[ebooktalk] Re: JUST STARTED, STILL READING, GIVING UP
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:27:57 -0000
A mixed bag of reading for you Ian. I am still busy reading the Donna Tartt,
which I am enjoying enormously.
I think it will keep me going for a while as I'm not getting a lot of reading
time at the moment.
jury service sounds interesting. I bet you will get some reading done, there
will probably be a lot of waiting round.
Shell.
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From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 8:54 PM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] JUST STARTED, STILL READING, GIVING UP
> OK, so following the recommendations, I've started today My Dear and am
> loving it. One of the Kindle daily deals recently was The boys of 67 the
> story of Charlie company in Vietnam by Andrew Wiest, which I'm reading
> alongside. I've decided to give up on the Newman on the bases that life is
> too short and that Jake Arnot's The Long firm tells the same story in a
> similar way but better. I also started, but am giving up on Carter Reed by
> Tijan, recently sent by the book fairy. that's on the basis of me being an
> old fogie and objecting to any writer who uses of as a verb, as in "Should
> of". Apart from that, the plot is also very thin. Waiting in the wings I
> have both Donna Tartt's latest and the Booker winner both of which I'm
> looking forward to. But as I'm called for jury service from Monday, I don't
> know how much time I'm going to have for reading over the next couple of
> weeks. Wish I'd got the Brooks/Coulson trial at the Old Bailey. Instead
> it's Isleworth Crown court first thing Monday.
>
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