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What are you reading RIGHT NOW?

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expatinscotland · 16/12/2007 00:43

Besty Whyte 'The Yellow on the Broom'

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littlerach · 09/02/2008 14:04

"I'm a Stranger her Myself" Bill Bryson.
I htink it is usually called soemthing lese, and this is an American copy.

Also the Fridya night Knitters Club, but isn't v good.

House beautiful magazine.

Lonely Plane t France.

susiecutiemincepies · 09/02/2008 13:56

glad to see im not alone in having more than one book on the go, and for different situations. I.e. in the bath, in bed, on the sofa, and for being up the night with DD reading... thats when the easy read, can't put down chick lits come into play

So, I have on the go,
Toddler Taming by Christopher Green
THe Ladies Detective agency
Rosie - Alan titchmarsh.... can you guess where that fits in?
Cant remember the other one i'm reading! there is one though...

actually, i dont think i've read anything particularly challenging or even thought provoking since DD. any time i have for reading is so short, ( before i fall asleep! ) that is has to be easy to pick up and put down.

jasper · 06/02/2008 16:41

Charlotte Church's autobiography

catok · 06/02/2008 16:39

Just finished 'Getting rid of Matthew' - lots of fun! 'Memoirs of a geisha' (book and film) was very atmospheric too.

suedonim · 30/01/2008 22:35

Wheelybug, I read 'Half of....' before Christmas, too. I currently live in Nigeria so it's very pertinent for me.

MyEye · 30/01/2008 17:23

Benjamin Black's Christine Falls.

(BB is the name John Banville writes his thrillers under. Good plot, but achingly overwritten imho)

LilianGish · 30/01/2008 17:23

Arlington Park - wondering if I should bother in view of today's thread!

GetOrfMoiLand · 30/01/2008 17:21

I have not read any Nancy Mitford other than the U or Non-U thing, should really.

Really recommend the biog, can't believe 6 such fascinating personalities existed in one family.

TheFallenMadonna · 30/01/2008 17:18

Oooh - should read The Mitford Girls next really...

TheFallenMadonna · 30/01/2008 17:18

The Blessing by Nancy Mitford.

Not as good as Love in a Cold Climate, which I love.

MascaraOHara · 30/01/2008 17:15

Magnus Mills 'The Restraint of Beasts'

(or has this thread moved on?)

GetOrfMoiLand · 30/01/2008 17:13

Mitford girls is very good; what a family!

wheelybug · 30/01/2008 17:11

Am literally only a few pages in (well probably 20) but so far so good. Very readable.

I have hte mitford girls biog sitting on my 'to be read' shelf - it looks interesting.

GetOrfMoiLand · 30/01/2008 17:06

wheelybug - really enjoyed On Chesil Beach, what do you think so far??

GetOrfMoiLand · 30/01/2008 17:05

I am reading Starter for Ten for my mn book circle . Very good so far.

I always read several books in conjucntion, so am also reading The Mitford Girls biog by Mary somebody (excellent, really recommend it), John Betjeman (biog) by AN Wilson (good reading alongside the Mitfords) and have just finished a book about council estates called Estates by Lynsey Hanley, which is brilliant, am thinking of starting a thread in non-fiction about it.

wheelybug · 30/01/2008 17:04

Just started On Chesil Beach.

SueDonim - I am waiting to get Purple Hibiscus back from my mum to read it ! I read Half a yellow sun before christmas so want to read this too ! Have heard good things ofit.

fransmom · 30/01/2008 17:02

various threads on mn

suedonim · 30/01/2008 17:01

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It's good but harrowing.

Bink · 30/01/2008 15:03

Just finished Mary Kingsley climbing Mount Cameroon in the late 19th c, and have just charged through Ernest Shackleton's jawdropping escape from Antarctica in 1916 - something I'd rate (for the first time in years) as "unputdownable".

This sequence of intrepidity does make me feel like the most feckless lazy lump though.

cheeryface · 30/01/2008 14:58

in a good light by clare chambers

lucy5 · 22/01/2008 21:43

The autograph man Zadie Smith. It's pretty funny.

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FlossieT · 22/01/2008 21:41

Stardust - Neil Gaiman.

Although technically I'm not quite reading it yet, I just finished Alan Bennett's Uncommon Reader so am kind of between books.

aDad · 22/01/2008 16:13

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Murakami short stories. Enjoying.

McDreamy · 22/01/2008 16:11

Restless by William Boyd - only just started, my friend recomended it to me.