Inver Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Had a good Bookcrossing meetup tonight at the Belmont Cinema cafe. Came home with 5 books after taking 3...oh well. Two Garfield books (Kenny likes them) 'Colony' by Rob Grant (for hubby to read) 'Black Odyssey' The Case of the Slave Ship Amistad by Mary Cable. (for hubby to read) 'The Identity Factor' by James Houston Turner (again one of yours Kell, thanks, for hubby to read) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 I've started reading The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 I'm reading Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan. 186 pages into it so far, and it's really good. Really unusual, quite graphic in someways but very relenting in others. Also, it IS a fantasy/fairytale novel, but it reads very realistically. Very, very unusal. But thoroughly enjoying it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 'The Abyss' by Orson Scott Card Interesting choice - I read it before seeing the film and thought it was quite a lot better than the movie. And it had the advantage of making me go out and buy Ender's Game by the same author, which is one of the best sf novels I've ever read. Last night I read about 80 pages of C J Sansom's Dissolution and was really enjoying it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Currently reading Londons Dead by Ed Gilbert which is a guided tour of the Capitals dead and so far its a fascinating read, I can see myself reading this but then researching all manner of tangents as its writtens in snippets of news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopeanha Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 I read Esio Trot by Roald Dahl yesterday in bed. Very short and cute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 I had a good reading day: 100 pages of Anne of Avonlea and 60 of The Lost Continent. I doubt I'll get much reading done on the weekend though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopeanha Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 I read Coraline by Neil Gaiman today, can't wait to see the film now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Picked up Something Beginning With by Sarah Salway in my ongoing quest to read more short stories. Michelle suggested it a while ago, but only just got round to buying it. Used my points on my Waterstone's card so it was a free book! Read a couple of chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird, and about to read a few more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Butter Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Well, finished "The Slaves of Solitude", and very good it was too. I love Patrick Hamilton's work. Time for a bit of non-fiction now, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catwoman Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Only got 70 pages to read of The Eyre Affair. It has actually picked up alot, still not loving it as much as The big Over Easy, but I am getting into it. There is one bit that remined me of my times of going to Rocky Horror show that had me in stitches. Hoping if I can stay awake to read, Genisis by Karin slaughter. I keep seeing the book beside me ready to be read and I am salivating!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 My mojo is all over the place at the minute. I tried to start American Psycho again but it just isn't happening. So now I'm reading an academic book called Disadvantaged by Where You Live?, which is about how the notion of community and neighbourhood has been used in urban planning policy in the UK. My mojo seems happy to absorb the words so I'm just running with it. Zzzzzzzzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peacefield Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 I'm up to about page 120 of The Ruins and am really freaked out! It's not horror, but definitely one of the creepiest books I've read. No wonder Stephen King has praise printed on the cover! So scary... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 I'm reading The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa. It is really good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Butter Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 Started "My Name is Daphne Fairfax", the autobiography of comedian Arthur Smith. I'm not a huge fan of "alternative comedy" (the clue's in the name - if it was funny, it would just be "comedy"), but he's one of the few that does make me laugh. And he's from South London ... Nice, unchallenging read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100th Idiot Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 Not really today but two days ago I finished Pandemonium by Christopher Brookmyre. It was OK. Not one of his best. The first half of the booked worked well with the character build up. Have to decide what to read next. I have Revelation Space by Alistair Reynolds ready to go but I'm being tempted by Faust (the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe version). Decision decisions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 I saw that W H Smiths have reduced the prices of their eBooks (so they're now competitive with the Kindle prices on Amazon, yay), so got the following five books for a total of £16: A Maiden's Grave by Jeffery Deaver Gravity by Tess Gerritsen Redbreast by Jo Nesbo The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson My TBR pile seems to have increased dramatically this week Also read about 100 pages of C J Sansom's Dissolution last night. Absolutely loving it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 I managed to read just a few pages of The Lost Continent today. I'm hoping to slip in a few pages of Anne of Avonlea before I go to bed. I had some other, unexpected, book activity today. My friend wanted to go to Borders to get a magazine and I thought I'd be good and get nothing (Borders is pretty dear here). But there was a display set up inside the door for Justin Cronin's The Passage, which I hadn't been able to find in the same shop a few weeks earlier. It was on sale for $21.99 so I picked up a copy. As I was walking around I came across more copies of the book and one of them was marked $19.99. I guess it was an error but I thought I'd try my luck so I swapped the books and I ended up getting it for the cheaper price. Yay! Then we passed Dymocks and they had a sale on so I thought I'd go in there just for a look. On the way back out I found The Big Book of Pulps edited by Otto Penzler. It's made up of three smaller books: The Crimefighters, The Villains and The Dames. I already have the first two but hadn't found the third for a reasonable price. I found this book (over 1100 pages!) for only $8 which is an absolute bargain! I think I bought The Crimefighters for $20-$30 alone! And my friend bought me a book about cats because I'll probably be getting one soon. It's a kind of diary where you can keep track of certain things, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie2008 Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 Yesterday I bought two books from Asda. They were £3.86 each or two for £3. The offer didn't make much sense but I wasn't going to argue * Babyville by Jane Green * Presumed Guilty by Tess Gerritsen. Last night I started to read Presumed Guilty before I went to sleep (it was the first Tess Gerritsen book I've read). I was hooked after about 5 pages and had to stay up til the wee hours of the morning finishing it. The story wasn't fantastic but I was hooked and did not guess who the murderer was. I will have to look out for more of her books in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100th Idiot Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 I saw that W H Smiths have reduced the prices of their eBooks (so they're now competitive with the Kindle prices on Amazon, yay), so got the following five books for a total of £16: A Maiden's Grave by Jeffery Deaver Gravity by Tess Gerritsen Redbreast by Jo Nesbo The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson My TBR pile seems to have increased dramatically this week Also read about 100 pages of C J Sansom's Dissolution last night. Absolutely loving it Thanks for the tip on WHSmith. Just about to load up with holiday reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 Read another 94 pages of Tender Morsels yesterday and another 50 so far today. Totally not at all what I expected, but really enjoying it. Hopefully will finish it tonight or tomorrow, I'm moving much slower than I intended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidsmum Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 Managed to read about 30 pages of Cutting for Stone I'm hoping to prod my mojo back to life it seems like such a long time since I've managed to do any serious reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brida Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 ^^I hear ya. I've read The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov today. Also, read some more of Flowers for Algernon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Squiggles Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 I've had a really good reading day today. This morning I started The Difference a Day Makes by Carole Matthews and so far I've read 257 pages. I could potentially finish it this evening if I put my mind to it. I've also just realised that I still haven't gotten around to starting a book log on here, so I'll have to pencil that in as a job to do tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 Managed to get three books out of the library today Charlain Harris - Dead in the Family, Linda Harris- Cold Hit and Mari Strachan - The earth hums in b flat (which looks fascinating, not sure) still continuing with my History of London's Dead and its brilliant I am learning so much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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