What is everyone reading?

Finished Memory Keepers Daughter, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Digging to America by Anne Tyler, both The Kite Runner & A Thousand Splendid Suns, Love Falls by Esther Freud...

Now what?! I need something good, fast. Please.

have just finished an oldie... Foggage by patrick mcginley...very (blackly) funny ...about a dour reclusive sister and brother and their rampant incestuous reltionship that carries on until they start getting into company....i think it may offend some people but it tickled me

before that read Relentless..cant remember the author but it was a R&J one. It was an old, old plot but hooked me in right to the end

'Fugitive Pieces' by Anne Michaels (I think). Overwritten and dull, I thought. She is a poet first and I think shorter would be better.
'Black Swan Green' by David Mitchell, which I enjoyed.
Just started on 'Can you forgive her?' and will make the Palliser series my next target.

the border of east and west, bundle

Finished Memory Keepers Daughter yesterday and loved it. Reading The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox now and really enjoying it, Maggie O'Riordan is a great author, I've loved all of hers. Also read the ubiquitous Harry Potter this summer, also Digging to America by Anne Tyler. I have Hunting Unicorns by Bella Pollen, The NightWatcher by Sarah Waters and something else that I can't remember to read next. I want to read the new Laurie Graham about the Kennedys asap.

Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca (again) and Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman (again)

but that's because I have to analyse them for an end of course assessment. Love both books. Can't wait to read them again without the need analyse!

Have Just finished David Mitchell's Black Swan Green - beautifully written and to be thoroughly recommended.

Am now reading Winnie and Wolf, also fabulous and complex and packed full of interesting ideas...

ooer west wittering? spent a birthday there once...

'nother nod for 'Year of Wonders' I am not into historical fiction, but this was great, and partially true I think??

oh how lovely, i just got back from 2 weeks at the witterings with my kids

not bad thanks, been to tuscany with dh and kids, just back to work...and you?

Read Chesil Beach at beginning of hols. Hummm. Not sure. Liked ending.

How to be Free/Tom Hodgkinson. Fantastic - not to srong to say almost changed my life.

Middlemarch/George Elliot. For OU. Humm. Struggling a bit, but enjoying all the same.

hello bundle how's tricks?

75% thru humand traces seb faulks, i love it.

The Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman and also flicking through one of my Wainright walking books.

oh yes, Kite Runner reminded me (thanks Lou ): the new one by Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

Half A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Aidiche (sp?)

on hols read:
Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
(I'm sure there was another one, but I can't remember - too much prosecco )

Above the Clouds, The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer, Anatoli Boukreev

right now scar tissue, the autobiography of anthony kiedis, but int eh last 2 weeks i have read humble pie about gordon ramsay, notes on a scandal, the kite runner, some cheapo job in a spar that i cant remember v much about, aload of darren shan, which are kids books but terribly gruesome , and some others i cant recall right now( i was away with the kids, and had no pc or tv and no adult company for 95% of the time)

Siblings Without Rivalry. Or rather, I would be reading it if I didn't have to keep on breaking up fights.

I've just finished reading One Unknown by Gill Hicks - Survivor of the London bombings. Gill (a truly amazing and inspirational woman) was one of the women who had to have both her legs amputated because of the horrific injuries that she sustained. This book made me cry everytime I read a chapter but has also given me so much to think about. I never thought a book could have such a profound affect on me.

Savage Garden by Mark Mills

A beautiful Tuscan villa, a mysterious garden, two hidden murders - one from the 16th century, one from the twentieth - and a family driven by dark secrets, combine in this evocative, intriguing mystery set in post-War Italy. In 1958, Adam Strickland, a young Cambridge scholar, travels to the Villa Docci in Tuscany to study a sixteenth-century garden. Designed and laid out by a grieving husband to the memory of his dead wife, it is a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills and classical inscriptions. But tragedy has hit the Docci family more recently. The German occupation during World War 2 had a devastating impact on them, and the tensions between collaborators and partisans were played out within their own tight circle. Adam is fascinated by the Doccis and increasingly aware that there are dangerous secrets hidden within the family domain. The garden itself starts to exercise a powerful influence over his imagination, its iconography seeming to point to some deeper, darker truth than was first apparent. And what really lay behind a killing at the villa towards the end of the war? Past and present, love and intrigue, intertwine in an evocative mystery which vividly captures the experience of an innocent abroad in the uncertain world of post-War Italy.

Harlequin by Laurell K Hamilton

book 14 of the Anita Blake series quite good so far, and yes Ive read all of them, though I must admit that the first few are the best and that Obsidion Butterfly is my favourite.