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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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Lilymaid · 04/02/2007 14:33

I agree about the Juliet Gardiner book. I also recently read "London 1945" by Maureen Waller - extremely interesting for all Londoners and will make you look at your surroundings more closely. Still on the WWII theme, can I recommend (again) Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky - it was in Sainsbury's best sellers last week. Lyrical writing and an interesting and terrible story behind the fiction.

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Blandmum · 04/02/2007 14:22

Kookaburra, that sounds great and I will try that one next.

if you haven't read it take a shuft at 'We are at War', a collection of diaries written by Mass observers during the war. Absoltly absorbing and show what people were really feeling at the time...how unpopular Churchil was, for example!

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fairyfly · 04/02/2007 14:21

Mao, the untold story.

No i wouldn't, it's too much hard work and not the kind of book you can pick back up after you've just had to get your kids some water, some toilet paper, some peace.

Rowlers · 04/02/2007 14:20

Just finished Jane Austin book club can't remember the author
quite a nice read, nothing heavy, but won't go down as best book I've ever read

notsogummyanymore · 04/02/2007 14:18

amy tan - saving fish from drowning

would recommend it, very unusual!

ItsMeMellowma · 04/02/2007 14:16

I am reading Ready or Not? Chris Manby.

Its fine, light-hearted and not too much sex, I don't like books full of all that nonsense

kookaburra · 04/02/2007 14:15

Am reading World War 2 by Juliet Gardiner ( found by accident when searching a different author of same name on Amazon, and lookied interesting, so bought with one click..) Absolutely riveting - mercifully short on boring military stuff, but vast amounts of fqascinating detail about the real lives of people at home and how they were affected. Ashamed to say that I had no idea before reading about how intense the blitz, and for how long it went on, and what that meant for people's daily lives, evacuation etc. Deffo recommend.

SherlockLGJ · 04/02/2007 14:02

I am reading the latest part of Alan Bennet's autobiography.

'Tis a bit depressing at the moment.

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