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Post by GirlAnachronism on Mar 14, 2011 18:42:03 GMT
Finished The Rum Diary this morning and am currently halfway through The Curious Incident of the Dog In-The-Night-Time by Mark Haddon. It's so addictive and interesting, i find it very hard to put down. Everyone should read it!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2011 1:04:55 GMT
^Ooh, I read that! It's so cute and quaint.
I finished The Passage!! I'm quite impressed it only took me 12 days as it's massive and I'm a slow reader. It had its high points and low points, but I was definitely left wanting more when I got to the end. Unfortunately I have to wait until next year for the next installment, if Wikipedia is anything to go by!
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Post by *BookQueen* on Mar 17, 2011 20:08:56 GMT
Ali on goodreads its also says 2012.
Caleb’s Crossing - Geraldine Brooks
In 1665, Caleb Cheeshah-teaumuck was the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Here, Pulitzer Prize winner Brooks imagines that Caleb was befriended by Bethia Mayfield, whose minister father wants to convert the neighboring Wampanoag and makes educating Caleb one of his goals. Bethia, herself desperate for book learning, ends up as an indentured servant in Cambridge, watching Caleb bridge two cultures.
The Heretic Queen - Michelle Moran
In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family’s past and remake history.
The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth Dynasty’s royal family—all with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former queen, Nefertiti. The girl’s deceased family has been branded as heretical, and no one in Egypt will speak their names. A relic of a previous reign, Nefertari is pushed aside, an unimportant princess left to run wild in the palace. But this changes when she is taken under the wing of the Pharaoh’s aunt, then brought to the Temple of Hathor, where she is educated in a manner befitting a future queen.
Soon Nefertari catches the eye of the Crown Prince, and despite her family’s history, they fall in love and wish to marry. Yet all of Egypt opposes this union between the rising star of a new dynasty and the fading star of an old, heretical one. While political adversity sets the country on edge, Nefertari becomes the wife of Ramesses the Great. Destined to be the most powerful Pharaoh in Egypt, he is also the man who must confront the most famous exodus in history.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2011 13:26:25 GMT
I just finished Let The Right One In. It was one of the grizzliest, most depressing books I've ever read, but it worked. The characters were, on the most part, hateable, but as my mum said when I was talking to her about it, better that you hate a character than just feel nothing at alll towards them. I'm not sure whether I'd read it again or not, but I want to watch the movies (both the original Swedish and the US remake) to see how they captured it.
I've just started a book that's been sitting unread on my shelf for about 7 years, Dean Koontz's Velocity. We'll see how that goes.
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Post by GirlAnachronism on May 12, 2011 19:07:44 GMT
The Swedish version of Let the Right One In is a brilliant film. It's so powerful and the kids are both amazing. I haven't seen the American one because i just have a real thing against all the remakes they do- they're usually never half as good but i have heard the US version is meant to be good too.
I've never read the book, dunno if i will, i've heard it's pretty deep and messed up in places.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2011 19:31:06 GMT
Oh god, is it ever! A few of the themes are quite...disturbing. Obviously I don't know for sure as I haven't watched them, but I would've thought they probably toned down a couple of those things quite significantly in the films.
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Post by *BookQueen* on May 12, 2011 20:41:15 GMT
I've read the swedish book and seeen the movie ! Book is messed up really.. just wow.. movie is great.. creappy and eww Check out: Queen of Kings by Maria Dahvana Headly
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2011 9:20:27 GMT
Velocity is rubbish. I gave up at the end of the fourth consecutive chapter where nothing really happened (I swear, one whole chapter was dedicated to the protagonist walking around his house).
Off to pick up The Rogue from the library today to wipe away the crapness. I actually won a copy of this book but I haven't received it yet so I thought I may as well keep the reservation.
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Post by GirlAnachronism on May 24, 2011 19:13:41 GMT
Dan Millman. He put the fun back in life for me. His lessons and insights make everything in life seem more fun, less stressful. I've only read Way of the Peaceful Warrior so far- after seeing the movie on tv one night i ordered the book straight away. But today i ordered two more of his books. Can't wait for them to arrive. Currently reading Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks and i adore it.
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Post by *BookQueen* on May 26, 2011 9:53:59 GMT
A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2011 22:35:21 GMT
I've been on a bit of a reading spurt lately. First I read "The Rogue" by Trudi Canavan. It's the second in a fantasy trilogy which returns to a world and set of characters she's written about before in a previous trilogy (which also happens to be my favourite trilogy ever). It's certainly a second book, building everything up, but very enjoyable Then I started Paul Hoffman's "The Left Hand of God". Now, the writing, in my opinion, is both childish and patronizing, and he doesn't seem to be very skilled. I've taken a break from it as it was doing my head in, but I plan to go back to it soon, purely because the overall premise of the series really interests me (organized religion in an alternate world that resembles strict Catholicism at times). Next, I had a bit of fluff with "Dead as a Doornail" by Charlaine Harris. It's been way too long since I read a True Blood novel and I finished it in just over a day. They don't stretch the brain too much but they're a huge amount of fun and light reads. Now I've moved on to "Tangled Webs" by Anne Bishop. I first read her "Black Jewels Trilogy" about 6 years ago and had forgotten a lot of what happened, but I'm already falling in love with her characters all over again. Can't wait to see where she takes it. Phew. Sorry about that!!
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Post by jemenfiche on Jun 17, 2011 2:19:11 GMT
This might have been posted in here before, but I am in the middle of reading 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' by Dave Eggers. It really is heartbreaking, but SO SO endearing and funny. I'm usually not one for nonfiction, but this book is amazing so far. Totally recommend it!
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Post by GirlAnachronism on Jul 15, 2011 15:35:52 GMT
Ok i just have to say Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks is, without doubt, the best book i've ever read. Never have i been so moved by an author's style of writing. I've never felt more for a character than i do for Stephen Wraysford. And then of course there's Isabelle and Jack Firebrace and all the others.
The book is so raw, so intense and so overbrimming with emotion. If i could i would personally see to it that every person in the world reads this book at some stage in their lives. Just completely unforgettable, i know i shall revisit it many times.
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Post by Erin on Jul 15, 2011 20:20:27 GMT
I love your enthusiasm, but what's it about? Before I run out to buy it... The Time Traveler's Wife has been sitting on my shelf for nearly a year and every now & then I want to start it but then there's something else. Like, right now, I have about 15 magazines to read first, or I'll get behind on them too much which always annoys me. But it makes books wait. Hopefully soon though.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2011 0:43:04 GMT
I've ummed and aahed about reading Birdsong, Kim. I think you may have just swayed me I;ve also had The Time Traveler's Wife sitting on my shelf for ages. At this rate we'll end up reading it together I'm struggling to get back on the reading horse this week after having a few days off. I stopped halfway through a book and I really want to finish it but I seem to just end up doing nothing all day.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2011 10:01:00 GMT
I just finished book 6 (Definitely Dead) of the Southern Vampire Mysteries. I didn't dislike it, but nor did I enjoy it as much as previous ones. I just found Sookie really whiny and irritating in this one and it took me a while to get through it. However, ass always, it was brilliant fluff and escapism Now I'm onto Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I needed to read it after watching Deathly Hallows - they're only kids in this one so it's not nearly over.
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Post by GirlAnachronism on Jul 22, 2011 18:09:09 GMT
I love your enthusiasm, but what's it about? Before I run out to buy it... Here is the description on the bookjacket: "Set before and during the Great War, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the course of the novel he suffers a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself." Comments on the jacket: "One of the finest novels of the last forty years" Mail on Sunday "This books is so powerful that as i finished it, i turned to the front to start again" Sunday Express "Literature at its very best. I urge you to read it" Time Out. "Magnificent, deeply moving" Sunday Times. It's just the most emotionally charged book i've ever read, it's so real- so horrifying at times, so touching at others. It really made me think, made me laugh and made my cry. Cry more than laugh mind you! Hope you both enjoy it if you read it.
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Post by Erin on Jul 23, 2011 19:10:51 GMT
Thanks, but it doesn't sound too appealing to me from the description. Guess it's one of those books that you just have to read to 'get' it.
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Post by Corty on Jul 25, 2011 20:00:49 GMT
French books : les fleurs du mal (in english 'Flowers of Evil') by Baudelaire & Bel-ami by Maupassant.
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Post by *BookQueen* on Aug 2, 2011 18:16:27 GMT
Fallen. Torment. Passion - Lauren Kate.
Chasing Fire - Nora Roberts.
Backstage Pass. Rock Hard. - Olivia Cunning. Tagline is for the books is. ( Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll - Sinners on Tour)
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