Darrin Drader Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 I'm currently reading a book called The Mason of New Orleans for a friend of mine. It's not exactly what I was expecting, but it's definitely well written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timstar Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Finished the audiobook of 11.22.63 by Stephen King and really enjoyed it, such an amazing story with great in-depth characters and events. Defintely one of my favourite King novels. It was my first audiobook that I got as a freebie from audible, I did like the format and it was great for listening to in the car etc. but I don't think I will get anymore, it is just not the same as a good paperback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sofia Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 finished What the Dead Know and started Gone, Girl last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidsmum Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Persevering with The Land Of Painted Caves it's slow going though now that i'm back home i don't have as much time to read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 How are you getting along with it now, it's been some time since you posted that ^ ? Sorry, I'm very curious I've kind of put it on the back burner at the minute, I'm taking part in a reading challenge and i want to give the book my full attention, not to dip in and out of it. Its not to say that I'm not enjoying it, i am, but i want to get this reading challenge complete then i can go back to the book In other bookish news i won Beauty by Lisa Daley and this arrived today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 I've kind of put it on the back burner at the minute, I'm taking part in a reading challenge and i want to give the book my full attention, not to dip in and out of it. Its not to say that I'm not enjoying it, i am, but i want to get this reading challenge complete then i can go back to the book That makes sense And congrats on winning a book! I'm still reading Wonderful Fool. I was going to finish it last night but I dozed up pretty immediately after going to bed. Hopefully I'll finish it tonight... Especially because I borrowed four books from the library yesterday. I'm definitely borrowing a lot more books when I'm working there The temptations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Started Pat Barker's new novel Toby's Room,eagerly awaited as she's one of my favourite writers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Then I started reading I Capture the Castle, and what I want to know is....WHY haven't I read this before? So far, it is just wonderful I'm sure I mentioned it Ruth .. very remiss of me if I didn't, it's one of my most fave books ever. Glad you are enjoying it Reading a lot of Bill Bryson which is therapeutic because I've been struggling along with Surfacing by Margaret Atwood .. it's not particularly difficult, it's just not grabbing me. Also dipping in and out of Virginia Woolf's letters and diaries. You have to read them in bite sized chunks because otherwise your head would most likely cave in .. her mind is extraordinary .. how does she think of it all? .. doesn't she ever have days where she just thinks about cake or lagging the loft? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Finished... 'Home to Big Stone Gap' by Adriana Trigiani (4th in the Big Stone Gap Series) Started... 'One Good Turn' by Kate Atkinson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karen.d Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Started... 'One Good Turn' by Kate Atkinson Kate Atkinson is one of my favourite authors! I hope you enjoy the book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argon9 Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Read The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson in one go yesterday evening ^-^ It was relaxing enough but not really great. I guess that non fiction doesn't agree with me that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Started Pat Barker's new novel Toby's Room,eagerly awaited as she's one of my favourite writers. I loved her Regeneration Trilogy. Thanks for the heads up. I tried to order it through Book Depository, to get it now instead of the October 2nd release date here in the U.S., but couldn't. I've preordered it from Amazon though. Read The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson in one go yesterday evening ^-^ It was relaxing enough but not really great. I guess that non fiction doesn't agree with me that much. That's a shame. I picked it up at B&N a few weeks ago, the cover is great! Haven't started it yet though. I'm still reading Citizen Sherman by Michael Fellman. It's great, I just haven't had time to read for a week or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 I'm about three quarters of the way through Birdsong now and hoping to finish it this afternoon, especially as it's grey and raining, it seems a perfect excuse to read a book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argon9 Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Raced through The Hunger Games in just 2 days. I have a few small annoyances with the story and character but the book in its whole was a lot better then expected and very entertaining That's a shame. I picked it up at B&N a few weeks ago, the cover is great! Haven't started it yet though. I've had never read anything of him before and I had expected a much more scientific text then what I got. I had also read somewhere that it was supposed to be very, very funny. It was, to my slight disappointment, not that scientific and not really funny. It was interesting enough to keep me reading it until the end though ^.^ So it isn't bad or anything, just, not my style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I finished Birdsong last night, and have picked up The Music of the Primes again this morning, although think I may read some fiction alongside it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Finished only one book on holiday as we were so busy, The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn. I liked it even more than his previous offering, Half of the Human Race. I'll try and get back into A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
page turner Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 I finally finished read The Neverending Story yesterday and it felt like just that. The second half of this book really dragged me down it took 4 WEEKS to finish I just couldn't get into it at all, and I fully understand why they finished up the movie where they did. I've now moved on to Mort by Terry Pratchett which so far is pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 I finished Birdsong last night, and have picked up The Music of the Primes again this morning, although think I may read some fiction alongside it. Thought I'd read Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh as the fiction choice, but I'm just not getting on with it. Read 80 or so pages, but it's not grabbing me at all at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timstar Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Downloaded some Kindle freebies. The first five Barsoom/John Carter novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs as well as the first Tarzan and The Land that Time Forgot. Also The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 I finally finished Wonderful Fool by Shusaku Endo and Tassuterapeutti by Anna-Liisa Suni (short stories about dogs and other animals ). I also started and finished The Golden Road by L. M. Montgomery and Dog On It by Spencer Quinn this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 I finished The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins, and the first two stories in Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King. Hopefully I will finish another one of his stories today. Oh, and I'm up to Book 5 of The Walking Dead series too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 After abandoning Sea of Poppies, decided to try Emotional Geology by Linda Gillard instead - now that's grabbed me immediately! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peacefield Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 (edited) I haven't read any of hers yet, Chesil, but I'm hoping to one of these days! On my Laura Ingalls Wilder pile, I finished By the Shores of Silver Lake and have started The Long Winter. I think I have 3 left along with a non-fiction work about Laura to finish before my road trip in exactly one month from tomorrow! I think I can do it . I also have recently started The House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe and am very into it! I finished Shadow of Night on my vacation at the lake and need to write a review of it soon. Edited August 19, 2012 by Peacefield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidsmum Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Halfway through The Land Of Painted Caves, boy am i looking forward to finishing this book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Now reading Stone Cradle by Louise Doughty,which is about a Romany family from 1875-1949. And pre-ordered Harvest by William Horwood,the 3rd in his Hyddenworld quartet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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