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What we're reading

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What are you reading?

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poppadum · 17/02/2006 08:59

I am reading Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal, about a 42 year old female schoolteacher's affair with a 15 year old schoolboy. She's such a marvellous, perceptive writer that I actually ended up feeling sorry for the teacher. Full of wonderful insights into the class divide.

Next on my list is the new Joanna Trollope.

Anyone else reading anything good?

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MrsSpoon · 17/02/2006 20:49

Memiors of a Geisha, want to read it before seeing the film, so far it is fantastic.

alliep30 · 17/02/2006 20:55

trying to read "The Historian" but struggling to get going! Should I keep going, does it get better?
Devouring "The Vanishing" by Tess Gerritsen cos i like murder books.

mummytosteven · 17/02/2006 21:01

slightly OT but if I absolutely loathed Garcia Marquez book 500 years of Solitude, is there any point me trying out Isabel Allende?

notasheep · 17/02/2006 21:20

Read Memoirs of a Geisha in 2001-so am i at the cutting edge?!

hannahsaunt · 17/02/2006 21:28

Waiting for The Secret River by Kate Grenville to arrive from amazon...

MrsSpoon · 17/02/2006 21:37

Notasheep you are at the sharp edge of cutting edge. I am merely running along at the back of you all playing catch-up, after going off reading for a number of years.

notasheep · 17/02/2006 21:39

I am sat here wondering how you all get to read anything-since i have had dd and ds my reading is ALMOST zero.

I must have missed several Ian Mcewan novels along the way!

Thomcat · 17/02/2006 21:39

Just finished 'The Kite Runner'. Great book.

mummytosteven · 17/02/2006 21:42

Notasheep - I watch very little television.

notasheep · 17/02/2006 22:00

Ditto-didnt even have one for a while,maybe i should get off here

7777777 · 17/02/2006 22:12

just started reading a book my mum got for free from news of the world "a mothers love" by lynne andrews.only read chapter 1 and hooked.

TwoIfBySea · 17/02/2006 22:15

Am just finishing "The Understudy" by David Nicholls which was better than I thought it would be. Next on my list is "I choose To Live" by Sabine Dardenne which will be upsetting but uplifting that she seemingly managed to push through what happened to her.

JonesTheSteam · 17/02/2006 22:39

Started reading The American Boy by Andrew Taylor about 2 weeks ago.

Got hooked straight away and was really enjoying it, but since starting it I have been very busy and also ill.

Will probably have to start it all over again now!

Previously had just finished My Sister's Keeper by Jodie Picoult - thought it was wonderful.

Mazzystar · 17/02/2006 22:47

MTS I loved The House of The Spirits when I read it - oh years ago now, must be time for a revisit really.

Lots of people go on about Jodi Picoult - never read any - what sort of thing is it?

collision · 17/02/2006 23:16

Just finished Nicki French's Killing Me Softly which I loved.

Not read her before

kikidee · 17/02/2006 23:18

Just finished Light on Snow by Anita Shreve and really enjoyed it. I am Charlotte Simmons is next on the list but not sure I will enjoy it, may just start on magazine backlog!

JanH · 17/02/2006 23:43

I have just started rereading Narnia - triggered by telling DS1 that the Prof in the first book was the boy Digory in the Magician's Nephew and being unable to remember any other details.

I still have all my old Puffins except for Dawn Treader which was falling apart and has vanished

moo, I just read what you wrote about Time Traveler's Wife - that's exactly how I felt, and I'm sure some of it doesn't make sense/add up, but I was so weary when I finished it I couldn't face starting it again straight away.

UCM · 18/02/2006 03:38

Just finished The Crimson Petal & The White by Michael Faber. Really good book.

harrogatemum · 18/02/2006 07:32

bootsmonkey - was the bone people the one set in NZ and about a hermit like woman who lived in a round tower? And ended up befriending a guy???

UCM - I hvae read crimson petal and white too - loved it! What was she called - Precious or somethin?

saadia · 18/02/2006 08:52

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. It's written from the point of view of Odysseus' wife. I loved reading the Odyssey as a child so it's great fun reading this.

Mazzystar · 18/02/2006 08:54

oh saadia i REALLY want to tread that

love margaret atwood - have you read crake and oryx?

UCM · 18/02/2006 11:09

Sugar

Coathanger · 18/02/2006 11:16

Just read The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (agree with WWW, the italic inserts are a bit odd, but it was generally a good read)

Just started Knowledge of Angels - Jill Paton-Walsh (courtesy of fauve )

Have Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in waiting.

bootsmonkey · 18/02/2006 11:18

Harrogatemum - that's the one. Haven't re-read it for a while, but always enjiyed it to date. Also loved the time travellers wife.

saadia · 18/02/2006 17:31

no mazzystar I haven't, but I have read Alias Grace which was also very good.

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