Kylie Posted December 31, 2013 Posted December 31, 2013 Happy New Year, everyone! (If you're still in 2013, hurry up and join the rest of us! 2013 is sooo last year! ) Today marks a fresh start to our reading year. Any disappointments of 2013 are in the past, and a whole new world of possibility lays before us. May we all have a wonderful reading year, full of few dud reads (preferably none) and many wonderful reads. May we all reach whatever goals we have set for ourselves! What book activity is kicking off your new year? I have started reading The Secret History as my first read of 2014. Today I will also try to finish up my 2013 reading list and start putting together my 2014 reading list. I am full of optimism for the 2014 reading year!
pontalba Posted December 31, 2013 Posted December 31, 2013 Well, I managed to finish off two more in the old year. The Hangman;s Daughter and a novella Exit: Vertigo a Wayward Pines novella. Reviews in the old 2013 thread. Happy Reading, All!!
pontalba Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 Just saw muggle not's post over on the old thread...regarding The Accounting – William Lashner. Sounds great muggle!! Just downloaded it to my kindle. Also, his Veritas for only 99 cents.
pontalba Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 muggle, love Lashner's style! Reading his The Accounting.
bookmonkey Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 I'm currently reading Believing the lie by Elizabeth George.
chesilbeach Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 I'm not reading anything at the moment, so need to decide on what to read next. I'm thinking of sitting down with a cup of coffee and starting with another of my Christmas presents - Saplings by Noel Streatfeild
Kylie Posted January 1, 2014 Author Posted January 1, 2014 I have finished my first book for the year! OK, it barely counts because it was Ransom Riggs' Talking Pictures, which is just a collection of old photos, but it still counts as a book read off my TBR pile! I've pre-ordered Hollow City (the second Miss Peregrine book), so I'm now ready for its arrival (although Talking Pictures isn't actually related to MP).
Eleonora Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 Happy Reading 2014, everyone!!! I'm reading a collection of short stories written by irish female writers, it's called Irish Girls about Town, and I'm enjoying it so far. Kylie, I really loved Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine.. and when I saw he published Talking Pictures, I added it to my wishlist.. but sadly, it seems it won't be published in Italy .
Marie H Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 A Happy 2014 to everyone . Started John Wyndham's Trouble with Lichens.
Angury Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 I've just finished De Profundis by Oscar Wilde. Loved his use of words, it was a touching letter. I want to read The Importance of Being Earnest, but I'm not too sure since it's a play.
frankie Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 Echoing earlier comments: Happy 2014! Read more of The Secret History last night in bed. It's going surprisingly good. Loving it
Kylie Posted January 1, 2014 Author Posted January 1, 2014 Kylie, I really loved Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine.. and when I saw he published Talking Pictures, I added it to my wishlist.. but sadly, it seems it won't be published in Italy . Oh, that's a shame. Could you order it from overseas or online (like the Book Depository)? If you are worried about the translation, there is really not much writing. Riggs writes a very small introduction and afterword, and then there are a few words or a few sentences for each photo (Riggs only collects photos where people have written comments on the them).
itsmeagain Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 I'm currently reading Believing the lie by Elizabeth George.hope you enjoy it,i haven't read it yet i do love her books,i like Barbara havers and the general way the author depicts her characters.
Athena Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 I finished reading Ann M. Martin, Raina Telgemeier - The Babysitter's Club Graphix 1: Kristy's Great Idea (which I started 10 days ago) and Nick Spalding - Love... 3: Love Under Different Skies (which I started yesterday). I haven't yet started a new book.
muggle not Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 I am starting 2014 with "Valdez Is Coming" by Elmore Leonard. I am about 40% through the book and so far I rate it an 7.5 on a scale of 1 to 10. Good reading.
Alexi Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 Finished up The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson (excellent!) and now starting A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka.
Michelle Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 I've just looked up Hollow City, and cover is yelling 'buy me'! I may hang on a little bit to see if the price drops. I've just started Tithe by Holly Black, and I'm still working my way through my Walking Dead compendium.
muggle not Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 muggle, love Lashner's style! Reading his The Accounting. I also liked his style writing. The story was great.........what more can we ask, great story and great reading.
Cookie Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 I've worked out how many books I read last year and it was 60 which is a lot less than the year before which was 96. So this years goal will be to read more than 60 books. I'm currently reading The Kingmaker's Daughter by Philippa Gregory. Half way through and I don't think it's the best in the series so far.
Kidsmum Posted January 2, 2014 Posted January 2, 2014 I finished my first book of the year yesterday The Secret History Donna Tartt, it was hard to choose a book to follow it but i've made a start on The Orchard on Fire Shena Mackay.
itsmeagain Posted January 2, 2014 Posted January 2, 2014 Finished up The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson (excellent!) and now starting A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka.hope you enjoy marina's book. Though it has humour i found it disappointing. A friend lent me it and was in raptures about it. As a result he has refused to read the incomparably better brick lane by Monica Ali.
chesilbeach Posted January 2, 2014 Posted January 2, 2014 I'm about a third of the way through Saplings now, and enjoying it immensely. Slightly tickled that there are two brothers called Albert and Ernest, although slight gutted that the author only shortens Ernest's name. Would have loved them to be Bert and Ernie as the book was written long before the start of Sesame Street.
geordie9 Posted January 2, 2014 Posted January 2, 2014 Im loving The Fall by Simon Clark. Good time travel story.
Marie H Posted January 3, 2014 Posted January 3, 2014 Collected today from The Hive: A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins (Hardback, reduced from £25 to £5 ), and Replay by Ken Grimwood (Paperback). Plodding through Who Fears Death?, and 300 pages to go *sigh*
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