Jessi Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Is it good? I enjoyed it - I wasn't expecting a lot of the twists so that helped. I like a lot of Sparks books and thought this was one of the best, very complexed emotionally. Definately worth a read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidsmum Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Still no reading done (sigh)!!! However had a veritable orgy of book buying in the charity shop 2x Charlaine Harris True Blood books Don't Look Now & Other Stories Daphne Du Maurier Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth The Sex Life of My Aunt Mavis Cheek Once in a House On Fire Andrea Ashworth Notes On A Scandal Zoe Heller With Your Crooked Heart Helen Dunmore The Lieutenant Kate Grenville Gulag A History Anne Applebaum If anyone has read any of these books i'd be interested to hear your opinions of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 I bought today ~ The Object Lesson by Edward Gorey The Woman in Black by Susan Hill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucybird Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Am on volume 2 of Northanger Abbey now and have about 90 pages left. Am still enjoying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 I am now 350 pages into The Passage and it is blooming good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Finished Mephisto Club, really enjoyed it. A girl at work has insisted I read one of her recommendations, Kathy Reichs-Deja Dead. I can't say I'm over keen but I'll give it a whirl. I like a lot of Kathy Reichs books but I am wary of her last one as my friend said it was the weakest yet. I am still part way through UnLundun and am loving it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Read the first of the YA series of Morganville Vampire books, Glass Houses, and I loved it! So glad I got the rest of the series cheaply yesterday, as I'm sure I'll be whizzing through them over the next few weeks Creepy, bad vampires in small town America, and after the ending of book one, I desperately want to know if what happens has actually happened! However, don't want to rush through them too quickly, so going to read something else before starting on book two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 'Planet of the Blind' by Stephen Kuusisto arrived for me. An impulse purchase, but one I am so looking forward to reading. Does he have Finnish blood in him by any chance? The last name is Finnish I'm over halfway through The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby. After reading other people's reviews I thought maybe I should read it in small doses, but I've been happy to read it straight through. It's very good so far, and much funnier than I expected. I'm glad you're enjoying it. I'll be expecting to hear which books made it to your list on account of the book I read on someone's blog that he has started writing for 'The Believer' again, I'm hoping for a second volume. Here here!! Got Karin Slaughter - Broken from my friend over the weekend, so I read 70 pages of that on the wat back home. Awesome read so far..... Of Course! Broken?? Which novel is this? A new one I hope? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nienna Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Found a copy of Pratchett's illustrated The Last Hero in the pound shop - for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Not read anything today, but have been trying to choose maybe 3 books to take on my hols. Do I take some from my tbr pile I have listed on my reading blog thingy on here, or pick so others. Was maybe tempted to take The Notebook, not too long a read, maybe an Isla Dewar. Also picked up The Abortionist's Daughter.....oh decisions decision:readingtwo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peacefield Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Not much activity today, but last night in bed I managed to get up to page 180 in The Last Witchfinder. I'm loving it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 I'm glad you're enjoying it. I'll be expecting to hear which books made it to your list on account of the book Prepare to be disappointed Frankie...I purposely didn't keep a record of the interesting books. He made lots of interesting observations about books, but I can't say that I desperately wanted to read any of the books he mentioned. I had big plans for reading today but I keep falling asleep whenever I pick up my book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 Does he have Finnish blood in him by any chance? The last name is Finnish I think there might be a Finnish connection, although he was born in the United States. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 Just finished Restless by William Boyd, and thoroughly enjoyed it, what a roller coaster! I have to read as many of his books as I am able now. We couldn't resist purchasing David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet tonight. I've read the first chapter already, and phew! Terrific! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 I am most of the way through UnLundun and I really want to finish it, dam work for getting in the way of my reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 Prepare to be disappointed Frankie...I purposely didn't keep a record of the interesting books. He made lots of interesting observations about books, but I can't say that I desperately wanted to read any of the books he mentioned. I had big plans for reading today but I keep falling asleep whenever I pick up my book. Nah, I'm not disappointed, I'm proud of the method you chose and that you've stuck to it Too bad you didn't get much reading done though I've kept on going with Karen Harper, it's an interesting thriller about an Amish woman, I find the Amish ever so intriguing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexie Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 Finished the Millennium series. Great!!!! Just started The Nun by Denis Diderot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessi Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 I am beginning Lord Robert today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixie Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 I am finally almost half way through Gone With The Wind. It's a bit long-winded, and I doubt I would read it again, but I am enjoying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 I am finally almost half way through Gone With The Wind. It's a bit long-winded, and I doubt I would read it again, but I am enjoying it. Did you mean to say that? I have started, from a total random grab from the shelf, 'Fear The Worst' by Linwood Barclay. It should be a distrcting read for what has turned out to be a bit of a muddled week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixie Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 Did you mean to say that? No, now that I think about it, I meant to say it is too long-winded. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenmck Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 I finished Jess Granger's "Beyond The Shadows". This was a sequel and it was good....but not as good (IMHO) as the first one "Beyond The Rain". She's a fantastic writer, however, so I'll buy her next one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 I bought Sophie Kinsella's Twenties Girl for a reading group on another book forum, and for my own pleasure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Butter Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 Well, that's Strange Days Indeed out of the way. OK-ish ... Francis Wheen's normally a witty writer, but this didn't have a great deal of spark for me. I've probably read so much 1970s history in my time that there are few surprises, but it's a reasonable enough read if you don't know the period too well and want a skim through some of the major political events, all bound together (in some places quite tenuously) by a thread of conspiracy. What next? A nice slab of fiction, perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mab Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 Just picked up Sherrilyn Kenyon's new YA offering Infinity, not bad so far. Also reading Book Of Secrets by Chris Roberson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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