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Post by aileen11 on May 13, 2016 10:59:03 GMT
This from the woman who read A Suitable Boy??
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Post by natsplatt on May 13, 2016 11:33:37 GMT
This from the woman who read A Suitable Boy?? Ah yes, but I read that in sections over a whole year!! Nat
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Post by rosemary3 on May 20, 2016 10:26:42 GMT
Still counts, Nat
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski finished 4/4/16The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy finished 20/5/16Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis Julie, or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie Finished The Forsyte Saga. A good read and not difficult! The third volume perhaps not quite as good as the first two, but all worth reading.
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Post by rosemary3 on May 24, 2016 15:59:08 GMT
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski finished 4/4/16
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy finished 20/5/16 Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis Julie, or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie finished 24/5/16 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Finished The Ground Beneath Her Feet today. Magical realism is not my thing but it was a good book - 3 stars. Going straight on into The Satanic Verses... to finish by the end of the month when a spring seasonal challenge ends.
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Post by rosemary3 on May 28, 2016 16:50:33 GMT
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski finished 4/4/16
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy finished 20/5/16 Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis Julie, or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie finished 24/5/16 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie finished 28/5/16
Finished The Satanic Verses today. I found it much harder that The Ground Beneath Her Feet, and rushed through it to get it over. Enjoyed a few parts, but they were far between. 2 stars
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Post by natsplatt on May 29, 2016 8:28:36 GMT
1st BFG completed, I absolutely loved A Discovery of Witches, a fab romp of a read! I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be able to hold off long reading the sequel too, so I may well exceed my 3 BFGs as that one is a whopper too!
Nat
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Post by rosemary3 on May 29, 2016 12:10:08 GMT
That's great to know! I have A Discovery Of Witches in my reading plan for next month (although it wasn't on my BFG list because I haven't had it that long).
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Post by natsplatt on May 30, 2016 9:12:31 GMT
That's great to know! I have A Discovery Of Witches in my reading plan for next month (although it wasn't on my BFG list because I haven't had it that long). Hope you enjoy it too, reading some reviews it seems to be something of a marmite book!! Thankfully I loved it! Nat
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Post by pennylane on May 31, 2016 19:51:42 GMT
I loved The All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness, I wish I still had them all to look forward to!
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Post by pennyt on Jun 2, 2016 7:05:09 GMT
I'm slow to update this! I abandoned A Discovery of Witches in favour of Canada by Richard Ford which was very much more my cup of tea. Then last month I read the wonderful Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry) which is huge and epic in every sense. One of those books that makes almost anything you read afterwards seem dull and colourless. So I'm now 5 down, 7 to go...
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Post by aileen11 on Jun 30, 2016 18:31:04 GMT
April - June update:
1 Covenant, Dean Crawford (February) 2 The Warrior's Princess, Barbara Erskine (March) 3 Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell (April) 4 Cold Granite, Stuart MacBride (May) 5 Cross Bones, Kathy Reichs (May)
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Post by rosemary3 on Jul 7, 2016 14:48:14 GMT
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski finished 4/4/16
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy finished 20/5/16
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis finished 7/7/16 Julie, or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie finished 24/5/16
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie finished 28/5/16
Finished Glamorama today. One of those books that's a bit full of itself, and very violent in places, but have to admire it.
Only one BFG to go now, but I think it will be the hardest... a 700+ French novel in letters from 1761.
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Post by janetandjohn on Jul 7, 2016 18:08:58 GMT
Well, good luck with that one, Rosemary !
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Post by pennyt on Jul 8, 2016 6:55:19 GMT
Slow to update again... but in June I read my sixth BFG for the year, Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett (last in his Century trilogy). An easy and very enjoyable read, though a ginormous one at almost 1200 pages.
Although all these fatties are slowing up my reading rate, with most taking about a week to read, I have to say it's very good to be getting through some of these I would just keep on overlooking otherwise.
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Post by natsplatt on Aug 21, 2016 8:28:19 GMT
No 2 now complete, took me 10 weeks total (although with a 4 week break in the middle to read 3 library books!) but worth it, as a large space made on the bookcase, and finally got another book by Robin Hobb read, my first non Fitz book by her, and I very much enjoyed it, if not as much as the Fitz stories!
Nat
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