A new "what are you reading at the moment?" thread

kikidee - glad you liked American Wife as I bought it by recommendation of the bumpf on the cover only!
By the way, finished Catcher in the Rye last night and was truly gripped by the last fifty pages. I do recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it.

Just finished Peter Robinson's Colours of Darkness which I thought was dire. About to start The 19th Wife, and then might read Nella Last's Peace.

Just read "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula Le Guin, which is sci-fi, so not normally a genre I'd choose, but found it really compelling and very much enjoyed it.

Read "When will there be good news?" a couple of weeks ago and was rather disappointed. Also read a book by Tim Pears called "A Revolution of the Sun" and found that overwritten and laborious. Re-read "Brideshead Revisited" as that was what my mum had with her on our holiday and in contrast the easy, fluent, unpretentious style of Waugh was a joy.

Also just finished the latest Ladies' Detective one and currently on the letter C in a book called "Reading the Oxford English Dictionary" or something by someone called something like Ammon Shea.

"Humboldt's Gift" by Saul Bellow is our next reading group choice.

Just about to finish The Condition by Jennifer Haigh,it's about a woman with Turners Syndrome and her families reaction to it.Very good.

Just finished - When Will There be Good News
Currently reading - The Girl who Played with Fire
Next - White Tiger for our new book group and The Queens Fool. Have lots in my pile actually, most of which I'm excited about.

Londonartemis - I read The American Wife a few months ago and just passed it on to a friend tonight. I really enjoyed it but I loved Curtis Sittenfeld's other books and i generally like American novels.

Current read: December by Elizabeth somebody
Last read: The 19th Wife

Next read: Not sure might tackle Bleak House

Currently reading Roberto Bolano's 2666

Last read Revoltuionary Road

Next read will be Katherine Kerr's Dagerspell. I read her fantasy series in my teens so it is more sentimentality then anything. I am also going into my last trimester of pregnancy and looking for 'easier' reads, as my brain is fudge!

I've just finished Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream and a book about the history of Def Jam, and Gilead, a Pulitzer winner from the 90s which was lovely.

Now I'm on The Italian Boy, about graverobbers, seems to be on similar territory to Mr Whicher so far, the beginnings of detective work n stuff.

Next, I don't know, I might order Home by the Gilead author which tells the same tale from another perspective I understand, but maybe I should wait a bit!

I thought Vienna was an excellent book, thanks for reminding me about it cremolafoam.

Last book - Eclipse
Current book - The Road
Next book - Breaking Dawn (last part of the Twilight puzzle.)

just finished "Vienna" by Eva Menasse which was very entertaining
am now reading "I Capture the Castle" by Dodie Smith, which has been sitting there since it was on the book club list in December
next book will be "Man walked into a room" by Nicole Krauss which I was given for Xmas

Tattycoram _ Have just bought American Wife Curtis Sittenfeld this morning. Let me know what you thought of it.

Now reading Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger. Enjoying it.

Last book - Spilling the Beans Clarissa Dickson Wright - really interesting about keeping a job when under the influence.

Last read - Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan

Currently reading -
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Next on my list is either

Atonement Ian McEwan or
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Chimney Sweepers Boy by Barbera Vine (Ruth Rendell).

It is bloody brilliant.

Read : Archangel by Robert Harris

Currently reading Pompeii by same author.

Future : think I will re-read the other boleyn girl after seeing precious posts. I've read all of her historical fiction and a couple of her normal fiction stuff. I really enjoyed them.

cies, i loved secret river, she does gruff awkwardness so well, heartwarming stuff wasn't it?

and porto..i've read each karin slaughter as soon as it has hit the library...what is going to happen with the series now?

just read "going home" - think thats the title by rose tremain .... loved it ... experience of a person coming from eastern europe to work in london ....

now reading "we need to talk about kevin" Lionel Shriver - despite the content cant seem to put it down!

I've just finished "The Secret River" by Kate Grenville. - really enjoyed it.

I've now run out of books

So my friend has lent me a Penny Vincenzi to tide me over before I go on an internet bookshop shopping spree.

Just finished "Skin Priviledge" - Karen Slaughter. I am still in shock at the ending!

Just started "The Curious Incidence of the Dog in the Nighttime". It has been on the shelf for ages and came as a recommendation. So far I am blown away! My nephew has Aspergers and this really adds a whole new dimension to the experience.

Last read - the Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood

Currently reading - The Cello fo Sarajevo, Steven Galloway

Next read - can't make my mind up yet. Have a book mountain to hike through and am torn between familiar (more Atwood); worthy (I've got a couple of Seb Faulks books I haven't got through yet) or light (Gaiman's Stardust)

I've read the Graveyard book by Gaiman and loved it. But then I love all things Gaiman.

halfway through: Twilight ( Bella is getting on my nerves a bit..)

halfway through: Saint City Sinners by Lillith Saintcrow

re-reading: A kiss of Shadows by L. K. Hamilton (its pulp really but I love the dark faery element)

next book: The Graveyard book by neil gaiman (for the new bookgroup Frizbe and I started on tuesday)

Just finished Kate Atkinson's When will there be good news?

Have started Galloway's The Cellist of Sarejavo.

Will read The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff next

just finished the enchantress of florence , salman rushdie.....never managed to read one of his before but this was a great romp of a story with a lot of funny asides.

currently the private lives of pippa lee, rebecca miller....woman married to high flier 30 years her senior moves to a retirement village in usa....enjoying it so far, multilayered thing

next is everything is illuminated

Currently reading Ant Egg Soup, accoutn of travels in Laos.

Just finished Muddling thrugh in Madagascar, Dervla Murphy.

Next will read either Random Act os Heroic Love or Don't tell Alfred.

Last book was the latest Linwood Barclay one

Currently reading City Of Fear by Alafair Burke

Next will be the new Janet Evanovitch Stephanie Plum book.

The Savage Garden by Mark Mills. Very interesting and nicely written too.

I was reading a Pratchett before that; no idea what I'll be reading next.