Thingamy Take 2 - Squilly's Book

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I just felt sorry for this thread having nothing on it when it's my fault, promise I'll read it and comment on it immediately when I get back (New Zealand is fantastic by the way).

I has a book. It has black sides, which makes me feel it is going to be all gothicy.

Um, that's it for now.

I confess to reading this book very recently and it wasn't my first choice for the club, but it reeled me in like a WAG to a footballer.

Initially it grossed me out a bit. I thought it was a bit icky. Then, bit by bit, the ickiness faded into the background and the story was all that remained.

It was a bit twee in some ways, a bit too neat, but then, I've always been the kind of girl who likes my stories tightly woven, so it hit all the buttons and just had to be shared.

I hope everyone enjoys it to some degree, though I realise it won't be everyone's cup of tea.

Halfway through now (supposed to be revising for my PhD viva) and hardly anything at all has happened in the main story, but I'm enjoying the side stories very much.

It's good to know that there will be a proper ending, it seems like a book that might just fade out without explaining itself and I wouldn't like that.

How much am I allowed to give away?

I enjoyed it, especially the 'Lovers' Tales', but I did wonder what we were supposed to get out of it. Is there a moral to the story? I'd like to know how Marianne found him int he first place, too. or at least how she thought she was led to find him in hospital.

now have the book

tis one that has kept drwing me in whenever I go to waterstones for my weekly fix, but one that I confess I keep puttin down as posibly being too like 'the book thief' (altho quite why I have no idea).

I am glad now I kept putting it down......clearly meant to be for this reason

it has come at good time with me feeling crappy and ill again, so started it thursday. it is very discritptive on the medial bits. the proof of a good write I find is one who can make you shudder or cry or grin or laugh in the right places.

oh, it has also made me laugh too......much to DH's annoyance.

Oh, another one who cried at the book thief! I think I missed something in that book as I didn't even nearly cry.

I like the gross bits, I like medical stuff if it comes with proper descriptions and it sounds like the author did their research here.

By the way Squilly, I have now read the other book you sent me (which I might put into circulation just for fun).

I was a bit worried at first because one of the quotes on the front mentioned the DaVinci Code, which is not my favourite book, but actually I enjoyed it. I think I generally enjoy 'historical stuff gets confused over years as evidence naturally decays/gets lost' rather than 'big conspiracy will rock foundations of belief'. I did rather wonder sometimes if the Ophelia character was writing in a way that would be prefectly intelligible to anyone familiar with her style of speech/writing, or if she was deliberately writing in code, if you see what I mean.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. I've got a couple more interesting ones if you're running short of material??? Or if you just fancy reading something different/unplanned?

Just let me know.

I enjoyed it despite the DaVinci Code comparison too. DH bought this for me for Valentines (or was it Christmas?? ) He's very good at buying books for me...things I wouldn't necessarily pick out for myself, but usually very readable, nonetheless.

I agree about the erosion of evidence over time being more believable. Things move so fast, language, style, etc and what we think of as cryptic or vageuly indecipherable now may very well have been commonplace and perfectly clear then. I thought it was a good romp...nothing too heavy, but interesting, none the less.