What are you reading at the moment?
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Topic: What are you reading at the moment?
Posted By: bookwyrm
Subject: What are you reading at the moment?
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 11:07am
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Hey all.
Thought it would be a good idea if people posted what book had them hooked at the moment. I always get recommended books but end up forgetting the name and / or author. So let us know what you are reading and / or any good book recommendations. :) Cheers ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: The_Stuarts
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 11:14am
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Ohh. Good topic. I love reading. I'm really into suspense thrillers at the moment.
I'm making my way through Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. I'm currently reading "The Enemy". I've read 6 in the series so far and am loving it!! Would also highly recommend Monsoon and the prequel and subsequent books about the Courtenay family by Wilbur Smith. Oh and there's a series by Charles Todd set post WW1 about a Scotland Yard detective who is carrying around ghosts of the past. For all those Sci-fi fantasy lovers out there my favourite series that I still read every now and then is the valdemar books by Mercedes Lackey. The first book is called Magics Pawn. I have stopped reading the Robert Jordon Wheel of Time books until he finishes the series. OK. I better stop myself before I go on and on and on and on... ------------- http://lilypie.com">   http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: BabyOnBoard
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 11:59am
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I am personally a big fan of Frank Perretti and am re-reading This present darkness series ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: bookwyrm
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 12:14pm
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I just recently finished 18 Seconds by George D. Shuman, excellent read about a blind woman who can see the last 18 seconds of life of someone who has died. This is his first novel, and found it well paced and kept me interested from cover to back.
Currently reading For the Love of My Mother by John Rodgers. Excellent thus far. It is about a young catholic girl who falls pregnant and is sent to a convent and fights for the right to be with her son. Set in Ireland during the 1940s-50s. Set on the journey of his real mother. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 12:21pm
| I'm reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Haven't picked it up in a while, because it kind of lost me. I don't know if I'll keep reading it or not. |
Posted By: CuriousG
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 12:26pm
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I love Marian Keyes and Jane Green. I also am really into Jodi Picolot and am re reading 19 minutes. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 12:31pm
| I like Jodi Picoult too. I read 'My Sister's Keeper' not long ago and had tears in my eyes within the first few pages!!! |
Posted By: LuluBelle85
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 12:34pm
I've just started reading this (bought it yesterday) Want to read it before the movie comes out! |
baalamb wrote:Posted By: bookwyrm
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 12:36pm
I love Jodie Picolt, Georgia. I really enjoy her books. I have Life Swap by Jane Green but it has been sitting in my library bookcase for 2 years unread. One day :P ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: CuriousG
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 1:07pm
Oh I just remembered that I bought Emma by Jane Austen recently cause I want to become a bit more cultured! I started reading it but am finding the old fashioned language a bit tough (compared to what I am used to!) ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: The_Stuarts
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 1:10pm
LOL. Wasn't there a movie? Maybe you could watch that instead 
p.s. I had trouble reading Jane Austin too and haven't read any out of choice. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 1:35pm
If there are any that you don't have let me know I am a HUUUUGGGEEEEEE Lee Childs fan, and have all of his books. The Enemy was my least favourite, My favourite was Bad Luck and Trouble and The Hard Way. I'm more than happy to send it down to you. I love sharing books
I also love Jeffrey Deaver The Lincoln Rhyme series, he's great too. I'm actually reading The Almost Moon by Alice Seabold, it's a lot harder to read then The Lovely Bones. I got it for Christmas and I'm still trying to finish it. I've also half started Patricia Cornwells latest The Dead Book. Yawn! It has to be her worst. So I've stopped reading it. I'm a big fan of Fiona Walker she is hillarious, and her characters are so loveable and silly. I also love Mitch Albom. Tuesdays with Morrie, 5 People you Meet in Heaven is a gorgy book, and Just one more Day is just beautiful. Ohhh I could go on as well, I love reading. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: The_Stuarts
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 1:45pm
Oh, you're on. I haven't read either of those yet. I have read tripwire, without fail, echo burning, die trying, one shot and persuader. I thought lovely bones was ok but not a book I would read again. I want to read some more John Grisham. I really enjoyed The Broker. Anyone a John Grisham fan? I have also avoided watching all the 'Bourne' movies as I want to read the books first. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 2:00pm
Ahem... I've got most of the John Grisham ones too  ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3)
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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 2:06pm
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The other Alice Seabold book that is really good is Lucky. Its her true story of surviving rape. Its very moving. I love her books, and really enjoyed Lovely Bones, although found myself in tears reading it! I love the Stephanie Plum series of books by Janet Evanovich, they are so funny! I love the Ian Rankin "Rebus" series as well. I also like quite quirky books, at the moment I have Jack Kerouac "On The Road" going, but am finding I just dont have the time to read like I used to!
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Posted By: The_Stuarts
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 2:10pm
We're gonna have to do some book swapping. I'll swap you some Wilbur Smith for some Lee Child or John Grisham. Hmm, better check my book shelf and see what else I can lend you.  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: hooper
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 2:22pm
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I love reading Lee Childs have read whole series bar a couple, Jack Reacher just sounds so hot.
At the moment am reading James Patterson Judge & Jury not to bad but rather read his Alex Cross books.  ------------- Desiree 
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Posted By: Rachel75
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 2:23pm
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I love Janet Evanovich as well but she never writes fast enough lol.
I started Lovely Bones three times before I settled into it. I really "enjoyed" it in the end. I just had to be in a certain frame of mind. My DH says I devour books as I go to the library twice a week & get at least 4 books at a time. Don't know how I manage with 2.5 kids but I do lol. I'm reading - Claimed by shadow - Karen Chance, at the moment. |
Posted By: Mazzy
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 2:32pm
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Sim Sam, I love the Stephanie Plum books too, so good for a laugh!
One of my favourite reads is The Time Traveller's Wife, LOVE it. Have just finished We Have To Talk About Kevin, about a school shooter but told from his mother's perspective. Not what I expected but kind of scary. ------------- Mum to two gorgeous girls! |
Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 2:34pm
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The Stuarts: Apparently Robert Jordan passed away last year, my partner is devastated as he has read all the other books and this was meant to be his last or something, he is holding out hope that his wife finishes off the story for him!
I love reading too and spend way too much time reading instead of doing the housework! Have been reading the Kite Runner its pretty good, very sad though |
Posted By: The_Stuarts
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 2:35pm
I agree. I'm constantly looking at hollywood hot tough guys and thinking 'hmmm, he'd play a good Jack Reacher'. At the moment if I was casting for a Jack Reacher movie I'd get Jason Statham (from the Transporter/Italian Job/Lock Stock and two smoking barrels) and then I'd cast myself as the leading lady. LOL. Hope DH doesn't read this.------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: The_Stuarts
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 2:40pm
OMG I just checked wikipedia. He died on my birthday last year. Let your DP know that Jordan's wife has chosen Brandon Sanderson to finish the final wheel of time book "A memory of light". It's due out next autumn. Gotta love Wikipedia!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 2:57pm
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Oh he will be so relieved! I have read them too but got a little bored with the last couple so not really hanging out that badly although it would be good for there to be an ending, a happy one preferably. am a sucker for happy endings
Whats Jodi Picoult like? I have wondered about her books, I am also a sucker for historical romancey type books like The Bronze Horseman that kind of thing |
Posted By: The_Stuarts
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 3:09pm
Yeah, I was getting a bit sick of it all by book 9 about the same people but would love the have closure. By Fall 2009 I'm going to have to read them all again first so I know where I'm at. I loved the Bronze Horseman too. Another great author is Soheir Khashoggi. She wrote Mosaic which is about an american woman married to an arab man. Her husband has kidnapped their eight-year old twins to raise in his homeland of Jordan. She also wrote Nadia's Song which is about a toddler (in egypt I think) who gets separated from her mother during riots and is adopted by a couple; her name is changed to Gabrielle. It is about her reuniting with her birth mother. They're both beautifully written stories. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 4:24pm
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Rachel I'm the same, I go to the library all the time, I'm forever requesting books for them to buy just so I can read them :) ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3)
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Posted By: bookwyrm
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 4:44pm
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Looks like this is a successful topic today.
Anyone read anything from Philipa Gregory? I enjoyed the Other Boleyn Girl. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 4:48pm
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I'm a voracious reader too (I think I have to be, as I'm in charge of Book Reviews) but at the moment I'm reading Slash's autobiography (which is titled "Slash"). It's salacious and trashy and full of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. I'm not sure what to think, except that he's lucky his brain is still functioning after all the substances he's overabused. I've also been reading Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. My brother has sent them over from the US one by one (there are seven in all) and I have two to go. He is torturing me as he hasn't sent them yet! And I've got a huge pile of review books to crack into, as well... |
Posted By: bookwyrm
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 4:58pm
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I've heard the Dark Tower series is good. I might pencil them in to my "must read" list. I try keep track of all the books that I am recommended. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 7:31pm
| I've just finished the time travellers wife by some Niffenegger. Good read. Very interesting. |
Posted By: Mazzy
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 8:15pm
Audrey Niffenegger - I couldn't remember it before either! ------------- Mum to two gorgeous girls! |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 9:19pm
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Katherine you are so lucky I so want to read his autobiography (i'm big G'n'R fan). I love Jodi and Paulina and Marian. My friend works for Whitcolls and often gets books to read for nothing so I usually get a decent pile of them whenever I go to her place. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: aussiegirl
Date Posted: 09 February 2008 at 8:55am
My MIL has given me two Phillipa Gregory books to read - The Other Boleyn Girl and (I think its called...) The Virgins Lover? they are next on my list 
I am quite a "chick-lit" fan - Cathy Kelly, Marian Keyes, Jane Green etc, have read most of their books -------------  Mum to Hayley **30.6.08
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Posted By: aussiegirl
Date Posted: 09 February 2008 at 8:57am
LOL, I thought the same thing about Anthony Keidis after reading his biography SCAR TISSUE. A great read though ------------- Mum to Hayley **30.6.08
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 09 February 2008 at 9:16am
Don't do it, I read that whole series and at the end I felt like hunting Stephen King down and punching him in the face....lol, there are so many inconsistencies and it is very slow paced. Strange cos other books of his I have really enjoyed. Immature, but I have just finished the harry potter series, is a good easy read. Great for reading when I was expressing every 3 hours. I have just started reading the Terry Pratchett books now (for some reason I seem to be the only person that didn't read them as a teenager). One book I keep struggling with is Lord of the Rings, I read the hobbit and loved it but with the lord of the rings I keep starting it but don't seem to get anywhere with it, I think maybe seeing the films and then trying to read the books has ruined it for me. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: SuziE
Date Posted: 09 February 2008 at 9:55am
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One book I just HAVE to recommend is "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant. Seriously this is such a beautiful read and would have to go up there on my all time favourite shelf. Every woman should own a copy!
Ive just finished reading "The Uncle's Story" by Witi Ihimaera - a nice light read, not as intense as Witi can be. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 09 February 2008 at 10:15am
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I'll read pretty much anything- except for scary stuff and I'm not that keen on Sci Fi. I love Jane Austen, Jodi Picoult and Marian Keyes. I like non-fiction books too- I've read my weight in Parenting books and love books like Bill Brysons 'short history', Jared Diamond 'collapse' and Richard Dawkins 'the blind watchmaker'.
I LOVE the Harry Potter series too
I'm currently reading Tanas autobiography (just because its there and I've run out of things to read!) and How to talk so kids will listen, and listen so they will talk. I went through a phase of reading all those Davinci Code type books then a whole lot of trashy Jane Green type ones. Now I just read anything I can get my hands on as I hardly ever get a chance to go to the library ------------- Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3 
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Posted By: bookwyrm
Date Posted: 09 February 2008 at 2:59pm
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I was also a Harry Potter fan. Great books.
A series I really enjoyed was The Women of the Underworld series by Kelley Armstrong. Easy to read, modern day supernatural books. And all the characters are used in all 7 books but a different lead female character in each book. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 09 February 2008 at 4:06pm
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[/QUOTE]I also love Jeffrey Deaver The Lincoln Rhyme series, he's great too.[/QUOTE]
I like these ones too!! His other ones aren't quite as good I don't think...
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Posted By: bookwyrm
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 1:21pm
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Just finished For the Love of My Mother by John Rodgers. Excellent read.
Just started Absolution by Caro Ramsay. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: AuntieSarah
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 1:25pm
| I have just finished The Poisonwood Bible by...hmm can't remember who it was by. Was good though. |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 4:53pm
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Slightly OTT: I was reading yesterday that Ryan Gosling is no longer going to be in The Lovely Bones.. Instead it's going to be....... Mark Wahlberg! Soo that could be interesting to see how he portrays Salmon. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3)
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Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 5:17pm
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yeah, its mark wahlberg now.
Neither of them are who i would imagine as the dad , Ryan seemed to young, and mark seems too tough . I love Marian Keyes, Jodi picoult but i havent read any of theirs for a while and i cant remember what i have read that was good lately either |
Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 7:36pm
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I'm reading 'The Memory of Running' by Ron McLarty at the moment. It's really good!
I also just read 'I know this much is true' by Wally Lamb and it was amazing!!! ------------- My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 7:38pm
I didn't know you could do this!! That's so great ------------- My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: missy_girl
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 10:10pm
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Brenna, I just finished 'I know this much is true' too. I loved it. I started reading 'The memory of Running' the night before I went into labour with Zoe. Such a great easy read.
I'm on the hunt for a new book to read. I'm going to go see The Kite Runner this week at the movies. The book was fantastic. ------------- Michelle http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: MorgansMum
Date Posted: 11 February 2008 at 1:51pm
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I really like anything from Martina Cole, and read alot of Jodi Piccolt.
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Posted By: Mazzy
Date Posted: 11 February 2008 at 1:57pm
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The Kite Runner was a great book, but I'm scared to see the movie because I really liked reading it and don't want it stuffed up on the screen!
Since reading it I've gone on a bit of a Middle Eastern author kick, the book club I've just joined has Reading Lolita in Tehran as one of our books coming up. I also really liked My Year of Meat by Ruth Ozeki, about a Japanese-American documentary maker making shows for the American Beef industry to air in Japan - really good. And The Eyre Affair, which if you like the literary stuff is hilarious. ------------- Mum to two gorgeous girls! |
Posted By: bookwyrm
Date Posted: 11 February 2008 at 5:48pm
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Books are never portrayed right on screen, but then again it can be quite hard to get a books worth of stuff in an hour and a half. It's always hard too when you have an idea of what a character is like and they are portrayed completely different.
I enjoyed Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. Absolutely a great read. I didn't mind the film, but I know some people detested it. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 11 February 2008 at 9:49pm
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I've just read through all the posts lol and if i was able to do many quotes i would cos there are so many books mentioned that ive read
The Red Tent, very well written book, and so clever i thought Harry Potter, i love Harry Potter, i made sure i ordered my copy when the last one came out, don't think Dumbledore is portrayed right in the movies tho, by either actor. Martina Cole, shes COOL, i always feel like a bad a*se when i read one of her books Terry Pratchett novels are witty and funny too Never got into Lord of the rings, i think its cos he spends half the page describing things "the grass was a brilliant shade of emerald green with a tint of yellow in it " type thing Tony Parsons " one for my baby " is good, and nice to get a mans view on life sometimes Cage of stars by Jacqueline Mitchard is very good, about a girl whos baby sitting her younger sisters and playing hide and seek and when she comes out to find them they are lying on the ground with their throats slit and their killer is sitting on the table in shock (i didnt say it was a happy book) my DP's mum is a big fan of Diana Gabaldon, but i cant get into them Im reading The Mermaids chair atm by Sue Monk Kidd, but ive only read about 2 pages so far and im also reading "The Boleyn inheritence" by Phillipa Gregory Another good one (sorry i keep meaning to post then i remember another book) is Lullabies for little criminals there is also one that i cant remember the name of, it starts off with a mother who's baby daughter has been kidnapped....I must text my friend (since she has my book) and ask her, or better yet,ask her to bring back my book! that story was very clever with a good twist |
Posted By: The_Stuarts
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 8:26am
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I love Harry Potter too. I've read a few Terry Pratchett as well and enjoyed them but I don't care if I read the whole series or not.
caitlynsmygirl my MIL lent me a Diana Gabaldon last year. I read a few chapters but on every second page someone was either havign sex or thinking about it and I just couldn't get into it. I'm forever having her on about giving me 'raunchy filth' to read - LOL. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: susieq
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 8:38am
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haha she is a bit like that isnt she ? and with innocent titles like "cross stich" sounds more like a knitting novel thajavascript:AddSmileyIcon('')
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Posted By: bookwyrm
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 11:27am
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Almost finished my current book, so may pick one out of the lists here for my next read. Or I could always revert to the many unread books in my bookshelf that I picked up from Whitcoulls. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: MonicaMouse
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 1:38pm
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Another Harry Potter fan here. Have read the series many times over.
Jodi Picoult, Lesley Pearse, James Patterson, Nicholas Sparkes(The Notebook/Walk to Remember/Message in a Bottle etc) I currently have 2 books on the go at the moment and not getting very far with either. ------------- 
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Posted By: alexbabe
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 1:48pm
| currently reading magick of reiki. and some kristin hannah book my mother took out for me |
Posted By: bookwyrm
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 2:13pm
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That's a book for my list, The Notebook :) ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: bookwyrm
Date Posted: 14 February 2008 at 1:13pm
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Left the book I was reading at my Mums place :(
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