The 2ww book club

[Beeblebear]

Ok ladies (and possibly gents) it's time to start the 2ww book club.

Please let everyone know what book you are currently reading to pass the time. No, what to expect before you are expecting and top 100 baby names do not count.

Please tell us what it is about in a brief review. Once we have a few up, see if you can find one off the list from your library and read up!

You know we all need something to keep our minds busy!

Good idea Beeblebear!

I am reading The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan. It's Book 5 in his Wheel of Time series which is fantasy.

It continues the story of a young man and his friends who live in a 'Lord of the Rings'-style land and are destined to save the world from the forces of evil!

I am enjoying the series but this is the third time I've got this far, and have given up (can be very wordy at time, rather than action). I am determined to finish the entire series - which I think is 12/13 books! - this year!

There is a fair amount of fighting, romance, and good vs evil. But does take some dedication. I believe it's credited as being one of the best fantasy series though if that encourages anyone!!

I just finished Smoking Poppy by Graham Joyce. It was about a middle-aged man who takes himself off to Thailand to rescue his daughter from a drugs mix-up she got herself in. A very easy read with a predictable outcome but entertaining enough.

I read The Reluctant Bride by Lucy Mangan over the weekend. I love her columns in The Guardian. It's a lightly cynical account of her engagement and the run-up to the wedding, great fun!

Other than that I'm mainly reading exam papers to earn some extra cash for my maternity leave fund! Sorry, wasn't supposed to refer to TTC.

I just came back from australia and am reading a sort of travel journal by bill bryson called down under. It's absolutely hilarious! He has written about 7 so if you are a traveller he has probably written one about where you have been. He also includes local history in a light and humorous way. I've alwats hated history but find this engaging.

Am reading Jeffery Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides - cheery stuff! Really looking forward to reading Valley of the Dolls next, though. Somehow I've never got around to it, but I've had it on my shelf for ages... I anticipate a very good distraction from ... err... other things!

ohhhhhh with the roll of BFP - hope you can now relax( Bbear) and enjoy a good book!

A good idea! In my many twws reading has become my solace to avoid google mentalling. I joined goodreads and love love it. I just read The Help which I didn't really fancy but I ended up hooked. I'm now reading Life As We Knew It about an asteroid hitting the moon and what happens to earth (cheery). I just won The Paris Wife from MN so that will be next.

Great idea! I am more of a non-fiction fan. Have just started reading Willpower: Re-discovering our greatest strength by Roy Baumeister. Saw it on Guardian book reviews. It's actually very interesting and might help with the waiting period we're not supposed to be mentioning here...

I am reading a 'worthy' book - Alex Perry, Lifeblood (How to change the world one dead mosquito at a time) - I got it for Christmas- it is actually very readable, talking about how to make AID to low-income countries 'work'. In my defence, I recently finished some very trashy books on the kindle which I really am too ashamed to admit to even on an anonymous internet site
I enjoyed Down Under beeble I also read his ' A Short History of Nearly Everything' which I liked too. but I struggled with the one about Britain - A small island?

I also recently finished Kitchen Confidential which I loved and I got some new cookery books for Christmas and Elizabeth David's collection of articles which I read in bed - not sure that makes me or DH in the mood!
Am gathering ideas for what to read next

I love the idea of this thread since I am now MN addicted and this is much less emotional than reading other peoples stories of TTC!

Yes i guess the luck of starting a new thread rubbed off on me.

For those of you that like fantasy and corny somewhat predictable jokes and puns. I love Piers Anthony`s Xanth series. And there are a ton of the books if you get into it you will have lots to read. Easy to find in used book stores (here anyways)

mrsmellow - for the purposes of nosyness work-based research I'm dying to know what you consider too trashy to admit to. Just whisper it in my ear - I won't tell! Are we talking Mills & Boon's, errm, racier lines? No judging here, I can promise you!

Great idea!

I'm reading The Lady of The Rivers by Phillippa Gregory.

Yes, its a little bit trashy but I love her stuff, and it never takes more than a few days to read one. My DM was a history teacher though and despairs of the fact that ALL my Wars of the Roses/Tudor history knowledge comes from Ms Gregory. I'm always convinced its all 100% historically accurate and that this King had a affair with that Duchess, and Queen Mary had two phantom pregnancies and some girl could foretell the future.

I've just ordered 3 Men in a Boat from Amazon to read next as I'm thinking of having a reading from it for our wedding.

Well done to everyone reading anything remotely "worthy". Its been novels all the way for me for months

This is a very good idea for a thread!

I'm currently reading the Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht. Really enjoying it so far, just flicked to the back page to see a picture of the author and she's very young, she must be some kind of literary prodigy. but also admiring.

Just starting the Poison Tree. My end of the world book has made me want to stash tins of food and bottled water in the loft. Dh says I'm not allowed.

I'm reading Mr Brigg's Hat which is the story of a real life murder investigation in the 1880s, rather like The Suspicions Whicher.

Poison Tree sound interesting whereismywine

Beedlebear All of Bill Bryson's books are brilliant. At Home is a fascinating history of houses.

great idea, I'm fine at work but at home I can't stop thinking!
the original sherlock holmes books have been working for me,( free on kindle)
I did download a book on ttc but swiftly returned that- not helpful in the long 2ww!

got into them after loving the "sherlock" bbc programmes, and the book is fab, short (long) stories, well written, not "olde worlde" lnaguage at all- fab!

On the book club topic there is a thread to join mumsnet goodreads...im going to....