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What's Everyone Reading in the New Year?

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expatinscotland · 02/01/2006 16:44

I've started w/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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mummytosteven · 01/02/2006 20:49

just finished Weight by Jeanette Winterson. (retelling of Atlas and Hercules myth).
Just started "Out" by Kirino.

sansouci · 31/01/2006 21:08

no, don't change oldandfat. even if you're thinandfit.

btw, the name of the book I'm reading is Shantaram & it's actually v. good so far. Well-written & fascinating.

I've never read Pride & Prejudice. I did Mansfield Park for A-level & slogged through it. so it's never appealed. Maybe I should read it (28 years later!)

Cam · 30/01/2006 18:20

ggirl, I quite like those insights into the male mind-set

oldandfat · 30/01/2006 11:47

sansouci....will change it to thinandfit if i ever get there lol

codnotmud · 30/01/2006 11:01

lol sd

brimfull · 29/01/2006 22:27

Just finished Saturday by Ian Macewan,it was really good,but I did find he rambled a bit in places.

Definately went into way too much detail with the squash game imo.

sansouci · 29/01/2006 22:11

Adore the nickname "oldandfat"!

Most enjoyed The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain so far this year. Am now working on Feb issue of Vanity Fair & a very thick book about some criminal on the run in India. Can't remember the name. Was ashamed of myself for rather enjoying the Undomestic Godess. Read it quickly w/out breaking the spine(then exchanged it for something else.

Posey · 29/01/2006 21:51

Will let you know!
Have to finish "Sex and other Changes" first

tamum · 29/01/2006 21:34
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Cam · 29/01/2006 21:02

There's 2 different points of view for you to be going on with Posey.......

tamum · 29/01/2006 20:55

That's interesting Cam- I did quite like Saturday but thought it was nowhere near as good as his other recent books.

Posey · 29/01/2006 20:55

Cam, will do.

Cam · 29/01/2006 20:47

Posey I'm halfway through Saturday, its great, Ian McEwan's best book so far I think. Won't say more as I don't want to spoil it for you. Let me know what you think when you're reading it...

oldandfat · 29/01/2006 20:37

just finished sharon osbn. not a bad read, want all the surgery she has had now! don't know what/when i will read next.

Posey · 29/01/2006 20:35

what book of facts?

Posey · 29/01/2006 20:34

I've read TTW (I liked it)
Am on about Saturday. I lurve unputdownable books.

spacedonkey · 29/01/2006 20:34

I'm reading cod's excellent book of facts

codnotmud · 29/01/2006 20:32

why?

Cam · 29/01/2006 20:30

Posey are you talking about TTW or Saturday? (Ignore cod)

codnotmud · 29/01/2006 20:17

i too loved candleford
ahd a big craze on them when i was about 15
dunno if id still like em

codnotmud · 29/01/2006 20:16

no thought ttw was pants

Posey · 29/01/2006 20:15

Is it Cam? Just bought it half price £3.99 in Waterstones and is next on the list to read.

Cam · 29/01/2006 20:13

Yes www Time Travellers Wife is good, it made me cry.

Now reading Ian McEwan's Saturday - unputdownable

NotQuiteCockney · 21/01/2006 21:56

I finished On Beauty, and started a thread complaining about it ... well, I did really like it, but the ending just ... ended.

Bink · 18/01/2006 15:43

giddy1, Lark Rise is a staple of public libraries - sure you can find one there.

Should re-read it myself sometime, as well as the one you suggest, fullmoonfiend!

I've just finished Canetti's Party in the Blitz, which while deeply interesting was a wee bit short in the human wisdom and wit department. So with some relief I am back with lovely humane lucid funny Alan Bennett (before a reading, in the foyer of the Wakefield Playhouse, meeting some "sabre-toothed pensioners. 'It had better be good,' one of them warned. 'We're big fans of yours.'")

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