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I'm halfway through Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer. What have I done?! It's wonderful, but I'm crying so much.. maybe I'm getting old and oversentimental. Not Christmassy at all. :cray:

A Christmas Carol is waiting under my pillow, anyway

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Picked up Stephen King's Under The Dome at the charity shop today, that's four of his I have now, maybe I should read one at some point...They are just sooo big! :D

 

Will finish The Watcher in the Shadows tonight hopefully then I can start A Christmas Carol tomorrow.  :grinhat:

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I agree, they are very big! I think they're worth it though, I hope you read them eventually and enjoy them :). I hope you enjoy A Christmas Carol :grinhat:.

I finished A Christmas Carol and absolutely loved it :D I feel properly Christmassy now - I went and watched Love Actually!

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Awesome! I'm glad you liked the book / story :grinhat:. I quite liked Love Actually, would love to see it again sometime.

 

I finished George R. R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire 3: A Storm of Swords 1: Steel and Snow a few days ago and have started to read Diane Chamberlain - The Shadow Wife (previously published as Cypress Point). It's very good so far, just like other books by her that I've read.

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Up to Chapter 3 of Who Fears Death? and 1/3 of the way through Chocky. Chocky is intriguing, but Wyndham's writing style is  oddly dated (published 1968) and sounds slightly too 'middle-class Englishness'.

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I listened to an adaptation of Chocky on the Iplayer earlier on, I enoyed it.

That's good to hear  :smile: . Wyndham's writing styles is very clear and crisp, but it seems many years ago, as in the 1920s rather than 1968.

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Finished The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt today.  Review over on yonder book thread. :)

 

Looking forward to next month's selection by Tartt!

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I've just seen on another site that on Amazon (UK) that two of Diane Chamberlain's books, Kiss River and Keeper of the Light are just £1 including postage!  Might suit someone? :)

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That's awesome! I already have those two but for anyone else.. I haven't read them yet, though, but so far have loved all Diane Chamberlain's books.

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I'm quite enjoying A Christmas Carol except for the fact that I can't get visions of Kermit and Michael Caine out of my head! :D

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Oopsie! I can imagine that might make it more difficult to read.

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Decided to read The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai next - it's one that Kay lent me, and it's got a librarian as the lead character so it must be good! :D  Having said that, I'm a quarter of the way in, and the first sentence of the blurb on the back cover gives away a plot point that still hasn't happened yet, but I am enjoying it so I shouldn't complain too much. ;)

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Decided to read The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai next - it's one that Kay lent me, and it's got a librarian as the lead character so it must be good! :D  Having said that, I'm a quarter of the way in, and the first sentence of the blurb on the back cover gives away a plot point that still hasn't happened yet, but I am enjoying it so I shouldn't complain too much. ;)

I was a bit so-so about it .. it didn't quite live up to my expectations but because it's about a librarian and books I thought you might find it interesting and it's a nice easy read anyway. I think I liked it up to a point and then it got a bit silly .. hope you're still enjoying it Claire :)

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Finished The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt today.  Review over on yonder book thread. :)

 

Looking forward to next month's selection by Tartt!

WTH is the yonder book thread. :) I have searched and searched and cannot find it.

 

I am about 57% finished and find that the book has more turns than the Laguna Seca racetrack. However, I am enjoying it so far.

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WTH is the yonder book thread. :) I have searched and searched and cannot find it.

 

I am about 57% finished and find that the book has more turns than the Laguna Seca racetrack. However, I am enjoying it so far.

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I presume pontalba means her own book log?

 

I just finished reading Diane Chamberlain - The Shadow Wife (Cypress Point). It was excellent, really enjoyable.

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WTH is the yonder book thread. :) I have searched and searched and cannot find it.

 

I am about 57% finished and find that the book has more turns than the Laguna Seca racetrack. However, I am enjoying it so far.

 

 

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I presume pontalba means her own book log?

 

:icon_oops:  Ahhh, muggle! Yup, what she said. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ :rolol:

 

Thanks, Gaia. :cool:   :smile:

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:icon_oops:  Ahhh, muggle! Yup, what she said. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ :rolol:

 

Thanks, Gaia. :cool:   :smile:

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You're welcome :).

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I've finished Starstruck by Pat Tucker and I've started Stolen Child by Laura Elliot.

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I loved Stolen Child, I hope you enjoy it too :).

 

I've started to read Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones 3: Mad About The Boy and am enjoying it so far. I still have quite a few questions though about what happened in between book 2 and 3 (I'm not that far into the book yet), but hopefully it'll all be revealed in due time.

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I finally finished A Tale of Two Cities last night. It was ok, but not brilliant. I'm still glad I read it though.

 

I also have another 30 odd pages left of Gulp, which I'm enjoying immensly. Then it's onto The Secret History by Donna Tartt. It's a re-read, but I'm looking forward to it nonetheless.

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I finally finished A Tale of Two Cities last night. It was ok, but not brilliant. I'm still glad I read it though.

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Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy it as much as you'd hoped. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying Gulp though :).

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