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I'm reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
and The Russian Revolution by Anthony Wood. |
Can't remember if I've said: Finished reading American Psycho (now watching the film, haha) and now reading Wild Swans.
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Pyramids by Terry Pratchett and Good Omens for the 485743895743958th time.
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I'm reading history coursework.Interesting,I kwow.
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just finished reading "girl in the mirror" by cathy glass - loved it
now reading "beautiful malice' by rebecca james - so far I like it |
Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson is turning out to be a bit predictable and redundant.. not enough to stop reading it, but additionally I'm going to begin with The Sight by David Clement-Davies today.
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Now reading War & Peace, Leo Tolstoy
and Poetry: How to Get Published and How to Get Paid. |
Finished Lost Souls yesterday, and would not recommend it. It really came down to a "goth vampire cult" at the source of the murders? Really? Way to be completely lacking in imagination, Lisa Jackson.
Only a chapter in The Sight by David Clement-Davies and it's going a bit better. The pace is slowed down by the made-up wolf lingo, though.. I really don't think it's necessary for the purpose of this story for the personified wolves to refer to themselves as 'vargs' and have other made-up words for the Alpha positions and such. It only makes the reader lag through the dialogue. Otherwise, I think it promises to be a far more interesting story than the last few novels I've read. |
I've read the Sight and got annoyed for the same reason as you. Why not just say Alpha male, alpha female etc. Also I don't really like stories where animals are over personified (except Watership Down).
I'm reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke. Its good. Harry Potter for "grown ups". |
Finished Anna Karenina last week... It was pretty epic. Very glad I read it. The intertwining themes and plots are something I aspire to be able to write.. But never will :P
Reading Cancer Ward now. Unsurprisingly its pretty depressing, but still wonderful. |
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For the most part I don't like stories with overly personified animals either.. the wolves in this novel are definitely more like furry forest dwelling people than actual wolves, no doubt. (Though I'm trying to overlook it in case a good story is to be had despite that) It's a shame because I think that animals can most definitely be portrayed in a story, even containing dialogue with other animals, while still being true to the way the animal actually thinks/behaves. |
Just finished 'The Book of tomorrow' by Cecelia Ahern
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I'm reading Stephen King's 'It' and I just finished 'Brave New World'.
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IT is a fantastic book.
Pretty much finished Bradbury's 'The Martian Chronicles', fascinating collection of short stories, great sense of irony too. |
I'm reading Princess Diary.I know it's for kids and such,but i liked the film & i love innocent books.
I liked too It by S King. |
I've just finished Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffeneiger (?) - the same person who wrote The Time Traveller's Wife.
I really liked it - easy to relate to and easy to pick up again. But my feelings about it might be slightly influenced by the fact that I'm supposed to be reading up on second language acquisition theory for an exam next month and ANYTHING would look good in comparison to that :p |
finished Cut, forgot the author though.
reading: Finger Lickin' Fifteen' by Janet Evanovich |
^I really liked Notes From An Exhibition but was being incredibly dense and was at the last page before I realised quite a vital thing lol.
I'm currently reading A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. For the 12th time, so yeah it could be classed as my favourite book! :P The writing style is a little hard to get into at first though. |
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I finished Kathy Reich's 'Deadly Decisions' I really enjoyed it. Didn't know I was into 'crime fiction'
Tonight I'm going to start Earnest Hemingway- The old man and the sea. |
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