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Tigerlily
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 Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:21 pm Post subject: Books we read in March 08 |
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Add & rate books you've read this month here.
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missunderstood
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:54 pm Post subject: Books reading this month |
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| I have just finished The Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Cave - which totally blew me away, beautiful. Over the weekend I finished Bernhard Schlink's amazing The Reader, and am now reading A Clockwork Apple, by Belinda Webb which is rollercoaster of a journey. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject: Re: Books reading this month |
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| missunderstood wrote: | | I have just finished The Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Cave - which totally blew me away, beautiful. Over the weekend I finished Bernhard Schlink's amazing The Reader, and am now reading A Clockwork Apple, by Belinda Webb which is rollercoaster of a journey. |
Have added The Solitude of Thomas Cave to my wish list - thanks missunderstood. 
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So far this month it's Hallam Foe by Peter Jinks and I, Coriander by Sally Gardner
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If you could see me now - cecelia ahern 6/10
PS I Love YOu - cecelia Ahern
Where Rainbows End - Cecelia Ahern (can you see a theme here lol)
Honeymoon - James Patterson
Night Watch - Sarah Walters
A Place called here - cecelia ahern
My Best Friends Girl Dorothy Koomson
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The Man in the Picture Susan Hill 3/10 started well, but became melodramatic and predictable.
The House of the SPirits by Isabell Allende which I am loving! Didn't really enjoy this one after all. I think it was a bit too long, and I just wasn't engaging with all the characters.5/10
Witch Child by Celia Rees. This is a teen novel and I really enjoyed it, it is about the Puritans first moving to America and young girl who is a witch. 8/10
The Road of Bones by Anne Fine This is another children's/teen book this time set during the Russian Revolution. I thought this one was ok, but nothing great. 6/10
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| Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:17 am Post subject: Just picked up... |
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| I have just began reading Americana by Don DeLillo and am LOVING it. |
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Amie
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I've not been well this week so I've just been curled up in bed reading so I'm doing really well on the books read front. So far I've read:
The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Random Acts of Heroic Love - Danny Scheinmann
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
and now I'm on Embers by Sandor Marai, which I'm hoping to finish off tonight. I'll do a proper round up with scores and things at the end of the month, maybe by then I'll have got my book journal up to date!
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Sorry you've not been well Amie - hope you are soon up and about - looks like you've got some serious reading done. I'll be interested to hear what you thought of Embers - I've had it on TBR for ages.
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| Amie wrote: | I've not been well this week so I've just been curled up in bed reading so I'm doing really well on the books read front. So far I've read:
The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Random Acts of Heroic Love - Danny Scheinmann
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
and now I'm on Embers by Sandor Marai, which I'm hoping to finish off tonight. I'll do a proper round up with scores and things at the end of the month, maybe by then I'll have got my book journal up to date! |
Hope you're feeling better now Amie. I'd love to know what you thought to all those books. I've added as I Lay Dying to my wish list and picked up The Hours from the tbr today wondering when to give it a go. Also, what did you make of Cloud Atlas?
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I wasn't too keen on Embers, it was a lot of musing about friendships and relationships and the storyline was quite weak I thought, it was a concept driven book rather than a plot driven one I think.
Glynis, I can lend you As I Lay Dying on wednesday if you like?
I loved Cloud Atlas, I really liked the format and loved the way all the stories connected. I found the last two quite hard to read because of the style, but really liked it.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject: Cloud Atlas |
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Hi everyone
I recently read "Cloud Atlas" and liked it a lot even though I had to concentrate to keep up with the russian doll effect
I have just read "The Race" by Richard North Patterson. Can an honest man become President of the USA? Rather topical at the moment
I am also reading "The Lunar men" by Jenny Uglow about the industrial revolution. I am finding it very interesting.
The next on the list is "Notes from an Exhibition" by Patrick Gale.
It is great being retired you get to read as much as you like!
Sally
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:52 pm Post subject: Re: Cloud Atlas |
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| Indiagirl wrote: | The next on the list is "Notes from an Exhibition" by Patrick Gale.
It is great being retired you get to read as much as you like!
Sally |
I'm looking forward to extra reading time in retirement, but since I'm only 40 guess I've got a bit of a wait 
I have Notes from an Exhibition, I won it for doing a Harper Collins survey. At the moment I have lent it to a friend who is doing the R & J reads but I'm sure it won't be long before I read it. Would love to know what you think. |
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| Amie wrote: | I wasn't too keen on Embers, it was a lot of musing about friendships and relationships and the storyline was quite weak I thought, it was a concept driven book rather than a plot driven one I think.
Glynis, I can lend you As I Lay Dying on wednesday if you like?
I loved Cloud Atlas, I really liked the format and loved the way all the stories connected. I found the last two quite hard to read because of the style, but really liked it. |
Thanks Amie, that'd be great
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I have finished two books so far this month:
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
I don't think that this was his best book, but it was certainly up there with them. I would recommend Kurt Vonnegut to anyone who hasn't read any of his work (Slaughterhouse 5 is a modern classic), but be prepared for something out of the ordinary! His style is very different.
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Blimey! Certainly not for the faint hearted. The violence described in this book goes beyond graphic! But it is intermingled with the really mundane - and that is kind of the point of the book! A great, but deeply disturbing, book.
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| Kilgore Trout wrote: | I have finished two books so far this month:
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
I don't think that this was his best book, but it was certainly up there with them. I would recommend Kurt Vonnegut to anyone who hasn't read any of his work (Slaughterhouse 5 is a modern classic), but be prepared for something out of the ordinary! His style is very different.
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Blimey! Certainly not for the faint hearted. The violence described in this book goes beyond graphic! But it is intermingled with the really mundane - and that is kind of the point of the book! A great, but deeply disturbing, book. |
I fancy reading American Psycho. I'm curious even though I think it will be a disturbing read.
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| Glynis wrote: | | Kilgore Trout wrote: | I have finished two books so far this month:
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
I don't think that this was his best book, but it was certainly up there with them. I would recommend Kurt Vonnegut to anyone who hasn't read any of his work (Slaughterhouse 5 is a modern classic), but be prepared for something out of the ordinary! His style is very different.
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Blimey! Certainly not for the faint hearted. The violence described in this book goes beyond graphic! But it is intermingled with the really mundane - and that is kind of the point of the book! A great, but deeply disturbing, book. |
I fancy reading American Psycho. I'm curious even though I think it will be a disturbing read. |
Well it is on the 1001 Books list, so it will be one to tick off. It is an ordeal, but definitely worth reading - if you have the stomach for it!!!
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| Kilgore Trout wrote: | | Glynis wrote: | | Kilgore Trout wrote: | I have finished two books so far this month:
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
I don't think that this was his best book, but it was certainly up there with them. I would recommend Kurt Vonnegut to anyone who hasn't read any of his work (Slaughterhouse 5 is a modern classic), but be prepared for something out of the ordinary! His style is very different.
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Blimey! Certainly not for the faint hearted. The violence described in this book goes beyond graphic! But it is intermingled with the really mundane - and that is kind of the point of the book! A great, but deeply disturbing, book. |
I fancy reading American Psycho. I'm curious even though I think it will be a disturbing read. |
Well it is on the 1001 Books list, so it will be one to tick off. It is an ordeal, but definitely worth reading - if you have the stomach for it!!! |
You can say that again I don't think I got very far into it as it made me feel really sick!!!  I'm a real scaredy cat when it comes to scarey movies (although I loved American Psycho!) and I guess that spreads to books too! It must be my age?!! 
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I can lend you American Psycho if you want Glynis. I tried to read it a few years ago but had to stop when it gave me nightmares.
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American Psycho is the only book I have ever thrown in the rubbish bin, if I had had an open fire at the time I would have burnt it. I only got through a few pages!
I am not sure why this book got to me as I sometimes read horror and gruesome crime and watch some horror films but this book was just too much for me. I remember the last pages I read as if it were yesterday and it was years ago!
I now can't look at a coat hanger with out cringing. 
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