What are you reading?

Is it out yet? Please report back! 

The video game? No idea, I was referring to the book. I'll watch the first season of the series when I'm done with the first book but I won't play the video game (because I have never played video games).

We watched the first episode of that last night.  It was basically an X-rated Lord of the Rings and I didn't like it.  The book may be different?

I find the TV show to be much more graphic than the book. Especially because they add stuff of that nature that just doesn't even happen (If anyone has seen the newest episode for Season 2 and has read the book, you'll know just what I mean!).

The books are done from various characters' perspectives, so you're in this person's head for a chapter or that person's head during a chapter and some scandalous things might be thought, or happen or they'll recall something that happened, but it's just not that graphic. Or at least not that noticeable. There's so much information that you are trying to glean from what the character is thinking and/or saying to another character that the other stuff is kind of just secondary. It's never there just for the sake of it, whereas the show definitely has points where I feel like they're throwing it in there for the sake of having some ta-tas on the screen.

I find that he's more descriptive about the food and the wine and smells and the clothes than he is about the naughty stuff!  

It's never there just for the sake of it, whereas the show definitely has points where I feel like they're throwing it in there for the sake of having some ta-tas on the screen.

There certainly were a lot of boobies. 

I find that he's more descriptive about the food and the wine and smells and the clothes than he is about the naughty stuff!

That sounds good!

I feel like they're throwing it in there for the sake of having some ta-tas on the screen.

That's HBO for ya. I'm definitely glad I'm reading the books first.

I also think in the books the kids seem a lot older and wiser than their actual ages. I wonder how that translates on screen. But I suppose that's a conversation for another forum. 

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth and then after that I'm going to get cracking on Game of Thrones. I want to read it before I watch it.

I'm plodding through William Golding's The Inheritors.

Ever since the start of the year, I've had a lot of trouble getting through anything. I can't seem to just settle down to read, so I've been on A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin for ages. Did just re-read Guy de Maupassant's Le Horla though, which I love and it is also short. Probably going to start on Elliot Chaze's Black Wings Has My Angel tomorrow, since it's also a short read.

I'm reading Let's Not Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller about a childhood in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe in the 70's.  I wouldn't have thought I'd like it but I do.

I was in the middle of the absolutely wonderful The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt, but I had to put it on hold to read The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing) for book group. I'm not sure what I think of it yet ... and I'm about 400 pages in, so that's not a good sign.

just finished  50 Shades of Grey  by EL james and now am  looking for  A Reliable Wife 

I bit the bullet and decided to tough out Fifty Shades of Grey - I'm halfway through, but I still don't understand the hype or the label of "mommy/mummy porn."

Since I last posted, I've read:

When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman - meh
Love All by Elizabeth Jane Howard - not up to her usual standard
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge - really really good
11.22.63 by Stephen King - the man cannot write to save his life
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim - amazingly fabulous

And now I'm reading Spilling the Beans, Clarissa Dickson Wright's autobiography. I thought I'd like her, but she's coming off as a complete racist, classist b*tch!

I just did the 50-shades books as well. Enjoyed about half of book 1 but by book 3 I'd just flip through the sex bits. Still, it does have some good ideas....

A Feast for Crows. Not as into this one as the previous ones. Loved the last book, so far this one has really paled in comparison. 

A Feast for Crows. Not as into this one as the previous ones. Loved the last book, so far this one has really paled in comparison. 

Yeah, that one is pretty tough going, but having just finished the latest one, I've realised that A Feast for Crows is mostly setting the stage for A Dance With Dragons. A Storm of Swords is still my favourite though!

I've just started reading The Walking Dead: Compendium One. So far really enjoying it!