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What are you reading now, beginning of 2012?

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posey · 02/01/2012 17:42

I am reading Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending. Loving it.
Also Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I have never read them before Blush but am in the process of reading them to/with ds and thoroughly enjoying them.
Have got so many books piled up to read it is really quite exciting!

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Takver · 02/01/2012 18:42

Half way through Crisis Economics by Nouriel Roubini (sp?) but I've misplaced it (v annoying as I'd just got to the interesting bit about what he thinks we should do now!)

Until I find it I'm reading Bluestockings about the history of women's education, but I'm not especially impressed though I had been really looking forward to it, its rather superficial.

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posey · 02/01/2012 18:10

I love these threads (I know, I started it) but they give me so much inspiration for what to read and ideas for my book club. I am also always in awe at the quality and quantity of what so many of you read!

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MizK · 02/01/2012 18:02

I am halfway through Storyteller, the Roald Dahl biog which is pretty good so far. Next is The Line of Beauty which I've meant to read for ages, really looking forward to it....

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 02/01/2012 18:02

:) Dp said that Posey was too way out, so I doubt he'd have gone for Jajas!

'Wedlock' is okay but 'The Knife Man' (same writer) is fab.

Oneofthechildlessones · 02/01/2012 17:59

Since NYE;

I have just finished and read : The Meeting point
I am now reading : Wedlock

On my kinde

I am flicking between; confessions of a gp, the history of the names of underground stations, and a sisters gift.

I think I'm going to like my kindle Grin

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posey · 02/01/2012 17:56

Would that be Jajas or Posey? Smile

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 02/01/2012 17:46

I had a bit of a Julian Barnes binge a while back then got really annoyed with him ('England, England' was terrible and then I gave up on the History Of The World one - loved 'Arthur And George' and 'Flaubert's Parrot' though). May try, 'The Sense Of An Ending' as you say you are enjoying it and you have a name I wanted to give dd2!

piprabbit · 02/01/2012 17:45

Just finished Snuff (Terry Pratchett).
I'm catching up on some V.I.Warshawski (Hardball and BodyWork) as I've not read any Sara Paretsky in a couple of years.

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 02/01/2012 17:44

Stephen King's JFK one plus a book about the Peasants' Revolt.