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What are you reading?
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Catherine
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Nov 10, 2012 05:53AM
Just finished Moira Young's "Rebel Heart" and have started Kate Milford's "The Boneshaker", which I'd been meaning to read for a while but hadn't had chance to previously. I've also got a copy of "The Book Thief" in my TBR pile!
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Giving up on Telegraph Avenue. Love Chabon, but not the right mood, and it will be due back to the library in a few days anyway. Sometimes I have a hard time reading e books from the library if they are longer and due back in14 days. I can get them read, but I feel like I'm pushing myself, and I don't enjoy them. Read 1Q84 that way and hated it. Lots of potential, but way too long. Other problems too.
Gitte wrote: "I'm reading Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi. Love it! Her writing is very good."So glad you are liking this one, Gitte!
I got bored half way through with 'Damned' by Palahniuk, so I've decided to look for something else to read.
I'm currently reading
'The Iron Duke' by Meljean Brook, a steampunk romance novel. Very enjoyable. It reminds me of one of my favorite series, J.D. Robb’s “In Death” books. Both have rich, powerful, formerly outlaw men who fall for the tough female police investigator who crosses their path. This is the first I’ve read of this author but I’ll be interested in reading more.
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Just finished
. Fantastic. Grisham knows how to hold a reader hostage until the very end. 4.5 for me.
I am reading too many books at once:
Happier at Home,
Speechless
Starers
Thumbprint
Hemlock Grove
Crossed
Little Green God of Agony
Zom B
Message to Adolf Part 1
I am reading
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I've finished reading
by Kate Morton today. I thought it was beautifully written with just enough twists and turns to keep the reader interested. It was obviously very well researched - I loved the WW2 bits. Those scenes were so vivid that I felt I was actually there! I found the pace of the novel, especially in the first half, to be rather slow. I thought the author spent too much time describing the various settings in the novel. It got really tiresome in places but the pace does pick up again in the second half. I loved the ending! The twist at the end completely surprised me. I wasn't expecting that! I'm usually quite good at predicting what's going to happen next in novels but that twist was a huge surprise! http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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by Karen Kingsbury.
Finished
by Tess Gerritsen last night and again she didn't dissapoint. Great book and even greater ending. I'm starting
by Fern Michaels today.
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Aaron
Aaron wrote: "Just finished reading Thinking, Fast and Slow by the grandfather of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman. The book breaks down thinking into two systems: intuition and deliberation, and explores th..."Hve you ever read Blink by Gladwell? Similiar stuff. He explains when intution works well.I'm going to check out your summary as well though.
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I finished The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman and next will read A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin.
I finished reading
by Karen Kingsbury last night and I really disappointed with it. The plot was very predictable, irritatingly repetitive, contrived and not very well-written. The concept of the story was interesting but the author is not a good enough writer to pull it off. This novel was simply too formulaic, too sweet, too predictable, too simplistic, too everything I don't like. The entire novel had that 'la-la-land' feel to it. My full review is here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Today I've started reading
by Stef Penney.
Ellie wrote: "I've finished reading
by Kate Morton today. I thought it was beautifully written with just enough twists and turns to keep the reader interested. It was obvio..."I read Dandelion Dust several years ago and really loved it. Her Baxter series is really good also.
I just started Never Knowing yesterday and I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it yet. I also have Mariana as currently reading but I've only gone so far as to select it on the Kindle and open it.
I picked up one of Debbie Macomber's overly sentimental Christmas short novellette sets
These are definitely a wishfulpleasure
Mark wrote: "Nesrin wrote: "Started..."...I loved that."
I will take your word for it. :) So far I like it already.
John Cowper Powys Maiden Castle. I've read four others of his this year - I've been fascinated with him, but he's had drawbacks. He can be overwritten and/or obscure, and after four in a year you're conscious of what comes up again and again too. 100 pages into this one, I like this most for style, has none of his faults to interfere with his terrific writing.Mind you, it's his late work I've read, that's acknowledged to be his strangest and to go off the rails.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley - just started right now. was on my to read list long time.
I was reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K Rowling, but I decided to switch over to [book:Anne of Avonlea|77390 by L.M Montgomery. I'm going to save the rest of the Harry Potter series for the new year.
Gabriella wrote: "I'm reading
by J.K Rowling. I read half of it when I was a kid but never did finish it."a great series, Gabriella.
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