chesilbeach Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 February already! What bookish things have you been upto today? I started Just William for the group read, and I'm absolutely loving it! How did I not read this when I was little? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 This morning I rubbed the sand out of my eyes and started When Paris Went Dark, about the Nazi Occupation. I've been reading off and on all day and it's a very good read, almost finished 160 pages today. I hope to finish by the 5th, for the read a thon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 I'm about halfway through The Dig Tree. It's a great read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessi Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 (edited) I am pushing on to the end of North and South now - in the last five percent! Edited February 2, 2016 by Jessi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmabbooks Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Nearly finished Death Comes First by Hilary Bonner - an enjoyable psychological thriller (not scary). Keen to get started on The Boy from Hell by Alison M Thompson which (I think) is a diary from a mother about bringing up her son with ADHD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shirley Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 I am reading NYPD Red 3 by James Patterson and The Other Doctor and the Girl that ran away by Dave Matthews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 I'm currently reading Geronimo Stilton - Ridders van Fantasia 4: De Duistere Kroon (Cronache del Regno della Fantasia: La Corona d'Ombra). I haven't actually done much reading the past two days though, instead I've been busy cataloguing books that I've recently bought . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shyora Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Plans for February: Reading: Temeraire #1 - His Majesty's Dragon - Naomi Novik Up Next: Wheel of Time #1 - The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan After: Rain Wild Chronicles #1 - Dragon Keeper - Robin Hobb If time left: Wheel of Time #2 - The Big Hunt - Robert Jordan Rain Wild Chronicles #2 - Dragon Haven - Robin Hobb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessi Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 I am pushing on to the end of North and South now - in the last five percent! ... And now I have finished it!! What a beautiful ending <3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 55% into When Paris Went Dark. Soooo good! Looking at a goal of 100 pages today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Yesterday I read 314 pages of Fingersmith by Sarah Waters and finished it. Today I have read A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler (149 pages). Well, there has to be one benefit of being laid up in bed, doesn't there! I'm not sure what to read next. I might go for A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Yesterday I read 314 pages of Fingersmith by Sarah Waters and finished it. Today I have read A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler (149 pages). Well, there has to be one benefit of being laid up in bed, doesn't there! I'm not sure what to read next. I might go for A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. I hope you feel better soon! A Moveable Feast was one of my favorite Hemingway's. He is definitely in my top 3 authors of all time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Thanks, Anna. I wouldn't normally bother the doctor for a cold, but if I'm still feeling like this tomorrow then I might ring to see if I can get an appointment. It's my ears that are bothering me the most. I have partial hearing in one ear anyway, and with this cold my hearing has almost entirely gone. Our TV is normally on at volume 20 and tonight I've got it on at 35 (I'm here on my own, fortunately) and I'm still struggling. I've only read The Old Man and the Sea, which I enjoyed, so I'm looking forward to this. It sounds right up my street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimble Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 "55% into When Paris Went Dark. " Sounds very interesting, I have always been amazed at France in WWII, like they were on some national self destruction course, and almost managed it except for Britain and the allies. I think they are doing it again now......... I just read one complete book in Feb, on the Japan occupation, really about MacArthur's work on those 5+ years. Now I wonder what to pick up next - I picked up, and read abut 1/3 of "A History of Private Life" 'From Pagan Rome to Byzantium' 'Paul Veyne' a week ago but it annoyed me in so many ways I had to stop - I may try to get going on it again but the constant Grrrrrrr it evokes in me may not allow it. I have a book on 'The Twelve Caesars' that is all heavy, glossy, big, hardback and will look through it as the next possible. It does look like it will be a bit heavy going, still, Roman Emperors and all - got to be interesting if you blot out the endless names and places/dates that will fill the pages but only of use to a proper Roman history buff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Thanks, Anna. I wouldn't normally bother the doctor for a cold, but if I'm still feeling like this tomorrow then I might ring to see if I can get an appointment. It's my ears that are bothering me the most. I have partial hearing in one ear anyway, and with this cold my hearing has almost entirely gone. Our TV is normally on at volume 20 and tonight I've got it on at 35 (I'm here on my own, fortunately) and I'm still struggling. I've only read The Old Man and the Sea, which I enjoyed, so I'm looking forward to this. It sounds right up my street. Yes, you don't want an ear infection! I got into a Gertrude Stein/ Alice Toklas kick after A Moveable Feast! "55% into When Paris Went Dark. " Sounds very interesting It is, it is a very good book Good luck with whatever you decide to read next, sounds like heavy reading! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 I wouldn't normally bother the doctor for a cold, but if I'm still feeling like this tomorrow then I might ring to see if I can get an appointment. It's my ears that are bothering me the most. I have partial hearing in one ear anyway, and with this cold my hearing has almost entirely gone. Our TV is normally on at volume 20 and tonight I've got it on at 35 (I'm here on my own, fortunately) and I'm still struggling. I hope you feel better soon . I'm half way through Geronimo Stilton - Ridders van Fantasia 4: De Duistere Kroon (Cronache del Regno della Fantasia: La Corona d'Ombra). I'm planning on finishing it today. It reads pretty quickly with its big font so it shouldn't take me that long. I will also be busy today putting all my new books and old books from the attic, on my shelves . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimble Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 "Good luck with whatever you decide to read next, sounds like heavy reading!" I picked up CS Lewis, 'Out Of the Silent Planet', the first in my favorite si-fi trilogy. Great fun, read till 2 a.m. and then up at 6 a.m. A light read, and one I have read every so often since I was a boy so warmly nostalgic. 8:30 I was at the book sale to help them pack up and get leftovers 8/$1! I got $15 worth. Bags and bags, mostly paperback and a wild variety. I got several lurid si-fi/fantasy kind, and there was at least 100 of those to chose from, the kind with exploding planets in the back ground and an amazon warier with blazing hand cannon lasers and some kind of alien wild cat perched on her shoulder - in high contrast colours and extra glossy. Glowing reviews all from places like si-fi weekly and Book Review Weekly on the back. Then more Japan books - three at least fictionalized books of Gishas and emperor's wives but by proper experts on Japanese history and life. Got to run - called off, but loads of stuff, even some NF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted February 4, 2016 Author Share Posted February 4, 2016 I finished Just William (for our group read) on Tuesday and I've started my book group February book choice - The Song For Achilles by Madeline Miller, and I'm already about three quarters of the way through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimble Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Back - I turned down some I should have gotten, a Moliere, but in stage instruction and lines and I just found it too much; a book 'Women and Ethics' with Kant and Spinoza and such given as reference, and very dry - I assume it was a university textbook for 'Women Studies'. I love a bit of philosophy but this seemed hard going, but I put it down regretfully. But I bagged a set of fictionalized history novels set in the Roman Empire by a Woman Cambridge graduate - sounds great. Then the rest is just the cream of a several thousand book sale final day, in a small town. I got a 1904 'Francis Hodgson Burnett 'The Secret Garden' with colour plates, the first one complete with an onion skin protector page. Really nice! And another biography of TE Lawrence I had not heard of. A five foot of book shelf at least needed - the 120 foot of shelving we just put up is calling for stored books and new ones - I worry about 60 foot of books I have stored in an outside building got damaged - and some good ones. We bought 120 foot of 1X8 yellow pine boards, building grade, and sanded them well, and 4 coats of poly, and hung brackets every 16 inches - not bad, about £100 in materials as I have sand paper and screws. A couple years ago I got a first edition of 'The Seven Pillars of Wisdom' at this same library used book sale - one just never knows who is donating what. TE Lawrence is a favorite, I have about 5 biographies on him. Actually Wilfred Thesiger is my favorite Arabist though - and I had just gotten a copy of 'Arabian Sands' from storage the other day. I will have an Arabian spell some time this year, doing Japan right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 I stayed up til late last night finishing When Paris Went Dark. What a well written read. I am now on to an early read a thon, with Phillip K Dick's Eye in the Sky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 I finished Sputnik Sweetheart...another great Murakami novel. I'm now going to start Runner by Patrick Lee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 I finished The Dig Tree yesterday and have started Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 Bought a couple of books today ... I think they're the first tree books I've bought this year. Anyway, I got two MG books, Beetle Boy by M. G. Leonard and Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford I've almost finished The Song for Achilles now and I've also finished part one of Italian Ways by Tim Parks, which is a dip in and out of book. I'm going to read Beetle Boy next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 I've just finished The Blue Lagoon by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. It was really good, but it ended rather abruptly. I didn't realise it was part of a trilogy. Parts 2 and 3 are not available as ebooks in this country (only the USA and New Zealand, apparently) and are not available from either the Libraries West or Wiltshire library catalogue. Boo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 I'm currently reading How To Look for a Lost Dog by Ann M. Martin. It's going great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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