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It's Late Jan., What're You Reading?

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expatinscotland · 24/01/2006 20:40

'One City' a compilation of short stories by Scottish writers to benefit charity.

So far, a nice read!

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Kaloo20 · 31/01/2006 13:40

easy reading this week,
Belle de Jour ...

  • probably not the best choice for a crowded train

last week
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

  • excellent, I recommend this one
Enid · 31/01/2006 13:00

Saturday by ian mcewan

Nightynight · 31/01/2006 12:59

Kiffe Kiffe Demain by Faiza Guene.

MamaMaiasaura · 31/01/2006 12:36

velocity by Dean Koontz my 3rd Koontz in a row I love our book bus

Emelie · 31/01/2006 12:16

ok so i have finished the other books, and guess what, its pay day tomorrow, which means another trip to book shops for me...... so what can you suggest??? i usually read things like ruth rendall, patricia cornwell,jane green, and also biographys ( life storys) what can you suggest???

em xxx

Posey · 29/01/2006 15:08

Am reading "Sex and other Changes" by David Nobbs (he who wrote Reggie Perrin) and jolly good it is so far.
Before that read "End in Tears" by Ruth Rendell.

spursmum · 29/01/2006 14:47

Ive just re-read My Story (A Child called It, The Lost Boy and A Man named Dave) by David Pelzer about his abusive childhood and then discovered A Brother's Journey by his younger brother Richard B Pelzer.
I am now reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy.I will get through it!

Hazellnut · 29/01/2006 14:39

Agree Robert Harris is a v, easy read but sometimes this is what the brain needs !! Will read something more challenging next !!

mummytosteven · 29/01/2006 11:38

I'm just over halfway through "The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon" by Richard Zimmler. It's a murder mystery set against the backdrop of the Inquisition and a pogrom against the Jews in Lison in the early 16th Century. V. good book so far.

mummytosteven · 29/01/2006 11:36

people get a bit sniffy about Robert Harris, but the ones I've read of his have been good fun - I've read Engima, Fatherland and Archangel.

Hazellnut · 29/01/2006 11:34

NIk - haven't read any others of his - my Mum has bought them all since reading Pompeii so I can always borrow it if I get on with Pompeii. Mind you, DH tidied it away last weekend in a fit of tidying and so haven't read it since . Must put some effort in I think, as I moan I never get to read anymore.....

I loved Small Island....

picnikel · 28/01/2006 19:59

Just finished "Small Island" by Andrea Levy, which I enjoyed a lot & had some really funny bits. Might read another one of hers next I think.

Hazellnut, I thought Pompeii was a good read - have you read Fatherland? I must re-read it sometime, it was fantastic & really thought provoking.

WideWebWitch · 28/01/2006 19:50

I've just read The Hungry Years by William Leith and loved it, thoroughly enjoyable and honest. I can't read decent fiction any more, has this happened to anyone else? I can read weightyish factual stuff and can manage chick lit and the like but I just cannot bring myself to read anything decent and fictional, I don't really know why. It's been going on for a couple of years now. So I've recently read The Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray and Life Swap by Jane Green but just cannot begin to consider The Time Traveller's wife (present) or other books I've been given. Oh well.

MrsSpoon · 27/01/2006 23:13

Almost finished I know this much is true by Wally Lamb and I don't want it to finish, it's too good.

Tamba, have you really read all those books this month?

clerkKent · 27/01/2006 12:50

and now for something completely different: The Life and Letters of David Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet (pub 1951), bought in a fantastic Oxfam secondhand bookshop in Bath.

albosmum · 26/01/2006 18:10

i am always recommending we need to talk about kevin about to read a book "how to be lost" recently finished the fantastic "cloud atlas"

Jasnem · 26/01/2006 17:52

The Pact -Jodi Picoult.
Seen her mentioned alot on this thread, but had never heard of her

I am the person who clears the "new in this week" section twice a month at the library, and just reads a random selection.

Flamesparrow · 26/01/2006 17:43

Saw the film the other week, and was about halfway through when I decided that it had to be a book adaptation because it just didn't feel filmlike enough... started a thread on here asking about it, and it got so many reactions so fast, I decided I had to read it!

How come everyone always seems to enjoy Kevin and TTW, yet when I started threads on both of em after reading them, I just had people bombarding me with posts abouth ow much they were disappointed??? I loved em both.

Kelly1978 · 26/01/2006 17:34

wnttakevin is next on my list!

going4potty · 26/01/2006 17:32

Flamesparrow ooh thats a great, strange book, i love it also the films quite good and stars the sexy aiden quinn fworh!!! Oh im reading Purple hibiscuss by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, very upsetting but well written, little slow though.

spacedonkey · 26/01/2006 17:29

We Need To Talk About Kevin is brilliant, so another recommendation from me

I'm about to start Saturday. Just finishing off Mr Wakefield's Crusade by Bernice Rubens at the moment.

Flamesparrow · 26/01/2006 17:27

The Handmaids Tale

MarsOnLife · 26/01/2006 17:19

cha.... We need to talk about Kevin is fantastic!!!!!!!!!! Recommend away!

sazzlealsop · 26/01/2006 17:06

I read time travellers wife before christmas and loved it, it took a while to understand it but really got into and cried like a baby at the end.
Also just read Sophie Kinsella -The undomesticated goddess. Don't know what to read next?

Kelly1978 · 26/01/2006 16:40

Ive jsut started reading again after months of not having chance. About halfway through memoirs of a geisha.