This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

tHE vAGGABOND

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen - Chris McDougal

Brilliant [but I have gotten into running in a big way, if you had zero interest in running you may not love it quite so much].

emeraldstar

Just starting Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love. Have just finished Wigs on the Green by the same author and enjoyed it. Her books are short and fun.

Up-n-atom!

Have made a second attempt at Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, and it's not looking good - I'm doing most of my reading late at night these days and this just requires too much concentration than I can muster at late hours - which is why I've picked up One Day by David Nicholls instead. Usually don't read a lot of more commercial fiction, but this is more managable when I'm tired and I'm really getting into it.

Busi_Girl08

After hearing all the good about it here, I started Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell this week.

So far...a little slow I'll keep at it though, because even though not much has really happened, I still want to know what happens next.

OakeyDokey

Reading Star girl now... great book

AnnyHallsal

Crime and Punishment

flyaway.

Looking for Alaska by John Green

BopNiblets

I'm reading a book written by a lot of webcomic artists/writers called Machine Of Death

A bunch of short stories about a machine that accurately predicts how someone is going to die from a sample of their blood, printing out a vague few words on a piece of paper like CANCER or OLD AGE.
They get interesting like the one I just finished of a guy who got ELECTRIC CHAIR, turns delightfully evil.

bigsmokewriting

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami.

been waiting to read Murakami for years now, just never gotten around to it. Thankfully the hype hasn't ruined it for me, it's still a wonderful read!
- Ciaran, Big Smoke Writing Factory

joeyshabadoo

Loved Cloud Atlas. Currently reading Roberto Bolaño - 2666.

clouds

Moved onto a bit of Fantasy now, a new area for me.
Am reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea Quartet. So far don't see why fantasy is so looked down upon, excellent writing. Though AFAIK she is considered a cut above your usual robe&dragon fare.


If I had a pub I think I'd call it The Robe & Dragon

tHE vAGGABOND

finished Enigma by Robert Harris

Since its world book day, Im making another stab at War and Peace, but on kindle this time, so I dont have to carry around the monster

Hermy

Haven't posted here for a while but I'm still reading.
Just finished Post Office by Charles Bukowski and currently reading The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike.

Callan57

Edna O'Brien's new book of short stories 'Saints & Sinners'
She has such a beautiful way with words.

Belle E. Flops

Emma by Jane Austen.

I'm thinking Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or Mr. Nice next!

sxt

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar , which focuses on the viewpoint and mindset of Stalin, his family and his clique before, during and after the war. Very well researched and written. Hardcover in chapters for 5.99, worth a look if you are anyway interested in that period in history

Callan57

The Legion by Simon Scarrow ...roughly half way in & enjoying it a lot

AnnyHallsal

Mariama Ba, So Long a Letter

tHE vAGGABOND

gave up on War and Peace - again...

Now reading Salems Lot - as its just something I have wanted to read for a while.

[Annoyingly, its for sale for Kindle on Amazon.Com and Amazon.co.uk - but I cant buy it for Kindle as the publishers have only licensed it for those territories, not Ireland!]

Busi_Girl08

So I'm about half way through Cloud Atlas. Did anyone else have trouble understanding the language in the Sloosha story?

AnnyHallsal

Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Deceptively simple, absorbing, moving.

Nhead

Matterhorn- Karl Marlantes. Flawed in parts but beautiful in many ways.

Rhalliord

A Crown of Swords Wheel of Time Book 7 by Robert Jordan. I am determined to finish this series of books this year if it kills me. I have never made it past book seven yet!

Callan57

Just started 'Secret' by Philippe Grimbert ... I thought the movie was sublime so I had to get my hands on the book.

Blobby George

John Giles autobiography. What a man.

AnnyHallsal

Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather.

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Slow down AnnyHallsall!

finished Skippy Dies, very good, seems bizarre at first but is actually about so much. Especailly relevant for todays young male I think.

Reading Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad now

AnnyHallsal

Arianna Damp Zephyr wrote: »

Slow down AnnyHallsall!

finished Skippy Dies, very good, seems bizarre at first but is actually about so much. Especailly relevant for todays young male I think.

Reading Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad now

Heh heh I'm doing some marking for the Baccalaureat and had to do a rake of reading for it. They're all quite short too

Thumbs up for the current reading, I think it's superb.

staker

Blobby George wrote: »

John Giles autobiography. What a man.

Read it too, very good read.

Golf is not a game of perfect by Bob Rotella, hints and tips about improving the mental side of your golf game..

Callan57

Almost finished 'Sinema: The Northumberland Massacre' by Rod Glenn.
Got it on my Kindle for less than a EUR ... great read especially at that price

marienbad

Always have a least two books on the go , at the moments well into Swanns's Way, Three Stations - the latest Arkady Renko novel and browsing the Rattlebag by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes.

Callan57

'Nemesis' by Philip Roth

RandomnoobIII

I was reading james and the giant peach

bigsmokewriting

One Day by David Nicholls is currently getting me through the bus journeys to and from the office!

AnnyHallsal

Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits.

Callan57

The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson

Belle E. Flops

Finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas last night. Onto Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe now!

flyaway.

The Price by Alexandra Sokoloff

Callan57

Philipa Gregory's The Other Queen

Hermy

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

SarahBM

LUCAS -From the Streets of Sweto to Soccer Superstar

Biography of Lucas Radebe, the Leeds United Legend. The man is a true inspiration.

Busi_Girl08

Finished off Cloud Atlas tonight. Got good halfway through, but it kind of dragged at the end. Meh

I'm taking a break from Fiction for the moment, may try Derren Brown's new book.

squeakyduck

I'm gonna start the butcher boy now!

Callan57

50 pages into The Book Club by Kate McCabe

SarahBM

Just started the Last of the Mohicans

its gonna take me a while to read this.

Callan57

John Banville's Nightspawn ... it's my second effort at it & I'm determined to finish it this time.

AnnyHallsal

T S Eliot, Complete Poems and Plays

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Bad Day in Blackrock - Kevin Power

I dunno is it cashing in or social commentary but it's well written

Asphyxia

Starting Lolita tomorrow hopefully

monkey9

Asphyxia wrote: »

Starting Lolita tomorrow hopefully

Got my copy in the post from the Book Depository today!!