What did you read in October?

[shadforth]

City Of Thieves by David Benioff 5/5
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue 4/5
The Bohemian Girl by Kenneth Cameron 4/5
A Darker Domain by Val McDermid 4/5
Born Under Punches by Martyn Waites 4/5

 

[SFG75]

Thanks for starting this thread, I enjoy these monthly ones.

The F word: How to survive your family; Louie Anderson
The Collectors; Dadvid Baldacci
The Book of Lies; Brad Meltzer

The first book was just a kill. Anderson is a great comedian whose father was an alcoholic. Dysfunction never came off more amusing it is in this book. The Baldacci book was excellent, the Meltzer book was a bit of a let down with a far fetched story line featuring the original weapon that Cain used to kill Abel.

 

[Fantasy Moon]

Spirit Fox – Mickey Zucker Reichert & Jennifer Wingert
Ranger’s Apprentice #2: The Burning Bridge – John Flanagan
Ranger’s Apprentice #3: The Icebound Land – John Flanagan
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms – Gail Tsukiyama
Hunting Ground – Patricia Briggs
Shadow’s Edge – Brent Weeks

 

[dude]

The first book was just a kill. Anderson is a great comedian whose father was an alcoholic. Dysfunction never came off more amusing it is in this book.

That sounds pretty interesting. I had no idea he wrote a book.


I read:

The Sign for Drowning - Rachel Stolzman
A Clash of Kings - George R R Martin


Sign for Drowning was pretty good for a debut and gave really good insight into the world of the deaf. Clash of Kings is almost 1100 pages and I normally don't even like fantasy, but this series is extremely well written.

 

[saliotthomas]

Lawrence Durrell-Balthazar 5
Alice Munro-The view from castel rock 4+
Yannis Xanthoulis-A Turk in the garden-abandonned
Jim harrison-A good day to die 5
Per Petterson-To Siberia 3+
Turgenev-House of the gentry 4
Gerald Durrell-My familly and other animals.4
Bruce Chatwin-In Patagonia 5
Jim Ronson-The men who stare at goat 3+
Giullermo del Toro/Chuck Hogan-The strain 3-
Wole Soyinka-The interpreters. gave up
Sjomall/Wahloo-the man who went up in smoke 4

Jim Harrison and Chatwin were pure joy,and Both Durrell brothers on a different scale.

 

[eldog]

The Collectors; Dadvid Baldacci

The Baldacci book was excellent.

Having never read Baldacci, what would be the best starting point?

Thanks.

Lex

 

[eldog]

Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

Atonement - Ian McEwan

 

[abecedarian]

The Curse of Chalion-Lois McMaster Bujold 3/5
Born Naked-Farley Mowatt 5/5
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint- Brady Udall 4/5
Never Cry Wolf-Farley Mowatt 5/5
The Atlantis Prophecy-Thomas Greanias 1/5
Sarah's Key-Tatiana de Rosnay 5/5
The Crimson Petal and the White 5/5

 

[Anamnesis]

The Crimson Petal and the White was fantastic!

My October reads:

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Just After Sunset by Stephen King
Poltergeist: A Greywalker Novel by Kat Richardson

 

[Libra]

I think this was it for October.


Islam-A Short History:Karen Armstrong

 

[SFG75]

Having never read Baldacci, what would be the best starting point?

Thanks.

Lex

Start with The Camel Club, then go to The Collectors, and then finish up with Stone Cold. I went in a diferent direction. I went-book #2, book #3 and book #1. At least, I'm half-way through book #3 now.:lol:

 

[beer good]

Att hata allt mänskligt liv - Teratologen, Nikanor 2/5
Graceland - Abani, Chris 3/5
Kontroll: Rapport från Vitryssland - Ljungvall, Tobias 2/5
Fingersmith - Waters, Sarah 4/5
The Stone of Patience - Rahimi, Atiq 4.5/5
Invisible Republic - Marcus, Greil 4/5
School Of War - Najjar, Alexandre 4/5

 

[jasmine99]

Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky

 

[jaynie]

I read:

Let The Right One In : John Ajvide Lindqvist
Wolf Hall : Hilary Mantel
The Lost Symbol : Dan Brown
Red Queen : HM Brown
The Death of Bunny Munro : Nick Cave
Crimes Against Humanity : Chaitanya Davé
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? : Philip K Dick
The Children's Book : AS Byatt
Disgrace : JM Coetzee

October was a great month for me in regards to reading, there wasn't one book on that list I didn't enjoy. However, the standouts would have to be Let The Right One In, Wolf Hall, Crimes Against Humanity and The Children's Book - very easy to see why WH and TCB were shortlisted for the Booker Prize!

 

[Disenthral]

I read:

Let The Right One In : John Ajvide Lindqvist
Wolf Hall : Hilary Mantel
The Lost Symbol : Dan Brown
Red Queen : HM Brown
The Death of Bunny Munro : Nick Cave
Crimes Against Humanity : Chaitanya Davé
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? : Philip K Dick
The Children's Book : AS Byatt
Disgrace : JM Coetzee

October was a great month for me in regards to reading, there wasn't one book on that list I didn't enjoy. However, the standouts would have to be Let The Right One In, Wolf Hall, Crimes Against Humanity and The Children's Book - very easy to see why WH and TCB were shortlisted for the Booker Prize!

I loved let the right one in.The movie was good too.and anything by philip k dick is always great.

 

[eldog]

Start with The Camel Club, then go to The Collectors, and then finish up with Stone Cold. I went in a diferent direction. I went-book #2, book #3 and book #1. At least, I'm half-way through book #3 now.:lol:

Thanks SFG, just looking up the library's online catalogue now!

 

[baccilus]

I read the whole Twilight series. Took me a week. Then I read the "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". Can't remember what I else I read.