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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2190 on: October 02, 2009, 05:03:29 PM »
Quote from: Legs Akimbo on October 01, 2009, 05:22:35 PM
Yes, and I absolutely loved the first half or so of the book.

Interesting...I'll report back on how it goes!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2191 on: October 02, 2009, 06:57:16 PM »
Quote from: cheesebiscuit on October 02, 2009, 04:10:01 PM
someone has recommended the Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.

Cloud Atlas is amazing! Weird, but amazing!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2192 on: October 02, 2009, 10:45:44 PM »
I liked Cloud Atlas as well.  In fact, I got another David Mitchell novel from the library this past week because I've been meaning to read his other stuff since I read Cloud Atlas.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2193 on: October 03, 2009, 05:12:09 PM »
Quote from: Legs Akimbo on October 02, 2009, 10:45:44 PM
I liked Cloud Atlas as well.  In fact, I got another David Mitchell novel from the library this past week because I've been meaning to read his other stuff since I read Cloud Atlas.

Which one is it? I have both number9dream and Black Swan Green on my shelves, but haven't got round to reading either of them. So many books, so little time!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2194 on: October 03, 2009, 05:29:22 PM »
Just started Mansfield Park on my trip; I downloaded it on the iPhone a while ago but hadn't been ready to start reading it. I like it!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2195 on: October 04, 2009, 04:12:46 PM »
Quote from: chary on October 03, 2009, 05:12:09 PM
Which one is it? I have both number9dream and Black Swan Green on my shelves, but haven't got round to reading either of them. So many books, so little time!
Ghostwritten.  I will probably read it in a few days after the novelty of our "100 Classic Novels" for the DS wears off.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2196 on: October 04, 2009, 10:06:42 PM »
Quote from: Mort on October 02, 2009, 05:02:29 PM


I liked it alot except for the very last bit. Thought it was superfluious.

The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean ad Peter Elkind

Whoever recommended Salt: did you like it?

I am about half way through Salt and find it really interesting and very readable which is not always the case with history books.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2197 on: October 12, 2009, 01:07:38 PM »
I just finished Happy Accidents by Tiffany Murray. In spite of the awful chick-lit-ish cover, it was amazing! About an 11-year-old girl growing up with her quirky family on the Welsh borders in the '80s. The grandmother is an expat (war bride) from Coney Island who misses the US and wears pink all the time. It's a bit deeper than I'm making it sound. Great book!

Now I'm about half way into Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale. I'm loving this one too, especially as it's set in Penzance.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2198 on: October 12, 2009, 04:05:24 PM »
Quote from: miss_guided on October 12, 2009, 01:07:38 PM
I just finished Happy Accidents by Tiffany Murray. In spite of the awful chick-lit-ish cover, it was amazing! About an 11-year-old girl growing up with her quirky family on the Welsh borders in the '80s. The grandmother is an expat (war bride) from Coney Island who misses the US and wears pink all the time. It's a bit deeper than I'm making it sound. Great book!

Now I'm about half way into Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale. I'm loving this one too, especially as it's set in Penzance.

I really enjoyed Notes as well :) I'm a bit of  a sucker for 3 for 2 at Borders and that was one of my picks a while back, I didn't expect to like it half as much as I did.  :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2199 on: October 12, 2009, 04:11:59 PM »
I just finished Mansfield Park and have started Babbitt.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2200 on: October 12, 2009, 04:22:03 PM »
Quote from: cheesebiscuit on October 12, 2009, 04:05:24 PM
I really enjoyed Notes as well :) I'm a bit of  a sucker for 3 for 2 at Borders and that was one of my picks a while back, I didn't expect to like it half as much as I did.  :)

Patrick Gale came to our Book Club Day last weekend and was so thoroughly charming and wonderful that I was sold on the spot! I'm looking forward to reading his new short story collection, too - it had a nice little review in the Times yesterday.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2201 on: October 12, 2009, 04:41:37 PM »
Quote from: miss_guided on October 12, 2009, 04:22:03 PM
Patrick Gale came to our Book Club Day last weekend and was so thoroughly charming and wonderful that I was sold on the spot! I'm looking forward to reading his new short story collection, too - it had a nice little review in the Times yesterday.

Cool I might have a look at that too :) Let me know if you like it :)
He would be charming! I can tell by the way he writes, there's lots of emotion in the subtlety :)


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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2202 on: October 12, 2009, 04:43:13 PM »
Quote from: cheesebiscuit on October 12, 2009, 04:41:37 PM
Cool I might have a look at that too :) Let me know if you like it :)

I'm a cheapskate, so am waiting until it's out in paperback. But I will let you know!  :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2203 on: October 12, 2009, 05:25:26 PM »
Quote from: miss_guided on October 12, 2009, 04:43:13 PM
I'm a cheapskate, so am waiting until it's out in paperback. But I will let you know!  :)

oh me too :) also Hardbacks + tube = disaster :D
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2204 on: October 14, 2009, 06:23:09 PM »
Has anybody read the new Booker prize winner Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel?  It looks really good to me.
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