brightphoebus Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Eek, I didn't know that is who it is based on. Is it very true to life? Did all the Andrew stuff really happen?I've just got to the proposal (not really a spoiler, given the title!), and I'm trying hard not to imagine Dubya in the hunky boyfriend role... MM, how did you get on with the novel? I read today in the Guardian that the Andrew stuff did happen, and she spent the following years living as quietly as she could, just as the book depicted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Currently read in Catherine de Medici: A Biography by Leonie Frieda for something factual this year. Only a few pages in but enjoying it and it corresponds with a book I read in 2008 called My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy. Catherine De Medici was, amongst other things, Mary Queen of Scots' mother in law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benmed15 Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Reading "The Good Wife" by Stewart O'Nan. Really enjoying it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minxminnie Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 MM, how did you get on with the novel? I read today in the Guardian that the Andrew stuff did happen, and she spent the following years living as quietly as she could, just as the book depicted. Yes, I found that out too! Wikipedia, though, so I'll look out for it in the Guardian. I'm about 2/3 of the way through, but I'm stalling a bit now. She definitely needed an editor. It's a bit dry now, the life of a well to do Midwest mom, but it will hopefully pick up soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brightphoebus Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Yes, I found that out too! Wikipedia, though, so I'll look out for it in the Guardian.I'm about 2/3 of the way through, but I'm stalling a bit now. She definitely needed an editor. It's a bit dry now, the life of a well to do Midwest mom, but it will hopefully pick up soon. It's worth sticking it out, MM. I did skip the ghastly Iraq war stuff, though, because I can't bear to read about it in any guise, fictionalised or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ottilie Posted April 30, 2010 Report Share Posted April 30, 2010 The Dumas Club - Arturo Perez-Reverte  On loan from a friend and rescued from where it's been languishing, near the bottom of Mount TBR, for too long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megustaleer Posted May 2, 2010 Report Share Posted May 2, 2010 At the moment, A Rare Benedictine - Ellis Peters, although I will probably be on to something else before the day is done if the weather does not improve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenmcd Posted May 2, 2010 Report Share Posted May 2, 2010 Just started The Spare Room by Helen Garner this morning. This year I've been reading one book downstairs and one in bed so my new bed book will be East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megustaleer Posted May 2, 2010 Report Share Posted May 2, 2010 The Bronski House - Philip Marsden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hannibalheyes Posted May 3, 2010 Report Share Posted May 3, 2010 The Last Child by John hart - a recently-released thriller. Was up till almost 2am last night - couldn't put it down. Hoping for a sunny day so I can read it in the garden today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenmcd Posted May 6, 2010 Report Share Posted May 6, 2010 Just about to start Enduring Love by Ian McEwan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted May 6, 2010 Report Share Posted May 6, 2010 Read the first few pages of The Rapture, current group read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grammath Posted May 6, 2010 Report Share Posted May 6, 2010 My new audiobook is the third in Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street series "Love Over Scotland". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen Posted May 8, 2010 Report Share Posted May 8, 2010 My new audiobook is the third in Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street series "Love Over Scotland".I've just finished the fourth of these, I find them great books to read when you've finished something a bit more challenging. Now, I have started Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier, a novel featuring Mary Annings, the fossil hunter from Lyme Regis, Dorset. I was brought up near to there and the early part of the book describes the area in a way that makes me quite homesick. I can remember going fossil hunting with my Dad and brother when I was tiny and the magic of finding something so ancient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minxminnie Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 Having eventually finished The American Wife - more because of a busy schedule than lack of interest - I have gone back to Ghosts and Lightning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grammath Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 I started China Mieville's debut "King Rat" over the weekend and am already 150 pages in. Having won the Arthur C. Clarke award three times he's probably the UK's most highly regarded young sci-fi/fantasy writer and this is where it began. Â Its debt to Neil Gaiman, particularly "Neverwhere" is rather obvious, and the drum 'n' bass references already date it quite badly, but its a good read in a mindless sort of way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benmed15 Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 Started The Easter Parade by Richard Yates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minxminnie Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 Started The Easter Parade by Richard Yates. Oh, I liked this - let us know what you think! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenmcd Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 Just started on Slow Man by JM Coetzee over lunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benmed15 Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 Oh, I liked this - let us know what you think! Loved it. 2 for 2 on Yates' books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leyla Posted May 20, 2010 Report Share Posted May 20, 2010 After two disappointments in a row - Douglas Coupland's Generation A and Ewan Morrison's Distance - I have reduced the chance of a hat trick by choosing an author I love - Jonathan Coe. Feel bad as haven't read this thread or indeed most others here for months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirelightSpirit Posted May 23, 2010 Report Share Posted May 23, 2010 Just about a hundred pages into Ruth, one of Elizabeth Gaskell's earlier novels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinj Posted May 23, 2010 Report Share Posted May 23, 2010 It is certainly keeping me awake because I am still trying to find out when the story gets going. Slow boring and complicated, not my best choice this week but I will try and finish it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grammath Posted May 24, 2010 Report Share Posted May 24, 2010 After two disappointments in a row - Douglas Coupland's Generation A and Ewan Morrison's Distance - I have reduced the chance of a hat trick by choosing an author I love - Jonathan Coe.Feel bad as haven't read this thread or indeed most others here for months. Hope you're getting on well with your Jonathan Coe, leyla and it is getting you out of your reading trough. Â I, too, am "reading" Coe: my new audiobook is "The Closed Circle", the sequel to "The Rotters' Club". That was a brilliant novel, as was the other of his I've read "What A Carve Up!", so I'm hoping this means three in a row. I find his writing hugely readable and funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Lazarus Posted May 24, 2010 Report Share Posted May 24, 2010 I'm reading The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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