01-03-2014 9:55 AM
we havent had a book thread for a while
i have just finished terry pratchtt's Dodger , again, only the 2nd time round
have Christina Hopkinson's ' the pile of stuff at the bottom of the stairs' on the go , when i get chance lol
and before that a stuart macbride and sara paretsky from the libary
01-03-2014 10:02 AM
01-03-2014 10:13 AM
Just reading "the shock of the fall" by Nathan Filer
01-03-2014 10:21 AM - edited 01-03-2014 10:22 AM
I recently read the Divergent Trilogy (film coming out soon and I like to read the books first). It's in the Hunger Games 'stable' but very different if that makes sense. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1840309/
In a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she's Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.
Now reading the second book in The Passage Trilogy (Cronin).
Amy Harper Bellafonte is six years old and her mother thinks she's the most important person in the whole world.
She is.
Anthony Carter doesn't think he could ever be in a worse place than Death Row.
He's wrong.
FBI agent Brad Wolgast thinks something beyond imagination is coming.
It is.
THE PASSAGE.
In a completly different style I'm waiting for Jeffrey Archer's next book in the Clifton Chronicles. Due out March
01-03-2014 10:38 AM
Read "The House Of Bones" and it scared me witless.
01-03-2014 10:46 AM
if anyone likes true stories i have just finished silence and silence broken by natasha preston.which were very good books and well written.
also
if anyone reads catherine cookson type books i have also just finished a triolgy called yorkshire grit by margaret muir very well written and very good story
01-03-2014 11:10 AM
I am reading the first Paul OGrady book at the moment. It's very good but I just read a chapter now & then as I don't seem to make time for reading these days. I really must make an effort. I can't get comfortable in bed to read & the light in my bedroom isn't good enough anyway. I have a pile of books I want to read including some Steven King & most of the Phillipa Gregory ones.
I can recomment Purfume by Patrik Suskind & Pompeii by Robert Harris.
01-03-2014 11:15 AM
I can never stay awake long enough to read more than half a page!! I just got Eloise by Judy Finnigan because it was very highly recommended to me, but so far I'm not really into it. I think it's because I don't read long enough to remember what happened on the previous pages!
01-03-2014 11:24 AM
sometimes i get so into a book i forget i am supposed to be doing something else lol
a couple of times ive finished a book lately and its been after midnight so ive needed to set an alarm
think ive read all but the last stuart macbride book
have ian rankin's latest Rebus waiting on the ereader
i did go back and read the Lord peter wimsey/harriet vane books of dorothy l sayers (and the jaill paton walsh ones ) books
01-03-2014 11:36 AM
01-03-2014 11:52 AM
Seeing as you mention it,,,all along i said i did not want to read Fifty Shades but i have just finished the Trilogy only because my friend persuaded me and said they are good. Its really not just about the S*X. It tells the story of a damaged man trying to come to terms with what happened when he was a baby,,and then as a teenage boy. And then how he changes when he falls deeply in love with Ana. It has got lots of S*X but it turns to love, something Christian never imagines could happen. It had me crying.
And then i brought the new Val Mcdermid , cross and Burn in the week but not started it yet. I normally like Thriller ,Forensic Crime stories. And Romances too.
01-03-2014 12:08 PM
I have read "Eloise" parts of it were good but overall I wasnt impressed. Just reserved a book called "One Girl And Her Dogs" at the library, about a Shepherdess running a farm and lambing etc. Seeing as I seem to have a thing about sheep at the moment, I can't wait to collect the book and start reading it; also reserved one about Hannah Hauxwell; I saw the documentary in the 70's.
01-03-2014 12:17 PM
@carolyorkie2010 wrote:I have read "Eloise" parts of it were good but overall I wasnt impressed. Just reserved a book called "One Girl And Her Dogs" at the library, about a Shepherdess running a farm and lambing etc. Seeing as I seem to have a thing about sheep at the moment, I can't wait to collect the book and start reading it; also reserved one about Hannah Hauxwell; I saw the documentary in the 70's.
if you like sheep these books i have just read are about a girl taking on a sheep farm before the war,i have also just finished a triolgy called yorkshire grit by margaret muir very well written and very good story
01-03-2014 12:19 PM
01-03-2014 3:08 PM
Ok Sam. LOL
01-03-2014 3:17 PM
01-03-2014 3:22 PM
Oh right, sorry about that.
01-03-2014 3:31 PM
i always see shephardesses as the blue and white ornaments with their big flounced frocks and bows on the crook
01-03-2014 4:38 PM
01-03-2014 5:07 PM
I move between Jodi Picoult, Daine Chamberlain and Dorothy Koomson.
Just finished Goodnight Beautiful and started Necessary Lies.