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Your Book Activity - February 2017


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Ooh, we're already into the second month! Tell us about your book activity!

 

My local bookshop has a 20% off sale because they're going to close down for a bit to refurbish the store. So I went in yesterday and bought A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab and Between Us, which is a collection of letters curated by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire.

 

Today I've been reading Fire and Hemlock. I'm about 250 pages in.

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The second month already!

 

I hope you enjoy your two new books :). I still have to read something by V. C. Schwab ( / Victoria Schwab).

 

I wasn't sure what I was in the mood to read yesterday so I'm now reading Chérie Carter-Scott - If Life is a Game, These are the Rules, which someone recommended as a self-help book. I only read one chapter last night, but the book isn't that long so it shouldn't take me too long to read it (aside from the processing of the information).

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I'm still reading The Trees by Ali Shaw, about halfway through and enjoying it. Last night I also started The Last Good Day Of The Year by Jessica Warman. So far enjoying it, but some reviews I've read lead me to believe I may not continue to like it!

 

I also finished Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough, which was, imo, garbage. Advertised as a psychological thriller and it's not a thriller at all. It's a paranormal mystery, and the ending is literally completely unpredictable solely because the device used is not introduced til the very end of the book. Boo hiss! I had been so looking forward to it because of rave reviews, and because I loved another book by Pinborough, but this one was a disappointment.

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I finished reading How to Find Love in a Book Shop by Veronica Henry, and have now picked up Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld.

 

You've made one Curtis Sittenfeld fan very happy! :lol:  I loved it, and I know a Jane Austen megafan who studied her at university who loved it too, so I hope I'm not just being a fan girl about it :giggle2:

 

I'm about two thirds of the way through Spill, Simmer, Falter, Wither now, but I'm still not sure what to make of it.  I'll keep going for now, but I think by the end it'll have turned into a marmite book.

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Started and finished A Death in Sweden by Kevin Wignall, 4/5.  Good spy story.

 

Also have gotten about 2/3rds of the way through The Night Manager by John LeCarre.  Good stuff.

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I bring my kindle to work (as it is rather less likely to get damaged in my bag than a paperback) and in an effort to increase my reading, I am trying to read that at lunchtime rather than wasting my half hour surfing random rubbish on the internet. :D Yesterday, I started Bill Bryson's A Short History of Everything, in response to reading someone's favourable review on here. :)

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I'm carrying over Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie from January, as I'm still not very far in. It's super interesting, but I don't know much about Indian history, so I'm having to look up quite a few things...

 

On audiobook I'm currently listening to Frostbite by Richelle Mead. I'm not terribly interested in the series anymore, but I started it a few years ago and have a bit of a personal issue with starting series and not finishing them... :D Either way, they're fun to listen to in order to de-stress, so exactly the right thing for me at the moment....

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I finished Fire and Hemlock by Dianna Wynne Jones last night. Today I started reading Books v Cigarettes by George Orwell (one of Penguin's Great Ideas books). Then, when I had to grab some reading material and didn't have BvC handy, I grabbed another Great Ideas book: A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift. Not sure how I'll go with the latter, but the former is going well.

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Had a ridiculously busy week so not much reading time, but stuck on a train today and should finish Cider With Rosie for the ECC.

 

Am reading some non fiction about the cocaine trade alongside. Just a slight change of pace ;)

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Yesterday, I started Bill Bryson's A Short History of Everything, in response to reading someone's favourable review on here. :)

 

Oh, I love this book. It covers so many topics so there is bound to be something which nabs your interest. Also, he has a very approachable style to his explanations, which makes it easy to understand.

 

I'm halfway through The Midwife's Confession. Sooo good! So much is happening in it! With luck, I may finish it tonight. :readingtwo:

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I finished Spill, Simmer, Falter, Wither (thank goodness) this afternoon, and I'm just trying to decide what to read next.  I bought Reader, I Married Him the other day, which is a collection of short stories, so I might dip in and out of that one alongside another book. :)

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Ended up in the bookshop this morning and bought myself a couple of new books - Who Let The Gods Out? by Maz Evans and The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George.

 

Also started reading Poppy Pym and the Double Jinx as I enjoyed the first book in the series so much, I couldn't wait any longer to get going on the sequel. :)

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I started The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer this morning (thanks Vodkafan! I read your post about it in the Military thread last night). I'm continuing reading Roots and I haven't abandoned 1984. I also have Sho Gun on the list for this month, probably in a week or so. 10 days probably.

 

And I now have 4 review's to post from January!

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You've made one Curtis Sittenfeld fan very happy! :lol:  I loved it, and I know a Jane Austen megafan who studied her at university who loved it too, so I hope I'm not just being a fan girl about it :giggle2:

 

:lol: Me and Sittenfeld have not gelled in the past, so I really went into this book based on your recommendation :D For the first 150 pages I was looking at a 3/5 for this, now it's about 4/5. There are things in here... :D Oh boy! 

 

I finished Spill, Simmer, Falter, Wither (thank goodness) this afternoon, 

 

Did you not like it? I tried it some months ago but didn't like the unusual narrative. 

 

I'm currently on page 298 of Eligible, looking forward to reading more! 

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Did you not like it? I tried it some months ago but didn't like the unusual narrative.

 

No, I didn't. :no: I'm cogitating my words for my review, but it was definitely not a book I'd go back to.

 

As usual, I'm terrible for reading the books I've most recently read instead of going to my TBR pile, so I started reading Who Let The Gods Out? by Maz Evans last night, after buying it yesterday morning. :roll:

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I'm halfway through The Midwife's Confession. Sooo good! So much is happening in it! With luck, I may finish it tonight. :readingtwo:

I'm glad you're enjoying it (so far anyway). I look forward to read your review once you've posted it :).

 

I'm currently reading Keeper of the Light / Kiss River 2: Kiss River by Diane Chamberlain. It's good so far but I'm only just past page 100. I've been feeling too tired to read much.

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Onto a new set of books this week, managed to do a bit of reading over the weekend which is always good.

 

Onto What Could Possible go Wrong by Jodi Taylor reading that one on my phone.

Dazzling by James Patterson a three part story in bookshots at work and

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho at home

 

All these books are so different and looking forward to them.

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