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Which book are you reading at the moment?

135 replies

kcemum · 09/10/2005 22:23

I'm reading Hesters Story by Adele Geras.

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Nbg · 16/10/2005 16:02

The Highway Code!

MrsSpoon · 16/10/2005 16:00

Beetlejuice, good job I'm going away for a couple of days, minus children then! Just DH to try and neglect!

Gomez · 15/10/2005 23:15

Gulag, by Anne Applebaum. Absolutley enthralling.

bosscat · 15/10/2005 23:13

am reading dan brown's angels and demons, don't ask me why and if I don't finish it soon I'm going to top myself because its toe curlingly bad.

mugface · 15/10/2005 22:54

I was also very dsapointed with Nick Hornby's A long way down. Really quite boring! The characters i couldn't warm to and it was just very samey all through.

I would heartily recomend Adele Parks,have read 3 of her books recently and really enjoyed them.

beetlejuice73 · 15/10/2005 22:35

Mrs Spoon, glad I read Secret History before becoming a mother. Otherwise DD would have had to change her own nappy.

MrsSpoon · 15/10/2005 21:06

LOL albert, in that case I'm reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory too, it's very good!

albert · 15/10/2005 20:51

I've got 3 on the go at the moment - The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan, The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Flat Stanley to DS before he goes to sleep

MrsSpoon · 15/10/2005 20:32

Now reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt, hooked already (only about 10 pages in).

greenmonsterbean · 15/10/2005 20:31

yo-yo I'm reading small island too. Perhaps I should be reading it now, instead of posting!

swedishmum · 14/10/2005 00:33

The Lovely Bones was imo much more readable than the Timw Traveller's Wife. Still not fantastic though. At least I finished it!

swedishmum · 14/10/2005 00:29

Not enjoying The Time Traveler's Wife (I must have an American spelling version) - it's so dull, contrived and boring. Only read it on the loo now. Same with Donna Tartt.
Many modern authors seem to work too hard. Any recommendations - I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez, can do Isabelle Allende but anything Tolkein or JK Rowling leaves me grabbing for the old Thomas Hardy or Jane Austen favourites.

littlerach · 12/10/2005 21:13

Half way through Simon Garfield's Secret Lives. Is very good. Am hoping that I didn't dream that i saw a new Margerat Forster book last week.
Anyone know?/

Rowlers · 12/10/2005 20:52

Just finished "A gathering Light" by Jennifer Donnelly. I'd never heard of it and it was recommended. Fab book. Very readable.
Also just read Bill Bryson's Notes from a small Island. Laugh out loud funny. I snorted a lot through that.
Just about to start John O'Farrell "This is your life"

Passionkiller · 12/10/2005 20:48

December - Phil Rickman, for about the third time! But only cos I'm waiting for his new book to be published.

I love the blend of supernatural and crime in his books and I always turn to horror/crime when the evenings start to draw in.

hatstand · 12/10/2005 19:39

I wasn't that fussed by the Time Traveller's Wife. imo a clever trick of chronology served to disguise a boring and unconvincing love story. I didn't particularly like (or even dislike) the characters and failed to understand why they loved each other.

MrsSpoon · 11/10/2005 23:53

Wasn't fussed on either The Lovely Bones or The Time Traveller's Wife, the latter being more appealing that the former.

sykes · 11/10/2005 23:50

Time Traveller's Wife is okay, bit like the lovely bones but good.

MrsSpoon · 11/10/2005 23:47

Foxinsocks, The Little Friend is worth it, keep going, agree that it is beautifully written, I found it one of those really slow burners, worth persevering with.

dinny · 11/10/2005 22:34

have you read Doestoevsky's Crime & Punishment, Hatstand? most amazing.

hatstand · 11/10/2005 22:31

yes Dinny it was - loved it. It's the richest book I think I've read. am contemplating War and Peace but not just yet

katymac · 11/10/2005 22:05

Just finished Coot Club and started The big Six
by Arthur Ransome.....kids books are great

beetlejuice73 · 11/10/2005 22:03

Coming to the end of The Diceman - very enjoyable and easy to read. Didn't see how he could keep it going for 500+ pages, but it holds up well.
Thought The Little Friend was really disappointing, having loved The Secret History - don't think I'm the only one to feel that.
Next on the list is Francis Wheen's Mumbo Jumbo etc.

spacedonkey · 11/10/2005 22:03

Just finished reading Brothers by Bernice Rubens - brilliant heart-breaking saga of five generations of jewish history. V highly recommended

foxinsocks · 11/10/2005 21:41

I am still reading Donna Tartt's The Little Friend - have got stuck half way - it's not my normal type of book but I do like her writing style. Am supplementing that with a no name crime novel - can't remember the title.

I also enjoyed the Line of Beauty (thought it was beautifully written) but got slightly annoyed towards the end (but now can't remember why). Great book though.

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