[Closed] What are you currently reading....

[Laura]

I really enjoyed the While Oleander as an audio book.

[Bob]

I am currently reading A second Life by Dermot Bolger and it is a really well written novel, I am thoroughly enjoying it and have slowed down as I don't want the enjoyment to be over too soon.

[Aoibhínn]

I've finished reading The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks earlier and now I'm starting Seven Up by Janet Evanovich.

[Aoibhínn]

Yesterday, I finished reading Seven Up by Janet Evanovich and today I've started The Client by John Grisham.

[Niamh]

just finished the sense of an ending I think this book will be with me for a while. it certainly raises issue about how we each write our past differently. loved it

[Aoibhínn]

I've finished reading The Client by John Grisham last night and now I'm reading Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon.

[J.S.]

Recently finished

and though the print US version is elegantly designed, and the novel is well written as one would expect, it seemed to cater to the YA/fantasy trend. It uses the "ghost" of a greatgrandmother to appear in modern day Dublin, rather than the harder exercise of transmitting memory and experience through the women characters in the family. Not his best effort to date.

[Björn]

I just started today the leopard by Jo Nesbø , read already 2 of his books and quite like him.

Also reading A Game of Thrones but it goes a bit slowly as i watched the series and Im finding it hard to read because i know already what happend :)

[Derick]

Dysfunctional Romance

[Aoibhínn]

I've finished reading Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon and now I'm a couple of chapters into Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James.

[Aoibhínn]

I've finished reading Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James earlier today and now I've started The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

[Susan]

I wanted to recommend two books I really enjoyed. One is David Liss' "The Coffee Trader." It's about the introduction of coffee to Europe and the how the Jewish people escaping the Inquistion in Spain worked in the stock market in Amsterdam. Quite interesting.
The second is a series by C.J. Sansom's about a hunchback lawyer in Henry VIII's time. I can't wait for the next one.

[John]

I'm just coming to the end of Into the Darkest Corner and I'm dying to find out what happens. So that's a good sign!

I'm often quite let down by psychological thrillers, particularly ones that use mental illness or neurological disease as plot device, which usually have gaping plot holes, cringeful cliches, or are just exceedingly unbelievable and inauthentic.

This is one of the better ones.

Another good recommendation from the TV Book Club.

[Maggie]

I have a few books on the go at the moment

The Hunger Games
A Game of Thrones
and Why Don't you Come for Me by Diane Janes. I picked this last one up in the library knowing nothing about it, I've never heard of the author before and I am really enjoying it. Its a psychological thriller, almost finished it now and still can't predict how its going to end. I'm very impressed by it.

[Laura]

I finished Outliers: The Story of Success for the second time and facilitated a discussion in my book club. We had a great lively discussion of this thought provoking book.

[Aoibhínn]

I've finished reading The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne this morning and now I'm about to start Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner.

[Susan]

Ellie wrote: "I've finished reading The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne this morning and now I'm about to start Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner."

Ellie, We recently read "Scarlet Letter" as our classic at book club. It was a great discussion and a very different viewpoint reading it as an adult and not as assigned reading in high school. What did you think?

[Aoibhínn]

I've just finished reading Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner and I'm planning on starting Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich next.

[Laura]

I'm reading Morgan Llywellyn Grania about about the adventures of pirate Grania (Grave O'Malley.) It is a engaging , if long, adventure novel but I wonder how creative Llywellyn has gotten with the history. Regardless, I am enjoying it.

[Colleen]

Laura wrote: "I'm reading Morgan Llywellyn Grania about about the adventures of pirate Grania (Grave O'Malley.) It is a engaging , if long, adventure novel but I wonder how creative Llywellyn has gotten with..."

I remember reading Grania along time ago and loving it.Love Morgan Llywellyn novels.

[Brendan]

"Crossing the Borders of Time" which is a little bit over-written but reveals the great love affair of her mother's life by a modern American woman who travels to Europe to discover how her once proudly German (but Jewish) family escaped from the Nazis in the nick of time. Also "The Bookman" which is sort of Fantasy/ SF but weirdly captivating.

[Aoibhínn]

I've finished Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich and now I've started The Lost Daughter by Diane Chamberlain.

[J.S.]

The Search For God And Guinness: A Biography Of The Beer That Changed The World A refreshing, if filling, pintsized book.

Largest Baby in Ireland After the Famine Dark story of rural northern Ireland and religious tensions from the Rising and years afterward.

[Aoibhínn]

I've finished reading The Lost Daughter by Diane Chamberlain earlier today and now I'm about 40 pages into Stolen: A Letter to My Captor by Lucy Christopher.

[Bob]

I'm currently reading Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago. It is a difficult read as there is little punctuation and the narrative continues through conversations and descriptions without pause. There is no real main character except death but the idea and the moral is what is keeping me going. The story makes you think about death and the existential meaning of life such as it is and how we view the final frontier.

[Paul]

Currently reading Carthage must be Destroyed

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...

A great book covers not only Carthage but the Ancient Mediterranean world. Forensic in its detail a great read and history lesson so far.

[Laura]

I am almost through The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains This is a fascinating discussion of how the use of the internet is impacting our brain and how we think. Despite its many advantages, the internet and online reading tends to promote shallow reading and decreased attention. - touches of ADHD. I was so excited when I started Ulysses on the Nook because I thought it would be great to hyperlink everything I didn't understand hopefully increasing my overall understanding. That approach just kept getting me lost and distracted. My comprehension decreased and my frustration increased as the research in this book predicted. Instead of reading deeply, I was reading shallowly. So back to the drawing board with Ulysses. I highly recommend Carr's The Shallows.

[Aoibhínn]

I've finished reading by Stolen: A Letter to My Captor Lucy Christopher and now I'm a few chapters into Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith.

[Aoibhínn]

I've finished reading Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith this morning. I try to read at least one classic per month so this month I've decided to read The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.

[J.S.]

Ellie wrote: "I've finished reading Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith this morning. I try to read at least one classic per month so this month I've decided to read The Last of the Mohicans by..."

*hah* Must ask, how was the Lincoln/vampire novel? Have avoided seeing the film...

I'm excited to see that Barry Cunliffe & Oxford Univ. Press are coming out with another tome directed at the public, this one titled unfortunately
BRITAIN BEGINS : Britain Begins. It covers the Isles' prehistory --- well before the six counties went missing or the B word attached to any part.
[ Walks away, whistling ]

[Laura]

J.S. wrote: "Ellie wrote: "I've finished reading Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith this morning. I try to read at least one classic per month so this month I've decided to read The Last of t..."

I'll check it out even with the unfortunate title. Our library doesn't even carry Celtic from the West and it is too spendy to buy.

[Tony]

i am reading The dinosaur feather by Sissel-jo Gazan it a good crime novel rolls along and took me over 300 pages to have a guess at the murderer or who they are. a good Danish novel you could do worse than have a read of this book

[J.S.]

J.S. wrote: "Ellie wrote: "I've finished reading Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith this morning. I try to read at least one classic per month so this month I've decided to read The Last of t..."

Hello, if the local library/local college library participates in the interlibrary loan program, they could get the title for you that way, as a loaner. ( I do that a lot with reference books. )

[Laura]

I just finished The Woman Who Walked Into Doors This novel just tore at my heart. Doyle's use of dialogue in making Paula Spencer real was amazing. I think of Paula as someone I might have known despite our incredibly different backgrounds. I think this book should be required reading in any curriculum exploring abuse,battering, alcoholism. Despite the horror of her adult life, she managed somehow to hold on to her self. She survived. The impact will always be there for herself and her children but still I am hopeful -except maybe for her older son.
Although I am generally not into violence, I could not help an internal cheer as Paula, in defense of her daughter, finally got out the frying pan and chased Charo out of her life.
Doyle's best so far although I haven't read his lastPaula Spencer

[Laura]

I was sorry to hear that Irish writer Maeve Binchy died . I enjoyed her books, especially Circle of Friends, although I didn't see them as classics. Still it is nice to be able to lose yourself in a book.

[J.S.]

Laura wrote: "I was sorry to hear that Irish writer Maeve Binchy died . I enjoyed her books, especially Circle of Friends, although I didn't see them as classics. Still it is nice to be able to lose yourself i..."

Yes. Loved her for a late-night read. She had a lot of insight and warmth, and was very subtle yet didn't avoid tough issues ( eg, erosion of the Church's influence by final decades of the 20th century ). Sad to learn of her passing.

[Brendan]

Susan wrote: "I wanted to recommend two books I really enjoyed. One is David Liss' "The Coffee Trader."

Yes! I read this about 2 years ago and thought it was great.

[Mike]

I'm currently reading "How To Read A Film" by James Monaco. This is an updated edition of a book he wrote 30 years ago and its commonly used for film students. So far, its mostly focused on the technical aspect of film-making (lenses, aspect ratio) which can be a bit boring and seems a bit outdated now everything has gone digital now but I guess its handy to know these things. Im looking forward to reading about actually 'reading' a film and studying why particular scenes are shot in a certain way and so on.

[Aoibhínn]

I've finished reading The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper yesterday. Now I'm reading Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich.

[Aoibhínn]

I've already finished Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich, which was a short but hilarious novel, an now I'm about to start reading The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen.

[Eleanor]

I'm currently reading Angus Donald's Robin Hood trilogy Can I recommend David Ball's 2 books, Empires of Sands & The Sword & The Scimater Also love Paul Sussman, and unfortunately, due to his untimely death at the end of May, there won't be anymore from this fantastic author

[Seamus]

I am currently reading Lolita, still slowly making my way through Ulycesses. On the non-fiction side I am re-reading How the Mind Works and reading How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC

I just fininshed reading Alan Moore's entire run of Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing the final story arc of which was really enjoyable cause Moore just wrote a load of interesting sci-fi stories and had a final issue that was a fitting end.

Also got back to reading Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned which is a comic where one day all males animals (incl men) in the world die except Yorrick and his monkey who then travel all over the US and the world trying to find out why and propose to his GF

[Eleanor]

Susan wrote: "I wanted to recommend two books I really enjoyed. One is David Liss' "The Coffee Trader." It's about the introduction of coffee to Europe and the how the Jewish people escaping the Inquistion in Sp..."

Have read the 5 Shardlake books and thought they were all great Tried Sansom's Spanish civil war book but just can't get into it

[Susan]

Eleanor wrote: "Susan wrote: "I wanted to recommend two books I really enjoyed. One is David Liss' "The Coffee Trader." It's about the introduction of coffee to Europe and the how the Jewish people escaping the In..."

The Shardlake series is so good. I even enjoyed the civil war one but most of my friends did not.

[Aoibhínn]

I've finished reading The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen this morning and now I'm about to start I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.

[Aoibhínn]

I've finished reading I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith and I've started The Last Girl by Jane Casey this morning.

[Aoibhínn]

I finished the 3rd book in the Maeve Kerrigan series The Last Girl by Jane Casey last night - I really enjoyed this novel and I can't wait till the next one! Jane Casey is becoming one of my favourite crime authors. This morning, I began reading One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf.

[Aoibhínn]

I finished reading by Heather Gudenkauf yesterday - It's a brilliant novel. I couldn't put it down! I honestly couldn't recommend it highly enough.

Now I'm about to start the 9th book in the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich.

[Laura]

Fifty Shades of Grey
I downloaded the free sample on my Nook. This has to be one of the most poorly written books I have ever come across. I know, what did I expect? Better. It is very, very popular. Someone must be impressed. I know it is going around the high school circuit like crazy. I've read erotic books that were well written and didn't sound like they were written by a precocious 12 year old. No, I am not even tempted to have it downloaded -even if it were free.

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Laura wrote: "Fifty Shades of Grey
I downloaded the free sample on my Nook. This has to be one of the most poorly written books I have ever come across. I know, what did I expect? Better. It is very, very popul..."

That's a shame. I would have loved to have read your review. I bet it would have been fantastic.