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Originally Posted by fredricktoo View Post

Saturday by Ian McEwan...

my second book by this author. First was Atonement a few years ago.

Saturday is on my reading list, how is it? As good as Atonement?
post #602 of 846
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Originally Posted by heavenscent1 View Post

Saturday is on my reading list, how is it? As good as Atonement?

The writing is just as good as Atonement but the story is nothing like it. It follows a day in the life of an English neurosurgeon and Ian McEwan spent a long time in the operating theaters learning about neurosurgery first hand. It reads fast, brisk, for me, he sweeps you along as you meet his family and sort through the inner thoughts of a highly functional member of contemporary English society on one particular Saturday. There are a lot of references to politics and the Iraq War.
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FREEDOM / Jonathan Franzen

A sweeping modern family chronicle; epic and penetrating in every way that makes reading a great novel so good.
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I saw the thread on reading, and I am curious if Basenoters are on Goodreads. I just opened an account (I know I am a late bloomer , and I am thinking of reviewing a couple of perfume books. I usually read historical fiction for fun, but not only.

If you'd like, p.m. me with your Goodreads name, and I'll "friend" you

I am currently reading A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir.
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Reading Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood.
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Live Wire by Harlan Coben
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Listening to the audiobook
The Professor and the Madman
By: Simon Winchester
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The Affair (Jack Reacher Novel) by Lee Child.
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"When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery" by Frank Vertosick Jr.

based on Ian McEwan's recommendation in his book "Saturday"
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Reading Drift by Rachel Maddow.
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She by Rider Haggard

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Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
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The House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe: situated in Boston, circa 1915.
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The Excalibur Disaster by Jack Bickham
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Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
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Critical Decisions: How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices Together (2012)
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Originally Posted by Jack Hunter View Post

The Affair (Jack Reacher Novel) by Lee Child.

Just finished that one, myself, recently.

Also read- Careless in Red by Elizabeth George

Currently reading Gideon's Corpse by Preston & Child
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Just started Siege by Richard Hoyt
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Just finished reading Nobody's Home--a collection of cultural essays--by Dubravka Ugresic.
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Loving Frank by Nancy Horan. (Frank Lloyd Wright) Page turner for sure.
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LONDON FIELDS / Martin Amis

Amis is a stylistic genius, no doubt about it. An observation, a turn of phrase, can make me gasp with admiration. But his nihilistic characters and relentless amorality can be nauseating.
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Both Flesh And Not - essays by David Foster Wallace
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Relic - Preston & Child
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Kill Me If You Can by James Patterson
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Wuthering Heights

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Just started Lost Empire by Clive Cussler
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Daughter Of The Empire by Janny Wurts & Raymond Feist.
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Finally finished my noon time read Burr by Gore Vidal (RIP) and on to the next in the series, Lincoln.
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I started to read In Search of Lost Time in late September and have progressed to volume five: The Prisoner.
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Wuthering Heights


Love this one and have been thinking of re-reading it (again) as it has been a while now...maybe I will do that over the holidays
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Tim Harford — The Undercover Economist
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Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson the author of Gilead.
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I am reading Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk now:
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No Country For Old Men.
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Dragon of Autumn Twilight By Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
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Still reading, No country For Old Men.
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The Coil by Gayle Lynds
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Two biographies....Buddy Guy and Muddy Waters.
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The Rings of Saturn
by WG Sebald (1995)
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Originally Posted by Bartlebooth View Post

The Rings of Saturn
by WG Sebald (1995)

I have been wanting to read Sebald - is this the first of his books you are reading?
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Gone Girl.
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Beginning "The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo" over Thanksgiving for my evening read. I like to read the book before I see the movie if I can, but am always way behind the current trend.
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Relic by Preston & Child
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Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman by Stefan Zweig. I've been busy with other things lately, so it's a slow read, but the research and perspective are very interesting.
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currently re-reading The Shining.
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Just started Cold Rock River by Jackie Lee Miles. I believe I need to put it down for awhile until I can quit dwelling on Gone Girl. The ending of the book is bothering me. Don't know why.
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The Leopard
Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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Spycatcher by Matthew Dunn
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1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

I'm struggling to finish this book. The story seems twice as long as it needs to be. Past Murakami books I've inhaled, it seemed that they went so quickly.
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The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley. Again.
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
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Just started Black List by Brad Thor
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Best Friends by Martha Moody
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The Last Convertible by Anton Myrer
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Just started .........Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehan
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THE CORRECTIONS / Jonathan Franzen
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Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
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The Racketeer - John Grisham
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The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles.
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Hobbit BY J R R Tolkien.
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