green Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Not you personally,but the character you are/are reading about in your currant book! I'm a 15 yr old boy in 1014 Ireland where I've travelled with 'vikings' from Iceland,and have just been in a fierce battle with the Irish High King! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talisman Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Wow, sounds like a fascinating book ! I love Iceland (have been 5 times) and am fascinated by everything about the country - the landscape, it's music, the people, but most of all the history. I would love to know the title of this book so I can add it to my TBR list. I am a newly married man in late 19th century Australia who has just inherited the family business, and has a deep fear and mistrust of women. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted May 29, 2009 Author Share Posted May 29, 2009 Wow, sounds like a fascinating book ! I love Iceland (have been 5 times) and am fascinated by everything about the country - the landscape, it's music, the people, but most of all the history. I would love to know the title of this book so I can add it to my TBR list. I am a newly married man in late 19th century Australia who has just inherited the family business, and has a deep fear and mistrust of women. It's Viking:Odinn's Child by Tim Severin-it starts in Iceland,then moves to Greenland,Newfoundland,The Orkneys,and currently Ireland,but it's all set in the 11th century! Plus it's a trilogy,so I'm expecting more globetrotting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talisman Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Sounds like just my thing - thanks ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 (edited) It's Viking:Odinn's Child by Tim Severin-it starts in Iceland,then moves to Greenland,Newfoundland,The Orkneys,and currently Ireland,but it's all set in the 11th century! Plus it's a trilogy,so I'm expecting more globetrotting! I've read that one! It wasn't really as good as I'd hoped, but I think it was partially the mood I was in at the time! I'm currently a Greek woman in love with an Italian soldier occupying Cephalonia during WWII (Pelagia from Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres). Edited May 30, 2009 by Kell corrected glaring spelling error (there are probably more though!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Library Nook Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 I have just left the future in a place called Labrador where being different can get you killed or banished. I am also following a man called Michael through the Himalayas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucybird Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 I am a boy who has a psycholtic mother and lives with her psychologist with his family in a rather odd home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 I'm an ex-con who has just left prison, found out his wife has been murdered, and has been recruited by a mysterious man named Wednesday for a yet unknown quest. I've also been given the sun and the moon. Can anyone figure that out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted May 30, 2009 Author Share Posted May 30, 2009 I have just left the future in a place called Labrador where being different can get you killed or banished. I am also following a man called Michael through the Himalayas. Sounds intrigueing! What's the book? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 I'm a middle aged man flying over the coast of Norfolk, and having flash backs to his teenage years spent drunk/stoned on these beaches Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted May 30, 2009 Author Share Posted May 30, 2009 I'm an ex-con who has just left prison, found out his wife has been murdered, and has been recruited by a mysterious man named Wednesday for a yet unknown quest. I've also been given the sun and the moon. Can anyone figure that out? Did you have room to put 'em up,or are they in a hotel double room?! Never read Neil Gaiman,but was a big fan of the tv adaption of Neverwhere,so will have to sort it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Library Nook Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Sounds intrigueing! What's the book? First one was The Chrysalids by John Wyndham. The second was Himalayas by Michael Palin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookJumper Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Because I can't avoid multitasking, I am simultaneously: The accidental editor of The Ankh-Morpork Times, trying to discover who framed the Patrician while trying to save my skin from killers, stay in the good books of the Watch, and feeling a deepening attraction towards the one and only reporter for my newspaper. A pregnant agent of the force policing literature, lying low from people who want to kill me by hiding in an unpublished book while trying to work out a way of solving my husband's non-existence problem. A winged dinosaur led, by the trail of the author of the finest short story ever written, into a city which full of antiquarian bookshops above and catacombs bursting with buried, forgotten, precious, dangerous books below. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Library Nook Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Because I can't avoid multitasking, I am simultaneously: A winged dinosaur led, by the trail of the author of the finest short story ever written, into a city which full of antiquarian bookshops above and catacombs bursting with buried, forgotten, precious, dangerous books below. I am loving the sound of this one! What is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readwine Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 (edited) I am a granddaughter, in Brisbane, Australia, about to discover the family secrets and hidden history of my grandmother whose death I just experienced. Something wicked or fantastic this way comes I surmise Edited May 30, 2009 by Readwine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 I am a mysterious woman with a little daughter just moved to a little town in France to open a 'chocolat' shop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrysalis_stage Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 I am reading one book but have multiple personalities, one being a blue haired Japanese girl who is in love with trains, a European locksmith searching for the ghost of his dead sister, a Roman bookbinder who is searching for his wife and an American beekeeper who is disfigured but virtuous. All four characters are trying to find eachother in the 'real' world and Palimpsest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceinwenn Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 I am a 20-something woman who is currently in the Ozarks in the US South & I've just "found" several dead bodies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimera Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 I'm a psychiatrist who was a crook stygmatic in her youth. Atm I'm in London, on the run from two missing 'Lord Lucan' pretenders. Crazy life! EDIT: by the way, I think we're all off topic. Or maybe this thread should be renamed "Who are you?". Fun idea for a thread though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Ooh, I've also just started being a male police inspector investigating the horrific serial-mutilation of Polish immigrants in Aberdeen. Yes, you've guessed it, I'm reading the latest Logan McRae crime thriller by Stuart Macbride. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 I'm currently Russell Brand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissWhitlock Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 ^ Fair enough.. I am a black haired vampire who does not like killing human beings, and is two centuries old (i think) who is currently in an interview with a Boy. And also, I am several children who are fighting a monster who lives in the gutter, in the guise of a clown, and who apparently eats children and takes the form of something you fear. IT is very creepy. Oh, and also, I am an annoying boy who has a scar on my forehead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookJumper Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 I am loving the sound of this one! What is it? It's "The City of Dreaming Books" by Walter Moers. Technically it's the third in a series but they're fairly standalone as far as I can gather (i.e. I'm not suffering from the kind of bewilderment that enveloped me when I attempted to read Jasper Fforde's "Something Rotten", fourth in a series, out of context). Fairly doorsteppish but 100% recommend, it's a charming story, beautifully written, so well translated I didn't even realise it was translated at all at first, and gorgeously illustrated by the author. I am reading one book but have multiple personalities, one being a blue haired Japanese girl who is in love with trains, a European locksmith searching for the ghost of his dead sister, a Roman bookbinder who is searching for his wife and an American beekeeper who is disfigured but virtuous. All four characters are trying to find eachother in the 'real' world and Palimpsest. Oooh what's this one? ... I like this game ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrysalis_stage Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Oooh what's this one? ... I like this game ! Me too, I have the book you mentioned on my amazon wishlist! It is Palimpsest - Catherynne M. Valente....its divine fantasy, I love it! I've nearly finished it and want to re-read it again but will leave it a while before I do I think. I'ts taken me a while to get through it because its seems to be a book to savour and makes you want to re-read parts before carrying on because it is so enjoyable to read such strange things. Link to my thread which I have written a description from back of book: http://bookclubforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=7700&page=9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kreader Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 I'm currently in Heleron. I'm a beetle kinden young woman, a college student who has just begun her life as a spy without the benfit of lots of training, needs must:lol: My fellow college students and I have to stay above the game from the Wasp Empire and its dominance crusade. Many around us don't believe the Wasp Empire will invade and neither do they care. I've already had to fly by the seat of my pants, literally! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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