Sara's reading

[Nollaig]

Finished "Wuthering heights". Delicious, that's all I can say.

 

Glad you enjoyed it, it's one of my favourite books

[SaraPepparkaka]

I retuned to R A Macavoy and "Twisting the Rope". NOW I was in the mood for it. I didn't find it as good as "Tea With The Black Dragon", but it was still an enjoyable read, and Martha MacNamara and Mayland Long are two of my favourite people in the fictional universe.

[SaraPepparkaka]

"Equal Rites" by Terry Pratchett. A fun read..

[Mac]

I have read a lot this weekend.

 

Charlaine Harris: "Grave Sight"

Then I finished Glen Duncan "I, Lucifer"

 

 

I am currently reading the former and I'm liking it. I absolutely loved I, Lucifer and went on to read the rest of his books. Some of them are very dark, but he's a tremendously creative writer.

 

Do you like him, Sara? I hope you're very well, my friend.

[SaraPepparkaka]

I am currently reading the former and I'm liking it. I absolutely loved I, Lucifer and went on to read the rest of his books. Some of them are very dark, but he's a tremendously creative writer.

 

Do you like him, Sara? I hope you're very well, my friend.

 

I'll agree with the creative, but I didn't love it.. Can't really specify either why I didn't love it. Like, sure- love, no.

Edited September 13, 2009 by SaraPepparkaka
I wanted to add something..

[SaraPepparkaka]

I've read "Pillars of the World" by Anne Bishop. I think she's a good writer, and it was a readable book, even if it wasn't one of her finest.

 

I also read a little book with short stories by Megan Whalen Turner, "Instead of Three Wishes". Very readable, and suitable for a person like me who wouldn't know what to do with three wishes if I had to wish for things, and wouldn't want to be a king even if I was supposed to.

 

Come to think of it, "Pillars of the World" is also about the "little" life, about how things really are instead of how they seem. I like that.

[SaraPepparkaka]

Lynn Kurland- "The More I See You".

OK, so I'm a hopeless romantic every now and then. And should you feel the need to be foolishly romantic, this book will be perfect. And yes it was following the well-known formula for medieval romances (with a bit of time-travel thrown in), and yes I have read that a million times in all varieties, and I still will read the next version of the same story (and probably enjoy it too). This was the first book by this author I've read, but it won't be the last.

[SaraPepparkaka]

"The tainted relic" by a group of authors that call themselves "The Medieval Murderers". The authors are Simon Beaufort, Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Michael Jecks, Susanna Gregory and Philip Gooden.

It's five mysteries that are linked by the tainted relic, and a prologue. An average read, and I thought it was "uneven" to read since the stories really didn't have a lot in common other than that relic.

[SaraPepparkaka]

Finally finished "Kinesen" (The Chinese Man) by Henning Mankell. It took me a while to do so, but that wasn't because the book was boring, far from it, but there was a lot of life interrupting my reading..

He managed to connect China to U.S.A to Zimbabwe to Sweden, and even make the connections believable, and the mystery intriguing.

[SaraPepparkaka]

The hopeless romantic strikes again- another Lynn Kurland, "Much Ado in the Moonlight". Some of it was funny and interesting, but the romance was just a tiny little bit uninteresting. Everything else going on, ghosts, timetravel, setting up a Shakespeare play with a medieval castle as background, was funny to read, and fast.

[BookJumper]

Much Ado in the Moonlight sounds lovely and has been wishlisted thank you!

[SaraPepparkaka]

It was the Shakespeare that put it on your wishlist, wasn't it Giulia?

It's romance and it's lightweight, but when that's what one is looking for, this is not a bad choice.

[BookJumper]

Indeed, Shakespeare might have had something to do with it along with the ghost and the time-travel. I am quite a soppy soul under all the snobbiness really and don't mind romantic stories at all, provided they're written well and have characters I can believe in.

[SaraPepparkaka]

I finished Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. One of my efforts to read more classics this year. Ok read, but I had some difficulties whit the "deep southern" language sometimes, I had to say some things out loud to really understand what it was meant to be.

[Janet]

We did Huckleberry Finn for A level (recently - I did it as a mature student) and I had to read some bits out loud to make it make sense!

[SaraPepparkaka]

Nice to know I wasn't the only one..

[SaraPepparkaka]

Read "The Queen of Attolia" by Megan Whalen Turner this weekend. Nice fantasy, but a little too much court intrigues in this one for my taste. I have the third book from the trilogy waiting on the shelf, but I've not yet decided what to read next.

[SaraPepparkaka]

I have been doing other things than reading since last I updated.. but still managed to read "The Time Machine" by H G Wells. I also started on "The Lies of Locke Lamora" (Scott Lynch), but lost my way in it when I had fever and flu.. So I may start over, or I may start another book. Haven't decided yet.

[SaraPepparkaka]

I didn't start Locke Lamora over, I read "Exit Strategy" by Kelley Armstrong instead. Now, these books are nowhere near as good as "The women of the Otherworld"- series. (True to my habit, I read the second book in this series a while back.. I wonder what it is with me and books that are supposed to be read in order..) But it's an OK read, I give it 2,5/5, and the half a point away from 3 (3/5 is an average book on my scale) comes from the fact that I dislike the main character Nadia Stafford. She could be a complex, interesting character, but to me she seems to be a bit dull.

 

I just finished "The wind-up bird chronicle" by Haruki Murakami. I'll try to paticipate in this months reading circle. That will be a new experience.

[SaraPepparkaka]

More books read. "An Ice Cold Grave" by Charlaine Harris, an enjoyable read.

Then I read "Graceling" by Kristin Cashore, I'd gotten several recommendations, and it was an exciting romantic book. I will certainly read more by this author.

[Vanwa]

I also started on "The Lies of Locke Lamora" (Scott Lynch), but lost my way in it when I had fever and flu.. So I may start over, or I may start another book. Haven't decided yet.

 

 

I have this, and got a little way in. For some reason I lost sense of the plot and packed it in. I do want to get through it at some point, but my mojo is elsewhere at the moment

[SaraPepparkaka]

I have this, and got a little way in. For some reason I lost sense of the plot and packed it in. I do want to get through it at some point, but my mojo is elsewhere at the moment

 

I remember enjoying the beginning. I know how far I got, too, but most of what I read when I had fever I really don't remember. So I decided to let Locke Lamora rest for a while and make a fresh start later. Maybe next week- we're going on a holiday. Sunny Egypt instead of the November darkness in Finland. Husband will be diving- I'll have plenty of reading time.

[SaraPepparkaka]

I've read a little non-fiction. A book by Anna Politkovskaya about Russia under Putin's rule. So, it's a bit outdated, but nevertheless interesting.

 

Then a book about "Cities then and now" by John Antoniou, Rome, London, Paris, San Fransisco, Athens and so on. Mostly just pictures, but that was really the point of the book, to see how the cities had changed over time.

 

"The Mephisto Club" by Tess Gerritsen I finished last night, it was a book from the library and I didn't want to take a library book to egypt, so I had to finish it. Leaving for Egypt tonight after work!

[SaraPepparkaka]

Now, my reading in Egypt. I read:

"The world according to Bertie" by Alexander Mccall Smith. I love the quiet humor in these books.

"The king of Attolia" by Megan Whalen Turner. Excellent finish to the trilogy.

"Moby Dick" by Heman Melville. I've had it forever and never read it, so I'm glad I read it now. Parts of this book were brilliant, and then sometimes I wanted to throw it in the pool and never read another description of another whale ever again.

"World without end" by Ken Follett, another one I've had for quite some time and never gotten round to, scared off by the mere length I guess. But it was an easily flowing story and certainly didn't feel as long to read as it could have.

 

I always take a couple of books along on my trips that I've had for a while, but this is the first time I've actually read them. I usually find new books to buy on the airport or somewhere, but not this time.

[Kylie]

Good for you, Sara! It always feels so good to get through the books you've had for a while, doesn't it? I can imagine that is especially the case with books such as Moby Dick and World Without End, both of which are dauntingly long!