50 Book Challenge 2017 Part Two

Can I join late please?

1. The Three Sarah Lotz: loved it. Three survivors from plane crashes but are they miracles, aliens, malevolent spirits or horsemen of the apocalypse? Oral tradition type storytelling like in World War Z.
2. Mutton India Knight: not enjoying. The character Clara was destroyed in Comfort and Joy but still I hoped for a return to form.
3. The improbability of love: okay so far. An object as a narrative voice was used in The collector collector. That was a pot iirc.
4. Swing time Zadie Smith thank you to the pp who mentioned the podcast

Hell - SEVEN times!

WTF????

Have no idea how this posted 3 times as I only hit the button once.

Sorry All.

Cheerful and Happy there is a wonderful book of poems called The Worlds Wife by Carol Ann Duffy - which is very similar to this. Wives of famous historical and literary figures. Worth a look !

Oooh - thank you. It's now on my list, RMC

PS - Suggest she LTB!

Cheerful and Happy there is a wonderful book of poems called The Worlds Wife by Carol Ann Duffy - which is very similar to this. Wives of famous historical and literary figures. Worth a look !

Oooh - thank you. It's now on my list, RMC

PS - Suggest she LTB!

Cheerful and Happy there is a wonderful book of poems called The Worlds Wife by Carol Ann Duffy - which is very similar to this. Wives of famous historical and literary figures. Worth a look !

Oooh - thank you. It's now on my list, RMC

PS - Suggest she LTB!

Cheerful and Happy there is a wonderful book of poems called The Worlds Wife by Carol Ann Duffy - which is very similar to this. Wives of famous historical and literary figures. Worth a look !

Oooh - thank you. It's now on my list, RMC

PS - Suggest she LTB!

Cheerful and Happy there is a wonderful book of poems called The Worlds Wife by Carol Ann Duffy - which is very similar to this. Wives of famous historical and literary figures. Worth a look !

Oooh - thank you. It's now on my list, RMC

PS - Suggest she LTB!

Cheerful and Happy there is a wonderful book of poems called The Worlds Wife by Carol Ann Duffy - which is very similar to this. Wives of famous historical and literary figures. Worth a look !

Oooh - thank you. It's now on my list, RMC

PS - Suggest she LTB!

Cheerful and Happy there is a wonderful book of poems called The Worlds Wife by Carol Ann Duffy - which is very similar to this. Wives of famous historical and literary figures. Worth a look !

Oooh - thank you. It's now on my list, RMC

PS - Suggest she LTB!

Or fictional characters' mumsnet.

AIBU - have just discovered my fiancé's been keeping his mad wife in the attic. He tells me it's not bigamy because she doesn't know any different and wants me to run off with him. AIBU to just run off into the night with only the clothes on my back?

This is GREAT Muddler!

Bung it on a new thread and give a link some can all join in!

BTW - may I suggest that you give her a username (UnlovedOrphan or PluckyLittleGoverness or something) some can all tell her to LTB. Except for one individual who is bound to suggest that the finance is having a bad day because he is under stress and she is being very very U.

6) The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah. This has already been reviewed upthread, it's Hannah writing an Agatha Christie Poirot novel. This one was much better than her other (Closed Casket) and I would give it a whirl if you like a Poirot, but not bother otherwise

I agree Tanaqui - the Monogram Murders was by far the better of the two. I was disappointed in Closed Casket.

my neighbours are the library and an off-licence

Fortuna - you live up to your name! I envy you your idyllic lifestyle . . .

1. Set The Boy Free - Johnny Marr

As a lifelong Smiths obsessive fan I was really looking forward to this, but I'm sad to say I found it a bit boring :( His writing style is a bit flat and after some interesting stuff about his childhood and adolescence it pretty much turns into a list of all the famous people he's ever played with. But at least it wasn't as cringe-making as Morrissey's autobiography.

Starting "Anna Karenina". (17) As a PP has said - it is l-o-n-g!

If I may coin a phrase - "I'm just going to sit down with this book. I may be some time . . ."

Evening all! I have just finished my first book of the year. Definitely a marathon rather than a sprint!!Return of the King by Tolkien. Great book, I read it first quite some years ago and had forgotten most of it so the ending was a complete surprise!

Evening all! I have just finished my first book of the year. Definitely a marathon rather than a sprint!!Return of the King by Tolkien. Great book, I read it first quite some years ago and had forgotten most of it so the ending was a complete surprise!

Fortuna,

I WAS beaten about the head with the bloody book at school. Thirty mumble years ago.

I keep saying I must read it again to see what I'd think now.

Put your spears and torches down people. I've got The Conch. I didn't dislike Lord of the Flies. I understand the literary value, the devices and language he used and what he aimed to achieve with them. However, I just came away from it wanting it to be more than it was. It didn't meet with my expectations for it. I never studied it in school, so haven't been beaten over the head with its virtues. I just felt a bit disappointed with it. I shall retract "badly written" and replace it with dissatisfying. So if you could all go back to Castle Rock and leave me in peace in my beach shelter. I've got 37 more books to finish.

Stokey I would really recommend the Cicero series. I liked Imperium best as it covered the period I knew least about. I found Lustrum a bit of slog compared to the other two, but worth persevering with. All of them managed to make each person human and you could understand the choices they made and why.

10. His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet

Much reviewed already but suffice to say I enjoyed it. Loved the way different testimonies opened up new perspectives and liked the ambiguity.

Hello Fortuna. I keep meaning to read the Cicero books. I did his letters at school and he did come across as a complete arse which is probably why I haven't got round to the Harris books yet. I also did Lord of The Flies at school, my favourite ever essay was "Ralph wept for the loss of innocence, the darkness of man's heart and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy." Discuss. I can't agree what badly written, but was 17 when I read it.

I'm reading a fantasy book but of the George Martin school rather than elves and wizards, The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. It's quite slow moving at present but I want to know where it's going. Odd world, not sure what to make of it about a third of the way through.

14 Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
A re-read prompted by my recent read of Poor Economics. Quite old now (from 2000) but a real classic of development economics. Where Poor Economics thinks about how we could do economics better, this is a much more fundamental examination of what economics is for (Sen is a political philosopher as well as an economist). It's quite dense though, and in retrospect wasn't the best choice for a long train journey - it's based on a series of lectures given to the World Bank, and I think before I read it one section at a time over several weeks!

PMd you about my seemingly odd choices Satsu.

everysong it is good but it is huge and thorough so I am knocking off a chapter here and there when I fancy it. Especially as things stand at the moment, it is great for insights into the founding of the nation, the writing of the constitution etc

On another note, I admire your tenacity in reading more white middle class fiction when it continues to piss you off hate McEwan

Was 7 not 4.