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!

Thanks Freedom I will keep reading. I hope I do like it and want to read the next one, it's great having a good book to read. :)

lol reading Yellow Submarine on the ipad...it is such a good book

I started The Hunger Games at the beginning of Christmas and have just started the 3rd and final book. I've loved every page! I wouldn't have thought it would be my type of books but downloaded the sample on the Kindle. I love that about the Kindle - I've read so many different books that I wouldn't have normally because of the samples.

TheGoddessBlossom I think we shared a book shelf last year! I really enjoyed The Woman Before Me and Cuckoo. I liked The Room but not so much the second half of the book. One Day was so good that I am reluctant to watch the film.

I also liked the first half of, 'Room' but really, really disliked the latter part. Hated, 'Never Let Me Go' too. Why did you give it six out of ten, Blossom? Most people on here seem to love it (I hated, 'The Remains Of The Day' too).

I liked the concept of Never Let Me Go but I can't say I liked it. I forced myself to read from a book circle thing on here years ago.

I have just got a Kindle but the local library's ebooks collection is limited, but I am determined to try it out so am reading Complicit by Nicci French.

Gave it a 6 becuase I thought it was a good concept that was sensitively handled. I would have given it more but the way he kept starting to describe soemthing in the book and then would say "but let me go back to the beginning of this episode and explain" drove me mad. No don't go back, keep talking! Was distracting. In fact may downgrade it to a 5 in retrospect!

GoandPlay - haven't seen the film of One Day yet either, don't think I'll bother.

[turns wireless on on Kindle to explore Hunger Games]

I don't give books ratings but think I'd have given it a 2 at most. I hated all of the characters and was just bored all the way through - wanted them to hurry up and die to be honest! And as for that bloomin' butler...

I'm reading The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides which I'm enjoying. It was my Christmas hardback.

Come back and let me know what you think when you look at it - I'd be curious to know if other people like it as much as I did.
I also read How To Be a Woman and How To Leave Twitter - funny books, nice light reading.

Ooh I didn't know JE had got a new one out. I LOVE, 'The Virgin Suicides' though I was less taken by, 'Middlesex.'

snowdrops - as recomended by mumsnet and becuse mn recomended it - so far - a few chapters in its boring me so much i just look at the book sitting there and feel guilty

so yesterday i started 'one day' as everyone says its great. so far it';s a piss easy read the writing is excellent and i will happily pick it up

I've just started Snowdrops too. Last book I read which was set in Russia was Ice Road - loved it. Hoping to love this too...am trying to keep an open mind.

Have just finished 'New York' by Edward Rutherfurd, I really enjoyed Sarum years ago so when I saw this in the library I thought I would give it a go. Was OK;

also 'The Spirit Level' which I'd wanted to read for ages, again a library find, sadly not as convincing as I hoped it would be. Some truth in it IMO but I deeply distrust any single explanation for anything tbh.

also 'The Ice Cream Girls' by Dorothy Koomson, very readable but annoyingly implausible, weak ending, also could see the twist coming a mile away. Enjoyed the characters though.

also 'The Dilemma' by Penny Vincenzi, well, if you've read one you've read them all. The dilemma involved whether to continue as a billionaire's wife or downsize to multi-millionairehood. My life exactly.

also a thing about Vichy France and its battles with Britain. Very cheerily written and at least I know a bit more about Mers-el-Kabir now.

Depressed about going back to work with less time to read. Have got Life and Fate on my bedside table, I do want to read that but may have to wait for ds to leave home.

I've recently started The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell - I was really keen to read it as I'm fascinated with Japan and enjoyed Black Swan Green. I haven't been able to read a good chunk of it without interruption yet and keep having to go back a few pages to get back into it as there is so much historical/character detail. I'm hoping my patience will be rewarded when I get the chance to have a good go at it!

I got My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young for Christmas and am really looking forward to it too.

I've decided one of my New Years Resolutions will be to read more historical fiction .

I've just read Snowdrops for my book group and was really unimpressed. The description of it as a psychological thriller seemed to be stretching the truth to me, I missed the tension somehow. Will now read the mn reviews of it!

I've just read "Stolen Child" by Laura Elliot which was fab and now reading some lighthearted book...The Art of Friendship, cant remember offhand who wrote it.

Next on the pile is Tully by Paulinna Simons.

Another one with snowdrops to be read. Along with thirteenth tale for RL book club plus have downloaded a Agatha Raisin omnibus for v. Easy read.

I just read Faith by Jennifer Haigh. Yesterday I started reading The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta.

Coincidentally, I read Never Let Me Go a couple of weeks ago. Like others on this thead, I was underwhelmed and for similar reasons. I think the film was better than the book. Heresy, I know. I adored The Remains of the Day though, a truly stunning book with a very compelling narrative voice, IMO.

I'm reading A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. It's very good, but I haven't found it unputdownable. Just finished Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick (in the kindle sale for 99p) which really was unputdownable. Highly recommended.

Just finished Jane Eyre on my Kindle and now reading A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

Just finished the new King and now reading an old King!

I couldn't bring myself to watch the film of, 'Never Let Me Go' even though I seem to be one of the few people in the world who actually likes Kiera Knightley.

Just read A Study in Scarlet as my 1st book of 2012 with a resolution to read Sherlock Holmes and some Dickens as never read either in full. I really enjoyed it - more than I expected, and definitely going to read more.

Now reading Before I Go To Sleep - actually am up as recharging my kindle so that I can read the book in the morning whilst waiting for mum at a hospital appointment!

New year's day I finished the latest Shardlake, which I enjoyed.

Now I'm on to a rather strange book called Blackout by Connie Willis. 'Twas a Xmas present. It is a mix of historical (WWII) and scifi - time travel invented, historians travel back for study purposes, assume they cannot change the past, time and location slippage occurring.

I suspect the past is going to be changed irrevocably in an awful way and everyone will have a very stressful time. It's not terrible but I'm about halfway through and I don't think it's going to be my Book of the Year.

Loved The Help, and Jacob de Z (much better than Cloud Atlas imo). I seem to have acquired, or built up, a pile of books-I-haven't-read-yet which is nearly 30 strong. Not sure I want to read any of them.

Oh wow- discovering Harry for the first time! :o

Reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog, started yesterday. And a Penguin guide type book to "the great composers".