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@ John - Just finished reading it, am pleased that you don’t need to be too scientifically minded to understand the science parts.
I’m curious as to whether Rebecca Skloot gave a percentage from the sale of the book to the family. I don’t remember any mention of it.
I’m curious as to whether Rebecca Skloot gave a percentage from the sale of the book to the family. I don’t remember any mention of it.
Just finished one day. It was like a great big hug :)
I laughed, I cried...just one of those perfect summer reads. :)
I’m curious as to whether Rebecca Skloot gave a percentage from t..."
Yeah - she set up an educational foundation for her descendants: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/boo...
I'm reading The Book of Human Skin by Michelle Lovric, really enjoying it so far: Peru & Venice at the end of the 18th century and already lots of delightful grossness :) Although one of the narrators is irritating the living crap out of me!
Lauren wrote: "I am currently reading Paper Towns by John Green. So far it's good :)"I love that book :) John Green is amazing.
And Margo Roth Spiegelman kicks ass at revenge. :)
Mairead wrote: "Just finished one day. It was like a great big hug :)
I laughed, I cried...just one of those perfect summer reads. :)"
I think I might read that next, someone gave it to me a while ago and I completely forgot about it :) Good then?
It's very funny, and sweet. I love it personally, but I always have a fondness for a book that says that "Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old." :P
Although the awkward blow-job scene in Looking for Alaska may be one of the funniest and most awkward things I have read in a long time. :P
Mairead wrote: "Lauren wrote: "I am currently reading Paper Towns by John Green. So far it's good :)"I love that book :) John Green is amazing.
And Margo Roth Spiegelman kicks ass at revenge. :)"
She actually does. :) I love her. She's probably one of my favourite characters I have ever come across in a book.
I know, I want to be her! :) That "sleeping with the fishes" thing is genius. I love Alaska in Looking for Alaska too. :) Can't wait for The Fault in Our Stars, :)
@BayvinI did not like Middlesex, I listened to it
The story was bizzare and the voices weird. I just didn't get the parents.
Am currently reading SOLACE by Belinda McKeon. Love it. Anyone else?
I'm reading Anne of green gables, harking back to a book my mom read to me originally. :) Its refreshingly light hearted while still having some of the best descriptions and characters I've read.
Amber wrote: "I'm reading Anne of green gables, harking back to a book my mom read to me originally. :) Its refreshingly light hearted while still having some of the best descriptions and characters I've read."Aw, I love the whole series! I must have read it at least 20 times (if not more) by now. Yes, it's naive, yes, it's old-fashioned but by god there's little else that cheers me up quite like it! :)
Just finished Confessions of a Catholic Copby Thomas Fitzsimmons. Great book by Irish, former NYPD officer. Affordable ebook - only $2.99. Great read!
Not sleeping in order to read a few more precious pages of A Storm of Swords: 2 Blood and Gold. It's my favorite in the series so far. A Feast for Crows awaits and A Dance with Dragons comes out on Tuesday. I'll read the other two before that if I have to stay awake till then and inject caffeine intravenously! Stupid work! Why can't they understand that I don't want to be wasting my time earning money just now?! Stupid world making me work to pay rent and other such nonsense!! I have BOOKS to read!!
@joanna - I feel the same way. Why does work think we want to be there? We have much better things to be doing. :)
Saving CeeCee HoneycuttI'm nearly finished listening to this
The narrator is perfect and the story has made me shed tears of sadness and joy
Finished Fall of Giants first part of trilogy by Ken Follett. Cant find wait for rest. Superb read.Last chapter of Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy - pure escapism with lots of CIA stuff for big kids!
Still at
, slow going that one. But hopefully I'll finish today and maybe even (if I don't sleep) start on
which I just collected from my local bookshop (big hardback - but cost me same as paperback would, since I've preordered! :))... Frankly A Feast for Crows has disappointed me. But the new one is looking good, I had a brief look and unlike A Feast, this one's centered around my favorite characters! :DAm sitting at work now trying VERY HARD not to be distracted... Not having much luck with that...
I just started
and
. It's been a while since i read Lovecraft so i am looking forward to it.
I had the The Night Watch on my list, but jumped it to the top of the queue and just started it as the BBC have just started showing the adaption. Hope to experience the two at the same time.
Carmel wrote: "Am currently reading SOLACE by Belinda McKeon. Love it. Anyone else?"Is it any good it is getting great reviews here in Ireland. I was hoping to pop into my library this week to reserve a copy.
Joanna wrote: "Amber wrote: "I'm reading Anne of green gables, harking back to a book my mom read to me originally. :) Its refreshingly light hearted while still having some of the best descriptions and character..."I LOVED this series as a kid and now heading for my 30s, still go back to it every couple of years to reread!
I have just picked up Joseph O Conneor's Ghostlight, has any one read it yet?
Siobhan wrote: "I have just picked up Joseph O Conneor's Ghostlight, has any one read it yet?"
That was one of the QBR book reads for May - July. If you go to the Quarterly Irish Read thread and click on it you can see all the previous discussions. You are more that welcome to comment in that thread and get it started again.
That was one of the QBR book reads for May - July. If you go to the Quarterly Irish Read thread and click on it you can see all the previous discussions. You are more that welcome to comment in that thread and get it started again.
I'm currently re-reading Infinite Jest, albeit at quite a slow pace. I don't usually read several books at once, but I find taking the occasional break of a few days makes digesting this mammoth of a novel much easier. So I'm also dipping into The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis and I've just started Franny and Zooey, which has been sitting in my bookcase for far too long.
I am reading Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes
@ Deb - Loved that book. One of her best.
aprilla wrote: "Sam wrote: "Just started The Redbreast.Has anyone else read any of Jo Nesbo's books? This is my first one."
Not yet, but am looking forward to them at some stage. I'm into audi..."
just finished redbreast! solid enough thriller, and i am going to read them in order. i hope that they get better! i like a lot of characters and complexity.
i am reading Justin CartwrightOther People's Money: A Novel, and i am pleasantly surprised at how much i am liking it: some quirky characters (a plus in my eyes), modern story line, a conciseness in description but conveys meaning, and moves along nicely. i find the writing style good. so 1/3rd way through and i wonder where is it going? i look forward to the rest of the book! :)
I finished False Mermaid by Erin Hart
Half way through The Drop by Michael Connelly - got to love Harry Bosch.
I started reading ' The Book of Night Women' by Marlon James, I must say it is a compulsive read, Set in Jamaica in the 1700's. It is written in a Jamaican creole language which initially when you start reading seems difficult but don't let this but you off, this is a wonderful read.
I just finished Life Itself which was ok - but really about his (Film Critic, Roger Ebert) life and not so much about movies. Was a bit patchy in places, taken fro blog posts, and could have done with an over-arcing editorial.Also just finished How the Mind Works which was fascinating but also a right oul slog and was delighted to get to the end.
Just started The House of Sleepbased on this review.
Have finally gotten around to reading Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. Endearing enough so far. Have Daniel O'Thunder lined up next.
I'm currently reading Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. It's been a book I've always wanted to read but never had the opportunity. Saw a BBC trailer recently which prompted me into reading this and I'm absolutely loving it so far.Just as Ellie, my goal this year is to read, and re-read as much classics possible.
I have just started Small Wars by Sadie Jones about 4 chapters in , Michelle read The Outcast a while back like you thought it was okish/good but certainly not profound, its an easy quick read though. I finished The book of night women by Marlon James about 10 days ago , it was simply tremendous.
I started on The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf yesterday. I'm a few chapters into it so far and its a bit of a page turner.
I'm reading The Evening Hour by Carter Sickels and The Healing by Jonathan Odell
Currently enjoying The Marriage Plot. I loved Middlesex, which I read a long time ago, so about time I read some more. Finding him very similar to Franzen's Freedom. I can remember finding stylistic similarities between Middlesex and The Corrections too.
Started reading The Gunslinger, the first in King's Dark Tower series, a few days ago. Still trying to get sucked into the story.
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I thought it was a fantastic read. Amazing at how a story, that on paper, could have been dull in the wrong hands was completely brought to life with the back story.