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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3345 on: July 02, 2012, 10:28:10 AM »
Bonnie by Iris Johansen.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3346 on: July 02, 2012, 03:59:10 PM »
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3347 on: July 02, 2012, 04:16:53 PM »
Quote from: Jewlz on June 23, 2012, 09:55:59 AM
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.  :-\\\\

Also reading this.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3348 on: July 02, 2012, 05:23:10 PM »
Quote from: CharmCityGirl on July 02, 2012, 03:59:10 PM
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Oh, that was such a beautiful read!

I'm reading Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad and The Moving Bookshop by Edmund Crispin.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3349 on: July 05, 2012, 03:56:37 PM »
Quote from: Mrs. Busby on May 18, 2012, 01:40:48 PM
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 finished this and also read the sequel/prequel Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness  which was really good too.

I'm now reading Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3350 on: July 13, 2012, 08:54:28 AM »
The thing with 50 Shades - it only really works if the guy is rich and handsome. In my current situation I don't think I could pull it off.....
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3351 on: July 28, 2012, 06:13:38 PM »
I'm reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.  It's so good!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3352 on: July 28, 2012, 06:25:59 PM »
Just finished the 50 Shades trilogy. Read it as the hype was nonstop. Bad writing and boring sex. How did this become such a bestseller?  ::)

Now working on Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. It's not bad but I am still not completely sold.  :-\\\\
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3353 on: July 28, 2012, 07:35:51 PM »
Quote from: Courtney on July 28, 2012, 06:25:59 PM
Now working on Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. It's not bad but I am still not completely sold.  :-\\\\

I thought that was so beautiful! Loved it!

I've read The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides which was nowhere near as good as Middlesex but which I enjoyed (the first half, at any rate) because it was set at my university during the years I was there. Then A Perfectly Good Man by the handsome and unattainable Patrick Gale - a perfectly good book. Then The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst which I adored. And now I'm re-reading The Corrections for book group and finding I don't like it nearly as much as I did in 2001.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3354 on: July 29, 2012, 03:51:44 PM »
Roseanna by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo - old stylie Nordic noir.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3355 on: July 29, 2012, 04:37:38 PM »
Quote from: chary on July 28, 2012, 07:35:51 PM
I thought that was so beautiful! Loved it!

I've read The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides which was nowhere near as good as Middlesex but which I enjoyed (the first half, at any rate) because it was set at my university during the years I was there.

I definitely preferred Middlesex. I think the main female character in The Marriage Plot reminded me too much of a colleague who I couldn't stand, so I found her totally unlikeable.

I'm reading nothing right now. I need to get a new book!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3356 on: July 29, 2012, 10:08:50 PM »
Quote from: CharmCityGirl on July 02, 2012, 03:59:10 PM
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

This is my favourite book of all time!

I just started The Devil in White City by Erik Larson.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3357 on: July 30, 2012, 08:27:56 AM »
Just finished Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik (part of the Temeraire series) and waiting for Alex to finish the next one so I can start it
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3358 on: July 30, 2012, 10:00:47 AM »
The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. I'm on book three, Memories of Ice.  They're very complex.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3359 on: July 31, 2012, 01:27:32 AM »
The Shunned House by H.P. Lovecraft. I've always wanted to read him and never did, so now I'm starting!
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