Which book are you reading at the moment?

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I'm reading Hesters Story by Adele Geras.

44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith

ooh roobie, thats on my to be read pile too - choices choices.... must try and read more than I buy....

44 Scotland Street here too, it's got some great characters

we're going to see McCall Smith at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Saturday (the kids talk rather than the grown ups, dd very excited!!)

I was in town yesterday, a ararity these days and bought a few books. I was saying to dp i wonder what people would think of the pile i chose.

An open heart- The Dalai Lama
Poems from childhood
Digital photography
Memoirs of a geisha

sounds like an interesting mix Angeliz - I LOVED memoirs of a geisha... MOst of my book buying at the mo is stuff that jumps into the trolley in tesco so isn't as interesting !! Any reasons behind the different choices or did they just take your fancy at the time ??

have just re-read Nicci French's The Safe House (heavyweight, I know ) I had forgotten the cliffhanger so it was most enjoyable (again!).
Now starting The Bookseller Of Kabul...

I'm reading Booty Nomad by Scott Mebus. It's pretty funny and a huge relief after The Sunday Philosophy Club which I yawned through. I'm also dipping in and out of The Lemon Tree by Julian Barnes which is a wonderful book of short stories.

No, i just had a few minutes and dd was asleep in her pram and i splashed out. I love buying books!

what an interesting bunch. right now I'm reading International Criminal Law by Antonio Cassese but that's a cheat coz it's for work. when I go to bed I'll read a couple of pages of Cloud Atlas. best recent read was Anna Karenina

oh, Hatstand - love Anna Karenina. Is it your first read of it?

I am still reading Donna Tartt's The Little Friend - have got stuck half way - it's not my normal type of book but I do like her writing style. Am supplementing that with a no name crime novel - can't remember the title.

I also enjoyed the Line of Beauty (thought it was beautifully written) but got slightly annoyed towards the end (but now can't remember why). Great book though.

Just finished reading Brothers by Bernice Rubens - brilliant heart-breaking saga of five generations of jewish history. V highly recommended

Coming to the end of The Diceman - very enjoyable and easy to read. Didn't see how he could keep it going for 500+ pages, but it holds up well.
Thought The Little Friend was really disappointing, having loved The Secret History - don't think I'm the only one to feel that.
Next on the list is Francis Wheen's Mumbo Jumbo etc.

Just finished Coot Club and started The big Six
by Arthur Ransome.....kids books are great

yes Dinny it was - loved it. It's the richest book I think I've read. am contemplating War and Peace but not just yet

have you read Doestoevsky's Crime & Punishment, Hatstand? most amazing.

Foxinsocks, The Little Friend is worth it, keep going, agree that it is beautifully written, I found it one of those really slow burners, worth persevering with.

Time Traveller's Wife is okay, bit like the lovely bones but good.

Wasn't fussed on either The Lovely Bones or The Time Traveller's Wife, the latter being more appealing that the former.

I wasn't that fussed by the Time Traveller's Wife. imo a clever trick of chronology served to disguise a boring and unconvincing love story. I didn't particularly like (or even dislike) the characters and failed to understand why they loved each other.

December - Phil Rickman, for about the third time! But only cos I'm waiting for his new book to be published.

I love the blend of supernatural and crime in his books and I always turn to horror/crime when the evenings start to draw in.

Just finished "A gathering Light" by Jennifer Donnelly. I'd never heard of it and it was recommended. Fab book. Very readable.
Also just read Bill Bryson's Notes from a small Island. Laugh out loud funny. I snorted a lot through that.
Just about to start John O'Farrell "This is your life"

Half way through Simon Garfield's Secret Lives. Is very good. Am hoping that I didn't dream that i saw a new Margerat Forster book last week.
Anyone know?/

Not enjoying The Time Traveler's Wife (I must have an American spelling version) - it's so dull, contrived and boring. Only read it on the loo now. Same with Donna Tartt.
Many modern authors seem to work too hard. Any recommendations - I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez, can do Isabelle Allende but anything Tolkein or JK Rowling leaves me grabbing for the old Thomas Hardy or Jane Austen favourites.

The Lovely Bones was imo much more readable than the Timw Traveller's Wife. Still not fantastic though. At least I finished it!