What Are You Reading At The Moment? May/June 2007

[TwoIfBySea]

Just curious, okay plain nosy, but what is everyone currently reading at the moment and would you recommend it or not?

I am reading The Boleyn Inheritance by Phillipa Gregory, I've read her other books and this is quite good even if it does jump between 3 different characters, not as confusing as it sounds. Although I know the ending of these characters the journey is worth reading.

I had just finished Oryx & Crake so this is bit lighter.

Just finished the Adeventures of Sherlock Holmes. Just about to start a Laurie Lee biography. Discovered at a client's funeral recently that he & LL were very good friends, so extra excited about reading the biog.

Psychobabble Yes Yes YES I have and you have too! I am so pleased that someone else likes Tepper! She's amazing and yet, because her work is in a 'genre', she doesn't get the recognition she deserves. I have all her books and there's a new one in June.

Turquoise, I also love Heyer, they are my guilty secret with Nora Roberts, they are the world as it should have been.

Reading Deborah Moggach's new one, In the Dark.
It could have done with another draft, I reckon. Some of the writing is a bit clunky, and it jumps around a bit.
Shame, because I loved Tulip Fever.
Mind you, it could be that I've just read Digging to America by Anne Tyler. My, but that woman can write. Anything would suffer in comparison.

I have a pile of books bought from Amazon to read

The Last King of Scotland
Triptych - by Karen Slaughter
Angels - Marian Keyes
The Interpretation of Murder and
At Risk by Patricia Cornwell.

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Cooor. Book people. Hello.

I don't have much time to read, so have started buying Audiobooks for my iPod.

Currently listening to 'The Woods' by Harlan Coben. Very good so far. Before that I really enjoyed the most recent Reginald Hill Daziel and Pascoe 'The Death of Daziel'.

I like Gregory a lot too.

Is Patricia Cornwell still writing in the bloody present tense? I find it really jerky and almost uncomfortable to read.

"The Crysalids" is one of my favourite books. Wonderful reading.

Just finished The Year Of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. Fabulous novel based on a true story about a village in Derbyshire which voluntarily puts itself into quarantine during the Plague.
Just about the start Lionel Shriver's new book The Post-Birthday World. Anyone read it yet?

Am reading The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfield. Good so far.

am reading susan hill - various haunts of men. it appears it is going to finish before it has got going, but there's a series so perhaps pace will gather in the next book...?

anyway, what shall i read next? heap of library books here,
I Fatty by jerry stahl, (fictionalised autobiog of f arbuckle) looks a bit errm arty
margaret forster keepign the world away - safe bet
can any mother help me - there's a thread about this, it is a sort of mumsnet by letter in the 30s onwards
death of dalziel - another safe bet.

Saltire, at the risk of sounding like a mad stalker I notice elsewhere you're moving to my old neck of the woods - as you obviously like police/detective fiction you might want to give Graham Hurley a go once you've been there a while. His work is set in Portsmouth, has a strong sense of place and sometimes makes me giggle when the reinforcements are sent in from some banal Hampshire location.

To fit in with the thread, I'm reading Kate Mosse's Labyrinth, which I'm not particularly gripped by, Dan Simmons' The Terror, only just started, and just finished John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things, which is fab.

I'm reading the Historian and getting totally spooked - literary re-working of Dracula. So good. Agree with all about Margaret Atwood, my mum put me onto her via Surfacing which she had studied for her masters in Eng lit...fantastic. Pratchett is my guilty secret (although not so guilty now I have found other fans on here...)

Nothing wrong with Pratchett.

Bad Medicine by David Wormwood i think. Excellent overview of medical history. Had to miss out a chunk of the vivisection chapter . Interestingly he was HE'd. And a biog of Alexander Fleming - good contrast as David W was quite negative about his contribution, whereas the biog funnily enough wasn't.

And Bath Tangle by Georgette heyer to fill in the gaps - turquoise, which one are you on?

And Carol in Repertory, which I found in the attic now we finally have a ladder. Anyone else remember Sue Barton and Carol Page?

Oh I have a shelf full of books waiting to be read, none of them high-brow

I'm about to start Shattered (Dean Koontz) which was loaned to me by ds1's gf. I used to read his books a lot and then stopped for some reason. Recently bought The Husband which I really enjoyed so read Velocity also very good.

Sue Barton, yes, wow, a blast from the past!

I'm reading The Sea House by Esther Freud (I had it wrong earlier) and it's very soothing and undemanding.

I have the latest Anne Tyler, which I'm 'saving for best' because I like her soooo much. Ds2 has also just been to Baltimore and paints a v different picture to the one she depicts.

I am reading My Sister's Keeper for a book club I am in. It's ok.

I am reading to books at the moment, to kill a mocking bird which i am loving and The master and Margarita, which is a russian classic (translated, i'm not reading it in Russian! English is hard enough!) Its a very tough book!

i should obviously read more so i learn which'to' to use when!! I am actually reading TWO books at the moment!!

My Sister's Keeper by Jodie Picault is AMAZING! Also Everyman by Philip Roth will really stay with you - heavy stuff but it helps make sense of life (and death)

I've just finished Sovereign by C J Sansom
It's set in Tudor England just after the dissolution of the monasteries. The unlikely hero is Mathew Shardlake, a hunchback lawyer. It's so atmospheric you can almost smell Tudor London. This is his third book about Shardlake and can't wait for the next!

I've just started Sovereign and really enjoying it.

I've just finished the David Mitchell one about a 13 year old boy growing up in the 80's. I enjoyed that as well.

im re reading i dont know how she does it by alison pearceson.im trying to re read everything in house before selling and buying more.

Two really good books that I just read are The Island by Victoria Hislop and The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.

After wading through The Blind Assassin I have given up on hard work books and am reading nothing but Katie Fforde - I highly recommend them. V easy going and there is nearly always a male character with a touch of Mr Darcy about him - also, generally at least one good shagging scene in the book that has you smiling for a week afterwards. I have to confess, my sex life has improved since reading her books and here was my partner thinking it was his penis extension. Paradise Fields, Living Dangerously, Thyme out are some of the better ones.

JennyMac - would agree with Maggie O'Farrell recommendations and also recently read Marion Keyes 'Anybody out there'. Fabulous.