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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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legalalien · 24/08/2007 14:20

Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks, which someone gave me for my birthday - about a town in, I think, Derbyshire, where someone contracted the plague and the whole town sealed itself off for a year. [think the town is called Eyam?] Would highly recommend it.

yorkshirepudding · 24/08/2007 14:19

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MrsWednesday · 24/08/2007 14:16

Have just re-read The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, which is lip-bitingly sad all the way through, but beautiful too.

Marina · 24/08/2007 14:10

Dh is a bit of a piece of work where HP is concerned . He declines to do really good voices, having never really condescended to take an interest in the books . Apparently he can tell they are too derivative without reading them dino. So I am doing the HPathon and dh is resigned to Angelina Ballerina with dd. Karma

nailpolish · 24/08/2007 14:09

im reading Girl, Interrupted
found in the Bethany Shop for 20p. Bargain!

Dinosaur · 24/08/2007 14:09

DH is always Snape in our house, funny that.

imasecretlemonadedrinker · 24/08/2007 14:08

Cecilia Ahern - Where Rainbows End.
easy read, not bad, good holiday book.

Marina · 24/08/2007 14:08

I like being Mrs Weasley and doing Maggie Smith as Professor MacGonagall best though

Marina · 24/08/2007 14:07

Bink, my ds has just started on Harry Potter this summer too...and has worked his way through to Volume Five as well

policywonk · 24/08/2007 14:04

morgansauntie - I enjoyed 'Germinal', which is another Zola. Again, it's not exactly Morecambe and Wise, but it was a good read.

BigBearistheBigBear · 24/08/2007 10:16

Really enjoyed the Memory Keeper's Daughter, by the way. Plot had a couple of gaping holes in it, but it was thoroughly enjoyable and I got through it very quickly, whereas it normally takes me about a month to read a novel these days.

BigBearistheBigBear · 24/08/2007 10:15

I'm reading Black Swan Green by the Cloud Atlas guy, David Mitchell. Would recommend it.

sauce · 24/08/2007 09:54

I've read some excellent books this year. The Kite Runner, Suite Française, Digging for America (I'd forgotten how good Anne Tyler is), Love Falls, Shantaram...

michaelad · 24/08/2007 09:50

Currently reading Neil Gaiman's "American Gods". Am almost finished and will probably move on to either "the Book of lost things" or "Gods behaving badly"

morgansauntie · 24/08/2007 09:47

Sauce The Memory Keeper's Daughter is the next book on my list after I have finished the book by Gill Hicks. I'm really glad to hear your enjoying it because I have read mixed reviews as well.

Policywonk your right my comment on Therese Raquin was an understatement and it was a strange choice for someone with clinical depression but I found it really absorbing rather than depressing and since reading it my passion for reading has returned. I will definitely try another Zola book

I know Therese Raquin should have accents but I'm not sure how to do them and I was reading an English translation - my French isn't that good!

Lilymaid · 24/08/2007 09:13

Not fiction, but am reading The Perfect Summer by Julie Nicolson which is a social history of the summer of 1911 and covers all areas of society from debutantes to the women on strike at an East End jam factory.

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sauce · 24/08/2007 09:05

I'm reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter & although I've read some terrible reviews, for the moment I'm completely hooked. The writing's good.

OrmIrian · 24/08/2007 09:04

The Redbreast - by some Norwegian whose name escapes me atm. My DB lent it to me. OK so far.

QueenofBleach · 24/08/2007 09:03

Now reading The Book Thief, just started and very intriguing.

Bink · 23/08/2007 20:55

Re HP - ds (8) finally picked one up last month (& is now upstairs finishing vol. 5). It means I get to be Snape when sending them to bed.

Bink · 23/08/2007 20:53

Yes and it's glorious, really it is. Some bits will appeal more to some people than others, so it's maybe not consistently genius, but really I am dreadfully hard to impress and it did me.

policywonk · 23/08/2007 20:48

NO, DSs not old enough for that to be a real option yet. Noddy and his car isn't tempting me at all. I am waiting until they're older so that I will finally have an excuse to read Harry Potter and see what all the blooming fuss has been about. I will also be foisting The Dark is Rising onto them. And, in the interests of resetting the gender boundaries, I might introduce them to Ballet Shoes and the Chalet School books.

That Joshus Ferris book - is it the one set in an office?

Bink · 23/08/2007 20:37

oh - avoiding - I'm avoiding The Cryptographer- concept just too jolly high (& execution not all the way up to it)

What about sneaky stolen reads? I have nicked Carbonel & Kingdom of Carbonel (while dd was asleep) & had lovely time. Am planning to do same with her entire Twins at St. Clare's boxful.

policywonk · 23/08/2007 20:32

'Therese Raquin by Emile Zola - please do not read it if your looking for a book to cheer you up'

morgansauntie. That's an understatement and a half!

I am currently avoiding Coetzee's 'Disgrace' (I have been avoiding it for about two months now).