FabSwingers.com forum: What you reading?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I'm currently reading Needful Things by Stephen King for the first time on my Kindle, and listening to Salem's Lot (read it many times but never listened to it) by Stephen King & Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows on Audible on my Kindle.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm currently reading Needful Things by Stephen King for the first time on my Kindle, and listening to Salem's Lot (read it many times but never listened to it) by Stephen King & Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows on Audible on my Kindle."

I know us gals are good at multi tasking, but that's impressive if your doing it all at once !

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

Needful things is so good! I'm between books at the moment so I'll watch this for some tips.

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By *ree-dom69Man
over a year ago

park gate

Bit heavy but mein kampf yep he was nuts

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By *esse1972Man
over a year ago

Rugeley

The mystery of three quarters a new poirot

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I know us gals are good at multi tasking, but that's impressive if your doing it all at once ! "

I wish I could do it all at once

Salem's Lot for daytime listening, Deathly Hallows for nighttime listening because I'm a wimp.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Needful things is so good! I'm between books at the moment so I'll watch this for some tips. "

I love it! Slow burner so far but it's keeping me interested. He writes small town life so well.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I know us gals are good at multi tasking, but that's impressive if your doing it all at once !

I wish I could do it all at once

Salem's Lot for daytime listening, Deathly Hallows for nighttime listening because I'm a wimp."

I can honestly say I've never listened to an audio book. I think I'll look into it.

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By *ree-dom69Man
over a year ago

park gate

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By *ree-dom69Man
over a year ago

park gate

I know us gals are good at multi tasking, but that's impressive if your doing it all at once !

I wish I could do it all at once

Salem's Lot for daytime listening, Deathly Hallows for nighttime listening because I'm a wimp.

I can honestly say I've never listened to an audio book. I think I'll look into it.

I put them on while driving can be very good but I find the person who reads can make a massive difference some better than others

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Beezer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The beano

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By *uHorny1Man
over a year ago

Cannock

A Month in the Country by JL Carr.

Beautifully written

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’m currently reading the never game by Jeffrey Seaver, and have the new Lee child’s book and the latest billy Connolly to follow that up with. Usually read 1-2 books a week, such a stress reliever.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A paper on steam chemistry

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

I'm currently reading this thread, but more long-term I'm reading The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins.

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

The third book of the Witcher series, The Tower of the Swallow.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I’m currently reading the never game by Jeffrey Seaver, and have the new Lee child’s book and the latest billy Connolly to follow that up with. Usually read 1-2 books a week, such a stress reliever."

You wanna try wanking much better stress reliever

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You wanna try wanking much better stress reliever "

I’m enough of a wanker as it is.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Art of War - Sun Tzu

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You wanna try wanking much better stress reliever

I’m enough of a wanker as it is."

Haha nice retort

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By *affeine DuskMan
over a year ago

Caerphilly

Just finished Before the Coffee gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi.

Very short and quite a simple read, but by the end the hook had really been used to great effect. Wonderful for a few hours.

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By *orny IrishMan
over a year ago

Rural Wiltshire

Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly

It is brilliant to.brighten my mood.

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian (again). It may or may not be inspired by a resurgence for my love of a particular thing thanks to a certain amazing show.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The hidden oasis by Paul Sussman

Reads like a B movie script, not great!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not reading anything but have just ordered YOU by Caroline Kepness, I really enjoyed the Netflix adaptation so thought I would try the book

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Currently it's Abdul Rahman Munif's Cities of Salt

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By *andyKane69Couple
over a year ago

Candyland, North Ayrshire

La Belle Sauvage by Phillip Pullman

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By *affeine DuskMan
over a year ago

Caerphilly

"Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian (again). It may or may not be inspired by a resurgence for my love of a particular thing thanks to a certain amazing show."

I read that so many years ago and still go back to it every few years. It's a fantastic companion to european city breaks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love stephen king! Obsessively love him!

The harrypotter books how ever are awful.

Im currently reading stephen king 11/22/63

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By *ylvie 888Woman
over a year ago

Cleethorpes

Still reading Running for my life ... by Rachel somebody....

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By *DW1983Man
over a year ago

Aberdeen, Leeds, Sheffield

Just about to finish "Night Trains", a potted history of the Orient Express. Just started "Drueben und Drueben" ('Over there and over there'), a story of two kids growing up simultaneously in East and West Germany.

My "To Read" pile includes, among others, Michael Palin's "Around the World in 80 Days" and "Sextant", which unsurprisingly is about early seafaring and the instrument itself.

There's a few more, I can't remember, but you get the general pattern I'm sure!

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By *orny IrishMan
over a year ago

Rural Wiltshire

Oh and I managed to binge the Chris Ryan book about the Russian position story. It was not bad.

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By *moothdickMan
over a year ago

stoke

This thread

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Year I Met You - Cecelia Ahern.

I’ve read so many good books in the past couple of weeks.

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Tattooist of Auschwitz"

I loved that.

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

I was reading “a tap on the window”

Lynwood Barclay

But I lost it at a service station on A6 outside of Carlisle yesterday I think

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Eye of the needle

Ken Follett

Lee

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Book of Bones - John Connolly

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Eye of the needle

Ken Follett

Lee"

Brilliant book. Good movie too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The book theif is a good read

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

"Eye of the needle

Ken Follett

Lee"

Try pillars of earth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’m currently reading a Clive Cussler “grey ghost” finding it a bit hard to get into his writing style.

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

"Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian (again). It may or may not be inspired by a resurgence for my love of a particular thing thanks to a certain amazing show."

Yeh great book

A Richard and Judy

Top ten book

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Eye of the needle

Ken Follett

Lee

Try pillars of earth"

Absolutely love that book

I’ve just finished reading Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land.

My next book to read is going to be The Sellout by Paul Beatty.

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By *hatCoupleNextDoorCouple
over a year ago

nearby

"Eye of the needle

Ken Follett

Lee"

Great book, i love all ken folletts stuff! currently read on wings of eagles by him. But pillars of the earth is my fave off all

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Eye of the needle

Ken Follett

Lee

Try pillars of earth"

Also dramatised...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The bloody manual to my boiler as my heating as packed in brrr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Eye of the needle

Ken Follett

Lee

Great book, i love all ken folletts stuff! currently read on wings of eagles by him. But pillars of the earth is my fave off all"

Yes, on the list too and it's a handful

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Has anyone read “ call me Elizabeth “ by Dawn Annersdale? Brilliant read of a mum wife with everything and how she went to escorting to keep her lifestyle.

It’s based on real life.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Eye of the needle

Ken Follett

Lee

Great book, i love all ken folletts stuff! currently read on wings of eagles by him. But pillars of the earth is my fave off all"

Recommend the Century trilogy... contrived but well done. Some pertinent coverage of British fascism...

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By *heHookyMonsterMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

I tend to have multiple books on the go at any one time. I'm currently reading 'The Lost Legion', a biography about a famous sporting ancestor and randomly checking out a cookbook too - weird I know, but cooking is a great way to de-stress from a job that's the complete opposite to cooking or being creative in any way. Awesome!

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

I'm about to start on one of Stephen Kings latest ones, 'The Institute'

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

"I'm about to start on one of Stephen Kings latest ones, 'The Institute'"

Can’t do Stephen king anymore

Grew out of him

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By *hatCoupleNextDoorCouple
over a year ago

nearby

"Eye of the needle

Ken Follett

Lee

Great book, i love all ken folletts stuff! currently read on wings of eagles by him. But pillars of the earth is my fave off all

Recommend the Century trilogy... contrived but well done. Some pertinent coverage of British fascism..."

Yip have them read also, very enjoyable!! he has a prequel to pillars coming out next yr as far as i know, so really looking forward to that

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry"

You're back!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Eye of the needle

Ken Follett

Lee

Great book, i love all ken folletts stuff! currently read on wings of eagles by him. But pillars of the earth is my fave off all

Recommend the Century trilogy... contrived but well done. Some pertinent coverage of British fascism...

Yip have them read also, very enjoyable!! he has a prequel to pillars coming out next yr as far as i know, so really looking forward to that"

I've read all his books... my favourite author

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry"

Aww your back xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry

Aww your back xx"

Yeah I forgot all about books.... like Estella!!!!!! Woooohoooo!!!

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By *he Mac LassWoman
over a year ago

Hefty Hideaway

High Fidelity.

It's a good book to remind myself I'm not THAT much of an arse.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"High Fidelity.

It's a good book to remind myself I'm not THAT much of an arse."

Ohh I might try this one

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

Just finished Anne Glenconner's autobiography

Lady In Waiting

Fascinating book, what a life!

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

"The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry

You're back!!!!

Jesus, where did I go?!

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By *reya73Woman
over a year ago

Whitley Bay

Ethical Slut

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

"The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry

Aww your back xx"

I’ve only been quiet over Christmas!!

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By *inn_the_humanMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"So You've Been Publicly Shamed... “ by John Ronson.

Intriguing and a wee bit terrifying. Great read though

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By *xycpl699Couple
over a year ago

kilmarnock

"The Tattooist of Auschwitz"
read that great book.hollie

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By *ufia SnowbunnyTV/TS
over a year ago

Hastings

Haven't read a book for ages, mostly due to trying to write one instead. Even then I prefer to read biographies as I'm a nosey bitch

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The forums....

Has a great start

Middles a bit dicey

And it never ends..

Highly recommended... Lol

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By *heIcebreakersCouple
over a year ago

Cramlington

Love needful things.

Currently reading The Book of Dust by Phillip pullman - It's so good

Ms Icebreaker

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

"The forums....

Has a great start

Middles a bit dicey

And it never ends..

Highly recommended... Lol"

Apparently its orgasmic.

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By *LOVEpinacoladasWoman
over a year ago

East Sussex

The Testaments - Margaret Atwood.

I read The Handmaid's Tale in my teens and it really influenced my thinking about a lot of things. So far so good with the sequel!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The forums....

Has a great start

Middles a bit dicey

And it never ends..

Highly recommended... Lol"

Yup that’s the extent of my reading too lol

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By *heIcebreakersCouple
over a year ago

Cramlington

Love needful things.

Currently reading The Book of Dust by Phillip pullman - It's so good

Ms Icebreaker "
Currently remembering reading an ethnographic study of shopping to Ms Icebreaker while we were naked in bed today....

In the reading pile besides various ethnographies of shopping currently are Nate Silver, Daniel Kahnemann (for a re-read), Jane Jacobs, Erich Fromm, and a Jane Austen I have to finish because I am a completist.

Mr Icebreaker

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By *artyanna16200TV/TS
over a year ago

leeds

I know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou, when im not struggling with pihkal by alexander shulgin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry

Aww your back xx

I’ve only been quiet over Christmas!!

Really glad your back x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry

Aww your back xx

I’ve only been quiet over Christmas!!

Really glad your back x"

Your silence was deafening. It's not the same without you. You are much loved.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The forums....

Has a great start

Middles a bit dicey

And it never ends..

Highly recommended... Lol

Yup that’s the extent of my reading too lol

Got 6 yrs of reading clever books ahead of me.. Next few weeks I will keep my knowledge at fab level

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By *uietlykinkymeWoman
over a year ago

kinky land

Guy Walters. The occupation.

I actually managed to get through Das Boot. That was hard reading though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Horace Panters Ska d for life...his view on life with the Specials and the music world as a whole...love my music biographys

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Forgotten Soldier; Guy Sajer

read this many a times over the decades.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Robert Harris - Imperium

Just about to start Fatherland.

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By *ervent_fervourMan
over a year ago

Halifax

I'm gobbling up Lady sings the Blues by Billie Holiday at the moment.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewel and then Lee Child's new one that I got for Christmas.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mr.men adventures v.2

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By *ree-dom69Man
over a year ago

park gate

"Oh and I managed to binge the Chris Ryan book about the Russian position story. It was not bad."

Try james deegan only written a few books but brilliant same line as chris Ryan etc

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

Jerusalem - Alan Moore.

The Long Cosmos - Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett.

Doggerland - Ben Smith.

Also now and again dipping into:

Billionaires - Darryl Cunningham.

Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud.

I Am A Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter.

(I do tend to multitask with my reading!)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Jerusalem - Alan Moore.

The Long Cosmos - Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett.

Doggerland - Ben Smith.

Also now and again dipping into:

Billionaires - Darryl Cunningham.

Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud.

I Am A Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter.

(I do tend to multitask with my reading!)"

Polly, what have I told you about that thinking thing?

Its really not good for you

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

"Jerusalem - Alan Moore.

The Long Cosmos - Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett.

Doggerland - Ben Smith.

Also now and again dipping into:

Billionaires - Darryl Cunningham.

Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud.

I Am A Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter.

(I do tend to multitask with my reading!)

Polly, what have I told you about that thinking thing?

Its really not good for you"

Well two of them do have pictures. On the other hand they do say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so all those pictures = lots of extra reading!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Revival - Stephen King, enjoying it so far

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pair of blue eye - Thomas Hardy

Dracula - Bram stoker

If you like horror Dracula is a stunning read

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hip Priest a Mark E Smith biography

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By *affeine DuskMan
over a year ago

Caerphilly

"Jerusalem - Alan Moore.

The Long Cosmos - Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett.

Doggerland - Ben Smith.

Also now and again dipping into:

Billionaires - Darryl Cunningham.

Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud.

I Am A Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter.

(I do tend to multitask with my reading!)

Polly, what have I told you about that thinking thing?

Its really not good for you

Well two of them do have pictures. On the other hand they do say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so all those pictures = lots of extra reading!"

I got Jerusalem for my brother for Christmas and he hates me now because he has to read a gift.

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

"The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry

Aww your back xx

I’ve only been quiet over Christmas!!

Really glad your back x"

Thank you, that’s so lovely x

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

"The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry

Aww your back xx

I’ve only been quiet over Christmas!!

Really glad your back x

Your silence was deafening. It's not the same without you. You are much loved.

Awwww, this is too kind x

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

Now reading Tess of the d’Urbervilles

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By *he Big Five OhhMan
over a year ago

bristol

CSS for dummies.. Old brain needs to keep thinking new thoughts

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By *anny77Man
over a year ago

glasgow

"Jerusalem - Alan Moore.

The Long Cosmos - Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett.

Doggerland - Ben Smith.

Also now and again dipping into:

Billionaires - Darryl Cunningham.

Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud.

I Am A Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter.

(I do tend to multitask with my reading!)"

I haven’t had the energy to start Jerusalem yet. Good?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A Gift of Hope

A story about how Danielle Steel helped the homeless for 11 years by just driving around and giving out things the homeless need but it also tells me about how she is still grieving for son, Nick, you never stop, he committed suicide 3 times and failed but on the 5th attempt at the age of 19 he took his own life.

That to me is all we can do for the homeless is give love and a lot are so needy of us to care!

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

Cockney reds a book about united london hooligan firm.

Just started it as got for Xmas

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By *LOVEpinacoladasWoman
over a year ago

East Sussex

"Now reading Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Yikes! Cheery way to start the year! ;D

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

"Jerusalem - Alan Moore.

The Long Cosmos - Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett.

Doggerland - Ben Smith.

Also now and again dipping into:

Billionaires - Darryl Cunningham.

Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud.

I Am A Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter.

(I do tend to multitask with my reading!)

I haven’t had the energy to start Jerusalem yet. Good?"

Very good. But it's a huge investment of yourself. The non-linear narrative, scattered across a thousand years of time, life and dreams and after-life and between, multiple styles of writing, multiple views of events...

There's sections that I've re-read several times, re-evaluating the actions of background characters in light of events from later chapters...

Currently a bit stuck on the Lucia Joyce section, written in the style of the later James Joyce - finding though that when read aloud the apparent nonsense words on the page start to pick up meaning as the inner dialogue of a confused woman committed to an asylum for the great misdeed of being inconvenient to her famous father...

It's over two years since I started the book, I was reading it as I sat by my mother's hospital bed waiting for her breathing to fade and halt, it's been with me through grief and through sunny days. When I eventually reach the last page, I suspect that it will not be the end...

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By *anny77Man
over a year ago

glasgow

"Jerusalem - Alan Moore.

The Long Cosmos - Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett.

Doggerland - Ben Smith.

Also now and again dipping into:

Billionaires - Darryl Cunningham.

Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud.

I Am A Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter.

(I do tend to multitask with my reading!)

I haven’t had the energy to start Jerusalem yet. Good?

There's sections that I've re-read several times, re-evaluating the actions of background characters in light of events from later chapters...

I’m not going to lie - I think you just sold it to me.

Also, sorry for your loss

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By *entleman JayMan
over a year ago

Wakefield

Still Alive. Phil Collins biography.

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By *urulovesnylonMan
over a year ago

Harrow

This forum ??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ive just been to the charity shop bookshop for a bagfull of books. Starting with Curious Incidents in the Garden at Night-time. Allan Shepard.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Making Sense of the Troubles

by David McKitterick & David McVea

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just finished Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

Story behind the journalism that exposed Harry Weinstein. It’s fantastic

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By *ineMan
over a year ago

In cave behind a waterfall on a hill

Just started The Mac_ine, James Symthe

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over a year ago

Anti-sell by Steve Morgan

It's a book for freelancers who hate sales and it's pretty good tbf

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