What will you be reading next?

[Giacomo]

I'm gonna start Barney's Version tonight, I have great expectations for this one!

[Jenny]

Giacomo wrote: "I'm gonna start Barney's Version tonight, I have great expectations for this one!"

Never heard of that one before but it sounds brilliant!

[Pink]

Tomorrow I start Jane Eyre, at long last!!

[Giacomo]

Jenny wrote: "Giacomo wrote: "I'm gonna start Barney's Version tonight, I have great expectations for this one!"

Never heard of that one before but it sounds brilliant!"

It should be pretty famous, I will let you know...

[Michelle]

Tracey wrote: "HELP! I am in the wonderful position of having finished my 48 books this year challenge and will finish my O for my A-Z challenge today/tomorrow. The help is I am torn between 2 books I've wanted ..."

Tracey I would go with The Language of Flowers I enjoyed it so much. I found it to be really touching emotionally. It brought tears to my eyes.

[Amber]

I'll be starting Swords of Winter tonight. I got a free copy in exchange for an honest review and it looks interesting for a ya fantasy. So its my second read 4 review I got so far and this one is from two guys in austrailia.

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I'm going to read a contemporary romance (dont know which one, but need a light read after Allegiant!) next and start City of Bones at the weekend :)

[Amber]

I don't know what to read next but am waiting for my next read 4 review book wich is kings of cantium. I'll prob read a christmas carol while I wait.

[Leslie]

I will be reading one of the stack of library books next -- either The Secret of Annexe 3, Christmas at Thompson Hall: A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale, The Skeleton in the Grass, or Miss Clare Remembers. Probably the Miss Read book next for a nice light read...

And when I finish Phineas Redux, it will be time to read my last A-to-Z challenge book -- Zuleika Dobson.

[Vicann]

Amber wrote: "I don't know what to read next but am waiting for my next read 4 review book wich is kings of cantium. I'll prob read a christmas carol while I wait."

I'll be reading A Christmas Carol later on this month over Christmas. I'm really looking forward to finally reading it, I remember the tale from when I was a child and loved it back then.

My next book will probably be The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki.

[Amber]

awesome vicann! ^_^

[Vicann]

I'm looking forward to both of these, they've been on my tbr list for a while!

[Amber]

Hey vicann you should check out Swords of Wintertoo. It is a pretty good young adult fantasy and the authors are from Austrailia. I read it as a read for review request and I enjoyed reading it.

[Tracey]

Michelle I went with the Solace of leaving early and I am loving the writing. I intend to read language of flowers after the Christmas Carol read a long and before my new challenges :)

[Vicann]

Thanks for the recommendation Amber, I'll look out for it!

[Amber]

It's on smashwords vicann so you can buy it there or you can contact the author on here and ask to read it in exchange for an honest review. He asked me to read it for my review and I said yes since he needed some. ^_^

[Tracey]

Well I am going to have a day with The Language if flowers. I am about to finish The Solace of leaving early. Before the Christmas Carol readalong which for me starts on the 17th

[LauraT]

City of Bones, hope to start it tonight...

[Laurel]

I'm planning to read Alias Grace next as have been meaning to get round to it for a while. Also maybe Austerlitz by WG Sebald

[Bionic Jean]

I am definitely reading "A Christmas Carol" again next - starting by the end of the week, even if Santa doesn't bring me the "I'd rather be reading Dickens" t-shirt I've requested...

[Tracey]

Jean wrote: "I am definitely reading "A Christmas Carol" again next - starting by the end of the week, even if Santa doesn't bring me the "I'd rather be reading Dickens" t-shirt I've requested..."

I am starting A Christmas Carol tomorrow for sure. :)

[Amber]

I hope after I finish krampus the yule lord to read a christmas carol next and Golgotha by saul tanpepper that I requested free from his website in exchange for an honest review and will review it on my page when I'm done and will pm him the link to my review. Would love to get more read 4 review requests soon but will stay patient.

[Leslie]

I will read, well listen to, A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve... in the meantime, I am just about to start a Christmas story Laura mentioned - Christmas at Thompson Hall: A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale.

[Charbel]

What's Christmas without A Christmas Carol? I think I'll get in on that as well!

[Pink]

Leslie wrote: "I will read, well listen to, A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve... in the meantime, I am just about to start a Christmas story Laura mentioned - Christmas at Thompson Hall: A Mid-..." </i>


Snap, Christmas Eve for [book:A Christmas Carol

[Jenny]

Laurel wrote: "I'm planning to read Alias Grace next as have been meaning to get round to it for a while. Also maybe Austerlitz by WG Sebald"

I think you're in for a treat with both of them.

[Vicann]

Jenny wrote: "Laurel wrote: "I'm planning to read Alias Grace next as have been meaning to get round to it for a while. Also maybe Austerlitz by WG Sebald"

I think you're in for a trea..."

Agreed, both are favourites of mine. Alias Grace is a well-crafted tale that drew me in and Austerlitz is very poignant. WG Sebald is one of my favourite writers, The Rings of Saturn is another one of his books that I really appreciated. It's a kind of travelogue of a walk that he took along the Suffolk coast, weaving in lots of observations, details and thoughts that he had along the way.

[Jenny]

Rings of Saturn is on my TBR and I am determined to read my second and possible my third Sebald in 2014. Really looking forward to it.

[Amber]

Got done with Saul Tanpepper's zombie horror story Golgotha today as it was a short book which was pretty good and will finish the rest of Krampus before starting on anything else. ^_^

[Laurel]

Vicann wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Laurel wrote: "I'm planning to read Alias Grace next as have been meaning to get round to it for a while. Also maybe Austerlitz by WG Sebald"

I think you're..."

Cool, I'd heard good things about it so am really looking forward to it now!

[LauraT]

Leslie wrote: "I will read, well listen to, A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve... in the meantime, I am just about to start a Christmas story Laura mentioned - [book:Christmas at Thompson Hall: A Mid-..."

Really nice!!!

[Leslie]

LauraT wrote: "Leslie wrote: "I will read, well listen to, A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve... in the meantime, I am just about to start a Christmas story Laura mentioned -..."

I think that I may change my mind, now that I am reminded that today is the 170th anniversary of the publication of A Christmas Carol… but I also have Village Christmas by Miss Read from the library.

These very short novellas (or long short stories) are really boosting my numbers :-)

[Amber]

I don't know what I'll read after I finish Krampus: The Yule Lordby Brom which is still a pretty good read but maybe A Christmas carol and some others. Haven't decided yet.

[LauraT]

Leslie wrote: "I think that I may change my mind, now that I am reminded that today is the 170th anniversary of the publication of A Christmas Carol"

Yesterday at the "Circolo dei lettori" - a sort of bookclub here in Perugia, we had a discussion about it, and it was held by an english teacher whom I know - he's the owner of the school my kids attend! - and who works a lot with the theatre. it went really well, all were involved and had something to say. Even one who thought Dickens a second class writer, if compared with Dostoevly.
I don't say I totally agree....

[Leslie]

LauraT wrote: "Leslie wrote: "I think that I may change my mind, now that I am reminded that today is the 170th anniversary of the publication of A Christmas Carol"

Yesterday at the "Circolo dei lettori" - a sort of bookclub here in Perugia, we had a discussion about it, and it was held by an english teacher whom I know - he's the owner of the school my kids attend! - and who works a lot with the theatre. it went really well, all were involved and had something to say. Even one who thought Dickens a second class writer, if compared with Dostoevly.
I don't say I totally agree.... ..."

I haven't read enough Doestoyevsky to be able to judge but it seems to me from the little I have read that their styles are so different that it would be difficult to compare. We'll see how I feel after I read The Brothers Karamazov next year!

[LauraT]

Leslie wrote: "I haven't read enough Doestoyevsky to be able to judge but it seems to me from the little I have read that their styles are so different that it would be difficult to compare. We'll see how I feel after I read The Brothers Karamazov next year!"

They're totally different. Dostoevsky is much more ... "deep", involved into complex mental processing, sense of guilt, earth destiny and so on. Really a great author, but I sometimes find "easier" author, describing more or less everyday life like Dickens or Trollope, more "illuminating" on human exhistance that those others "filosophical" ones...
It is something we could deepen sooner or later. What other people think about it?

[Jenny]

I am team Dostoyevsky if anybody would make me choose, but I think they are both great authors. I think what both have in common is a real curiousity for human nature, with - at least in my mind - the real difference that Dickens is less ambiguous morally. Good and evil are much more clearly seperated and impersonated in his novels I find, whereas in Dostoyevsky's novels they usually happily co-exist within same chest so to speak.

Leslie, you are reading The Brother's Karamasov in June right? Gill and I are planning a paired read of Dostoyevsky, where we'd read a novel (or two - a shorter one and a long one) and a non-fiction book (or two) about him or his writings. I wonder whether maybe we could have a Dostoyevsky month (or two;)) sometime next year, where - similar to our Daphne du Maurier thing we could tackle some Dostoyevsky toghether.

[Bionic Jean]

I too would like to read The Brothers Karamazov and would welcome doing it in a readalong as it's scaring me a bit.

[Leslie]

Jean wrote: "I too would like to read The Brothers Karamazov and would welcome doing it in a readalong as it's scaring me a bit."

Me too - this is one of his novels which is well-known to have the name confusion (characters who have multiple names). I plan to use SparkNotes to help out!

[Bionic Jean]

I haven't used any notes since I was at school - anyone remember those black and yellow "Coles notes"? Are they still going?

But that might well be a good idea, Leslie. I really do want to tackle it, but it sounds daunting.

[Margaret]

I'm currently reading Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin and I'm either going to read A Clash of Kings next, or go for something completely different. I'm not fully sure yet.

[Book Ninja]

Just finished The Book Thief. Now I'm reading Manon Lescaut.

[Pink]

Jean, Leslie, Jenny,Gill - I'd definitely like to try some Dostoyevsky so I'll join in next year if others are reading. I've been too daunted to try anything by him so far, so this could be the push I need.

Margaret - How have you enjoyed GOT? It's been a long while on my TBR, though I've watched the series and have the box set ready to start and work my way through next year! Yikes, I suppose I better start on these next month!

Rahat - Did you like The Book Thief? I read it this year and it took me a while to get into, but I ended up loving it.

[Christine]

Jean wrote: "I too would like to read The Brothers Karamazov and would welcome doing it in a readalong as it's scaring me a bit."

I would love to join in a readalong :)

[Christine]

I finished reading The Cuckoo's Calling by JK Rowling and started The Language of Flowers this evening.

[Leslie]

re: The Brothers Karamazov - I am reading this in June 2014. I will go ahead and add it to the Upcoming Readalong thread since there seems to be quite a few people interested in reading it, but will throw out the idea that perhaps it would be a good book for the group classics read...

[Leslie]

Rahat wrote: "Just finished The Book Thief. Now I'm reading Manon Lescaut."

Manon Lescaut is on my long TBR list -- I will be interested in hearing what you think of it when you finish.

[Leslie]

Margaret wrote: "I'm currently reading Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin and I'm either going to read A Clash of Kings next, or go for something completely different. I'm not fully sure yet."

How are you liking Game of Thrones? Personally, when I find a series I like, I read them all back-to-back (or at least I did pre-GoodReads), but those are pretty hefty books so interspersing something different might be good. Not much help there, I'm afraid...

[Shirley]

I'll be reading The Hunger Games next as it's the next choice for my book group.

[LauraT]

Shirley wrote: "I'll be reading The Hunger Games next as it's the next choice for my book group."

Next year choice for me!!! The three of them!

In a day or two I hope to finish City of Bones and then it'll be high time to start A History of Reading