madcow Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Ok here goes..... Total Read Since January 2007 (44) Anchee Min - Empress Orchid 6/10 Torey Hayden - Ghost Girl 8/10 Amy Tan - The Bonesetter's Daughter 7/10 Karin Slaughter - Kisscut (Audio book) 8/10 Philippa Gregory - The Virgin's Lover 8/10 Mineko Iwasaki - Geisha of Gion 6/10 Karin Slaughter - A Faint Cold Fear 9/10 Karin Slaughter - Faithless 9/10 Jennifer Donnelly - A Gathering Light 8/10 Kathy Reichs - Death Du Jour 8/10 Kathy Reichs - Bare bones 8/10 Natsuo Kirino - Out 8/10 Kathy Reichs - Monday Mourning 7/10 J.M. Warwick - An Open Vein 9/10 John Grogan - Marley & Me 9.5/10 Richard Montanari - The Rosary Girls 8/10 Jodi Picoult - Mercy 8/10 Jojo Moyes - The Ship of Brides 7/10 Torey Hayden - One child 7/10 Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace 7/10 Richard Montanari - The Skin Gods 8/10 Torey Hayden - Beautiful Child 8/10 Torey Hayden - Twilight Children 8/10 Kathy Reichs - Cross Bones 6.5/10 Stephen Foster - Walking Ollie 7/10 Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake 7/10 Stuart MacBride - Cold Granite 8/10 Lisa Gardner - The Killing Hour 7.5/10 Michael Faber - The Crimson Petal & The White 9/10 Stuart MacBride - Dying Light 8/10 Stuart MacBride - Broken Skin 9/10 Michel Faber - The Apple 9/10 Richard Montanari - Broken Angels 8/10 Mia Dolan - Haunted Homes 7/10 Julian Clary - A Young Man's Passage 6.5/10 Lisa Gardner - The Other Daughter 7.5/10 Jenny Tomlin & Kim Challinor - Silent Sisters - 6.5/10 Kathryn Fox - Malicious Intent - 7/10 Kerry Hardie - The Bird Woman 6/10 Koren Zailckas - Smashed 6/10 Vicky Halls - Cat Confidential 7.5/10 Kathryn Fox - Without Consent 8/10 Jeremy Clarkson - And Another Thing 7/10 Mia Dolan - The Gift 7/10 I have removed my 'To Be Read' list as it was getting too big, library books keep me from reducing it. What can I say I'm addicted to going to the library, I just can't walk out empty handed...lol Instead I am just going to list the books read to date (it looks a lot less scary now!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louiseog Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 I've read the Dan Brown ones on there and they are good, Tess Gerritsen in great too and I really liked Empress Orchid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted December 31, 2006 Author Share Posted December 31, 2006 Thanks Louise, I think I might start Empress Orchid when I finish The Winter King. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louiseog Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Another one I loved on there is Queen of the Tambourine, I really liked that one too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted December 31, 2006 Author Share Posted December 31, 2006 Cool, looks like I'm in for some enjoyable reading in 2007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 Don't forget all the books on my tbr list which are currently on your to be borrowed when Kat has read list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted January 1, 2007 Author Share Posted January 1, 2007 Don't forget all the books on my tbr list which are currently on your to be borrowed when Kat has read list Darn i forgot about them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted January 1, 2007 Author Share Posted January 1, 2007 Starting Empress Orchid by Anchee Min To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, 17 year old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower ranking concubine she enters the erotically charged and ritualised Forbidden City. But beneath its emmaculate facade lie whispers of murders and ghosts, and the thousands of concubines will stoop to any lengths to bear the Emperor's son. Orchid trains herself in the art of pleasuring a man, bribes her way into the royal bed, and seduces the monarch, drawing the attention of dangerous foes. Little does she know that China will collapse around her, and that she will be its last Empress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted January 4, 2007 Author Share Posted January 4, 2007 I've been rummaging around (as you do) and 'found' a few more books to add to the 'To Read' list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Okay, I'm trying not to be peeved here, madcow...but I don't see ANY books by moi on your list...no, not one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dupin Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Having compared our respective lists, Madcow, I see we only have one book in common. That being Women in Love. I'm sure we can swap notes on that when the time comes though. However, I've already determined that I won't be able to read my copy on a bus, coach or train trip (as I'd like to do) because of the artwork. There are (ahem) breasts on the front cover and I don't relish the thought of funny looks from my fellow commuters. I know, it sounds like I'm overreacting, but they're a pretty prudish bunch around here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Okay, I'm trying not to be peeved here, madcow...but I don't see ANY books by moi on your list...no, not one! That is worrying, isn't it? It's a good job she's entered the competition for win one of your books! hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 However, I've already determined that I won't be able to read my copy on a bus, coach or train trip (as I'd like to do) because of the artwork. There are (ahem) breasts on the front cover and I don't relish the thought of funny looks from my fellow commuters. Sorry to hijack your thread, Jules, but I though Dupin might like to download some "Literary Guilty Pleasures" covers from http://www.costabookawards.com/reading/literary_guilty_pleasures.aspx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Has she??? Oh. Well. All is forgiven then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted January 5, 2007 Author Share Posted January 5, 2007 Okay, I'm trying not to be peeved here, madcow...but I don't see ANY books by moi on your list...no, not one! KW this list is of books that I have here waiting to be read. Your books, apart from DWHH are on my 'To Read As Soon As' list. And as Michelle said I have entered the comp to win a signed copy of one of yours . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted January 5, 2007 Author Share Posted January 5, 2007 Having compared our respective lists, Madcow, I see we only have one book in common. That being Women in Love. I'm sure we can swap notes on that when the time comes though. However, I've already determined that I won't be able to read my copy on a bus, coach or train trip (as I'd like to do) because of the artwork. There are (ahem) breasts on the front cover and I don't relish the thought of funny looks from my fellow commuters. I know, it sounds like I'm overreacting, but they're a pretty prudish bunch around here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dupin Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 (Of course, we all know that it was the artwork that convinced me to buy the book in the first place!) Yes, I too have been putting off reading Women in Love for a while now. In truth, I didn't care much for The Rainbow, which is a prequel of sorts, and so I guess my reluctance stems from there. However, it's persistent presence on lists of greatest novels makes it impossible to ignore so I've resolved to do the deed before much longer. I saw Ken Russell, who made the 1969 film version, being interviewed the other night (with regard to his bizarre appearance in the Celebrity Big Brother house) and he alluded to how sexuality Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 I bought you that book mum!! It must have been at least 10 years ago, glad you decided to read it finally Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 'To Read As Soon As' list. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted January 6, 2007 Author Share Posted January 6, 2007 I bought you that book mum!! It must have been at least 10 years ago, glad you decided to read it finally Oops is it that long ago , will definately have to read it this year then . Dupin said: (Of course, we all know that it was the artwork that convinced me to buy the book in the first place!) well you said it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Poppy Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Loved The Rainbow and Women in Love. Hope to read them again someday. PP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted January 7, 2007 Author Share Posted January 7, 2007 Thanks PP, I'll bump it up the list some more now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 Finished Empress Orchid today. It was okay, it didn't grab me like Memoirs of a geisha did. Glad i've read it, there was some interesting parts to the book especially how the concubines lived and were treated, on the whole I'd give it 6/10. Starting Ghost Girl by Torey Hayden. Jadie never spoke, never laughed, never cried. She spent every waking hour locked in her own private world od shadows.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Funny story:lol: I have been trying to 'Angels' for about six months, I got a copy for a pound, and I swear that book does not want me to read it, I keep misplacing it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 You've lost me Gyre!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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