Came across this "alternative history" fiction...wonder if anybody has seen or read it??

Incomplete History of the Art of Funerary Violins

I bought "My Sister's Keeper" today, to compare it to the film, and have just spent approximately an hour and a half in tears - the kind where you have cried so much you can't really breathe. I thought it'd be terrible, too.

Proust and the Squid - fascinating.

"Einstein's Question" by Steve and Deja Whitehouse

I may restart Harry P. 7

Istarted it 2 years ago

I've just finished Patrick Gale's 'A Sweet Obscurity' - enjoyed it and really didn't see the ending coming.

Just started 'I found my horn' by Jasper Rees

What's that one about? It sounds like something I would read.

Jaques Derrida The Animal That Therefore I Am

I won't be reading it to small children - actually they're the largest sector of population this book might possibly appeal to because children can process abstracts can't they?

The Shack by William Young.

I'm reading the Earthsea Quartet by Ursula Le Guin (for the 2nd time)

Harmony - Its Theory and Practice by Ebeneezer Prout. Quite dated, but good grounding for the higher theory grades!

I'm reading The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and enjoying it.

Thr3e- TED DEKkER

The Time Traveller's wife, The Lovely Bones and My Sister's Keeper.

Those are my main three atm. I tend to juggle the books... I'm on the last few pages of Lovely Bones but haven't quite finished it yet (read it before). When I get to a boring bit of one, I start/carry on with another, then when there's a boring bit of that one, I start another one, then wonder what's happening with the first one, and go back and it's not boring.

I've got a lot more books on my shelves which are half read...

I've had a summer of Conn Iggulden's historical gore, I've recently finished the Ghengis Kahn trilogy and am now 3/4 of the way through the Julius Caesar Emporor series.

And to all those youngsters raving about Twilight, and probably loving the film as well - my daughter made me sit through it, and it was RUBBISH so I made her sit through a very young Kiefer Sutherland in the Lost Boys - a proper vampire film, and she loved it. Much better.

I'm currently reading Where Have All the Boys Gone? by Jenny Colgan.

Down the pub, most likely

I have had this on my list to get for some time, but I have a backlog at the moment.
There is another 'The Piano Teacher' by Elfriede Jelinek. It contributed to her winning the Nobel prize for Literature.

I am currently reading 'Hold Tight' by Harlan Coben. After one of his frieds commotted suicide, a lads parents are worried about his behaviour, and decide to spy on him by whatever means, eg secrety hacking into his emails etc
I recently finished 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' by Stephen Galloway and 'Between Each Breath' by Adam Thorpe (this has a strong music content - a promising British composer , married to a girl of aristocratic origins, goes off to Estonia to study Arvo Part, his big influence. He falls in love with a waitress who happens also to be a capable violinist). Both the above were good reads.
I also enjoyed 'The Reader' by Bernhard Schlink.

Showdown by TED DEKkER

I'm reading Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe and have just finished Die beiden Wanderer from the Brothers Grimm.

I'm currently reading The Invention of Scotland: Myth and history by Hugh Trevor-Roper.

nudge
by thaler and sunstein

(how framing choices can help individuals make the right decisions); broadly falls under the behavioural finance category. It was recommended by david cameron on his required reading list for tory mp's - but don't let that put you off.

the Lord of the Flies - W Golding.
Fantastic book, if you read between the lines.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Just 2000 and something pages to go.

I have just enjoyed 'Hold Tight' by Harlan Coben, and have just started 'The Outcast'by Sadie Jones

You mean just the spaces? Sorry, yes it's a fantastic book

I've just started Peter Ackroyd's Dickens.

I've just read the new Sebastian Faulkes - a Week in December. It is exceptionally enjoyable and I highly recommend it. The children go back to school tomorrow and things needed to be done - but they didn't get done because I couldn't put the novel down!
Also, the new William Trevor is marvellous.

I am a big fan of William Trevor. Besides the novels, I recommend his short stories.

Fantastic book anyway.

I'm reading The Inner-City of God by John Pridmore.

The reccomended book for part of AS history is nineteen-eighty four so I might read that soon

I've just finished the House of Night books after looking for a vampire book in which the heroine doesn't spend 75% of the book moping...

these seem to be thin on the ground so I settled on the ones were the main character (Zoey) only spends 50% of the books moping

I love that book. You're so lucky to get to study it in history, we never got to study relevant literature in history, we just learnt what happened (and why).

At the moment I'm reading a book of essays by Joan Didion that a wonderful friend bought me as a surprise.

Just finished La's Orchestra Saves The World.........by Alexander Mc Call Smith.
Started Consequences by Penelope Lively.
Both enjoyable.
Bev

I read La's Orchestra, which I did like, but felt that the orchestra itself was sort of missing. I haven't read any Penelope Lively for ages, so I might give Consequences a go

Yes, the orchestra was missing. I liked the story though, and loved the ending.
Consequences is good so far, half way now.

Well, its not really in the lesson but at least the teacher told everyone it was relevent for 'Totalitarian Ideology'

Ah, well it's a good read anyway, if a little bit depressing, depending on how you read it.

I didn't read Nineteen Eighty-Four myself until I was at university - I remember reading it between moves at Scrabble club and having to be dragged away from it when it was my turn! The reason I imply I should have read it earlier is because one of the topics I covered in GCSE Eng Lit was dystopian literature for which the set texts were Z for Zachariah and Brave New World. On one occasion the teacher made some reference to Nineteen Eighty-Four which presupposed that everyone had read it - all I remember is that I clamped my hands over my ears to avoid hearing anything that might spoil it for me!

Does Consequences have a low depravity content? I'm asking becasue books which are too sad/violent/harrowing make me depressed.

Read the first few 50 or so pages yesterday and it seems good

Reading through dentistry textbooks even though I have no exams for ages...I'm loathe to start reading a new book at the moment because the new Dan Brown novel is out on the 15th and I need my attentions free for that!

Began 2666: A novel by Roberto Bolaño last night. At over 800 pages and in a hardback edition it's a bit heavy to take on the coach to London, so I've been reading Managing with Asperger Syndrome by Malcolm Johnson.

Very low. Nothing at all really. Very acceptable. Just finished it and it was lovely. One naughty bit with no details at all.

My beloved sister bought me the "Piano for Dummies" book . I'm also reading the AB pink theory book. I've forgotten all the theory stuff.

Rereading Galileo's Daughter: A drama of science, faith and love by Dava Sobel.

On a related topic, Women in Space: Following Valentina by David J Shayler and Ian Moule.

Have started and am enjoying 'White Tiger' by Aravind Adiga, last years Booker Prize winner.

Rereading for the umpteenth time, "Pride and Prejudice".

Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy.

What's that book about, I've always wondered...