Ade’s Comments (group member since Apr 27, 2013)

Ade’s comments from the Classics Without All the Class group.

Hello Readers!

Well, I joined this group, I would guess, at least a month ago now, and I have to say, catching up on the comments has already become a very enjoyable part of my routine.

Why am I here, I started reading again recently after having an eye test and discovering what a huge benefit glasses can be to those in need. Prior to this, I had struggled on with blurred letters, re-reading the same line over and over, without barely realising I'd read it before.

Anyway, I'm boring myself now, I saw Jodi Picoult on TV, thought her 'The Storyteller' looked interesting, bought it, and this was enough to throroughly invigorate my desire to devour works of fiction whose sentences had been combed and combed again to perfection. "Who do I read next"? I thought, and so to the internet I went, and Goodreads I found.

Im 40, recently started wearing glasses, in my pre 40's I would exclusively read non-fiction, but am now a changed man, since Easter I have read:

Jodi Picoult The Story Teller
Amy Malloy Wife Interupted
Susanah Cahalan Brain on Fire
Barbara Demick Beseiged
Barbara Demick Nothing to Envy
Kazuo Ishiguro Remains of the Day
Jim Baggot Higgs
Julian Barnes Levels of Life
Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
F Scott Fitzgeraled The Great Gatsby
Simon van Booy Everything Beautiful Begins After
Erik Larson The Devil in the White City
John Le Carre A Delicate Truth
A S Byatt Little Black Book of Stories
Jo Baker The Picture Book
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel Bring up the Bodies

I am currently reading

Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim

and on my list for my next few are.

Arhtur Conan Doyle Study in Scarlet
Ford Madox Ford Good Soldier
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
Philip Larkin A Girl in Winter
Marcel Proust Swans Way 1
Tom Stoppard Arcadia
Ford Madox Ford The Fifth Queen
Max Beerbohm Zulaika Dobson
Julian Barnes The World in 10 1/2 Chapetrs
Michael Frayn Towards the End of the Morning
Kingsley Amis Girl, 20

I try to read 700 pages a week, and love it.

Well, thats me.

I love the sound of my motorbike, and a lawn mower on a sunday morning.