Stephanie2008 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Only 40 pages left of Let the Right One In. Should be finished later today This feels like the longest it's taken to read a book I'm enjoying it but it feels everlasting. Next I can finish Wuthering Heights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catwoman Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Only 40 pages left of Let the Right One In. Should be finished later today This feels like the longest it's taken to read a book I'm enjoying it but it feels everlasting. Next I can finish Wuthering Heights Whoooo hooooo for you Stephanie! Does seem like you have been reading it for years As for me, While the kids were in an indoor play area and my OH went out with some friends to say goodbye, as he is leaving tomorrow. I was able to read 80 pages of James Patterson's 3rd Degree. It is speeding through, very typical of Patterson's work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Four books followed me home from my charity shop visit today; Linda Fairstein's 'Bad Blood' John Connolly's 'The Lovers' Marjorie Blackman's 'Knife Edge' (I have 'Noughts And Crosses on my TBR mountain) & Sarah Water's 'Affinity' It was Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Finished Ultimate Weapon, deciding what to read next, Yes Man by Danny Wallace is calling to me i think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbielleRose Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Yes Man by Danny Wallace is calling to me i think Is that the book that inspired the Jim Carey movie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Yep, the very same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbielleRose Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I might have to put that on my list then! The movie was hillarious Hope you like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Thanks i've read his stuff before and he is very funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I haven't done any reading today, but I'm bring two or three books to my parents with me for the weekend so hopefully I'll get some done. I've less than 100 pages in Something Wicked This Way Comes, and I think after that it will be I, Lucifer, World War Z, and Vlad, roughly in that order that I read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceinwenn Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I started reading Water for Elephants yesterday on the train to Manchester & then read some more on the train back this morning. It's really good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steeeeve Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Yesterday I read: Born Standing Up - Steve Martin Coma - Alex Garland Both very short, both very good. Makes me wish Steve Martin would make a good film again. Also finished Dracula by Bram Stoker. I reall enjoyed it when I started it but by the last hundred pages I was bored and the ending is a massive anti-climax. Glad I read it though. Today I started The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius. Also bought: Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane Lirael - Garth Nix Abhorsen - Garth Nix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenKingman Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I finished Precious by Sapphire last night and i would rate it 8 out of 10, very moving and inspiring. Today i rented Duma Key from the library and will start reading it next week. It's a book from King which i never did get around to reading because of college and then it slipped my mind, but i am looking forward to it now. Not one of his major releases, so i believe, but one which has received positive reviews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Only 40 pages left of Let the Right One In. Should be finished later today This feels like the longest it's taken to read a book. I'm enjoying it but it feels everlasting. Next I can finish Wuthering Heights Hope you've enjoyed it Stephanie I finished Precious by Sapphire last night and i would rate it 8 out of 10, very moving and inspiring. I really fancy seeing this in its movie form as I've heard it's amazing but tragic. Not sure if I'm reading for a heartbreaking tale just yet. Glad you enjoyed the book StephenKingman I've finished The Reunion by LJ Smith and made a start on Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk. So far so good but I regret starting it while eating lunch *heave!* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenKingman Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Yes my eyes are peeled for the movie Precious, it apparently contains some stellar performances but these movies tend to sadly only be on limited release but i night get lucky and it will come here. The trailer is hard hitting and also features Mariah Carey as the school counseler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawr Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I read about ten pages of Northanger Abbey on the way to town and then I went off on a wander in the forest this afternoon so sat in a field reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and watched the clouds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitegold Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I started Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peacefield Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Read a bit more of Blackstone Key this morning and am hoping to make more of a dent tonight . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodkafan Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Finished two books this week so I allowed myself to buy two more from a charity shop on the way to work... Screenplay of Trainspotting and Sophie's World Total cost: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I read 110 pages of Cloudstreet yesterday. I can tell this is going to be an epic novel - the type I really like. It's terrific so far. Today I finished my Trixie Belden book and now I'm going to concentrate on Cloudstreet again...if I can manage to stay awake! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunn300 Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Managed to read about another 150 pages of Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant yesterday. Only 100 pages to go now and am still totally gripped in the story. Still can't believe how much I am enjoying this book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuggleMagic Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I finished reading The Time of my Life by Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi. I started the book thinking that it would be really sad but it was very interesting and I found out many things about him that I hadn't known before. It's a really good autobiography I got The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters out of the library but I haven't started it yet. Excited though as I love her Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenKingman Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Despite my pledge to only read classic books from the library, i purchased 1984 by George Orwell today in my local bookshop. It was only 10euro and had a cool cover so i dont feel so bad! Also, there were a string of other classic books that i have never read on the same shelf as 1984- Catcher in the Rye, War and Peace etc, but i will get those books from the library when i can. SO my book activity cost me 10euro today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbielleRose Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Also, there were a string of other classic books that i have never read on the same shelf as 1984- Catcher in the Rye, War and Peace etc, but i will get those books from the library when i can. SO my book activity cost me 10euro today. I just bought Catcher in the Rye last night along with Flowers for Algernon (couldn't resist its one of my all time favorites) and The Lovely Bones. I have read the second two but don't remember if I had ever read Catcher in the Rye or have just always wanted to. I'll try and resist cracking open CitR until I finsih Gone with the Wind. Hopefully I can make a bit of a dent in it this weekend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenKingman Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I just bought Catcher in the Rye last night along with Flowers for Algernon (couldn't resist its one of my all time favorites) and The Lovely Bones. I have read the second two but don't remember if I had ever read Catcher in the Rye or have just always wanted to. I'll try and resist cracking open CitR until I finsih Gone with the Wind. Hopefully I can make a bit of a dent in it this weekend! Im ashamed to admit that i havent a clue what Catcher in the Rye is even about! I know its a classic from JD Salinger, recently deceased, but apart from that nothing. Is it the only book released by Salinger or just the most successful. Did you like The Lovely Bones then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbielleRose Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Here is the little synopsis from Barnes and Noble. I was scheduled to read it my final year in high school but ended up transfering schools to a private institution for my final year where they had alredy read it in a previous year's work, so now I'm finally going back and catching up on it. I could have sworn that I checked it out of the library at one point my senior year with the intent to read it but the more I think about it, I'm sure I never did. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep. The Lovely Bones really captured a part of me. In all honesty, it was one of the most difficult books for me to read just because of the beginning, but I would consider it a great book and one that I want to read again before I form a fully rounded opinion of it. How about you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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