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Original poster

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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dinny · 11/10/2005 21:41

oh, Hatstand - love Anna Karenina. Is it your first read of it?

hatstand · 11/10/2005 21:40

what an interesting bunch. right now I'm reading International Criminal Law by Antonio Cassese but that's a cheat coz it's for work. when I go to bed I'll read a couple of pages of Cloud Atlas. best recent read was Anna Karenina

Angeliz · 11/10/2005 21:36

No, i just had a few minutes and dd was asleep in her pram and i splashed out. I love buying books!

frannykenstein · 11/10/2005 21:28

I'm reading Booty Nomad by Scott Mebus. It's pretty funny and a huge relief after The Sunday Philosophy Club which I yawned through. I'm also dipping in and out of The Lemon Tree by Julian Barnes which is a wonderful book of short stories.

dinny · 11/10/2005 21:25

have just re-read Nicci French's The Safe House (heavyweight, I know ) I had forgotten the cliffhanger so it was most enjoyable (again!).
Now starting The Bookseller Of Kabul...

Hazellnut · 11/10/2005 21:23

sounds like an interesting mix Angeliz - I LOVED memoirs of a geisha... MOst of my book buying at the mo is stuff that jumps into the trolley in tesco so isn't as interesting !! Any reasons behind the different choices or did they just take your fancy at the time ??

Angeliz · 11/10/2005 20:50

I was in town yesterday, a ararity these days and bought a few books. I was saying to dp i wonder what people would think of the pile i chose.

An open heart- The Dalai Lama
Poems from childhood
Digital photography
Memoirs of a geisha

FrenchSorciere · 11/10/2005 20:45

44 Scotland Street here too, it's got some great characters

we're going to see McCall Smith at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Saturday (the kids talk rather than the grown ups, dd very excited!!)

Hazellnut · 11/10/2005 20:43

ooh roobie, thats on my to be read pile too - choices choices.... must try and read more than I buy....

Roobie · 11/10/2005 20:42

44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith

Angeliz · 11/10/2005 20:38

I haven't read the bookseller of Kabul but am finding this quite easy to read and follow. Very interesting too.
(I only manage half an hour each night in bed though as baby has decided that sleeping all night is actually quite boring!! )

Posey · 11/10/2005 20:38

Home by Julie Myerson.
Interesting for the social history once you give up trying to remember all the relationships!

Have got "Can you tell what it is yet?" Rolf Harris biography to read next.

phatcat · 11/10/2005 20:36

interweaving 'In Another Light' by Andrew Greig with 'The No Cry Sleep Solution' by Elizabeth Pantley. Really looking forward to the new Alan Bennett next.

Hazellnut · 11/10/2005 20:32

Whats it like Angeliz ? I have it on my to be read pile and I am needing to start a new book. I didn't actually enjoy the bookseller of kabul that much... is it similar ??

Angeliz · 11/10/2005 20:11

A hundred and one days, a Baghdad journal.

It's a reporters story of her time in Iraq when was was imminent.

Dior · 11/10/2005 20:09

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unicorn · 11/10/2005 20:04

just read 'My sisters keeper'...Jodi Picoult.

It will make a fantastic film I think.
It is very very interesting on morals/ethics - and issues of parenting/siblings etc...

(a tadge contrived - but hey ho that's what makes a hollywood blockbuster!!!)

spidermama · 11/10/2005 20:04

School is Not Compulsory - The Essential Introduction to Home-Based Education.
Education Otherwise.

ThomBat · 11/10/2005 20:01

Eleanor of Aquitaine by Marion Meade, and I also am dipping into In the Company of Cheerful ladies by Alexandra .... ekk forgot his last name.

Milliways · 11/10/2005 20:00

Eve Green. Am working through the Richard & Judy books ATM.

crazydazy · 11/10/2005 19:57

Bridget Jones 2 - Edge of Reason for the second time and have seen the film about 10 ten times. Sad I know!!!!

Enid · 11/10/2005 19:53

ooh mummycan I really enjoyed that

skinnycow · 11/10/2005 19:52

The Insider by Piers Morgan - tat at its best

Read The diary of a manhatten call girl earlier this week and Jordan's autobiography

Shallow? Me?

Nemo666 · 11/10/2005 19:44

some chick lit called the school run...it helps me to fall asleep..lol

Medea · 11/10/2005 19:42

Sarah Kane's plays. . .Egads, how depressing/disturbing!

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