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Kinsella has a new book out, and it's called My Not So Perfect Life. I hope it's going to be good, I've just reserved a copy at the library. I think Athena at least will be pleased by the news!

The new book by Graeme Simsion is now available at the library and I've just reserved a copy!

Rest assured, there are many fans! That's not to say I don't myself appreciate British English, I just sort of grew to the American way

I was somehow under the impression that this topic is about both American English and British English? Sorry if I got that wrong. Edit: Now I think where it got mixed! Kell was of course talking about 'gotten' from her point of view. As a British English speaker, she'll go for 'got'. I'm getting everything wrong today, happened at work, too! Sorry everyone! I would say it depends on whether they watch mostly American TV or British English TV, and even then it's also to do with one's personal preference. Some people feel British English is closer to home, some take to American English. As you all must know, I go with American English (although of course I make mistakes). However, a majority of my fellow English students from my uni days leaned towards British English.

Me too

I understand about kinda wanting to read GG anyway. The good thing is that it's a quick paced novel and even if you end up hating it, it won't take too much time to read I abandoned The Evenings by Gerard Reve and started reading a crime novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen. I can't remember if the series has been translated into English.

And isn't American English English? And how can it only be used by people copying off American TV when Americans use it too. Edit: Or did you perhaps mean that in the UK it's only used by people copying off American TV?

Thanks everyone! I'm really happy I'm on the mend

But 'gotten' is grammatically correct in some places! Whereas 'of' instead of 'have' is just grammatically incorrect all around.

I got a call from the doctor today, saying my hemoglobin level is improving! I'm now right in the lowest level of what's okay/normal, wohoo! I'm still going to take iron supplements and I'm to go and get another blood test done sometime in April (whenever I want, which is great!), and then we'll see where I'm at then. But my hemoglobin level should improve even more by April. We also figured out what was the cause of the whole thing, and it's something that's easily fixed. I'm very happy!

I started watching Shameless (US) yesterday. (I saw 3-4 random episodes maybe 4 years ago when I was staying at a friend's and he wanted to watch his fave show. I got totally hooked! But knew I had to start from season 1. And for some reason it's taken me this long to start watching it!) Two episodes and I'm totally hooked and know that this will be a gripping show!

Fried eggs, bell pepper and cabbage, plus oat bread with ham.

Hello and welcome to the forum!

Yeah, I'm happy about that I've taken part in every read-a-thon so far this year. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed Sharp Objects! I thought it was excellent. I already posted in Book Activity -thread about it, but I would also recommend Dark Place by the same author. Gone Girl is not as good as the two other novels.

I already responded to your post in my reading log, but I'd say that it doesn't get much faster later on, and personally I wouldn't recommend bothering with it. Sharp Objects was great! I would also recommend Dark Place by the same author. I first read Gone Girl and really liked it, but then I read SO and DP and thought those two were sooo much better than GG. I'm abadoning The Evenings by Gerard Reve because I can't face another night reading the book. Don't know what to read next. I really need something absolutely riveting!

I'm so sorry, dear Netherlands, but I'm going to abandon The Evenings by Gerard Reve I've read maybe 120 pages of it, and I feel like maybe I should just plow on (this year I've not abandoned one single book so far, as far as I remember And I usually have no problems abandoning anything I don't like immediately!), but I think that the book won't get more interesting, it's just going to be the same stuff over and over again, and it's the kind of stuff that doesn't hold my interest I'm a plot-driven woman! As sad as I am to abandon the book, I'm so psyched about having the chance to find a gripping book to read next! What should I try....

I think I read somewhere that he at least used to be in the curriculum? No, wait... Athena said in her post that she had to read his book for school? Finnish classics, the usual I can't remember any specific novels at the moment, though, apart from Seven Brothers by Aleksis Kivi. It definitely had much potential, and a couple of the twists were great, but I think there were too many twists. Or at least some of them were too silly. But it's not the worst book I've read this year, so at least it has that thing going for it I wish I'd left it unread... It took me so many days to read, and I could've been reading something else, something that was far more interesting! I did wonder if you'd possibly read it, because I remember seeing you mention the novel somewhere before, but I couldn't find any reviews of the novel anywhere on the forum. I wonder if anyone else has finished it. Thank you! I totally love it

Friday: 50 pages of Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley Saturday: 59 pages of The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley (finishing the novel) 69 pages of The Evenings by Gerard Reve Sunday: 48 pages of The Evenings by Gerard Reve A rather poor performance

Isn't it? I'm in love with it! We shall have lots of fun together I didn't know you'd read the book! I'm sorry you didn't like it that much, though Do you know, for some reason I thought this was a new novel... Maybe it's because it's just been translated into English and the cover looks new and modern? I was floored to read in the book that it was first published in 1948 And you're right, having to read a book can take enjoyment out of it. Although I tended to like the books I read for school... There were only a very few that I didn't like or hated (Tess... ). But I think I got lucky with our selection!

I've started reading The Evenings by Gerard Reve, and I realized I could count this as my first novel towards my Around the World -reading challenge! Hello, Netherlands!

"It was still dark, in the early morning hours of the twenty-second of December 1946, on the second floor of the house at Schilderskade 66 in our town, when the hero of this story, Frits van Egters, awoke." The Evenings by Gerard Reve

Nope, not a good one for me! I'm glad you didn't spend more money on it I picked it up this time because the author's coming to Helsinki and I'm going to go to the event and I thought it would be more fun if I'd read books by the attending authors... But I didn't like it But hey, maybe you will love it! I guess I could've liked it more if I'd been in the right mood. I don't know. Go into it with an open mind and forget all I said about the book!

I've started reading The Evenings by Gerard Reve. Don't quite know what to make of it yet

Saturday: 59 pages of The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley (finishing the novel) 69 pages of The Evenings by Gerard Reve

7. The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley From Goodreads: If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr and Mrs Belderboss and Father Wilfred, the parish priest. It was impossible to truly know the place. It changed with each influx and retreat, and the neap tides would reveal the skeletons of those who thought they could escape its insidious currents. No one ever went near the water. No one apart from us, that is. I suppose I always knew that what happened there wouldn't stay hidden for ever, no matter how much I wanted it to. No matter how hard I tried to forget... From Amazon: When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Loney, a man named Smith is forced to confront the terrifying and mysterious events that occurred forty years earlier when he visited the place as a boy. At that time, his devoutly Catholic mother was determined to find healing for Hanny, his disabled older brother. And so the family, along with members of their parish, embarked on an Easter pilgrimage to an ancient shrine. But not all of the locals were pleased to see visitors in the area. And when the two brothers found their lives entangling with a glamorous couple staying at a nearby house, they became involved in more troubling rites. Smith feels he is the only one to know the truth, and he must bear the burden of his knowledge, no matter what the cost. Proclaimed a “modern classic” by the Sunday Telegraph (UK), The Loney marks the arrival of an important new voice in fiction. Thoughts: I had a difficult start with the novel. I was drawn to the book at nights when I read it before falling asleep, but the next day I'd forgotten all I'd read. I had to start all over a few times, and I really should've taken it as a sign to give up. Most of the time I was expecting things to start going somewhere and the novel to pick up its pace. I was waiting for the suspense and the goosebumps and chills and everything. But I really didn't feel anything for the book, other than boredom I didn't like the characters, nor did I find them interesting. The plot didn't really deliver, unfortunately. Personally I'm rather surprised that in 2015, this book was chosen as the best debut in the UK, according to the book jacket. I'm sure some will love it and enjoy it, but it wasn't for me. 1/5