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I've just finished reading Me Before You. From start to finish it goes through every possible human emotion, I couldn't put it down and even cried part way through! Not many books, (if any, ever) have made me sob! Definitely worth a read.
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I didn't even finish the third book, although I may return to it again in the future - but I just found it very hard going. The first book was excellent but I felt she should have left it at that. You can certainly tell it was never originally intended as a trilogy.
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Louise Millar - The Playdate
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The Immortalists - Kyle Mills
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I finished The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford. Have to say I struggled a bit with it. The book does a great job of pulling you in right away but I struggled with the non-linear narative. I don't know if it was because I was reading it in hospital and kept getting interuppted but I found it had to keep the chronology clear in my head and some of the lesser characters passed me by.
There's not a lot to like about any of the characters, or at least not for me and the whole unreliable narrator got on my nerves after a while. A cautionaty tale about the dangers of Victorian sexual repression and keeping up appearences. Interesting but not gripping....and there's no soldiering in it at all! Onwards and upwards with Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim. |
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#181 |
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One Man and his Bog. by Barry Pilton.
A recounted tale of his heroic attempt to walk the Penine Way. Without doubt, one of the funniest books I have ever read. Re reding it for the second time. and You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom by Nick Cohen Everyone who values freedom and human decency should read this book; so also should those who think it's a good idea to protect the tender feelings of religious zealots, kleptocrats, 'celebrities', corrupt politicians and incompetent bureaucrats around the world. |
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#182 |
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Landscape with Figures by Liam De Paor. Excellent essays on Irish history.
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About half-way through Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham. Just discovered him. But, however so far I fail to see what all the fuss is about the character and books. He doesn't strike me as anything special at all. I hope the series improves.
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#184 |
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Read this last year and I was also at a loss to see why he's so popular .. seemed a bit dated as well given its the first in the series.
I will give the second one a try, if it is no better I'll delete them from my Kindle. |
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#185 |
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50 shades of grey
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Enchantments by Kathryn Harrison.
I thought the plot sounded good and I liked The Kiss so I gave it a shot. It's not very interesting atm but I'm only a few chapters in. |
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I'm persevering with the James Patterson Alex Cross series - finished #1 and #2 and just started #3 Jack and Jill. It's amazing on goodreads how people rave about it being the best series ever - I still find his dialogue incredibly clunky but I'm enjoying the plots more now. I still believe that Karin Slaughter is better - I've heard Tess Gerritsen is similar so might give her books a go after this one!
After reading earlier posts I don't think I'll be trying Mark Billingham!! |
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I'm on the 5th Agatha Raisin book. I'm really enjoying them and I've now got the Hamish Macbeth books to read after I have finished these. It's like Agatha Christie and Midsomer Murders had a baby, with a good dollop of funny thrown in.
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You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom by Nick Cohen Everyone who values freedom and human decency should read this book; so also should those who think it's a good idea to protect the tender feelings of religious zealots, kleptocrats, 'celebrities', corrupt politicians and incompetent bureaucrats around the world. Quote:
I'm persevering with the James Patterson Alex Cross series - finished #1 and #2 and just started #3 Jack and Jill. It's amazing on goodreads how people rave about it being the best series ever - I still find his dialogue incredibly clunky but I'm enjoying the plots more now. I still believe that Karin Slaughter is better - I've heard Tess Gerritsen is similar so might give her books a go after this one!
After reading earlier posts I don't think I'll be trying Mark Billingham!! I quite like Mark Billingham as well actually, although he's not one of my favourites. |
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Well that's me done with The Hunger Games Trilogy. I did enjoy the 1st book before it all got a bit tedious in books 2 & 3.
Think I'll head back to the Rainwilds now and read Dragon Haven, book 2 of the Rainwild Chronicles by Robin Hobb. |
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Reading 'The Stand' by Stephen King. Don't know how I missed reading it before because I've read a lot of Stephen King (Pet Semetary is one of my favourite books). About 150 pages in and really enjoying it.
![]() I'm another one on 'Catching Fire' by Suzanne Collins at the moment. |
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Snuff by Terry Pratchett. First TP i've read for a good few years, it might just be convincing me to revisit a few old favourites.
Fall of GIants (Ken Follett) has been on my shelf for a couple of months now - need to work up the motivation to start the 1000+ pages! |
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Micro by Michael Crichton, so sad he's no longer with us, enjoyed just about everything he's written.
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I'm a third of the way through Suzanne Collins' Catching Fire. It's not bad.
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Quarter the way through Clash of Kings by George RR Martin.
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Just finshed Bed by David Whitehouse,brilliant book and so different.Just started Afterwards by Rosamund Lipton but think I might struggle to stay with it.
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First post on this section!
I am reading Wolf Hall at the moment. Am enjoying it, although not used to reading books in the present tense but getting used to it!
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Just read White Wedding by Milly Johnson. I think I read it in 3 days - I couldn't put it down. I like the way that Milly writes, as you feel for her characters and I kept wanting to know what was going to happen next!
I am now reading Too Much Trouble In Paradise by Michelle Betham (which was a free Kindle book!) - which I am also quite enjoying even if the lead male in it is very annoying lol! |
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Kirby - King of Comics, by Mark Evanier. It's a good bio of the comics artist, and
the large-format book has lots of great reproductions of his illustrations, as well as an insightful account of his life. |
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I've just finished reading Me Before You. From start to finish it goes through every possible human emotion, I couldn't put it down and even cried part way through! Not many books, (if any, ever) have made me sob! Definitely worth a read.
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Stuart McBride- Shatter the Bones
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