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What are you reading October 2015

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Madeleine
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Re: What are you reading October 2015

Post by Madeleine » Mon October 12th, 2015, 11:30 am

Lisa wrote:I've just started A Storm of Swords Part II: Blood and Gold by George R. R. Martin.

Reading is still going slooowly since we are now in the midst of moving house. Can't wait until everything is back to normal!
Oh that's the best book of the whole series! Good luck with the house move.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross

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red805
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Preferred HF: I like a series the best - more to look forward to after one book ends. Masters of Rome, The Century Trilogy, & the Outlander series are some of my favorites.
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Re: What are you reading October 2015

Post by red805 » Tue October 13th, 2015, 12:24 am

Madeleine wrote:i agree with you, red, about the characters in Wuthering Heights, I thought Heathcliff and Cathy were awful too and sort of deserved each other, and I fail to see any appeal at all in Heathcliff, although I didn't hate it overall. Have you read Jane Eyre?
No Madeleine, although I've seen a Jane Eyre movie some time ago. The other sister wrote that, right? After WH I'm sort of hesitant. Lots of Bronte reading going on in October according to this thread though!

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red805
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Re: What are you reading October 2015

Post by red805 » Tue October 13th, 2015, 12:38 am

Finished Doris Kearns Goodwin's No Ordinary Time:Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. The Roosevelts are so interesting along with the cast of characters that lived YEARS sometimes at the White House when they were there. When I was a teenager I went to their home in Hyde Park & I remember so many, many gifts they received displayed there. I wish I had known more about them then.

Also finished Steve Berry's The Patriot Threat. Started off very Dan Brownesque. It was the first Berry I'd read/listened to. Actually it was the reason I picked up the Kearns Goodwin book, because FDR was a character in The Patriot Threat. I give it a 3.5/5. I did very much enjoy the author's comments between some of the chapters in the audiobook which explained how SOME things in the book were factual.

About 80% done with Alan Furst's Dark Voyage. Just getting to a very suspenseful spot! So glad to have discovered this writer. Very NON-Dan Brownesque :)

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Madeleine
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Re: What are you reading October 2015

Post by Madeleine » Tue October 13th, 2015, 8:40 am

red805 wrote:
Madeleine wrote:i agree with you, red, about the characters in Wuthering Heights, I thought Heathcliff and Cathy were awful too and sort of deserved each other, and I fail to see any appeal at all in Heathcliff, although I didn't hate it overall. Have you read Jane Eyre?
No Madeleine, although I've seen a Jane Eyre movie some time ago. The other sister wrote that, right? After WH I'm sort of hesitant. Lots of Bronte reading going on in October according to this thread though!
Yes, Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre. Most of the films stick relatively closely to the novel, although obviously it's very truncated - a TV series is probably more detailed, and they always seem to cast a pretty boy type actor as Rochester, nothing wrong with that of course but not quite the same as he is in the book!
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Re: What are you reading October 2015

Post by princess garnet » Tue October 13th, 2015, 2:40 pm

I borrowed a library copy of Jane Eyre adapted as a graphic novel last week. Since I've read the original novel, I'm looking forward to reading this one.

To toss this out there, the youngest Bronte sister, Anne, wrote two novels. Her 2nd novel, Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), was adapted for TV and was on "Masterpiece Theater" in 1997. Here's an overview of Tenant from the show's archives.

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Vanessa
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Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
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Re: What are you reading October 2015

Post by Vanessa » Thu October 15th, 2015, 10:37 am

I've just started The Ghost of Mary Celeste by Valerie Martin.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads

Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind

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Re: What are you reading October 2015

Post by Nefret » Fri October 16th, 2015, 1:51 am

Just started The Old Curiosity Shop and Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens.
Into battle we ride with Gods by our side
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}

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Re: What are you reading October 2015

Post by Lisa » Fri October 16th, 2015, 9:44 am

Madeleine wrote:Good luck with the house move.
Thanks! Neither Fred nor I have really slept in a week, so much to do! :shock:
red805 wrote:Finished Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - ugh. Hated it & hated the characters! A friend bought it for me & said it was wonderful. How strange. Maybe if I had read it when I was younger I would have liked it? My friend read it ages ago.
Madeleine wrote:i agree with you, red, about the characters in Wuthering Heights, I thought Heathcliff and Cathy were awful too and sort of deserved each other, and I fail to see any appeal at all in Heathcliff, although I didn't hate it overall. Have you read Jane Eyre?
I enjoyed Wuthering Heights, the characters were not likeable one bit but I enjoyed the melodrama of it all. Reminded me of being 14 - oh the agony of being away from the boy I liked (who didn't know I existed) over the summer holidays, and so on.

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Vanessa
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Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
Preferred HF: Any
Location: North Yorkshire, UK

Re: What are you reading October 2015

Post by Vanessa » Fri October 16th, 2015, 10:37 pm

I enjoyed Wuthering Heights, an atmospheric tale about obsession.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads

Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind

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Re: What are you reading October 2015

Post by Susan » Fri October 16th, 2015, 10:51 pm

Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson YA novels is starting a new series about the Norse gods. The first novel, The Sword of Summer, was published last week and that's what I am reading now.
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