What are you reading now, beginning of 2012?

[posey]

I am reading Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending. Loving it.
Also Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I have never read them before but am in the process of reading them to/with ds and thoroughly enjoying them.
Have got so many books piled up to read it is really quite exciting!

Stephen King's JFK one plus a book about the Peasants' Revolt.

Just finished Snuff (Terry Pratchett).
I'm catching up on some V.I.Warshawski (Hardball and BodyWork) as I've not read any Sara Paretsky in a couple of years.

I had a bit of a Julian Barnes binge a while back then got really annoyed with him ('England, England' was terrible and then I gave up on the History Of The World one - loved 'Arthur And George' and 'Flaubert's Parrot' though). May try, 'The Sense Of An Ending' as you say you are enjoying it and you have a name I wanted to give dd2!

Would that be Jajas or Posey?

Since NYE;

I have just finished and read : The Meeting point
I am now reading : Wedlock

On my kinde

I am flicking between; confessions of a gp, the history of the names of underground stations, and a sisters gift.

I think I'm going to like my kindle

:) Dp said that Posey was too way out, so I doubt he'd have gone for Jajas!

'Wedlock' is okay but 'The Knife Man' (same writer) is fab.

I am halfway through Storyteller, the Roald Dahl biog which is pretty good so far. Next is The Line of Beauty which I've meant to read for ages, really looking forward to it....

I love these threads (I know, I started it) but they give me so much inspiration for what to read and ideas for my book club. I am also always in awe at the quality and quantity of what so many of you read!

Half way through Crisis Economics by Nouriel Roubini (sp?) but I've misplaced it (v annoying as I'd just got to the interesting bit about what he thinks we should do now!)

Until I find it I'm reading Bluestockings about the history of women's education, but I'm not especially impressed though I had been really looking forward to it, its rather superficial.

Just started 'The Children's Book', A. S. Byatt (yes, I know I'm behind the times, I've had it on the 'to read' pile for ages!). Enjoying it a lot so far.

Between Christmas Eve and the 29th Dec I devoured Wolf Hall. A fantastic book. Now I can't wait for the next one, out in May apparently.

I struggled with The Children's book and gave up near the beginning. I did like it and have it in my to read pile again.

Agree that 'Bluestockings' wasn't as good as it could have been - but I did find it quite interesting compared to some of the crap I read last year!

I've got Great Expectations waiting on the kindle when I finish Book of Secrets (not really my thing but dd3 bought it for me - bless). Am also reading the Inbetweeners yearbook

The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry. Got it as a Christmas present from DH, I am really enjoying it. It's not as funny as I thought it would be, but it is very interesting.

I'm reading A Year in the Wild: A riotous novel by James Hendry - bought for 99p in the 12 days of Kindle sale. It's very very funny.

I am currently reading Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match by Wendy Moore and The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub

Have a trilogy, Tales from a Midwife by Jennifer Worth. Mum sent it down with my Christmas pressies and I've found it really interesting as it is based on her personal experiences as a midwife in the 1950's.

What do you think of Wedlock Abcinthia ?

It's quite in depth.

JW 's obviously, mum was never a midwife

I've really enjoyed it so far.

I've got The Children's Book on my reading pile too. I bought it ages ago, but just haven't got round to reading it yet. I started Wolf Hall ages ago on holiday, but kept getting so many interruptions from the children that I had to give up - couldn't follow the plot - I'm determined to read it, as I did enjoy what I did manage to read .

Lisa Appignanesi "Mad, Bad and Sad: a History of Women and the Mind Doctors". It's really good.

I'm reading "Red Mist" by Patricia Cornwell. Really good, took a while to get started but enjoying it so far.

Ooh that history of women and madness sounds right up my street! I read a history of Bedlam last year but was disappointed because it was pretty superficial and had 'padding' in place of info in several places, I felt.