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Post by stanislav on Jul 1, 2008 20:18:37 GMT
I am now reading The Sowers by H.S. Merriman
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Post by tigerlily on Jul 2, 2008 11:42:02 GMT
Currently reading Revelation, the fourth and latest book in the Shardlake series by C. J. Sansom.
I also have an autobiography to read, but I think I may give that to the Hippy and read it after him, and Patricia Cornwell's 'Book of the Dead' to read.
Trying not to finish them all before I fly to Germany on July 12 so I have something to read on the plane!
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Post by tde on Jul 3, 2008 16:10:31 GMT
I'm reading 'The Lovely Bones' by Alice Sebold.
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Post by sarah on Jul 3, 2008 20:53:22 GMT
*murder most fab* - Julian Clary got it from the library and it's very good. (not for the modest/faint hearted) based loosely on showbiz/gay/celeb world, it is a little graphic/naughty and sort of funny in a wicked sort of way, but behind all that as far as i've got it is also a darn good read with a thought provoking story. xx
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Post by clarevoyant on Jul 4, 2008 17:44:01 GMT
I'm reading 'The Lovely Bones' by Alice Sebold. Fantastic book!
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Post by slinkychic on Jul 4, 2008 18:14:46 GMT
I'm half way through The Laberinth by Kate Mosse.. Am finding it quite a trial to read and stay focused on the story... The darting about across the Milliniar is rather distracting... And she seems to have taken far more care with the historical time than with the modern time.. A good story all the same so far..
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Post by tde on Jul 6, 2008 9:42:21 GMT
I'm reading 'The Lovely Bones' by Alice Sebold. Fantastic book! It is indeed!
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Post by lily on Jul 6, 2008 13:47:59 GMT
Am about to start Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming.
I'm afraid I'm not really a fan of the films - don't 'do' films generally, but have finally been persuaded to try the books as they are 'a sanguineous good yarn'.
I hope to be pleasantly surprised.
Just finished The Wench is Dead by Colin Dexter. I enjoy reading books of things that have been on TV as there is so much more detail.
xxx
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Post by shemlock on Jul 7, 2008 18:00:03 GMT
Am about to start Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming.
I'm afraid I'm not really a fan of the films - don't 'do' films generally, but have finally been persuaded to try the books as they are 'a sanguineous good yarn'.
I hope to be pleasantly surprised.
Just finished The Wench is Dead by Colin Dexter. I enjoy reading books of things that have been on TV as there is so much more detail.
xxx Live and Let Die, was the first James Bond book, that I read as a teenager (just a few years ago..... tee hee), before I saw any of the films. I loved it. I must reread it some time and see if I still enjoy it as much. I also like Colin Dexter. At the moment, I am reading A Wild Life on Exmoor, by Johnny Kingdom. I don't usually go for autobiographies, but I am really enjoying this. He appears to be a likeable rogue
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Post by ivy noidea on Jul 13, 2008 20:05:36 GMT
I have just come back from a very relaxing week on Mauritius where I did nothing but sit by the pool and I read 3 books from the hotel club 'library' while I was there: Number 10 by Sue Townsend (of Adrian Mole fame); Labyrinth by Kate Mosse; Man and Boy by Tony Parsons. All very different but all very enjoyable, mainly because I got peace to read them all.
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Post by slinkychic on Jul 22, 2008 10:07:53 GMT
I Love reading biogophies..
Have just started the life story of Howard Marks.. MR NICE.. For a decade he was on the top of America's most wanted list.. He led a very seriel life to begin with. And was a mathmatical genius at Oxford.. For a boy from the valley's he sertainly has done an awful lot in his life.. Whatever your opinion of what he id in the seventies.. I sat next to him on a flight from Sanfransico to London.. One of the most fasinating flights i have ever taken.
A really funny chap.. Believe that he is a member of his local council now..How the mighty do fall..
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Post by Slowan on Jul 26, 2008 15:31:09 GMT
I am reading a Colin Dexter The Silent World Of Nicholas Quinn - I love his books.
I also love Brother Cadfael and even though I thought the telly series was/is fantastic I try not to watch them all (repeated on Freeview!) incase it spoils the read!
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Post by smiffy on Aug 2, 2008 13:58:36 GMT
Half way through another Elizabeth Chadwick, The Greatest Knight. It is about William Marshal, a knight in the 1100's. The first EC novel I read was on his father, John Marshal. They are well researched, based on factual events and people. I have not read this era before, prefering HenryVIII era, but I was introduced to her and love her work.
I maybe biased, I know EC from another website. Being the Tog I am I didnt realise it was her till halfway through the John Marshal one I posted about it and she answered!
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Post by Frankleapold on Aug 3, 2008 22:44:58 GMT
I do enjoy a good book. I have just finished a book entitled " The Blackiest Bird " by Joel Rose., published by Canongate. Joel Rose is an American writer who has had his first book released here in Britain.
The book is set in 1840's New York where a murder takes place, this is causes Jacob Hays the High Constable problems when the well known poet Edgar Allan Poe is implicated the death. The book is set against the background of the gangs of New York , the influence of powerful people like Samuel Colt , the literati and the embryonic press reaction to the case.
I recommend this book if you like history and a murder to solve.
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Post by bittymatriarch on Aug 30, 2008 21:29:03 GMT
Just started "The King's General" by Daphne du Maurier - set just before and during the English Civil War. "A book at bedtime" is now "An Early Morning Read"
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Post by Conrad Grills on Sept 1, 2008 13:52:01 GMT
Fatal Revenant by Stephen Donaldson. It is the second book in The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
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Post by roobarb on Sept 9, 2008 16:25:32 GMT
Yesterday I bought Hippopotamus - Stephen Fry (have read it already, but was a casualty of the divorce - my loss) and Pride and Prejudice as I watched "Lost in Austen" and enjoyed it, but have never read the book so I thought it might help my understanding!
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Post by paul Zernikazof on Sept 13, 2008 9:21:57 GMT
I have just read two books by Kelley Armstrong
Bitten.... About a young woman who is turned into a werewolf by her boyfriend in modern day America. The werewolves in the story are entirely believable nothing like the stereotypes in movies.
Stolen...... In this book we and the same young woman in Bitten learn that as well as werewolves some of the other mystical creatures really do exist. witches, Demons, Vampires etc. A team funded by a rich mad man is kidnapping them and studying them to find out how to use their powers for gain. Our female werewolf is one of those captured.
There are others in this series that I have yet to read
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Post by tigerlily on Sept 13, 2008 12:12:17 GMT
I'm currently reading 'The Lost Ones', the last of the Veil trilogy by Christopher Golden.
I've already posted a thread on this author that describes the Veil stories.
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Post by clarevoyant on Sept 15, 2008 20:49:28 GMT
Stephanie Meyer's 'Twilight' Series. Written for teenagers. Very good - just read all four in four days!
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