What are you reading now, beginning of 2012?

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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!

Julian Barnes here too

nothing. Keep picking things up and reading a couple of pages and putting them down again. Had some strange books as Christmas presents. Maybe they are not too bad and I am just strange at the moment.

Might try some non-fiction instead

What are they Zzzen? Nosey!

Have just enjoyed a Twilight marathon on my new kindle, back to work tomorrow though so much less time for reading :(

Keeping my eye on this thread for my 'wish list'

Umberto Eco: The Prague Cemetery. Have flicked through and read a bit here and there, also the first chapter. It is decidedly strange IMO, not really me.

Something about the history of buildings. A few famous buildings and the history around them but trudged through the introduction and couldn't face more.

Few things like that. Mixed bag. Nice of people to buy them but nothing holds my attention

Had to look. Olivia Manning : Fortunes of War. (WW2 British couple drifting about Romania, Greece, Egypt etc. There was a tv series on it a while back)

I tried reading an Eco one once (Rose something?) and thought it was appalling. Have been to the Prague Jewish cemetery and it was v interesting irl but maybe not as a book!

it is one weird book, not much to do with the Prague cemetery so far as I could make out tbh but I wilted at the description of a Black Mass. Was more than I felt like knowing.

Madonna of the Almond Blossoms, historical fiction set in 1500s Italy. By the author of Glassblowers of Murano which I enjoyed hugely.

I read The Help yesterday straight through. It's been a long time since I read all evening and I finished at 1.15. Damn you Kindle app on IPad and Amazon for making books so cheap and easy to buy.

Am about to start a Jeffrey Archer, guilty pleasure

Reading the Schapelle Corby book - No More Tomorrows. Not sure what I think yet. Love these threads too, just added fair few to my wish list.

Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Product Manager's Desk Reference - Steven Haines

and an Audio book version of

Are you Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman - Nuala O'Faolain

The Forsyte saga- is fab

I've just finished The Penal Colony by Richard Herley which was a freebie on my Kindle. Really good read, quite dark and disturbing in places but well written and enjoyable. Quite surprised it was a freebie.

I've now started on The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson. I haven't read the first one (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) but I saw the film last week and really enjoyed the story so I'm giving the second book a go. Not sure so far, there's a lot of nonsense information about the Dimensions of Mathematics, the book that Lisbeth is reading, and I'm really not interested in equations! I will perservere though :)

Just finished Death Comes to Pemberley, P D James.

Apparently Jane Austen is P D James fav author and this is her idea of what could have happened following on from Pride and Prejudice.

But this did not work for me, it was a crime novel that's only connection with Austen was the names of the characters used. It was neither a good follow-on from Austen or a classic P D James novel.

David Cameron biography

BistoBear yes that whole beginning bit with the maths book and island was a bit of a chore to read through but it does get better. I bet you will want to go right onto book 3 when you have finished though.

Slash autobiography just finished. Just started Great Expectations. Again.

Les Miserables. My aim this year is to read the books everybody else has!

I read the first two pages of, 'Death Comes To Pemberley' in the bookshop and it was one and half pages too many!

If you like Austen and don't mind a bit of stupidity, 'Pride And Prejudice With Zombies' and 'Sense And Sensibility With Seamonsters' are good fun.

I have just finished The Return of Capt John Emmett.
Cried at the ending but loved it..brilliant book!!

Starting When God was a Rabbit or something like that tonight

Nothing to Envy - about life in North Korea. Absolutely bonkers.

I'm reading the Korea book as well. It's horrific to think that people are living like that, I didn't realise it was that extreme

Just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuro Ishiguro (he also wrote Remains of the Day) - I give it a 6 out of 10. Now reading The Hand that Last Held Mine, by Maggie O'Farrell, really good so far, also enjoyed her After You'd Gone.

Have downloaded the Game of Thrones set and William Boyd's Any Human Heart.

Loved when God was a Rabbit - have also enjoyed Room, The Help, Water For Elephants, The Woman before me, The Book Thief, Cuckoo, Blacklands and One Day recently.