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To ask you what you are reading?

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notnearlythereyet · 27/07/2014 22:01

Just that really.

I fell in love in Zadie Smith's prose, just finished 'On beauty'. In the middle of 'Anna Karenina' now and eyeing up 'A hundred years of solitude' in my handbag.

Interested in books that you would recommend, as this summery weather makes me want to curl up in a hammock and read, read, read..(don't have a hammock just yet so a beanbag has to do for now).

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RainbowB7 · 27/07/2014 22:30

I've just finished a Zadie Smith this weekend, NW. I really enjoyed the style and characterisation but I found the ending a bit dissatisfying. Definitely worth a read though if you haven't already!

TheAmazingZebraOnWheels · 27/07/2014 22:31

I'm reading 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. It's really good but I think I've enjoyed others of his more, particularly Kafka on The Shore.

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CointreauVersial · 27/07/2014 22:33

I should be reading The Goldfinch, but I was a bit slow in ordering it from the library and it didn't come in in time for my holiday.

So I'm reading "The Hare with the Amber Eyes" by Edmund De Waal. I've been meaning to read it for a while. I've only just started, and it's a bit "dry" so far, but I think it will get better.

Muskey · 27/07/2014 22:34

Some kind person on mn recommended sunne in splendour about the wars of the roses and it was only £1.79 on kindle bargin

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LOLeater · 27/07/2014 22:36

Most of the way through 'And the Mountains Echoed' (I think that's it) by Khalid Hosseini and enjoying it.

Laska42 · 27/07/2014 22:38

The best book I read on holiday was Ruth Ozeki's 'A Tale for the Time Being' .. Stunning.. Last week I started 'The Lowland' by Jhumpa Lahiri. but gave up after a few chapters .. not like me, but I just couldnt get into it at all, and couldnt care about the characters one bit.. ..

Bolshybookworm · 27/07/2014 22:38

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. Enjoying it although not quite as much as the Poisonwood Bible and Flight Behaviour. Just finished Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty which I was a little disappointed by- it just didn't ring true in lots of ways. Looking for a good holiday book so watching this thread for recommendations!

cardibach · 27/07/2014 22:38

J.K.Rowling's 'A Casual Vacancy' - I'm enjoying it. Have 'Life after Life' to read on holiday next week.
I'll be looking up some of these for my Kindle!

ThisIsBULLSHIT · 27/07/2014 22:39

Am reading Birdman by Mo Hayder but am struggling a bit..
Have just read two books in the Virus series by Kathy Reichs. Teenagey but I like to pre-read DDs books (and they are really good.....)

It's my birthday in a few days so I am hoping some kindly soul might get me a new book .....

IneedAwittierNickname · 27/07/2014 22:39

I've just finished The Lifeboat By Charlotte someoneorother.
Going to start The Fault In Our Stars next I think.

ThisIsBULLSHIT · 27/07/2014 22:41

I tried so hard to read that book cointreau but couldn't get into it! let us know how you go!

cardi that is a brilliant book! Am v jealous that you have it all to read! (Ps it's CC from the DT...) Grin

kippersmum · 27/07/2014 22:41

I'm a non-fiction fan & I would urge you to read "Bareback Around the World" by Dr Pat Garrod, one of the best books I've read for a long time

grocklebox · 27/07/2014 22:42

yabu to ask here. You know mn has an entire section called Adult Fiction, purely designed for this question.
But not to be churlish: The Siege by Helen Dunmore. Set in Leningrad in the winter of 1941.

acsec · 27/07/2014 22:42

I'm reading Moranthology by Caitlin Moran. It's very funny.

ovaryhill · 27/07/2014 22:44

I'm re reading I am pilgrim by Terry Hayes, sort of 24 in book form

ICanSeeTheSun · 27/07/2014 22:45

Seduced in the dark by CJ Roberts.

It's a difficult read emotionally but will finish.

appealtakingovermylife · 27/07/2014 22:45

I'm reading "the coffee shop on the corner" by milly Johnson.
Am waiting with excitement for my 2 favourite authors new books, sophie kinsella and Mike Gayle, both due out soon:)

TheBitterBoy · 27/07/2014 22:47

I'm reading Casting Off by Emma Bamford which is the true story of a girl who chucked in her successful career to go sailing with a man she'd never met before after answering an internet ad. It is a surprisingly enjoyable read and has made me have itchy feet for the first time in my life.

Cocolepew · 27/07/2014 22:48

Missing You by Harlan Coben. Brilliant as usual, but I wish he'd write another Myron book.

Lala5 · 27/07/2014 22:50

Afterwards by rosamund Lupton is excellent holiday read if no ones read it

scottishmummy · 27/07/2014 22:53

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler

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5Foot5 · 27/07/2014 22:53

Just finished "The Girl Who Saved The King of Sweden" by Jonas Jonasson (v entertaining) and "The Humble Companion" by Laurie Graham (love most of her books). I have now started "The Little Old Lady Who Broke All The Roles" by Catharina Ingelmann-Sundberg - very promising so far.

Localeditorshropshire · 27/07/2014 22:54

Just finished On Beauty which took me months for some reason but I really enjoyed it. Straight onto How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran, completed last week. Started Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis but then read some very mixed reviews. Might park that one as I have two classics on the bedside table that I have been meaning to read for ages: A Passage to India and Madame Bovary. However, I can hear the siren call of Jilly Cooper from the bookshelf...