dawnbirduk Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 Last night I finished reading An Unhallowed Grave by Kate Ellis, a brilliant read, I then started A change in Altitude by Anita Shreve after reading several reviews but couldn't get into it, so am now starting The Mesmerists Apprentice by L M Jackson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted September 27, 2011 Author Share Posted September 27, 2011 I'm still reading AHWoSG, I have about 30 pages left, but I just can't bother with it I know it's going to be one of those "D'oh" moments, but what is AHWoSG?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 I know it's going to be one of those "D'oh" moments, but what is AHWoSG?! Hehe It's Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. And no, I haven't touched it since my last post I finished reading The Radleys by Matt Haig last night. The ending was something completely unexpected, I admit I cried. I had to give it a 4/5 instead of 3/5 because of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted September 27, 2011 Author Share Posted September 27, 2011 Ah, thanks. I don't feel like going D'oh at that! I thought it might be something really obvious but I don't think I'd have got that if I sat here for 15 hours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sofia Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 How to Kill Your Husband by Kathy Lette best title....ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 best title....ever Its a brilliant book too, one of the best I've read this year, so funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sod Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 Woo Hoo I've just started a book that I can't put down, Life of Pi - Yann Martel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanessaL Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 I have started last night Lesley Pearse 'Faith', I have already got into the book as I do with all of Lesley Pearse books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 I have just finished Anno Dracula - Kim Newman it started slowly but then I got embroiled in the plot which features a Victorian London where the widow Victoria has married Count Dracula, neither feature until the end but its a case of spot the name of either real or fictional characters. Set mainly in Whitechapel it does of course concern the hunt for the 'Ripper'. Dark and engrossing it explores this seedy underbelly of London, characters from the original Bram Stoker play real roles and you learn of their fate as they failed to vanquish the Count as per the book. Author Kim Newman has other subsequent books though I understand they are not sequels, will go and check them out I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 'Darke' by Angie Sage was unceremoniously popped through the cat flap today. The cat still has his back to me to express his deep disgust at this fact. I am therefore making a start on the latest tale of Septimus Heap today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawnbirduk Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 After all the glowing reports on here I have just got out of the library Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueK Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 (edited) I'm reading a great book called The Black Madonna by Peter Millar. It is an intelligent conspiracy theory novel. Edited September 28, 2011 by SueK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 I started cataloguing a few of my books from the book fair today, and I bought 3 more. Edward Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady Philip Gooden: The Story of English Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 I started cataloguing a few of my books from the book fair today, and I bought 3 more. Edward Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady Philip Gooden: The Story of English Good luck with the Henry James it might be one of the few books I have never been able to finish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueK Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 Good luck with the Henry James it might be one of the few books I have never been able to finish I echo that Pickle - HJ books are not the easiest of reads. However, The Turn of the Screw was a pretty jumpy ghost story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving arrived today. My book buying is getting out of control! hehe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalkie48uk Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 reading the life and times of the thunderbolt kid ,bill bryson and loving it perhaps its my era but most pages make me smile or chuckle question is iv nearly finished what one of his should I read next? keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 I am most of the way through Pale Demon - Kim Harrison loving it, I have been good all week and not picked up the kindle and spent money...at least I won't until tommorow when it PAYDAY!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidsmum Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 I finished The RedBreast by Jo Nesbo a couple of days ago , I really enjoyed it & will definitely read more by this author. Decided to make a start on The Ambassadors by Henry James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sofia Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 almost a hundred pages in on Before I Go to Sleep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 I bought ~ The Taker by Alma Katsu The Iron King (Book 1~The Iron Fey) by Julie Kagawa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 So I finished Pale Demon - Kim Harrison when I took an impromptu half day and lay in the garden enjoying this glorious sunshine...not sure what to read next I do have a Scarlett Thomas book which I might delve into later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Still working my way through A Place Called Armageddon by Chris Humphreys.... and still loving it. I keep having to re-read paragraphs because I just love how they're written. Definitely my favourite thing about this author is his ability to reduce epic historical events, treated with such detachment in textbooks, down to the individual, emotional people that underly them. I keep forgetting that the fall of Constantinople really happened, that although this book is a work of fiction, these people lived and fought and felt and died and that this account is as plausible as any other. And it really makes you think. History should be taught with books like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Definitely my favourite thing about this author is his ability to reduce epic historical events, treated with such detachment in textbooks, down to the individual, emotional people that underly them. I keep forgetting that the fall of Constantinople really happened, that although this book is a work of fiction, these people lived and fought and felt and died and that this account is as plausible as any other. And it really makes you think. History should be taught with books like this. you are so right it does make a real difference to how things are taught to have an emotional attachment to the period being described, one of the best text books I read which unfortunately came out after I had finished my degree was a book on the Neolithic called 'Ancestral Geographies of the Neolithic' it put people and places into a real context and interspersed them with vinettes of how it may have been in a time so remote from ours. there are only a few others which I have found subsequently which also do this, although strictly speaking not fiction archaeology text books can only rely so much on the evidence as by its nature a lot of it deals with a time before the written word....oooops sorry lecture over. I started Scarlett Thomas's - Our Tragic Universe this morningh and its good, she does write in such an interesting way and her characters are although not strictly speaking likeable they are well drawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simongrant Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Finished Odd Thomas (what a moving end)loved it though,was a great book and will be reading the rest of the series. Now after a long time away from Rolands quest for the Dark Tower I am after probably 8 yesrs or after when I read Wizard and Glass (book IV) I have finally got around to reading book V Wolves of the Calla. I debated wether or not to start again with the first four books in the series but opted for just diving right back into wolves.Luckily I have retained much from the first 4 books so shouldn't be a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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