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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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Turquoise · 11/08/2007 20:30

Just finished Rupert Everett's autobiography, it's a hoot.

hercules1 · 11/08/2007 20:29

I really like the girls and the Island. My mum isnt keen on reading the girls at all but loved the Island too.

SixKindsofCrisis · 11/08/2007 20:27

BBBee-lieve Mumsnet. It's a scream, and very touching too.

LaDiDaDi · 11/08/2007 20:25

Just finished "The Girls", made me realise again how different MIL and I are; she thought it was boring and nothing really happened whilst I loved it and cried. She liked "The Island" but I thought the writing was a bit flat iyswim.

Also read "Watch Me Disappear" recently and liked it though thought that it was slightly obvious.

I have "The Last King of Scotland" and something else to read before I will have to buy new books.

BBBee · 11/08/2007 20:08

spot of bother sounded good on here but has crap reviews on amazon - oh who to believe????

stleger · 11/08/2007 19:47

One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson...she is one of my all time favourites. I have just finished the Tina Brown Diana biography, and decided that all families are completely mad. (I am guilty as I gave Wicked by Jilly Cooper in a pile of books to someone who is now mired in it, it is awful).

SixKindsofCrisis · 11/08/2007 19:47

Oh and the amateur surgery on the tumour was the funniest and the most revolting thing I have read in ages.

missgriss · 11/08/2007 19:46

PMSL! definitely not for the kids

SixKindsofCrisis · 11/08/2007 19:43

Yes. I laughed so much at the gay sex scene (with the food poisoning) that my ds started reading over my shoulder and I had to ban him. He's a great fan of The Curious Incident so was keen to read A Spot of Bother, but I think I'll have to discourage that for now!

mosschops30 · 11/08/2007 19:42

Love IN The Prsent Tense by Catherine Ryan Hyde and I'm loving it almost as much as 'this book will save your life' am holmes, which was amazing

missgriss · 11/08/2007 19:39

I really enjoyed it

I was sitting in the dentists waiting room reading it and was getting some funny looks from people as I was snorting trying to stop myself from laughing out loud

niceglasses · 11/08/2007 19:38

Recommend 'How to be Free'by Tom Hodgkinson. Really enjoyed. Keep pinch of salt at hand.

Am currently mildly enjoying 'Middlemarch' for course in Sept.

SixKindsofCrisis · 11/08/2007 19:30

good

SixKindsofCrisis · 11/08/2007 19:30

Missgriss I have just finished A Spot of Bother. It is very godd, isn't it.

lapsedrunner · 11/08/2007 19:30

I've just bought War Stories by Jeremy Bowen

Califrau · 11/08/2007 19:28

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Spink · 11/08/2007 19:21

I am grabbing The Robber Bride (Margaret Atwood) in every spare moment .. started off a bit slowly but now I can't tear myself away! Poor ds... I think I have abandoned him a bit today in favour of brilliant Atwoodness.

hotcrossbunny · 11/08/2007 19:10

Reading something by the author of 'Lucia,Lucia' and 'Rococo'. Title and name escape me... Good tho'

BBBee · 11/08/2007 19:07

red tent - very good - very affirming (if I can use that in a non-wanky way)

brimfull · 11/08/2007 19:07

rereading To Kill a MOckingbird. Tis fab!Didn't fully appreciate it as a teen.

fishie · 11/08/2007 19:01

mrsspoon is it the second one? i am delighted by that series cannot wait for third.

am reading janet evanovich 13, latest erast fandorin and have deryn lake and jilly cooper up next. nothing too demanding for moi

MaloryTowersHasManners · 11/08/2007 18:56

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themoon66 · 11/08/2007 18:54

Oh I've now given up on magazines. I bought SHE about three months ago, but felt it was a total waste of money.

MellowMa · 11/08/2007 18:48

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missgriss · 11/08/2007 18:48

I'm reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter. There are parts where I'm thinking 'just get to the point ffs' but if you get past the overly discriptive writing it's quite good.

I was reading A Spot of Bother before and really enjoyed it.