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

Have just finished Kate Atkinsons latest,When will ther be Good News,very good read but her endings are a bit too contrived for my liking.

Now reading Runaway by Alice Munroe which so far is very good.

I enjoyed The Believers,December and The 19th Wife in previous weeks as well.

currently reading Wuthering Heights. We're getting ready to move and only a handful of books haven't been packed, this was one of them. I am engrossed and enjoying it far more than i thought i would.....being forced to read Jane Eyre for A-level put me off the Bronte's for life but i have done Emily Bronte a dis-service i think.

I've really enjoyed reading this thread - it has given me loads of ideas of stuff to read - I get a bit stuck at the library sometimes. Thanks everyone.

I'm reading Field of Stars by Susie Tarver. I'm reading it because I know the author - it is about her walking a pilgrimage route from her house in France to northern Spain (in a completely non religious way). It is amusing in a 3 men in a boat kind of way...

I just started The Captain and The Enemy: Graham Greene. I love it so far!

Most recently finished Getting Rid of Matthew (fluff), The Runt by Niall Griffiths (very very good), and The Road by Cormac McCarthy (...interesting).

I don't know what people like about those books either Chegirl. I think on MN they've been called 'mislit'!

Thanks seeking. Its nice of you to take the time to advise me I am a terrible conservative when it comes to reading. I have read and re-read Maya Angelou and Barbara Comyns over and over! Because I love them and want all the books I read to be as brilliant.

I like biogs if they are interesting. Not into cleb stuff but love books about Joan Crawford etc.

I love the classics but am still finding them difficult to concentrate on so I listen to them on cd instead. Hardy is a fav. I can get lost in those stories.

I am going to hang around the library and keep and eye on the lit threads on MN. It seems that the only books my friends read are those truelifeemotionaltragicstories. I just cant bear them.

The Colour Purple - again - as I'm teaching it in September.

The Politics of Breastfeeding - not fiction obviously (I wish it was), but a fantastic book which I would recommend to anyone, not just breastfeeding mums.

me too ggirl.

I loved Engleby!

Dear Chegirl,
Welcome back to the club ! Lucky is probably the most depressing/enlightening book I have ever read, and the / is not a mistake. JuST stretch out and try something different. Go to the library and take the maximum number of books you can. Make sure you write on the calender when they are due back.. I am an eclectic reader. I understand why people love Mills and Boon. I had several disagreeable conversations with the great Barbara Cartland - and she's only great because she is superbly confident, and the realists on the ground need those people. But, hey getting back to reality .... read widely .. try everything, stand to the side of the returns desk at your library and listen to people enthuse about the book they are returning..
Regards
SeekingInspiration..... and frequently finding it. MN helps

I am reading Engleby by Seb Faulks...big mistake...I thought I should have learned my lesson after Human Traces which I thought was awful. I keep thinking it must get better, but it hasn't...after all this is the author of the awesome Birdsong which I loved. I fear he is a one novel wonder.

I have just read I'm not scared by Niccolo Ammaniti (for book group) and really, really loved it. I thought it was so beautifully written, but it's not very long, so read it almost in one sitting.

I have also just read The Book Thief (next book group book) and hated it.

Last night I started The Girl who Played with Fire - the next one in the Millennium trilogy as I really enjoyed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Non fiction I have read recently includes Squandered and The Rotten State of Britain - both of which are fascinating and terrifying at the same time, and makes me wonder how on earth this country is ever going to be on a stable financial footing again.

I have just started reading again. Its a long and depressing story but life events seemed to rob me of the ability to concentrate on a book. I loved to read so it was a real loss. But now I seem to be getting back my facalities (not spelling obviously) . I am just loving the joy of finding a book that keeps my attention. Yippee!

Just read Running with Scissors and enjoyed it. Now reading Almost Moon by Alice Sebold. I loved Lovely Bones (though since losing DD I wont revisit it), though Lucky was very well written if depressing. Almost Moon seems as good as the others so far and I will probably finish it in a day or so.

Any recommendations would be great. I like characters IYSWIM. My favourite author is Barbara Comyns but I need to branch out a bit.

Nothing about sick children or survivours of abuse please.

Happy reading I am so happy to be back in the club

I just realized I've put WHO RUNS Britain in adult fiction and technically it should be Non Fiction - is there a Non fiction category?

I am reading The Believers by Zoe Heller. I have to say that I am not enjoying it as the characters are all deeply unpleasant and self serving, and it is a bit too clever for me. However I don't think I enjoyed Notes on a Scandal too much first ime round, so I am keeping going.

WHO runs Britain and why we are in the mess we are by Mr Robert Peston the TV journalist. I'm reading it very slowly - almost a month already - because I need to concentrate and there is so much detail. I have learnt loads about financial markets and am disgusted at the immoral aims of PEPs which (if I have a clear understanding) aim to make as much profit in as short a time as possible from big companies. They do this by buying them whilst undervalued and cutting everything to the bare bone to make the company look lean and profitable and then sell them at an inflated price. Individuals in the PEP owners and leaders of the company make millions if not billions. The pension funds lose billions/ millions. Of course I may have misunderstood. Up to page 80 or so I was never going to shop again at BHS but after page 80 found all the great things Phil G is doing for the UK and although not paying tax as his wife is a non domicillary, he is now paying corporation tax with BHS. This book is an EYE OPENER and a conversation starter.

Just finished World Without End (the sequel to Pillars of The Earth) by Ken Follett. Reading it because I enjoyed Pillars. It's a whopper -over 1200 pages - I was so immersed in medieval England, that when I finished it real life seemed like a bit of a shock!

Just started The House at Riverton by Kate Morton, was recommended on an MN thread i think. Finding it an interesting easy read so far.

Kathy & NT, I really liked Mapp&Lucia too, but when I looked for the rest of the series they seemed quite hard to get hold of, don't know why?

I've got two books on the go.

'Brooklyn' by Colm Toibin and re-reading To Kill A Mocking Bird', which i studied for GCSEs many moons ago.

I'm reading Diary of an Ordinary Woman by Margaret Forster. I am enjoying it, but I didn't realise it was pure fiction till it was pointed out to me on here! Parts of it remind me of one of Sarah Waters' books, can't remember what its called but it, too, was set in WW2, and the main character drove an ambulance.

my sisters keeper - Jodi Picoult - Want to watch the film but am trying to finish the book first

NicknameTaken, have you read the letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh? They are utterly divine (as any of the Mitford girls might well have put it). So funny and sharp. You don't necessarily think of letters as being a fascinating read, but I never wanted them to end. Heartily recommended!

Ohh artifarti, Last night i returned to mandallay.. it's one of all time favs

I'm reading = Odette

Why = dgd aged 6 bought if for me at the school fete, with her own money she informed me.

Am i enjoying it = No, but feel i have to read it

I'm re-reading The Corrections by Jonathon Franzen. I love it as it's tragic and really funny at the same time.

I've just read the four twilight books last week and I can't think what to read next.

SkterGirl - which Roth is it? We've got a shelf full and I've only read one.

kathyis6incheshigh, love love love E F Benson. Have you read the other 5 Lucia books?

Currently reading In Tearing Haste, the letters of Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor which I'm loving - all that "joyful feasting". Also In the Shadow of the Dreamchild, which reverals how biographers and the public colluded in building a distorted image of Lewis Carroll. Apparently he wasn't all about the little girls at all. It seeems quite timely with all the hoohah about Michael Jackson.