Lucybird Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 Still on The Lucifer Effect, it's really interesting but I feel like I've been reading it forever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carm Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 Yesterday I went to the Strand really, truly to buy a calendar and I wound up coming home with Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery and Tooth and Clae by TC Boyle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 I finished Shiver a few hours ago already Was a great read, now will be reading Tess Gerritsen - Girl Missing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 Going to start a Calvin and Hobbes book today I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightingale Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 I've read another few pages of Fahrenheit 451 but I'm still not getting on with it Hope you can stick with it, Kate. I was a little bit lost myself initially, but found it to be a very worthwhile read . Read another forty pages today . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peacefield Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Finished Dime Store Magic today! Need to go collect my thoughts and post a review now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catwoman Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 I finished the book my mum got for me yesterday last night EverMore by Alyson Noel. 356 pages in a day a personal best for me Ooooo, thats good to know as I really want to read that book. I finished Shiver a few hours ago already Was a great read, now will be reading Tess Gerritsen - Girl Missing Glad to hear Shiver was a good read as I have just got that from the library. As for me all I was able to fit in was a chapter of Stolen, as it was my oldest Birthday party, but I am planning to finish it off tomorrow as it has to go back to the library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 I loved it CW, hopefully you will too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bethany725 Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Got a lot more reading done on The Help today.. almost halfway through. SUCH a good read -- I really don't want to put it down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Started Cujo - Stephen King last night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Univerze Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Ugh, haven't read anything today yet, am due to leave for work in a few minutes and that's usually got me so tired by the evening I don't know if I'll get to read anything today. You know, sometimes your head wants to read but your eyes don't? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 I'm about to finish Fahrenheit 451 and I've already started on Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn. It sounds like a very interesting read: Ella Minnow Pea is the strangest, most original and delightful book you'll read this year; a novel told through the correspondence of the people of Nollop, who worship the author of the sentence The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. When the z falls from the monument they've erected to their hero, Nollop's priests - interpreting this as a divine commandment - outlaw the writing or even speaking of any word containing it. And then q falls, and then j... As the alphabet relentlessly shrinks, the islanders are left with an ever-smaller pool of permitted words for their communications, love letters, urgent messages, threats - and underground resistance. It's a race against time as letters continue to fall until only l, m, n, o and p are left. How can they save themselves from being silenced forever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Have finished Cell by Stephen King. I was suprised by how much I enjoyed it, the ending was a bit disappointing though. Finished The Winner by David Baldacci. I didn't love it, it was really slow in the biggining and I think that put me off. Have just started The History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, I'm just about following it so far. @Ned - Let me know how Cujo is I have this in my TBR pile. I went second hand shopping Saturday and there was a sale on in one of the shops, 4 books for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Have finished Cell by Stephen King. I was suprised by how much I enjoyed it, the ending was a bit disappointing though. @Ned - Let me know how Cujo is I have this in my TBR pile. Bah, i hate endings like that, might have to move it down the TBR pile I'll let you know how Cujo is, no problemo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosalind Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 started if you could see me now by Cecelia Ahern this morning, only a couple of chapters in it now don't have an opinion yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 I'm about to finish Fahrenheit 451 and I've already started on Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn. It sounds like a very interesting read: Wow, that does sound like a really original and interesting read! And we all know I would have to read it anyway, it being on a certain list... Last night read a bit of Too Close to Home again, when I'm through checking out the new messages on BCF I will continue the read! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Wow, that does sound like a really original and interesting read! And we all know I would have to read it anyway, it being on a certain list... I was pretty sure it was on the Rory list because I found out about it from Goodreads, but I don't always trust my memory. I've only read a few pages but it's going OK so far. The writing style seems a little much at times, like the author is trying too hard to use big words, but I'm trying to remind myself that the characters live on an island where language and words mean everything to them, so of course it's likely that they'd treat it with enormous respect and get the most out of it that they can. It's a short read too, at around 200 pages, and a lot of pages have only half a page of text, as the letters get shorter and shorter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 I just realised that Ella Minnow Pea must be one of the most difficult books to translate Note to self: Read it in English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Yes, I hadn't thought of that. I wonder if it has even been translated. I guess it would be impossible to translate into some languages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueK Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Frustratingly still reading Death of a Chancellor and have been reading it since before Christmas. I really want to start on some of my 2010 books - but I have been busy shovelling snow out of the driveway and other such wonderful chores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Just finished 'King Stakh's Hunt' Uladzimir Karatkevich trans Mary Mintz. Found this on the (un)originally named, but useful site 'Belarusian Literature in english transalation. Though it started slowly, the story became a bit of a page turner. It's set at the beginning of the 20th Century, and contains elements of 'Hound of the Baskervilles', Gogol's 'Dead Souls' and light gothic novel techniques. The narrator ends up , in a remote part of Belarus, and finds himself caught up in a local whodunit which he finally solves. Apparently it was written in the 1950's and slyly skirted the Soviet censors. Now have Angola. Norway and Australia to read. Also after lots of Googling and Wiki hunting finally nailed Greenland and Falkland Islands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshchick30 Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 I finished Kit Whitfield - Bareback, it was okay. Now I'm reading one of my favourite authors ~ Erica Spindler - Breakneck Is this book any good? I've read some of her books and ive been debating about whether to buy this one or not....Let me know your thoughts on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 I have just started reading Henry James' The Golden Bowl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbielleRose Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 I'm only a little ways in to Bitten by Kelley Armstrong but am already addicted. The book is fairly small so I should have it done (hopefully) within the next couple days so that I can get back to the other 2 half read books I have going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuggleMagic Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 I finished reading Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman. It was really good. Really good to revisit the old characters and places in the original work I started reading Mrs de Winter by Susan Hill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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