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Not a review really but this is what I've just finished:Night Film by Marisha Pessl - really intriguing and creepy mystery set in new York about a disgraced journalist investigating the death of a famous and reclusive film director's daughter. Loved the way Pessl ratcheted up the tension and keeps the reader guessing about what actually happened to this girl but didn't like the main character - he was a bit slow on the uptake! Would have got 5 stars of not for that and the author's annoying habit of over-using italics.Daniel Deronda by George Eliot - amazing book, this was brilliantly written and I was so invested in the characters. A bit slow but this is the way Eliot writes, she is interested in social commentary rather than delivering a edge of your seat plotline but that didn't spoil it at all for me. Loved it!
Jealous! I keep moving it up my love film queue cos I missed it on the telly but they haven't sent it yet :(I've just bought the box set of series 3 of The Walking Dead so can't wait to get into that yay!
It is difficult - probably more so once we get to the later novels that have more of a storyline - Pickwick is a series of random episodes so there's no massive cliffhangers! I love doing it this way although I think it will probably take us about 20years ;)
I agree, it's absolutely beautiful.
I haven't updated this for a bit so...20. Robert Holdstock - Mythago Wood
21. NK Jemisin - the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
22. Boris Akhunin - The Winter Queen
23. Marisha Pessl - Night Film
Always happy to help!
Oh dear! Well as I always say... there's worse things to be addicted to ;)
Lee don't give them ideas! They are bad enough already without butchering perfectly good poems.
Yes but Dumbledore is a wizard so presumably has come back in time....
OOPS!!! But in my defence a lot of them are free or very cheap ;)
133. Steven Erikson - Deadhouse Gates134. Steven Erikson - Memories of Ice
135. Jhumpa Lahiri - The Lowland
136. Johnathon Aycliffe - The Silence of Ghosts
137. Stephen Jones (ed) - The Mammoth Book of Zombies
138. Kendare Blake - Anna Dressed in Blood
139. Tatiana de Rosnay - Sarah's Key
142. Alexandre Dumas - Twenty Years After
143. Alexandre Dumas - Vicomte de Bragelonne
144. Alexandre Dumas - Louise de La Vallière
145. Alexandre Dumas - The Man in the Iron Mask
146. Joy Stephenson - The Soul-Travellers
147. Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice
148. Sarah J Maas - Throne of Glass
149.
150. Maggie Stefvater - The Raven Boys
151. Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch
152. Andrew Kauffmann - All My Friends are Superheroes
153. Jim Butcher - Storm Front
154. Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
155. Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey
156. DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover
157.
158. DH Lawrence - Women in Love
159. Charlotte Bronte - Shirley
160. Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford
161. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
162. Joseph Sheridan le Fanu - Uncle Silas
163. Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
164. Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
165. Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
166. Charles Dickens - Bleak House
167. Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son
168. Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit
169. Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby
170. Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend
171. Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge
172. Charles Dickens - Martin Chuzzlewit
173. Brandon Sanderson - The Alloy of Law
174. Catheryne Valente - Deathless
175. Maggie O'Farrell - The Hand That First Held Mine
176. Therese Anne Fowler - Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
177.
178. Leigh Bardugo - Shadow and Bone
180. Kate Atkinson - Life After Life
181. Eric Lomax - The Railway Man
182. Hilary Mantel -Wolf Hall
183.
184. Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy
185. Plato - The Republic
186. Simon Sebag Montefiore - Young Stalin
187. Solomon Northup -Twelve Years a Slave
188. The Forward Book of Poetry 2014
189. Robin Robertson - The Wrecking Light
191. Anna Akhmatova - Final Meeting
Where was Bowers from? He's got to be either Scottish or a Geordie!
Owls are symbols of wisdom and associated with some Goddesses but are also harbingers of death in some cultures so take your pick ;) Or maybe Professor Dumbledore dropped by to get his copy of 'Animal Farm' signed....
I really need to update mine soon and fess up to all the sneaky e-book buys that I was supposed to be staying away from this year :( Lee - the first step is admitting you have a problem!
I really like this - TS Eliot can be a bit depressing but that's ok cos I really the imagery. I have a feeling it should be a song...
Yeah, I'm always yelling 'No don't split up! That's a really stupid idea!' at the TV too lol! Haven't started yet although am picking my copy up from the library tomorrow.
Hey Antipodes! Welcome to the group. Glad to hear you enjoyed The Idiot so much - feel free to chip into the discussion thread for it. I'm really looking forward to starting it, it's my first Dostoyevsky!
yeah that sounds ok - will see if it's available at the library and get back to you.
I voted for that one so am up for a readalong - when do you fancy? (bearing in mind I don't have a copy yet).
What a nightmare Hilary! Hope it's not too bad, apparently a pylon got blown down round here somewhere but luckily didn't affect the power. I'm just really feeling sorry for the people on the west coast cos there's yet another lot of wind and rain coming in the next couple of days.
