What are you reading?

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I am in need of something new.

Recommendations please!

Kindke, less than a fiver if poss.

Cheers!

I've recently re-read Pride & Prejudice on my kindle. It was free. Can't get much better than that :). My next read on the kindle will be The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, which is currently under £5.

Cold comfort farm, it is very good. Almost done by tonight I reckon and have Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones next but they are both book club selections.

Hmmm. Done p&p. Haven't read ccf for ages.

Have you read The Far Pavillions by M M Kaye? It's £11.99 on kindle but it's about the length of 3 regular books. It's my favourite book.

Last thing I read on Kindle was Helen Howe 'Black is the Colour' a really good sort of weird love story, think it was about £1.99. At the moment I'm gripped by Julie Myerson 'Then' which is very dark and futuristic, and also a hardback I got off ebay! Would highly recommend either.

Taggie CB must be one of my favourite Jilly Cooper characters I have all her books on kindle (had them all in actual book form and re-read them at least once a year ). I'm currently reading bared to you by Sylvia day. I'm enjoying it so far, just over halfway through. A bit rude but DH works nights so works well for me

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton, one of my absolute favourite authors. It's free on kindle at the moment too.

I have discovered Linda Gillard on kindle. Completely different from my usual reads but all original and great characters.

I'm reading The woman who went to bed for a year by Sue Townsend. It is very good .

I'm reading my way through a big pile of Jack Reacher books (by Lee Child). I am seriously addicted

I'm reading Dominion by CJ Sansom. Gripping so far.

Succubus on Top its book 2 of the Georgina Kincaid series would only recommend if you like a little sex, romance and paranormal stuff Very good in my opinion the story in the first book of why she became a Succubus is very very sad.

Just finished Under the Dome by Stephen King which was very sad in places itself but it had some seriously vile characters in who I couldn't stand and actually wanted to see die by 1/4 of the way through.

Currently reading The Wrath Of Angels by John Connolly. It has his best two 'bad men' (Brightwell and The Collector) and loads of laugh out loud moments from Louis and Angel. It's bloody good and quite scary.

Dominion he is on my list. Do you have any recommendations please?

My BIL was at a dinner party with him the other week. This made me quite giddy. Why? No idea. and vvvv

Working my way through Phil Rickman, super spooky books.

Rod Stewart's autobiography.........(I luff him )

I love Phil Rickman and have everything he has ever written!

Am currently reading Delusion in Death by J.D Robb - I just love Eve Dallas.

And thanks for whoever suggested the Succubus series, that will be my next lot of reservations from the library in the paranormal genre after I've finished with Larissa Ione.

Have you read C J Sansom's Winter in Madrid? - only 20p at the moment (I paid slightly more, it's coincidence that I'm reading it just now).

If you liked Cold Comfort Farm, some of Stella Gibbons' other books are being reissued in paperback and/or Kindle. Nightingale Wood is £4.99 at time of posting, and I really enjoyed that. Starlight is £2.99 - still to read that one and Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm - short stories - £3.79.

Winter In Madrid is brilliant

Yes, Winter in Madrid is excellent .. helped me get the details of the Spanish Civil War sorted out in my head for the first time because in America the Republicans are right-wing I always got the different sides mixed up

Much better than Victoria Hislop's The Return which more people seem to have read. I always direct them to Winter in Madrid instead.

this one:
Perfect People

I!m reading Clare Balding's book, 'My Animals and Other Family'. I want to inhabit it. It's all ponies and dogs and the outdoors. Heaven.

After this I'm going to read the new Sue Townsend and then Riders, Rivals and Polo (again).

Literally just finished a study of Vanessa Bell and Virgina Woolf by Jane Dunn- didn't know anything about either women, was gripped all the way through. I don't even know why I bought it, except it was Virago and cheapish in a charity shop.
Also finished Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood yesterday- I love those kinds of novels. It's so weighted down, so gloomy, Elaine is such a dejected woman writing from behind a veil.....first book I've read by her and I think she is so talented. Struck a bit of a chord with me
Now about to start A Whistling Woman by A.S.Byatt, one of my absolute favourite writers. Almost as-new copy with gorgeous illustrations inside and only £1 in indie bookshop paperback copy was nigh on £5! weird. I just want to be this fabulous woman when I grow up. She seems like the perfect woman to me. She should be the national treasure.....

I love A S Byatt too. I've lost my copy of A Whistling Woman, but really liked it at the time. I love the portrait of Frederica as she grows up - read The Virgin in the Garden when I was 17 and hated Frederica then. On re-reading now my reaction is completely different - much more forgiving than my younger self. Possession is still my all-time favourite though. I re-read it recently on the kindle and it totally altered my mood for the whole time I was reading. It's such a joyful book.

Currently reading a Lindsey Davis Falco novel for light relief.

I am working my way through some of Elizabeth Taylor's novels ( no not the film star.)

I heard an extract on Radio 4 Book Club a while back when she was described as the most underrated novelist of the 20th century- and I agree. it's very Jane Austen in terms of social observations and depiction of class- in a very subtle way. And her sparse use of langauge is superb.

I started with Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont.