Laurel’s Comments (group member since Aug 06, 2013)

Laurel’s comments from the I Read Therefore I Am group.

Yeah definitely! I am really going to try and get these read by the end of next year (she says) so will let you know when I'm thinking about that one.

I love this one.

Ok, I will probably finish Mistborn either today or tomorrow and will start We Need New Names > then

Crossed off The Shining Girls
but have also recently bought:
103. Brabdon Sanderson - Mistborn: The Final Empire
104. Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
105. Joe Abercrombie - The Heroes
106. John Ajvide Lindqvist - Let the Right One In
107. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House of the Seven Gables
108. Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto
109. Ann Ward Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho
110. Charles Robert Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer
111. A Book of Horrors edited by Stephen Jones
112.Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
113. Charles de Lint - Promises to Keep
114. Charles de Lint - Muse and Reverie

So I feel as if I'm taking one step forward and then ten back!

This is where I'm up to but I put it down to read some other stuff - am gonna have to make an effort to get back into it and get another chunk read soon!

When do you want to read this? I've got a copy out from the library so can start anytime.

Well the library only has Good To Be God so I'll try that one.

We are reading the Dickens in little bits Tracey so it's easier to fit in - we are only up to chapter 9 of Pickwick so hopefully you will be able to catch up and join us ;)

Ha ha, no I just haven't figured out which one yet :)

My list for November then:
finish Mason and Dixon, Dracula and The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Part 1 of Stranger in a Strange Land
Sense and Sensibility
Good To Be God by Tibor Fischer - currently reading
Mistborn: The Final Empire - Brandon Sanderson
The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie
Lord of Chaos -Robert Jordan
Furies of Calderon - Jim Butcher
We Need New Names and The Lowland for the booker challenge
The Accursed - Joyce Carol Oates
Let the Right One In- John Ajvide Lindqvist - currently reading

Rome is amazing, best holiday I've ever had. They always advise you not to go in August but we paid no attention and it paid off - there were very few queues for anything - brilliant!

That's a shame Tracey - hate it when things like that happen!

@Hilary - sounds interesting, you will have to post some photo's of anything you make!

@ Hilary - I really want to read the rest of the Dune series, have only read the first one but did enjoy it!

@ Lee - definitely Sherlock Holmes! They never get old. And Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell is due for a -re-read, I loved that one!

Sounds good Hilary, what did you get? I love the Oxfam bookshop in Durham, last time I went on a spree there I came out with 11 books (oops). Have to walk past very quickly and not look in the window :(

Oh, and Happy Hallowe'en everyone!!!!

You might like it more after reading it again though Ellie - I always think if it's a really good book it will stand up to a re-read.

I have got a few books I can quite happily read every few years as well, mostly fantasy stuff.

Who needs 'Enders or Corrie eh?

Aaargh what a pain! Because of spam and naughty people trying to hack into my email I have had to change my email address :(

Sometimes when I re-read a book I don't like it as much as the first time but other times I like them even more! Depends on the book I suppose. I can see more faults with the Wheel of Time series than I did the first time round (was at uni when I read most of them so have now got another ten years perspective) but the story is still really good.

Yeah, I'm doing the same once I finish Wheel of Time! I wasn't going to but can't help my self ;) Am very excited for the final Thomas Covenant book!

Ha ha, yeah it's quite long! But I love fantasy so I fly through them in a couple of days anyway.