Habeebi Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 (edited) Well I thought I would start off my own little reading list starting with Wally Lamb - I know this Much is True This is a pretty chunky read at 900 pages but so far I am half way through and loving it! I've never read any of Wally Lamb and did not know what to expect but will certainly have a look for more of his books when I'm finished even though I have tons on my bookshelf to wade through! I think I need to curb my book buying until I have read some more of them and/or have bought another book shelf! Edited March 13, 2011 by Habeebi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I loved She's Come Undone (by Wally Lamb), so I bought I Know This Much Is True. Unfortunately, I've been a bit put off by the size, and it has sat on my shelf unread from probably 10 years. I will get to it soon though! Honest! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habeebi Posted March 14, 2011 Author Share Posted March 14, 2011 don't be put off I'm flying through it. It certainly not a slog x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodkafan Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 don't be put off I'm flying through it. It certainly not a slog x Are you going to do a review for us once you have finished Habeebi ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habeebi Posted March 19, 2011 Author Share Posted March 19, 2011 Yes I will certainty attempt one although I have never written one before I shall give it a go. Only 250 pages left shouldn't be far from finishing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodkafan Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 Yes I will certainty attempt one although I have never written one before I shall give it a go. Only 250 pages left shouldn't be far from finishing Lol only 250 pages.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habeebi Posted March 19, 2011 Author Share Posted March 19, 2011 Haha out of neary a thousand it doesnt seem so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habeebi Posted March 21, 2011 Author Share Posted March 21, 2011 Right I have finished I Know this much is True by Wally Lamb. Amazing book. 10 out of 10 Review to follow! If I can do it justice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjzazzy Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I also loved that book, I read it a few years ago. Loved the intertwinning stories. But something about it made me want to read it with no one else around.. maybe cuz I cried at the end... j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habeebi Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 Haha I definately cried! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habeebi Posted March 27, 2011 Author Share Posted March 27, 2011 Well I Know this Much is True by Wally Lamb was amazing. The whole way through the book I felt as though I was participating in the story and living it along with the characters. There is a split 2/3 of the way through the book when one of the characters reads through his grandfathers life history and this falls in perfectly with the story and becomes a whole new short story on its own which is equally excellent! This is just my sort of book and if you like books which are very well written and can involve you in whole experience as well as being superbly entertaining then you should give it a try - I loved it! 10/10 Next up The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters I have started reading this for my book club and it is definitely not something I would normally pick up but 2/3 of the way through and loving it! Can't wait to read more of Sarah Waters. My mum is reading Fingersmith by her at the moment and is totally addicted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habeebi Posted March 28, 2011 Author Share Posted March 28, 2011 (edited) Current TBR list....it's getting bigger by the day Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere Greg Isles Sleep No More Mitch Albom - The Five People you Meet in Heaven Marilyn French - The Women's Room Wally Lamb - She's Come Undone Sylvia Path - The Bell Jar Tom Perrotta- The Abstinence Teacher Dennis Lehane - Darkness take my Hand Bill Carter - Fools rush In Jeffery Deaver - The Blue Nowhere John Irving - Cider Houswe Rules John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meaney Stef Penney - The Tenderness of Wolves Dean Koontz - Frankenstein Tami Hoag - Ashes to Ashes David Simon - bHomocide - A year on the Killing Streets Aravinda Adiga - The White Tiger Hans Fallida - Alone in Berlin Mary E Braddon - The Doctor'a wife Paullina Simons - The Bronze Horseman Richard Adams - Watership Down Thomas Kenally - Schindler's List Nick Hornby - A long way down Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road Mary Lawson - The other side of the Bridge Alex Garland - The Beach James Patterson - 5th Horseman Alice Walker - The Temple of my Familiar Lynda la Plante - Above Suspicion Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day Erich Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front Joe Simpson - Touching the Void Daphne Du Maurier - Frenchman's Creek Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Aurora Floyd R D Wingfield = Hard Frost Charlie Owen - Foxtrot Oscar Charlie Owen - Bravo Juliet Charlie Owen - Horse's Arse Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall Matthew Neale - English Passengers Michael Faber - The Crimson Petal and The White Jeffery Deaver - The Coffin Dancer Bill Bryson - At Home Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon Jung Chang - Three Women Christopher Nicholson - The Elephant Keeper Harry Bowling - The Ironmonger's Daughter Philip Pullman His Dary Materials trilogy Dee Brown - Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee Jonathan Aycliffe - Naomi's Room Louis Sachar - Holes Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible Anita Diamant - The Red Tent Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants Diana Gabaldon - Cross Stitch Danny Wallace - Yes man Jo Nesbo - The Snowman Jeffery Deaver - The Bone Collector Kathryn Stockett - The Help Sebastian Faulke - A week in December Kate Mosse - The Winter Ghosts Moshin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist Anne-Marie Macdonald - Fall on Your Knees Alexander Masters - Stuart Jodi Piccoult - House Rules Dean Koontz - Intensity Wish List Blood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy Harper Perennial Modern Classics - The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows True Grit by Charles Portis Ender's Game (Ender Series) by Orson Scott Card Forgetting Zoe by Ray Robinson Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion Night by Elie Wiesel (Author), Marion Wiesel Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber Le Testament Francais (Sceptre 21's) by Andreï Makine, Geoffrey Strachan The Neverending Story by Michael Ende True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Kind of Intimacy, A by Jenn Ashworth Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman The Synchronicity Factor by Stephen T. Hancock The Quincunx: The Inheritance of John Huffamby Charles Palliser Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori) by Lian Hearn The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Lucia Graves Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Room by Emma Donoghue Friends Like These by Danny Wallace Are You Dave Gorman? by Danny Wallace, Dave Gorman Education, Edukation, Edukashun by James Rainsford My Godawful Life: Abandoned. Betrayed. Stuck to the Window. by Sunny McCreary I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou The Rendezvous and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho (Author), Margaret Jull Costa The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho Gone by Mo Hayder The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison by W Fellows Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Legacy by Katherine Webb Caught by Harlan Coben The Reaper by Steven Dunne Dean Koontz - Lightening Sarah Waters - Fingersmith Sarah Waters - Affinity Sarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet Jeffery Deaver - The Empty Chair Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha Katherine Webb - The Legacy Michael Connely - The Poet Jeffery Deaver - Speaking in Tongues Phew! Wonder if I will get through them this year! Edited March 28, 2011 by Habeebi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ooshie Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 You are certainly giving yourself a real challenge, Habeebi! I am getting through far fewer books this year than usual, and can't even think about listing my tbr books - I keep my wish list on scraps of paper so it doesn't scare me too much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habeebi Posted April 11, 2011 Author Share Posted April 11, 2011 Ok so I have just finished Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom What a lovely little book - I have to say I bawled my eyes out at the end. It has left me feeling like I want to be a better person and make more time for friends and family, be more forgiving and less materialist. This book as left me feeling so touched and will be in my thoughts for a long time. 9/10 actually I'm trying to think what has faulted it, causing me to give it a 9/10 but I really can't think of anything so 10/10 Next up I am going for a change of pace and starting Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. First proper fantasy book! eek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 I love the Philip Pulman trilogy. It's a great fantasy to start with as things are familiar yet off kilter somewhat, so it's not all too fantastical and unnerving. I have found that you either love or hate the books, so I am really looking forward to reading what you think of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habeebi Posted April 12, 2011 Author Share Posted April 12, 2011 well on perusing my bookshelf I have actually ended up starting Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman - so far so weird! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 I read that recently (and then went and bought the tv series) and really enjoyed it. It is very weird isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habeebi Posted April 16, 2011 Author Share Posted April 16, 2011 Well I am about 100 pages into Neverwhere and I just can't get into it. I'm a bit gutted as read so many good reviews. I'm thinking maybe it's just because it is my first proper fantasy book and perhaps I just need to go with the flow a bit instead of asking too many questions about this and that....however my mind as just been wondering off (probably something to do with the impending feline arrivals. I am going to persist with it though I usually give books at least 100 pages however this is a new genre for me so maybe need to give it more of a chance, I really want to love it though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosychair Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Well I am about 100 pages into Neverwhere and I just can't get into it. I'm a bit gutted as read so many good reviews. I'm thinking maybe it's just because it is my first proper fantasy book and perhaps I just need to go with the flow a bit instead of asking too many questions about this and that....however my mind as just been wondering off (probably something to do with the impending feline arrivals. I am going to persist with it though I usually give books at least 100 pages however this is a new genre for me so maybe need to give it more of a chance, I really want to love it though! I loved Neverwhere but it is a bit full on in the fantasy side if you've never really read fantasy before. I'd go with The Dark Materials first for an introduction fantasy as the first book isn't too full on and much more of an adventure story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habeebi Posted April 16, 2011 Author Share Posted April 16, 2011 Yes I was about to start His Dark Materials but got swayed with this one. Got a fairly quiet shift on my part time job this evening so plan to get stuck in x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'mRose Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Yes I was about to start His Dark Materials but got swayed with this one. Got a fairly quiet shift on my part time job this evening so plan to get stuck in x I was thinking about starting to read his dark materials, I've been putting it off for so long cause the swedish translation seems so-so. How are you doing with Neverwhere? Sometimes no matter how much other people love a book you just can't get in to it. It was like that with Little Women for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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