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By *iddlesticks OP   Man 16 weeks ago
My nan’s spare room. |
What are you reading at the minute?
Are you enjoying it?
I’m about 3/4 away through Death of a Penguin by Andrey Kurkov.
Set in the post Soviet era Ukraine it is rather dark but strangely comforting and humorous. 📙 |
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    Just started 'The Great Gatsby' enjoying it very much.
Half way through Michael Moseley's 'Just One Thing' and wondering as I listen to the chapter on drinking more water, why on earth he set off on that fateful walk without any.
'Wind in The Willows' which is one of my favourites of all time |
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By (user no longer on site)Â 16 weeks ago
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Half way through Michael Moseley's 'Just One Thing' and wondering as I listen to the chapter on drinking more water, why on earth he set off on that fateful walk without any "
I thought exactly the same thing. So sad 😥 |
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Half way through Michael Moseley's 'Just One Thing' and wondering as I listen to the chapter on drinking more water, why on earth he set off on that fateful walk without any
I thought exactly the same thing. So sad 😥 "
I suppose at base we're all fallible |
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By *aM 689Man 16 weeks ago
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Always looling for good book recommendations .. i probably have a years worth of unread books but wont stop me picking more up ! 🤣
Im reading the Book Thief and have Brotherless Night to read next - that was recommended on here before |
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By (user no longer on site)Â 16 weeks ago
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"Mythos by Stephen Fry… I love the Greek mythology stories "
It always makes me smile when someone says they love Greek mythology. I wrote my final BA Classics dissertation on this subject 😊 |
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By (user no longer on site)Â 16 weeks ago
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"Mythos by Stephen Fry… I love the Greek mythology stories
I read the Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry, it’s a great book but there were words that I had to look up in the dictionary.  "
But doesn't it feel great Fiddles, when a book teaches you something new 😊  |
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"Mythos by Stephen Fry… I love the Greek mythology stories
It always makes me smile when someone says they love Greek mythology. I wrote my final BA Classics dissertation on this subject 😊"
Well, who wouldn’t? All hot goddesses in skimpy outfits!  |
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"Mythos by Stephen Fry… I love the Greek mythology stories
It always makes me smile when someone says they love Greek mythology. I wrote my final BA Classics dissertation on this subject 😊
Well, who wouldn’t? All hot goddesses in skimpy outfits! "
All Greek myths: Zeus takes the form of some animal, knocks up some young thing, Hera gets the hump and seeks revenge on the offspring, the end. |
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 Just read my first Terry Pratchet, wyld sisters. Halfway through one of the game of thrones books but not finding it entices me back.
Reading The Hobbit to the kids and just 2 chapters left and will then be moving onto Never-ending story.
Not sure whether to keep going with Terry Pratchet, was very easy reading and finished it in a day but not sure I like his style. |
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By *iddlesticks OP   Man 16 weeks ago
My nan’s spare room. |
"Mythos by Stephen Fry… I love the Greek mythology stories
I read the Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry, it’s a great book but there were words that I had to look up in the dictionary.
But doesn't it feel great Fiddles, when a book teaches you something new 😊 "
Very much so.  |
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  Wired - Bob Woodward's biography of John Belushi
Fuel Injected Dreams - James Robert Baker (one of my favorite books and a pulp novel about a DJ, a Phil Spector type producer and his girl group wife)
Catch 22 (never read it) |
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By *avinaTVTV/TSÂ 16 weeks ago
Transsexual Transylvania |
I'm crap. I've stalled a quarter of the way through "Caliban's War" by James S.A. Corey - it's book two of the series that "The Expanse" TV series was adapted from.
I spend all day reading a screen, and I read the news in depth. I find I no longer have the mental bandwidth for a book, which galls me. 😔
Maybe I should spend less time on Fab, reading threads and being questionably witty. 😕 |
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By *avinaTVTV/TSÂ 16 weeks ago
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"Just read my first Terry Pratchet, wyld sisters. Halfway through one of the game of thrones books but not finding it entices me back.
Reading The Hobbit to the kids and just 2 chapters left and will then be moving onto Never-ending story.
Not sure whether to keep going with Terry Pratchet, was very easy reading and finished it in a day but not sure I like his style. "
Once you've read a few, you realise that for all that he's witty, he's actually very formulaic.  |
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By *avinaTVTV/TSÂ 16 weeks ago
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"Just read my first Terry Pratchet, wyld sisters. Halfway through one of the game of thrones books but not finding it entices me back.
Reading The Hobbit to the kids and just 2 chapters left and will then be moving onto Never-ending story.
Not sure whether to keep going with Terry Pratchet, was very easy reading and finished it in a day but not sure I like his style.
Once you've read a few, you realise that for all that he's witty, he's actually very formulaic. "
Not that I can honestly point a finger - he died as a massively successful and beloved author, whereas I'm a saddo who can't find the time to read, much less write, which I always fancied I'd be good at. 😔 |
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By *avinaTVTV/TSÂ 16 weeks ago
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"Mythos by Stephen Fry… I love the Greek mythology stories
It always makes me smile when someone says they love Greek mythology. I wrote my final BA Classics dissertation on this subject 😊"
I watched every episode[f Xena:Warrior Princess, and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. I feel this makes us vaguely equivalent...
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By (user no longer on site)Â 16 weeks ago
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"Wired - Bob Woodward's biography of John Belushi
Fuel Injected Dreams - James Robert Baker (one of my favorite books and a pulp novel about a DJ, a Phil Spector type producer and his girl group wife)
Catch 22 (never read it)"
Catch 22 is one of my all time favourites |
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   Almost finished Snuff, one of the last of the discworld series.
I'm also listening to Twelve and a Half by Gary Vanerchuck, a business book and it's frankly rather shite. I used to like him but now I find he has just fallen in to believing his own narrative.
Mr |
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By (user no longer on site)Â 16 weeks ago
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"Prophet Song - 2023 booker prize - pretty bleak novel about families struggling as the Republic of Ireland slips into totalitarianism 
I read a review of that and it just sounded too grim "
It's incredibly sad |
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 I have a couple on the go:-
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz. It's about walking around New York with different experts in their field - a geologist, an expert on lettering, an illustrator...
The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness. The latest in the All Souls/Discovery of Witches series.
It's coming to the time of year where I enjoy a cosy, fluffy bookshop/bakery/inherited cottage romance too so that will be next on the list. 😂
J |
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" The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness. The latest in the All Souls/Discovery of Witches series.
Is it any good? I’m saving it for my birthday! "
I'm not far into it but I'm already hooked and my kindle needs to charge ðŸ˜
J |
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"Babel by R. F. Kuang (interesting, check out the Guardian review from Sept 2022 to find out more)"
This was my favourite book that I read last year. I also loved her The Poppy War but only thought Yellowface was okay. Have you read her others? |
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"Babel by R. F. Kuang (interesting, check out the Guardian review from Sept 2022 to find out more)
This was my favourite book that I read last year. I also loved her The Poppy War but only thought Yellowface was okay. Have you read her others?"
No, I have not. Thank you for the recommendations |
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By *ooBulMan 16 weeks ago
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Ronnie James Dio - autobiography - written I think by Mick Wall & with the help of his wife Wendy Dio. T.B.H its not as good as Dave Lee Roth's "Crazy From The Heat" - now that's a hoot! I couldn't put it down. Same with Motley Crue's "The Dirt - Confessions Of The Worlds Most Notorious Rock Band". Written by all the band & their manager Doc McGhee.
I've also reading Shane McGowan's biography done by him & his wacky girlfriend... Have a few on the go plus read twechnical mags... |
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"Wired - Bob Woodward's biography of John Belushi
Fuel Injected Dreams - James Robert Baker (one of my favorite books and a pulp novel about a DJ, a Phil Spector type producer and his girl group wife)
Catch 22 (never read it)
Catch 22 is one of my all time favourites "
It has been sat on the bookshelf for over 25 years, and I never got round to reading it. But as I am working away I am reading everything on kindle and thought it was time. I am enjoying it so far |
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"Babel by R. F. Kuang (interesting, check out the Guardian review from Sept 2022 to find out more)"
I have the sprayed edge version of this it's beautiful it's on my to read list.
How are you finding it?
Mrs |
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