Ooshie Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 From Tesco 2 for 1 I got The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell and The Chosen One by Sam Bourne, and my mum gave me A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore. I had started 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs, but I have left it at mum's, so I have gone back to The Polysyllabic Spree - only about 20 pages left to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Butter Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 I'm nearly at the halfway mark of Crimson Petal & the White & really enjoying it. I also got another haul from the charity shop today The Welsh Girl Peter Ho Davies The Glassblower of Murano Marina Fiorato The Outcast Sadie Jones and for the kids here lies Arthur Phillip Reeve Mothstorm Phillip Reeve The Book of Dead Days Marcus Sedgwick I enjoyed The Welsh Girl (although I recall opinions on here were mixed), and I hope you will, too. I've had The Outcast staring at me from the bookshelf for ages, but I haven't managed to get round to it yet. It seems to have been pretty well received, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Picked up Or is That Just Me? by Richard Hammond and Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (the latter was only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicx27 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 The Glassblower of Murano Marina FioratoThe Outcast Sadie Jones I absolutely loved both of these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Ive finished Bridget Jones' Diary and i have started the sequal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 I ordered from amazon ~ The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella (Twilight Saga) by Stephenie Meyer Night by Elie Wiesel Day by Elie Wiesel Dawn by Elie Wiesel And I borrowed from my sister~in~law ~ If I Stay by Gayle Forman In the Bunker with Hitler: The last witness speaks by Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 'Chattering:Stories' by Louise Stern arrived in the post today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidsmum Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 I absolutely loved both of these. Good to hear i wasn't sure about The Outcast but for 99p i guess it doesn't matter, that's the beauty of charity shops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Did a spot of book crossing today. Left my copy of Zombies of the Gene Pool by Sharyn McCrumb at the Brig O'Don restaurant in Aberdeen at lunch time. THe waitress came running out after me, shouting, "You've left your book behind!". Nice lass. I explained about book crossing to her. I kinda hope she kept the book for herself now. I stuck a little card for this forum in the book too, so I hope whoever picked/picks it up comes along to let us know what he/she thought of it! THat's 2 books i've released into the wild this week - I left Whatever Happened To Baby Jane at the Buckie Farm Carvery restaurant on Wednesday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessi Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Read quite a bit of Seton's Katherine today - a cracking read! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 At my parents - Jonathan Strange was too big a book to bring for the sake of the 100 pages left in it, so I brought my Christopher Pike to finish and also The Lady And The Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_mob Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 From Tesco 2 for 1 I got The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell and The Chosen One by Sam Bourne I got these from the same shop,plus Jeremy Clarkson's and John Grisham's latest. Read 137 pages of Andy McDermott's 'The Cult Of Osiris'. Good book by him as usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 I finished The Reckoning, really enjoyed the trilogy and would deffo recommend it! Now I'm going to start Beastly by Alex Flinn which is a modern retelling of Beauty & the Beast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Butter Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Polished off Inferno last night. It's a sobering read - 45,00 people killed in a night's bombing of Hamburg, and almost all of them civilians. As an account of what happened it's interesting enough, but the real questions it raises are moral ones. Is it right to bomb civilians indiscriminately? Is there such a thing as a "civilian" in time of war? Do the lives saved in the long term, by shortening the war, justify targeting non-military targets? Those are all questions which are as relevant today as they were 65 years ago. Well worth a read for anyone with an interest in the Second World War, or military history generally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookJumper Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Read 60 pages of The Curious Incident... in the shop yesterday; 67 or so to go so I'm hoping to get it done and dusted this afternoon. I don't care if it's a children's book, a book in four sittings is absolutely amazing for present-day-me, so I'm happy hello, mojo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 A trip to town resulted in these books coming home with me: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - Stephenie Meyer (of which I've already read 50 pages in Starbucks ) The Chosen One - Sam Bourne Martin Lukes: Who Moved My Blackberry? - Lucy Kellaway Blood Promise - Richelle Mead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ooshie Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Finished The Complete Polysyllabic Spree , and about 50 pages into The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie2008 Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 I should be finished Shadow Souls by LJ Smith today Probably read Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Butter Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Said I wasn't going to buy any more books, and here they are: Lyttleton's Britain - only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucybird Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Have about 130 pages of Head Trip left...wish it was over I've lost my mood for non-fiction somewhere in the middle of reading it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ooshie Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 I have realised that I have been neglecting my Folio Society books for paperbacks, so have decided to leave The Scarpetta Factor upstairs for bedtime, and read my FS Possession downstairs. I have got out of the habit of reading more than one book at a time, though, so I will have to see how I get on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Finished Passion Unleashed and have now moved on to The Vampire's Betrayal by Raven Hart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Finished .... 'Case Histories' ~ Kate Atkinson (was really good) Starting ..... 'Friday Nights' ~ Joanna Trollope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Started "Close" by Martina Cole today:readingtwo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 I've just started a librarything review book: Once in a Blue Moon by Leanna Ellis. 'tis OK so far. Think I'm going to read more of The Complete Polysyllabic Spree now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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