What are you reading now, beginning of 2012?

Come back and let me know what you think when you look at it - I'd be curious to know if other people like it as much as I did.
I also read How To Be a Woman and How To Leave Twitter - funny books, nice light reading.

I'm reading The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides which I'm enjoying. It was my Christmas hardback.

I don't give books ratings but think I'd have given it a 2 at most. I hated all of the characters and was just bored all the way through - wanted them to hurry up and die to be honest! And as for that bloomin' butler...

Gave it a 6 becuase I thought it was a good concept that was sensitively handled. I would have given it more but the way he kept starting to describe soemthing in the book and then would say "but let me go back to the beginning of this episode and explain" drove me mad. No don't go back, keep talking! Was distracting. In fact may downgrade it to a 5 in retrospect!

GoandPlay - haven't seen the film of One Day yet either, don't think I'll bother.

[turns wireless on on Kindle to explore Hunger Games]

I have just got a Kindle but the local library's ebooks collection is limited, but I am determined to try it out so am reading Complicit by Nicci French.

I liked the concept of Never Let Me Go but I can't say I liked it. I forced myself to read from a book circle thing on here years ago.

I also liked the first half of, 'Room' but really, really disliked the latter part. Hated, 'Never Let Me Go' too. Why did you give it six out of ten, Blossom? Most people on here seem to love it (I hated, 'The Remains Of The Day' too).

I started The Hunger Games at the beginning of Christmas and have just started the 3rd and final book. I've loved every page! I wouldn't have thought it would be my type of books but downloaded the sample on the Kindle. I love that about the Kindle - I've read so many different books that I wouldn't have normally because of the samples.

TheGoddessBlossom I think we shared a book shelf last year! I really enjoyed The Woman Before Me and Cuckoo. I liked The Room but not so much the second half of the book. One Day was so good that I am reluctant to watch the film.

lol reading Yellow Submarine on the ipad...it is such a good book

Thanks Freedom I will keep reading. I hope I do like it and want to read the next one, it's great having a good book to read. :)

Just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuro Ishiguro (he also wrote Remains of the Day) - I give it a 6 out of 10. Now reading The Hand that Last Held Mine, by Maggie O'Farrell, really good so far, also enjoyed her After You'd Gone.

Have downloaded the Game of Thrones set and William Boyd's Any Human Heart.

Loved when God was a Rabbit - have also enjoyed Room, The Help, Water For Elephants, The Woman before me, The Book Thief, Cuckoo, Blacklands and One Day recently.

I'm reading the Korea book as well. It's horrific to think that people are living like that, I didn't realise it was that extreme

Nothing to Envy - about life in North Korea. Absolutely bonkers.

I have just finished The Return of Capt John Emmett.
Cried at the ending but loved it..brilliant book!!

Starting When God was a Rabbit or something like that tonight

If you like Austen and don't mind a bit of stupidity, 'Pride And Prejudice With Zombies' and 'Sense And Sensibility With Seamonsters' are good fun.

I read the first two pages of, 'Death Comes To Pemberley' in the bookshop and it was one and half pages too many!

Les Miserables. My aim this year is to read the books everybody else has!

Slash autobiography just finished. Just started Great Expectations. Again.

BistoBear yes that whole beginning bit with the maths book and island was a bit of a chore to read through but it does get better. I bet you will want to go right onto book 3 when you have finished though.

David Cameron biography

Just finished Death Comes to Pemberley, P D James.

Apparently Jane Austen is P D James fav author and this is her idea of what could have happened following on from Pride and Prejudice.

But this did not work for me, it was a crime novel that's only connection with Austen was the names of the characters used. It was neither a good follow-on from Austen or a classic P D James novel.

I've just finished The Penal Colony by Richard Herley which was a freebie on my Kindle. Really good read, quite dark and disturbing in places but well written and enjoyable. Quite surprised it was a freebie.

I've now started on The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson. I haven't read the first one (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) but I saw the film last week and really enjoyed the story so I'm giving the second book a go. Not sure so far, there's a lot of nonsense information about the Dimensions of Mathematics, the book that Lisbeth is reading, and I'm really not interested in equations! I will perservere though :)

The Forsyte saga- is fab

Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Product Manager's Desk Reference - Steven Haines

and an Audio book version of

Are you Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman - Nuala O'Faolain

Reading the Schapelle Corby book - No More Tomorrows. Not sure what I think yet. Love these threads too, just added fair few to my wish list.