It's Late Jan., What're You Reading?

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'One City' a compilation of short stories by Scottish writers to benefit charity.

So far, a nice read!

ok well as usual it was xmas so always get lots of books......... so heres the lsit of books...

torey hayden- twilight children ( she has written one child and tiger child) true story bout her helping children in her care thsi time shes working in pschiatric ward. she is a former special needs teacher who specialises in extreme cases, of child abuse and helpign re intergrate children.

pd james - the lighthouse, tried reading it but just couldnt get into it

sharon osbourne- the extreme, good story about her life, shes honets about her face lifts and thats gd. also about the amount of strain she was under due to ozzys drink and drug problem.

patricia cornwell-predator, next one in the series, crime fiction, she a brilliant writer and i recommend you start at the begining of the series as it carrys on through the books!

so thats what ive read so far, if you know any good books please let me know, i love reading, its what i do when baby is asleep, and in my evenings.

em xxx

Cha

I read Troubesome Offspring last year. It is a lot like Gabriel Garcia Marquez' magical realism (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera etc). Captain Corelli is in a different style altogether.

Yes - love magical realism, have read those 2 marques ones and allende etc. Capt Correlli just never did it for me, don't know why. All my friends have read it and rave about it but it just kind of passed me by somehow. Have you read We need to talk about Kevin? I don't want to recommend for book group it if 'tis shite...

another one on Saturday by Ian McEwan. I like it - you have to really read it, not skim!

Just finishing John Peel's bigragphy 'Margrave of the Marshes', lovely, I miss him (no I did not know him personally. Yes I know it sounds weird).

Also reading 'Socially Responsible Investment - A Global Revolution' yaaaaaawwwwwwnnnnnn

Ive jsut started reading again after months of not having chance. About halfway through memoirs of a geisha.

I read time travellers wife before christmas and loved it, it took a while to understand it but really got into and cried like a baby at the end.
Also just read Sophie Kinsella -The undomesticated goddess. Don't know what to read next?

cha.... We need to talk about Kevin is fantastic!!!!!!!!!! Recommend away!

The Handmaids Tale

We Need To Talk About Kevin is brilliant, so another recommendation from me

I'm about to start Saturday. Just finishing off Mr Wakefield's Crusade by Bernice Rubens at the moment.

Flamesparrow ooh thats a great, strange book, i love it also the films quite good and stars the sexy aiden quinn fworh!!! Oh im reading Purple hibiscuss by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, very upsetting but well written, little slow though.

wnttakevin is next on my list!

Saw the film the other week, and was about halfway through when I decided that it had to be a book adaptation because it just didn't feel filmlike enough... started a thread on here asking about it, and it got so many reactions so fast, I decided I had to read it!

How come everyone always seems to enjoy Kevin and TTW, yet when I started threads on both of em after reading them, I just had people bombarding me with posts abouth ow much they were disappointed??? I loved em both.

The Pact -Jodi Picoult.
Seen her mentioned alot on this thread, but had never heard of her

I am the person who clears the "new in this week" section twice a month at the library, and just reads a random selection.

i am always recommending we need to talk about kevin about to read a book "how to be lost" recently finished the fantastic "cloud atlas"

and now for something completely different: The Life and Letters of David Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet (pub 1951), bought in a fantastic Oxfam secondhand bookshop in Bath.

Almost finished I know this much is true by Wally Lamb and I don't want it to finish, it's too good.

Tamba, have you really read all those books this month?

I've just read The Hungry Years by William Leith and loved it, thoroughly enjoyable and honest. I can't read decent fiction any more, has this happened to anyone else? I can read weightyish factual stuff and can manage chick lit and the like but I just cannot bring myself to read anything decent and fictional, I don't really know why. It's been going on for a couple of years now. So I've recently read The Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray and Life Swap by Jane Green but just cannot begin to consider The Time Traveller's wife (present) or other books I've been given. Oh well.

Just finished "Small Island" by Andrea Levy, which I enjoyed a lot & had some really funny bits. Might read another one of hers next I think.

Hazellnut, I thought Pompeii was a good read - have you read Fatherland? I must re-read it sometime, it was fantastic & really thought provoking.

NIk - haven't read any others of his - my Mum has bought them all since reading Pompeii so I can always borrow it if I get on with Pompeii. Mind you, DH tidied it away last weekend in a fit of tidying and so haven't read it since . Must put some effort in I think, as I moan I never get to read anymore.....

I loved Small Island....

people get a bit sniffy about Robert Harris, but the ones I've read of his have been good fun - I've read Engima, Fatherland and Archangel.

I'm just over halfway through "The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon" by Richard Zimmler. It's a murder mystery set against the backdrop of the Inquisition and a pogrom against the Jews in Lison in the early 16th Century. V. good book so far.

Agree Robert Harris is a v, easy read but sometimes this is what the brain needs !! Will read something more challenging next !!

Ive just re-read My Story (A Child called It, The Lost Boy and A Man named Dave) by David Pelzer about his abusive childhood and then discovered A Brother's Journey by his younger brother Richard B Pelzer.
I am now reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy.I will get through it!

Am reading "Sex and other Changes" by David Nobbs (he who wrote Reggie Perrin) and jolly good it is so far.
Before that read "End in Tears" by Ruth Rendell.