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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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eidsvold · 18/05/2006 03:56

i enjoyed Lincoln Lawyer.

Alipiggie · 18/05/2006 04:01

Stephen White - Remote Control. Thriller writer about a clinical psychologist in Boulder, Colorado. Fantastic books, if you like thrillers, you'll like all his books. Although Kill Me was no where near as good as the others.

tigermoth · 18/05/2006 07:24

marina, I read short history of tractors in Ukrane recently - loved the description of the house interior slowly going to pieces. And wierdly, straight after it, read an Andrea Levy -(Small Island) Very good as well, but in a different way. The two books, talking about immigration to England from totally different perspective, made interesting reading back to back.

Anyone read Another Ace in the Hole by Annie Proux? I read it a while ago and it is such a superb story. I love it!

CarolinaMoose · 18/05/2006 08:30

just finished The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory. It started out really well, but went downhill swiftly after that.

Piccalilli · 18/05/2006 08:55

Just finished Never Let Me Go, now reading 'the Second Shift', about working mothers - highly recommended but deeply depressing. Also just finished Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult - better than Salem Falls which I found a bit disappointing

PinkKerPlink · 18/05/2006 08:56

feltmade jewellery:o does that count?

frodofitz · 18/05/2006 09:19

I am reading Emily Barr-Atlantic Shift and i must admit altough i thought i would never get my head round trying to pick up a book-mashed pregnancy brain-at this stage it's gone down well...main story of a successful cellist although doesn't think she is that good, still makes good money and you get to hear a bit of showbiz life. Also including a divorce, affair with an 18 yr old who's a Gareth Gates type of lad, stalker and a secret baby she had 15 yrs previously....i've not finished it yetbut i don't mind passing it on if anyone wants a read?

frodofitz · 18/05/2006 09:23

FOXINSOCKS-theres a CSI thread? Where is it?

I am new and it's obvious isn't it!

foxinsocks · 18/05/2006 09:26

if you go to Telly Addicts (if you click on the 'by topic' bit), there are various threads popping up every now and then on CSI and other shows

bakedpotato · 18/05/2006 09:35

Sleep with Me, Joanna Briscoe
Just your average tremblingly sensitive love-triangle-in-London-media-circles novel, with a large dose of quite effective horror thrown in

frodofitz · 18/05/2006 10:36

Thanks for that i will have a mooch

Adorabelle · 18/05/2006 11:39

Just finished A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, absolutely heartbreaking memoir of a mans
aclohol addiction. Highly reccomend it. Now reading The Time Travellers Wife.

bundle · 18/05/2006 11:52

ooh bp i have that, wondered if it was worth a stab. keep getting behind with my book clubs..Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel has started well. also supposed to be reading Ali Smith's Accidental.

bundle · 18/05/2006 11:53

(also am trying to finish Never Let Me Go & am dipping into Gina Ford's new book Good Mother, Bad Mother, which is surprisingly personal for her)

acnebride · 18/05/2006 11:54

Being Freddie by Freddie Flintoff. Not scintillating but good if you like cricket. I'd recommend What Now? by Phil Tufnell, which is (IMO mostly unintentionally -maybe not) hilarious. 'Then he told me off again which I really thought was out of order as I'd only been pissed when I wasn't actually playing...' etc

clerkKent · 18/05/2006 12:18

acnebride, have you read Out of My Comfort Zone by Steve Waugh? I saw a highly complimentary leader in the Guardian about it, but have not read the book.

juicychops · 18/05/2006 12:26

Just started reading 'Children Who Kill - profiles of pre-teen and teenage killers' by Carol Anne Davis

acnebride · 18/05/2006 13:33

clerkKent, not yet but dh is getting it for his farewell present from work Smile i'll let you know what it's like

bresha · 22/05/2006 16:30

Just finished memoirs of a geisha

nikkie · 22/05/2006 19:33

I am reading Shrine by James Herbert.Not sure about it yet.

rabbitrabbit · 22/05/2006 19:44

Just finished The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne-its actually for children but it's great.

I quote: "Bruno is a nine-year-old boy growing up in Berlin during World War II. He lives in a five-storey house with servants, his mother and father and 12-year-old sister, Gretel. His father wears a fancy uniform and they have just been visited by a very important personage called the Fury, a pun which adult readers should have no trouble deciphering. As a consequence of this visit, Bruno's father gets a new uniform, his title changes to Commandment and, to Bruno's chagrin, they find themselves moving to a new home at a place called Out-With."

MamatoHoney · 22/05/2006 19:45

princess orchid not sure who its by

skirt · 22/05/2006 19:48

I'm in an online book group and we are on Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. Its ok but a bit dull at times. The last one was Life of Pi and most peeps liked that one

katyrocks · 22/05/2006 23:25

just finished memoirs of a geisha too. now on martina cole, a ladykiller. bit of a contrast there!

eidsvold · 23/05/2006 05:51

jsut finished - the Graft by Martina Cole and how to kill a husband by Kathy Lette.