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What Are You Reading? Feb 07

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suedonim · 01/02/2007 15:45

So what are you reading, to start the new month? I'm reading 'Notes On A Scandal' by Zoe Heller. I found it hard to get into but am doing a bit better now. It won't be on my list of all time faves unless something amazing happens, though!

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sarahinphuket · 25/02/2007 15:25

I'm reading Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts....950-odd pages! Am about 2/3 of the way through and really enjoying it.

I have a huge pile of Things To Read by my bed, but can't remember what any of them are at the moment.

nikkie · 22/02/2007 18:06

The Girls by Lori ???????(it was on Richard and Judy )
Really into it so far,

slowreader · 22/02/2007 11:18

I just finished Jane Fairfax- Joan Aiken- a sequel to Emma.
Very interesting to see Emma from a different point of view.
I need something funny with long descriptions of weather and landscape and no unhappy children.

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suedonim · 22/02/2007 09:04

I finished The Birth of Venus. It's a bit of a pot-boiler, I was disappointed, tbh.

I'm now reading Melvyn Bragg's The Adventure of English, a Biography of a Language. It is most excellent!

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Earthymama · 20/02/2007 16:53

I'm reading Anne Perry Slaves of Obsession, I love her books. I'm convinced that they portray the dark reality of Victorian life (with very little learning or knowledge to support this belief!)
nellieellie, I also love Elizabeth Peters, they make me smile, the child is very amusing.
I've got Manda Scottt's latest Boudicca novel, it was a Christmas prezzie but I'm waiting for a free weekend to immmerse myself as they are so gut-wrenching. Has any-one else read them?

And Laurel K Hamilton in the world of faery with lots of rampant sex, Buffy by Nora Roberts!!

bubbles2904 · 20/02/2007 16:28

wstarfairy, i have read my best friends girl, iw was fantastic.
At the moment i am reading "goodbye dearest Holly" about holly wells who was murdered in soham.just finished reading Jodi Picoult, "perfect match", would recommend to anyone. it was fantastic.

ElenyaTuesday · 18/02/2007 12:19

Just finished "Mother's Milk" by Edward St Aubyn. The fact that it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2006 does not stop it being complete tripe. Worst thing I've read in ages.
Just started "The Echo Maker" by Richard Powers. Not too sure what to make of it yet...... Has anyone else read it?

nikkie · 17/02/2007 17:42

The Artemis Fowl books!
Lads in my class keep recommending me books and then discuss them so I may as well join in!(Quite enjoying them too!)

AdelaideS · 17/02/2007 16:16

Can I join in? I'm reading The Night Watch by Sarah Waters and loving it, can't wait to go to bed (my only reading time)

MrsSpoon · 17/02/2007 16:13

It's The Corrections not The Commitments, I knew I had that wrong.

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suedonim · 17/02/2007 15:47

The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant. I've never read any her books as when she first began writing they got panned. But this seems to eb more highly regarded. Am only a few pages in so it's too soon to comment, really.

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Wheelybug · 17/02/2007 15:38

The latest paperbackk lady detective book - blue shoes and happiness. Much the same as the rest...

PinkTulips · 17/02/2007 15:23

the soprano sorceress - l.e. modesitt jr.

quite good, fantasy obviously but very good so far considering i'd never realy noticed this author before.

MrsSpoon · 17/02/2007 15:21

The Commitments (is that what it is called ???), big thick book. I am very tired at the moment so not exactly motoring through it.

Bink · 16/02/2007 15:49

Aha - have come back to this to find out who was the clever person who suggested Trollope as my jury-service reading.

RosaLuxembourg, thank you!! Not only is it (I'm just getting to the end of Can You Forgive Her, must get to the library soon for my next helping) a nice fat teeth-getting-into read, making the downtime fly past; but also it's so exactly appropriate - all that earnest picking-apart of motive and morality, and making thinking about such things feel so important. Which is of course what I've been doing this week.

bakedpotato · 04/02/2007 21:52

just finished The Man Who Went Up in Smoke, Sjowall/Wahloo (60s Swedish police procedural, one of a series, and there's a nymphomanic in every one)
Before that loved Last Curtsey, Fiona McCarthy's memoir about the last Season
Currently reading some minor but enjoyably unsettling Patricia Highsmith, got an owl in the title

SmileysPeople · 04/02/2007 21:33

'Until I find you' by John Irving.

Not sure yet if I like it or not.

Bink · 04/02/2007 20:31

I now feel it necessary to do a health warning on that Simon Ings book - falls into that trap of novel can only be Serious if featuring some shockworthy combination of sex/child/degradation. Ugh, but worse than ugh, snore - it's such an unimaginative vogue

starfairy · 04/02/2007 17:19

Has anyone read My Best Friends Girl? Real good book.

wheresthehamster · 04/02/2007 17:10

I've just finished Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigaleta (not sure about spelling).

It's about a thirty-something woman trying to make sense of her life in a small town in Virginia. All the characters are people you would like to know in real life.
About two-thirds of the way through lovely things start happening to her and from then on I didn't stop blubbing till the end. At one point I was sobbing out loud with happiness.

Definitely the best book I've read so far this year.

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suedonim · 04/02/2007 16:44

Oh well, I finished Notes On A Scandal. There's isn't anything to like about it, really. I'm disappointed. Surely the film will be just as unsatisfying?

I'm now onto Disgrace (JM Coetzee) years after everyone else. This I am engrossed in, I lay in bed reading it for far too long last night.

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franca70 · 02/02/2007 19:44

LOL

shrinkingjeans · 02/02/2007 19:22

No, no! It's,
"life is just one damn thing after another."
He was wise, as well as hilarious.

shrinkingjeans · 02/02/2007 19:19

Best ever Wodehouse quote;
"it is never difficult to distinguish between a ray of sunshine and a Scotsman with a grievance."
I love him.

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