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Whats in your pile of books?

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aristocat · 16/07/2009 22:12

do you have a pile of books waiting to be read?
mine are -
Swimsuit
Lying with strangers
Two for the dough
The Blue Nowhere
Creepers

are you a hoarder [like me] or do you just have one?

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BecauseImWorthIt · 18/07/2009 18:52

Mmm - not sure all Jodie Picoult's stuff is MisLit. I read a couple to start with. She writes reasonably well and obviously researches her stuff thoroughly - and picks unusual/involving topics - but then manages to spoil the whole thing by being so formulaic.

Read two and you know exactly how she's going to handle any of her others.

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aristocat · 18/07/2009 18:50

didnt realise they were that bad
thanks..............hate those books
very depressing
will give em a miss

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Flamesparrow · 18/07/2009 18:49

I have the actual title in my phone Janeite - you mentioned it on another thread. Or someone did...

MmeDanversAMangeMonIpod · 18/07/2009 18:46

aristo I haven't read any of Picoult's because I would rather pull my toe nails out with pliers than read any Mis(ery)Lit.

Normally about abused and/or dying/deprived/murdered children. From what I have heard she doesn't shy away from scenes of graphic child abuse and I can't think of anything I would like to read less than that.

Mislit does seem to appeal to a lot of women tho and is a growing genre, but I have no idea why.

Sunshinemummy · 18/07/2009 18:43

The Inheritance of Loss (started it but not finished)
Love in a Cold Climate (started but not finished)
Twilight (just started on advice of Mumsnetters)
The Star of the Sea
The Pursuit of Happyness (sic)
A crap celeb book that MIL bought called something like 'Is it just me or are all celebrities crazy?' with v out of date info about Kate Moss, Kerry Katona and Robbie Williams etc. (never going to finish)
The White Tiger
The Bolter

yappybluedog · 18/07/2009 18:40

That Michael Jackson biog is surprisingly readable

Finest Englishwoman also vv good

janeite · 18/07/2009 18:32

Life backwards?

DebiNewberry · 18/07/2009 18:29

The Invention of Everything Else - Samantha Hunt
The Behaviour of Moths - Poppy Adams

BecauseImWorthIt · 18/07/2009 18:24

I'm currently reading Jed Rubenfeld's The Interpretation of Murder, and off to France in a couple of weeks, so compiling my holiday reading. So far, have:

Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Played with Fire (2nd in the trilogy and just out in paperback)
Irene Nemirovsky - All Our Worldly Goods
Jane Green - The Beach House
Kate Jacobs - The Friday Knitting Club, Knit Two

Bumperslucious · 18/07/2009 18:11

Have given up on Obama's Audacity of Hope, but have: Buddism for Mothers, The Bookthief and an allotment book on my bedside table, and How To Talk... in my bathroom!

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aristocat · 18/07/2009 18:09

havnt read any jodi picoult
are they soooooooo bad ??

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Flamesparrow · 18/07/2009 18:06

I'm considering doing Austen/Zombies for book group I have a thread going asking for recommendations

The vamp etc books - not sure yet, not started any of these. The last few from the pile have been more adult themed than twilight .

Janeite - why can't I find your life backwards book in any book shops?!?!?

MmeDanversAMangeMonIpod · 18/07/2009 18:03

god that Austen zombie thing looks weird

BeastQuest · 18/07/2009 17:39

Y i wouldnt reccy.

OOOH I forgot TWO i got at tesco too

Michael Jackson biog by randy tiaboierlli( he did one i read before that was fabbola)
here it is
and .. ooh cant remember

janeite · 18/07/2009 17:34

She sounds like an airhead who wanted a book op tbh. Think I'll give it a miss!

BeastQuest · 18/07/2009 17:33

oh also the biog of Helen Gurley Brown on order at library here

BeastQuest · 18/07/2009 17:32

Its very odd
then she goes to Uganda and investigates war crimes.
I am not rushing upstairs to read it.
all the reviews must be by her mates

janeite · 18/07/2009 17:32

There was an extract from that Date thing in Marie Claire (god knows why I bought it as it's gone so downhill) but I wasn't impressed - far too many clebs who I've never heard of.

BeastQuest · 18/07/2009 17:30

it is SO SO good.
would be a great film

janeite · 18/07/2009 17:30

Lucky you with Austen, Flame - which one?

Is it GOOD vampire stuff? If so, recs please (ie not crappy Twilight stuff). I have just ordered the Austen zombies thing.

Somme thing looks interesting. I read a devestating account of the Somme once that i read cover to cover in a space of six hours because I just couldn't put it down - normally, I am much, much slower with non-fic.

MmeDanversAMangeMonIpod · 18/07/2009 17:28

on my list too

(I have a very long list!)

BeastQuest · 18/07/2009 17:27

Have you all read the finest kind of english womanhood?
is the best all year for me

MmeDanversAMangeMonIpod · 18/07/2009 17:26

Oh god life's too short for Picoult

BeastQuest · 18/07/2009 17:26

am reading this atm and GOD its odd
and haev eey on Juior officers reading club
also one abotu trotsky still in hardback and one about the battle of the somme that argues that the Somme was a worhtwhile move and that subsequent acounts of it are subject to hindsight

janeite · 18/07/2009 17:26

Groan to the Piccoult bollocks - she's excrutiating isn't she? Off to google American Wife.