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LaineyrainIt's a bit vague isn't it?

Read more. At my current rate 2 books a year would be more. So won’t tick this off until I’ve read 10 books before christmas.

I used to read loads, but internet usage and being a mum seems to have shortened my attention span dramatically!

I think if I can read these 10 books before christmas I will get back into the habit of reading on a regular basis.

I’ve not read any of these before but I’ve got a good mix. A couple of thin ones to balance out the thicker books (lol) A silly one – Heat Wave, from the TV series Castle and a kids book The Crowfield Curse.

Now the only question is….which one first!

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CTware 6 days ago


redphoenixPride and Prejudice and Zombies and Gone with the Wind

I read this book and was a little disappointed. I think the concept could really work in the right hands, but in this version it was clumsily done.

I started Gone with the Wind following that. I’m about to start part III but I expect I’ll be reading on it for a while! 1 week ago


AndresilaБог и рокенрол

Бог и рокенрол means God and Rock’n’roll. It’s a short book written by a Serbian monk Arsenije about his youth, hanging out with various artists (including members of the Serbian rock band EKV), doing drugs with them, losing friends (including his best friend, painter Dušan Gerzić) to drugs and AIDS and finally finding peace and salvation in Eastern Orthodoxy.

He tells of his best friend Dušan mostly. Their relationship, Dušan’s kind soul, cruel father and cries for help he subconsciously put in his paintings but no one understood. Arsenije tried to bring Dušan closer to religion and hoped it will help as it helped him but it was too late. Dušan passed away in 1998.

It’s a simple, honest and at times very disturbing book. I cried a few times reading of the destruction of young and talented people who haven’t been given much love growing up and tried to find comfort in something that ate them from the inside.

I will keep this book next to Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, another deeply moving book about the horrors of drug addiction, and make sure my kids (when I have them) read them and understand how easily and quickly drugs destroy. 1 week ago


J-Flower8/62013

Plain Truth – Jodi Picoult

A very interesting novel about an Amish girl accused of murdering her baby. Quite a cool look at the Amish community. Would be interested to read more of her books.

Mercy
The Pact
Keeping Faith
Salem Falls
Perfect Match
Second Glance
My Sister’s Keeper (seen the film was great)
Vanishing Acts
The Tenth Circle 1 week ago


sthaiUntitled

One of my favorite past time is to bury myself in a good book. Since I got on the graveyard shift nearly a year ago, I’ve stopped reading completely. I was preoccupied with learning the new job, sleeping, making for a normal life, getting sick, feeling bad for myself and etc. My soul has been starved. How I miss the smell of a book, the crispy sound of turning a page, and getting lost in a good story.

I will not be able to visit a library regularly and check out a real book as my schedule remains the same. But I will put this Kindle witchcraft to business. While I prefer nonfiction narratives, I will keep an open mind because the options for free reads are limited. I still believe books should be circulated..maybe this will change my mind into buying.. 1 week ago


sthai 1 week ago


J-Flower5/6/2013

Shark Attack – Mac McDiarmid

Quite a good book covering the evolution, anatomy, senses, species, attacks, myths, the film jaws etc sections are only a couple of A4 pages each but gives you a good oversight. Also great pictures!! 1 week ago


RadioactiveLullaby 2 weeks ago


ptn 2 weeks ago


paintbrushes331Let's Get This Started ...

It feels really strange that I actually had to write this as a goal, considering that, doing an English degree, reading ought to be my job. But, I’ve found, in the past, that I can sometimes get caught up quite narrowly with the pressures of study and forget to broaden my reading horizons from time to time. And, while, seeing as I’m only just returning after serious illness, they’ve scaled back my workload this term, this term has shown me that I can balance reading for fun with my course. I just have to be prepared for a book which might usually have taken me two or three days to read normally, taking two weeks instead.

Anyway, I’ve already begun on this resolution, although, quite lightly, by re-reading ‘The Elegance of the Hedgehog’ by Muriel Barbery, and, while I want to save talking about the book in more depth for later, I will say that I’m glad I started off with such a text, which is all about the joys of art – literature being one of them. It has just encouraged me.

Actually, boy, has it encouraged me: I’ve drawn up a list of books, and it’s a truly epic program, ranging from ‘The Bloody Chamber’ to ‘Brideshead Revisited’, with authors as diverse as Macrobius, Charlotte Bronte and Andy MacNab. It incorporates the recommendations of friends (‘Anna Karenina’; ‘The Screwtape Letters’), books that I have loved and would like to revisit (‘The Bloody Chamber’; ‘Lord Jim’), and matters of curiosity (‘Brideshead Revisited’; Marcus Aurelius’ ‘Meditations’). I do not expect to finish it.

I plan to keep two reading records: one here and one in my diary. One will be a copy of the other. In this way, I feel that not only will I be better able to engage with the books, but also to share them with other people.

Wish me luck! 2 weeks ago


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redphoenixFinishing up LoTR

I am on the last book of the last novel of LoTR. I am not a big fantasy person, but I did enjoy the story none-the-less. I haven’t decided what to read next. I’m thinking something light and fluffy like “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” or one of Stephen Fry’s works of fiction. 2 weeks ago


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J-FlowerAnother one

Sharks Silent hunters of the deep – Reader’s Digest 2 weeks ago


Kimberly Smith 2 weeks ago


J-FlowerForgot one

Prescription For Murder The True Story of Dr Harold Shipman – Brian Whittle and Jean Ritchie 2 weeks ago


J-FlowerBooks I've read since the last entry

Murder Imperial – Paul Doherty
Pompeii – Robert Harris
Troy – Adele Geras
Death on the Appian Way – Kenneth Benton
The German Trauma – Gitta Sereny
The Concise Illustrated Book of Sharks – Rodney Steel 3 weeks ago


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judifer 3 weeks ago


Jennifer PriceBetter

My son is seven now, and he still loves to read every night… but now he reads more independently, so I have more time to read too. I’ve just finished re-reading the Hitchhiker’s Guide, and I’m now starting on a new Dan Brown novel. Still not reading as much as I would like, but at least I’m reading again (and not just Dr Seuss!) 3 weeks ago


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