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

Just finishing John Peel's bigragphy 'Margrave of the Marshes', lovely, I miss him (no I did not know him personally. Yes I know it sounds weird).

Also reading 'Socially Responsible Investment - A Global Revolution' yaaaaaawwwwwwnnnnnn

another one on Saturday by Ian McEwan. I like it - you have to really read it, not skim!

Yes - love magical realism, have read those 2 marques ones and allende etc. Capt Correlli just never did it for me, don't know why. All my friends have read it and rave about it but it just kind of passed me by somehow. Have you read We need to talk about Kevin? I don't want to recommend for book group it if 'tis shite...

Cha

I read Troubesome Offspring last year. It is a lot like Gabriel Garcia Marquez' magical realism (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera etc). Captain Corelli is in a different style altogether.

ok well as usual it was xmas so always get lots of books......... so heres the lsit of books...

torey hayden- twilight children ( she has written one child and tiger child) true story bout her helping children in her care thsi time shes working in pschiatric ward. she is a former special needs teacher who specialises in extreme cases, of child abuse and helpign re intergrate children.

pd james - the lighthouse, tried reading it but just couldnt get into it

sharon osbourne- the extreme, good story about her life, shes honets about her face lifts and thats gd. also about the amount of strain she was under due to ozzys drink and drug problem.

patricia cornwell-predator, next one in the series, crime fiction, she a brilliant writer and i recommend you start at the begining of the series as it carrys on through the books!

so thats what ive read so far, if you know any good books please let me know, i love reading, its what i do when baby is asleep, and in my evenings.

em xxx

helsi, I just finished the Time Traveler's Wife - found it very hard to get my head round in a "who? where? when? what?" kind of way. Need to read it again in fact, to try to make more sense of it, but can't be arsed!

Now to completely lower the tone of this impressive reading list, I am reading "you will never nanny in this town again" a tell all about being a nanny for hollywood celebrities. Boy, the rich are not like us and that god for that.

the icarus girl
just finished what to do with a croissant - a mad read that my MIL husbands gave me and i was so surprised - anyone readit?
and
the bad mothers handbook - good after about half way.

on beauty next
determined to get back into reading regularly

Just finished the Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guazman by Louis de Bernieres and about to start Stuart, A life lived Backwards (both for book group). Didn't like the Troublesome Offspring at first but really got into it at the end. Makes me almost feel like trying Capt Corelli again (for the fourth time) but not quite...
Tamba - did you like We need to talk about Kevin? I am thinking of chosing it when it's my turn to select a book.

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A History of Love by Nicole Krauss

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A History of Tractors In Ukrania by Marina Lewick

half way through "The American Boy" that I have had for months bt never got around to starting.

Next one will be Time Travellers Wife - as agin have had it for months but never had time!

Coming to the end of the accidental. I will probably then revert to a biography of Robert Hooke that I started before Xmas.

A Dance to the Music of Time is fantastic - I am on the third re-reading of the series. As you get further into the sequence, it feels like you are meeting old friends you haven't seen for years, as characters from earlier books re-appear much later.

just started A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell (catchphrase so far: "We have a jam crisis" !!!!)

Pompeii by Robert Harris. Not my usual thing but studied archaeology and my Mum bought it when she went there last year so passed it on. Not far into it yet but quite an easy read.

I'm reading "Sophie's Bakery for the Broken Hearted" by Lolly Winston - easy to read, humour but in a sad story. It's about a young woman picking herself up after the death of her husband from cancer.

Martina Cole book called Broken, her books are fascinating but very raw and can be quite upsetting, this one is about child abuse and so is very disturbing but at the same time very interesting.

just finished'love works like this'by lauren slater.very interesting.throws up some intersting questions about motherhood. before that read'astonishing splashes of colour'by ...no can't remember.
started bride stripped bare last night by anon.

Just before Christmas read 'State of the Nation' by Douglas Kennedy. Now on 'Ulverton' by Adam Thorpe. I think he's great. Next will be 'Some Hope' by Edward St Aubyn, so that I can move on to his latest: 'Mother's Milk' has had some good reviews.

I'm reading the classic 'Withering Heights'. Also, 'Da Vinci Code' as everyone else seems to have already & want to read it before seeing the film(although that usually does spoil the film?!) Fancy reading 'Birds Without Wings' as recommended by Bugsy2.

The other night on my way home from work (at 9.30pm )I bought myself - as a treat - Mrs Fytton's Country Life by Mavis Cheek, thinking it was a new title - several chapters in I realised I have read it before, curses (that's what happens when you get old and lose multiple brain cells)

However I am still enjoying it enormously, I love Mavis Cheek. (And it was only £2.99, I'll keep it and send the old one back to Oxfam when I find it - if I ever find it )

Mavis Cheek is the dog's b@ll@cks, give her a go. (She was profiled in the Guardian on Sat here )

kiki I read "Speak Softly.." at Christmastime and thought it a lot better than I had expected. A really good involving read.

A non-fiction one for me, 'The Victorians' by AN Wilson.

I've just finished 'Speak softly, she can hear' by Pam Lewis which was good and before that it was 'Little Children' by Tom Perotta which I really enjoyed. I've got a few lined up including 'The Wonder Spot' by Melissa Banks, which I'm really excited about, but it's hardback so not very good for carrying on the train.

Ian Mcewan walks on water