I've just started The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.
Trying to only read one book at a time & borrowing from the library as much as possible.
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I've been meaning to come in here for a while.
Just finished "The Midwife's Confession" by Diane Chamberlaine. A page turner. Similar style to Jodi Piccoult. A little rushed in the ending and slightly predictable (having read a few of Piccoult's) but a good easy read. It was recommended to me by HotI (thanks HotI!).
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I've just started The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.
Trying to only read one book at a time & borrowing from the library as much as possible.
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Just read the 2nd book in the *Lorien Legacies* - The Power of Six.
It was really good! Much better than the 1st - I am number four.
Got me hooked from the first page!
But, dagnabbit, now I have to wait for the next instalment!
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I just finished the first book of the outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
A little bit of romance, a bit of fantasy, time travel and a few saucy scenes. It is pretty good!
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Loved that series meercat. Wish she would write the next book soon though.
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I thought I would hate the Kindle but I am so in love with it & flying through books at a crazy rate! I';ve just read through this whole thread & now have a bunch more books in my wish listSome recents I have read & really enjoyed are:
I Came to Say Goodbye (Caroline Overington) - It was four o'clock in the morning. A young woman pushed through the hospital doors. Staff would later say they thought the woman was a new mother, returning to her child - and in a way, she was. She walked into the nursery, where a baby girl lay sleeping. The infant didn't wake when the woman placed her gently in the shopping bag she had brought with her. There is CCTV footage of what happened next, and most Australians would have seen it, either on the internet or the news. The woman walked out to the car park, towards an old Corolla. For a moment, she held the child gently against her breast and, with her eyes closed, she smelled her. She then clipped the infant into the car, got in and drove off. That is where the footage ends. It isn't where the story ends, however. It's not even where the story starts.
Before I Go To Sleep (SJ Watson) - Every day Christine wakes up not knowing where she is. Her memories disappear every time she falls asleep. Her husband, Ben, is a stranger to her, and he's obligated to explain their life together on a daily basis--all the result of a mysterious accident that made Christine an amnesiac. With the encouragement of her doctor, Christine starts a journal to help jog her memory every day. One morning, she opens it and sees that she's written three unexpected and terrifying words: "Don't trust Ben." Suddenly everything her husband has told her falls under suspicion. What kind of accident caused her condition? Who can she trust? Why is Ben lying to her?
Simon's Choice (Charlotte Castle) - "But Daddy, who will live with me in heaven?" Doctor Simon Bailey has everything a man could ever want. Then his beautiful daughter is diagnosed with Leukemia. He can almost accept her impending death. He can almost accept the fact that he will have to live without her. But he cannot stand the thought of his little girl having to face death alone. He answers her innocent question in a moment of desperation, testing his marriage, his professional judgment and his sanity to the limit. As cracks form in Simon's previously perfect family, we wonder, as do his loved ones ... will he really make the ultimate sacrifice?
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I've read "Before I Go To Sleep" - excellent, really well written.
I've just gotten back into the Jack Reacher series again, by Lee Child. I was missing a few so I've downloaded them onto the Kindle and really enjoying them again.
Also loving my Kindle, Sarah!
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I'm taking three books in with me to hospital (not that I expect to read three books, but I might read a little of one or two, and I don't want to try to predict what I'll feel like doing...) so I'm taking a John Grisham, a Jackie Collins and a Lauren Weisberger.
Let's see if I read anything at all!!
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I recently read the Hunger Games trilogy on my kindle. I love my kindle too!
Yesterday I finished The Birth House. Loved it. Set in Canada, 1910's. Very topical themes actually- the struggle for women to decide where they birth; the demonisation of women who shun medical management of pregnancy and birth. And some of the characters have great names.
OP- I love the Jack Reacher books. I've read them all.
Sarah- your books sound very interesting. I've read the kindle sample of 'Before I Go to Sleep'. Very intriguing.
Currently I am reading Michael Connelly's first book, Black Echo. I haven't read a Connelly book before. I love the crime/legal genre and I've read all of John Grisham's books, so hopefully Connelly can fill the gap.
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Oh Connelly is great! Love his characters! Enjoy Ash!
Another good one for you Ash is Robert Crais - similar sort of genre, I think you'll like it. There's another one, I'll have to think about it for you!
I devoured The Hunger Games, loved it. Can't wait for the movie now
Almost looking forward to going to work tomorrow for the Kindle time it allows
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Hunger Games were AWESOME!
I am on the countdown for the movie as well OP!
please please please pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaase let them be true to the books!
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I'm so tempted to get a kindle. I think I might ask DH to get me one for my birthday. I'm currently reading Dance with Dragons, the 5th book in George RR Martins series Song of Fire & Ice. It's massive! I can't hold it one handed which means that I can't read it while BFSo that's my main reading time so it's really slow going. I was very anti-technology but you ladies are slowing changing my mind
Getting lots of ideas from this thread for what to read next.
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Oh Rowellen, I love my Kindle. I wasn't really interested, but I am loving it now that I have one.
For so many reasons!
The new Kindle touch is going to be available in Aus soon - that's the one I've got, it's great. I love the no button thing.
And they are pretty cheap too.
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Never thought I would, but I looove my kindle.
About to start The hungergames.
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It's funny, I find most people that love their Kindle were skeptical at first. I'm finding too that it's the big readers that enjoy it the most, because as soon as you finish one book you can grab another without leaving home. My mum hated her Kobo but she's a very casual reader so access to hundreds of books at once wasn't a big thing for her.
Ash - I bought I Came To Say Goodbye because I had thought it was a true story & halfway through I had to google the characters because it seemed so real & they were talking about news footage etc but turned out it was just a really really well writtten novel. It does however have an abused baby (shaken baby syndrome) so it might not be for everyone, but it's only a part of the story.
Today I'm going to start on Kim Noble's All Of Me which is a true story about a lady with more than 20 personalities.
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I was going to read the hunger games, but then I saw a preview for the movie, and it looks just like a whittled down version of Battle Royale ... tell me more about it, please?
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I am reading The Descendants. Book is great. May see the movie to get a George fix
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That's the reason I love mine. Finished a book at work last week, on my lunch break. That would previously have been cause for massive despair - desperate reading of MX on the way home and staring out the window with glazed look on my face. Or I'd succumb and buy a new book even though I've got forty thousand at home that I really should read. Then end up carting two books home with me.
Now - back to home screen, start a new book.Love it.
I loved it, P! It is written from the POV of a teenage girl, so it does have teen themes (crushes, teen angst, peer pressure), but it also has some very adult themes in it - the Hunger Games are basically a battle to the death for 12 teenagers, winner is last person standing (alive). There's a whole thing about challenging the authorities, as well as standing up for what you believe in, sacrifice, love, family... It packs a fair punch.
I found it gripping and well-written. But I haven't read Battle Royale so I can't compare sorry!
ETA: just wikied Battle Royale. It does sound very similar - they send the teenagers in to the Games to prevent any uprising in the people of the mythical country of Panem. Instead of detonating the collars if no one dies in 24 hours, in the Hunger Games the "Gamemakers" send surprises in to make some action - might be a creature or some sort or a meteorological condition (flood, fire, something like that) to spice things up. But it does sound kind of similar.
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