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I am still reading The Night Watch . The slow going has nothing to do with my enjoyment of the book. Rather, it has to do with my non-enjoyment of life right now and my need to sit and veg in front of stupid TV for great stretches at a time to decompress. I have a busy week ahead full of Christm ...
I am still reading The Night Watch and it is very slow going right now but I think it is just me. We are having a couple of family crises right now (which I have posted about on the Happy/Unhappy thread) and I have found myself just vegging in front of the TV way too often the past few days. I ...
#203 I loved The Night Watch . I hope you like it!
Since it's past Thanksgiving now and the house lights will be going up tomorrow (60F yay!), I don't feel funny reading Christmas books. I picked up Wally Lamb's Wishin' and Hopin' from the library and I'm only a few pages in but so far so ...
... loved it. I found it interesting but think that there was something missing in it for me, just not sure what.
I started The Night Watch but I haven't gotten far enough into it to make any judgments yet.
edited for typos - apparently I am so stuffed from Thanksgiving that I am not getting ...
... tube and so I've been reading it at home occasionally, I say occasionally because it didn't really grab me. I devoured The Night Watch , couldn't put it down so was really looking forward to reading The Little Stranger but it just dissapointed me, it seemed very in tune with the era it was ...
... and, as an aside, even a play of Oliver Twist is mentioned. I'm looking forward to reading more of hers particularly The Night Watch and Tipping the Velvet.
I've just started The Memory Room which is the first of Koch's that I've read - saw the movie of The Year of Living Dangerous ...
20 Nans - an intersting discussion - don't worry as you are welcome!
21 Thanks Terri and yes I have read The Night Watch . Interesting what you say about your fangs! Is it because of the negative connotations - these were overcome and the movement reclaimed the word which after all comes from ...
... a diminutive word. I cringed a little when I saw that on the Women Unbound challenge a couple weeks ago!
Have you read The Night Watch by Sarah Waters? It would be great for your Women and War category. And I echo The Women's Room, it was a watershed book for me when I read it in the ...
... to work out exactly what's going on.
#189 benitastrnad - Of the three books you mentioned reading, I have only read The Night Watch and loved it. I can't believe I let it sit on my bookshelf for so long!
I'm in the throes of trying to decide what to read next. I have a good start on The Welsh Girl and have The Night Watch and Book of Unholy Mischief close at hand.
#180 Booksloth
Let me know what you think of Book of Unholy Mischief I have that one on my TBR pile and am trying to ...
#172 - I just picked up The Night Watch this morning while I was at the library. I had looked at our county library system and saw that all of her books were available from many of the libraries. I thought I would just check the section while at the local library picking up my reserves. The Ni ...
I stopped reading Father Brown because it became too repetitive. Now I'm well into The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. Some pages are very disturbing, but the story and the writing is gripping. A very striking book, for the moment.
... - I've got The Little Stranger moving closer to the top of my tbr pile. I read my first Sarah Waters book, The Night Watch , very recently and absolutely loved it!
... in a real emergency things would be better. The speed with which society falls apart in this book chilled my blood.
The Night Watch (Watch Series #1), by Sergei Lukyanenko (Russia)
This book is packed with different supernatural creatures and moves effortlessly from a personal to an ...
... my local library had their annual book sale anjd I made a small haul. I picked up:
Good Faith by Jane Smiley
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
Runaway by Alic ...
... my local library had their annual book sale anjd I made a small haul. I picked up:
Good Faith by Jane Smiley
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
Runaway by Alice Munroe ...
... certainly something I'll be looking into in the future!
In other news, I finished my first book of the challenge. I read The Night Watch by Sarah Waters for my Booker Prize nominees category. In many ways I knew what to expect because I've read a few of her books before, but this one was a ...
... the Triffids, On The Beach etc) but I feel there are a lot of gaps.
I've started my first read for the Challenge with The Night Watch by Sarah Waters for my Booker nominee category. Given the number of assignments and exams I have coming up, I suspect it might be slow going til the end of N ...
... :
The Night Listener, by Armistead Maupin
The Savage Garden, by Mark Mills
Set This House in Order, by Matt Ruff
The Night Watch , by Sarah Waters
... Book'em Danno!
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (finished 18/10/09)
2. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamad (finished 7/12/09)
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Possible candidates:
The Siege of ...
... by how unique each of them are and how they all hold their own. She is so clever with how she structures her novels. The Night Watch was a told backward through time. Fingersmith was full of plot twists, including one near the beginning which made me audibly gasp. In Affinity, the ...
I have read The Night Watch which was great. I also have Fingersmith around in my TBR room! I am hoping that The Children's Book will win the Booker it is my favourite so far.
... by Yoko Ogawa
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
Still Life by Louise Penny
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
And since I feel I should add a non-fiction and don't want to leave him out:
Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
... Velvet has the least but there's something there. Affinity and Fingersmith have more. I haven't read her latest two -- The Night Watch and The Little Stranger but I gather there are also again some ambiguous potentially fantastic elements.
The best of all book is Night Watch by Sara Waters
The Serpent's tale Ariana Franklin
Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout
Caught in the Middle by Richard Longworth an ER book about the decline of the Midwest due to globalization
Disturbances in the Field
by Sharon Schwartz
>44 That's it, entirely. I didn't want to mention any names - for one, I've already read Slaughterhouse-Five and The Night Watch (and The Night Watch by Connie Willis!); but Hiroshima would also fit the bill, and The Cellist of Sarajevo, I think (it's on my wishlist).
I was also ...
... front lines of battle? I think I know what you are getting at. So, perhaps books like Slaughterhouse-Five(Dresden) or The Night Watch (London) or Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburo Oe? or perhaps the Siege of Leningrad? Do others think that a workable sub-theme?
7 = Ooh, The Night Watch is close to the top of my tbr too. I look forward to hearing your views.
... (Translation from English)
7. Father Brown Omnibus - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Translation from English)
8. The Night watch - Sarah Waters (Translation from English) ==> Currently reading
I just finished Sarah Water's The Night Watch (which must be a different Night Watch from the above post since there were no vampires!) and am starting Louise Penny's A Fatal Grace, the second in the Three Pines series.
... Pacific
The Yokota Officer's club Japan in WW11, One of the best
Amy Tan's novels about her family in China all good,The Night Watch Sara Waters, The Bread of Exile A Jewish girl refugee in England
I just finished the wonderful The Night Watch by Sarah Waters and am ready to settle in and enjoy the second in Louise Penny's Three Pines series A Fatal Grace.
46. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Wow, I hate that I let this sit in my tbr pile for well over a year. Atmospheric and heart-breaking, I loved the reverse chrono order, how the action moved in three sections beginning in 1947, moving on to 1944 and finally finishing up in 1941 as it ...
... at the library book sale on Friday. I keep hearing such good things about it!
I am continuing to enjoy Sarah Waters' The Night Watch and also started This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper.
And since I can't read while driving, I'm listening to Olive Kitteridge. I read it ...
#64
Lol, I went to put The Night Watch onto my wishlist and discovered it there already! Its been moved up a lot now :)
#43 Sarah Waters The Night Watch This is one of the best books I've read this year. A real "Knock your socks off" book. I hadn't realized how much the people of Britain suffered during WW2. This book brings it down to a personal level.
#44Elliott Merrick Green Mountain Farm A reprint of ...
I'm about 100 pages into Sarah Waters' The Night Watch and am really enjoying it.
I think I've finally chosen Sarah Waters' The Night Watch to read next. Its been on the tbr pile for too long now and I've heard good things.
MarianV -- I have loved all of Sarah Waters' books. Especially Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet and Affinity (and The Night Watch ). Her newest, The Little Stranger, is a good read but not as edgy as the others. Fingersmith is a page turner extraordinaire.
(ETA Tipping the Velvet - ...
Finished The night watch by Sara Waters. A knock-your-socks off book. Wonder how her others are?
... have won.)
1. The Blind Assassin
2. Brick Lane
3. Blue Flower
4. The Translator
5. Passion of Alice
6. The Night Watch
7. A Spell of Winter
8.
Started The Night Watch by Sara Waters. So far, interesting characters, good writing.
... Be Dragons and sequels - very literary-minded fantasies written for young adults, but great for us older adults too!
The Night Watch and sequels by Segei Lukyanenko, urban fantasy set in Moscow, more for adults than YA.
Terry Brooks just came out with a new volume in the Landover ...
44 The Night Watch Sergei Lukyanenko
I have no idea why other reviewers liken this to the Harry Potter series. Not that I was expecting Harry Potter just skimmed the reviews. I liked the book ok, the plots within plots within plots got a bit tiresome, but that could have been me, I was ...
#223: I read Fingersmith last year and really liked it (even if it was a tad too long), but the reviews I have seen of The Night Watch have been mixed, so I have not pursued it. I still think I am not going to trot right out and get it.
Back from an excellent camping trip, lots of bike riding, visiting wineries.
#61 The Night Watch
... a common enough enough scene there when it's not that late: a girl waiting, maybe for a guy; maybe for a girlfriend."
The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
"But does it really exist?"
... quite a romp!
lindsacl, I am starting to wonder if die-hard fans of Waters are not liking her new one. I have only read The Night Watch before, so perhaps I didn't have the usual expectations of a favourite author.
FlossieT, only 5 to go *happy dance*
95. The Girl on the Landing by ...
... those who are interested, we've done Fun home, The price of Salt, Lois Lenz, Lesbian secretary, Highsmith, Brass, The Night Watch , Orphan Gunner, Olivia, Bastard out of Carolina and a few others I can't remember
We've ended up doing some non-lesbian stuff, because some of ...
... 5 stars. No hesitation recommending this one hugely. One of my favourites ever.
Now I've just started Sarah Water's The Night Watch , (loved Fingersmith years ago and am waiting for The Little Stranger on reserve) and guess what just arrived for me at the library? Both 2666 and The ...
... his.
Also THE PIANO TEACHER by Janice Y. K. Lee...not what I expected but very good.
Now reading my first Sarah Waters THE NIGHT WATCH ...it's been a bookish summer for me. The best kind!
teelgee, I've also read Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet, both of which I loved . I did also enjoy The Night Watch , but I'm obviously more of a fan of victorian pastiche. :)
And I have my brand spanking-new The Little Stranger making Mt TBR even more wobbly than usual! I really ...
... improves! Thanks for that.
Same here with Fingersmith: I've started it at least twice, but give up every time. I loved The Night Watch , though.
I felt that way about her last one The Night Watch . A great book but it didn't suck me in like Fingersmith, Affinity, or Tipping the Velvet. I'm in love with anything written in or about the Victorian era though so maybe that's why I prefer them to Night Watch, which was set in WW2 London (as ...
...
5. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
6. White Noise by Don Delillo
7. The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
8. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
9. The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple
10. Century Rain by Alistair Reynolds
11. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James ...
... the "Orange of the Oranges."
After that, I have the following which I'll read in no certain order:
Fingersmith and The Night Watch both by Sarah Waters
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
The Girls by Lori Lansens
Happy reading, all!
Sarah Waters is a brilliant storyteller. Fingersmith, Affinity, Tipping the Velvet and The Night Watch , are all brilliant novels. I think Fingersmith and Affinity are her two best, but none will disappoint. She is a must read for me. All her books are very seductive and possess deep ...
Have you read The night watch and Thud! which are also watch books and chronologically after Jingo?
... I think Sarah Waters is an accomplished writer, not because I knew anything about the story. Particularly after reading The Night Watch , I felt that anything she wrote was well worth reading.
Waters is a mature writer, a master of language, and someone who uses detail superbly in creating ...
Sarah Waters - especially Fingersmith or The Night Watch .
I know you didn't ask me, but Tipping the Velvet was my second favorite, followed by Affinity and The Night Watch :) I've not yet read The Little Stranger, but it's on the shelf, waiting for me...
KimB, my first Sarah Waters was The Night Watch , and then I went on to Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith. I thought The Night Watch was very good, but really loved the other two.
I am looking forward to The Little Stranger!
... After those, I'll set to finishing some of the books I started in the past few weeks (name The Center of the World and The Night Watch ). Those should take me through the rest of the week.
Now, however, I'm going to crochet because I have promised two people scarves by the time we ...
... have ice cream for lunch, but only after sitting for a while). And then I shall finish the two books I'm already reading (The Night Watch , which should be on here but isn't, and The Center of the World, which I got annoyed looking at all the time). And then finish Everything Is Illuminated ...
... on Friday and brought home:
-Brokeback Mountain (finally)
-The Big Girls
-Haweswater
-The Hawkline Monster
-The Night Watch
-Pilgrim
-The Red Tent
-The Sky Unwashed
-Vernon God Little
I love finding bookmarks left behind in used books I buy. I found a few ...
Finished both I Am Not Myself These Days and Train Go Sorry, so I'm moving on to The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, which has been on my (mental) TBR list for months (always with the same 'I should read that' feeling, but then I never do. So I am now. Well, I'll start it tomorrow, anyway.).
Available on Paperbackswap is an American edition of Night Watch by Sarah Waters. I don't need it but others might.
18. The Night Watch
... I might be stuck on a desert island but atleast my life isn’t that bad!
32) And... what are you reading right now?
The Night Watch , Sarah Waters
... by Kate Atkinson
My Week with Marilyn by Colin Clark
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Peacock Emporium by Jojo Moyes
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Bookselling for Dummies by Tere Stouffer Drenth
Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
What Katy Did Next by Susan Coo ...
5. Book watch – had a film or tv series connected to the work
5.1 The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko *
5.2 Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay *
5.3 The Princess Bride by William Goldman *
5.4 I Am Legend ...
...
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
I'm sure I will be adding People of the Book to this list if I can get ahold of a copy with a ...
... by Kate Atkinson
My Week with Marilyn by Colin Clark
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Peacock Emporium by Jojo Moyes
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Methinks enough may actually be enough this time!
Yup, Bel Canto's my choice too. I don't think Fingersmith is Sarah Waters' best book by a long way - try The Night Watch or Tipping the Velvet first ;-). And I'll also un-nudge The Namesake - I thought it would have made an excellent short story, but couldn't carry itself the length ...
The Night Watch by Sarah Walters
Women in 1940s London during the Blitz. A good holiday read, but not much else to say.
Thanks cmt! I have only read The Night Watch so far, but have had a copy of Fingersmith for ages. I am looking forward to it after reading so many wonderful reviews here.
... reading I listened to last year of Sarah Waters' novel Affinity. My library also has a copy of her reading Waters' The Night Watch which I've just reserved.
Most UK listeners to recordings of American novels with female narrators will be familiar with the excellent work of Lorelei Kin ...
>134 Joyce - Great review of The Night Watch . One of these days I'm going to have whittled down my TBR pile enough to start adding back to it! In the meantime, onto the wishlist it goes.
...
Sarah Waters
In her 4th novel, Sarah Waters breaks radically with her first three books, in era, structure, and theme. The Night Watch is set against a 1946 London struggling to recover from the war; 2/3 of the book, however, takes place during the war itself.
Waters follows the lives of ...
I put The Night Watch on the Continent. The only one of Waters' books that I have read is Fingersmith, which I enjoyed, so I am looking forward to reading The Night Watch . Now, if I can only locate a copy - my local library does not have that one, unfortunately.
The Night Watch is very different but it's still Sarah Waters and she still tells a cracking good story. What really impresses me is how this author grows with every book. She isn't afraid to try radically new things.
22. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. Yes, believe it or not, I do read something else besides US Civil War books!
I marvel at Waters. She's done something a little different with each of her first 3 books, and then she goes ahead and does something radically different with her 4t ...
Night Watch by Sarah Waters (in my TBR pile)
... Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
23. Plenty of Blame To Go Around by Eric Wittenberg and J. David Petruzzi
22. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
21. Gettysburg, Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill by Harry Pfanz
20. Gettysburg, The Second Day by Harry W. Pfanz
19. Out Ste ...
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
kethonna in 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Kethonna's awesome books (Jan 30, 2009, 12:18pm)
>9: Ah, you're right, it is The Night Watch . I guess it was just wishful thinking on my part. Sorry for getting your hopes up!
... Kindle? I had to buy it in paperback. I just double-checked and the only one of her novels I see available on the Kindle is The Night Watch . If there's a secret site for her books in electronic version, please share!
#4. The night watch by Sarah Waters
Not excellent like Fingersmith and after that Affinity (also, what happened to Victorian England *pout*), but still an incredibly good read. I'm definitely a Sarah Waters fan. Onward to my next book, Tipping the velvet, the only unread Waters I still ...
Jubby, I think I was lucky: I read The Night Watch first and enjoyed it, but can see why people would be disappointed coming from the richness and cheekiness of her Victorian novels. It's a very good book, but it's not the same. And with Eugenides, I read The Virgin Suicides before I read Middl ...
... read Fingersmith, but pushed it onto several other people. I did read Affinity, which I thought was brilliant. And also The night watch , which I expected more from.
KimB, I remember the Canberra fires. I was in Vietnam at the time, and I saw it on CNN while in a hotel foyer. I thought it ...
#290: All of her 1st 3 are! Let y'all know about The Night Watch in a few weeks--I really don't want to run out of Sarah Waters books too soon!
ETA: I'm thrilled to announce that there are fresh Mistress of the Art of Death converts right and left! It's a great book. The sequel, The Ser ...
... to wonder if the story would ever get going--and then it did! It really does need some editing in the beginning. I have The Night Watch waiting on a shelf, but am not going to start it for a while.
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5. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. (4.5/5)
... who loved it weren't too familiar with 19th century literature (but perhaps I'm wrong). All that said, I would recommend The Night Watch , which was really very accomplished (but you have to like the structure of it, which I did...).
Storm warning - I shall start The Sound and the Fury ...
The Night Watch is a treat !
My first book will definitely be Sabriel by Garth Nix as one of my literary goals for 2009 is to read fantasy and SF. I'm really looking forward to it !
... target="blank">January is Orange month , so either The Road Home by Rose Tremain or The Night Watch by Sarah Waters.
... want to put it down and it's a bit of a chunkster. I just finished Affinity a couple weeks ago, it was wonderful, and The Night Watch is on schedule for January.
... Of Empire: The Legacy Of Luther Arkwright by Bryan Talbot (Graphic novel)
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (graphic novel)
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
and
Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
I now have every single one of her books, including Night Watch , which I ordered immediately after you told me you had it and were reading it. I haven't read the 2nd one yet--Affinity--I intend to be fairly miserly with these books, spreading them out so I don't find myself bereft too soon at ...
76) The Night Watch by Sarah Waters ( review )
Started The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, but invoked the Pearl Rule. Technically, to be pedantic, I didn't quite get far enough for the Pearl Rule. Really not my kind of book.
I remember buying this on the recommendation of a friend, and much against my better judgement. It's a ...
... that, it's just wow) Tipping the Velvet is also one of the best novels I've ever read. And I could go on and on about The Night Watch , it's a complex, deeply rewarding book. I've learned so much from this writer, I'm eargly waiting for her new book, The Little Stranger (will be published ...
Yes, Fingersmith is a wonderful read isn't it? Also loved The Night Watch although I know opinion was a bit more divided on that one. I have Tipping the Velvet on my TBR and am eagerly anticipating the new one out in 2009. I always try and wait until a book's out in paperback before I buy but ...
... Markus Zusak
Oscar and Lucinda , Peter Carey
Tipping the Velvet , Sarah Waters
The Night Watch Music and Silence , Rose Tremain
The Colour , Rose Tremain
The Historian , Elizabeth Kostova
By the way, all, I just couldn't stand it, so I wound up ordering yet another batch of books, this time with Night Watch in it. Darn, I forgot Postcards! Gotta get that on my Wish List.
Hey, Jill, I ordered Affinity and Fingersmith yesterday and wondered (afterwards) if I should have ordered The Night Watch as well. Oh well, next batch of books, which will be after Christmas.
I'll be watching for your review. :-)
Joyce, I just started Water's The Night Watch and loving it so far.
FANTASY
1. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (read)
2. The night watch by Sergei Lukyanenko (read)
3. Maneater by Thomas Emson (read)
4. Mort by Terry Pratchett (read)
5. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett (read)
6. The blade of Fortriu by Juliet Marrillier (read)
7. Thud! by Terry P ...
Hmmm, I'm going to buck the trend here and nudge The Night Watch . I have read Anil's Ghost but it wasn't my favourite Ondaatje by a long way (that would be a tie between Running In The Family and The English Patient). And as kiwidoc has pointed out, The Night Watch is both good and an ...
... a text list (though I may add a picture later):
Eden Close by Anita Shreve
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
The Most of P.G. Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse
Refuge in Hell by Daniel B. Silver
Speak Softly, She Can Hear by Pam Lewis
Japan's Hi ...
is it The Night Watch ?
#31 avaland - I forgot that I have Night Watch on the bottom of my TBR pile. Maybe I should move it up?
... by Daniel B. Silver
The Most of P.G. Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse
The Great Starvation Experiment by Todd Tucker
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
A Disease Apart: Leprosy in the Modern World by Tony Gould
Eden's Close by Anita Shreve
An ...
... WWII, I have enjoyed some contemporary novels which do not romanticize the war as so many books in the past have done. Night Watch by Sarah Walters, The Siege by Helen Dunmore, Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell (mentioned above), and Islands of Silence by Martin Booth are a few ...
... Winter Book by Mark Oakley - keeper
180. Thieves & Kings: Apprentices, Book One by Mark Oakley - keeper
181. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters - seller
182. The Vampyre by Tom Holland - library
183. The Faerie Door by B.E. Maxwell - seller
184. Dead is the New Bla ...
... l
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates
Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates
Saturday by Ian McEw ...
Last night I was in Oceansend via the latest Thieves & Kings book. Today I'm in WWII-era London via The Night Watch .
I have read The Night Watch by Sarah Waters and Praxis by Fay Weldon - Both good reads.
I am about to start Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger.
123. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters - did not enjoy this as much as Fingersmith, and when I got to the end I had to read first part again to see how it ended, if you know what I mean. Still a good story though.
... by Jill Paton Walsh.
Reading Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undsett, Cecilia by Fanny Burney and about to start The Night Watch by Sarah Waters.
2. Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Cyberpunk, Dystopia, Steampunk American Gods
2. The Night Watch Blood of Elves
4. Far North
5. The Day Watch
6. The Twilight Watch
7. Brisingr
8. Homeland
9. Exile ...
... in remaining QPB points) The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer Lee and The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (really been wanting to read this one) from the remainder table (the remainder table!) at B&N.
32. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Another book borrowed from the library. I've heard of people reading this book in one sitting because they found it so gripping, but that wasn't my experience.
The book concerns the lives of four young people in London in the 1940s and is split ...
I still haven't read any of Waters books. I have Fingersmith and Night Watch on my shelf. I think I may read Affinity in October - isn't it a ghost story to get me ready for Halloween?
Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
... the Velvet by one of my favourite contemporary authors, Sarah Waters (I saw the miniseries and read Fingersmith and The Night Watch , both excellent !). It's not a modern classic but it's still a Virago :)
I bought a lot of other books that have nothing to do with Virago as well (two No ...
Would anyone like a paperback copy of Sarah Waters' The Night Watch ? I have a signed first edition so I don't need another copy, just can't pass up a great book in great shape on a thrift store shelf!
Let me know you're interested and I'll test out the reserve feature for the very first ...
... Shop (great story)
The Idea of Perfection (wonderful)
Small Island (beautiful)
Alligator (a bit of a dud)
The Night Watch (disappointing)
Sorry (really good)
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam (really, really good)
The Road Home (really, really, ...
I read Fingersmith a while ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. I have The Night Watch on my tbr pile.
... my attention. See the description to get a sense of what it's about.
Also, Breath and Bone, The Eyre Affair, The Night Watch . Let me know if you need more!
I just finished The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. Some interesting parts but not my favourite book. I have started Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski and am really enjoying it. I am also starting The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly.
58. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. I did like the historical information about the daily lives of the characters just after and during WW.2. The idea of starting from 1947 and working backwards was interesting. The first part of the book did not engage me- I found the writing dry. The ...
... yet they are able to live life. An excellent story which demonstrates that perfection does not equal happiness.
71. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Set during WW2 in England, the story revolves around a group of women and their relationships. I thought this one was a bit overlong ...
... 2nd paragraph of #7 where you talk about Pat Barker focusing on people who have been marginalized. Interesting. I thought Night Watch did this also.
Second the recommendation of The Night Watch - but I also really like her Affinity and Tipping The Velvet.
I'm thinking of reading Restoration by Rose Tremain, or perhaps The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, both of whom have written other excellent historical novels. I've seen The Blood of Flowers being recommended elsewhere on LT, which is also lurking in my TBR pile. And everyone should read Go ...
... Prep, but I know many people did not. I was not terribly fond of On Beauty (I think White Teeth is much better).
The Night Watch was lovely. I really enjoyed the structure of the novel, as well as the story within. I am a big fan of Waters' work.
From 2007:
I loved Half of a Yel ...
... Tiffany, Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living - shortlist
Célestine Hitiura Vaite, Frangipani
Sarah Waters, The Night Watch - shortlist
Meg Wolitzer, The Position
A lot of Sarah Waters' The Night Watch takes place during the Blitz (if you're looking for something recent)... I've never read Caught, by Henry Green, but he was a good writer. That might be a possibility for you.
From the used bookstore:
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
Clearly I went a little nuts with some of the books ...
... This took me a while to read and I put it aside to read other, more interesting books. Did not enjoy it too much.
8. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Another great story by Waters. I have read all of hers now. This one diverges from her previous in that it takes place in 1940s London ...
... to Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith
Fatty Batter by Michael Simkins
...and from my beloved employers Tesco plc:
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
In the last couple of days:
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
The World According to Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith
Fatty Batter by Michael Simkins
I went one of my beloved employers' Tesco's establishments today and came back with Sarah Waters' The Night Watch . Oh, and some food too.
Came back from a trip to one of my beloved employer's (Tesco's) establishments with Sarah Waters' The Night Watch . Oh, and some food too.
The Night Watch - Sarah Waters. Not as good as Fingersmith. Enjoyed story, especially part that covers life in London during WWII, took awhile to get into.
Before the Frost - Henning Mankell. First book in series from Wallander's daughter's pov (partly). Sweden, religious fanaticism, ...
The Night Watch - Sarah Waters, about a 100 pages in. It's starting to get interesting.
... ow.
The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George
Other people of their age and class, of course, had chars.
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
I've decided to put Proust on hiatus. *sings "Freedom" by George Michael at top of lungs*. Still reading The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, about some Londoners after WWII. It hasn't gripped me yet, but I'm still in the first 100 pages. Steadily and happily going through the uber-thick The Autobiog ...
...
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera}}
The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
One-Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Bliss!!!
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters is sucking me in, and Anonymous Lawyer by Jeremy Blachman is good for bitter laughs.
I got two at Value Village today: The Night Watch by Sarah Waters and Amsterdam by Ian McEwan. It looks like the girl undercharged me, too, so I got them for half price!
The Watch by Dennis Danvers
Expendable by James Alan Gardner
Calculating God by Robert J Sawyer
1984 by George Orwell
Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
I chose these books because they highlight the core concept of sci-fi: speculative or extrapolative writing that can involve ...
... and splendidly written. As meat loves salt is also worth the read, but a warning: it's pretty harrowing. Sarah Waters' The night watch , set during the Blitz, is worth a go.
Last year I enjoyed Andrew O'Hagan's Be near me and Colm Toibin's Mothers and sons.
In non-fiction, I ...
... Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
•Book-to-Movie
Contact by Carl Sagan
The Night Watch by Sergei LukyanenkoAtonement by Ian McEwan
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
... don't think it will be difficult to find appropriate reads for this theme. A few that come to mind to get you thinking:
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
The Virago Boo ...
Through the mails came a book bonanza:
Pnin and
Pale Fire by V. Nabokov
An American Childhood - Annie Dillard
The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
The Echo - Minette Walters
... illard
A Man Lay Dead - Ngaio Marsh*
The Echo - Minette Walters
No Other Tribute (it's research for my writing ;-)
The Night Watch - Sarah Waters*
the Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko*
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
I don't know why I do this.
*from the recommend-a-bo ...
... by and I found a great interview of her in which she mentioned Dorothy Whipple as being a source of inspiration for The Night Watch .
I admit I would have bought anything by Persephone just to be a member of a publishing company which actually cares for its readers : I was over the ...
... fall into a rut
1.The Rising Tide by Molly Keane (January)
2.Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (February)
3.The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko (February)
4. What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn (March)
5. The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym (April)
6. The Monste ...
I found Waters' The Night Watch and Tipping the Velvet at Goodwill for about that too. Life is good.
... & Tracey Toomey
October - Adopt-a-Shelter Dog Month
The New Yorkers by Cathleen Schine
November - Remembrance Day
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
December - Christmas
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
... last book of 2007 (a reread of Mansfield Park) and my last audiobook of 2007 (The Kite Runner). I am now listening to The Night Watch by Sarah Waters and reading The Cottagers by Marshall N. Klimasewiski.
... which have been on my TBR list for awhile:
The Alchemist -- Paul Cohelo
Tipping the Velvet -- Sarah Waters
The Night Watch -- Sarah Waters
March -- Geraldine Brooks
The Girl with the Pearl Earring -- Tracy Chevalier
Kavalier and Clay -- Michael Chabon
T ...
I loved Barchester Towers and The Warden.
Right now I am reading both War and Peace and The Night Watch (the one by Lukyanenko, not the one by Sarah Waters. I read that one earlier this year.)
I just started The Night Watch by Sarah Waters last night. I'm only one chapter in, so I can't comment. I finished Revenge of the Rose by Nicole Galland last night and really liked it. Very clever book.
... the Velvet, much more so than Fingersmith. So either our tastes differ or you're in for a real treat. :)
Don't miss The Night Watch , either.
... Lennox
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
The Echo Maker Yes, I know it won the other thing.
The Thirteenth Tale
The Night Watch
As usual, I kind of hope that the winner is someone I have not read - this prize tends to bring to the fore lesser known, non-English writers.
... have been Booker prize winners (or shortlisters). My all-time favourite is Atonement and, of last year's batch, I adored The Night Watch and The Secret River.
Oops. I ended up with Duchess: A novel of Sarah Churchill by Susan Holloway Scott and The Night Watch by Sarah Waters on Sunday. It isn't MY fault the bookstore decided to mark them down to $4 from $15, but I suppose it IS my fault that I couldn't resist such a deal for two books I ...
Aluvalibri, I'd also recommend reading those Sarah Waters. Both Fingersmith and The Night Watch are fabulous reads. Tipping the Velvet is also very good, though I was less convinced by her second novel (whose name now escapes me!)
... Channel by midnight tomorrow. I'll fill in the blanks once I'm back home.
Later: I completed the Sarah Waters, but The Night Watch came over to me more as a writing exercise feebly inspired by The Time-Traveller's Wife, the characterisations were delightful but the time-reversed plot ...
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Czeslaw Milosz The Captive Mind
I put Sarah Waters' The Night Watch to one side for a while while I read The Google story by David Vise, I'm afraid to say that I'm finding Google a lot more gripping. Sad but true.... Timothy Ferriss (at last) - some good stuff in there and enjoyed Jane Harris' The Observations, I'm now reading The Night Watch by Sarah Waters and am not enjoying it nearly as much as the earlier books - it's a beautifully drawn description of wartime London but so far (half way ...
... by Winifred Peck which I have just finished.
Other current books: fiction
'George Passant' by C.P. Snow and The Night Watch by Sarah Waters - audiobook - part of my interest in mid 20th C - finding the Snow book a bit slow but enjoying the Waters.
and non-fiction
The Ethnographi ...
Sarah Waters is awesome. I just read The Night Watch . Loved it. She can do more than goth.
... - that's the one I am most excited about as I am fascinated by the early post-war years in Britain - currently listening to The Night Watch on audio.
Having three beautiful grey books makes me hunger for more - so might treat myself to some new ones.
Book Group readers I am acquainted with recently raved about:
Fiction:
Night Watch by Sarah Waters - short listed for the booker (should of won)
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
Suite Francaise by Iren ...
#113 poshpaws - If you enjoyed backwards-telling of The Night Watch you may like Fallen by David Maine. It is the story of Cain and Abel told backwards. I thought it was really interesting how the author took a familiar story and gave it shape and plausibility. All the characters become ...
... as the first time round obviously and I'm finding that it annoys me more than on my first reading.
Also halfway through The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, which is a fabulous book and so well written. I love the idea behind writing it 'backwards' - at first I wondered how it would hold ...
... by William Boyd. This has had some excellent reviews but I found it slightly disappointing.
I have also completed The Night Watch Sarah Waters. Absolutely brilliant and a real intertwining of a life of a mother and her daughter.
Also finished a new easy read by John Simpson W ...
... by Frances Mayes- I like to read about travel to places that I have been to and to those that I still want to see.
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters- I heard her read at a Literary Festival in the fall
This month I've read:
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters.
Now I am beginning The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett.
... the list now...
I've been very impressed with Sarah Waters' work, alas she is no longer officially young (b. 1966). The Night Watch is excellent.
And I have very much enjoyed books by Hari Kunzru!
Finished re-reading The Night Watch by Sarah Waters and also Crack in the line. The first re-read very well and who knows, I may yet return to it.
Have now started, during the insomniac hours, My name is red by Orhan Pamuk and am already speculating and feeling I should have a ...
>65, CommonReeda, I loved The Night Watch too. I was a little apprehensive because it was such a departure from Sarah Waters' other books, but she pulled it off. Yay!
I just finished Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany, which is really brilliant novel set in 1930' ...
I have given up on The Night Watch for the time being. I loved all her earlier books, but this one just hasn't grabbed me.
... Impac/Dublin prize and make note of the Booker longlist. Will I read something just because it won? Not necessarily. But Night Watch by Sarah Waters moved to the top of my pile when I saw it on the Booker longlist (it was already on the Orange Prize list). The NBCCA can have some wonderfully ...
... one during the war, and one in the 1990s. I also really liked Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (WWII France), and The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (WWII London).
... this year's Orange longlist I read The Accidental by Ali Smith, The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory, The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel, Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates, and The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. I ...
Although I haven't read the 2006 winner yet, I recently read Sarah Water's Night Watch . Very much enjoyed her backwards-in-time trick. A surprisingly powerful little novella is Rape:A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates. Yes, it's quite horrible but packs a punch. It ponders the idea of Justice...
... te
Hisham Matar : In the Country of Men - Viking
Edward St Aubyn : Mother's Milk - Picador
Sarah Waters : The Night Watch - Virago
Last year's chair characterized the list as "brave."
I haven't followed much of the build-up (did not see much to be honest), but I know that ...
P.S. Right you were about Night Watch , Ex_Libris!
... of Gideon Mack
Edward St Aubyn's Mother's Milk
Barry Unsworth's The Ruby in her Navel
Sarah Waters's The Night Watch
Have you read any of these books? What are your thoughts on them? What are your thoughts on their chances with the Booker Prize, or what their ...
... Borgia. I'm glad to see her books are being reprinted.
Sarah Waters is one of my favorite writers. I haven't read The Night Watch yet but Fingersmith is my favorite of hers.
Anyone else here fans of Anya Seton? I loved her book Green Darkness. Katherine is sitting on my ...
Can't wait to see who makes the long list. I would be surprised if Sarah Waters' The Night Watch doesn't make it.
aarti, I love Fingersmith, and have read all her others bar Night Watch which got put away when I was in the middle of reading it! (Long story, involving a collapsing bookcase, the horror of most LT users I imagine.)
I think Affinity is my favourite, but Fingersmith has some wonderful ...
Caffy metnioned Sarah Waters. I *love* everything I've read by Waters to date. I have The Night Watch on Mt TBR still. Actually, started it but set it down to read stuff from the library first. It'll hold -- no freshness date to worry about. I liked Fingersmith an awful lot, but loved T ...
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1. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (finished 18/10/09)
2. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamad (finished 7/12/09)
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Four scandalously immoral (for the times) characters' lives intertwine through the years around WW2 in Lo ...
Book 8: The Night Watch by Sarah Walters
Women in 1940s London during the Blitz. A good holiday read, but not much else to say.
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