What are you currently reading?

[Elizabeth☮]

Hello all! I am so happy to see that Rob and Kate have started up a group here on goodreads. My reading podcasts have come full circle.

I am now reading The Secret Garden because I have never read it before. I bought it for my daughter, but decided I should give it a read before I made her read it because it is a "classic."

[Rob]

I'll be ashamed to say, this is one I've never read either. Seen many adaptations on screen but never sat down with the book before!

[Elizabeth☮]

I finished it Rob and I wasn't impressed. I think if I'd have read it as a kid, I would have really been lost with the dialect. It's heavy-handed about the "magic" of the garden also. I think it could have easily been one hundred pages shorter.

[scott]

Halfway through The Luminaries and loving it.

[Rob]

Scot, that's on my to read list. Read the start as part of our Booker project and lived it!

[scott]

Almost done with Luminaries and it is so excellent.

Any recommendations for a next read?

[Lee]

Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth. It's amazing - one of those books you really don't want to put down.

[scott]

Lee wrote: "Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth. It's amazing - one of those books you really don't want to put down."

Thanks Lee - this looks fascinating and just added to my To-Read.

I've decided on Rob's book of the year The Goldfinch.

[Elizabeth☮]

I am reading Elmer Gantry which I have never read before and finding quite fascinating.

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Elizabeth wrote: "I finished it Rob and I wasn't impressed. I think if I'd have read it as a kid, I would have really been lost with the dialect. It's heavy-handed about the "magic" of the garden also. I think it..."

When I was about 6 or 7, I loved this - I remember imagining her coming from the heat of India to the cold of the moors, fancying myself in the role. I've not read it since I was little, I think I won't revisit it, in case it's a disappointment.

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I'm just starting - heard really good things!

[Elizabeth☮]

As for the secret garden Kate, I think if you read it now your love for it might diminish. It could also be that it felt very dated so it was difficult I get my head into the time period.

The book you are reading now sounds good. Please post your thoughts when you have finished.