Janet Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 I finished The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Sue Townsend by Sue Townsend this morning. Not as good as diaries 1 and 2, but I'll keep going with the series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordie9 Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Ive started Red Planet Blues by Robert J Sawyer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexi Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 I'm STILL waiting for May's RC book to be available from the library, so I've started Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy which should keep me busy for a while! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidsmum Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 so I've started Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy which should keep me busy for a while! I love Far from The Madding Crowd, i first read it at school because i had to but didn't really appreciate it till i was older Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 A little over halfway through the May RC........A Very Long Engagement .........really enjoying it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Oh right, it's May! I'm currently reading short(er) (read-a-thon) books. Once the read-a-thon is over, I plan to read more about ADD and to start the fifth book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin. I'll also have reviews to write and I have to put my new books in the database of Book Collector and on GoodReads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopeanha Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Oh my, I haven't been here in ages In May I already finished book 5 of the Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaughn and started The girl who loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 I finished The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver last night and started Praying for Sleep by the same author. I only read about 20 pages before falling asleep so I'm not sure if my mojo is willing to continue with that book today. Thumbs up and fingers crossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Oh my, I haven't been here in ages x Welcome back, nice to meet you ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 I finished Shatter The Bones by Stuart Macbride today and started Close To The Bone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Doing the read-a-thon and am 85% through The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. It took a good 150pages to get into though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Finished The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Review in my thread. Started Jack Reacher 14 this morning, called 61 Hours. I haven't read Jack Reacher 13 because it is in the first person and I'm not sure I want to read a Reacher book in the first person- I'm afraid it might ruin the series. It got good reviews though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 While not enough for the read-a-thon, I did manage to read three books yesterday. The last two of the RC books, A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr and The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West. (both short books, the latter really a novella). Then I read How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny. About as far from WWI as I could get! /giggle/ What's next?, what's next? Ah jes dunno! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 (edited) I've had a lovely day catching up with some reviews, updating my book lists and have also started reading The Bookshop That Floated Away. Edited May 5, 2014 by chesilbeach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 I've had a lovely day catching up with some reviews, updating my book lists and have also started reading The Bookshop That Floated Away. What a lovely sounding title! I hope it didn't float too far I'm going through my TBR list, trying to find something to suit my current mood... Problem is, I'm not sure what I'm in the mood for. I'd like a bit of fluff but I don't know if it'll grab me... Also, I don't think I have a lot of romance novels and the ones I can think of, I don't want to read at the moment. And I can't go to bed empty handed, I haven't done that in years Angst! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookmonkey Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 I finished The Boy from Nowhere by Rosie Goodwin. Started Cold Dish by Craig Johnson last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Last night I started reading a diary by a Finnish female author, Eeva Kilpi (I haven't read any of her novels so far), and I also started a fictional novel, The Devil's Teardrop by Jeffery Deaver. I didn't get very far with either book, but I was very much enjoying the diary and the Deaver book seems really grabbing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 I started Cities In Flight, Earthman Come Home today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidsmum Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Still reading The Slap Christos Tsiolkas less than 150 pages to go & really enjoying it.I've got my bookgroup meeting tonight & we're having a visit from a local author Rebecca Muddiman, looking forward to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopeanha Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 x Welcome back, nice to meet you ! Thank you so much, Athena. Nice to meet you, too. Yesterday I started Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry, I'm about 100 pages in and I'm liking it so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Yesterday I started Drive by James Sallis. There is a sequel, Driven, as well. That'll be next. Both fairly short books. James Sallis is the same author that writes the Lew Griffin (I think that's the correct spelling) series about a private investigator in New Orleans back in the 1960's or so. He also writes stand alone stories. Very distinctive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexi Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Not getting on at all well with Far From the Madding Crowd. Am having to force myself to read 20 pages at a time and would consider abandoning...but for the fact it's a classic and I feel it must get better, and it's on the English Counties Challenge list. Please god it gets better... I'm just under halfway through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted May 8, 2014 Author Share Posted May 8, 2014 Oh dear. Have you read any other of his books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Not getting on at all well with Far From the Madding Crowd. Am having to force myself to read 20 pages at a time and would consider abandoning...but for the fact it's a classic and I feel it must get better, and it's on the English Counties Challenge list. Please god it gets better... I'm just under halfway through. I really struggled with it too. In my opinion it gets much better, but perhaps not for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexi Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Oh dear. Have you read any other of his books. Not yet, but my Dad has been trying to get me to read the Mayor of Casterbridge for ages because it's one of his favourites. I really struggled with it too. In my opinion it gets much better, but perhaps not for a while. Thank you, that makes me feel a lot better! That I'm not alone and that I should persevere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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