Your Book Activity Today - Thread 10

[chesilbeach]

You've been busy, Kylie! There's soon be nothing left of your TBR pile (well when I say soon, I mean a few years at least )

[Coffin Nail]

I finished Jo Brand-The More You ignore and was disappointed with the ending. Still it was entertaining enough for the most part.

 

And although I'm clearly on safe ground with Ian Rankin, A Question of Blood I recognised as a story I'd seen in the Rebus TV series.

It certainly makes for a diluted reading experience.

[Kylie]

You've been busy, Kylie! There's soon be nothing left of your TBR pile (well when I say soon, I mean a few years at least )

 

Thanks Chesil. I was rather alarmed to see my TBR pile go over 600 so I'm trying to get it back under that so I won't feel so bad.

[catwoman]

Yesterday I finished I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley which I loved, then started Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick yesterday evening and finished this morning, and I've just started The Carbon Diaries 2017 by Saci Lloyd.

 

What did you think of Hush Hush mate?

 

I have finally finished Untamed, really liked it and wish I had the time to finish it quicker. I am now debating what to read next. Do I read the follow on to Untamed, Hunted or do I read Stephanie Meyer's The Host.

[chesilbeach]

Just finished The Carbon Diaries 2017 which was very good, and I liked the direction the author took the story.

 

What did you think of Hush Hush mate?

 

I have finally finished Untamed, really liked it and wish I had the time to finish it quicker. I am now debating what to read next. Do I read the follow on to Untamed, Hunted or do I read Stephanie Meyer's The Host.

 

 

I liked Hush, Hush a lot, it certainly was a page turner, and I even read some in bed because I so wanted to keep going, but sleep got the better of me in the end and had to finish it the next morning A bit predictable, and in the same vein as all the other YA fantasy novels out there at the moment, but I like reading them so it was pretty good.

 

If I were you I'd read Hunted, but I'm one of those that didn't like The Host much.

[catwoman]

Honestly I don't want to read The Host, it does not seem to be grabbing me and I REALLy want to carry on the series of house of the Night. Do you know how many more I have to yet to read? I want to keep at least one for the flight to the states next month.

[chesilbeach]

The paperback of Tempted (book 6) and the hardback of Burned (book 7) are both released this week, I think.

[catwoman]

The paperback of Tempted (book 6) and the hardback of Burned (book 7) are both released this week, I think.

 

Awesome I think I have seen the tweets saying that Burned has just been released. I think I have seen a hardback edition of Brurned in my library. so t least I know that there are two I have got to get.

 

Hmmm, I think I will read hunted next then.

 

Thanks mate!

[chesilbeach]

You're welcome!

 

I'm moving on to Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome this afternoon.

[Kate]

You're welcome!

 

I'm moving on to Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome this afternoon.

 

That is a very good book

 

I've been reading The White Tiger today. About halfway through it

[poppyshake]

Read a few chapters of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson. My toe dabbling into the world of poetry may prove to be quite expensive, lots of poets worth a further look.

 

I love that Tennyson poem

 

'Sometimes a troop of damsels glad,

An abbot on an ambling pad,

Sometimes a curly shepherd lad,

Or long-hair'd page in crimson clad

Goes by to tower'd Camelot;

And sometimes through the mirror blue

The knights come riding two and two.

She hath no loyal Knight and true,

The Lady of Shalott'

 

Love it! It's a poem that you can really visualise.

 

Getting towards the end of Julian Barnes's book 'A History of the World ...' it's a book of short stories really and I've liked some more than others, but on the whole it's good.

[Stephanie2008]

I attempted to sort my books out yesterday into "Read" and "To Be Read". I got half way through and had to give up I have far too many books and not enough time to read them!

[Steeeeve]

Just finished Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I haven't read 1984 in a long long time but I remember enjoying it a lot more than I did this. Even though Brave New World is shorter I found it dragged more. It felt like a short story he had just stretched out.

It was good. Just not amazing or anything. Maybe I'd have liked it more if I understood the ending

[pickle]

I am half way through the Language of Bees by Laurie R King i do like he alternative and continuation of the Holmes genre as she doesn't try to set it at the same time as the original stories which so many people try to do.

[Lucybird]

Finished Malinche

[Mexicola]

I finished City of Thieves and loved it. For some reason I'd been putting off reading it but I'm glad it managed to reach the top of Mt. TBR!

 

I'm now onto Great Expectations.

[Kate]

I have just finished The White Tiger by Adigo. I enjoyed it a lot

[madcow]

I managed a few more chapters of The Lace Reader today sat on the park whilst Hannah did her umpiring bit

[Nollaig]

Today I bought:

 

Coffee With Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland

The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zaf

[Nicola Booth]

Today I bought:

 

Coffee With Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland

The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zaf

[vodkafan]

This has been a crazy weekend for me. But I have managed to read over half-way into Tipping The Velvet.

[chesilbeach]

Just finished Three Men In A Boat and very satisfying it was too

[AbielleRose]

Just read a little more in Brightly Woven. Its pretty good so far

[Rawr]

Read a couple more chapters of The Book Thief.

[Skírnir]

I read a few more pages in Au