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Chevy Stevens- Always Watching
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To my great shame I have only now decided to read '1984'
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I'm reading physicist Michio Kaku's Physics of the Future right now. As well as being interesting it's also quite optimistic and that's a refreshing change.
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I love series of books (I've moved on to "Philosopher's Stone" from the Harry Potter series since finishing the first "Twilight" book this afternoon). I'll probably buy The Hunger Games at some point. I'll be honest though, the first film didn't really grab me. Maybe it would have done if I had read the books previously. Are the books much better than the films?
I've just finished The Bat by Jo Nesbo. I quite enjoyed a lighter Harry Hole story (1st in the series). You can really see the changes to his character and how much he's darkened over the series as a reaction to what he's seen and dealt with. Despite the murders and main storyline I felt that this book was much more light-hearted than the later ones and it was nice to read that after Police. I've got The Cockroaches as well but might have a break from Nesbo and come to it a bit later. I've bought Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch and might give that a go; I'm even more tempted after reading the great reviews it's gotten on here! |
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I am also reading The Goldfinch, half way through 770 pages and never want it to end.
There are so many beauties in it, such a richness of character, people will be reading it in 200 years time. Her writing does the same thing to me as Ian McEwan's - there are passages I re-read several times, for the sheer, sharp elegance and eloquence of the language. I wouldn't change a word of The Goldfinch. |
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Julian Clary- Devil in Disguise
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Finally finished A House for Mr Bizwas. The second half was a lot better than the first and a good read overall in the anti- hero tradition of Decline And Fall but probably not my favourite of Niapaul's work.
Now onto The Idiot by Dostoevsky which is reading beautifully. |
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I've just bought A Suitable Boy to read again on Kindle. I read that a sequel is planned for 2016 so I need to get back up to speed on it!
I'm also reading the biography of PL Travers, after seeing the documentary presented by Victoria Coren. Interesting about the Goldfinch. The reviews I read were mixed so good to hear that. |
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Easy read, moonlily?
:s I've found the first couple of chapters a bit confusing getting my head around the fact that we've been taken over by the Germans and remembering all the political characters at that time. However, it's becoming an ever-increasing and compelling plot and getting better the more you get into it.What do you both think of it so far? ![]() Yes- only about halfway through as I've been away and didn't get much reading time, but I'm enjoying it-my history's not good enough to always distinguish what is fiction and what is fact but nonetheless I'm still finding it easy enough to read re the writing style. Wish I could say the same for Maddaddam which I eagerly anticipated but is getting on my nerves and is nowhere near as good as I'd hoped. |
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I'm re-reading the Cazalet series. I'm nearly finished The Light Years.
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Always Managing - Harry Redknapp
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Plagues of night- David R George III
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Just started on Dean Koontz new book, Innocence.
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Stillness and Speed, by the legend that is Dennis Bergkamp
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White Fire by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. The latest in their Agent Pendergast series.
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Jennifer Government by Max Barry
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Marjorie Bowen, "The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories".
This is a fine collection of horror fiction - a group of chilling yarns mixing supernatural menace with disturbing human cruelty, often with a well-evoked period setting (the eighteenth century seems to be a favourite). Although Bowen was an admirer of M.R. James, her stories seem more in the Gothic style than Montys'- there's lots of castles and mansions, evil aristocrats and "Wuthering Heights"-ish landscapes. The gruesome "Kecksies" is an atmospheric tale of two boorish Kent nobles whose mean-spirited prank goes horribly wrong. "Elsie's Lonely Afternoon" isa heartbreaking piece about the most mistreated orphan I've ever encountered in fiction ![]() "The Scoured Silk" is a non-supernatural mystery with a suitably horrific twist. "The Avenging of Ann Leete" is a melancholy affair about a doomed romance in Scotland involving psychic powers (lots of Bowen's miserable heroines seem to reflect her own unhappy family life). An ideal present for the depressed teenage girl in your life.
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I've just finished Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, I never in a million years thought I would enjoy Harry Potter but I loved it. I am just starting today, H G Wells The War Of The Worlds.
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Happy Home for Broken Hearts - Rowan Coleman
New author to me, and after having enjoyed this, will be reading more from her. |
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A book (for adults) by Roald Dahl called 'Kiss Kiss'
It is a collection of very bizarre short stories and right up my street! |
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Just started on Dean Koontz new book, Innocence.
His protagonists are all alike and the unrealistic plots just seem to get so daft you just want to get it over with. I don't like his style of writing maybe and it just a personal thing
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The Ceres Solution by Bob Shaw, after reading about it on another thread on here. Enjoying it
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Boy in the Attic. by David Malone.
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I struggle with Dean Koontz sometimes.
His protagonists are all alike and the unrealistic plots just seem to get so daft you just want to get it over with. I don't like his style of writing maybe and it just a personal thing ![]() |
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Happy Home for Broken Hearts - Rowan Coleman
New author to me, and after having enjoyed this, will be reading more from her. |
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:s I've found the first couple of chapters a bit confusing getting my head around the fact that we've been taken over by the Germans and remembering all the political characters at that time. However, it's becoming an ever-increasing and compelling plot and getting better the more you get into it.

"Elsie's Lonely Afternoon" is