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I've been lacking in the reading department in the past few days, but managed to get through a few chapters of The Picture of Dorian Gray which I'm about to pick up and continue again now, right after I've completed this post. I have 59% of the book left to read according to my Kindle, so I'm hoping to get more than half of the book read before I go to bed.

bobblybear Grand Master

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I'm just over half way through The Girl Who Played With Fire. I'm struggling a bit with it. I wasn't overly keen on the first book in the series, so I don't really know why I started this one. I think it's because it was cheap. :giggle:

 

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pickle Grand Master

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I have read nothing today but my friend did get me a couple of Andre Camilleri books for Christmas which is great as I am hoping for an Inspector Montalbano season on the BBc as well.

frankie Grand Master

frankie

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I wasn't supposed to buy any books and I almost didn't. But I did. I got Cornelia Funke's Inkworld and now I have the whole trilogy, finally! It was on sale so that's my excuse.

page turner Community Regular

page turner

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I'm just over 100 pages into Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde, and am finding it quite odd and a little confusing to be honest. But seeing as he's one of my favourites I'll carry on. I also went out and bought 7 books that I clearly needed eventhough my TRB pile is over 200 books already!

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Peacefield Grand Master

Peacefield

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After not getting any reading in for the past week or so I finally dove back into PopCo last night. I managed about 70 pages before I fell asleep with the book on the floor! :lol:

Weave Grand Master

Weave

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I'm enjoying 'Chocolat' by Joanne Harris :)

Pixie Mentor

Pixie

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Put down Tales from the 1001 Nights. It was putting me to sleep.

 

I'm reading Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas now and really enjoying it. :D

Ooshie Veteran

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I'm about 50 pages into The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, and am thoroughly enjoying it so far. I didn't mean to start reading it until after Watchmen and The Sea, The Sea, but became intrigued by seeing what others on here thought of it :)

 

 

pontalba Grand Master

pontalba

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Broke down and bought a hardback copy of The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley. I was going to wait till it comes out in paperback in a month or so, but finally I read the first several pages whilst in the book store. Fatal move. Had to buy. heh

 

Read a few pages in True Grit by Charles Portis. Good stuff, will continue.

 

Still reading Cleopatra's Daughter. Enjoyable.

 

 

AIE: Finished Cleopatra's Daughter, small review in my book list thread. 3/5

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Kylie Grand Master

Kylie

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I spent a glorious day in my favourite 3-level bookshop in Sydney. I don't think I've ever leisurely browsed the entire store in one go before. blush.gif I spent my Christmas voucher on:

 

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations

Tadeusz Borowski: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

Alberto Manguel: The Library at Night (a book about books: 'a meditation on the meaning and mysteries of libraries through history, beginning with Manguel's extraordinary library in the French countryside')

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto

Julie Rugg: Buried in Books (another book about books. This one has over 350 bookish quotations from various authors and other sentences. I was sold on it when I saw a chapter called 'The good practice of buying a book a day'. giggle.gif)

Orson Welles: Mr Arkadin (I have the movie of this but never realised that Welles also wrote the book! A great find.)

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse

ETA: I started reading Wings by Terry Pratchett when I was on the train. My complete Chronicles of Narnia was a little too big to take with me.

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Kate Grand Master

Kate

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Yesterday I finished What They Didn't Teach Me in Sunday School by Rob Parsons and this morning I read Butterflies in May by Karen Hart

Weave Grand Master

Weave

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Still enjoying 'Chocolat' by Joanne Harris :)

frankie Grand Master

frankie

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I'm about 50 pages into The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, and am thoroughly enjoying it so far. I didn't mean to start reading it until after Watchmen and The Sea, The Sea, but became intrigued by seeing what others on here thought of it :)

 

Oooh, I'm glad to hear you're enjoying The Thirteenth Tale, it's such a wonderful read :smile2:

 

 

I spent a glorious day in my favourite 3-level bookshop in Sydney. I don't think I've ever leisurely browsed the entire store in one go before. blush.gif

 

What a wonderful way to spend a day! :smile2: Excellent haul, as always!

 

I read a bit more of Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber last night in bed. I need to start reading it during the day too, it seems like I'm getting nowhere when I'm reading only a few pages every night.

pipread Mentor

pipread

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Bought a couple of books in the 12 days for Kindle offer for £1 each - Fup by Jim Dodge and The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.

 

 

I also bought 3 books and downloaded to my PC, I haven't fully decided whether to buy the Kindle yet but it's looking very likely that I will and I got, The Lost Daughter - Diane Chamberlain, All The Pretty Girls - J T Ellison and Splinter - Sebastian fitzek all purchased for £1 each just incase! :blush:

 

I'm thoroughly enjoying The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry over half way through it and loving it. :readingtwo:

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I didn't manage to make The Cry of the Owl stretch till New Years day I couldn't put it down last night till I'd found out what happened. This is my first book by Patricia Highsmith & I really liked the way she built up the characters & the story, I found it really gripping :)

 

I plan on reading The Forsythe Saga Volume One by John Galsworthy next but I'm going to wait till New Years Day before I start it so I've got a couple of book free days to get through till then :(

chesilbeach Grand Master

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I also bought 3 books and downloaded to my PC, I haven't fully decided whether to buy the Kindle yet but it's looking very likely that I will and I got, The Lost Daughter - Diane Chamberlain, All The Pretty Girls - J T Ellison and Splinter - Sebastian fitzek all purchased for £1 each just incase! :blush:

 

I'm thoroughly enjoying The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry over half way through it and loving it. :readingtwo:

 

Good choices, pipread! I have to say, I was completely unconvinced that I would ever want an e-reader before I got my iPad, and I now have both that and a Kindle, and I'm not sure when I'll actually buy an actual book again, I'm a total convert to digital books :D

lauraloves Grand Master

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I have been into town this afternoon and my little bookshop was open :D but when I got their I realised I only had £4 on me :doh: so I only managed to buy three books! but I got . . .

 

Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult

The Devil wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger

Chocolat - Joanne Harris

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