What are you reading?

The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King.

Sunday, I finished Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. Delightful book!

Sunday, I started Left Behind by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. I'm to page 80. but not sure whether I like it or not.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. People said it would be boring and depressing but I find it hilarious. Absurd things happen all the time. Very good book.

I have Ishmael readiy to read on the plane...

...and Fight Club for the return flight.

Though after watching Dorian Gray with uber-hot Ben Barnes I might pick up a copy of the Oscar Wilde classic, The Picture of Dorian Gray in London (it's been too long since I read it).

Finished The City and The City the other night, awesome, awesome book - and am now reading The Danger Game by Kalinda Ashton which is so far pretty good.

Apt Pupil by Stephen King

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. I didn't like the movie Atonement, but I'm gonna give one of his books a chance.

The Sea of Monsters from the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.

Diana Hignutt said:

Though after watching Dorian Gray with uber-hot Ben Barnes I might pick up a copy of the Oscar Wilde classic, The Picture of Dorian Gray in London (it's been too long since I read it).

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And I'm definitely going to have to check that movie out. I have the book just idling in my Nook. Should probably give that a shot, too.

Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.

I'm disturbed by the fact that everything that is to be said in the book is said in the first page and nothing is left to be said in the next six hundred pages.

I also tried Finnegans Wake. I only came 1/3 into it and I didn't understand much. Too difficult for me. There were some cool formulations though.

Today I finished Great Expectations by Dickens. I recommend it to everyone. It's a great book and I cried at the ending.

The China Study

Halfway through The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters.

Bleachers by John Grisham

I'm finally getting around to reading LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN by Colum McCann.

Just finished Connelly's Scarecrow, will be moving on to Patterson's Silent Witness... but only after finishing the latest Boating, Flying, and Sport Fisherman magazines.

Nicholas Nickleby. 171 years later, and still no one does suspense like Dickens.

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Airfields of the Second World War by Robin J Brooks.

Felt like a change from fiction to non-fiction

Tis a really informative book too.

Recently read Death at Intervals and Blindness, both by Jose Saramago, and Transition by Iain Banks. Just finished The Passport by Herta Muller.

The Body by Stephen King

I'm about a third of the way into THE ANUBIS GATES by Tim Powers. I've got to admit that the first few chapters didn't grab me, but I've been recommended this book so many times that I've persevered and now things have started to get more interesting!

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I'm about a third of the way into THE ANUBIS GATES by Tim Powers. I've got to admit that the first few chapters didn't grab me, but I've been recommended this book so many times that I've persevered and now things have started to get more interesting!

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I liked this quite a bit. I thought it was extremely predictable the first half of the book or so, but it has some fun twists.

Two-thirds into Middle Age: A Romance by Joyce Carol Oates, which will be the 37th novel or book-length novella of hers that I'll have read.

I'm gonna have to start reading Dickens... He seems to be pretty popular...

Didn't like On Chesil Beach. Moving on to Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire.