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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1455 on: March 24, 2008, 06:57:36 AM »
Quote from: therani on March 24, 2008, 06:52:16 AM
Ow, I'm going to lower the IQ of this thread by thirty points since I just finished "Someday My Prince Will Come" - a chick-lit style autobiography of this girl who moved to London. To marry Peter Phillips (the royal). I thought it would be kind of nice since she seemed to have a trajectory (grad school, job, permanent residency) that I want to be on... but oh my god the whole book had the worst kind of snobbery and stereotyping! This girl was obsessed with postcard London (not England), BBC british accents and posh Oxbridge types.

Ew. Must finish a book about upper class Regency culture to cleanse the palate now.

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I Just finished Astonishing Splashes of Colour and loved it. So heartbreaking!

I think the next one will be Quarantine by Jim Crace.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1456 on: March 25, 2008, 09:40:12 AM »
Been reading Winter in Madrid by C. J. Sansom:

http://www.eurocrime.co.uk/reviews/Winter%20in%20Madrid.html

Really took me awhile to get into it, because I found the whole English public school thing a bit offputting, but now I'm really liking it.  It's helping me to understand more about that particular historical period & context - the time & place of Franco's Spain during WWII plus how this affected & was affected by the UK.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1457 on: March 29, 2008, 03:33:29 PM »
It wouldn't let me modify the above - but that Winter in Madrid was really good!  It's been a long time since I read a book that I just couldn't put down!  Although it did take awhile to get into it, to get to that point.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1458 on: March 31, 2008, 01:01:46 AM »
Finished Cormac McCarthy's

The Orchard Keeper - Good luck with this one.  Not the easiest read, but what they say and what he says and what they feel is worth the read even if you don't know what's going on half of the time.

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All The Pretty Horses - beautifully written as usual.  Not one of his more violent books of those I've read. 
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1459 on: March 31, 2008, 01:09:00 PM »
Just finished Black Powder War (third book in the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik) and about to start Empire of Ivory (the fourth book).  Really enjoying them. A friend had recommended the series to us and describes it as "Master and Commander, but with dragons". 

http://www.temeraire.org/index.cgi?pagetype=writing
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1460 on: March 31, 2008, 04:02:01 PM »
The Needle in the Blood by Sarah Bower.  It is historical fiction about the creation of the Bayeux Tapestry.  Very good so far!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1461 on: March 31, 2008, 10:15:13 PM »
The Other Side of the Dale by Gervase Phinn
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1462 on: April 01, 2008, 12:07:29 PM »
I ran out of books when I was home sick a few months ago, and started a fantasy series belonging to my boyfriend - the Aurian saga by Maggie Furey.

I have never been into mainstream fantasy, and I don't like them at all.  But I am so far in that I have to finish the story.  *sigh*
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1463 on: April 01, 2008, 09:38:29 PM »
Just finished my annual jaunt through Lord of the Rings, so I'm going to take a second whack at the Silmarillion.  Hoping it's second-time lucky!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1464 on: April 01, 2008, 09:52:35 PM »
http://www.goodreads.com/

Fun site for all of you readers out there.

Just started Cormac McCarthy's "The Crossing"

And I am ignoring the pile of books on semiotics I've got tucked into a corner...
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1465 on: April 01, 2008, 11:05:08 PM »
Quote from: Freddy Scribbles on April 01, 2008, 09:52:35 PM
http://www.goodreads.com/

It sounds a bit like LibraryThing, which is what I use to catalogue my library!  :)

I'm reading Topper Takes a Trip. Is anyone else a fan of the old Topper movies with Cary Grant and Constance Bennett?
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1466 on: April 02, 2008, 01:54:17 PM »
About to start The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1467 on: April 02, 2008, 01:54:40 PM »
Quote from: Moggs on April 02, 2008, 01:54:17 PM
About to start The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin.

Boris Akunin is one of my favourites!  :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1468 on: April 03, 2008, 04:20:32 PM »
Just finished Quarantine.

Eh! <shrug>

Moving on to The Secret, but still need to finish The God Delusion as well.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1469 on: April 03, 2008, 04:23:54 PM »
about to start "two caravans".  had a great review on bbc4 radio show.
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