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Feb 11, 2013 08:17PM

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Love it love it love it.



P&P is one of my all time favorite books. If you find the pacing slow or if it's difficult to get into, it helps to watch the BBC version while reading it your first time.



I've been reading and will be reading on and off for a while The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection.



My full review is here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
I've just started reading



Reading Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World on my tablet. This is my first foray into borrowing a Kindle book from the library. It seemed to download fine at first, then it seemed to crash my Kindle app. I reinstalled the app about 5 times, then downloaded the book again, and it seems to be working okay, now. Knock wood.



I loved Me Before You from beginning to the end. It's a very complex novel. It is well-written, heart-breaking, gripping and deeply moving. I cried my eyes out several times while reading this book. I don't think I've ever cried this much while reading a book before! This novel deals with the topic of euthanasia and could have been really depressing but it's a credit to the skill of the author that she makes the book so readable. This is a thought provoking story and, whatever you feel about assisted suicide, it will make you think about how you would cope if suddenly all your choices and decisions were taken away from you and you had to rely on others to do everything for you. I gave this book 4.5 Stars!
My full review is here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Now I'm a couple of chapters into






The Old Man and the Sea
I enjoyed this book. At 127 pages, The Old Man and the Sea was a quick read. I managed to read the entire novel in just under an hour. It was a touching and thought-provoking tale. I admired Santiago's determination and his refusal to let his spirit be broken. I loved Ernest Hemingway's writing style. I thought it was very similar to John Steinbeck's style (who is my favourite author by the way). Although it is a very short novel, the story got quite slow and repetitive in places. It is a good novel but I honestly didn't think it was worthy of the Pulitzer Prize it won in 1953.
My full review is here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Lean Mean Thirteen
I enjoyed this book but I didn't think it was anywhere near as good as the previous instalment, Twelve Sharp. The plot was predictable and virtually nothing happened in it to develop the characters further. I'm getting tired of the love triangle with Joe Morelli and Ranger and I wish Stephanie would finally choose one of them or else dump them both and date someone new! Janet Evanovich has let this go on for far too long and now there's no sexual tension left between the characters.
My full review is here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Now I'm halfway through


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Also reading Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, a fascinating book which I borrowed from my library, and Redoubt, the fourth installment in the Collegium Chronicles fantasy series.



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