What Are You Currently Reading? (doesn't have to be an Aussie book) - Part 2 Showing 2,651-2,700 of 3,421

[Dale]

Marianne wrote: "Thanks to Allen&Unwin, I started 2028 by Ken Saunders on the treadmill this morning. Less than thirty pages in, I had to stop: my knees were weak with laughter, an..."
Don't think I've ever had a book made me laugh that much Marianne.

[Krystal]

halfway through Eleanor's Secret by Caroline Beecham and so far so good!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Krystal wrote: "halfway through Eleanor's Secret by Caroline Beecham and so far so good!

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Really enjoyed that one Krystal!

[Marianne]

Dale wrote: "Marianne wrote: "Thanks to Allen&Unwin, I started 2028 by Ken Saunders on the treadmill this morning. Less than thirty pages in, I had to stop: my knees were weak

Don't think I've ever had a book made me laugh that much Marianne...."

Dale, up to page 240 and still laughing out loud as I walk along the street, people no doubt think I'm crazy.

[cherryjellybeans]

Just finished His Name Was Walter by Emily Rodda , it was amazing.
I also have a copy of 2028 so might have to start that one soon.

[Carol]

I've just finished Lisa See's and started . China Dolls was a page turner as See's novels usually are. Convenience Store Woman is written in a very straightforward yet engaging style with an interesting first-person narrator.

[Andrea]

I’ve just started Spook Street by Mick Herron - a couple of new characters to meet.

[Stacey]

Whitsunday dawn

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Stacey wrote: "Whitsunday dawn"

Whitsunday Dawn by Annie Seaton

[Kylie]

I've just started Guests of the Emperor by Janice Young Brooks, another big read at 500 pages (sigh). Next reading challenge I enter I'm going to limit myself to books less that 250 pages lol

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Haha! I only said to my husband a couple of days ago Kylie - why are this month's reads all big ones?? lol

[Kylie]

Brenda wrote: "Haha! I only said to my husband a couple of days ago Kylie - why are this month's reads all big ones?? lol"

Maybe a month of children's books coming up haha

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

LOL!!!

[Krystal]

I was torn between starting The Island by M.A. Bennett and The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri so I kinda just started both. :)

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Krystal wrote: "I was torn between starting The Island by M.A. Bennett and The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri so I kinda just started both. :)"

Good call with The Divine Comedy! I thought it really provided a lot of context pertaining the history of our modern conceptions of punity & justice (y) (y) (y)

Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West by John Ralston Saul for me!

[Lily]

I am reading The Cows by Dawn O'Porter and it's making me laugh out loud. It was Kindle Monthly Deal in June, so going cheap at the time. It's the first thing I've read in a very long time where I can honestly say I haven't skipped or skimmed. Not a word.

[Diana]

Lily wrote: "I am reading The Cows by Dawn O'Porter and it's making me laugh out loud. It was Kindle Monthly Deal in June, so going cheap at the time. It's the first thing I've ..."

Good to know as I have an op shop copy at home waiting for its turn in my reading pile.

[Angela]

After gorging on thrillers (which I enjoy) I suddenly found myself in a slump. But I've settled on a UF and so far, so good!

[Jazzy]

I was reading a very expensive second-hand copy of Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir by Anatole Broyard in the bookshop until someone bought it, and finally got the lend of a copy on the Open Library today! So will be reading that from the beginning again.



Also reading
The Alchemyst: Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel - Michael Scott
The Knife Slipped - Erle Stanley Gardner (It has a knife on the cover for my book quest!)



And still reading
The Singing Line (150 pages in) and the collected poems of Dylan Thomas.

[Diana]

Starting A Stitch In Time by Penelope Lively tonight. Needed a quick read before the September challenge.

[Jazzy]

I read all my other currently reading books and now have completely finished my TBR shelf, and am starting on reading I LOVE - A. Avdeyenko

The stack of books I have for September the first quiver in anticipation, but until then I shall be reading this little gem, a faded and yellowed pocket-sized blue hardback translated from the Russian in 1935. And no one else on goodreads has a copy besides me.

It's a nice thing to have no books on the TBR shelf :) mmm

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

That will NEVER happen for me Jazzy!

[Jazzy]

ahahaha!

I love fresh, new beginnings.

I never start another TBR list again. At least I don't think so.

The little Soviet book is so tragic, i'm reading The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare, will probably have them both finished, maybe by tomorrow?

[Sally906]

I’ve just started Whitsunday Dawn by Annie Seaton - been looking forwards to this one, am a big fan of Annie’s work

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

That one is a fabulous read Sally! Enjoy :)

[Jazzy]

Annie Seaton, sounds familiar, but I lived 8 years in Seaton Sluice, Northumberland :)

Finished my other books and the first 4 books of the Hitchhikker's Guide to the Galaxy, so only one left will put it on the back burner.

I've started Tigers in Red Weather - Liza Klaussmann (only 50 pages in though) and bringing Zazie in the Metro - Raymond Queneau with me to my guitar class. Then going to my friend's house to play guitars most of the day, and I can start it on the Metro on the way home!

[Diana]

I started Force of Nature by Jane Harper yesterday. My sister picked it up at her local street library.

[Kylie]

I'll try to spend the month getting my ARC's down before they pile up too much.
I've just started Radiant Shimmering Light: A Novel by Sarah Selecky

[Angela]

I've just started reading I'm just in the mood for thriller/horror!

[Krystal]

Angela wrote: "I've just started reading I'm just in the mood for thriller/horror!"

I've just added it! Sounds very creepy!

[Natty]

Started The Anomaly by Michael Rutger yesterday over 50 pages in and loving the pace of it so far..if it keeps going this way I will smash this is a few days...

[Diana]

Just starting Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani

[Carol]

Odette wrote: "Marianne wrote: "The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith"

Great book! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did."

I really enjoyed that one too.

[Marianne]

Back from his motorcycle rally in Queensland, my DH is now reading , and laughing out loud at, 2028 . And the funniest thing is, he is reading out to me the bits I read out to him, LOL

[Blair]

I've enjoyed two travel books by Paul Theroux, AKA Louis's dad. Now I've started one of his best known fictional work. So far enjoying it.
The Mosquito Coast

[Kim]

I just finished reading The Map of Salt and Stars. It's an extraordinary debut novel. I'm more of a historical fiction buff, but of the two storylines in this book I became really invested in the characters in the contemporary story. The historical storyline is told like an Arabian nights tale and is a fabulous fable that ties in well with the contemporary storyline.
Highly recommended.

[Carolyn]

Marianne wrote: "Back from his motorcycle rally in Queensland, my DH is now reading , and laughing out loud at, 2028 . And the funniest thing is, he is reading out to me the..."

Are they just as funny the second time around?

[Marianne]

Carolyn wrote: "Marianne wrote: "Back from his motorcycle rally in Queensland, my DH is now reading , and laughing out loud at, 2028 . And the funniest thing is, he is read.
Are they just as funny the second time around? .."

Carolyn, yes! Especially the bit on prime numbers. If I think about it now, I start laughing. I keep asking him where he's up to now, oh yes, that's a good bit, but wait till you get to the PM on the bus, etc etc

[Kylie]

After a glut of WW2 fiction I needed something lighter, so started An Island Paradise by Daniel Balkwill .
So I'm off to the Seychelles...theoretically at least lol

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

LOL! Enjoy Kylie!

[Sally906]

I have just picked up The Rain Never Came by Aussie author Lachlan Walter - a timely read as the story is set against a background of a drought-stricken Australia, and the Eastern states are evacuated to more appealing climates and a border has been set up at Brisbane to prevent the resistors from coming up.

[Marianne]

Severance by Ling Ma ... grrr, no quote marks for speech :(

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Marianne wrote: "Severance by Ling Ma ... grrr, no quote marks for speech :("

Oh no!! I hate those books Marianne - I wouldn't read on...

[Marianne]

Automatic half star off and say why in my review

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I lose the flow...

[Krystal]

Marianne wrote: "Automatic half star off and say why in my review"

That's actually pretty generous lol, I HATE that in books!I'm taking a full star when it happens haha

[Sally906]

Marianne wrote: "Automatic half star off and say why in my review"

Very generous - It would be an immediate DNF - and would be deleted off my goodreads shelves.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I'm with you Sally!

[Angela]

I'm in a Suzanne Brockmann phase. Just started

[Luffy Sempai]

For once I'm reading an aussie book, called Rosalee Station. I like the first chapter.