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TexasProgresive

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3. Reading Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

Reply to scarletwoman (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2015, 06:09 PM

Feb 2015

I like if very much. As hermetic posted last week it is a British spy novel written in the 1st person. The main character Serena is a voracious reader of fiction- able to gobble up whole paragraphs in a gulp (sounds like someone we know). She pursued a maths degree at Cambridge under pressure from her mother wishing instead to study English lit. Anyway she ends up a low level employee of MI5 and the story really begins there.

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What are you reading the week of Sunday, February 22, 2015? [View all] scarletwoman Feb 2015 OP

Hello, everyone! Thank you for the thread, scarletwoman. Enthusiast Feb 2015 #1

I'm glad you liked Rankin, and that Mrs. E liked the Peter May book - hope you like it, too. scarletwoman Feb 2015 #2

Reading Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan TexasProgresive Feb 2015 #3

Ian McEwan looks like an interesting author - looked him up on Fantastic Fiction. scarletwoman Feb 2015 #4

Cool!! hermetic Feb 2015 #8

Will do. TexasProgresive Feb 2015 #10

Finished reading Bich Minh Nguyen's Pioneer Girl. Started japple Feb 2015 #5

You do some unusual (to me) reading. :) scarletwoman Feb 2015 #6

I plodded through a couple chapters (Moonshiner's Daughter) last night and, connection japple Feb 2015 #7

Retired! Lucky you! scarletwoman Feb 2015 #12

I do almost all reading on e-books. A couple years ago, I had multiple japple Feb 2015 #13

Ah, it makes perfect sense that you would choose e-books. scarletwoman Feb 2015 #14

Finished Rankin's BLOOD HUNT hermetic Feb 2015 #9

I can relate - I strongly dislike blood & gore and refuse to read "thrillers" for just that reason. scarletwoman Feb 2015 #11