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16-08-2012, 23:45
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17-08-2012, 08:49
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Dark Eden by Chris Beckett. An ingenius premise and a superb read so far.
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18-08-2012, 18:24
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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. |
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18-08-2012, 18:59
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18-08-2012, 23:44
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Just about half way through
Massacre in Cumbria - Clare Leigh |
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19-08-2012, 09:46
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My lover's Lover - Maggie O'Farrell
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19-08-2012, 12:26
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Finished Mark Billingham's "Scaredy Cat". Better than Sleepyhead, the 1st in Inspector Thorne books .. but still not fully won over.
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19-08-2012, 12:31
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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.
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19-08-2012, 12:33
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Finished "the Wind in the Willows" .. seen the film, cartoon, stage version .. but still a very satisfying read for children and adults alike.
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19-08-2012, 22:03
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Stephen King's The Stand (on Audible). Enjoying it so far - love the depth of his characters.
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19-08-2012, 22:16
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19-08-2012, 22:16
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Just finished Tokyo by Mo Hayder,took a while to get going,but all in all,quite disturbing.A good read.
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19-08-2012, 22:24
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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! |
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21-08-2012, 04:23
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Found this article very interesting though, in the light of the book's plot. |
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22-08-2012, 21:36
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Before the Storm by Diane Chamberlain, an easy read after the Mirage Men being heavy going.
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22-08-2012, 22:51
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I've just finished The Child Thief by Brom. Bit was one of the most engrossing books I've read for a long time and the artwork is outstanding.
I'm about to start Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin, I've heard good things about it. |
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23-08-2012, 06:39
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Justin Fashanu: The Biography - Jim Read
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24-08-2012, 08:40
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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 |
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24-08-2012, 08:59
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Sidetracked by Henning Mankell
Having real trouble picking up anything other than Scandanavian crime. |
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24-08-2012, 10:41
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"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.
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24-08-2012, 13:31
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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) |
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24-08-2012, 20:29
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Trespass by Rose Tremain - very good so far.
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24-08-2012, 20:35
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24-08-2012, 20:59
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