Silverbirch Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Lilly, the Victorians tried to pretend there was a need for lavatories. So weird. A big breakthrough for a lot of the Bohemians was tinned food such as baked beans. They didn't usually live on much food - partly because they were poor and largely because most of them had come from the middle and upper classes and didn't know how to cook because they had grown up with servants. I think they were very brave to turn their backs on that for the sake of being true to themselves. Oh and women had hair often to their knees and wore ridiculously impractical and uncomfortable clothing. Then they started chopping it all off, wearing pants and some of them smoked cigars and rode motorbikes!!! Very radical for the times. Link to comment
Furbys Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 I haven't read a book in years as I usually read things online. But I'm reading 'Hoping for a Home' by Janie Ritson. Its basically Mini stories of a women who works in the RSPCA rescuing animals. She has many extraordinary stories. Some are quite morbid at first because it is about how an animal is neglected or abused but then it turns into a lovely story where a animal gets a second chance and a loving home. Defiantly a book for animal lovers. Link to comment
Silverbirch Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 "Underground" (biography) co-authored with Julian Assange (about cyber-anarchy and hacking, etc). Very interesting Link to comment
Snny Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 In 2 days... image removed Now to the third book. I haven't been sucked into a series in a very long time since Hunger Games. It is really good and I hope they don't mess up the movie Link to comment
MasterPo Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Killing Lincoln/Bill O'Reilly. Interesting and captivating at first but then it lost me, can't seem to power up for the last chapters. Learned a bit about the Civil War and its historical insights though. I liked that much. Link to comment
narco Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. Brilliant book. Link to comment
Snny Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Now in three days... image removed I'm kinda mixed about this one truthfully... it's starting to turn into Twilight Link to comment
Hennie Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 I'm currently reading The Taking by Dean Koontz. I'm about halfway through and I must say, it's pretty intriguing. Link to comment
Snny Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Finished all five books of the Mortal Instrument series and really enjoyed them. Books 4 and 5 were the best. It gets really adult by the 5th book. Working on the first Prequel series of MI now... the third one was just released this Tuesday. image removed Link to comment
SapphireNoir10 Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 I'm reading Wool - by Hugh Howey Amazing series of books. It's set in a silo built underground in a post apocalyptic earth. One of the best books I've read in a LONG time. Basically there are loads of levels of the silo. The only way to get to them is stairs. Each level does different things like there is a farming level, IT level, mechanics level. The more important people live nearer the top. ALSO there are screens on the top level that show the outside world which is all barren and horrible. Every so often they send a person out in what's called 'The Cleaning' and the person has to go out and clean the sensors that project the pictures onto the screens. They always die in the process as earth is full of toxins etc now. One of the biggest mysteries is WHY do they clean these sensors when they have been sent out to die? This isn't even giving ANYTHING away at all. There are 8 books in the main Wool series then 3 more prequel books in the 'Shift' 'Wool' series. Link to comment
SapphireNoir10 Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 I've read up to book 3 of the mortal instruments. I must read the other two! I didn't realise there WERE two more. Link to comment
MasterPo Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 The Lords of Discipline/ Pat Conroy Link to comment
Snny Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 I've read up to book 3 of the mortal instruments. I must read the other two! I didn't realise there WERE two more. The fourth and 5th books were the BEST of the series. They get pretty sexual that I honestly can't recommend it to my middle school students (older high school students at best). The 6th and last book comes out next year in March. If you love Harry Potter... get into the series. The author was also a Harry Potter Fan Fiction writer who focused on writing about Draco (hence why Jace is so much like him). Draco was always my favorite... which is why I love this series If you LOVE the Mortal Instruments series, definitely get on the prequel trilogy, Infernal Devices (Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess). A lot of people have been saying that the prequel are 10x better than Mortal Instruments.... but I can't say much about it yet. Haven't finished half of the first book, but the character development is so much better. Link to comment
Skooz Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Just finished "Who I Am," Pete Townsend's autobio. Just began "The Last Man," Vince Flynn's latest. Link to comment
MasterPo Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Swan Song/ Robert McCammon/ Sci Fi Link to comment
blueidealist24 Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 I just finished reading Admission, the one based on the movie with Tina Fey. It was alright. I saw it in Wal-Mart for $16, but I thought "nope", and then I found it for $3 for my Kobo E-Reader. I'm kinda glad I didn't pay $16 for it.. it was only okay. It was good enough for me to finish in two days though lol. Link to comment
MsAdorkable Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley. It's not as funny as her other book I Was Told There'd Be Cake, but it beats all the textbooks and research I've been reading for school. Link to comment
Snny Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Finished Clockwork Angel.. really good read! Halfway done with Clockwork Prince. Link to comment
blueidealist24 Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 I'm on a reading roll. Just finished The Sixth Wife by Jean Plaidy this morning (about King Henry the 8th and Katharine Parr). It was decent. I don't like Plaidy's books as much as Philippa Gregory's historical fiction books, though. Link to comment
lemondust Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 The Dark Tower, Book 3 by Stephen King. I've been reading Stephen King since I was a young teenager, but only recently got into the Dark Tower books. They are fantastic. Stephen King is the only writer who actually gets me so lost in his stories that it takes me a while to 'disengage' from the world of the book. I feel as if I am living in the Dark Tower books right now, as if I am on the same journey as the characters of the story. Link to comment
Snny Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Just finished Clockwork Prince last night. It tore at my heart strings. Link to comment
honeyspur Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Gil Adamson's "The Outlander" - recommended! Link to comment
Donovan79 Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 The Passage by Justin Cronin. Really damn good so far and only just started. Link to comment
MsAdorkable Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 I just finished Becoming Sister Wives by the Brown family featured on that TLC show. Very interesting read. Link to comment
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