sadya Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 (edited) My daughter just came home from school and happily opened one of the books that arrived this morning and guess what? There is a small dead fly on the third page of this new unused book! She's removing it now and it doesn't seem to leave any mark on the page, but wow. Oh well, I guess now I can say something other than notes and pictures when we discuss the things we found in books. Edited April 5, 2011 by sadya
AbielleRose Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 Mojo came back! I'm about 150 pages into Glass Houses by Rachel Cain. *does Snoopy dance*
Kylie Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 I bought a few books today. Details in my reading list. I didn't get much reading done though.
green Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 I've got about 100 pages of Fires In The Dark by Louise Doughty left to read,and will probs finish it tonight.
Pixie Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 Finished the Complete Short Fiction of Oscar Wilde and I adored it! Just started Black Sun Rising, the first in the Cold Fire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman.
chesilbeach Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 Finished House of Silence at lunchtime. Hugely enjoyable Not sure what to read next - have lots of "real" books on the shelf waiting to be read, but I'm finding it hard to drag myself away from my Kindle
lauraloves Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 I finished The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown and have started Coleen Nolan - Envy
Cookie Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 I'm still reading Trainspotting the language makes it slow going and I can't read it on the bus because it takes too much concentration, ur ken?
Nollaig Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 Started and finished Across The Universe by Beth Revis. Considering the overwhelmingly positive response to it by... virtually the entire world, from what I gather in online reviews, I'm considerably underwhelmed. Granted I love adult sci-fi/fantasy and am not a massive fan of YA at the best of times, unless it's done REALLY well, but.... meh. Good book, worth a read. Nothing new or particularly original that I picked up on, extraordinarily annoying in parts, extremely predictible in others - but a good introduction to the world of dystopian sci-fi. I guess. Meh.
pickle Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 I have just finished the Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett mainly because I found them all in the library at the same time and couldn't face my classics and needed something to read. Although I haven't read the new last one which I will find asap.
SueK Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 I finished The Novel in the Viola yesterday and it's one of those books that needs mulling over before picking up the next one. So, I shall start a new one later on: probably Eagle (the first in a Trilogy about Saladin) - although I am also about halfway through Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham on my Kindle too.
Charm Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 Mojo came back! I'm about 150 pages into Glass Houses by Rachel Cain. *does Snoopy dance* Great little series to bring back your mojo, the books get better and better as they go along I finally finished The Witches of Eastwick and think I need a little Larissa Ione to pick up my mojo. I'll be reading 'Sin Undone' next
shirleyz Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 I've finished A Home at the End of the World today... looking forward to starting Shades of Grey
no-1-book-fan Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 Got my hands on a collection of books I read as a child. Reading the whole series of Enid Blyton's Famous Five again. Currently reading Five Go To Mystery Moor. Can't remember the page number but George, Anne and Timmy the dog have just been caught by the travellers and Julian and Dick are lost in mists. Simple but brilliant! 100 posts for me finally!
chesilbeach Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 Read some more of Corvus today - totally captivating while reading it, but don't want to read more than a few chapters at a time.
green Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 Started Outcast by Michelle Paver,no.4 in her Chronicles Of Ancient Darkness series.
Raven Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 I bought a few books today. Details in my reading list. I didn't get much reading done though. Do you think you could you be putting too much pressure on yourself because of the size of your expanding library? (serious question, for once!). Just started Black Sun Rising, the first in the Cold Fire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman. You have my sympathy!
madcow Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 I finally managed to finish The Legacy by Katherine Webb whilst away, even though my mojo has abandoned me I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. I'm currently over half way through Rachel Hore's A place of Secrets on my kindle and loving it
Kidsmum Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 Finished Club Dead by Charlaine Harris & I'm going to make a start on the second Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire.
Peacefield Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 I read a few pages of The Neighbors this morning and quite a lot after work this afternoon. Loving it!
Kylie Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 Do you think you could you be putting too much pressure on yourself because of the size of your expanding library? (serious question, for once!). A serious question? From Raven? Are you feeling OK? I often wonder about it. I certainly have placed a lot of pressure on myself to read all these books, but I'm not sure how much of an effect it has on my mojo. As excited as I am by all the great books I have to read, it's also quite intimidating. If I was a uni student, I'd do a PhD on the relationship between book buying/hoarding and the psyche.
SueK Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 I'm getting into Of Human Bondage (Maugham) now (free on Kindle ). Somerset Maugham is such a good writer; he has that ability (like a lot of his age and time) to write of very little but make it sound so compelling. I ordered Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton as well. Has anyone here read any Patrick Hamilton? I had thought of reading Hangover Square but it looks quite a dark novel.
Pixie Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 You have my sympathy! I see what you mean. I am almost half way through. The book seemed interesting at first and a part of me finds the plot intriguing, but the cardboard characters are putting me to sleep. I may give up on it soon.
madcow Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 Read up to 62% of A Place of Secrets, still enjoying it
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