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What is everyone reading?

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MrsSpoon · 11/08/2007 18:26

Just nosey and looking for recommendations or titles to avoid.

I am currently reading the new Kate Atkinson, the name of which escapes me. It is fantastic thought nothing could live up to Case Histories but this is just as good.

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ayashasky · 05/10/2007 23:19

I think my favourite books are

Girl on a swing by the watership down chap

the power of one by bryce courtney,very gritty book and the sequel tandia,both basically set in SA

some of nevil shutes are quite intriguing

brat farrar/ josephine tey

ChippyMinton · 04/10/2007 16:54

Just finished The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes

On the second of July 1946 ? to the strains of a brass band ? HMS Victorious steamed out of Sydney Harbour with an unusual cargo? six hundred war brides on route to Britain to meet their husbands.

It was a journey full of tensions. The women were very young ? two only fifteen ? on a journey round the world to meet men they?d spent little time with. And the ship was filled with sailors ? eleven hundred young men bewitched by the brides.

casbie · 04/10/2007 16:44

my favourite book is the 'reading group', and read it every so often.

is the friday night knitting group similar?

daniz38 · 04/10/2007 16:32

Best book I've read this year is The Time Traveller's Wife.
Reading Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated at the moment. Read his other book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which is fantastic, and this is just as good.

duchesse · 04/10/2007 13:35

Miséréré by Bernard Clavel.

Part of a wonderful set of five novels about Canadian pioneers in the north of Quebec in the 30s. Am really enjoying it.

clerkKent · 04/10/2007 13:33

Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell. Lovin' it so far.

CristinaTheAstonishing · 03/10/2007 21:53

Another kind of solitude - Bohumil Hrabal

tori32 · 03/10/2007 21:49

Tess Gerritsen 'The Mephisto Club'. I have read most of hers and am a big fan. All about forensic pathology and crime, a bit like Patricia Cornwell but better stories.

GreebosWhiskers · 03/10/2007 21:46

Making Money by Terry Pratchett - again. I waited all year for a new discworld novel, bought it on Saturday & finished it last night. I wish I had the will-power to read it a little slower & made it last

Skribble - I read a few Joanne Harris books after discovering Chocolat. Holy Fools & Five Quarters of the Orange are brilliant.

elliebird · 03/10/2007 21:41

The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult - love everything she's ever written.

LoveAngel · 03/10/2007 16:00

About half way through 'Middlemarch' by George Eliot, which I never seemed to get round to reading although always wanted to. Very enjoyable.

bozza · 03/10/2007 14:54

Fortune's Rocks.

vacua · 03/10/2007 14:46

I'm ENJOYING the book of lost things although it makes me pine a bit for my Angela Carter years, and just picked up friday night knitting club with a sandwich from Tesco and have made a sneaky start on it.

Nightynight · 03/10/2007 14:40

Just finished Other Colours by Orhan Pamuk.

I loved it - it reminded me of being married to my ex, but without the violence.

3andnomore · 03/10/2007 14:39

Right now I am reading 2 books 1 is called "To die for" about the journey of an anorexic girl and her fight against the illness and 1 is a "Chickensoup for teh soul" book...

Gobbledispook · 03/10/2007 14:36

The Burning Girl - Mark Billingham.

Not in the least bit 'high brow' but I enjoy his books as I like Tom Thorne, the main character. They are very easy to read as well.

Amethyst8 · 03/10/2007 14:34

Just finished Vinegar Hill. Very good. Reminded me of Anita Shreve. Very much enjoy American fiction of this type if anyone could recommend any other authors for me would be grateful.

DaDaDa · 02/10/2007 15:07

Joanne Harris seems to knock out a novel every 5 minutes Skribble! I must admit I liked Chocolat but didn't get through any of the others - DW managed a few but now she's given up on her too.

She's a poor mans/womans Carol Shields.

Skribble · 02/10/2007 15:04

I am reading a good trashy novel Sushi for Beginers can't remeber the author.

I have just finished reading another Joanne Harris book - Coastliners, read all of hers after reading Choclate. Fantastic books, wish she would write some more as I love her style.

DaDaDa · 02/10/2007 15:01

Halfway through Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn, which is a rollocking good read thus far.

Just read Dan Rhodes - Gold, which was curious, and Mark Haddon - A Spot Of Bother which left me slightly perplexed and unsettled.

I agree Middlesex is an amazing book Suedonim.

auntyspanonherbroomstick · 02/10/2007 14:17

I;m reading the 'Friday Night Knitting Club' and thoroughly enjoying it. Great character build-ups.

allhallows · 01/10/2007 21:18

Fine. Start a new thread. Whatever it takes to get those MNers off their porn fixation. and I need a new good book to read, pronto.

suedonim · 01/10/2007 15:42

'Couldn't not put it down'???? Oh, ykwim!!!!

suedonim · 01/10/2007 15:36

I've just finished 'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides, it's a fabulous book!

Also I've read An Instance of the Fingerpost, by Iain? Pears. I found it gripping and couldn't not put it down.

Shall I start a new thread? This one is a bit long for my dial-up.

hoarsewhisperer · 01/10/2007 15:08

The end of Mr Y.....

fantastic book....

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