Category: Now Reading
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Now Reading: Suzanne Collins – Mockingjay
On to book 3 of this series, and unfortunately it’s the last one. I love reading a series of books (especially one as good as this), but the worst part of it is always coming to the end. With a series, you always get more involved with the characters and the story, so it’s hard
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Now Reading: Suzanne Collins – Catching Fire (The Hunger Games Pt 2)
After the speed in which I read the first book in this series, I can’t wait to get started on this. I might have to slow down a bit though or it’ll all be over too quickly! After the end of the last book, I really have no idea what will happen in this one.
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Now Reading: Suzanne Collins – The Hunger Games
I don’t really know what this book is about, but I’ve seen a LOT of blog posts about it when I’ve been browsing WordPress book-related blogs. There’s a film coming out soon, so I want to read the books before the film comes out so that I can decide whether I want to see the
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Now Reading: Mitch Albom – The Five People You Meet in Heaven
This is the second of the books that my cousin Hannah lent me. After the disappointment of my last book, I’m hoping that I’ll enjoy this one more, and can use it to get back on track on my reading challenge. It sounds like a very touching book; an 83 year old man dies, and
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Now Reading: Jonathan Coe – The Accidental Woman
I’m not really sure what this book is about, it was part of a set of 3 books for £4 that I bought from the Book People in a recent order. When I read the descriptions online, it looked like a good book, but I’ve just seen that the average rating on Goodreads is less
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Now Reading: Dirk Hayhurst – Out of My League
I’ve been waiting for this book since I pre-ordered it in October, so I’m very glad that it finally arrived, especially when I started seeing a lot of tweets about people in America reading the book when I still had 2 weeks left until it would be dispatched. It will be the second book I
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Now Reading: Daniel Tammet – Born on a Blue Day
This book is the first of four books that my cousin Hannah lent me when she found out about my challenge to read 100 books in a year. I love reading books that other people suggest – they are usually books that you wouldn’t think of reading but most of the time you find something
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Lent Reading: Rick Warren – The Purpose Driven Life & John Piper – The Passion of Jesus Christ
For lent this year (as well as giving up chocolate again), I’ve decided to re-read two books that I’ve read and loved in the past. The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. This book is handily split into 40 sections/days (although I’ve started a bit late so I’ll have to double up for a while,
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Now Reading: Rob Lacey – The Liberator
I’ve read this book a few times in the past (as you can probably tell from the tatty edges of the cover), and it’s one of my favourites. I’ve not read it for a while, and I found myself really wanting to read it last night. It’s a telling of the life of Jesus as you’ve
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Now Reading: Maureen Lee – Amy’s Diary
This book is part of the Galaxy Quick Reads that has been released in most supermarkets. There’s quite a large collection of books available, although my local Morrisons only seems to have about 6. I bought 2 of them which caught my eye, only £1.50 each which seemed pretty good value. This book is based
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Now Reading: Jim Bouton & Eliot Asinof – Strike Zone
I had a bit of a book-buying-spree last week (someone really needs to stop me!) and bought quite a few baseball books. I’ve read a few in the past (like Josh Hamilton and Dirk Hayhurst) and loved them, so I wanted to read more. The only problem is that it’s quite hard to find them
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Now Reading: Jessica Thompson – This is a Love Story
This is a Love Story, but not every story is the same. At first glance, it’s intriguing, although I have to admit that I’m a sucker for judging a book by it’s cover, and that’s pretty much why I bought this one. The description on the back seemed a bit odd too, and grabbed my attention:
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Now Reading: Alastair Reynolds – Century Rain
This book is a sci-fi book (borrowed from Mike), which will be another change for me, I’ve not read much sci-fi before. It looks quite interesting though, I always used to be quite interested in sci-fi tv programs, but somehow fell out of watching them. The description on the back of the book says: “Century
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Now Reading: Michael Morpurgo – War Horse
This book is one that I stole borrowed from the bookshelf in my brother’s room. I recently went to see the film at the cinema and I really loved it, one of the best films I’ve seen in a while. It’s not the usual way that I do things, I usually like to read the
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Now Reading: Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Now onto the third of the books that Mike leant me. I have high hopes for this one, it looks really interesting, and I’ve heard good things about it. There’s a quote on the front from Salman Rushdie which says: “The greatest novel in any language of the last fifty years” That’s pretty high praise,
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