are enjoying Walter Scott, with a reputation for being more than willing to use ten words where one might do, you should have little trouble in handling most. It's a very rich field. Edited July 31, 2013 by willoyd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 I bought a bargain book haul from the book people so they are... I bought the great loves collection which are Bodily Secrets - William Trevor Doomed Love - Virgil The Woman Who Got Away - John Updike First Love - Ivan Turgenev Eros Unbound - Anais Non The Virgin and the Gypsy - D H Laurence Magnetism - F Scott Fitzgerald The Kruetzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy The Seducers Diary - Siren Kierkegaard Of Mistresses, Tigresses and other conquests - Giacomo Cures for Love - Stendhal Bonjour Tristesse - Francois Sagen Forbidden Fruit - from the letters of Abelard and Heloise The eaten Heart - unlikely tales of love - Giovanni Boccaccio A Mere Interlude - Thomas Hardy Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin Mary - Nobokov A Russian Affair - Checkov Deviant Love - Freud Something Childish but Very Natural - Katherine Mansfield Then I ordered 8 for £10 Girl Reading Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Empress Orchid Codex Purveyer of Enchantment The Restaurant of Love Regained The Bed I Made The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Andi also got the White Queen Philippa Gregory set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Goodness that's a packing crate full of books Cookie There's some great reads in there .. hope you enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devi Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 Thats one package I wouldn't be able to wait to arrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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