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What are you reading at the moment? (Part 4)
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kimindex
02-03-2013
Family Secrets by Deborah Cohen

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“Drawing upon years of research in previously sealed records, the prize-winning historian Deborah Cohen offers a sweeping and often surprising account of how shame has changed over the last two centuries. Both a story of family secrets and of how they were revealed, this book journeys from the frontier of empire, where British adventurers made secrets that haunted their descendants for generations, to the confessional vanguard of modern-day genealogy two centuries later. It explores personal, apparently idiosyncratic, decisions: hiding an adopted daughter's origins, taking a disabled son to a garden party, talking ceaselessly (or not at all) about a homosexual uncle.

In delving into the familial dynamics of shame and guilt, Family Secrets investigates the part that families, so often regarded as the agents of repression, have played in the transformation of social mores from the Victorian era to the present day. Written with compassion and keen insight, this is a bold new argument about the sea-changes that took place behind closed doors.”

Euan1234
02-03-2013
Hangover Square - Partick Hamilton
21stCenturyBoy
02-03-2013
Originally Posted by Euan1234:
“Hangover Square - Partick Hamilton”

Oh I really want to read that!

Are you enjoying it?

I'm halfway through The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge. Very dark but very funny.
Meanbugger
02-03-2013
I'm reading Perfect People by Peter James which is intriguing me somewhat.
kate36
02-03-2013
Lynda La Plante 'Backlash' [Above suspicion series]
I love her books, and this is great so far
kate36
02-03-2013
Originally Posted by 21stCenturyBoy:
“Oh I really want to read that!

Are you enjoying it?

I'm halfway through The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge. Very dark but very funny.”

i've just read the synopsis for this book on amazon and it looks excellent!! i've put it on my reservations list at the library
BellaRosa
02-03-2013
The Bird Nobody See's by Sturt Ayris
Euan1234
02-03-2013
Originally Posted by 21stCenturyBoy:
“Oh I really want to read that!

Are you enjoying it?

I'm halfway through The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge. Very dark but very funny.”

I'm just getting near the halfway point. Would recommend it so far, very well-written. You feel sympathy for the main character, but you just know something bad is about to happen....
wonderwheels28
02-03-2013
Mum On The Run Fiona Gibson
Residents Fan
02-03-2013
Arslan by M. J. Engh. A gripping, albeit very disturbing, take on the nature of tyranny,
as the titular villain invades the United States and makes a small Illnois town his
power base. The book follows the response of Franklin
Bond, the local headmaster and an archetypal
"Middle American", to the challenge Arslan poses. It's
very good, albeit quite shocking in places.
Teddybleads
03-03-2013
Originally Posted by Euan1234:
“Hangover Square - Partick Hamilton”

That's a great read.
Reddybook
03-03-2013
The Next Always - Nora Roberts
Always a guilty pleasure, having read soooh many of her books, but this was a cosy romance, not so different from her earlier stuff, which were fantastic. Familiar characters, in familiar situations in small town America. While this was OK, it was disappointing.
I'll think I should stick with her crime novels.
stud u like
03-03-2013
Originally Posted by susie-4964:
“JK Rowling's "The Casual Vacancy", and hating it so far. Good story, appalling characterization. Just finished "Gone Girl", which I thought was brilliant.”

"The Vacant Casualty" always sounded a better title from the parody.
TelevisionUser
03-03-2013
Are We Alone?: Philosophical Implications Of The Discovery Of Extraterrestrial Life by Paul Davies.
Yvie123
03-03-2013
Have decided Game of Thrones is not for me
It's brilliantly descriptive, the characters are really well drawn and it zips along, even though it's a very long tale.
It's just that there's an unrelenting air of depression about it and I feel it will only get darker as it progresses!
Maybe I'll dip into some more of it at a later date.

Have now moved onto Paul Doherty's The Nightingale Gallery.
patsylimerick
03-03-2013
Originally Posted by susie-4964:
“JK Rowling's "The Casual Vacancy", and hating it so far. Good story, appalling characterization. Just finished "Gone Girl", which I thought was brilliant.”

Not very likeable are they? It gets better. The last third of it is actually excellent. One of those books where I nearly gave up but was thrilled, by the end, that I hadn't. Not gonna cheer you up, but very moving in the end. I cried buckets.

I'm reading Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet about two 12 year olds - Chinese boy and Japanese girl - from Seattle during WW2. Brilliant, brilliant book. I find it all the more poignant as friends of mine are of Japanese descent and their families experienced the Japanese 'camps' in the US during the war years.

Highly recommend this book. Beautiful, clear prose and a fantastic story.
Johnny Clay
03-03-2013
The Small Hand by Susan Hill

Atmospheric and at times ambiguous ghost tale brought to life by vivid locations and a subtle, creeping sense of dread.

Not quite in the same league as her Woman in Black, but certainly worth it if you like the genre.
andallthatjazz
03-03-2013
Just finished 15 Days Without A Head by Dave Cousins.

Don't know why it was described as a compelling thriller as it was nowhere close as one....it was OK. No more compelling than what are already heard or read in the news about family struggling and some on the verge of poverty or already living in poverty sometimes due to their dysfunctional and irresponsible parents which is the concept of the author's book.
GirlfromEireann
03-03-2013
Just started, this afternoon, 'The Umbrella' by Will Self. I am trying, as I did last year to read the 6 books shortlisted for the Booker Prize as I feel it opens up other genres and books that I probably wouldn't purchase otherwise.

I can see it is going to be a slog, but I will persevere.
TheManInWhite
03-03-2013
Originally Posted by SilvioDante:
“Ray Mears kicks ol' bears ass every time.”

Originally Posted by the_lostprophet:
“I disagree - Bear is awesome! People do seem to be on one side or the other with these two though.”

Originally Posted by Lizzy11268:
“Not me I love both ”

Haha, seems I started a debate here

Each to his/her own! I actually like Ray too! Got a couple of his books and I watched a series of his on Canada not too long ago, which was a great insight. He’s an interesting and inspiring chap too, but Bear is awesome and is definitely a hero of mine. Take a few things out and change some minor things about his autobiography and it’s like you’re reading my memoirs, lol. I can connect with a lot of the stuff Bear has experienced (doing stupid stuff for a dare, being cr@p and in trouble at school, suffering various injuries, almost killing yourself (not on purpose) and so on…) I’m also very active like Bear which is why I like his stuff.
GiraffeGirl
03-03-2013
Originally Posted by andallthatjazz:
“Just finished 15 Days Without A Head by Dave Cousins.

Don't know why it was described as a compelling thriller as it was nowhere close as one....it was OK. No more compelling than what are already heard or read in the news about family struggling and some on the verge of poverty or already living in poverty sometimes due to their dysfunctional and irresponsible parents which is the concept of the author's book.”

You know this is a young adult book, right?
Sex
04-03-2013
Molly moon stops the world , I never know anyone else who is interested in these books
wildhollie
04-03-2013
Just finished Stuart Macbride "Birthdays for the Dead", now I love Stuarts books but really not sure what i think about this one, it was stretching credibility just a little bit.....

Also just finished Simon Kernick's "Siege" - brilliant book, 9/10 for me.
wildhollie
04-03-2013
Originally Posted by dymafi:
“Finished Peter James's "Not Dead Yet". Yet another satisfying outing for DS Roy Grace, Brighton's busiest detective .. This time dealing with a victim chopped to bits and a Hollywood diva returning to her home town for filming .. and who is the blonde woman with a German speaking kid who seems to be keeping her beady eyes on Grace and Chloe ?”

Have you read any of the previous books in this series ? If so then you should know who the blonde woman and her kid is....
MissMusique
04-03-2013
Just finished Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn - wow what a headf**k! I couldn't put it down at all - I felt as manipulated as Nick whilst reading that story and I'm now exhausted having finished it! Great read and I'll definitely be reading some of her other stuff in the near future!
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