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| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - #2: JULY. 2008 | | 231 | IaaS, August 1 | |
| Historical Fiction : World War II fiction recommendations | | 124 | brainella, August 1 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 12 July 2008 | | 315 | cameling, July 25 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Kiwidoc's 2008 books | | 92 | lindsacl, July 20 | |
| Canadian Bookworms : June/08: What are we reading? | | 26 | LynnB, June 29 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 14 June 2008 | | 227 | Talbin, June 21 | |
| The Prizes : IMPAC/Dublin Prize | | 60 | teelgee, June 12 | |
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| Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : Short Stories | | 70 | clong, December 2007 | |
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| Dormant: Lad-lit : A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby | | 1 | Kell_Smurthwaite, October 2007 | |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 30 June 2007 | | 141 | jeniferbal, July 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Patric's 50 books.... | | 23 | Humbert_Humbert, July 2007 | |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? August, 2008. Number 2. | | 131 | mckait, Today 5:38pm |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - #1: AUGUST. 2008 | | 319 | IaaS, Monday 3:42am |
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| Book talk : Another Silly Game - Part 8 | | 373 | moibibliomaniac, July 6 |
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| What did YOU buy today? : Message Board #2 | | 188 | karen5l, June 29 |
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| Awful Lit. : I can't believe I wasted my time on this... | | 441 | 0bazooka0, June 16 |
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| The Green Dragon : Tell us what you are reading now, part III | | 394 | WillSteed, February 14 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 8 December 2007 | | 175 | SqueakyChu, December 2007 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : Another Silly Game to Play -- Continued! | | 416 | Lman, October 2007 |
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| Dormant: The Green Dragon : book inspired food | | 95 | MrsLee, September 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Truly funny --- I'm talking laugh out loud --- books | | 119 | desideo, August 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? - July 2007 | | 176 | kidzdoc, August 2007 |
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| Dormant: What did YOU buy today? : Message Board | | 397 | aluvalibri, April 2007 |
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| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Framboise's 50 | | 10 | framboise, March 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 Dec 2006 | | 103 | margaretplays, January 2007 |
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... kind today ... brought the following books
Paula by Isabel Allende
The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes by Jennifer Cruise
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
>56 DevourerOfBooks, I loved the Hummingbird's Daughter ... ...
Walters, Minette; Krutt (The Tinder Box)
Calvino, Italo: Klatrebaronen (Il Barone Rampante)
Hornby, Nick: Fritt fall (A Long Way Down)
Eggers, Dave: Dere skal merke vår hastighet (You Shall Know Our Velocity )
It was on the trip to get the new bookshelf, I found these goodies.
#24: ... ...
Walters, Minette; Krutt (The Tinder Box)
Calvino, Italo: Klatrebaronen (Il Barone Rampante)
Hornby, Nick: Fritt fall (A Long Way Down)
Eggers, Dave: Dere skal merke vår hastighet (You Shall Know Our Velocity ) ... The Secret Scripture is very good and I will be reading it ASAP. I very much liked Sebastian Barry's previous novel A Long, Long Way.
The gender ratio on the author's list cannot be fluff, since there are as many women as men in this world (roughly). So few women authors on the list ... I finished A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby earlier in the week.
I'm reading The Magician's Assistant and it is my *somewhat embarrassed to say* very first Ann Patchett read.
There has been such a build up of expectations about her writing, that I just dipped my toe into the water. ... 54. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry.
This is the second book I have read by Barry (the first being A Long Long Way). This book ties in with A Long Long Way with characters reappearing from a different perspective.
He has a wonderful way with words - often poetic, always ... I finished The Garden of Last Days, and it is, quite literally, a story that kept me way up past my bed time and on the edge of my chair. Story telling of the best kind. I spoke with a friend today who thought that the ending was rushed, and we got into quite a friendly argument about it, but for ... Finished A Long Way Down and loved it. I need to find a copy of About a Boy now. I read How to be Good and didn't like it so much, but High Fidelity is one of my all-time favorite books.
I am reading The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor by Sally Armstrong now. So far, so good. I loved A Long Way Down and most of Nick Hornby's books.
I'm reading Nostradamus -- A Beginner's Guide by Teresa Moorey. I loved The Sparrow!
I am reading A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby - am really liking it. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby Jeg holder på å lese Nick Hornby: A long way down. Jeg har lest den før på norsk, men nå skal Ønskebok ha kurs og dette er en av bøkene som skal leses. Jeg likte boka da jeg leste den første gang, men det er ikke SÅ motiverende å lese den igjen. Det hjelper å lese den på engelsk, ... March Reads (cont.)
19. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
20. The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coehlo
21. Le Roman de Sissi by André Besson
22. The Ivy Chronicles by Karen Quinn
23. Mémoires d'un âne by la Comtesse de Ségur
24. Literary Occasions by V. S. Naipaul
25. Nip the B ... ... The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
7. Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
8. Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
... the fiction world since it's easier and usually more entertaining to read.
Here is what I have read so far.
1. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
2. Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
Seeing as how this is the 27th, I have a long way to go. However, there are several books in ... ... a little overboard at Half Price Books and picked up a stack of books that I've read but don't own such as The Girls, A Long Way Down, and Microserfs. The Moon Is Down - John Steinbeck
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
Down The Nile: Alone In A Fisherman's Skiff - Rosemary Mahoney
River Of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway Of Exile, Death, And Destiny - Jeffrey Tayler bribre01, I really enjoyed A Long Way Down Hornby is a very clever writer. And Water for Elephants was one of 2007's favourites! Good luck on your 52! ... was also pretty one-sided, and it was clear the author dissagreed with many aspects of sorority life.
I just started A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby. Hornby is one of my favorite authors, so I am hopeful the book will be entertaining and funny.
Happy reading everybody! I hope you all ... 54. How to be Good by Nick Hornby
55. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
56. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke I finished up A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby this morning - it's not often I find a book that makes me laugh out loud as often. You would think a book about people committing suicide would be depressing, but I found this one hilarious.
I'll be starting The Firefly Cloak this afternoon. That ... A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby ... happens when several suicide-attempters manage to bungle each other’s plans? Rather than being depressing in any way, A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby turned out to be a very witty and humorous story of how people can often find the help and friendship they need in the most unlikely of ... A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby ... 'third') nominations for:
David Sedaris, especially Me Talk Pretty One Day
Nick Hornby's About a Boy and A Long Way Down
Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy, I LOreallyL when reading The Van
most things by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock
and, finally, John ... Whenever I read English books, I crave Indian and English food. After reading A Long Way Down, I needed to order in a curry. And I sulked for days abut my lack of crisps. I was born in the wrong country - I LOVE English food.
#29 I too start drooling whn reading Redwall books. There's a book, ... ... Vain by Cordwainer Smith
Jeffty Is Five by Harlan Ellison
The Person From Porlock by Raymond F. Jones
Dolphin's Way by Gordon R. Dickson
Computer Virus by Nancy Kress
Saviour by Nancy Kress
Antibodies by Charles Stross
Home Is the Hangman by Rog ... A Long Way Down
About a Boy
Death du Jour
I was dropping off insurance claims, and right next to where my car was parked there's a bookstore, which had a table of heavily discounted books outside. I also went to the Salvation Army. I've been going through a longish real literature ... I picked up Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie, The Tommyknockers, and Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down today during a delightful trip to B&N. I JUST finished reading A Long Way Down, which I loved. I didn't expect to, either, so it was a pleasant surprise.
Now I need to read Seize The Night for work, because I disliked The Taking, and when/if I end up having a meeting with Dean Koontz, I'd like to say something positive about ... To celebrate the Fourth, this apathetic American is going to read all day:
I'll finish A Long Way Down, which I'm loving, then read
Seize The Night,
and read the last few volumes of Transmetropolitan.
If I still have any hours left in the day (which I might, because I read freakishly ... ... made me despise Oprah. Go figure.
Anyway, I finished The Taking last night, and decided to treat myself and read A Long Way Down before reading Seize The Night. I started it, but so far I'm not adoring it. We'll see.
And when I say 'I started it,' I was referring to Seize The Nig ... Devil in the White City
Shake Hands with the Devil
A Long Way Down
Unholy Loves
Wicked
19. Wonderboys by Michael Chabon.
20. Dirt Music by Tim Winton.
21. The Music of Chance by Paul Auster.
22. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby.
23. No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy.
24. Atonement by Ian McEwan.
25. Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris.
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30. A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
31. White Oleander by Janet Fitch
32. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
33. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
34. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
35. Love is a Mix Tape by Rob She ... Arthur and George was my personal Book of the Year for 2006 so I won't mind if it wins. A Long, Long Way is a very good novel about an Irish soldier in WWI. I quite liked Slow Man but wouldn't give it a prize. Of the others I'm most interested in reading Out Stealing Horses because it's ... As of today, I've finished these as well:
5. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
6. Harry Potter & The Sorceror’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
7. Love and Other Near-Death Experiences by Mil Millington
8. The Genius Factory by David Plotz
9. Yes Man by Danny Wallace
... Has anyone read this one? I'd love to talk about it.
That's it that I've finished so far. Right now I'm reading A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby. I should be done with it today or tomorrow.
Has anyone read any of the above? I'd love to talk about them.
framboise I think I'd have to throw Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down into this list - I too have been suckered into picking up a book because of friends' repeated and vehement reassurance that Hornby's books are some of the best written and most engaging they've ever read - only for me to squirm, growl ... > 56: meghquinn
Yikes -- going from murder to suicide! :-P
I liked A Long Way Down, and I'd put it near the top of the list of my favorite Hornby books, but it's not always light going. I hope you end up enjoying it. After just finishing In Cold Blood, I decided to take a break with the more serious literature with A Long Way Down. I am not sure if this was the best introduction to Nick Hornby. ... by Helen Garner
Father Lands by Emily Ballou
I Have A Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes by Jaclyn Moriarty
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Sea by John Banville
The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
Not bad for ... Finished Long Way Down which I didn't find exceptional and in fact was quite annoyed by some of the characters.
Now onto The Ragbone man ... view. Then you got the mothers' stories, and the daughters seemed like shallow little gits.
Nick Hornby's Maureen in A Long Way Down is a great mom at the end of her tether. Can't say more without spoiling, but I loved her. I'm reading A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby and really enjoying it. Next on my list is The Yellow House by Martin Gayford about Van Gogh and Gauguin when they shared a house...anyone read this? Quick review for me? :o) I'm trying to decide if I should give it as a Christmas gift.
This is ... ... Simonetta Agnello Hornby, The Almond Picker
MY SHORTLIST: John Banville, The Sea; Sebastian Barry, A Long, Long Way; J.M. Coetzee, Slow Man; E.L. Doctorow, The March; Kate Grenville, The Secret River; Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go; Nicole Krau ... ... by Soecy Gummels
Desertion
extinction by Ray Hammond
Surrender
The Short Day Dying
The almond picker
A Long Way Down
The Possibility of an Island
Mercedes-Benz ... Slaughter, All the Math You'll Ever Need, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, and I'm going back tomorrow for...
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby and some Agatha Christie hardback editions that look cool.
I just got a huge shipment from Amazon of books for my kids (mostly Newberry ... Terribly sorry, this is WWI, but such a good book I can't help myself - A long, Long Way by Sebastian Barry. No matter what I read about war I always wonder what the experience was really like. This novel seems to comes closest to describing the experience of a soldier.
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