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What are you reading today?

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melodyangel · 05/06/2013 12:53

That's it really. What are you ready at the moment and are you enjoying it?

I'm reading Fahrenheit 451 and loving it.

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Cherrypi · 06/07/2013 18:14

The woman upstairs by Claire Messud. I'm enjoying but it doesn't go with the sunshine so I'm going to find something lighter.

Iaintdunnuffink · 06/07/2013 23:22

I've just downloaded the Universe versus Alex Woods and The Shock of the Fall, I can't decide which one to start first.

EliotNess · 06/07/2013 23:51

Not Alex woods

dadditlass · 07/07/2013 00:13

Galaxy have you tried Diana Gabaldons Cross Stitch?
I loved Lady of Hay and found Cross stitch even better, it's another time travel one.

Sallystyle · 07/07/2013 22:04

Dark Places by Gillian whatshername.

Khara · 07/07/2013 22:22

The second-last woman in England - really enjoying it!

Galaxymum · 08/07/2013 09:26

I've been poorly over the weekend so got out some chick lit as light funny reading. Catherine Alliott's A Rural Affair which I'm raring through and enjoying something funny.

Dadditlass - yes I read Crosstitch last year - I really enjoyed it but haven't read the others. Looking forward to the tv series!

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melodyangel · 08/07/2013 17:21

Ok so finished Fahrenheit 451 and just loved it. I loved it even more after reading the afterword but then I dream of working in a library.

I then read The Autumn of the Patriarch by Garcia Marquez. It was my third atempt to finish it but really enjoyed that too.

I am just about to start The Perculiar Memories of Thomas Penman which a friend gave me. Loving the cover photo.

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hackmum · 08/07/2013 20:22

Have just finished The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (depressing book about Iraq war) and The Fate in our Stars by John Green, which is about a teenage girl dying of cancer. I know - I must be getting in the mood for summer. The Fate in our Stars turned out to be engrossing, surprisingly.

Am about to read Where'd you go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple.

MimsyBorogroves · 09/07/2013 19:02

I'm reading Marian Keyes' "Rachel's Holiday" because I needed something a bit more "chewing gum for the eyes"-y.

MarshaBrady · 09/07/2013 19:03

American Wife. About half way through.

highlandcoo · 09/07/2013 20:12

How are you enjoying it Marsha? It was my favourite holiday read a couple of years back.

Made it just about credible that a seemingly pleasant and intelligent woman like Laura Bush could have ended up with that idiot Smile

MarshaBrady · 09/07/2013 20:45

Yes it's a great one for summer.

MarshaBrady · 09/07/2013 20:48

As an aside it did make me think that I've read an awful lot of books with the very pretty (but doesn't know it) and clever, but unassuming lead female. With slightly overbearing and madder friend and good looking but cocky boyfriend. Feels really familiar.

Still enjoying it anyway.

Lioninthesun · 09/07/2013 21:06

Just finished The Accidental by Ali Smith this afternoon. It was quite good but a little something and nothing. I do like her writing style though. Considering watching Luther on iplayer (eeek!) and then start Dawn French's Oh Dear Silvia to erase any images that may keep me awake from Luther. Really enjoyed DF's A Tiny Bit Marvellous which was a charity shop find, and v. happy to see the recipes in the back :) so hoping this next is just as fun.

hackmum · 10/07/2013 09:11

So, have nearly finished "Where'd you go, Bernadette?" and would like to recommend it - it's a really entertaining read. I knew very little about it before starting (it was shortlisted for the Women's Prize) so assumed from the title it was going to be another one of those misery fests about poor Oirish families eating potatoes and knocking lumps out of each other. But it's actually American.Smile

mixedmamameansbusiness · 10/07/2013 10:21

The murder of Roger Ackroyd and Adam Bede. Both good in their own way.

valiumredhead · 10/07/2013 14:30

I loved The Magpies! The author posted on a thread recently. Really entertaining read imo.

I'm reading As they Slept which is a nice humorous read as I'm finding it hard to concentrate on anything too messy atm as it's so hot.

Ellenora5 · 14/07/2013 22:01

Just started The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year, I think it will be funny

Galaxymum · 14/07/2013 23:08

Just about to read the last thirty pages of The Captain's Daughter by Leah Fleming. It's a very enjoyable story as a summer read. A few too many coincidences to move on the story but I liked the characters and the genuine friendships and relationships. Not sure what to read next. I need something light in this heat!

DuchessofMalfi · 15/07/2013 06:43

I'm reading Watermelon by Marian Keyes and also Lady Chatterley's Lover and The End of Your Life Bookclub by Will Schwalbe.

Bearandcub · 15/07/2013 06:57

The Rook - Daniel O'Malley

It's v good.

Janie875 · 17/07/2013 17:41

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

Everyone really needs to read this - it's very long, but an amazing book!

(Hi everyone by the way, I'm new here!)

MadameDefarge · 17/07/2013 17:56

I'm reading The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene. Can't believe I haven't read it before. Very different to End of the Affair and Brighton Rock, which are the only two I have read of his.

Very enjoyable. Extremely modern and a touch Like Marquez. Its funny how the restrained Englishness of his prose translates so well into bare boned exposure of Argentina during the early Pinochet years. Bleakly comic and tragic. Very underplayed. Fab.

Eraser · 18/07/2013 12:09

Anna Karenina at the moment...and for quite a while it feels like.