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    1800's

    in Book Search and Reading Recommendations

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    I'm asking on behalf on my boyfriend. He wants a book that was written in the 1800's and is about life at that time. I've done a little google search but I know you guys will be a much better help :lol:

     

    It doesn't matter if it is long or short. Any suggestion will do.

     

    thanks :D

    Your Book Activity Today - Thread 9

    in General Book Discussions

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    Wow, you got all that way and then stopped just short of the end? Goodness. Are you planning on reading those last few entries at any stage?

     

    Yes, I still have the book on my shelf. I just didn't want to read all of the sad entries at the end. I really like Sylvia Plath. I travelled all the way up north to visit her grave :smile2: I'm sure I'll read the last few pages ones day.

    Glee

    in Music / TV / Films

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    I love Glee so much :smile2: I particularly liked last nights episode 'Balad'

     

     

    I was cringing when Fin sang that song at dinner with Quinn's parents but I do love that song. I've never heard it before actually :giggle: Also, Finn sang I'll Stand By You, which I love.

     

     

    Long live Glee :irked:

    The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory

    in Historical Fiction

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    gosh, so glad I read this thread, I thought it was me! I have adored all of Phillipa Gregory's previous books, particularly this Tudor series, but I really didnt like The Other Queen at all. I persevered with it because I kept believing it would draw me in, but it didnt. I couldnt get to like any of the characters at all. I was glad to finish it, to be honest. But I will read the White Queen and hope it will be so much better.

     

    Philippa Gregory is back to her usual glory with The White Queen.

    Your Book Activity Today - Thread 9

    in General Book Discussions

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    Finished Sunrise by Rosie Thomas (only started it last night). Easy but quite a good read.

     

    Think will be Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides next, as I still can't find The Rotter's Club (God knows what I've done with it!)

     

    Middlesex is brilliant. I really enjoyed reading it :smile2:

     

    Managed to read a nice chunk of My Cousin Rachel at work this afternoon, I'm now really engrossed and enjoying it.

     

    I looove this book :giggle:

     

    I've read about 80 pages of Wuthering Heights today and I received The Editor's Companion by Janet Mackenzie in the mail. :) Hopefully I'll get through a few pages of Sylvia Plath's journals tonight because I've been making really slow progress with it.

     

    I read Sylvia Plath's journals years ago. They are rather chunky but worth a read :irked: I remembered I stopped a few entries towards the end though.

     

    I started reading My Sister's Keeper by Jodi picoult yesterday. I think this one will be a weeper!

    Your Book Activity Today - Thread 9

    in General Book Discussions

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    Just started Neil Gaiman's 'Stardust' .. feels good to be reading Gaiman again.

     

    I've only just read that you've given up on 'The Childrens Book' Janet! ... I've got this waiting to be read and I am a bit daunted by it .. the length of it and the complexity ... hope it's not going to be trial.

     

    The movie Stardust is coming on TV on Sunday on Channel 4 at 8pm. It's really good :D

    Your Book Activity Today - Thread 9

    in General Book Discussions

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    I finished reading The Little Stranger last night. VERY good and probably my favourite book by Sarah Waters - it is so different to others that I have read.

     

    I have read a few pages of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. Yes, I'm in my 20s and the book is for 9+ but it just looks and sounds so good :D a nice easy read perhaps :D

    Your Book Activity Today - Thread 9

    in General Book Discussions

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    I'm about 100 pages into The Little Stranger and I'm loving it. I'm waiting for 'something' to happen but Sarah Waters seems to be building the atmosphere of Hundreds and giving a real feel for the characters. Other authors would have bored me by now but she really does capture my attention. I think she is a fantastic author :)

    Wicked - Gregory Maguire

    in Horror / Fantasy / SF

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    I read this in January and it is ABSOLUTELY brilliant! I feel like there are many layers to this book and I think that I could read it in a few years time and get even more from it :) I'm never giving this book away.

     

    A friend told me that the book is nothing like the musical.

    Your Book Activity Today - Thread 9

    in General Book Discussions

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    I finished reading The Time of my Life by Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi. I started the book thinking that it would be really sad but it was very interesting and I found out many things about him that I hadn't known before. It's a really good autobiography :lol:

     

    I got The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters out of the library but I haven't started it yet. Excited though as I love her ;)

    Your Book Activity Today - Thread 9

    in General Book Discussions

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    I feel that Cell starts brilliantly but loses it's way around the two thirds mark, it's as if he had a really good beginning to a situation but then didn't know where to go after, if he wasn't so stubborn on getting so many stories out then I think he would have conjured something better up, but the man's productivity is to be admired even if sometimes it can be irritating when the ending is a let down :D

     

    I have felt like that about every book he has written except The Shining. I always find them really good at first but then they just lag towards the end.

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