Who's reading what,when & the experience

wonderwomanusa

I've just finished Jhumpa Lahiri's latest, Unaccustomed Earth -- short stories that all are about lost love in one form or another. Well written, but shouldn't be read if you are depressed.

Aishah

Another one for me to look out for, thank you WWUSA - I like her short stories more than her novel.
I have just finished the Pat Barker trilogy - very bleak themes of course, but wonderful writing. Excellent reads especially enjoyed (well that's not exactly the right word I guess when reading horrifying acounts of the First World War) 'The Ghost Road' the 3rd book in the trilogy.
Now reading, Marina Lewycka's 'Two Caravans' and it's proving every bit as engrossing and funny as her first novel, 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian'.

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Scandojazzbuff

You might like Sebastian Faulks' books, especially, Birdsong, Charlotte, and, something like The Girl At The Lion d'Or. Birdsong also takes place in WWI and is perhaps the most harrowing story of war I've ever read. But, it's more than that and very well written.

I am reading The Inheritance of Loss. It's been on my list for a long time but I've been slow to pick it up and it's taking forever as I've just returned from Java.

puchoo

I have just started on Freakanomics.

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mridula

I have read that one, Freakanomics, liked it and liked some parts of it quite a lot.

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http://www.gonomad.com/traveltalesfromindia/

puchoo

Its been a very interesting read so far. I have just finished the "why do drug dealers stay with their Mothers" and i really like the authors out of box approach to all this...

Ignite

That's a very interesting book, I don't remember the whole book because the last time I read it was about 3 years ago when it first came out, but I do remember thinking the chapter about naming children was pretty funny.

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puchoo

Havent got to that part yet but i should hopefully finish it off over the weekend!

Nick-H

That sounds interesting!

I'm still with Thursday Next, just moving on to The Well of Lost Plots )I think it is called.

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machadinha

That Freakonomics sounds very interesting yes, hadn't heard of it. Looked around a bit; there's a homepage and a blog to it:
http://www.freakonomicsbook.com/
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/

btw That Jasper Fforde sounds like another one to dig into.

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Nick-H

Not, by any means, great literature, but a good, fun read.

Be good for a long flight!

machadinha

Looks pretty bizarre (& funny) from his website (Fforde), is that correct?

wonderwomanusa

I loved The Ghost Road; as you know, I read it first and then had to go back and read the first two books. It was very different, don't you think? I loved that the doctor's New Guinea experiences bacame part of the story and I wonder why she didn't include some of those in the first two books.

I"ve since read some poems by Sigfried Sassoon...

chAos

Yes, Fforde is very bizarre. I think he's great because he's silly, but in a smart way.
The Eyre Affair is the first in the Thursday Next series. He's got another series about nursery rhyme crime, but everyone seems to think they're a let-down, so I haven't tried them. Don't know if I can bear to be disappointed.

Inua

If your looking for a light read as you travel then try Marley and Me by John Grogan. Its funny, emotional and more funny in turns.