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

Just finished The Scotland St trilogy by Alexander McCall Smith - he of the No1 Ladies Detective Agency series

He wrote them as little "novelettes" for serialisation in the "Scotsman" and yes - I would definitely reccommend them:

Titles in the series:

44 Scotland St

Espresso Tales

Love over Scotland

Just about to give A prayer for Owen Meeny another shot !!

An Ice Cream War by William Boyd

have just started it - loving ti

have just finished the Accidental which I really enjoyed but i know lots didnt

House of Meetings by Martin Amis
yes it is brilliant

Give Me Ten Seconds by John Sergeant, the political reporter famously 'handbagged' by Mrs Thatcher. It's an ok book but not as good as others of that ilk.

'a short history of tractors in ukranian'
is hilarious.
i would highly recommend it

I think it takes a bit of getting in to, because you want Franklin to reply to the letters and he doesn't and it's a bit harsh at times, Emma, when you have kids and you think how they could turn out but stick with it! The last chunk of letters are especially good, you get to hear what actually happened on 'Thursday'. It made me cry and I always like a book that can do that, without it being a true story. When I read the last page I just sat in bed and went 'WOW', it was a shame I had finished it!!!

ooh, I've just started We need to talk about Kevin, Gingermonkey so that's good to hear.

JG Ballard, Millenium People, and it's fab. Just finished we Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver and it was an amazing book - I'd recommend that a million times over. It's one of the best books I've read in a long, long time (and I read alot of books!)

'First Shot' by Lee Child. One of the Jack Reacher series.

If you like thrillers you'll love this. A real page turner, kept me awake past midnight many times.

And I would recommend it!

Have just started Brave New World, have been meaning to get around to reading it for about the last 10 years!

I am reading "One Good Turn" by Kate Atkinson and really enjoying it.Would deffo reccomend it to MN.She is very funny and observant.

I am reading "The Other Side of Dawn", the last of a series of 7 books by an Australian writer called John Marsden. It is actually aimed at the teenage market ... about a group of 8 teenagers who go camping in the bush in the Christmas holidays and come home 5 days later to find that while they were away Australia was invaded ... and lost.
Absolutely fantastic series, a sad and terrible story about how they cope and what they do to not be found ... including all the teenage, growing up stuff.
I would definitely recommend it and any other John Marsden books - he is a fabulous writer.

Rowlers, I just finished the Jane Austen Book Club too (by Karen Joy Fowler). Would recommend if you're looking for a nice frothy light read.

I don't even know the name of the book I am reading. I picked it up for £1.99 in the local Co-op. It is quite engaging but not great literature - but has done the trick this last week or so while I have been full of cold/cough.

I've just finished 'He'll be OK' by Celia Lashlie. It's based on her interviews with teenage boys in NZ and the conclusions she's reached on how to help them become good men. It was fascinating - real insight into male behaviour

I'm reading FAT by Rob Grant.

A very funny book so far, following the lives of 3 people obsessed by weight. 1 is hugely overweight, 1 is a young girl who has an eating disorder, and the other is a young guy who is helping the government launch its "fit farms".

I really am lol at this book DH thinks I have gone mad. Rob Grant is the co-creator of Red Dwarf so I knew the book would be funny when I first picked it up.

It begins "It's unclear precisely when it became illegal to be fat. Of course technically it's not, even in this day and age. Even with the blatant persecution of all tubbies, there's no official legislation on any statute book that comes right out and says fatness is against the law.
But it is."

The Five People you Meet in Heaven- I'm almost done and have enjoyed it.

The Goldilocks Effect by Paul Davies-I recommend it to anyone who enjoyes Physics

I've dipped into Anne Robinson's memoirs of an unfit mother and have on my bedside table Tom Parker Bowles year of eating dangerously, plus about 10 other assorted books.

Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonegut.
Audrey N-thingy plagerised his idea shamefully.

Everything Changes, by Jonathan Tropper. It's going to be made into a movie, just found out. It was a GREAT read, kind of chick-lit from entirely a guy's perspective, very different.

Having read the Jilly Cooper thread, I am rather disappointed that I can't find my copy of Riders .

I am currently reading a girly chick-lit type thing, 'Going Home' by Harriet Evans. I don't know if it's any good as it's taking me ages to get through. Maybe that's not a good sign...

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ,yes I would thoroughly recommend it,took me a few chapters to get into it but it is great.

Dimpledthighs,the kite runner is fabulous,you'll love it.
(have sent out my begging letters and am awaiting the replies ,thanks again)

the kite runner and world war z

not read enough to recommend either yet...

I'm reading Disgrace by J M Coetzee. I'm probably the last person in the world to read it but yes, I'd recommend it.

Before that I finished Notes On A Scandal by Zoe Heller. Don't bother even pick it up!