Your Book Activity Today - Thread 12

[bookworm44]

In the past two day I've only managed to read 100 pages of The Prince of Tides. I think it's the small print. I can't stand small print! =(

[pipread]

I'm getting on well with Trial & Retribution II. Lynda la Plante does not disappoint. 

 

I read my first Lynda La Plante book last week, Red Dahlia, thoroughly enjoyed it and looking forward to reading more of her work.

 

 

Nice to have you back!

 

I'm now up to page 205 of Copycat and starting to get into it, just another 532 pages to go, just as well I'm enjoying it!

 

 

Glad your mojo's behaving!

Edited August 4, 2010 by pipread

[Stephanie2008]

I didn't want to read a new book so I decided to reread Time Traveler's Wife and I'm falling in love with it all over again

[Peacefield]

Nice to have you back!

 

I'm now up to page 205 of Copycat and starting to get into it, just another 532 pages to go, just as well I'm enjoying it!

 

Thanks, Charm!! Glad you are getting into your book and keeping your mojo around!

[BookJumper]

Today I:

 

- pottered around the second-hand bookshops of Stratford-Upon-Avon and drooled over pretty books I could not afford

- emerged from the local Waterstone's with a much longer wishlist than I had entered with (let us just say, I had to be asked to leave )

- read 7 pages of Jack Vance's The Dying Earth on the bus so far so good - I'm not sure I'm too keen on the distressed damsel element, however the man has a way with words so I'll probably forgive him.

[Pixie]

Today I:

 

- pottered around the second-hand bookshops of Stratford-Upon-Avon and drooled over pretty books I could not afford

 

I know this feeling, Bookjumper.

 

I am half way done with Kafka on the Shore and I can't express how much I love this book so far. If the author's other books are similar, I am going to be in new-author-to-adore-but-can't-afford-it-heaven(or hell, depending on your perspective).

[AbielleRose]

I read a few more chapters in Glass Houses and am itching to finish it so that I can start the next book in the series! <3

[whitegold]

Finally finished The Pact by Jodi Picoult. It picked up near the end. Nothing like My Sisters Keeper, but still good Now I need to pick my next read. I'm debating between: Eat, Pray, Love or Her Fearful Symmetry.

[tunn300]

Finished The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon yesterday, a really excellent read. I am now going to start Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes.

Edited August 5, 2010 by tunn300

[pontalba]

Finished the wonderful A Widow for One Year by John Irving.

 

Thinking of picking up Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. I read it decades ago, but can't remember most of it.

[frankie]

I'm totally at a loss. I don't know what to read next and it's making me edgy. I don't like this at all.

[AbielleRose]

I'm totally at a loss. I don't know what to read next and it's making me edgy. I don't like this at all.

 

 

What are your options?

[frankie]

What are your options?

Well... 270 books on my TBR You can take a look at my reading blog if you want to help  

 

Edit: I'm getting rid of a few books that I've read and will not read again. Fortunately one of the Denmark posse girls I'm seeing this weekend is an avid reader too and she's glad to get them all. I'm donating Lynda la Plante's Trial & Retribution II, Karen Harper's Down to the Bone, Peter Robinson's Aftermath, Henning Mankell's Sidetracked and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In. My friend collects Mankell herself which is great but she hasn't heard of the other titles before. I'm just glad that I know these books will be given a loving new home  

 

 

Edited August 5, 2010 by frankie

[Janet]

- emerged from the local Waterstone's with a much longer wishlist than I had entered with (let us just say, I had to be asked to leave )

They asked you to leave? Why? I've spent hours in the ones in Bath, Wells and Trowbridge and nobody has batted an eyelid.

 

I'm still plodding through Lovely Green Eyes by Arnošt Lustig. It's a bit dull, to tell the truth, but I'm going to have to persevere with it as it is the Czech Republic book for my World Challenge!

[Kylie]

I read about 75 pages of Little Women and a bit of A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Both are great books.

[BookJumper]

They asked you to leave? Why? I've spent hours in the ones in Bath, Wells and Trowbridge and nobody has batted an eyelid.

Because everything that isn't a restaurant closes at six in Stratford, and I'm used to Londonite hours now !

[Janet]

Oh closing time, well that's okay then. When I read your posted it sounded like they'd thrown you out without just case!

[Charm]

Glad your mojo's behaving!

 

 

Glad you are getting into your book and keeping your mojo around!

 

 

Thanks!

[Coffin Nail]

I'm about half way through Stuart Macbride's Dark Blood and it's shaping up to be another corker.

[TheNinthWord]

I've just finished The Fellowship of the Ring on my quick re-read of the trilogy ready for my uni course. Onto The Two Towers now. Hopefully will have the whole thing finished by next week.

[whitegold]

I picked Eat Pray Love for my next read. I'm not that far in to it but I am really liking it so far. Her writing flows nicely

[Roland Butter]

Started Hans Fallada's "Alone in Berlin" while I was away. It's a truly excellent book, even allowing for the clunky translation. Highly recommended, and I don't say that about too many books.

[Stephanie2008]

I bought Geordie Vs Mackems by Ian Black and Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller for £1 each

 

I'm about 30 pages into a reread of Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

[sirinrob]

Almost halfway through A Case of Exploding Mangoes and really enjoying it

[pickle]

I finished Linwood Barclays - Too Close to Home it was good but I did figure out the story before the end. So I am back to pride and Predjudice and Zombies its really really funny.