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Comment by Marilynn - Mums on Top Editor on March 8, 2010 at 10:05pm

Lol go Zoe!!!

I must follow your example - it's such a GREAT idea!!

Comment by Zoe on March 8, 2010 at 8:34pm

I have just finished The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards. I enjoyed it on the whole and would recommend it to friends. I am now 56 books into the Top 100 and my hubby is 70 - can you tell who speed reads and doesn't look after the baby all day :oP

Comment by Marilynn - Mums on Top Editor on February 1, 2010 at 2:49pm

I think it's so cool that both of you are doing it at the same time! Very cool concept!

That Marion struggles with depression wouldn't shock me - she writes so well about it, and I always think there's experience when people can do it so well.

Comment by Zoe on February 1, 2010 at 2:06pm

That sounds like an interesting book.

Ha ha, he thinks the girly books are crap but is determined to read the full 100. I think there are 8 Jodi Picoults and 9 Marian Keyes ;oP He couldn't stand Jane Eyre and he has just read Wuthering Heights which he didn't enjoy either! It is quite funny watching him read them!

Comment by Heather Goode on February 1, 2010 at 1:50pm

"Running with scissors" is by Augusten Burroughs and is a 'memoir' . Some of the people he talks about dispute vigorously his recollections. I think his mother handed him over to her therapist/physchiatrist in his teens and he grew up with their family.

I read that Marion Keyes is struggling with depression at the moment.
Zoe, that's amazing that your husband would even consider reading chick lit. Most men I know don't read much fiction full stop let alone chick stuff. My husband read Jane Eyre because I said it was my favourite but that's about it.
I'm in a bookclub and our next book is "Crossing to Safety" and our last one was "Scar tissue" by Antony Kedis. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. I also read "My Booky Wook" by Russell Brand. Sex, and drugs, no rock and roll but much funnier than Kedis's one and he seems more likeable.

Comment by Marilynn - Mums on Top Editor on February 1, 2010 at 11:38am

Yes, agree about Picoult - many of her books are the same, and not necessarily logical. In the book coming out, there's an obvious plot flaw used for convenience of her story.

Didn't like This Charming Man so much. Not quite sure why. Perhaps, because I've enjoyed her other books and felt it was not as good as some of the others?

Running with Scissors - this is the story of the asperger's boy?

Comment by Zoe on February 1, 2010 at 9:58am

My hubby has got to read This Charming Man to finish the top 50! Not read the two you mentioned but will keep my eyes open for them. I understand what you mean about books written to be made into movies.

Comment by Heather Goode on February 1, 2010 at 9:36am

I am just finishing "This Charming Man" by marion Keyes. A great holiday read. I also bought myself some books for Christmas. "Running with scissors" (Burroughs) and "Dress your family in courderoy and denim" by my new favourite author, David Sedaris. Also bought the new one by Ruth Reichl (ex New York Times restaurant reviewer) as I love her others. Has anyone read these?
I found "My sister's keeper" a bit neat/cute (is that the right word), as in all loose ends tidied up. I also don't like books that are too obviously written with a tv/movie in mind.
"The Bronze Horseman" was epic.
Has anyone read Tim Winton? I love "Cloudstreet" so much.

Comment by Zoe on February 1, 2010 at 7:44am

Yeah the Brnze Horseman books are sad but gripping. My mum read the first 2 while she was here waiting for Maggie to arrive!! Even my hubby enjoyed them!

I have just read Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult but it was too close to The Green Mile by Stephen King which is one of my faves. I am just finding a lot of her books to be along the same lines. I really enjoyed My Sisters Keeper and Vanishing Acts but they were the first 2 of hers that I have read.

Ha ha, Grapes of Wrath...my hubby told me it was on the list so I had to read it so I dutifully did then I went to tick it off only to find it wasn't even on the list! I had forgotten that.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is another good one, I watched the film last week which was done well too.

Comment by Crystal Pinzone on February 1, 2010 at 7:16am

I am just reading the Paullina Simons 'The Bronze Horseman' series at the moment myslef. I definately recommend reading it. It is really very sad though, made me cry several times (but Im a big sook).

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