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I've read some books.

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Jax Blunt
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This week. Quite a few in fact.  The lemon Grove. The book thief. The dark heroine. And I’ve finally finished the 10pm question.

I loved the book thief. The narrator’s voice. The humanity. The pain and sadness and hope and fierce joy. I almost started over reading it straight away. Instead I gave it to Big and I’m hoping she’ll enjoy it too.

This was a book that wormed its way into my soul, and I think will never leave me. I read a lot of books that are eminently forgettable, and a few that change me forever, and this is definitely one of the latter.

It’s hard to know how someone else will react to a book. We enjoy lots of the same books (we both really want to read Allegiant for example) but she’s at such a different stage in her life that I wonder whether this one will work for her.

I don’t know.

What have you been reading?

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11 responses to “I've read some books.”

  1. Midlife Singlemum avatar
    Midlife Singlemum

    I’m reading Caitlin Moran, How to be a Woman atm. I’m having deja vue, Did I mention this here before? I remember writing somewhere that I am surprised because I don’t usually appreciate too much body-function information. On the other hand, some of her observations and wisdom is spot on.

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    1. Jax Blunt avatar
      Jax Blunt

      I wrote about it when I read it, maybe we spoke then? I’m not that much of a fan though I really want to be.

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  2. Ruth J avatar
    Ruth J

    I’ve read LOADS this week. I finally finished The Undercover Economist (given me lots to think about but still couldn’t say that I ‘get’ economics), I read DWJ’s Charmed Life (fun, quirky and slightly unexpected in places), Jasper Fforde’s The Woman Who Died A Lot (quite a long way into a series, now, and still very readable, if less so than the first couple were), The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (good, but not, as claimed on the cover, ‘The Greatest Novel of the Twentieth Century’), and now I’ve started Blue Slipper Bay, which is chick lit set in the corner of the Isle of Wight where we’ve been staying all week. It’s mostly the geographical references that have my attention – again, second in a series, and not as good as the first.
    I have no idea when I last read so much in such a short space of time. It’s been quite liberating!

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    1. Jax Blunt avatar
      Jax Blunt

      Wow, that’s a huge amount. I’m managing to read a little at bedtime every day and surprised at how much I’ve got through this week.

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      1. Ruth J avatar
        Ruth J

        In my defence, we were on holiday, doing vast amounts of nothing. Even the children seem to have reached the holidays-are-for-reading stage. 🙂

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        1. Jax Blunt avatar
          Jax Blunt

          I don’t think reading is something that needs defence 🙂

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  3. Beth @plasticrosaries avatar
    Beth @plasticrosaries

    The Book Thief is one of those novels that has never left me – the pain is relentless as is the tragedy and misery. Wonderful novel, brilliant narrative voice – I want to dig out my copy now.

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    1. Jax Blunt avatar
      Jax Blunt

      It is excellent isn’t it?

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      1. Beth @plasticrosaries avatar
        Beth @plasticrosaries

        It is one of my favourites – especially from those not written by someone who lived through the experience.

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  4. Debbie avatar
    Debbie

    I just bought the book thief for Rebekah. (I bought a book for each child, for going on holiday – and gave them out just as we were stepping onto the ferry yesterday.) She is absorbed. Must admit I bought it for her because I wanted to read it too.
    Holidays are definitely for reading! Though there’s not much point paying to go somewhere interesting if that is *all* you are going to do. Trying to get everyone out of the house, can you tell?

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    1. Jax Blunt avatar
      Jax Blunt

      Be interested to hear what she thinks of it. I wondered if it might be a little overwhelming.

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