What are you reading now, beginning of 2012?

I read it recently too but could only really say I enjoyed the last quarter. I was very tired when I read it so kept falling asleep which probably didn't help!

CBH88....I read the Tiger's wife quite recently, I really enjoyed it in places but overall the book left me a little bemused. I dont know if it was just me but it seemed to lack a narrative thread. I would be interested to hear other opinions

I am now starting fingersmith (with thanks to the other thread in adult fiction) Only a couple of pages in but loving and looking forward to reading more. Have also just bought a couple more books of Amazon!!

I'm also a new kindle addict. Having been fairly sniffy about them in the past. Now I'm re-reading old (free) classics on the Kindle and working through my paperback backlog (charity bookshop weakness) at the same time.

Just starting "Hare with amber eyes" in paperback, and re-reading North and South on Kindle. It's a sort of contest between the two formats, to see which I am going to pick up more often.

I just finished reading 'Never Let Me Go' but I was hugely disappointed! Currently beginning 'The Tiger's Wife', but its taking a little while to get into...

Have nearly finished Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Was given a Kindle for Christmas and a £50 Amazon voucher to download books, so I have had a mad splurge and bought loads of books on the kindle sale. Lots of cheap books with good reviews, so looking forward to reading some different things to what I would normally read. Downloaded lots of the free classics as well - Austen, Dickens, Wilkie Collins etc etc.

I lurve my Kindle, best present ever...

I am reading the Alienist by Caleb Carr. It is a really good book if you like thrillers. It is a really interesting read as it has loads of history in it as well as being a thriller.

I love threads like this! I'm reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. I love it and haven't wanted to devour a book so fast for a long time - unfortunately I can't as DC3 is only 7 months old so reading time a bit limited and I've been reading it since September.... I now really want to read the Virgin Suicides and will be keeping an eye out for his latest coming out in paperback.

I'm nearly at the end of The Finkler Question and finding it slow going, the reviews all say "hilarious" but it isn't my sort of humour.

Just finished 'Snowdrops'. It wasn't as good as I was expecting from all the rave reviews I'd read, but it was a decent holiday-type read. I thought his descriptions of Russia in winter were good, but there was far too much build-up where I wasn't sure where the book was going IMO.

Now reading 'Jamrach's Menagerie'. I've only read the first chapter, but I'm hoping it will be good - like of like 'Life of Pi'.

I too started 'Wolf Hall' and 'The Children's Book' and failed to get into them. Will try again with both at some point.

Oh wow- discovering Harry for the first time! :o

Reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog, started yesterday. And a Penguin guide type book to "the great composers".

New year's day I finished the latest Shardlake, which I enjoyed.

Now I'm on to a rather strange book called Blackout by Connie Willis. 'Twas a Xmas present. It is a mix of historical (WWII) and scifi - time travel invented, historians travel back for study purposes, assume they cannot change the past, time and location slippage occurring.

I suspect the past is going to be changed irrevocably in an awful way and everyone will have a very stressful time. It's not terrible but I'm about halfway through and I don't think it's going to be my Book of the Year.

Loved The Help, and Jacob de Z (much better than Cloud Atlas imo). I seem to have acquired, or built up, a pile of books-I-haven't-read-yet which is nearly 30 strong. Not sure I want to read any of them.

Just read A Study in Scarlet as my 1st book of 2012 with a resolution to read Sherlock Holmes and some Dickens as never read either in full. I really enjoyed it - more than I expected, and definitely going to read more.

Now reading Before I Go To Sleep - actually am up as recharging my kindle so that I can read the book in the morning whilst waiting for mum at a hospital appointment!

Just finished the new King and now reading an old King!

I couldn't bring myself to watch the film of, 'Never Let Me Go' even though I seem to be one of the few people in the world who actually likes Kiera Knightley.

Just finished Jane Eyre on my Kindle and now reading A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

I'm reading A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. It's very good, but I haven't found it unputdownable. Just finished Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick (in the kindle sale for 99p) which really was unputdownable. Highly recommended.

I just read Faith by Jennifer Haigh. Yesterday I started reading The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta.

Coincidentally, I read Never Let Me Go a couple of weeks ago. Like others on this thead, I was underwhelmed and for similar reasons. I think the film was better than the book. Heresy, I know. I adored The Remains of the Day though, a truly stunning book with a very compelling narrative voice, IMO.

Another one with snowdrops to be read. Along with thirteenth tale for RL book club plus have downloaded a Agatha Raisin omnibus for v. Easy read.

I've just read "Stolen Child" by Laura Elliot which was fab and now reading some lighthearted book...The Art of Friendship, cant remember offhand who wrote it.

Next on the pile is Tully by Paulinna Simons.

I've just read Snowdrops for my book group and was really unimpressed. The description of it as a psychological thriller seemed to be stretching the truth to me, I missed the tension somehow. Will now read the mn reviews of it!

I've recently started The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell - I was really keen to read it as I'm fascinated with Japan and enjoyed Black Swan Green. I haven't been able to read a good chunk of it without interruption yet and keep having to go back a few pages to get back into it as there is so much historical/character detail. I'm hoping my patience will be rewarded when I get the chance to have a good go at it!

I got My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young for Christmas and am really looking forward to it too.

I've decided one of my New Years Resolutions will be to read more historical fiction .

Have just finished 'New York' by Edward Rutherfurd, I really enjoyed Sarum years ago so when I saw this in the library I thought I would give it a go. Was OK;

also 'The Spirit Level' which I'd wanted to read for ages, again a library find, sadly not as convincing as I hoped it would be. Some truth in it IMO but I deeply distrust any single explanation for anything tbh.

also 'The Ice Cream Girls' by Dorothy Koomson, very readable but annoyingly implausible, weak ending, also could see the twist coming a mile away. Enjoyed the characters though.

also 'The Dilemma' by Penny Vincenzi, well, if you've read one you've read them all. The dilemma involved whether to continue as a billionaire's wife or downsize to multi-millionairehood. My life exactly.

also a thing about Vichy France and its battles with Britain. Very cheerily written and at least I know a bit more about Mers-el-Kabir now.

Depressed about going back to work with less time to read. Have got Life and Fate on my bedside table, I do want to read that but may have to wait for ds to leave home.

I've just started Snowdrops too. Last book I read which was set in Russia was Ice Road - loved it. Hoping to love this too...am trying to keep an open mind.

snowdrops - as recomended by mumsnet and becuse mn recomended it - so far - a few chapters in its boring me so much i just look at the book sitting there and feel guilty

so yesterday i started 'one day' as everyone says its great. so far it';s a piss easy read the writing is excellent and i will happily pick it up

Ooh I didn't know JE had got a new one out. I LOVE, 'The Virgin Suicides' though I was less taken by, 'Middlesex.'