little chickadee Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Hi - What's everyone reading at the moment? I'm between books and you might give me some inspiration! Any all time favourites too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clash City Rocker Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 "Vernon God Little" It's not new, maybe a couple of years old now, but it is very very funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisa33 Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Just finished reading The Shining (Stephen King) for the xxx time. Don't know what I'm going to read next as I've run out of reading material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenzin Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 RACING POST Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 I tend to read something a bit more challenging,followed by some good old chick lit, so at the moment I am on the latest Santa Montefiore, then I am reading 'The raw Shark Texts'. Check out my facebook page for a more up to date account of my reading habits, which,I am told by The Hubby, take up far too much of my time Next on my hit list will be a re read of 'The Other Boyleyn Girl', before the release of the new movie.....if I can pry it out of the hands of the youngest daughter who is currently into all things Tudor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Sheer Abandon by Penny Vincenzi Not exactly great literature but good bedtime reading so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Unbeaten: The Story of My Brutal Childhood by Kim Woodburn Absolutely dire. It was lent to me by a colleague who thought it wonderful. I'm determined to finish it. I wonder....is it possible to have become a minor celebrity without having had an abusive childhood? In no way am I attempting to minimise or mock the horrors that some have had to endure....far from it.....but there does seem to be a much higher ratio among the day time TV type personalities than in the rest of the community. I wonder why that is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Unbeaten: The Story of My Brutal Childhood by Kim Woodburn Catchy title . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Sleep pale sister by Joanne Harris. Interesting so far. Just finished Victorian London by Liza Picard, which was excellent, but not fiction. I really really loved The other Boleyn Girl! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 I really really loved The other Boleyn Girl! Fantastic wasn't it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Brilliant and very sad too. I can't believe that Henry actually had a healthy son and didn't try to legitimise him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Brilliant and very sad too. I can't believe that Henry actually had a healthy son and didn't try to legitimise him. Me neither!....It's not as if he was afraid of taking on the church etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 The local Property News free paper, I am always on the lookout for a house with a larger garden (and parking )that would suit the chickens, and that I could afford. Virtually impossible round here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura & CTB Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 I really really loved The other Boleyn Girl! Fantastic wasn't it. I've just finished reading The Boleyn Inheritance - fabulous too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 I must be the only person still reading the latest Harry Potter I only read for about 15 minutes - in bed, even though it is a hardback and Carl has banned them because I drop them on his head when I fall asleep I don't generally read fiction - just biographies and smallholding magazines. Egluntine - can I borrow that dire book? - sounds right up my street! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 I really really loved The other Boleyn Girl! Fantastic wasn't it. I've just finished reading The Boleyn Inheritance - fabulous too! All of Phillipa Gregorys Tudor books are fab, & the Elizabethan ones too - I have read them all,several times & am always waiting for her next one. Henrys illigitamate son died early anyhow,didn't he? But,if I remember,he made him a Duke or Lord as a young child, which is an acknowledgement of sorts. Of course I may well be getting true historical fact mixed up with fiction & The Tudors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 Just remembered the book I was reading before the current one: "Born on a Blue Day" by Daniel Tammet - he's an autistic savant, unbelievably brilliant at maths and has synesthesia (sp?) where he sees numbers as colours and shapes. It was fascinating (I work with autistic children so am interested in that kind of thing anyway). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 I don't generally read fiction Snap! I have read a few of the Harry Potter books, I bought the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, but never got beyond the first few pages, the films were excellent though. A couple of weeks ago I found the Da Vinci Code in the charity shop for 50p, and couldn't put it down till it was finished , but generally I stick to factual books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 The Da Vinci Code is a fantastic book, but a victim of its own success,I think. There is a fair bit of anti Da Vinci s"Ooops, word censored!"bery, which I don't like, as it really is a cracking good read & much,much better than the movie. Angels & Demons is just as good,if not better. I couldn't put it down the first time I read it either. Nor the second,nor the third Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 I'm reading the Donald Crowhurst book again (for the hundredth time!) after the really good programme on him a couple of nights ago on the telly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 I'm reading The Promised Land methodology of cognitive behavioural therapy. It's homework, and I'm already behind so I HAVE to finish it before I can read anythying else. (although it's actually not bad for a text book! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 Blimey...brains and beauty! Sounds hard going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey Lucy Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 I've just finished reading The Fox Busters by Dick King-Smith to my 7 yr-old. Fab book already but now that we have hens it read even better (apologies for my Grammar). Lucy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 Arrgghh CBT. Bring it on - I need some! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puffball Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 Before I had my dog experiance I managed to contain it by reading: 'Where the red fern grows' by Wilson Rawls and 'Marley and me' by John Grogan I highly reccommend the second book if you like that autobiography/dog story kind of book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
