[ebooktalk] Re: CURRENT READING
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:32:37 +0100
As I reported in a mail which didn't make the list I think, I finished the Mark
Hewisohn Beatles book which took me about a week to read. It was original,
informative, entertaining, full of trivia concerning the instruments they
bought, full of anecdote and, above all, funny. As i mentioned, I'm now
reading the Alice Cooke Newman fictional biography of Mary Todd Lincoln which
is excellent and raises questions about the definition put on sanity and
insanity. Those of you on the Recycleit list may have clockec that I'm selling
my Plextalk Lineo player because I'm now doing all my reading on my iPad and
iPhone.
On 21 Oct 2013, at 21:06, Steven Bingham wrote:
> Hi all
>
> At present I am reading a Mo Hayder non-Caffery novel. It hasn’t gelled with
> me yet. It is called Pig Island and is about a religious community on a
> Scottish Island that has gone awry. One problem is the reader who has a
> Liverpool-ish accent but I assume all the characters are supposed to be
> Scottish. Now I could have got away with a received English accent but the
> Liverpool doesn’t sound acceptable with Scottih idioms.
>
> I am also reading minette Walters’ Sculptress. I think this was her second
> novel and it is proving to be very good. As usual she has a selection of
> rather dark characters and rather strange actions but it is working for me.
>
> Finally, I have gone back to try to finish the Tenth Circle. I stopped
> reading about half way through because I was finding it rather depressing. A
> few pages later the emphasis has shifted rather and I think I am going to be
> able to finish it.
>
> Steve
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