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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2955 on: February 16, 2011, 03:09:03 PM »
Quote from: chary on February 16, 2011, 07:36:11 AM
I'm just about to start The Finkler Question. Has anyone read it yet?

I got about half of the way through it and lost interest.  I hope you have more success.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2956 on: February 16, 2011, 03:27:54 PM »
Quote from: Woodlily on February 16, 2011, 03:09:03 PM
I got about half of the way through it and lost interest.  I hope you have more success.

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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2957 on: February 19, 2011, 01:15:44 PM »
I just finished The Little House by Philippa Gregory.  I haven't read any of her books, but I really got sucked into this one and read in one night.  Before that, I read The Map That Changed The World by Simon Winchester, about the man who helped make geology into a scientific field and not a wealthy hobby.  It's gotten me excited for Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2958 on: February 19, 2011, 01:27:22 PM »
Just finishing Never Let Me Go (which is MUCH better than the film) and getting ready to start Deliverance by James Dickey.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2959 on: February 19, 2011, 02:02:13 PM »
Quote from: slowloris on February 19, 2011, 01:15:44 PM
I just finished The Little House by Philippa Gregory.  I haven't read any of her books, but I really got sucked into this one and read in one night.  Before that, I read The Map That Changed The World by Simon Winchester, about the man who helped make geology into a scientific field and not a wealthy hobby.  It's gotten me excited for Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier!

Remarkable Creatures is an excellent book! I've had my eye on that "map" one; I'll have to pick it up now.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2960 on: February 19, 2011, 02:03:09 PM »
Quote from: Bmore_2_UK on February 19, 2011, 01:27:22 PM
...getting ready to start Deliverance by James Dickey.

Hear them banjos playin'!  Now get on your knees & squeal like a pig.  :P ;)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2961 on: February 19, 2011, 02:17:15 PM »
I'm reading Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult. So far, I'm not that into it, but I usually enjoy her books so I'm hoping it'll get better...
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2962 on: February 19, 2011, 02:23:33 PM »
Quote from: cheesebiscuit on February 16, 2011, 01:18:40 PM
I really loved the Secret History.



I really like it so far, but I'm only a few chapters in.  :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2963 on: February 19, 2011, 07:24:18 PM »
Quote from: Bmore_2_UK on February 19, 2011, 01:27:22 PM
Just finishing Never Let Me Go

Haven't seen the film- but I love the book!


Hmmm, I need something to read...
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2964 on: February 19, 2011, 07:31:11 PM »
Quote from: Woodlily on February 16, 2011, 03:09:03 PM
I got about half of the way through it and lost interest.  I hope you have more success.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I wasn't sure if I would, but it's excellent, if a little navel-gazey.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2965 on: February 19, 2011, 08:00:41 PM »
Delighted to hear you are enjoying The Finkler Question, Chary.  Maybe I will pick up from where I left off.

Just finished A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks which I did not really enjoy.

Have started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.  It's a good read and I love the girl with the dragon tattoo. 
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2966 on: February 20, 2011, 05:45:47 PM »
I think I must be the slowest reader in the world - lol!  Either that, or I get too easily distracted & put the book down for too long periods of time.  Probably a bit of both.

Just finished Marilynne Robinson's Home last night.  I wish I had read it closer to when I read Gilead because I kept wanting to remember how certain events & conversations played out in the other book for comparison (the characters intersect from one book to the other).  I think I'm going to have read Gilead again, except that DH is reading it now.  But I just <3 <3 <3 these books so very much.  I want to also get & read her earlier book, Housekeeping, now.

Anyway, I'm spoilt for choice with books to read, but I think I'm going to read Andrea Levy's Small Island immediately next.  It seems a popular choice on here.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2967 on: February 20, 2011, 06:20:57 PM »
Just finished Down Under by Bill Bryson.  Really found it interesting.  Not as funny as I found his Thunderbolt Kid or Notes From A Small Island but hard to put down.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2968 on: February 23, 2011, 01:13:52 PM »
Finished Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult and I was very unimpressed. It bored me.

I've just started The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2969 on: February 23, 2011, 05:04:15 PM »
Just started reading Room. A page turner for sure.
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