What's Everyone Reading in the New Year?

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I've started w/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

small island
kite runner
notes from a scandal

God I sound like a real girly girl but I've just started the new Jane Green one - Life Swap.

I read the new Cecilia Ahern one too which was very good.

I got the new Vikram Seth and the new Alan Bennett for christmas, so I'll be reading those. And Nigel's The Kitchen Diaries!

I got a few books for christmas. I'm on the first - Sleep with Me by Joanna Briscoe. Early days but enjoying it so far. I was given three other books too so that should take me to Feb. Wanted someone to get me the Lionel Shriver and Dr Norrell one but will have to buy them myself - bleak Feb reading perhaps?

I don't suppose Sharon Osbournes Autobiography counts does it !

I got about 7 books for Christmas/birthday and still have several large tomes from previous Christmases

So what am I reading right now? Oh dear, only the Harry Potter series for the second time in 4 months! Started by looking for clues as to what will be in the seventh book and just got hooked again. I actually had a fantasy today that if I found out I had a terminal illness before the seventh book was published, (wierd I know!) that I would badger JKR until she agreed to let me read the manuscript before I died. That is how desperate I am to complete the series.

I'm reading some CanCon that's ok, Native stuff.

I have the Booker shortlist to read.

I already read Belle de Jour. And I have the new David Foster Wallace (Consider the Lobster? I think?) to read.

victoria beckham - learning to fly

was 50p in the library

Half way through Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell and really enjoying it. Quite unlike anything I've ever read before. Harlan Coben The Innocent next I think!

My friend from Chicago sent me a whole pile of books by an author she talks about a lot, or rather emails about a lot - David Sedaris.

She even told me which order best to read them in! Started with Holiday On Ice last night and was up until 1.30am, it is really funny, witty writing.

So would recommend if you see his books in the library.

ooh I like David Sedaris - I've only read "Me Speak Pretty One Day" (iirc) - v funny indeed

Oh, I love David Sedaris, Twoifbysea. If you get Naked (the book, not the action ) do read the chapter about his holiday job as an elf at Macy's (I think). It is killingly funny.

I'm waiting for Ceasar by Colleen McCollough, Time and Chance by Sharon Penman and On Beauty by Zadie Smith from Amazon. I'm also toying with trying some Sherlock Holmes.

Less enthusiastically, I have liberated my text books on bonds and fixed interest markets from my mothers garage. Haven't got up the courage to see if there are any brain cells hanging on in there yet though...

I am also reading the Time Traveller's wife.
Polly28 - don't you love the Andrea Ashworth book- I found that an amzing book especially as I was growing up 60 miles away at the same time prfoundly ignorant that such things could go on. It is so well written. Have you read anything else she has written.
Gave up on alan Hollinghurst's the line of beauty just before Christmas and treated my self to a John Grisham!

Alan Bennett (thank you kind dh).
Wot's all this about Harlen Coben? Why haven't I heard of him?
Still plugging on through Morte d'Arthur.

Currently reading Closed Circle by Jonathon Coe then moving on to Two Lives by Vikram Seth (Christmas pressie)

I'm another David Sedaris fan. Me Talk Pretty One Day just cracks me up. The one about his brother, "The Rooster" ... well, all of it, really.

Read a few Harlan Coben books - all good thrillers.
Just finished Micheal Crichton - State of Fear. good book by the author of prey and Jurassic Park but he put a few too many references to factual books and papers he had read to research this book on global warming and environmental issues.

kitchen diaries, & then i've got the booker shortliset lined up, courtesy of my mil ( at such a good present) & the poisonwood bible. i think i'll start the zadie smith from the booker.

poisonwood bible ROX!

have already finished the Kitchen Diaries

am about to finish 'an ice cream war' by William Boyd - really enjoyed it

have £30 worth of book tokens to spend, need HUGE books as I read so fast

£30 of book tokens. swoon. I am very

Enid, if you like food writing, what about an Anthony Bourdain compilation, I really liked Kitchen Confidential and can't remember the other one but it was good. Hang on, will look it up.

I know

but can i use them on Amazon? prob not so will have to get full price books from local bookshop