Lilywhite Posted July 27, 2006 Author Share Posted July 27, 2006 I am enjoying this one so far Michelle, I have waited quite a while to read it too. Unfortunately it means I haven't finished Emma yet, but I will get there, eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted July 28, 2006 Author Share Posted July 28, 2006 Ok, I think I'd better do some real reading, really fast.... I'm having to dig my way through books in my flat, and for some unknown reason, more keep arriving in the post I wonder why Just managed to get my two reserves from the library today, but I still have previous books to read first.....decisions eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted July 30, 2006 Author Share Posted July 30, 2006 I finished The Golem's Eye today, and I think that I will start the last one in the trilogy while we have it here. I loved Golem's Eye and I found it a much better story than The Amulet of Samarkand. You have to love Bartemaeus though, so funny. Next book Ptolemy's Gate ~ Jonathan Stroud Three years on from the events in "The Golem's Eye", the magicians' rule in London is teetering on a knife-edge, with strikes, riots and general unrest. The Prime Minister is largely controlled by two advisors, one of whom is 17-year-old Nathaniel. Meanwhile, living under a false identity, Kitty has been researching djinn. She has come to believe that the only way to destroy the magicians is for an alliance of some kind between djinn and ordinary people. Kitty seeks out Bartimaeus and embarks on a terrifying journey into the djinn's chaotic domain - The Other Place - which no human being has ever survived. But even as she does so, Makepeace engineers a dramatic coup d'etat. The outcome is a shattering of the magicians' control and all magical laws are turned upside down. Can Bartimaeus, Nathaniel and Kitty settle old scores if they are to survive and prevent the earth's destruction? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 I can't remember the actual storyline of the first one, because it was a while ago. I did enjoy The Golem's Eye, and I've started Ptolemy's Gate.. but I started Empress Orchid, and have gotten myself caught up with that one instead! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 1, 2006 Author Share Posted August 1, 2006 I know I promised myself I would be good and not get any more books until I had made a dent in those waiting to be read but I couldn't resist 3 for Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarahrob Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 3 for Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 1, 2006 Author Share Posted August 1, 2006 I know, but I go every week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 1, 2006 Author Share Posted August 1, 2006 Finally finished Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud, which completes the Bartemaeus Trilogy. I absolutely loved these books and would recommend them to everyone. I think everyone should have the chance to enjoy Bartemaeus' company Seen as some books are due back at the libarary soon, I am limited as to what to read next but I think I will chose Sarah Waters ~ Night Watch Synopsis Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching ...Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbours a painful secret ...Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover ...Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 3, 2006 Author Share Posted August 3, 2006 i finished the night watch today and I enjoyed it a lot. After reading tipping the velvet i decided to get a few more by Sarah Waters and this was her latest one. Set in the WWII period it was quite harrowing in places but still a thoroughly enjoyable story. Next is my OC book for the week Arnaldur Indridason ~ Tainted Blood A man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat. There are no obvious clues apart from a cryptic note left on the body and a photograph of a young girl's grave. Detective Erlendur is forced to use all the forensic resources available to find any leads at all. Delving into the dead man's life he discovers that forty years ago he was accused of an appalling crime. Did his past come back to haunt him? Finally, Erlendur's search leads him to Iceland's Genetic Research Centre in order to find the disturbing answers to the mystery. This prizewinning international bestseller is the first in a new series of crime novels set in Iceland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Ooh, that one sounds rather interesting - i like the sounds of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 3, 2006 Author Share Posted August 3, 2006 so far so good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icecream Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Yes, sounds an excellant read. I shall add it to my wish list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 4, 2006 Author Share Posted August 4, 2006 I finished this one this afternoon, and I quite enjoyed it. My one problem with it is, it seems to be written like a TV programme, there's no suspense in it and it just flows from one scene to the next with small links. Still great though and a fantastic plot. Next it will be Bitten ~ Kelley Armstrong Elena Michaels is the world's only female werewolf. And she's tired of it. Tired of a life spent hiding and protecting, a life where her most important job is hunting down rogue werewolves. Tired of a world that not only accepts the worst in her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 That's not the blurb for Bitten - that's the one for Haunted if I remember correctly. Which one is it you'll be reading? Theyre both excellent by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 7, 2006 Author Share Posted August 7, 2006 oops my mistake.... will fix it (darn Amazon, it was their synopsis) Finished Bitten today, I enjoyed it but wasn't blown away by it. Maybe my expectations were a little high but I will carry on with the series as I am interested and it's been said that some of the others are more interesting. Not sure what I will read next, I haven't chosen yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 8, 2006 Author Share Posted August 8, 2006 I decided on Ghost Girl ~ Torey Hayden. Have read a couple of hers before and enjoyed them. Jadie never spoke, never laughed, never cried. She spent every waking hour locked in her own private world of shadows. But nothing in Torey Hayden's experience had prepared her for the nightmare Jadie revealed to her when finally persuaded to break her self-imposed silence. It was a story too painful, too horrific for Hayden's professional colleagues to acknowledge. But Torey Hayden could not close her ears or her heart. A little girl was trapped in a living hell of unspeakable memories. And it would take every ounce of courage, compassion, and love that one remarkable teacher possessed to rid the "Ghost Girl" of the malevolent spirits that haunted her. 100 pages in and really enjoying this one, this woman really is a modern day superwoman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 8, 2006 Author Share Posted August 8, 2006 Just back from the library and managed to get four books off my want to read list, which makes that list smaller. But now they are on my TBR pile, which makes that bigger Joanne Harris ~ Gentlemen & Players Thomas H Cook ~ Red Leaves Joyce Carol Oates ~ Female of the species Sabine Dardenne ~ I choose to live I managed to get around the boot fair without buying any books this week. I am trying to be good and get my TBR list down a bit. If I can halve it I will be a happy bunny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I've got Gentlemen & Players on my TBR pile too - lookin forward to getting to it - eventually ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 8, 2006 Author Share Posted August 8, 2006 Finished Ghost Girl. This is an emotional book but you do feel for everyone involved. I really admire Torey Hayden for all the work she has done with children who need it. Next shall be my OC book for Belgium I Choose To Live ~ Sabine Dardenne On 28 May 1996 twelve year old Sabine Dardenne was kidnapped by the man who turned out to be one of Belgium's most heinous paedophiles. She was his prisoner for eighty long days. 'The Dutroux Affair' shook the whole of Europe. In the middle of the immense machinery of investigation and justice there was Sabine Dardenne herself, Marc Dutroux's last victim. She was held captive for eighty days and, astonishingly, she survived. Far from sensationalising the horror, her story, dignified and restrained, is ultimately uplifting. Says Sabine Dardenne. 'I choose to live'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 9, 2006 Author Share Posted August 9, 2006 I finished I Choose to Live this afternoon. I knew I would have to read it in as fewer sittings as possible or I just wouldn't be able to finish it. This story is disturbing and distressing for the most, but what makes it remarkable is Sabine's ability to bring her captor to justice and move on with her life. Her stubborness not to get dragged down by it all is amazing. I recommend this book only if you can deal with such traumatic events. Next I have decided on Gentlemen and Players ~ Joanne Harris The place is St Oswald Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 I'm looking forward to gettnig to Gentlemen & Players, so I'll be eagerly awaiting your thoughts on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 13, 2006 Author Share Posted August 13, 2006 I finally finished Gentlemen and Players this afternoon. It's taken me ages because I just couldn't get into it. It's worth the read but you only realise it after slogging through 400 of the 500 pages. Next it is Joyce Carol Oates ~ The Female of the Species Contains tales, tales in which women are confronted by the evil around them and surprised by the evil they find within themselves. This book demonstrates why the females of the species - be they six-year-old girls, seemingly devoted wives, or ageing mothers - are by nature more deadly than the males. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 14, 2006 Author Share Posted August 14, 2006 These I read quite easily as they were short stories. Although they were a fascinating read, I don't think I get on well with Oates writing style. I found myself losing interest and kept having to go back to them. Next I will read Mitch Albom ~ The Five People You Meet in Heaven On his eighty-third birthday, Eddie, a lonely war veteran, dies in a tragic accident trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. With his final breath, he feels two small hands in his - and then nothing. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 I finished The Five People You Meet in Heaven and thouroughly enjoyed it, even though it made me cry It's such a lovely book but it left me with many many emotions... hence the tears :oops: Don't know what I will read next as I'm off to the library later and I might pick something up there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 As I said, I've been to the library today. I managed to pick up a couple of books so they journey was more successful than I thought it would be. I managed to get Laura Wilson ~ Hello Bunny Alice, The HIghest Tide ~ Jim Lynch, Like Water For Chocolate ~ Laura Esquivel (OC) and The Innocent ~ Posie Graeme-Evans. I think I will read Like Water For Chocolate ~ Laura Esquivel my Olympic Challenge book for this week. The number one bestseller in Mexico for almost two years, and subsequently a best seller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness and bittersweet wit. A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and in desperation he marries her sister Rosauro so that he can stay close to her. For the next 22 years, Tita and Pedro are forced to circle each other in unconsummated passion. Only a freakish chain of tragedies, bad luck and fate finally reunite them against all the odds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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