[ebooktalk] Re: Reading preferences
- From: "Tar Barrels" <tar.barrels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:34:06 +0100
I haven't heard of Ian Hamilton. What genre is it?
Is anyone else as pernickety as i am about reading order? I prefer to read
an author's stuff in the order they were written/published, mainly because I
like to see their development of style.
June
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Sent: 15 April 2013 16:26
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: What is everyone reading.
I have just started a book by Ian Hamilton which is the first in a series
which looks promising.
Have just finished a history of the London Underground. It was called
"underground, overground" which did rather remind me of the Wombles, but the
book itself was fascinating.
David
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On Behalf Of Tar Barrels
Sent: 15 April 2013 16:10
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: What is everyone reading.
Shell, I often re-start a book if I'm not getting to grips with it, just to
give it another chance.
I'm currently reading The Paris Wife - can't remember the author - about
Ernest Heminway and his first wife. It's really interesting, and can't wait
to get stuck into it again.
Also, Stonemouth by Iain Banks for my book group. Finding it a bit difficult
to get into this, but will definitely persevere.
Also Melvyn Bragg's book of Books - all about the King James bible. A bit
disappointed in this so far, but again I'll give it a bit longer.
Have just finished The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Gone Girl -
both Richard and Judy titles, and both worth a read. If I hadn't been
reading Gone Girl for my book group, I'd have given it up and thrown it out
the window, but I'm so glad I didn't. Once I was about a third of the way
through, I was hooked, and really wanted to know what happened to two of the
most unsavoury characters i've ever come across. They deserved each other!
Who else is reading what?
June
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On Behalf Of Shell
Sent: 15 April 2013 15:39
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Subject: [ebooktalk] What is everyone reading.
I think it would be a good idea to see how that goes, if you don't mind
giving it a try. I would also like to keep the list strictly book related.
I would be interested to know what everyone is reading.
I started a book at the weekend called The Start of Everything by Emily
Winslow, but I was away at the time and so distracted that I don't really
know what happened. So to be fare to the book I have decided to start right
from the beginning again. Recently we read The Litigators by John Grisham
for my local book group and though I enjoyed it, I think I am Grishamed out
for the time being. Nothing unexpected happened in it, but the characters
were quite good. He seems to write similar books most of the time but
occasionally has a huge departure into something really original like A
Painted House, which is still my favorite of his.
Shell.
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