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Re: What are you reading right now ?

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I am just about to start "Number9dream" by David Mitchell.

@Fran

Hope you like "Daughters of Rome". I quite enjoyed it. Have you read "Mistress of Rome" first? :D
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Gannon wrote:I am just about to start "Number9dream" by David Mitchell.

@Fran

Hope you like "Daughters of Rome". I quite enjoyed it. Have you read "Mistress of Rome" first? :D
Yes indeed I followed your instruction & read Mistress first & loved it ... Daughters I think will also please :)
Off topic but I was in the hairdressers this am & had a long chat with the girl doing my hair about The Hypnotist which I had recommended to her on my last visit (not a book to discuss with someone wielding a scissors close to your head) but she is loving it. Now can you possibly guess what author I recommended she read next? :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Fran wrote:
Gannon wrote:I am just about to start "Number9dream" by David Mitchell.

@Fran

Hope you like "Daughters of Rome". I quite enjoyed it. Have you read "Mistress of Rome" first? :D
Yes indeed I followed your instruction & read Mistress first & loved it ... Daughters I think will also please :)
Off topic but I was in the hairdressers this am & had a long chat with the girl doing my hair about The Hypnotist which I had recommended to her on my last visit (not a book to discuss with someone wielding a scissors close to your head) but she is loving it. Now can you possibly guess what author I recommended she read next? :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Maybe, just maybe.....David Mitchell. :D :D
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@Gannon
How did you guess? :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I'm re-reading Lolita.
Lolita. Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.
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I am about to start Ice Reich by William Dietrich, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. It is described as a "gripping tale of scientific intrigue set against the eerie, silent white landscape of Antarctica". Sounds like a good novel to read during cold nights.
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Ah yes, now I get to Ghostwritten by David Mitchell .... beside myself with excitement :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I started one called Hauntings by Vernon Lee. As far as I can tell so far, its about supposedly true ghosts and haunted houses.
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Today I finished Netherland by Joseph O'Neill - a story about a Dutchman living in London, who moves to New York, and who takes up cricket on ramshackle urban fields, the only white man playing with a bunch of migrants from the West Indies and the Indian sub-continent. Lovers of cricket will be fascinated by the historical references to the game and may be surprised about the history of cricket in the United States. But, ultimately, it's a book about relationships, and very well done. Recommended.

I now move on to the The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall, (quoting from the back of the book) "originally published in 1928, [this] is the timeless story of a lesbian couple's struggle to be accepted in "polite" society." It is largely autobiographical, banned in its time and still relevant today in dealing with homophobic attitudes in society.
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I'm reading Kate White if looks could kill.
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I have just started "The Conspiracy" by John Hersey.
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Ive been reading one called English Villages by P.H. Ditchfield. Interesting so far, about rural English life back to prehistoric times.
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Post by migrodsky »

RIght now I'm reading "The Other Queen" by Philippa Gregory, it's about Queen Mary Stuart of Scots and her imprisonment in England under Queen Elizabeth I. I am enjoying it a lot but it's very different from the other books i've read about that time period in that there's almost nothing about court life in the storyline which is what I find so captivating about the time period. I'd recommend it though, it gives me a good sense of the history while still keeping my interested with a great storyline.
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Fran wrote:Ah yes, now I get to Ghostwritten by David Mitchell .... beside myself with excitement :lol: :lol: :lol:
Finish it quickly Fran, we are waiting for your thoughts. :D
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:mrgreen: Ive gone back to the portrait of Dorian Grey

I tell you Oscar Wilde drives me crazy!
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