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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | 50 Book Challenge : Jodyreadseverything Book Counter 2009 | | 64 | Jodyreadseverything, October 11 |  |
| 50-Something Library Thingers : What books did you read that were highlights for 2008? | | 36 | donitamblyn, July 16 | |
| Book of the month club : Was that really another January gone already? | | 24 | karenmarie, June 5 | |
| The Green Dragon : I Need to Read About Kevin? | | 22 | Morphidae, February 24 | |
| The Green Dragon : What is going to be your first read of 2009? | | 86 | Morphidae, January 16 | |
| Book of the month club : Year in Review | | 12 | tjsjohanna, January 11 | |
| Book Nudgers : FlossieT may take a while to act on a nudge... | | 38 | FlossieT, December 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - FEBRUARY 2008 | | 262 | kstutz, September 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : The Clunkers of 2007 | | 222 | theduckthief, August 2008 | |
| Librarians who LibraryThing : Hot Topics--Controversial Book Group Ideas (Fiction) Help? | | 27 | fleurdiabolique, May 2008 | |
| Book of the month club : Any recommendations from last month? | | 45 | Booksloth, May 2008 | |
| Dormant: Reading Globally : Describe your reading year | | 27 | almigwin, March 2008 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : First Line Game Chapter 5 | | 305 | krisa, March 2008 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : LadyN's 50 book challenge | | 43 | LadyN, February 2008 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : First Line Game Vol. 3 | | 246 | dancingstarfish, February 2008 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Have You Bought Any Books Lately Part 3 | | 362 | maggie1944, January 2008 | |
| Dormant: Off-topic : The Person Below Me.......(new thread - the old one was too long) | | 446 | GreyHead, October 2007 | |
... loving this group so I'm listing them again here:
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
Death of a Murderer
Mister Pip
The Pillars of the Earth
Silk
Personality
Boy A
The Art of Murder
As If I Am Not There
Tiny Deaths
World Without End ... ... if you aren't in the right frame of mind to read them you find it hard to get into them. I bought one months ago called Death of a Murderer and it took me months and at least four false starts before I read it right the way through.
I would say Kevin was worth the effort but it might ... ... woman who sometimes make wishes that come true, including her wish to be struck by lightning. Strange but enjoyable.
4. Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson. Another Booksloth recommendation, this one took me some time to get around to as the subject matter meant I had to be in the right ... 4. Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
Bought 03/03/08 Waterstones Online
Policeman keeps guard in the morgue over the body of Myra Hindley (never named in the book) and what seems to be an uneventful night of quiet reflection over his life and relationships soon becomes a night of ... ... to my stay in hospital yesterday with lots of waiting and not much happening I finished The Ice Queen and loved it and Death of a Murderer also very good.
Am still in the middle of both The Blindfold and BUtterfield 8 but expect to finish both shortly and am just a few stories away ... ... I got round to it. I'll start with my 'shortlist':
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
Death of a Murderer
Mister Pip
The Pillars of the Earth
Silk
Personality
Boy A
The Art of Murder
As If I Am Not There
Tiny Deaths
World Without End ... So many to nudge! I adored both The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. They, plus Death of a Murderer (short of nudges here, I guess, because it's probably only of interest in the UK but it is a fabulous book).
Minor nudges too for The Quincunx, The Magic Toyshop, Watching ... ... Magrs
Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin
Where Wizards Stay Up Late - Kate Hafner & Matthew Lyon
Estates - Lynsey Hanley
Death of a Murderer - Rupert Thomson
Starter for Ten - David Nicholls
Thursday's Child - Sonya Hartnett
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
Lord Peter ... ... Esme Lennox
Go Tell It On the Mountain, James Baldwin
I Leap Over the Wall, Monica Baldwin
Dark Fire, C J Sansom
Death of a Murderer, Rupert Thomson
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Making History, Stephen Fry
The Shakespeare Secret by J L Carrell
Blaze, Richard Bachman/Step ... ... the John Barrowman book My Story and Tiny Deaths by Library Thing author Robert Shearman. And I've also got on order Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thompson and The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant.
... Esme Lennox
Go Tell It On the Mountain, James Baldwin
I Leap Over the Wall, Monica Baldwin
Dark Fire, C J Sansom
Death of a Murderer, Rupert Thomson
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Making History, Stephen Fry
The Shakespeare Secret by J L Carrell
Blaze, Richard Bachman/Step ... Stab in the dark
Death of a murderer? ... group members are amenable to trying something aimed at younger readers.
The End of Alice deals with paedophilia.
Death of a Murderer is set around the death of Myra Hindley (though she's not named in the text).
J. G. Ballard's Crash could be another option if your readers are ... Death of a murderer? - it's in the 30-40 zone, and it sounds as though there might be window-breaking mobs in it. Pure guess, of course. ... prominent offenders, but a few others either didn't work for me at all, or I just only mildly hated them: Rupert Thomson's Death of a Murderer was no more than medium-grade piffle, as was Jane Smiley's total waste-of-time Ten Days in the Hills; A.L. Kennedy's Day was grossly ill-conceived, ... ... from Amazon... Having recently bought The Book of Dave, Restoration, Wuthering Heights The Raw Shark Texts and Death of a Murderer, I've now also oredered The Pillars of the Earth, A Prayer for Owen Meany, In Cold Blood and Donnie Brasco.
I need more shelves. 22) Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
An interesting read, well crafted and thought provoking. Recommended. Actually I think it's going to be pretty good, although I have only just started it. Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson.
The person below me is wishing they'd worn different clothes today.
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