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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #1170 on: October 20, 2013, 03:54:36 am »
Just started reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Think it will take me a while to get through - I enjoy historical fiction but I find the writing style of this a little annoying and confusing. Or maybe that's just because my head feels like its full of cotton wool at the moment!
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #1171 on: October 22, 2013, 12:08:13 pm »
Just finished reading Capital by JOhn Lochester on the recommendation of my librarian. Enjoyable  read about the residents in a London street just before the GFC.

Just about to read Michelle de kretser's book Questions of travel.
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #1172 on: October 23, 2013, 06:21:28 am »
I hadn't read historical fiction since reading Jean Plaidy when I was a teenager, but I just loved Mantels books and couldn't put them down. Can't wait for the next one. I think I most enjoyed how contemporary she makes the politics feel.

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Just started reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Think it will take me a while to get through - I enjoy historical fiction but I find the writing style of this a little annoying and confusing. Or maybe that's just because my head feels like its full of cotton wool at the moment!
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #1173 on: October 30, 2013, 11:59:50 am »
Finished reading Mark Kurlansky's "Salt" - brilliantly researched, accessibly written and a must for anyone interested in food & history.
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #1174 on: November 07, 2013, 12:33:41 am »
Well I really loved 'Wolf Hall' and will probably download the sequel, but right now I'm reading 'Anna Karenina' by Tolstoy as I had downloaded it ages ago for free. Enjoying it so far - I like to dip into the classics every now and then...
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #1175 on: November 07, 2013, 12:47:43 am »
And I am reading my newly arrived gift of INFAMY by Lenny Bartulin and enjoying it so much I don,t want to go shopping .

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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #1176 on: November 07, 2013, 04:41:49 am »
I see you have bread Gert. That will have to do. I am reading a book by Loretta Hill. It is from Net Gallery and is to be released soon.
Our book club book this month is Room by Emma Donaghue. I really enjoyed that, but it did give me an icky feel.
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #1177 on: November 07, 2013, 04:57:44 am »
Had to go shopping to buy the meat to make the potted beef. Only cost me $160.LOL!

Would you recommend Room . I have looked at it a couple of times but not sure if I need to read it.

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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #1178 on: November 07, 2013, 05:01:35 am »
I thoroughly enjoyed Room as did the other three members of my bookclub.
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« Reply #1179 on: November 07, 2013, 08:10:08 am »
As the title says it is written about a woman kept in a room. Quite a good read I thought.
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #1180 on: November 07, 2013, 08:19:08 am »
I really enjoyed it except for the end. All of a sudden it seemed the author got sick of writing and just hurried it.
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #1181 on: November 07, 2013, 08:24:34 am »
I bet the woman got sick of being in that room and was glad the author hurried it CP ;)
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #1182 on: November 07, 2013, 08:26:10 am »
ha ha, I think so JD  ;)
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #1183 on: November 08, 2013, 09:49:52 am »
I agree CP. it sort of just stopped and finished.
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #1184 on: November 12, 2013, 07:26:46 am »
I enjoyed Room - although to say one enjoyed it isn't quite right. It looked at other issues around that sort of long term confinement that I hadn't thought of.
I've just read the Booker short-listed "Harvest" by Jim Crace. An excellent read.
Also "The Telling Room" which is about a piece of cheese (in a roundabout sort of way) - also excellent.

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