50 Book Challenge 2017 Part Two

I'm also checking in, I'm still reading American Gods and The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter. I've just picked up This Thing Of Darkness too from the library after the recommendations here, looking forward to it!

I read 11.22.63 just before Christmas. Thoroughly enjoyed as my first King book (have also purchased It for some reading later on) but I doubt I would re-read as it's just too long and I was a little disappointed with the ending even though it made sense to do it like that

Place marking whilst continuing to trundle through IT. 11.22.63 is the only other King book I've read. It was a few years ago but I remember thoroughly enjoying it.

And that isn't a spoiler.

I reckon we could manage at least a dozen, Cote.

Is this a spoiler for The Virgin Suicides (if so, I hate you) or are you posting on the wrong thread, by any chance?

You were a child.

He raped you.

You were not at fault.

His behaviour is and was illegal and horrific and was not your fault.

None of this is or was your fault

X

"I don't imagine for a second that you will like it (The Virgin Suicides) though."

Actually, it's not bad. Slightly tedious but I like the author's prose.

Remus - "Maybe we should start a separate thread of books that both of us loved?"

That would be the shortest thread of this topic

And yet he lives

Hope all poorly people feel better soon. I've had the lurgy, but think I'm on the mend now.

Thank you for the new thread.

I am still home ill. Managed to get flu on top of the chest infection. I don't recommend it. Especially as I ended up listening to utter drivel for my fourth book (couldn't actually open my eyes within it pain yesterday) and - I am more than embarassed to say - enjoying it. Sort of. Mostly. It was called Beswitched by Kate Saunders and was kind of like a time-travel Chalet School book. Not what I ever read at all. My brain was mush, I tell you.
Right. Hopefully that got blessedly lost in this amazingly fast-moving thread...

I read me me before you on holiday happy I really enjoyed it and was an easy read while also watching dd bumble around in the swimming pool. Got to say I didn't have the reaction a lot of my friends claimed to have had reading it 🤔. Got the follow up after you on my to read lost for later in the year

Place marking. My New Year's resolution LAST year was to read 6 books. I failed . Think I'll start tonight as I have 4 new ones on my nightstand. More books, fewer rubbish TV shows.

First book: Holes

highlandcoo, I think The Robber Bride begins with the death of the antagonist (or a discussion of it); the story is told in flashbacks with alternate narrators.

Hi diamantegal , I read 11.22.63 last year. i really enjoyed it as a fun read but I wouldn't read it again.

The plot was the great strength of the book for me and I'm not sure I'd get any more out of it second time round tbh. Too many other books to be read!

Also checking in, but in the interests of making a contribution as well, I'm looking forward to seeing what people think of 11.22.63 - I think there were a couple of people reading or planning to read it.

I read it a few years ago and seem to remember enjoying it at the time, but I tried to re-read it recently and really struggled to get into it - I just found it very slow. I can remember the plot but not the detail so wouldn't rule it out as a re-read - I just need someone to reassure me that it's worth it! Otherwise I may as well charity shop it - I haven't got enough shelf space to keep books I won't read again!

Remus

I am NEVER wrong - just ask Mr Happy

(Many years ago when DD was about 4 and a real witch handful, I said to him "That girl! She's got me at the end of my tether! She's always right and she always has to have the last word!" I heard a mutinous muttering - "I wonder who she's got that from."

And yet he lives . . . )

Cote I don't imagine for a second that you will like it though.

Coo

Handmaid's Tale is very good - bleak and chilling but very, very good.

I've just finished The Dalai Lama's Cat. Basic Buddhist principles in story format - a quick read but quite enjoyable.

Started "Me Before You" by Jojo Moyes. Not very far in but enjoying it enormously.

Agree about Dan Brown!

Ecky Hope you're feeling better.

Happy You are wrong, you poor, deluded soul.

highlandcoo I read the Robber Bride years ago and can't remember anything about it!!!
bella4024 pleased someone else enjoyed the Summer Queen . Desperately waiting for the next Alison Weir and Phillipa Gregory to come out.

Satsuki

The Virgin Suicides is RUBBISH!!!!!

It is possibly the world's most tedious and pointless book (though not the most badly-written - Dan Brown claims the accolade for that),

passme my dh bought me a Kindle 2 days after dc1 was born, I read Middlemarch whilst bf. Second one I mainly remember reading the Hunger Games so er, make of that what you will.

BlackIsTheNewBlack It's worth the money, promise!