What book are you reading just now, why are you reading it and are you enjoying it?

I have just finished reading The Last to Know by Melissa Hill after a marathon 2.5 hours in the bath because I had to finish it.

It was on offer in Asda for £2 so I bought it as a cheap love story but I was so wrong. It is full of secrets and plot twists that had me in tears and left me really moved. Still thinking about it now, I love it when a book does that.

Reading 'third year at malory towers' . Just finished Gods Own Country by Ross Raisin which was a bit weird. Off on hols at the weekend so wanted something quick to fill in the gaps and this was the next one on the box set I bought .

Enjoying it in a nostalgic kind of way !

Judith Thurman: Isak Dinesen.

I am not enjoying it. I am reading it because I am going through an Africa phase (what dd calls mum's Africa project) and this was one in a pile of books I picked up - which otherwise were all a great read.

I don't like it because the author has obviously thought as she is writing about an author it is necessary to write in a convoluted style and see deep meaning in the smallest of events, the most trivial comments. It is annoying the heck out of me. It is also reminding me why I don't usually read biographies.

Have nothing else "light" at the moment though

I've just finished On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. Okay, but didn't enjoy it as much as Atonement and Saturday.

Before that I read Sea of Poppies which was great.

Next I am going to read either The White Tiger or What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt... haven't decided yet..

The Blind Assassin. An awful lot of pages for something I didn't find very compelling.

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House

I picked it up at the library. On loan for just a week at a time. Have it for the second week and am struggling to finish it. It's hard going to say the least!

In the Kitchen by Monica Ali

It was a birthday present and the next book down in my bedside pile

I wasn't enjoying it at first but it's slowly improving. It isn't a book I would read twice though

Oh I'm sooo enjoying Spot Of Bother by Mark Haddon

It's Unputdownable

I am reading a compendium of womens obituries from the Telegraph ! Sounds weird but very interesting also you can read a couple before going to sleep.....

Also reading The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway, which is shaping up nicely........

And Now On Radio 4 by Simon Elmes, a book about radio 4. Am reading it because someone bought it for me for Christmas and it's about time I read it. And I like Radio 4.

I'm kind of enjoying it, but it's written by somebody who works at R4 rather than an actual writer, so writing quality is pretty low but you get an insider's viewpoint. Though it does get a bit too insidery at points: I'm not sure I'm that bothered about the effect on the documentary department of a memo released by someone called Geoffrey in 1975.

just finished Out stealing Horses. A disappointment. Lovely style of writing but very unsatisfactory plot that didn't answer anything.

I have just re-read King's 'It' which I enjoyed except that I had managed to totally forget that a main character dies (not read it since I was about 15), so it came as a bit of a shock.

jumpingbeans - I think it is a trilogy - so two more to go. The second book is out and is on my 'to read' pile ...

I have just read the prequel/2nd book 'The Angel's Game' to the 'Shadow on the Wind' - really enjoyed it and then the new Liz Noble - which just convinces me that Chick Lit should just be left alone ...

this week have just read mudbound too and got caught up in it.
also read daughter of fortune by isabelle allende(woman from chile seeks fiance during californian goldrush...enjoyable,)rose of sebastopol(young woman goes to the front of the crimea to find fiance...utterly meh) and an utterly disposable thriller)

reading them because i couldn't sleep much this week and they were in the charity 4 for a pound box

Cloud Howe by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

Reading it because it's the next book in the Scot's Quair trilogy (really enjoyed Sunset Song!).

Yes, I'm really enjoying it, more than I had thought I would. Looking forward to reading Grey Granite, the final in the trilogy

I have just fnished Mudbound , which I really enjoyed ,and totally recommend it.

It's set on a Missisipi farm in the 1940's. It's very harrowing in parts, but very well written. I couldn't put the book down , and I have a two year old.

I am reading Parenting Made Difficult: Notes from the Alphabet Soup of Fatherhood by Phil Hogan. It is laugh out loud funny. I am also indulging myself with Sue Grafton's T is for Trespass - this is my comfort reading.

I am reading Skull Beneath the Skin by PD James, becasuse it is a nice thick book that is just the right size for reading with one hand whilst I bf ds during long night feeds. I am choosing my reading solely on grounds of size and ease of holding these days.

The Island Victoria Hislop. My mum gave it too me. It's fairly good, light reading - didn't put it down until midnight last night though!!!

I've just started Dark Fire by CJ Sansom, I enjoyed the first book, Dissolution

Am currently reading The Fifth Woman, part of the Wallander series. Never read any of them before but I enjoyed the Swedish tv show so thought I'd give it a try despite not really liking crime novels as such. And it is quite good, I like Henning Mankell's style of writing, better than some home grown crime writers so I think I'll give some of the other books a try. Wallander as a character seems more real than the cardboard cut out typical detective fare. I feel sorry that he won't be writing any more Linda Wallander books at the moment after the actress killed herself, that is sad in itself as I can picture her as I read it.

I was at the library the other day so have a whole host of gems to keep me busy for the rest of the summer!

Have just finished The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk-Kidd...was fab.

Am reading Engleby by Sebastian Faulks, it's pretty good but not hugely gripping me (has taken me a month to read 200 pages, am not much in a reading mood these days though).

Am scouring these pages for some ideas of books to take on hols.

Terpsichore, haven't got onto the Evelyn Waugh letters, but will take a look. Just got the Mitford sisters' letters out of the library.

Mrs Danvers, the Mapp and Lucia books seem to go in and out of print. You can get them on Amazon though.

I'm halfway through White Tiger by aravind Adiga. Bought it as it looked interesting, great reviews, won Man Booker and I 'm interested in indiA. It is living up to its reviews - I'd thoroughly recommend it. Next up is The Master and Margarita.