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What is everyone reading just now?

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MrsSpoon · 23/03/2006 21:22

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. Smile

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MrsSpoon · 09/05/2006 13:23

Rowlers, Life of Pi is one of my favourite books ever. I loved it!

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nikkie · 09/05/2006 19:27

Didn't like the end of the pact, felt unfinished, am now on aRichard Laymon book can't remember the title

MamaG · 09/05/2006 19:28

I didnt like the end of The Pact either.

clerkKent · 10/05/2006 13:16

Saturday, Ian McEwan. Just finished Freakonomics - mainly good, but the last section on names seemd to be a space filler.

Singersgirl - keep going with Vernon God Little. In the first half I didn't have much sympathy for Vernon, but then it started to grip me.

CountessDracula · 10/05/2006 13:33

Just finished Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (superb, very Edward Albee)

Now have started The Sea (John Banville) and Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro) - Never let me go is SUPERB, not really got into The Sea yet

foxinsocks · 10/05/2006 13:39

I've just started Saturday aswell having just finished rereading Stanley and the Women (Kingsley Amis). Also bought a Peter Lovesey book - not read any of his stuff before.

lahdeedah · 10/05/2006 13:41

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, who wrote Cloud Atlas

only half way through, but excellent so far. Highly recommended!

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PeachyClair · 10/05/2006 14:35

Just finished the Lost Art of Keeping Secrets

Wasn't sure at first, but it grew on me.

Salamander · 10/05/2006 15:34

I'm with Earthymama!

We're reading Cloud Atlas right now.
EenyWifeMum bought it for me a couple of yers back and I loved it, so we're reading it together now.

Takes work as it's so strangely written, but well worth the effort.

What is Black Swan Green like Laddeedah?

Salamander

mummyhill · 10/05/2006 16:20

After a nudge from the last book thread I was on I am now 1/2 way through Stephen King's Wizard and Glass having steamed my way through Gunslinger and Wastelands The rest of the set are sitting there talking to me.

bundle · 10/05/2006 16:31

Never Let Me Go (about halfway thru)

lahdeedah · 10/05/2006 16:39

Salamander - Black Swan Green is great but quite different to Cloud Atlas - it's set in 1982 and follows a year in the life of a teenage boy growing up in a small town in Worcestershire. Beautifully written and same fantastic period detail as in Cloud Atlas - there are some spooky happenings but no sci-fi stuff (yet anyway!)

(ps how do you read a book together??)

faeriemum · 10/05/2006 18:36

Sliver by ira levin - not as raunchy as the film may i just add!

housearrest · 10/05/2006 18:44

Hello, I'm new to this thread so hope you don't mind me putting my tuppence in. I've just finished Stuart-A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters and thought it was fantastic. Sad, Funny, thought provoking and a really really great book. Has anyone else read it?

clerkKent · 11/05/2006 12:31

Hey Foxy, delays on the Northern Line mean I am racign throught Saturday. What did you think of Kingsley Amis? I imagine some of his stuff would appear quite dated now. Saturday is very firmly embedded in the early 2000's, but I expect it will last longer than Amis pere.

jamsam · 11/05/2006 12:42

im reading a mixture of :
minus nine to one, jools oliver
some odd david badiel thing about princess di (??) and strage regiment, terry pratchett

does anyone else do more than one book at a time??

Nightynight · 11/05/2006 13:17

Kiffe kiffe demain has just been published in English! the English title is Just Like Tomorrow.

look out for this book - it was a hit in France.
Its a teenage girl talking about her life in grotty Paris suburb, and believe me, it is very authentic.

singersgirl · 11/05/2006 13:22

I thought "Never Let Me Go" was brilliant, too.

Just read "Saturday" and now on "How Green Was My Valley" which is great so far (chap 3).

Haven't read "Stuart - A Life Backwards" but will look out for it.

foxinsocks · 11/05/2006 16:28

clerk, that particular amis one isn't too dated because it's all about the schitzo son and the strange doctor - I suppose it was quite a strange book in the first place!

I'm not past the first 30 pages of Saturday - I keep falling asleep on it! I'll make some headway this weekend hopefully. Hope you are well at the mo.

moondog · 11/05/2006 16:35

I've just finished 'How Green was my family' and 'I choose to live'by one of the girls that belgian nutter Marc Dutroux incarcerated.
Harrowing.

Now nearly finished 'In Praise of Slow (How a worldwide moving is challenging the culture of speed)' which is enjoyable if a little light.

Glad you endorse 'Never let me go' so soundly CD. it was one of the books dh bought me for my b'day last week.

Housearrest,that 'A Life backwards' is next on my list.

cod · 11/05/2006 16:36

i am reading in cold blood by truman capote
is great

cna i recommend margaret forster new one too

moondog · 11/05/2006 16:37

I've also really got into Margaret Forster recently,at least her autobiographical stuff.
'Hidden Lives' was brilliant and I bought her latest(?) one on various wives for my mother (but hoping she would pass it on to me afterwards.)

Sort of reminiscent of Linda Grant's autobiographical stuff like 'Remind me who I am again'

jampots · 11/05/2006 16:37

Am reading yet another shallow book "Confessions of a Bad Mother" last week it was McCarthy's Bar

moondog · 11/05/2006 16:38

How odd,is that the one I am referring to Cod??

'In Cold Blood' is brill.