December 2015 - What we are reading!

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December 2015 - What we are reading!

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1vancouverdeb
dec 2, 2015, 11:51 pm

I am just starting The Drowned Boy by Karin Fossum, one of my favourite " Scandi Crime" novelists.

2ted74ca
dec 3, 2015, 12:56 pm

I just finished The Long Stretch by Linden MacIntyre and really loved it. This is the 3rd book I've read by MacIntyre (all out of sequence, but that doesn't seem to matter) and I've liked them all.

3arcona
dec 4, 2015, 10:21 am

Just starting The Venetian's Wife - strangely interesting.

4fmgee
dec 4, 2015, 6:06 pm

I am midway through Maisie Dobbs.

5gypsysmom
dec 5, 2015, 6:22 pm

I've started Martin John which was on the Giller shortlist and many people recommended it. Still haven't made up my mind about it. The arrangement of chapters, paragraphs etc. is unusual (which is good, not bad) but the writing is deliberately obscure so I still haven't figured out what is going on.

6vancouverdeb
dec 5, 2015, 7:36 pm

>4 fmgee: Oh I have had a lot of fun reading the Maisie Dobbs mystery series this year. I hope you do too!

>5 gypsysmom: Do let me know what you think of Martin John. I've certainly read about it, so I am quite curious.

7LynnB
dec 6, 2015, 9:10 am

Martin John is sitting on the TBR shelves, so I'm interested, too!

I'm reading The Wright Brothers by David McCullough for a book club.

8ajsomerset
dec 6, 2015, 10:14 am

>5 gypsysmom: Martin John is kind of like interrogating an evasive witness. Peeling an onion. It resists making sense at first. ;)

You can see what Kate Taylor meant, I think.

9Nickelini
dec 7, 2015, 1:58 pm

>3 arcona: Fun!

Just finished The Camomile Lawn, which I really enjoyed, and am now a few pages along with Smilla's Sense of Snow.

I too have a copy of Martin John-- the comments on CBC were just too intriguing for me to pass it by.

10gypsysmom
dec 7, 2015, 2:43 pm

>6 vancouverdeb:
>7 LynnB:
>9 Nickelini:
Well you said you wanted to know what I thought of Martin John. It is not a book I particularly enjoyed. In my review I said like I felt while I was reading it that I was observing an accident in progress which I could do nothing to stop or change. I also don't particularly care for non-linear writing which was this book in spades. It took a long time to read because I would only read a short bit and then I had to put it down and do something else. I recognize that Schofield has done a great job of getting inside the mind of a sexual deviant, but I just didn't want to be there.
>8 ajsomerset: It not only resisted making sense at first; I thought it resisted sense all the way through. I am very happy that the Giller this year went to Fifteen Dogs which I thought was brilliant and enjoyable.

11vancouverdeb
dec 7, 2015, 4:43 pm

>10 gypsysmom: Thanks for the review. It sounded odd to me, - an accident in progress! I'll wait until it comes into the library and then have a " gander" at Martin John. I did enjoy Fifteen Dogs as well as Daddy Lenin.

Currently reading The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda and I'm enjoying very much. She also wrote The Secret Daughter a couple of years ago, which I enjoyed.

12ted74ca
Bewerkt: dec 8, 2015, 11:30 am

I just finished a mystery novel, set in the English Lake District, which is a beautiful area. The book was The Coffin Trail by Martin Edwards; I thought it was a pretty good read.

13Yells
dec 8, 2015, 12:18 pm

Hmmm, I have a copy of Martin John as well. I will probably read it next weekend as it needs to go to the library soon. I am curious now....

14LynnB
dec 10, 2015, 8:31 am

Not ready for Martin John yet. I'm reading The Humor Code by Peter McGraw.

15ted74ca
dec 11, 2015, 11:52 pm

Escaping into crime fiction to escape the Christmas chaos: The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves which I really enjoyed.

16LynnB
dec 12, 2015, 3:53 pm

17ted74ca
dec 13, 2015, 1:06 am

A very moving account of a Vancouver Police Department detective's struggle with PTSD and her work on the botched police investigation of the murdered women on the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. That Lonely Section of Hell by Lori Shenher

18ted74ca
dec 14, 2015, 9:54 pm

The book I finished today (read on my meal breaks, borrowed from the staff lunchroom book collection) was a paradigm shift from yesterday's book. I don't usually like this type of book-probably would class it as chick lit, but I quite enjoyed this one, especially the characters and the dialogue. I've never read Marian Keyes before, but maybe I'll try another of hers sometime. This one was The Brightest Star in the Sky

19vancouverdeb
dec 14, 2015, 10:42 pm

Reading Restless by William Boyd. Quite good!

20rabbitprincess
dec 15, 2015, 6:02 pm

Trying out Vertigo, by Boileau-Narcejac (translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury), which is the basis for the Hitchcock movie.

21LynnB
dec 16, 2015, 8:10 am

22LynnB
dec 17, 2015, 6:15 pm

I'm now on to Funny Girl by Nick Hornby

23ted74ca
dec 18, 2015, 12:26 am

Nordic crime fiction again: The Stranger by Camilla Lackberg

24mdoris
dec 20, 2015, 12:31 am

The long list has just been announced for the Charles Taylor non fiction prize (RBC Taylor prize). The short list will be announced Jan. 14th.
http://www.thecharlestaylorprize.ca/2015/longlist_15.asp

25LynnB
dec 20, 2015, 9:21 am

thanx, mdoris. I haven't read any of these...in fact, had only heard of one of them!

26rabbitprincess
Bewerkt: dec 20, 2015, 9:58 am

Right now I'm reading CC Benison's Ten Lords a-Leaping.

27mdoris
Bewerkt: dec 20, 2015, 10:10 pm

>25 LynnB: Lynn,I have read The End of Absence and it got me reading The Shallows. Both I really thought were very good. I have just looked at last prize winners and finalists and there are lots I would like to read! I read Eating Dirt a finalist in 2012 and thought it was very good.

28ted74ca
dec 20, 2015, 9:37 pm

This one kept me up at night: The Devil You Know by Elisabeth de Mariaffi. Good read.

29LynnB
dec 21, 2015, 8:50 am

I'm reading I Was There The Night He Died by Ray Robertson

30vancouverdeb
dec 21, 2015, 9:06 am

Reading A Small Death In the Great Glen by A. D. Scott. A new to me author.

31LynnB
dec 22, 2015, 9:29 am

I believe I'm in the right mood to read Martin John by Anakana Schofield.

32LynnB
Bewerkt: dec 27, 2015, 1:50 pm

33vancouverdeb
dec 27, 2015, 10:15 am

34Nickelini
dec 27, 2015, 2:38 pm

Boxing day is the start of fox-hunting season, so I've pulled Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man out of my TBR pile.

35gypsysmom
dec 27, 2015, 3:06 pm

Going to finish out the year with my 10th book from the 1001 list King Solomon's Mines.

36fmgee
dec 27, 2015, 4:16 pm

I am almost done a reread of The Harp in the South by Ruth Park. I also could not help but buy a copy of The Literary lives of the Inklings at 30% off yesterday so I have started that as well.

37ajsomerset
dec 27, 2015, 5:52 pm

>34 Nickelini:: Oh, hey, that's in mine, too! Maybe I'll shuffle it towards the top. I recently picked up a volume of Sassoon's war poetry also.

As for me, I am re-reading John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes, which I haven't read since I was about 12, and Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit.

38LynnB
dec 28, 2015, 9:14 am

40Cecilturtle
dec 28, 2015, 6:40 pm

I've finished Qui a tué Arlozoroff? by Tobie Nathan, the strange love story between a Zionist Jew and... Magda Goebbels before her marriage.
I am now in New Orleans with Carnaval (The Axeman's Jazz) by Ray Celestin based on a true story.

41ted74ca
dec 28, 2015, 8:06 pm

I just read today The Good Girl by Mary Kubica and just loved it. Better thriller than Gone Girl by far, I think.

42LynnB
dec 29, 2015, 9:22 am

I'm about to start Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm

43fmgee
dec 30, 2015, 6:09 pm

I am reading The Hidden Child by Camilla Lackberg

44LynnB
dec 31, 2015, 3:59 pm

I'm going to finish the year with The Pearl by John Steinbeck.

45ted74ca
Bewerkt: jan 1, 2016, 7:39 pm

My last book completed in 2015 was The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh and it was very so so. Wonder if it was intended as a YA adult novel, perhaps.

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