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I've just started Hard Times (Charlies Dickens). So far so good, but I can't really judge it on two chapters!
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Thanks to DS recommendations - "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" which I finished this afternoon. I loved it and am still moved by it.
My next book will be "Before I Go To Sleep" - another book enjoyed by readers here, so DS is having quite an influence on what I am reading
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Tuesdays With Morrie ...
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Little Star by John Arvide Lindqvist
Latest book to be translated into English by the Swedish author of Let The Right One In About a quarter of the way through. It's the story of a very unusual little girl with perfect pitch found buried alive when a couple of months old by a slightly odd couple, when then try to keep her hidden. That's whats happened so far anyway! |
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I've recently started The Last Dragonslayer, by Jasper Fforde. I know it's a kids book (
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Shock Wave - John Sandford. Book 5 of a series but I skipped straight to it because I liked the synopsis. Enjoying the book so far so will probably take a look at the other books in the series.
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Condition Black - Gerald Seymour
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Just finished Nele Neuhaus' Schneewittchen muss sterben.
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I have just finished Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. Expected it to be a sappy love story, but it was actually one of the most moving books I have ever read.
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I have just finished Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. Expected it to be a sappy love story, but it was actually one of the most moving books I have ever read.
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Just about to start Skin Privilege by Karin Slaughter.
Bit annoyed with myself as I read the follow on to this one before I realised that they weren't stand alone books and should be read in order. So even though I know what happens, I'm hoping I'll still enjoy it like I have all her other books so far. |
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Private: #1 Suspect (Jack Morgan, #2) - James Patterson
Where The Heart Is (Campion family, #4) - Annie Groves |
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Karin Fossum- He who fears the wolf
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I've recently started The Last Dragonslayer, by Jasper Fforde. I know it's a kids book (
) but he's my favourite author and it's actually quite good.I always think of childrens books that have crossed over to adult books (Harry Potter, Narnia etc), these help to blur the distinctions a bit. I think it's quite sad if you won't read a really good (childrens) book until it's technically an adult book with the revamped cover and everything. I'm currently reading The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper. You can tell it's a childrens book because it's published by puffin! I'm enjoying it though, I read before I go to sleep so I'm not always awake enough to tackle anything too complex! |
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Sepulchre - Kate Mosse
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Esther Freud- Lucky Break
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The Hard Way by Lee Child
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I'm reading another Robert Harris, Archangel this time. I nicked it from my dad's shelves over Christmas. I haven't read an actual physical book in ages, and this one is a hardback, so it feels weird! I'm about a third of the way in, and really enjoying it, although I find it a bit slower to read than my normal books, because it's heavy to read in bed and I can't easily read it for five minutes while I'm doing something else, like I would do with my kindle app.
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Just finished The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier. I have mixed feelings. It was a brilliant book but I kept waiting for the past and present storylines to merge in some way and they didn't. Maybe with a re-read it will be clearer but I don't think it was satisfactorily explained why the narrator went back to that period, why Roger was the guide, or any of it really.
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No shame in that! You should see the books I've read in the 212 thread!
I always think of childrens books that have crossed over to adult books (Harry Potter, Narnia etc), these help to blur the distinctions a bit. I think it's quite sad if you won't read a really good (childrens) book until it's technically an adult book with the revamped cover and everything. I'm currently reading The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper. You can tell it's a childrens book because it's published by puffin! I'm enjoying it though, I read before I go to sleep so I'm not always awake enough to tackle anything too complex! The bigger text gets me sometimes (but that might just be because I last read A Clash of Kings, which has tiny text). |
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Just about to start Skin Privilege by Karin Slaughter.
Bit annoyed with myself as I read the follow on to this one before I realised that they weren't stand alone books and should be read in order. So even though I know what happens, I'm hoping I'll still enjoy it like I have all her other books so far.
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I've recently started The Last Dragonslayer, by Jasper Fforde. I know it's a kids book (
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In the Woods - Tana French
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Just finished The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, it's good, very different, alot of Religious and philosophical debate in the background. 7/10
Currently about a third of the way through, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, it's quite raw and violent, but beautifully written and you get sucked into whatever World he's describing. |
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) but he's my favourite author and it's actually quite good.
