dawnbirduk Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Just been to the library and renewed Ghost Song by Sarah Rayne Blue Lightning by Ann Cleeves I also got out Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve Girl who kicked the hornets nest by Stieg Larsson - never read and of his books before but keep reading loads of comments so thought I better give them ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlette Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 I'm spending the day with George Orwell's 1984. I'm enjoying it much more than I thought I would. Also, feeling in the mood for a bit of Stephen King, surprisingly, so I might put in an order for Salem's Lot at the ol' bookstore - a good vampiric tale would be brilliant right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffy1181 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 @green:- I have the complete set of those novels. Read them all. Amazing books! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Decided to start The Cookbook Collector today, and have finished part one, although finding some of the characters irritating already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Butter Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Just started reading Lush Life by Richard Price: Whenever people asked him what he was planning to do with his life, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Now he's thirty-five, still in the restaurant business and still serving the people he wanted to be. Not like Ike Marcus. Ike is young, good-looking, charismatic. He's going places - until two street kids step up to him and Eric one night and pull a gun. At least, that's Eric's version ... I've also started Finishing The Hat, which is Stephen Sondheim's account of the craft of writing for the musical theatre. As some of you will know, musical theatre is a great passion of mine, and Sondheim is undoubtedly the greatest living exponent of the art. It's a wonderful, fascinating book. Also received a promotional copy of a new crime thriller, The Stranger You Seek by Amanda Kyle Williams. And I've bought Born Brilliant, Christopher Stevens' biography of the great comic actor Kenneth Williams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jade32 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Read a few more chapters of My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier, loving it, but it is making me a bit angry, I just keep wanting to shout 'you fool, you fool!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tai_Mai_Shu Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Finished Think of a Number by John Verdon and started Dealbreaker by Harlan Coben. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffy1181 Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 Just started the first Percy Jackson novel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 About a third of the way through The Cookbook Collector now, and it meandering all over the place at the moment, and not sure where it's going next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleW Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 I'd nearly made a stupid purchase today.. I saw an English psychology book with the funny title "Who am I and if so, how many?" I nearly bought but saw the inscription "Translated by XY". Translated? From what language? Than I saw it was originally German. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 Really enjoying The Shadow if the Wind. I wasn't sure at first but now I'm very absorbed in his style of writing, so descriptive and he uses some fabulous words! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Really enjoying The Shadow if the Wind. I wasn't sure at first but now I'm very absorbed in his style of writing, so descriptive and he uses some fabulous words! Wohoo, I'm happy to hear you're enjoying the novel, it's just amazing In my top 5 books ever! No bookish activities for me, I've come down with a flu and am too tired to read. Or maybe it's only because I only have AHWoSG with me and that doesn't feel right at the moment. Maybe should go for one of my childhood favorite reads, plenty of those in the bookcase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Wohoo, I'm happy to hear you're enjoying the novel, it's just amazing In my top 5 books ever! No bookish activities for me, I've come down with a flu and am too tired to read. Or maybe it's only because I only have AHWoSG with me and that doesn't feel right at the moment. Maybe should go for one of my childhood favorite reads, plenty of those in the bookcase. Thanks Frankie, hope you're feeling better soon, some soup and good light read and you'll be right as rain soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm.essex Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 The new autumn series of the Richard and Judy Bookclub Podcast, exclusive to WHSmith is out now – download for free and hear how you can get 50% off your next read. On this week’s show This week, Megan Abbott’s The End of Everything download for free here http://bit.ly/rjbooks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffy1181 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 My current read is Percy Jackson & The Last Olympian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jade32 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 After completing My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier which I loved, I am continuing with A Suitable Boy -Vikram Seth need something to read alongside this though as normally have two on the go, not sure what though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Looking through my pile of books just now I found my old copy of To Kill A Mockingbird which I used 10 years ago in secondary school! Really glad I still have it and don't have to buy a new one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katrina1968 Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 Just finished Howards End(E. M. Forster) and The Sun Also Rises(Ernest Hemingway). Starting Othello and A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway). Next week I will be adding Coming Up for Air (Virginia Woolf) I also want to continue with The Discovery of Witches this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catwoman Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 I have been so busy that I havenot been on here for ages *Wipes away the spider webs* I have read a few books latey. One I would recommend is The colour of Death. I really good book. Also I have finally read the first three books of Potter. Didn't really like the first two but fell in love with potter after reading the third. Fourth will be read soon. At the moment I am reading FALLEN BY KARIN SLAUGHTER. Most people on here know my love for Slaughter. I am struggling a little with the book. It's good but I am not into the actual crime itself. I hope it will pick up real soon. I am around half way through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 Glad to hear you're enjoying Harry Potter, Catwoman. You're doing better than me. I didn't fall in love until the fourth book. There's a great book sale on this weekend, but it was such short notice and I already have plans, so I can't go. So, to cheer myself up, and to celebrate World Literacy Day today, I ordered 5 books online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 Just finished David Gemmell's Waylander. Cracking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 I'm still reading Caligula by Douglas Jackson, have only got about another 100 pages or so to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 Still working through The Shadow of the Wind, it's not a book you can rush and I've had little spare time this week sadly, loving Fermin Romero de Torres!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 Thanks Frankie, hope you're feeling better soon, some soup and good light read and you'll be right as rain soon... Thanks chaliepud I'm feeling a bit better today, I slept til 1 PM so got a good night's sleep, and sauna did me some good as well. I read one Finnish YA book from my childhood, and am currently reading The Mystery of the Strange Bundle by Enid Blyton. Also a re-read. Still working through The Shadow of the Wind, it's not a book you can rush and I've had little spare time this week sadly, loving Fermin Romero de Torres!! Fermin is indeed quite a character Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipread Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 Still working through The Shadow of the Wind, it's not a book you can rush and I've had little spare time this week sadly, loving Fermin Romero de Torres!! Definately not a book to be rushed but I thought it was a brilliant story. I'm looking forward to reading more from Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I've just finished Nemesis - Jo Nesbo really enjoyed it and will probably start The Devils Star by him tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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