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What are you reading now and next?

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LaSoiDisantDame · 22/11/2009 15:04

P;ease indulge my nosiness

haven't seen one of these threads for a while, & love scanning them for future reads.

I am reading The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Dickens) & One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest(Ken Kesey) Find msyelf swapping these two around according to my concentration levels but enjoying them both in different ways

On my To Read Next Pile is Revelation (C.J Samson -loved the first three), A Prayer for Owen Meany and This Thing of Darkness (Harry Thompson)

But I know when I;ve read two of those I will panic & need new ideas. Help!

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LaSoiDisantDame · 23/11/2009 21:12

good to know Lillibet ,

I was actually eyeing up Wolf Hall, what do you think so far? A good friend actually suggested I read another of Mantel;s, A Place of Greater Safety (?)

That link was v good and has been added to my now bulging wishlist

what was it in the end Janeite? Hungry House or Angry Hill...[mystified]

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lilibet · 23/11/2009 20:30

Ah LaSoi, but once youhave finished Owen Meany you will have to start it again striaght away. Wonderful, wonderful book and I am very of you reading it for the first time.

I'm reading Wolf Hall but need to interrupt it to read A Room with a View for book group.

This is wonderful for finding new books to read even if you're not in a book group.

And if anyone fancies joining one and lives within driving distance of Wigan, you're welcome to mine.

JANEITEisntErudite · 23/11/2009 20:11

Thanks. Have just started the Du Maurier! I decided Half Of...looked a bit intellectual and am too tired to think much at the mo!

Themasterandmargaritas · 23/11/2009 19:31

I'm reading Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles by Richard Dowden, it's very interesting and relatively balanced.

Next on my list is 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' by Stieg Larsson.

Janeite, I heartily recommend 'Half of a Yellow Sun' it's beautifully written and utterly captivating.

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LaSoiDisantDame · 23/11/2009 19:19

Is the new Stephen King Under the Dome? it does look good!

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Lotster · 23/11/2009 18:55

"Sunday Telegraph" Guide to Commuterland: Country Life within Reach of London!

JANEITEisntErudite · 23/11/2009 18:42

New Stephen King - am hoping it's going to be in my stocking.

Waiting For Godot - love, love, love it.

I finished Weaveworld last night: remain totally underwhelmed by it tbh and couldn't rec it.

Now - do I want to read Half Of A Yellow Sun or a du Maurier now/ The DDM one is called something like Hungry House or Angry Hill or something.

imnotaceleb · 23/11/2009 12:40

Inthis - look out for the BBC adaptation of Small Island coming soon.

cocolepew · 23/11/2009 11:50

J.A.

cocolepew · 23/11/2009 11:50

Just finished K.A Kerley's last one and about to start the new Stephen King.

InThisSequinBraYesYouOlaJordan · 23/11/2009 11:49

Just finished Small Island (yes, very last year, but hey ho!) and loved it, reading The Other Hand by Chris Cleave which I am loving but is incredibly moving and uncomfortable in parts, now, and will read Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger next. Had a really good run of reads lately, waiting for the duff one...

Bodenista · 23/11/2009 11:46

Not elitist, you say?

Well I'm off then...

Vintagepommery · 23/11/2009 11:45

Now reading Lost and Found by Lucy Cavendish - much better than i thought it would be

Next reading - probably A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donelly)

(Last read Woman in the Fifth by Douglas Kennedy which was an unbelieveable load of tosh)

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LaSoiDisantDame · 23/11/2009 11:38

ooh good more posts!

Shiney I felt bad when I read yours, if I'm honest I'm not into chick-lit these days, but that's because the plots all got a bit samey iykwim

but that's not to say someone else won't be interested

I like a mixture of high-brow/low-brow..those Sansom/Shardlake books I raved about for instance are not highbrow in the slightest and they're great

Come to think of it neither's Stephen King

Just to clarify:This thread.Is Not. Elitist.

P.s i have been known to ..er read Now Magazine occasionally

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gorionine · 23/11/2009 10:48

Please read Godot and which

gorionine · 23/11/2009 10:27

I am re reading at the moment as I got back lot of books from my younger years on my last visit at my parents. Re-reading "Gone with the wind" now and will probably get on to re-read "the pigeon" (Patrick Suskind) next or Waiting for Godo wichj I last read in school!

CatIsSleepy · 23/11/2009 10:21

K-Pax now

next...I don't know, I have nothing lined up

FlyingMonkey · 23/11/2009 10:18

I'm three quarters of the way through The Private Patient by PD James. I will probably read The Law and The Lady by Wilkie Collins next.

slng · 22/11/2009 20:52

I read Alias Grace ages ago. Best of Margaret Atwood has to be the Handmaid's Tale. My copy has disappeared. Just goes to show you should never lend any book to anybody ever.

busymummy - I think I might have a problem with Sepulchre as well. Best give it a miss, I think.

I hated "The girl at the lion d'or" and have been avoiding Sebastian Faulkes. Am I right or is he better than that?

JANEITEisntErudite - I've never done English literature in school so have been spared compulsory reading, which may or may not be fortunate ...

TheFoosa · 22/11/2009 20:09

I loved Lolita too but also hated both Kate Mosse books

Wheelybug · 22/11/2009 19:46

CUrrently reading 'the almond blossom appreciation society' by Chris Stewart. Not as good as teh first two I don't think but I read them ages ago (sort of travel biog principally set in Andalucia). Is for book club.

Next up either - my next one either the latest Patrick Gale or Twilight I think.

I loved Alias Grace - my copy disappeared (must have lent it out and it never returned. Hate it when that happens).

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busymummy3 · 22/11/2009 19:24

Next in my library pile is the stepmothers diary by fay weldon then innocent traitor by alison weir

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LaSoiDisantDame · 22/11/2009 19:23

Hmm, like the look of American Gods too...

choices, choices

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