Reply With QuoteJust finished 'Bloom' by Kelle Hampton - the blogging lady who's 2nd child was born with DS and they were unaware until birth.
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Tithe. Holly Black. Awesome urban fantasy with a feisty lead character and some very nasty fairies.
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Just finished 'Bloom' by Kelle Hampton - the blogging lady who's 2nd child was born with DS and they were unaware until birth.
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working my way through the Collegium Chronicles by Mercedes Lackey - currently reading bk 2 Intrigues, hoping to get bks 3 & 4 from the library tomorrow
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Finished Maeve Binchy's A Week in Winter. Sad this was her last book.
I am about to start The Vintage Teacup Club by Vanessa Greene. It's about three women who all spy the same vintage teacup in an antique shop, they don't know each other. They decide to all buy it and share it between them. I love these sort of books..especially after Friendship Bread.
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I'm reading Kyle Sandilands' autobio.
It's really, really interesting. I didn't really go in with any preconceived notions of him (I've only ever seen him on Australian Idol (and quite frankly, there's nothing much wrong with him on that) and on listening to the recording of him and Jackie O with that poor teenager whose mother dragged her onto the lie detector show, and I felt really sorry for everyone involved in that mess) and so I'm just finding it interesting. It's not well written, there a lot of parts where I wonder what he was thinking, but it's just the tale of a guy with a bad childhood who swings between egomania and self loathing again and again and again ... and so many of us do that ... !
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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?
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I've just gone back to Magician by Raymond E Feist
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Just finished Odd Thomas and about to start on Forever Odd. Never in my life did I think I would read Koontz, but I have been sucked in. I think my main genre has changed from fantasy to thriller.
Also reading the last Sookie Stackhouse - Dead Ever After. My first E-book purchase
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I have just finished reading The Storyteller by Jodi Piccoult. It's about the holocaust/WWII told from the point of view of a nazi & a jew. I bought it because it was cheap on amazon but it was still hard to put down! It was written in her typical style but it's been a while since I have read one of hers so that didn't matter.
Astrid - you won't look back
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I saw that his newest (last ever?) one for that chain is out. I need to grab it for DH...
PS: I like Dean Koontz a lot, but after reading maybe 15 of his books, I find that the same 6 or so characters just keep popping up... do you find that?
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I need to complete purchasing the chaos war saga ones
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I am about halfway through The Light Between Oceans and can't wait to finish it tonight. I'm not usually one for movies based on books. However I thought this would make a good one and have just been googling and found that the rights to it have been bought. Can't wait to see it!
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Given up completely on that book.
Getting the new Sookie Stackhouse officially given to me tomorrow, as part of my Mothers' Day present. Have already had someone unintentionally spoiler me on it, but oh well. Still gonna read it of course!! Hope it's still good
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Oh My God. Such emotional hard yakka! Loved it though. If you enjoyed that, try The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. Similar themes, with a bit of mystery thrown in. Good fun.
I'm now reading J.M.Barrie Ladies' Swimming Society.
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Power to the double post.
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Oh I listened to The Forgotten Garden on audiobook and really enjoyed it - I found it because search the library audiobooks by Narrator when I find a Narrator I like.
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Bring up the bodies the sequal to wolf hall...both won the Mann booker prize.
I've been in a reading funk since my most recent foray into fantasy...loved game of thrones but struggled to follow it up, then read hunger games then call the midwife. I'm hoping this book takes me back to the fantastic scenes of wolf hall.
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I am reading The Avalon Lady's Scrapbooking Society. A lovely book by Darien Gee who also wrote Friendship Bread. Loving it, another beautiful story.
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