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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #225 on: January 19, 2020, 06:46:24 pm »
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I read "Tony Takitani" by Murakami in about 30 minutes.

Although it's such a short story, there was something so captivating about the writing.. If you want a quick read, I recommend this! I'm reading Mythos by Stephen Fry too. Greek Mythology is so interesting!
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #226 on: January 30, 2020, 10:26:04 pm »
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Going to attempt to actually finish A Game of Thrones next month, alongside Rumi's poems (the selected ones in the black Penguin classics at least).

Wish me luck for the former, I tried reading it once before and then never finished it haha, so I'm giving it another whirl, some years later!

Also currently reading Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein- who I'm going to meet at a Wheeler Centre event in March and I'm v keen for it!
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #227 on: April 04, 2020, 11:51:05 am »
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Just finished reading 'Heidi' by Johanna Spyri, and it is such a cute book - written in the late 1800's and you can see what people thought important back then as compared to now. Highly recommend it

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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #228 on: April 05, 2020, 12:45:40 pm »
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About to start reading House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1) by Sarah J Maas! I'm excited but terrified to read this big one because I've heard that it can be slow for a lot of the book! 🙈
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #229 on: April 05, 2020, 03:37:01 pm »
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About to start reading House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1) by Sarah J Maas! I'm excited but terrified to read this big one because I've heard that it can be slow for a lot of the book! 🙈

I LOVE Sarah J Maas! Have you read her other series'? My all-time favourite is TOG and I've probably read all the books a billion times over. ACOTAR is good too, but TOG holds a special place in my heart. I want to read Crescent City but I hate books that end on cliffhangers/just end in general because I want to know MORE (the pain is real) so I'll probably start reading when a few more books come out.
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #230 on: April 05, 2020, 04:37:43 pm »
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #231 on: April 05, 2020, 05:30:51 pm »
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I LOVE Sarah J Maas! Have you read her other series'? My all-time favourite is TOG and I've probably read all the books a billion times over. ACOTAR is good too, but TOG holds a special place in my heart. I want to read Crescent City but I hate books that end on cliffhangers/just end in general because I want to know MORE (the pain is real) so I'll probably start reading when a few more books come out.
I've read both the others! I prefer ACOTAR (but not the new covers (they're gross imo)- Bloomsbury just are trying to milk the $$$ on those ngl) as that's the first one I read (thanks to my school library gifting me ACOTAR for some competition I entered once and forgot about haha). :D

I don't mind cliffhangers, I'm just scared about the slowness tbh! 😂🙈
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #232 on: April 05, 2020, 05:58:03 pm »
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Re-reading one of my all time favourites; 'Misery' by Stephen King. It is somehow scarier to read the second time around, maybe because I know what is going to happen and I can see things that I missed/didn't think about during the first read through

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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #233 on: April 06, 2020, 08:20:48 pm »
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About to start Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. I'm keen  8) Think I will enjoy it :)
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #234 on: April 06, 2020, 08:42:27 pm »
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Have just begun The Sky So Heavy by Claire Zorn.

I described the plot to my brother and he reckons it sounds like Tomorrow when the War Began (which I haven't read). This one's written by an Australian author as well. Maybe I should try that next, if this is any good.  :)
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #235 on: April 06, 2020, 08:45:27 pm »
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Have just begun The Sky So Heavy by Claire Zorn.

I described the plot to my brother and he reckons it sounds like Tomorrow when the War Began (which I haven't read). This one's written by an Australian author as well. Maybe I should try that next, if this is any good.  :)
YES! I remember reading them when i was 13 or 14 and the books 100% outdid the movie! I also recall a book called "Ashes" by Illsa J Bick I think... which is similar and very good

Bout to start a book called "Editing Emma" I got a few years ago for my birthday from one of my distant relatives that I put in my cupboard as it defs doesn't seem my cup of tea (my cup of tea is Agatha Christie or Stephen King or when I was younger Derek Landy) but desperate times call for desperate measures...think I might start on an Allsop's Fables next

I think i should get a sugar daddy and he can send me books in return for feet pics hahahahah  8) guyyyys imma die without many boooooookkkkkkkkkks
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #236 on: April 06, 2020, 08:50:25 pm »
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Such a pleasant trip down memory lane in these stressful times!

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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #237 on: April 06, 2020, 10:04:34 pm »
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I think i should get a sugar daddy and he can send me books in return for feet pics hahahahah  8) guyyyys imma die without many boooooookkkkkkkkkks
Libraries have a great range of ebooks and eaudiobooks you can download and listen/read online/offline if you have a library card- if you're going to run short on books! ^-^

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Such a pleasant trip down memory lane in these stressful times!
Still need to finish that series tbh :-X
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #238 on: April 06, 2020, 10:30:08 pm »
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Still need to finish that series tbh :-X
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #239 on: April 06, 2020, 10:50:37 pm »
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Still need to finish that series tbh :-X
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