The 50 Book Challenge Thread (no spoilers please) (187)
is any one in here reading anything and there's Croatulus who started all this ............NOBLONDEHERE: is any one in here reading anything and there's Croatulus who started all this ............
IS ANYONE READING ANYTHING
OK TWO MORE BOOKS
CHASING WINDMILLS by catherine ryan hyde
Another easy read . A young boy who is reared by his dad believes his mother is dead. His father home schools him and isolates him from society . Slowly but surely this lad begins to realise life is for liveing
A young girl gets pregnant at 15 and is trapped in a reltionship that is very violent until she glances across at a young boy on a train about their two lives collide when they catch each others eye on the subway...................
7/10
Are you somebody by Nuala O Faolain
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm what can I say a heart rending honest story of life growing up in dublin ............ peoples perceptions and Nuala's realities ................ interesting read beautiful thoughts and use of language very touching at time
8/10
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I'm not sure if this counts, but I recently enjoyed "Nemi" in book form. She used to be featured in Metro. She was originally a Norwegian Goth girl and she's a right laugh.
See here
and here
for a quick look
See here
and here
for a quick look
i am reading The glass castle at the moment and it brill....a true story it by a girl called Jeannette Wall...
OK, here it is
Book no 2: Bloodstream by Tess Gerritsen: A doctor moves to the country to get over the death of her husband to be confronted with the mystery of why the local teens are going psycho, and she has a teenage son............
Book No 3: Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. Billy Pilgrim is kidnapped by Aliens who give him a different perspective of the time/space continuum.
Book No 4: The Sinner by Tess Gerritsen: One young nun is murdered and another seriously injured in a convent and it is investigated.
Book No 5: Freakonomics: A strange look at economics in action in the world of today
Book No 6: Affluenza by Oliver James: A psychological look at materialism in the 21st Century.
Am reading very slowly these days and I forgot all about this thread.
Book No 3: Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. Billy Pilgrim is kidnapped by Aliens who give him a different perspective of the time/space continuum.
Book No 4: The Sinner by Tess Gerritsen: One young nun is murdered and another seriously injured in a convent and it is investigated.
Book No 5: Freakonomics: A strange look at economics in action in the world of today
Book No 6: Affluenza by Oliver James: A psychological look at materialism in the 21st Century.
Am reading very slowly these days and I forgot all about this thread.
nuala: i am reading The glass castle at the moment and it brill....a true story it by a girl called Jeannette Wall...
Nuala read that last year a great read enjoyA
book number 8 this year, the ronan o' gara autobiography. very interesting, gives an insight to his thoughts and what goes on in the irish/ munster team.
BOOK NO 6. I THINK 
THE 19th WIFE .........by David Ebershoff
Now another easy read ..........that depicts the foundation and movement of the Mormons or Latter Day Saints from the 1800's to 20th centuary
Told through the unravelling of a mystery of the death of one of the men who's 19th wife is accused of the murdering him ............ as her son who was thrown out of the congregation at 15 begins to piece together what happened after he left and how his mother now in prison accused of his fathers death is taking the rap for something she denies doing.
Great read ...................... 8/10
THE 19th WIFE .........by David Ebershoff
Now another easy read ..........that depicts the foundation and movement of the Mormons or Latter Day Saints from the 1800's to 20th centuary
Told through the unravelling of a mystery of the death of one of the men who's 19th wife is accused of the murdering him ............ as her son who was thrown out of the congregation at 15 begins to piece together what happened after he left and how his mother now in prison accused of his fathers death is taking the rap for something she denies doing.
Great read ...................... 8/10
The five people you meet in heaven....by mitch albloom
A Thousand Splendid Suns........Khaled Hosseini.....
His follow up to The Kite Runner......(If you haven't read it go now and buy it)
Anyway basically a story about two women growing up in Afghanistan against a backdrop of Political Upheavel, War and eventual take over by the Taliban............I found it very insightful as to how women are treated there.......A love story, a story of friendship and how the human spirit endures......
I found it brilliant.......8.5/10........
His follow up to The Kite Runner......(If you haven't read it go now and buy it)
Anyway basically a story about two women growing up in Afghanistan against a backdrop of Political Upheavel, War and eventual take over by the Taliban............I found it very insightful as to how women are treated there.......A love story, a story of friendship and how the human spirit endures......
I found it brilliant.......8.5/10........
vinny1967: A Thousand Splendid Suns........Khaled Hosseini.....
His follow up to The Kite Runner......(If you haven't read it go now and buy it)
Anyway basically a story about two women growing up in Afghanistan against a backdrop of Political Upheavel, War and eventual take over by the Taliban............I found it very insightful as to how women are treated there.......A love story, a story of friendship and how the human spirit endures......
I found it brilliant.......8.5/10........
His follow up to The Kite Runner......(If you haven't read it go now and buy it)
Anyway basically a story about two women growing up in Afghanistan against a backdrop of Political Upheavel, War and eventual take over by the Taliban............I found it very insightful as to how women are treated there.......A love story, a story of friendship and how the human spirit endures......
I found it brilliant.......8.5/10........
Oh Vinny thats a brilliant story...I listened to that when it was the 'Book at Bedtime' on BBC Radio 4...its amazing... must pick up the book as its worth having...at the moment Im reading Dubliners by James Joyce...my first JJ book ever would you believe.....picked it up when for a few euro when I was over in Dublin there and Im loving it....
Good morning Crystal...
Sounds a fab read...
Well pray for me this ghastly snow melts before tomorrow and I get to the airport...
Have a good weekend Crystal......Hope you get a zillion, trillion Valentines....
Sounds a fab read...
Well pray for me this ghastly snow melts before tomorrow and I get to the airport...
Have a good weekend Crystal......Hope you get a zillion, trillion Valentines....
Tamarin: Good morning Crystal...
Sounds a fab read...
Well pray for me this ghastly snow melts before tomorrow and I get to the airport...
Have a good weekend Crystal......Hope you get a zillion, trillion Valentines....
Sounds a fab read...
Well pray for me this ghastly snow melts before tomorrow and I get to the airport...
Have a good weekend Crystal......Hope you get a zillion, trillion Valentines....
Good Morning Tam.....one valentine would do me just fine thanks
Well I hope you have a great time in Dublin....Im sure you will and I hope you dont get stranded over there like I did last weekend
although worse things have happened to me than getting stuck in one of my favourite places...
Hope it all goes well for you....enjoy!!! 
Yay some on brought the Book Thread back 
I had forgotten about it
Am currently reading, and very much enjoying, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson
Very well written thriller.
Sad thing is the author turned in 3 manuscripts and then died of a heart attack. He never seen his books published. Poor guy.
I had forgotten about itAm currently reading, and very much enjoying, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson
Very well written thriller.
Sad thing is the author turned in 3 manuscripts and then died of a heart attack. He never seen his books published. Poor guy.
#6: "The man in the Picture" by Susan Hill. Another of Hill's Gothic short books (novellas really) on ghostly subjects. Her first one was "the Woman in black" and this one is nearly as scary.The style she uses in these stories is old-fashioned like the stories of M.R James but just as effective as the more modern tales.A good read for a wild winter's night.The story is of a vengeance that transcends the grave and a terrifying cursed painting.
"In a single moment of determination I took hold of the painting,turned it and then looked at it with wide-open eyes....standing up at the back of a gondola was a man wearing a black cloak and a tricorn hat.The black water was choppy between the rocking gondola.He was between two other heavily masked figures.One had a hand on his arm, the other on his shoulder...the man had his head turned to me.The expr4ession on his face was ghastly to see-it was one of abject terror and desperate pleading. He was trying to get away.He was asking to be saved. He did not want to be on the gondola in the clutches of those others
"In a single moment of determination I took hold of the painting,turned it and then looked at it with wide-open eyes....standing up at the back of a gondola was a man wearing a black cloak and a tricorn hat.The black water was choppy between the rocking gondola.He was between two other heavily masked figures.One had a hand on his arm, the other on his shoulder...the man had his head turned to me.The expr4ession on his face was ghastly to see-it was one of abject terror and desperate pleading. He was trying to get away.He was asking to be saved. He did not want to be on the gondola in the clutches of those others
Hi Ceno....I agree...the Lady in Black is a real scary ghost story which I thoroughly enjoyed...and Ive a feeling The Man in the Picture has been adapted for Radio as was Lady in Black....will have to scour BBC Radio4s listings.
Thanks for that youve made me want to read it now....nothing better than a good ghost story to make you feel alive ...
Thanks for that youve made me want to read it now....nothing better than a good ghost story to make you feel alive ...
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Well i managed to finish three books over the holidays
FAMILY MATTERS by Rohinton Mistry
a story set in India about a family .......a man who married a widow with two children even tho' he loved someone else the story unfolds in his latter years as he develops parkinsons and he ends up being cared for by his two spinster/ batchelor step children one of who hugely resents it and eventually dumps him on the doorstep of his biological daughter who is married with two children and is strugging to make ends meet in a small apartment given to her as a wedding present from her father. I good read and interesting slant 8/10
Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
Now this book is a lovely easy read........ set in brooklyn no less a man who is divorced and recovering from cancer decides to move back home to where his life began as a small child and a web of a family story unfolds as he sets about trying to write a book about follies ............ a most enjoyable read. 8/10
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Another divorcee ......... might need to think about what Im drawn to .....
A woman gets divorced and is so distraught goes off to Italy where she eats India where she prays and Indonesia where she loves again ......... an account of the turmoil and angst as she comes to terms with her predicament and moves onwards and upwards funny and peculiar and an ok read 6/10