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Books!
I spend my Sundays unwinding and spending hours reading books. Share your favourite books here!
The last book I read: 12 Years A Slave- Solomon Northup
- Page turner! Very graphic, couldn't bring myself to watch the movie :3
The book I am currently reading: Love Without Limits- Nick Vujicic
- Very inspirational!
Books I want to read next: The Alchemist-Paulo Coelho
- Apparently a good read, can't wait to start it
What are your favourite books? Share your recomendations here
A Clergyman's Daughter I feel would also be a pretty interesting one to read. Or if you wanted to continue more on the political side his more autobiographical works may suit you better.
Really looking forward to having the time to read lots when my uni semester is over (as of tomorrow evening! Eee!)! I'll have to peruse this thread for ideas.
As soon as I saw this thread, I knew I had to join in. Books are the best!
I'm currently reading The History of the Rain by Niall Williams and I love the way it's written so far. The best book I've read recently would be Jasper Jones. It's like an Australian version of To Kill a Mockingbird and I'd love to hear from anyone else who's read it!!
I'm Laura, by the way! Hope to get to know some fellow bookworms!
Just finished reading Where Am I Now? by Mara Wilson, a really interesting look into her experiences with mental health issues her life post-Matilda!
I'm reading a bit of a menagerie of books at the moment.
- Confessions of a Sociopath, by M.E. Thomas - Self explanatory.
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson - A self-help type book that I'm finding to be interesting. Self help isn't a usual genre of mine, but this one is really quite personally insightful and so I'm enjoying it.
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara - (Major potential to be highly triggering) A long novel. A beautiful, but masochistic read. HAS ANYONE READ THIS TOO? This book destroyed me for a while. The second time I read it, I couldn't bring myself to read to the end of the last chapter... So I've started from the beginning for a third time.
I read on Kindle (I used to be one of *those* irrationally sentimental people who eschewed eReaders, but was gladly converted), and have downloaded the samples for a couple of 2016 Man Booker Prize shortlisted books: The Tidal Zone, Eileen, and Do Not Say We Have Nothing. Hope I'll become absorbed by one of these. It's so nice to have a great, meaty book to come home to at the end of the day.
Ooh I absolutely loved reading the Tomorrow when the war began series by John marsden. 🙂
I believe there were 6 or 7 books in the whole thing. I admit, it was VERY hard to put down and I was often reading from 4:00pm to around 1:00am. Would definitely read it again. 😉
@RandomName John Marsden is one of my favourite authors! 😄 have you read The Ellie Chronicles? It's a trilogy which is set after the TWTWB books and is about how Ellie adjusts after the war ends.
I'm now reading the original Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Even though they were written nearly 150 years ago they're still so damn magical
@lokifish those stories are so so so good, to me at least. It's been a few years since I read them but they instantly became my faves. I should read through them again. I think I'll probably like them even more now that I'm older.
@RandomName As my above response should show, yes. Absolutely worth. But, if you either don't like detective stories or don't do well with older prose styles then they might not be for you.
@peppermintpeony On what sort of issues is A Little Life triggering? From what you've just said I am greatly intrigued.
@lokifish I'd be wary of themes around abuse, neglect, assault, self harm, suicidality, and homophobia... eep! it can be quite full on.
My favourite book is "a horse called hero" by Sam Angus. he is also the aurthur of "soldier dog" which i havent read but want to.
Hero, is an amazing book, "war took his hope, a horse gave him courage"
I've read it over and over and its still my favourite book. I highly suggest it if youre looking for a novel to read.
I've honestly never really read one of them types of books before so I wouldn't know. I'll give it a try anyway 😉
@RandomName @Birdeye they're AMAZING. I can't believe I've never read them until now. Definitely give them a read! 🙂
Yes actually I just started reading the first one of the Ellie chronicles but had to sadly return it to the library haha.
Got up to chapter 8 and will re-borrow it further this week for when we're traveling 🙂
Are the Sherlock Holmes ones worth borrowing?
I've also pulled out Eon (it's a book about a girl pretending to be a training to be a dragoneye) such a good book!