What is everyone reading just now?

[MrsSpoon]

I am almost finished 26a by Diana Evans and finding it so-so, don't know if I just don't have the concentration for it at the moment as parts of it seem excellent and other parts don't seem to even register with me. It could be me rather than the book though.

Just being nosey and looking for future recommendations or titles to avoid.

v good.. just read that too. started with the surgeon and was hooked!

Have put Margaret Forster and Tony Hawks on my Wish List, both appeal.

QE2, I enjoyed Lesley Glaister, As far as you can go, although I haven't yet got round to reading any more of her books.

The Times (todays for a change! normally would still be on Sundays)

"The Good Wife" by Elizabeth Buchan and it is quite good.

Have a pile of books, both library and bought, that has overtaken the bedside table and most of the floor by my side of the bed. DH queries if I need so many books, of course I do! What else can I do in bed that lasts more than 10 minutes and is much more comforting!

Note the exclamation marks, next on my list is Jools Oliver "Minus Nine To One."

I took 7 books on holiday with me and didn't read any of them.

Am currently reading A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainia. FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!

Just read the Big Stone Gap, Big Cherry Holler and Milk Glass Moon trilogy of books by Adriana Trigiani. Set in West Virginia. Story about a girl's life growing up in the blue ridge mountains. Loved them.

KBear agree re Adriana Trigiani, they are heartwarming. Am reading Sarah Waters 'Night Watch' at the moment; her ability to recreate an era of the past is amazing. I must to a secret (no longer!)passion for Nora Roberts, Jude Devereaux and, hush now, Georgette Heyer.
I love the predictabilty and the play on emotions, the people are always good or bad, no shades in between, so much easier than real life

The wives of bath-light reading but what I was looking for.

QE2 - I loved Gerald's Game - one of the ones where the images have stayed with me (far better than that dreamcatcher rubbish!)
I've just finished John by Cynthia Lennon - found it unputdownable for no real reason - just enjoyed pretending I lived through the 60's for a while I think!

Blink, a book about how we make intuitive 'snap' decisions and how they can be incredibly accurate.

Just finished 'The Understudy', funny, light stuff.

Oh, I've been wanting to read that book, FandZ! What did you think of it?

I just finished In cold blood, by Truman Capote.

I'm halfway through reading stephen king's new book 'cell' and Jordans new autobiography, and I've got a list as long as my arm of books that I've got to read.

Which one, maomao? I really like Blink. It's a fascinating subject and the writer has a very light touch. I haven't finished it but so far it has dealt with fake antiquities, speed dating and how to diagnose cardiac problems.

The Understudy was fun, but quite silly.

The Sea, John Banville. I think it is the best I have read so far of the booker-box I got for Xmas.

Now on Younghusband by Patrick French. I like reading mountaineering books especially pre-war, and had heard of Younghusband as chair of the Mount Everest Committee. I have found out that he also lead the British invasion of Tibet in 1904, the Fight for Right campaign in WW1 (which commissioned the hymn Jerusalem), and tried to found a new religion.

I'm reading The Time Traveller's Wife but could take it or leave it, really. Perhaps it will improve...

I loved 'The Sea' too ClerkKent.
Anyone else read The Colour by Rose Tremain? I thought it was wonderful.
Just finished 'May contain Nuts' - John O'Farrell - very light and easy but entertaining.
Need to get a new book today.....have vouchers from Christmas for 25 quid - any more thoughts?

44 (or whatever number it is) scotland street - Alexander McCall Smith. It is ok but not riveting.

Donna Leon's series set in Venice
good fun

Penguin Book of English Short Stories

am also going to listen to Ishiguro talk about "Never Let Me Go" on the Guardian Website, if that counts

The Fram, richard benson

Very good, and shprt chapters which I always like.

welshmum - not read that one by Rose Tremain, but loved The way I found her - have you read that?

I am reading A Gathering Light - think it's supposed to be a children's book but I am really enjoying it and I'm 41!

I finished the new Margaret Forster recently too- agree with cod, very good but a bit depressing. Also ended far too soon and abruptly, somehow. I just read Beautiful Bodies by Laura Shaine Cunningham which was fantastic, and I am now enjoying (in a light, easy to read way) the True and Oustanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters.

just finished No Good Deed by Manda Scott and loved it - love all her books actually. Now starting an Adriana Trig- thingy book but so far its a bit too saccharine for my taste.

Simon Gray, The Smoking Diaries, funny/clever/sad/bonkers

and a Val McDiarmid, can't remember title: The Last Reckoning? The Last Temptation? Anyway, it's the one with the pubic scalpings.

Watching The English, by Kate Fox