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What are you reading now... and what are you going to read next ?

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Wheelybug · 10/04/2008 18:41

Haven't had one of these for a while...

Now - Paulo Coelho The Devil and Miss Prym (book club read)

Next - Georgiana biog then probably The Gathering (depending how long the Georgiana biog takes and whether its book club read again !)

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sophiewd · 11/04/2008 18:18

Now - Fall on your Knees
Next - something vey light to take me to next book recieved through post on MN circle

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Wheelybug · 11/04/2008 08:46

oh Flossie - I know what you mean about picking the next - I too must have about 30 To Be Reads. I find these sort of threads v. useful for prioritising ! If someone raves about a book it gets bumped up the pile ! So, Mr Pip may well be read v. soon.

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Solitaire · 11/04/2008 00:23

I feel my yearly reading of Jane Eyre coming on. Yep Mr Rochester is what I need

brimfull · 11/04/2008 00:18

oh really-I never read those tragic life books.

I think the crow flies one is different-a murder is looming I think but so far is all nicey nicey.I'm enjoying it as it's set in Southern Ontario where I grew up and in the 60's which although I was born in 62 I can relate to a lot of it.

FlossieTCake · 11/04/2008 00:09

ggirl, it's pretty bleak! If it were a real book you would put it in the 'Tragic True-Life Stories' section (or whatever it's called) and back away very quickly... but vv powerfully written. It ends quite hopefully at least.

PollyPentapeptide · 10/04/2008 23:45

Agree about Labyrinth being dire.I only managed about half of it.

Have just finished reading The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follett.Both brilliant books and now looking for something else to sink my teeth into

brimfull · 10/04/2008 23:35

flossietcake-I'm also reading The Way the Crow Flies,yes I read about 3 books at the same time.

What was Fall on Your Knees like? Crow flies isn't horrendous or miserable yet but you've got me wondering now...

Bloody huge copy I've got,just about breaks my wrists reading it in bed.

tigana · 10/04/2008 23:31

current - short history of nearly everything - bill bryson.

next

maybe "exit music" by ian rankin?

FlossieTCake · 10/04/2008 23:22

Currently:

Reluctant Capitalists (non-fiction, about bookselling)
Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke - Rob Long

Next:

ummmm.... not sure.... if it arrives in the post, hopefully The Way The Crow Flies (because I didn't quite get enough misery and horror from Fall On Your Knees!). I have about 20 unread books lined up on the shelf at the moment (combination of book swaps, MIL loans and bookshop warehouse sale) and I find picking the next one very, very hard.

brimfull · 10/04/2008 23:18

wheelybug- mister pip is quiet good I'm enjoying it.

Lilymaid · 10/04/2008 22:47

Just read Labyrinth by Kate Mosse - so awful that it is fascinating to go through it to check out the inaccuracies, corny writing etc. Have also recently read Mr Pip (which was a good read) and have Chesil Beach on the pile of to be reads.

PABLOP · 10/04/2008 22:41

The Bronze Horsman now and The Book Thief next

sillyhead · 10/04/2008 22:40

MAS, I just finished Notes From an Exhibition, Patrick Gale and really enjoyed it, would highly recommend it. His writing just carries you along and every single family member in that story is interesting.
Now reading One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson.
Next - ?as i have about 30 unread novels lying around. Maybe Restless William Boyd. Anyone read it?

HonoriaGlossop · 10/04/2008 22:04

Am reading 'Clouds of Witness' Dorothy L Sayers

Next - dunno

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Wheelybug · 10/04/2008 21:42

how's mr pip ggirl ? tis on my 'to be read' pile.

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ChipButty · 10/04/2008 21:21

Just finished Samantha Smythe's Modern Family Journal. Next will probably read Ian McEwan's 'Saturday' but will check out newest issue of Granta first.

brimfull · 10/04/2008 21:17

am reading Mister Pip

am also reading

Moments of Reprieve by Primo Levi

DforDiva · 10/04/2008 21:16

Reading
The Secret life of Slammy Mummy
by Fioan Neill

poodlepusher · 10/04/2008 19:16

Just finishing

Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore

next probably

THE ENGLISH AMERICAN by Alison Larkin

MuffinMclay · 10/04/2008 19:13

Agent Zigzag- Ben Macintyre. Very good indeed but I only manage 3 pages a night before falling asleep so it is taking me ages to read it.

Next will be Iain Banks - Steep Approach to Garbadale

ladymariner · 10/04/2008 19:08

I've just read The Pursuit of Happiness, it was fab!

HonorMatopoeia · 10/04/2008 19:03

Harry Dresden comes in book form? I didn't know that!

MaryAnnSingleton · 10/04/2008 19:02

anyone read/reading the new Patrick Gale ?

MaryAnnSingleton · 10/04/2008 19:02

believe even

MaryAnnSingleton · 10/04/2008 19:02

yes, I belive so...

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