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What are you reading atm, and would you recommend it to the rest of MN?

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Blandmum · 04/02/2007 13:58

I am reading Semidetatched by Griff Rhys Jones.

Very funny memoir. He is sopt on in his descriptions of all those ghastly teenage parties that I remember from my 'yoof'

A very funny book and I'd recoend it to all mumsnetters in their late 30s/40s. Or for younger MN to rad about what their parents got up to in the 60s and 70s!

An excellent read.

And you?

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CatIsSleepy · 23/01/2008 09:10

Notes from an Exhibition
absolutely the best book I've read in ages

HaventSleptForAYear · 21/01/2008 14:43

I capture the Castle - by Dodie (err smith)? She wrote 101 Dalmations.
Got it for Xmas and put it to one side but am really enjoying it. quite gentle, but interesting, teenage girl's point of view

sabaidii · 20/01/2008 08:45

The Poisonwood bible by Barbara Kingsolver.

It's a fantastic book and I highly reccomend it. Very moving.

MrsGuyOfGisbourne · 18/01/2008 17:25

Marcel Proust 'Swann's Way' (in translation ). Dropped some books off at charity shop yesterday and bought this - unputdownable!!! Am saving the second volume for my holiday.

suzycreamcheese · 18/01/2008 17:14

Ma Jian 'stick out your tongue'

my dad sent it and some others of his
very captivating..set in wilds of tibet..
thin book, good writer
really enjoyed it

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3littlefrogs · 18/01/2008 17:00

Jean Auel - "Earth's Children" Series. Not new, but I keep going back to them - I wish she would hurry up and finish the next one!

MyEye · 17/01/2008 15:53

The Margot Fonteyn biog by Meredith Daneman. Lots of good detail, but I don't like her writing style much: tries a bit too hard and doesn't always pull it off.

Disappointing as despite knowing next to nothing about it I'm on a ballet jag atm. The last thing I read was the vast Nureyev biog by Julie Kavanagh: wonderful in every way.

Both biographers danced professionally and JK in particular really makes you see and understand the dancing.

bundle · 17/01/2008 15:41

started inheritance of loss, didn't really warm to it

loved half a yellow sun

Sunshinemummy · 17/01/2008 15:40

I'm reading The Iheritance of Lost, but unlike others I'm not enjoying it. Finding it very slow going.

Fennel · 17/01/2008 15:40

Just read Half of a Yellow Sun, very good.

And Beloved by Toni Morrison. I liked that too.

And Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk. Hmm. She's such a self-pitying moaner, I wouldn't particularly recommend that one.

sfxmum · 17/01/2008 15:35

reading The Lay of the Land was looking forward to it and is not disapointing

the one before was The Shadow of the wind, you sort of just have to go with it

American Gods was great read that a couple of years back, I think only China mielvile comes anywhere near Gaiman really

Botbot · 17/01/2008 15:30

Freakonomics, and yes, I would. Fascinating. Haven't got to the chapter on parenting yet though - who knows what insights that will deliver.

brimfull · 17/01/2008 15:28

SHadow of the wind

had rave reviews

am torn really,not sure if I'd recommend

notsogummyanymore · 17/01/2008 15:22

so far ...

notsogummyanymore · 17/01/2008 15:21

notes from an exhibition is good!

UnquietDad · 28/02/2007 16:53

Geoff Ryman on the other hand is great fun. Try "253".

yeahinaminute · 28/02/2007 16:51

OH UD - he's so far up his arse he needs a torch to find his way out - will avoid anything more by him like a plague !!

UnquietDad · 28/02/2007 15:29

YITM - soemone gave me "Paris Trance" by the same author and I found it such a boring and pretentious pile of shit that I flung it across the room. I can't believe so many people rave about it.

Harrogatemum · 28/02/2007 15:28

Just finished Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See - brilliant, although I loved her "on Gold Mountain" even more.

Just launching into "Fashion BAbylon" by Imogen Edwards-Jones, quite funny so far!

suedonim · 28/02/2007 15:04

Still reading Melvyn Bragg's book but I also began Barbara Trapido's Frankie and Stankie this morning. Loving it so far!

ELF1981 · 28/02/2007 13:21

The Adultry Club
Very good. Nice to see the story from all three sides - the husband, wife and mistress.

bakedpotato · 28/02/2007 13:08

The Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne

I love the calm, cool way she writes, but this is not quite as fascinating as A Crime in the Neighbourhood

yeahinaminute · 28/02/2007 13:01

The authour is Geoff Dyer BTW

twelveyeargap · 28/02/2007 13:00

Have started We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Seems good, though quite depressing at the start - particularly as I'm pregnant.

Have recently finished The Secret History and The Little Friend, both by Donna Tart. Thoroughly enjoyed them. Also read the new Marian Keyes as beach fodder whilst on holiday. Lovely, back to the old Marian Keyes after a couple of novels in the doldrums. Oh, also the Thunderbold Kid by Bill Bryson, which was quite charming, but not as funny as say, Down Under.