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

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imaynotbeperfectbutimokmummy · 09/07/2009 14:52

I am reading the life of pi by Yann Martel.

I am reading it because i bought it from the charity shop a while back, it sat around for a bit and i had just finished a huge tome about India. I also am trying to "read better".

I am enjoying it, its very entertaining, although it hasn't really challenged my beliefs in any way.

Am loving Pi's exclamation of "Jesus, Mary, Mohhamed and Vishnu" - I think it pays to cover all bases

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jumpingbeans · 13/07/2009 12:42

I have just started The girl who played with fire, Stieg Larson,sequel to The girl with the dragon tattoo, I am really enjoying it, I think there is one more after this one, not sure what its called though, anyone else read them?

midnightexpress · 13/07/2009 10:13

I'm reading Old Filth by Jane Gardem. I'd heard it recommended on several radio programmes and finally got a copy. Very good read. I haven't read any novels for ages and couldn't find anything to get into, but I'm really enjoying this.

cyteen · 13/07/2009 10:07

I'm getting a bit annoyed with Intersex now. The parts where she talks about intersex are very interesting and will be useful to me, but loads of it is just her boring on about going to S&M clubs and having promiscuous sex with girls. I don't have a problem with either of those things, but really there's only so many descriptions of fisting that one reader needs. The tone is very 'look at me, aren't I rad? aren't I dangerous, living in this amazing queer world that you tedious hets know nothing about?' A bit like those mummy memoirs that seem to imply the author thinks they should get a medal for having a child. Yawn.

janeite · 12/07/2009 21:53

Gaiman's 'American Gods' is good fun.

freyski · 12/07/2009 21:51

I am reading 44 years with the same bird by Brian Reade. Its a bout a mans lifelong support of Liverpool. I am really enjoying it.

notnowbernard · 12/07/2009 21:36

I am reading The Book Thief

Because it was recommended to me by the Amazon search engine thingy based on my previous purchases

It's too early to tell how I'll find it, but initial impressions are good: I'm engaged with it

pointydog · 12/07/2009 21:32

yes I have read ...womanhood. A good read, entertaining with a sizzle of sex.

REcommend a Gaiman to me please, janeite

janeite · 12/07/2009 11:02

Have you read the CJ Sansoms, Pointy?

Brideshead Revisited?

The one that has impacted on me the most so far this year has been 'A Clockwork Orange' but it is not enjoyable.

I read a history of surgery, which I enjoyed hugely - could find the title if that's your sort of thing?

The Giles Milton history books are good too - the novel is bonkers.

Have you read any Gaiman?

Simples · 12/07/2009 10:58

have you all read the finest kind of english womanhood?
utterly fab

pointydog · 12/07/2009 10:31

janeite, I'm going bok shopping soon - please recommend a reasonably straightforward, enjoyable yet faIRLY intelligent book for me

pointydog · 12/07/2009 10:28

I have just finished Fly in teh Ointment by Anne Fine. It's teh closest to mislit I'll get.

I'd only read her children's books and was interested to read an adult one. It was alright.

janeite · 12/07/2009 10:19

at Simple. I like it!

HazyJane - The Graveyard Book is lovely, isn't it?

I quite liked the Theroux travel books BUT he is so horrible about everybody, iirc.

ReneRusso · 12/07/2009 10:18

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones by Alexander McCall Smith. Wonderful

MrsDanversAteMyIpod · 12/07/2009 10:09

Good strategy Simples

Simples · 12/07/2009 09:58

I go in and say to the ladee

" i dont want dying kids, terminally ill sisters or anything set in India"

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imaynotbeperfectbutimokmummy · 12/07/2009 09:58

gentle otter that sounds really great. I have always wanted to travel around europe etc by train. I did go from ashford to switzerlnd by train allthough it was for work not really a holiday, i loved it.

The frustration for me is that my lovely dad used to work on the railway. This entitled his family to cheap and a certain amount of free travel. At the time, the ferries were run by sea link which was a subsidiary of british rail. I literally could have travelled around europe for free - but i didn't. That goes down in my list of regrets

might have to take a look at those books

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GentleOtter · 12/07/2009 08:10

I am reading Paul Theroux's railway travel books as we cannot go away on holiday. So far I have 'been' from London to Istanbul, Boston to Patagonia and all round Britain.

hazeyjane · 12/07/2009 07:56

I'm reading 'The Graveyard Book' by Neil Gaiman, because I love him and it is a good (easy!) read.

MrsDanversAteMyIpod · 11/07/2009 21:35

Maybe not then, as Collins' ones are mainly L.A shag fests with heroines called things like 'Lucky' if memory serves!

MrsEricBana · 11/07/2009 21:25

Re-reading May Contain Nuts and it's making me laugh (perhaps not in a good way) because it's so true to life round here.

janeite · 11/07/2009 21:20

Never read Jackie Collins, so can't compare. Only read Cooper as a teenager - tis all Scottish blokes called Rory and girls called Ffffffion, if I remember correctly. And parties in castles.

MrsDanversAteMyIpod · 11/07/2009 21:19

''I avoid anything with illness in it, and anything bad happening to children, i don't find that entertaining to read. ''

What you said above practically sums up MisLit maynotbeperfect. You can't miss them as they usually have forlorn looking children on the cover and emotive titles...

I'm trying to imagine a Jilly Cooper/Jane Austen hybrid Janeite, never read JC...is she a bit similar to Jackie Collins?

cyteen · 11/07/2009 20:27

mislit = misery literature

janeite · 11/07/2009 20:19

Miss Pettigrew is lovely.

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imaynotbeperfectbutimokmummy · 11/07/2009 19:44

what is mislit

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