I thought Me Before You was a warm and funny read but certainly overhyped (a 'modern classic' as some Amazon reviewers are dubbing it it is not).
Anyone read The Slap? I know it was massive last summer, my sister read it and she said it was full of unlikeable characters having sex, and no outcome as the slap didn't have a great impact on any of them.
It got such massive hype though, 'novel of the millenium' and suchlike! I'm not too keen on stories with surplus mostly unrelated characters, The Best Of Times only had a few different families but it took me ages because I hated the constant cliffhangers and switches.
I thought Me Before You was a warm and funny read but certainly overhyped (a 'modern classic' as some Amazon reviewers are dubbing it it is not).
Anyone read The Slap? I know it was massive last summer, my sister read it and she said it was full of unlikeable characters having sex, and no outcome as the slap didn't have a great impact on any of them.
It got such massive hype though, 'novel of the millenium' and suchlike! I'm not too keen on stories with surplus mostly unrelated characters, The Best Of Times only had a few different families but it took me ages because I hated the constant cliffhangers and switches.
Your sister is a wise woman. That is precisely what it was.
Finished Craig Brown's "One to One". A 101 meetings between the great and the good .. its like being a fly on the wall on famous and some unlikely encounters .. A wide range of public figures from Hitler, Churchill, the Marx Brothers, Tchaikovsky, Proust, Hemmingway, Madonna, Chaplin, Monroe, Nixon, Rasputin .. great book great anecdotes.
I just finished 'The Post-Birthday World' by Lionel Shriver.
It's a Sliding Doors kind of story. An American woman develops a yearly ritual with her husband of taking their snooker player friend Ramsey out to dinner on his birthday. One year her husband can't make it, and she has a situation where she could kiss him. The book splits then, into the world where she did kiss him and the world where she didn't.
I found it really absorbing. Plus as a snooker enthusiast I enjoyed the novelty of reading snooker player fiction! I started racing through it when I was three quarters of the way through, and now I'm sorry I rushed. I would thoroughly recommend it!
Read "The Help" last year. Adored it. Haven't watched the film yet though.
Currently reading "Plain Truth" by Jodi Picout. It is good, but I find a little drawn out. :I think I am getting bored of it as I have "Gillespie and I" by Jane Harries lined up to read next which I have been really looking forward to reading
"Broken Harbour" by Tana French. I adore her stuff and this one is currently keeping me well hooked. I do like the way a peripheral character from her previous novel becomes the main focus of the current one, and how you don't always get a complete solution to the mystery...somehow makes it more authentic as the police really don't solve everything! Always satisfying though.
Final Empire - Brandon Sanderson (on ibook) - loving it, though writing a little simplistic
Interview with a Vampire - Ann Rice (on kindle) - liking it, though her writing requires concentration
A Song of Fire & Ice Book 4 - G RR Martin (audio book) - liking it, too little Jaime and too much Cercei, so far... (plus some of the events taking place have me constantly thinking I might have missed a couple of chapters at the end of book 3, some things are not quite making sense)
"Broken Harbour" by Tana French. I adore her stuff and this one is currently keeping me well hooked. I do like the way a peripheral character from her previous novel becomes the main focus of the current one, and how you don't always get a complete solution to the mystery...somehow makes it more authentic as the police really don't solve everything! Always satisfying though.
Is this her new book? I have not heard about it but I have loved ehr other books! Off to visit Amazon
After a lot of stopping and starting, I finally finished City Of Veils by Zoe Ferraris - a crime thriller set in Saudi Arabia. It didn't help that the author got bogged down in explaining the minutiae of life in a country she clearly detests. I'd have liked less of her views and more dedication to character and plot development.
Reading something lighter now: The Secret To Happy Ever After by Lucy Dillon.
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Anyone read The Slap? I know it was massive last summer, my sister read it and she said it was full of unlikeable characters having sex, and no outcome as the slap didn't have a great impact on any of them.
It got such massive hype though, 'novel of the millenium' and suchlike! I'm not too keen on stories with surplus mostly unrelated characters, The Best Of Times only had a few different families but it took me ages because I hated the constant cliffhangers and switches.
Your sister is a wise woman. That is precisely what it was.
Massacre in Cumbria - Clare Leigh
I loved it too
It's a Sliding Doors kind of story. An American woman develops a yearly ritual with her husband of taking their snooker player friend Ramsey out to dinner on his birthday. One year her husband can't make it, and she has a situation where she could kiss him. The book splits then, into the world where she did kiss him and the world where she didn't.
I found it really absorbing. Plus as a snooker enthusiast I enjoyed the novelty of reading snooker player fiction! I started racing through it when I was three quarters of the way through, and now I'm sorry I rushed. I would thoroughly recommend it!
Oo I'm a third of the way through this and loving it.
Found this article very interesting though, in the light of the book's plot.
I'm about to start Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin, I've heard good things about it.
Currently reading "Plain Truth" by Jodi Picout. It is good, but I find a little drawn out. :I think I am getting bored of it as I have "Gillespie and I" by Jane Harries lined up to read next which I have been really looking forward to reading
Having real trouble picking up anything other than Scandanavian crime.
Interview with a Vampire - Ann Rice (on kindle) - liking it, though her writing requires concentration
A Song of Fire & Ice Book 4 - G RR Martin (audio book) - liking it, too little Jaime and too much Cercei, so far... (plus some of the events taking place have me constantly thinking I might have missed a couple of chapters at the end of book 3, some things are not quite making sense)
Is this her new book? I have not heard about it but I have loved ehr other books! Off to visit Amazon
Lol yep its her new one.
After a lot of stopping and starting, I finally finished City Of Veils by Zoe Ferraris - a crime thriller set in Saudi Arabia. It didn't help that the author got bogged down in explaining the minutiae of life in a country she clearly detests. I'd have liked less of her views and more dedication to character and plot development.
Reading something lighter now: The Secret To Happy Ever After by Lucy Dillon.
Got ..
Quantum Thief
Domain of the Dead
The Amanda Knox Story: Murder in Perugia
Bossypants
TimeRiders: City of Shadows
SkyJack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper
and the other two books in the Millenium trilogy. So probably enough to keep me going until this time next year