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I've just started wolf hall but finding it a bit hard going. Did you find this? I will continue with it as I love books based in this period
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I finally finished the Casual Vacancy after a few false starts. The beginning needed a good editor, it was dull and too many characters are introduced too quickly. Once it hit its stride, about 1/3 of the way through, I was hooked. It was Krystal and her fate that I found fascinating and I don't know if I would have enjoyed the book without that sub-plot.
The only thing that really irritated me was Fats' obsession with "authenticity". By the middle of the book I was rolling my eyes every time it was mentioned. I'm still not sure what the point of it was. |
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I've read Wolf Hall and adored it but I know that some people found it a bit tough, at least at first. Some people took a while to get used to the narrative technique which is constantly from inside Cromwell's mind. Imagine that everything that's happening is only seen from his position - so the description of other people, the political and social issues, even the setting is all as he would perceive it. None of it is the narrator directly telling us anything as a separate entity from him. Also usually when Mantel says 'He' she means Cromwell - that's just another way of making the reader feel closer to him. I think it's a really clever book and Bring Up the Bodies is the same but they're not everyone's cup of tea.
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Just finished Hangover Square, very good. Now I'm reading The Blackheath Seance Parlour which is excellent so far. Really funny but spooky as hell. One of those books you just can't put down.
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Just finished Hangover Square, very good. Now I'm reading The Blackheath Seance Parlour which is excellent so far. Really funny but spooky as hell. One of those books you just can't put down.
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Currently reading 'Tigers in Red Heat'.....really enjoying it. Much morevthan it first seems It is very dark
Do you mean Tigers in Red Weather? If so, I am loathing this. Turgid prose, really slow and Daisy's passage of the book in particular was beyond dull. |
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Just finished Hangover Square, very good. Now I'm reading The Blackheath Seance Parlour which is excellent so far. Really funny but spooky as hell. One of those books you just can't put down.
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A biography about joan Crawford
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Jonathan Harvey- The Confusion of Karen Carpenter
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Dust by Hugh Howie
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Until you're mine by Samantha Hayes
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I'm halfway through Persuasion - Jane Austen.
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Just finished Cold Season, by Alison Littlewood, which was OK, and am now reading Acceptable Loss by Anne Perry.
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Finished James Whale "Almost a Celebrity". The life story of the popular late-night talk host. Old Whaley's got enough chips on his shoulder to keep the McCain factory going for decades .. still he's one of the finest broadcasters out there and he's got some great tales to tell.
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Finished Arnaldur Indriadson's Black Skies. No Erlendur or Elinborg this time round but we get to learn more aboout Sigurdur Oli's background and follow him as he gets to grips with what seems on the face of it a murder involving debt-collecting. Written around the time of the credit crunch, this also gets to grips with the state of the over-levearage of theIcelandic banking industry prior to the collapse.
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Finished the Blackheath Seance Parlour by Alan WIlliams. Wow. That was a page-turner. The characters were so brilliant you end up cheering for them. The plot was genuis and really surprising. I had a look online to see what else he'd written but it was a first novel. Gutted but will definately watch this author. More! It's one of those books you can't wait to get back to and think about all the time. Best book of the year so far.
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She Wolves by Helen Castor.
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Apple Tree Yard - Louise Doughty
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Just finished The Rose Petal Beach by Dorothy Koomson. I really enjoyed it. Not sure what to read next now though!
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Finished the Blackheath Seance Parlour by Alan WIlliams. Wow. That was a page-turner. The characters were so brilliant you end up cheering for them. The plot was genuis and really surprising. I had a look online to see what else he'd written but it was a first novel. Gutted but will definately watch this author. More! It's one of those books you can't wait to get back to and think about all the time. Best book of the year so far.
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"Longbourn" by Jo Baker.
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Stalked by Brian Freeman - the third in the Jonathon Stride series.
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I'm about 100 pages from the end of The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. It's one of the better fairy tale retellings I've read, the writing is beautiful.
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I'm about 100 pages from the end of The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. It's one of the better fairy tale retellings I've read, the writing is beautiful.
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