frankie Posted June 7, 2012 Author Posted June 7, 2012 It is scary, I think if I didnt buy or download any more books and just stuck to what I've already got it would take me four years to get through! Thats a scary thought! It would take me 4-5 years, too, and that seems like a lifetime at this point Let's just keep reading and reading and reading I havent been book shopping at all in 2012, but its now that its getting a bit difficult and I want to go and shop. I'm doing the read 4 buy 1 thing just because I don't think I can go totally cold turkey on the book buying front. You've been doing really great this year, I'm in awe! And I take my hat off to you for sticking to the read 4 buy 1 deal, it's difficult! Glad you are enjoying The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan, I'm finding it difficult to put down too. Yep, I didn't want to stop reading it at all last night, but I had to go to sleep eventually It's so great that now that we're finally doing another group reading of a Rory book, it's such a great one and we all really like it! Quote
lauraloves Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 It would take me 4-5 years, too, and that seems like a lifetime at this point Let's just keep reading and reading and reading It does seem like a lifetime and then when you think of the ammount of books that will be released and discovered over those years its just seems a massive time! I think we should just give everything up and just read and read all the time! You've been doing really great this year, I'm in awe! And I take my hat off to you for sticking to the read 4 buy 1 deal, it's difficult! Thank you I've been trying to be good as I want to reduce the TBR, but it is so difficult at times! Yep, I didn't want to stop reading it at all last night, but I had to go to sleep eventually It's so great that now that we're finally doing another group reading of a Rory book, it's such a great one and we all really like it! I was the same last night too, I just wanted to read all night but by about 11 I knew I had to go to sleep or I wouldnt get up for work this morning! I'm glad that we've got a book that we are all enjoying, I think its a must read book for everyone P.S. just read all your lists on your first couple of pages of your thread again, your so organised Quote
Kylie Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 Oh yeah? Well what good does it do to me when your Wodehouses are Down Under, woman?! When are we going to combine our libraries? I'll read them and then tell you what a brilliant read they were and how much you've missed out. Gosh, I don't know if I could ever combine my library with someone else's. I think I'm far too selfish and possessive of my, well, possessions to want to share. I would of course loan you my books any time at all. I was wondering if you were planning on culling your wish list too? Are there any books on there that you've since lost interest in reading? I'm not trying to encourage you, and I'm not sure if you already discussed this (you know what my memory's like...). Quote
poppyshake Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 The first time I took a load of my books to my local charity bookshop was a strange feeling. Once you get used to letting go of some of your books it becomes easier to give away the ones that you don't really love. I look forward to a time when I can do this. I'm sure that somewhere I still have my copy of Madame Bovary .. a book I hate!! What is wrong with me? and is it curable? Quote
frankie Posted June 8, 2012 Author Posted June 8, 2012 It does seem like a lifetime and then when you think of the ammount of books that will be released and discovered over those years its just seems a massive time! I think we should just give everything up and just read and read all the time! Ready, steady... READ! I was the same last night too, I just wanted to read all night but by about 11 I knew I had to go to sleep or I wouldnt get up for work this morning! I'm glad that we've got a book that we are all enjoying, I think its a must read book for everyone It's an addictive book alright l'm glad the weekend's here, we have a bit more time on our hands. P.S. just read all your lists on your first couple of pages of your thread again, your so organised Awwww thanks Laura I'll read them and then tell you what a brilliant read they were and how much you've missed out. Alright! I shall do the same for you with the Burroughs books and the Brite novel, and the Matt Haig one I was wondering if you were planning on culling your wish list too? Are there any books on there that you've since lost interest in reading? I'm not trying to encourage you, and I'm not sure if you already discussed this (you know what my memory's like...). I did some deleting on the wishlist, but I think I removed maybe 10 titles, 15 tops! I look forward to a time when I can do this. I'm sure that somewhere I still have my copy of Madame Bovary .. a book I hate!! What is wrong with me? and is it curable? What are you still doing with the Bovary copy?! I'm going to PM Alan on FB and tell him to throw the book out for you, if you won't do it! I'm still standing strong behind my choices of books to get rid of. I've already taken maybe ten of the titles to the library. I can't get them all out at once because, well, you can imagine what they weigh all together, and I don't have a car. Quote
poppyshake Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 What are you still doing with the Bovary copy?! I'm going to PM Alan on FB and tell him to throw the book out for you, if you won't do it! I don't know where it is .. it's probably in the basement. Alan has made himself a little makeshift table down there (for standing beer and pizza on etc ) out of wood and various things to help prop it up .. some of which are books .. not best loved books of course .. books with no purpose other than to prop up tables .. if so it's the most useful Madame B has ever been Quote
Kylie Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 I look forward to a time when I can do this. I'm sure that somewhere I still have my copy of Madame Bovary .. a book I hate!! What is wrong with me? and is it curable? Perhaps somewhere deep inside you know you want to give the book another chance one day? Quote
poppyshake Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 Perhaps somewhere deep inside you know you want to give the book another chance one day? Nice try Kylie but if I ever did I think my friends should take it as a warning sign and come to my aid. Just like walking up the shops in your undies or building a replica of the Taj Mahal out of pickled onions a re-read of Madame B translates as 'she's finally lost the plot' Quote
Kylie Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 building a replica of the Taj Mahal out of pickled onions Hahaha! How on earth do you come up with these things? I saw a lovely hardback copy of Madame Bovary in a bookshop recently. I really wanted to buy it for you, but it would have been a rather expensive practical joke (and a rather expensive table-propper-upper by the sounds of it). Quote
lauraloves Posted June 12, 2012 Posted June 12, 2012 Ready, steady... READ! It's an addictive book alright l'm glad the weekend's here, we have a bit more time on our hands I was a bit silly and accidentally left my Amy Tan book at home over the weekend when I went to my boyfriends so I got no reading time with it at all but it means that I can read it all week now Quote
frankie Posted June 13, 2012 Author Posted June 13, 2012 I don't know where it is .. it's probably in the basement. Alan has made himself a little makeshift table down there (for standing beer and pizza on etc) out of wood and various things to help prop it up .. some of which are books .. not best loved books of course .. books with no purpose other than to prop up tables .. if so it's the most useful Madame B has ever been Haha, finally she can serve some real purpose in life Nice try Kylie but if I ever did I think my friends should take it as a warning sign and come to my aid. Just like walking up the shops in your undies or building a replica of the Taj Mahal out of pickled onions a re-read of Madame B translates as 'she's finally lost the plot' Exactly! I saw a lovely hardback copy of Madame Bovary in a bookshop recently. I really wanted to buy it for you, but it would have been a rather expensive practical joke (and a rather expensive table-propper-upper by the sounds of it). I understand your reasonings, but it would've made a great joke And I can laugh only because you were going to do it to poppyshake and not me! I was a bit silly and accidentally left my Amy Tan book at home over the weekend when I went to my boyfriends so I got no reading time with it at all but it means that I can read it all week now Awww But like you said, at least now you can read it for longer I only have 40 pages or so to go, but I'm finding it hard to pick it up and finish, I guess I don't want the book to end I took another load of books to the library, 12 books, half of which I've already read. My TBR pile is 50 titles smaller than five months ago or so Quote
poppyshake Posted June 13, 2012 Posted June 13, 2012 I saw a lovely hardback copy of Madame Bovary in a bookshop recently. I really wanted to buy it for you, but it would have been a rather expensive practical joke (and a rather expensive table-propper-upper by the sounds of it). Bless you but I'm glad you saved your money .. you should have bought it for yourself though Quote
lauraloves Posted June 14, 2012 Posted June 14, 2012 Awww But like you said, at least now you can read it for longer I only have 40 pages or so to go, but I'm finding it hard to pick it up and finish, I guess I don't want the book to end I still havent picked the book up I'm camping this weekend but am having to organise the camping for 30 teenagers, not an easy feat! Hope your enjoying it still Quote
frankie Posted June 14, 2012 Author Posted June 14, 2012 I still havent picked the book up I'm camping this weekend but am having to organise the camping for 30 teenagers, not an easy feat! Hope your enjoying it still Awww Well there's no hurry, you'll get to it when you can and it'll be all the better because you have had to wait for it 30 teenagers? Yikes I bet you are knackered when you get to your matress by the end of the day Quote
Kylie Posted June 16, 2012 Posted June 16, 2012 Bless you but I'm glad you saved your money .. you should have bought it for yourself though No way! I didn't enjoy it that much! Quote
vodkafan Posted June 16, 2012 Posted June 16, 2012 I'm camping this weekend but am having to organise the camping for 30 teenagers, not an easy feat! Will it matter too much if you only have 24 or 25 when you get back or are you supposed to bring them all back safely ? Quote
frankie Posted June 20, 2012 Author Posted June 20, 2012 Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades -- with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems [...]. ~ BookDepository ~ Thoughts: This is a thriller I had to snatch from the library when I noticed it was available, having heard great things on the novel here on BCF. What a gripping read! The story combines a lot of my favorite elements in novels: it's a thriller, there are criminally insane mental patients, there's a human hunt and it's a remote island with very limited access in and out. It is also set in the 1950s if I remember correctly, and Lehane has very skillfully managed to craft this most oppressing atmosphere and feel to the novel. I'm afraid of saying more in case I will spoil the novel for anyone, and so I'll have to record what was left with me of the novel after finishing it, in spoiler tags (and mind my french but there is no other word for it): It was a true mindfu**. I was so enwrapped by Teddy Daniels and what he was trying to get accomplished, that I definitely didn't see what was coming. And when the reality was unravelled piece by piece, I felt as gobsmacked as Teddy did, and I think it took me a day or two to realise that he really was a mental patient to begin with and he wasn't being played with and made into the 67th patient. And by the way, the movie does not compare. Do NOT watch it first. The book needs to be read first. (But that is always the case, of course, hehe!) 4/5 Quote
frankie Posted June 20, 2012 Author Posted June 20, 2012 Quantum Leap: The Beginning by Julie Robitaille Blurb: It is the mid-1990s. Sam Beckett, a brilliant scientist, is the creator of the Quantum Leap project - the possibility of moving back and forth through the years of your own lifetime. But one night his project goes terribly wrong, and Sam is transported back to 1956 by mistake. When he wakes up, he is suffering from amnesia, in the body of test pilot Captain Hank Stratton - which is a problem, as he doesn't know how to fly! When the project's computer hits on the theory that God, or Time, or Something, was waiting for Sam's Quantum Leap to correct a mistake in Stratton's Life, Sam must find out what the mistake was, and put things right. Only then will he be able to return to the future. Thoughts: I was a huge fan of the TV series back when I was a kid, and I watched the reruns with equal pleasure a few years ago. I'd seen this copy of the first novel in the series in a secondhand bookshop for a while, but I thought it would be rather horrid, because the book's based on the TV series, not the other way around. Then I noticed Ian from BCF was reading these books and eventhough he didn't rate them 5/5, he seemed to be of the opinion that the books are readable. The next time I went to that particular bookshop, the copy was still there and I had to get it It's a short, rather quick read. I liked it how all the details of how the project was started and how Sam ended up on doing his numerous leaps without getting back to his own life was explained; I didn't remember all of those things from the TV series so now I got the gist of, for example, who Ziggy really was. I was also enjoying reading the novel in other respects: I was enjoying the story, I love Sam as a character, and I love it how there's always something from the future he brings with (knowledge-wise, not physical things) himself and how it sometimes makes all the difference in the 'sticky situations'. He's like MacGyver, only he's not gimmicky, he just knows things and passes the information on. The episode itself is not my favorite, for some reason I'm not that keen on aviation. And reading the book is not as good as watching the show. But I think that Robitaille managed to capture the idea and feel of the show in the novel pretty well and it read like a childhood's favorite comfort read 4/5 Quote
Karsa Orlong Posted June 20, 2012 Posted June 20, 2012 He's like MacGyver, only he's not gimmicky, he just knows things and passes the information on. Yeah, but then MacGyver went on to become General Jack O'Neill and got to go through the Stargate and stuff, whereas Sam just went on to become captain of a version of the starship Enterprise that nobody gave two hoots about I just out-geeked myself, didn't I? Quote
frankie Posted June 20, 2012 Author Posted June 20, 2012 Yeah, but then MacGyver went on to become General Jack O'Neill and got to go through the Stargate and stuff, whereas Sam just went on to become captain of a version of the starship Enterprise that nobody gave two hoots about I just out-geeked myself, didn't I? No, Sheldon can still give you a run for you money But Sam then leaped to Wisteria Lane and became a hugely popular and hella hunky and successful attorney on Desperate Housewives. He got MacGyver beat! Quote
Karsa Orlong Posted June 20, 2012 Posted June 20, 2012 He got MacGyver beat! Desperate Housewives???? Er no, he really, really doesn't Quote
frankie Posted June 20, 2012 Author Posted June 20, 2012 Yeah he so does. He's smart and ladies love him Quote
Karsa Orlong Posted June 20, 2012 Posted June 20, 2012 Yeah he so does. He's smart and ladies love him That's only because of the script Quote
frankie Posted June 20, 2012 Author Posted June 20, 2012 That's only because of the script You are either totally blind or then you must be oblivious to male attractiveness. Probably both! Besides. It's not really a competition, because I like MacGyver, too! I was just comparing Sam to him because I think they are both really smart, but whereas MacGyver gets really physical and knows all kinds of tricks with the most unusual equipment, Sam has to deal with people and he has to read them well and use all kinds of psychological tricks. Both are very intelligent and smart but they just work in such different areas of life Quote
Karsa Orlong Posted June 20, 2012 Posted June 20, 2012 There you go, being diplomatic again. Sheesh! I'm selectively blind and oblivious Quote
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