Guest Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 'Life Moves Pretty Fast: the lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies any more)' by Hadley Freeman. If you were a young girl in the 80s the significance of 'Dirty Dancing' might have passed you by as you gazed in silent awe at Patrick Swayze. Read this book to discover what your fifteen year old self missed, and then plan on spending more time with Netflix and your DVDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalman Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Just finished The Dyfed Enigma by Randall Jones Pugh and F.W. Holiday, all about UFO sightings in Wales in 1977. Now onto Just Another Word by Ivor Brown, which is one of a series of books he wrote about archaic words; essentially the sort of book that Peter Bowler does these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WigglySi Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Currently reading: The Girl On The Train Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joinerisme Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Clean Burn by Karen Sandler.A detective hunting for some missing children,good so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Sleeps Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Finished: Germany : Memories of a Nation - Neil MacGregor [review] A lovely book. Detailed yet concise, and I flew through it. Started: Between Two Worlds: How the English became Americans - Malcolm Gaskill [review] Which is equally as enjoyable, so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzijlstra Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Since I handed in my draft I have been reading the Game of Thrones books, I haven't seen the series yet, as I like to read the books before I watch stuff like that. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised with the first, but for some reason the format doesn't appeal long term. I am struggling through the final book now and I don't think I'll get the next book. Coming up is the new Kazuo Ishiguoro, can't wait to start on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatrajah Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 (edited) I'm about half way through "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by the Israeli academic, Yuval Noah Harari. The book contains some speculative but fairly convincing ideas about the early days of mankind. That the Agricultural Revolution was not, in many ways, a good thing for the wellbeing of the human race is one of the more surprising ideas he puts forward. Edited June 26, 2015 by fatrajah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 i dont read many books but just finished the 4 walking dead novels, now currently reading the latest Hellraiser book by Clive Barker "the scarlet gospels" so far its awesome, gorey and a lil bit on the weird pervy side as youd expect from the hellraisers lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikki-red Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Ive just finished the Hunger games Trilogy. Theyre really easy to read, probably because I believe theyre aimed at teenagers! I really enjoyed them tho, and theyve made me think I would like to see the films. Theres not many books that make me think that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickw Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett going well with the series now ( must buy more!!!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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