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What are you reading at the moment? (Part 3)
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radioanorak
22-01-2011
The 3 rd Book By John Manuel called Tzatziki for you to say
His blog is here - http://honorarygreek.blogspot.com
doom&gloom
22-01-2011
Originally Posted by doom&gloom:
“just given up on Gideon Mack, going to read the last Ruth Rendell next.”

Spoiler
The Ruth Rendell novel Tigerlily's Orchids was as well-written and as much of a page-turner as ever, but I guessed the murderer as soon as the fat girl started giving her boyfriend the brush-off and that cannabis was being grown when they said no snow was settling on the roof so either her twists are getting more predictable or I'm getting smarter.
trec123
22-01-2011
Have just finished Sisters Who Would be Queen by Leanda de Lisle, about Lady Jane Grey and her sisters - really interesting.
I might try The Redbreast next by Jo Nesbo.
Jackboy18
22-01-2011
I have just finished "13 Treasures" by Michelle Harrison, and am now reading the sequel, "13 Curses". Both are very enjoyable.
janism
22-01-2011
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - a Kindle freebie.
Beautiful_Harv
22-01-2011
Peter Robinson- Friend of the Devil
luckylila
22-01-2011
'Twilight in Venice' by Steven Carroll. I didn't like the first few pages but I'm really into it now, and thoroughly enjoying it.
GiraffeGirl
22-01-2011
Room by Emma Donaghue
rwould
22-01-2011
Darkly Dreaming Dexter, although with all the comments about them am getting very tempted to get the Nesbo books!
capricorn_night
22-01-2011
Ghost Hunters - Deborah Blum.
It's about victorian spiritualism and the scientific experiments into it in the 19th century. Quite good so far.
trinity2002
23-01-2011
The Enemy - Lee Child
kimindex
23-01-2011
Gold by David Hill about the Australian Gold Rush
Quote:
“David Hill, the bestselling author of 1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet, draws on official diaries, letters, newspapers and records to reimagine the story of Australia’s gold rushes.
The gold fields were some of the coldest, hottest, wettest and driest places in Australia. They were often wild, lawless and dangerous. But despite all the dangers, fortune hunters went there in droves. Gold! is the story of this gold 'fever' that spread across Australia.”

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My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru. Good so far (first chapter read only)

Quote:
“It’s the day before Mike Frame’s fiftieth birthday and his quiet provincial life is suddenly falling apart. But perhaps it doesn’t matter, because it’s not his life in the first place. He has a past that his partner Miranda and step-daughter Sam know nothing about, lived under another name amidst the turbulence of the revolutionary armed struggle of the 1970s. Now Mike is seeing ghosts – a dead ex-lover and an old friend who wants to reminisce. Mike can no longer ignore the contradiction between who he is and who he once was. Which side was he on back then? And which side is he on now?”

maybe
23-01-2011
Cedilla by Adam Mars-Jones

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“Cedilla continues the history of John Cromer begun by Pilcrow, described by the London Review of Books as "peculiar, original, utterly idiosyncratic" and by the Sunday Times as "truly exhilarating". These huge and sparkling books are particularly surprising coming from a writer of previously (let’s be tactful) modest productivity, who had seemed stubbornly attached to small forms. Now the alleged miniaturist has rumbled into the literary traffic in his monster truck, and seems determined to overtake Proust’s cork-lined limousine while it’s stopped at the lights.John Cromer is the weakest hero in literature -- unless he’s one of the strongest. In Cedilla he launches himself into the wider world of mainstream education, and comes upon deeper joys, subtler setbacks. The tone and texture of the two books is similar, but their emotional worlds are very different. The slow unfolding of themes is perhaps closer to Indian classical music than the Western tradition -- raga/saga, anyone? This isn’t an epic novel as such things are normally understood, to be sure. It contains no physical battles and the bare minimum of travel, yet surely it qualifies.”

And I've just downloaded 'Gold' on my Kindle having been tempted by Kimindex's post above!
kimindex
23-01-2011
Originally Posted by maybe:
“Cedilla by Adam Mars-Jones



And I've just downloaded 'Gold' on my Kindle having been tempted by Kimindex's post above!”

Hope you enjoy it, maybe!
Only just started it but good so far! I've been fascinated with gold/diamond etc discoveries since I read a book about it, as a child.
Muggsy
23-01-2011
Just finished Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, which I'm pretty sure I read in my teens but had completely forgotten.

Now starting Justine Picardie's biography of Coco Chanel.
luckylila
23-01-2011
Originally Posted by rwould:
“Darkly Dreaming Dexter, although with all the comments about them am getting very tempted to get the Nesbo books!”

Oh, I'm reading that right now too. Not really sure what I think of it. It's growing on me I think.
0piumDea1er
23-01-2011
The Girl With The........ had it for a while, just got round to reading it
devil's custard
23-01-2011
Originally Posted by doom&gloom:
“just given up on Gideon Mack, going to read the last Ruth Rendell next.”

I gave up on Gideon Mack too a couple of years ago, but will have another try (I hate to be beaten). Reading 'The Reader' (Bernhard Schlink) at the mo.
maybe
24-01-2011
Originally Posted by kimindex:
“Hope you enjoy it, maybe!
Only just started it but good so far! I've been fascinated with gold/diamond etc discoveries since I read a book about it, as a child.”

Thanks!

Some members of my family went out to the Australian Gold Rush in the late 1800's and I'm always interested to read about it.
ajr493
24-01-2011
Originally Posted by devil's custard:
“Reading 'The Reader' (Bernhard Schlink) at the mo.”

I think I missed the point with that one - I have no idea why it ws so critically acclaimed
pickwick
24-01-2011
Finished Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead last night - can't believe I've never read it before! Now I really want to see it performed.
harry*half*pint
24-01-2011
Room by Emma Donaghue
rwould
24-01-2011
Originally Posted by luckylila:
“Oh, I'm reading that right now too. Not really sure what I think of it. It's growing on me I think.”

I'm enjoying it, but just finished series 3 of the TV show so liking seeing the differences between TV and telly character so far.
__melissa
24-01-2011
Diane Chamberlain - The Lost Daughter

I bought it when it was £1 on the Kindle offer and only just getting round to reading it. Quite an easy, enjoyable read so far.
peaches41
24-01-2011
Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell - love her books
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