This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Callan57

The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zeaón ..... beautiful

girlonfire

Reading Absalom, Absalom! I'm enjoying it, but it's quite confusing in some parts

OakeyDokey

techsavysista wrote: »

the girl with the dragon tattoo is next up on my list, excited, currently reading Eat, Pray, Love, anyone any thoughts on that?

It was okay, nothing wow about it though!

kylith

60% of the way through the Terry Pratchett/Stephen Baxter collaboration The Long Earth. Really enjoying it.

WinterSong

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel, loving it so far!

highlydebased

Why I am not A Christian by Bertrand Russell- It's ancient but it is incredibly relevant today

The Expo Files by Steig Larsson next!

cynder

The criminal by Karin slaughter

Autosport

I'm reading book 3 of the Fifty shades series I'm loving them so far

girlonfire

Starting Teju Cole's Open City tonight.

Callan57

Going to start Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies tonight

Corruptedmorals

Callan57 wrote: »

Going to start Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies tonight

Loved it, I think it's better than Wolf Hall.

I am re-reading The Lost Daughter by Diane Chamberlain. Just before it I read Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel and A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir.

TheEscapist

Think I'll start Cloud Atlas tonight, have no clue what it's about so I'll just jump in head first and hope for the best.

Monkeybonkers

Running the Table: The Legend of Kid Delicious by L. Jon Wertheim

Huzzah!

Callan57 wrote: »

Going to start Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies tonight

Just finished it, and I loved it. Read 50 Shades of Grey to see what the fuss was about - and that's enough said about that.

Started The Man of my Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld, who I love. It sounds chick litty, but it's not overly so.

Callan57

Huzzah! wrote: »

Just finished it, and I loved it. Read 50 Shades of Grey to see what the fuss was about - and that's enough said about that.

Started The Man of my Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld, who I love. It sounds chick litty, but it's not overly so.

I'm 200+ pages into Bring Up The Bodies and loving it

OakeyDokey

Started 50 Shades Freed last night and I'm over 40% through.

eire4

OakeyDokey wrote: »

Started 50 Shades Freed last night and I'm over 40% through.

Did you like it? I have heard mixed reviews.

eire4

I finished a re read of Harlen Coban's Fade Away myself last night.

OakeyDokey

eire4 wrote: »

Did you like it? I have heard mixed reviews.

Honestly I preferred the story behind all the erotica, It felt like they put in a sex scene whenever they needed space filled. I think there was no need for a third book and could have fitted it all into two books, it was repetitive and spent too long dwelling on certain topics and not enough time on others.

While I don't hate the books I just found them to be frustrating at times and Ana's character was very contradicting. They are books I'd never feel the need to read again.

Monkeybonkers

A return to the hilarious Flashman series with Flashman at the Charge by George MacDonald Fraser

techsavysista

emeraldstar wrote: »

techsavysista wrote: »

the girl with the dragon tattoo is next up on my list, excited, currently reading Eat, Pray, Love, anyone any thoughts on that?

On Eat, Pray, Love? Greatest heap of shite.

I couldn't get past page thirty! Tripe!

Callan57

Finished Bring Up The Bodies .... great read

Next up is This Is How It Ends by Kathleen MacMahon

old gregg

Just finished Niccolò Ammaniti's - I'm Not Scared. I read it almost in a single session, fairly grips from the start.

emeraldstar

White Teeth by Zadie Smith. I'm only as far as page twenty-something but already enjoying it a lot.

mickoregan

THE GORSE TRILOGY by Patrick Hamilton.

I've fallen in love with this guys writing though I have to say, this is the weakest of his stuff.

On deck:

THE BEGINNER'S GOODBYE - Anne Tyler.

fifi234ie

emeraldstar wrote: »

White Teeth by Zadie Smith. I'm only as far as page twenty-something but already enjoying it a lot.

I love that book so funny, they did a mini series, on Channel 4 I think, of it too.

Belle E. Flops

Still reading Life by Keith Richard's - really enjoying it.

Also reading The Complete Maus - which is a graphic novel about the Holocaust. The Jews are drawn as mice and the Nazis are cats. It sounds a bit mad, but it is actually very good.

growler

started and had to give up on Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon after 100 pages, think this the first book I've ever found to be utterly unintelligible.

highlydebased

The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell- have read a book of his a day for the past week!

Monkeybonkers

Flashman in the Great Game

Callan57

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

fifi234ie

The Secret River by Kate Grenville

x_Ellie_x

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Good book so far.

Cokeistan

Ready Player One Ernest Cline

Only about 40 pages in but a fantastic read so far, would recommend to anyone who likes video games or has a thing for 80s nostalgia

sunshine and showers

I've finished Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut both of which I'd really recommend.

On to Nineteen Eighty-Four now. I do love a bit of Orwell!

MagicMarker

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

Really interesting so far..

mrblack

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Am slowly getting through it -Good thought provoking read I think.

MrBlack

Callan57

Starting The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory

Monkeybonkers

Flashmans Lady by George MacDonald Fraser

skeleton_boy

Must be one of the last people in the country to be getting stuck into Keane:The Autobiography

x_Ellie_x

I'm try to read at least one classic per month so this month I've decided to read The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.

AnnyHallsal

American Vampire by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque and Stephen King

BopNiblets

Walk This Way, Autobiography of Aerosmith, it's ok.

Previously read Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, and a bit of Mindfulness in Plain English.

eire4

I finished an enjoyable re read of Harlen Coben's Back Spin.

techsavysista

On to Nineteen Eighty-Four now. I do love a bit of Orwell!

My favourite book!

NapoleonInRags

What is the What - The Autobiography of Valentine Achak Deng, by Dave Eggers

AnnyHallsal

The Berlin Novels, Christopher Isherwood

techsavysista

techsavysista wrote: »

My favourite book!

Agreed. I found 1984 to the be saddest thing I have ever read...

Just finished A sense of an ending (Julian Barnes). Enjoyed it, although I found the ending a little contrived and the narrator somewhat self-pitying.

Just starting Solace (Belinda McKeown)

OakeyDokey

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Callan57

The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler