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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 12 July 2008 | | 315 | cameling, Yesterday 6:38pm |  |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : alipals' books for 2008 | | 14 | alipals, Thursday 12:20pm | |
| 50 Book Challenge : merry10's 2008 challenge | | 144 | merry10, July 18 | |
| The Green Dragon : Your Most Original LT Tag | | 73 | Rachael, July 18 | |
| Best of British : Prizewinners? | | 15 | skoobdo, May 9 | |
| Book of the month club : April books | | 16 | CarlaR, May 2 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Top 3 Reads February 2008 | | 48 | laruebk, March 23 | |
| Book talk : Books You've Read so Far in 2008 | | 16 | skyler1534, March 12 | |
| The Prizes : The Booker | | 116 | avaland, February 25 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : The Mistress' 75 Book Challenge | | 47 | prophetandmistress, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? - September 2007 | | 147 | thioviolight, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Booker Prize Winner | | 1 | naturalblonde, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now? September 2007 | | 155 | digifish_books, October 2007 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Abandoned Books | | 291 | aguntherc, Yesterday 2:53pm |
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| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : drneutron's Books Red in 2008 | | 110 | drneutron, Monday 1:43pm |
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| Book of the month club : What we read in May | | 63 | Booksloth, June 26 |
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| Reading Globally : Where in the World are you Now? April 2008 | | 126 | lindsacl, May 9 |
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... SWTWC from my local library - am looking forward to it after the recommendations :-)
In the meantime, still reading Darkmans. I was also recommended to try www.dailylit.com which sends books (out of copyright so includes many classics) in installments via RSS or email - I picked The Los ... Darkmans is on my TBR list. How is it? ... this one. Is it just me, or does this book remind anyone else of Kerouac con salsa?
I have also started another - Darkmans. I am about 130 pages in, still have no real idea what it is about, and I love this one. Some of these characters are frighteningly familiar. One scene rankled ... ... easy reading for train journeys, some work related reading and some I could get my teeth into!
I'm currently reading Darkmans by Nicola Barker - over 800 pages which is a nice change from the shorter books I usually seem to read... #54 - There is that. :-D
#55/56 - I was wondering the same thing.
#58 - The Da Vinci Code? Also, I gave up on Darkmans very quickly, please tell me why fear of salad - it sounds like my husband and now I need to know. ... out as being original.
Jesus Is A Daddy- I'll let you figure the book for that one.
Fear Of Salad- For the book Darkmans. 84. Darkmans, Nicola Barker, 2007
Medieval jestering in 21st Century Ashford. Lots of linguistic wordplay and some great laugh out loud moments. ... great stuff that didn't make book of the month? For example (and no disrespect here to a wonderful book) I nominated Darkmans for April, but then April was a bit of a dry month for me. Was it actually better than Personality, A Quiet Belief in Angels or Animal's People - all of which are ... ... Mystique - Betty Friedan (reread)
7 Animal's People - Indra Sinha
8 The Haunted Hotel - Wilkie Collins
9 Darkmans - Nicola Barker
10 Being Emily - Anne Donovan (ER copy)
11 The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
12 Affluenza - Oliver James
It's quite hard to pick a ... No, not any more. At the moment I'm absolutely engrossed in 21stC Ashford (Kent, England) with Nicola Barker's Darkmans - what a great book! ... Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. There's a reason this still sells many decades after it first came out.
3. Darkmans by Nicola Barker. This won't appeal to everyone but might do so for those that like over the top smartassed writing. Great big glob of fun reading. ... if I counted correctly. I read between 80 to 120 pages per hour depending on the book.
Some books slow me down. Like Darkmans by Nicola Barker. One reason was I enjoyed the way she used language and savored it. Another was she used a lot of UK slang so sometimes I had to think or find ... ... a book...) but I've gotten to know my own reading habits over the years and my instincts for this are pretty good now.
Darkmans by Nicola Barker has been my biggest disappointment in the past few months. I heard a good review of it, tried to order it and was told that no libraries in Doncas ... If you liked Good Omens you should pick up Darkmans by nicola Barker. It's like if you crossed Gaiman and Prechett with The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. It was on the Booker short list for 2007.
-mistress 'rissa I gave up on Samuel Beckett. My brain says its done reading hard stuff for the year.
64. Darkmans by Nicola Barker
Absolutely amazing! Smart, funny, absurd and nerdy!
65. Criminal Macabre-a Cal MacDonald Mystery: Two Red Eyes by Steve Niles
Honestly, the Cal MacDonald ... ... I thought was fantastic. I will start reading The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng later today, and I'll probably get to Darkmans by Nicola Barker sometime next month. ... just me??
My favourite was Animals people by Indra Sinha but I would have been happy to see On Chesil Beach or Darkmans to win as well. Well, better than being in Ashford, Kent for ages, which is my sorry lot, having started Darkmans... I've read neither Darkmans (800+ pages! Bloody hell...) nor Animal's People, but hopefully one of them will be a stunner...
I'm underwhelmed by the inclusion of On Chesil Beach, Mister Pip, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist and very disappointed by the exclusion of Gifted and What Was ... Hey, hasn't anybody posted the short list yet?
Here we go:
Darkmans by Nicola Barker (Fourth Estate)
The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)
On Chesil Beach ... ... are from the Man Booker Prize longlist.
1. The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
2. Starbook by Ben Okri
3. Darkmans by Nicola Barker
4. The Child in Time by Ian McEwan The Man Booker Prize 2007 long list:
Darkmans by Nicola Barker (Fourth Estate)
Self Help by Edward Docx (Picador)
The Gift Of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon)
The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish ... ... theoretically qualify!)
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
Life Class by Pat Barker
The Song Before It Is Sung by Justin Cartwright
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
The Gathering ...
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