UK Book Club discussion

Hi I think I will have done 50 by the end of this month at the rate I am going through books lately.

Here's my list so far

1 The Hobbit
2 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
3 Girl on the Platform
4 The Grey Man
5 Pride and Prejudice
6 The Monks Hood
7 The Potters Field
8 The Devil's Novice
9 The Book Boy
10 The Guernsey Literary Potatoe Peel Pie Society
11 Head over Heels in the Dales
12 The Builders
13 Watership Down
14 Moll Flanders
15 Robinson Crusoe
16 The Da Vinci Code
17 Maggie's Story
18 The Underbury Witches

Wow! You have read lots of books in 2 - 3 weeks!!

Wow you really are getting through them Lynne, how do you fit it all in!

Lots of night shifts with patients who sleep all night!

Ah handy job that then :-) I have a similar thing when doing night bat surveys too

19. One Good Turn by Chris Ryan
20. A Dream Come True by Maureen Lee

Both Quick Reads from the library, both new authors for me.

Have several nightshifts coming up so by Friday next week you never know!

Haha, that must be a record of some kind!! Definitely in this group anyway :)

Sam wrote: "Ah handy job that then :-) I have a similar thing when doing night bat surveys too"

'Night bat Surveys' ... ??? :)

Peter wrote: "Sam wrote: "Ah handy job that then :-) I have a similar thing when doing night bat surveys too"

'Night bat Surveys' ... ??? :)

I'm an ecologist so we do lots of surveys for different species including bats to see where they are, what 'routes' they travel along and where they feed. It can involve a far bit of sitting beside roads being seriously bored for two hours at dusk and dawn. (Hope that clears it up lol)

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Sounds like interesting work though. There's a land research institute round the corner from my house in Aberdeen (the Macaulay Institute). I've read of people from there doing similar stuff. Think one of them got rabies after being bitten by a bat so it's risky work. :)

Glad I am not the only one who can get bitten on the job! Yes someimes our patients do bite!

Yea it is if you get good numbers, but some nights theres nothing and you start to wonder why you've dragged yourself out of bed at 2 in the morning, but never mind.

Thankfully they tend to ignore us most of the time, as we stay out of their roosts (where they sleep in the day) and avoid handling them, as you need special licenses to do either. Although I do know one or two bat specialists who have had a nip or two from the wee things and they've got surprisingly sharp teeth apparantly!

I would love to do work with animals but I think I'm more suited to computers and offices! :)

21. The Raven in the Foregate by Ellis Peters
22. A Rare Benetictine by Ellis Peters
23. Secrets by Lynne Barrett-Lee

heh, I think we need to revise Lynne's target upwards. 500 more like. :)

Peter wrote: "heh, I think we need to revise Lynne's target upwards. 500 more like. :)"

I concur, she's getting through her 50 far too fast and showing the rest of us up lol!

Haha yeah, we'll all aim for 50 and Lynn has to do 50 50's :P 2500, sound feasible? :P

The rate Lynne is getting through them, I think that's very feasible lol :-D

Sorry every one! I do tend to read a lot! I have several books on the go at a time and listen to unabridged audio books too when doing housework or knitting!

24. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Going to read Through the Looking Glass next!

25 The Tannery by Sherri Hewson
26 The Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

Hay Lynne slow down I still on my second book this year LOL xx

27 Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawence

28 Talking Heads 2 by Alan Bennett
29 The Boy in Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

There is no stopping you, Lynne! The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is great, I read it last year.

30. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

Right I defin think that you need a much higher target Lynne lol!!!

I think to slow Lynne down Lynne should read War and Peace twice before she can mark it up as a read book. Haha! :D PLEASE MEMBERS VOTES WILL BE COUNTED

I defin agree with that, that's the book that's slowed me down so far this year, taken me nearly a month but I've passed page 1100 so not too much left!!

Haha yeah, Lynn's new goal is to read War and Peace 50 times within a year :P

Well done Sam! Have to let us know whether it was worth it or not!

Hey you ganging up on me? I have read War and Peace twice already! Once last year and once a few years ago!

I am on holiday after tonights shift and although I am taking my ereaders I don't think I will get to read much with my little brother and sister taking me out! It may give you a chance to catch me up! Lol!

Haha, you really do read a lot!!! Maybe we'll have to think of some other long or boring books for you to read! :)

Lynne, we are just in awe!!!!! (How about Middlemarch and A Suitable Boy? - they're both door stops....)

31 Heavenly Date and other flirtations by Alexander McCall Smith
32 Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding

These may be my last ones for a few days as I am off to the E Midlands and W Yorks for a few days.

Will catch up with all the posts in all the discusions when I get home, unless I can get on a pc before I get back!

I've got a good one to slow Lynne down (I'm trawling my way through it at the moment), it's called Lost Lives: the Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died As a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles by David McKittrick and others and covers every death that occured during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. I can only read a bit at a time.

Hehe, poor Lynn :D

Have a good time in E Midlands and W Yorks :)

Lynne wrote: "31 Heavenlt Date and other flirtations by Alexander McCall Smith
32 Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding

These may be my last ones for a few days as I am off to the E Midlands and W Yorks for..."

Lynne my friend did you read my story yet and what did you think of the main charactor? What a handsome man hay :) xx

33 Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

34 Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

35 Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

36 Dime Store Magic by Kelly Armstrong

37 The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland

38. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Sorry about this!

Oh my God, at that speed you'll be at 200 by the end of the year!

39 Talking Heads 1 by Alan Bennett
40 Uncle Vanya by Chekov
41 Acid Row by Minnette Walters

Hay Lynne are you really sure you are reading these books LOL! as you are getting through them quick. Just joking

Thanks to all my night shifts I am getting through them all!

42 The Summons by John Grisham

I'v read that lynne some time back its a good book. Most John Griham's are quite good reads.

nick