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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Bill Bryson’s Shakespeare is probably the lightest reading.
I’m also reading a some weighty texts for uni which is a real bloody chore! "
I feel ya!
Lolita is an uncomfortable read |
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"My next read will be canterbury tales by Chaucer as our next module is on the history of the English Language. "
We’re approaching ‘plays’ in English Lit. The Duchess of Malfi is kicking things off. What a pleasant read  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My next read will be canterbury tales by Chaucer as our next module is on the history of the English Language.
We’re approaching ‘plays’ in English Lit. The Duchess of Malfi is kicking things off. What a pleasant read "
We just looked briefly at the The Tempest because of its links to Brave New World. I love Shakespeare but studying him at length is difficult.
My next assignment is 1500 words on English language and society. So quite ambiguous
What are you studying? What year are you? Xx |
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"My next read will be canterbury tales by Chaucer as our next module is on the history of the English Language. "
Ooo, I attempted this earlier this year. Eventually I bought a "retelling" by Peter Ackroyd and enjoyed it very much. I hadn't read any of the original text since school and found it impenetrable without a tutor to help me. |
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By *JohnMan
over a year ago
Newcastle upon Tyne |
"My next read will be canterbury tales by Chaucer as our next module is on the history of the English Language.
We’re approaching ‘plays’ in English Lit. The Duchess of Malfi is kicking things off. What a pleasant read "
My memory of seeing that at the theatre is being glad I didn't have the job of cleaning the blood off the stage afterwards |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I am about to read 'Corrupt Bodies' by Peter Everett
It sounds incredible to the point of being unreal, but apparently it is a memoir
Just looked at that on Amazon. Sounds v interesting"
I'll try and remember to let you know what I thought of it |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"Finishing up Bernard Cribbins auto-biography...and a marvellous read it is too
Gosh there's one i would never have thought to try! "
It's written very much as if he's reading it to you as well, can "hear" his voice in the style of writing |
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"I am about to read 'Corrupt Bodies' by Peter Everett
It sounds incredible to the point of being unreal, but apparently it is a memoir
Just looked at that on Amazon. Sounds v interesting
I'll try and remember to let you know what I thought of it "
Please do  . I'm currently sitting surrounded by books "I really must get round to reading" but I usually end up with a new one  . |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
"Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell.
I’m a literary student so dystopian fiction is very much the theme. "
Both great books , read them both when backpacking.
I’m reading a book of aboriginal poetry and The Bolshevik Poster, but that’s mostly pictures |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The third Jack Reacher book.
Plus two others, one called The Other Wife, the other The New Guy.
Is the Other Wife by Alfair Burke? "
No, it’s by Claire McGowan. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Bill Bryson - the body - a guide for occupants
Oh that's on my list of reads for lockdown!
Brilliant book "
Just bought 12 new books for lockdown ... off to order this one too! Thanks |
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"Bill Bryson - the body - a guide for occupants
Oh that's on my list of reads for lockdown!
Brilliant book
Just bought 12 new books for lockdown ... off to order this one too! Thanks "
It’s a bit human biology overkill but none the less great if you’re into that sort of thing |
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini. It's a newly released SF book, the reviews were okay and the premise sounded interesting. I'm about half way through and it's not grabbing me, some nice ideas but the execution isn't great. I'll finish it, hopefully I'll grow to like it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I started reading the grapes of wrath, because everyone keeps telling to, the first page took about an hour to read, re read and think about, I gave up  "
I don't think it would be my lockdown choice |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I'm still reading 'Garden Notebook' by Beth Chatto. I enjoy it when I'm reading it but once I've put it down it's not compelling enough for me to keep picking up.
I also have 'Shadows on the Tundra' by Dalia Grinkeviciute which as it says on the blurb is 'an extraordinary piece of international survival literature ...' - a memoir about a girl who escaped a Siberian labour camp and spent most of her life in hiding in Lithuania; her writing was only found in 1991 four years after her death. |
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
West Wales |
"'Garden Notebook' by Beth Chatto.
What about you?"
Her gardens lovely, went there a few times when we lived in North Essex.
Currently reading Fighter Boys by Patrick Bishop. Unsurprisingly it’s about the Battle of Britain.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Anyone recommend a good read? I like true crime and crime fiction"
The last true crime book I read which was exceptional was 'I'll Be Gone in the Dark' by Michelle McNamara. It's about her obsession with finding out who the Golden State Killer was. |
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By *arriLadMan
over a year ago
North West |
"Anyone recommend a good read? I like true crime and crime fiction
The last true crime book I read which was exceptional was 'I'll Be Gone in the Dark' by Michelle McNamara. It's about her obsession with finding out who the Golden State Killer was."
Sounds right up my street, Il check it out thanks |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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"Anyone recommend a good read? I like true crime and crime fiction"
Have you tried the Roy Grace series by Peter James - easy but excellent reads - don't have to be read in order but it helps build the picture |
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By *arriLadMan
over a year ago
North West |
"Anyone recommend a good read? I like true crime and crime fiction
Have you tried the Roy Grace series by Peter James - easy but excellent reads - don't have to be read in order but it helps build the picture"
Il add it to the list thanks |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Just finished The Trials of Rumpole by Johm Mortimer ... bit of a reading machine lately
You're certainly getting through them  "
Oh not having a tv for most of my life and every wall covered in bookshelves helps that and covid for the last eight months and many more to come! |
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"I've given up on the world.. am re-reading all of Sir Terry Pratchett's finest... all of em "
Ooh - Dave (at least one of his medieval characters) is in Making Money - albeit briefly - as a security guard at the Unseen University. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The Complete Short Stories of JG Ballard. I read it about 20 years ago and this is my first ever re-read. It's over 1,100 pages long so I'm reading a couple of stories every time I finish a novel and staggering through it |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Complete Short Stories of JG Ballard. I read it about 20 years ago and this is my first ever re-read. It's over 1,100 pages long so I'm reading a couple of stories every time I finish a novel and staggering through it "
What an amazing mind/imagination he had |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber. Studying gothic text in college.. "
Love her - though I think 'Wise Children' is her best.
I'm reading an oral history of the Colony Room in Soho. It's equal parts tragic and hilarious. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've always got several on the go because I read at night and find it hard to concentrate on any one at a time when I'm tired. Right now if I find my mind wandering from Patrick Hamilton's Slaves of Solitude (a wartime novel), I pick Colin Wilson's Written in Blood (a history of forensic detection). If I keep reading the same line over and over of that, it's the Viz annual - never fails. |
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