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Tigerlily
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 Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject: What are you currently reading? |
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Other than this month's book choice, what other books have you recently read or are currently reading that you love or loathe? List them here...
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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
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loved tractors but swapped it cos i knew JG on risi wanted to read it and i wanted pompeii off her-but apparently she thought it was just o.k
personally i thought it was tragic and amusing and enjoyed it immensally |
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sparkymarky
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| s'alright i wasn't dropping a hint lol-intend to pick it up again in a couple of years when am ready to read it again as i am known to do-many of the books currently in my libary are books i had,swapped or sold then picked up again when was ready to re-read!! |
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nuttymum303
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Saucy
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Just finished My Best Friends Girl - slightly disappointed with ending.
Currently reading The Tenth Circle by Jodi Piccoult - seems to be starting off slightly differentyl from most of the other Piccoult books. Hopefully the ending will be good as I am always slightly disappointed in her endings - although I really like her writing.
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At last I have finished the Tad Williams book, The War of the Flowers, in time for the book group meeting tonight. I had to skip over the last 150 pages else I would have been ploughing through it for the rest of 2006! I liked the story (another take on good vs evil) and cared about the main character, Theo. But the writing was dreadful: uninspiring and more or less a script for a Hollywood blockbuster disguised as an epic novel. 800 pages, mainly of unnecessary waffle. The action could have been condensed to 200 pages very easily. By skipping the last 150 pages (sticking to the dialogue/action and avoiding lengthy description), I didn't miss anything important to the plot. I much prefer concisely written novels, which (imo) only a skilful writer can achieve.
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miranda
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I'm reading Meridian by Alice Walker. I am not enjoying it as much as I thought, but I am not getting a chance to do much reading just now and I think the gaps of not reading are kind of ruining for me. I feel as if, if I had read it at another time I would have enjoyed it more. Do you know what I mean? Sometimes I think you react to books depending on when and how you read them. I think I will finish it in one sitting and then keep it to re-read at a later date. Will def start The Bell Jar soon! 
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the lady and the unicorn by tracey chevalier-historical fiction about a 15th century tapestry told from diffrent viewpoints of the characters involved,their lives and loves as the tapestry is made.
very enjoyable and not my normal read from author of girl with a pearl earring!! |
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| going through a lazy phase at the moment and don't want anything too taxing which explains just finishing Extreme - the Sharon Osborne autobiography (hesitate on the "auto" bit.. how many people write their own??). Was very indifferent to it. Have just started Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult. Couldn't comment on the little I've read but I loved Witness so the Amish element is appealing. Have too much going on at the moment to attempt anything remotely taxing on the brain but picked up Girl with a Pearl Earring in a charity shop yesterday and think I'd enjoy that next. Have you read it too, sparky? |
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:40 pm Post subject: MY current read |
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Poisonwood Bible
Hard going, But got 3 hours of the train into London tomorrow so will crack on with it.
Then I can start The Bell Jar
Slow reading month so far. Perhaps I just need an Ian Rankin book to blast thru. |
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Hi Carl - let me know what you think to the Poisonwood Bible as wouldn't mind reading that. It was voted the no 1 reading group book by a Penguin Readers' poll last year.
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Have just finished Plain Truth _ Jodi Picoult and The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillipa Gregory and have started How I live Now - Meg Cabot. Plain Truth was a good read, set amongst the Amish community but The Other Boleyn Girl was superb. The author really places you in that era and everything seems so vivid and rich. I wish she'd been my History teacher.
As a result How I Live Now (one of those teenager/adult crossovers) seems a bit twee but I'm trying to keep an open mind. But it's so hard to do that if you've just finished a brilliant book - everything else pales in comparison.  |
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Have just finished a couple of short books - Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier and Sickened - The True Story of a Lost Childhood - Julie Gregory. Very different books and very different reactions from me. I loved GWPE, beautifully written and very understated and poignant. Sickened is not my favourite genre at the moment, the confessional tale, and although it was well written, I still found it very difficult to read on an emotional level. It's the story of a girl who experiences Munchausens by Proxy (sp??) via her mother. Her childhood was absolutely appalling and she suffered abuse from both her mother and father. Maybe I like to live in my own little ivory tower but this genre gives me a downer and I don't think I'll go that direction again. Some people had recommended Torey Haydn (sp) to me but I think that would be more of the same. I'm just such a weakling  |
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Seems to be a lot of Jodi Picoult fans on here!
I'm currently reading her book Salem Falls & I'm loving it. Although My sister's Keeper is still my fav. Have a few more of hers in my TBR pile. I'm also reading a book called Sputnik Sweetheart by a Japanese author can't think of his name, but haven't really gotten into it but I will persist. It's in my bag for work & so I read it on the train but I'm off this week with the kids so I'll have to upgrade it to bedtime reading to finish it then I plan to read Never Let Me Go. |
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| I should be reading Never Let Me Go.... next on the list! Have just finished The Virgin's Lover - Phillipa Gregory and before that, I read The Virgin Blue - Tracy Chevalier - bit of a theme going on here.... both very good although I found the ending of The Virgin Blue a bit disappointing. As I said, I must start Never Let Me Go and abandon all this historical fiction. |
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