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[Floweryfields]

A period novel called 'A comfortable wife'.

[Jubear]

Just read Beautiful Creatures and now will start the rest of the series.

[Floweryfields]

Just finished "Gray Matter' by Dr David Levy - a brain surgeon, very interesting read.

[Novella]

I have just finished Simple Simon a free ebook I downloaded from amazon. Not too bad, not sure what to start on next. On holiday lazing by the pool, I'm sure ill have time to read one more before we go home

[Trillian]

I'm reading Michael Ondaatji's Divisadero. Not by choice either it's for my english lit unit and OMG it's hard to read. He also wrote the English patient and I hated that movie! I think it's tainted my opinion of this book though.

[Rowellen]

Trillian I started reading the english patient. Most boring book ever. I didn't get too far into it. I couldn't bring myself to watch the movie after that

[Trillian]

Trillian I started reading the english patient. Most boring book ever. I didn't get too far into it. I couldn't bring myself to watch the movie after that

This is not much better. I have read people's reviews of this book and the ****ery is hilarious. They surely must be saying all this stuff because they think they *have* to say it. Things like 'the flowing prose from the sensitive poet that is Ondaatji are like a song in my soul' Seriously?

[nothing2lose]

Could not stand The English Patient book. Overwritten pretentiousness at its best IMO.

Didn't mind the film though. I love Kristen Scott Thomas.

[peanutter]

Case law ... lots of case law. Does that count?

[peanutter]

I've been reading Paullina Simons' two latest books, and given up on them both.

"Children of Liberty" is the prequel (prilogy?) to the Bronze Horseman trilogy but it just doesn't work. The characters aren't likeable, the scenarios aren't authentic, it sucks.

"A Song In The Daylight" has the most heinous and unrealistic "heroine" of all time, some of the most ludicrous factual matrices I've ever come across, some of the blandest secondary characters, and while I understand she's doing a few throwbacks to Shakespeare and dabbling with a little intertextuality, the ending is just rubbish.

Her one before these (Road to Paradise) was overly self important and didn't seem to be thought through (slabs of dialogue, pages of it at a time) which just read as though it was the author sussing out what she thought about certain philosophical questions, and it was a bit crap, but there was enough to keep it moving and keep it interesting.

These two, not so much. I've put them both down. The first because I loved the three original books, and I don't want to ruin them but delving too deeply into the backstory which hurts the understanding of the characters... and this one (a stand alone 800 page monolith) because, well, it's useless.

Time to pick another book off the shelf, ladies...

What's everyone else reading?