What is everyone reading?

[MrsSpoon]

Just nosey and looking for recommendations or titles to avoid.

I am currently reading the new Kate Atkinson, the name of which escapes me. It is fantastic thought nothing could live up to Case Histories but this is just as good.

Love IN The Prsent Tense by Catherine Ryan Hyde and I'm loving it almost as much as 'this book will save your life' am holmes, which was amazing

Yes. I laughed so much at the gay sex scene (with the food poisoning) that my ds started reading over my shoulder and I had to ban him. He's a great fan of The Curious Incident so was keen to read A Spot of Bother, but I think I'll have to discourage that for now!

PMSL! definitely not for the kids

Oh and the amateur surgery on the tumour was the funniest and the most revolting thing I have read in ages.

One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson...she is one of my all time favourites. I have just finished the Tina Brown Diana biography, and decided that all families are completely mad. (I am guilty as I gave Wicked by Jilly Cooper in a pile of books to someone who is now mired in it, it is awful).

spot of bother sounded good on here but has crap reviews on amazon - oh who to believe????

Just finished "The Girls", made me realise again how different MIL and I are; she thought it was boring and nothing really happened whilst I loved it and cried. She liked "The Island" but I thought the writing was a bit flat iyswim.

Also read "Watch Me Disappear" recently and liked it though thought that it was slightly obvious.

I have "The Last King of Scotland" and something else to read before I will have to buy new books.

BBBee-lieve Mumsnet. It's a scream, and very touching too.

I really like the girls and the Island. My mum isnt keen on reading the girls at all but loved the Island too.

Just finished Rupert Everett's autobiography, it's a hoot.

MrsSpoon, I'm also reading One Good Turn - I've liked Kate Atkinson from her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and I'm also a crime fiction reader - and her character, Jackson, listens to a lot of my favourite music too.

Then I will probably return to Andrew Taylor's Lydmouth novels, a crime fiction series set in the 1950s - I read 5 of these in June/July but it's taken me a while to find the next one in the series to read it.

I passed on The Island to my mum and she rang me tonight to tell me how much she enjoyed it. It was one of dh's buys - he is very good at choosing books!

I'm currently reading Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner - about a bored American suburban housewife who tries to find out who murdered a fellow "mommy". It is very American, which grates a little at times, but well written and full of some great comic touches. Am only a third of the way in but enjoying it.

Cloud Atlas, and it's fabadabadoo. Took me a while to get into it but I can't put it down now.

Have also just finished "A Spot Of Bother" which I quite enjoyed - a bit lightweight but it made me laugh so fine for one of those books that you briefly enjoy and then instantly forget.

Ladida - I've read "The Girls" recently too but didn't think much of it to be honest. I loved the beginning but then thought it really didn't live up to what it could have been and it all got a bit voyeuristic and weird. In the end I just found myself thinking - well go on, hurry up and die then - heartless fiend that I am.

Have just started a Peter Straub (not read any of his before but like the ones he's done with Stephen King) but managed 4 pages this afternoon before falling asleep on the bed in a Pimms induced haze, so can't really have an opinion on the book yet!

I thought spot of bother was a good read too. COuldnt get into cloud atlas too much. I have just started reading salem falls.

term limits
taking america back...one politician at ..a...time.

all about killing polititians in america - bingo! unless they stop their corrupt ways and start running america properly

i think michael moore will turn up as the baddie

Yes the second one fishie, is she writing a third? That's brilliant!

Going to have to sit down and look some of these up on Amazon, I have a few of them langishing on bookshelves at the moment, got a couple of the Phillippa Gregory books but something about them scares me, maybe it's the small print and the large number of pages. Also have Behind the Scenes at the Museum, might save this for on holiday.

Have on the go a silly puffery thing by an over-promoted young gun called Thirlwell. Hear my sepulchral warning groans and AVOID.

Best thing I've read this year was Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End. I think that's fab, in so many ways ... midnightexpress, weren't you reading it?

Yes I was bink, but got waylaid by Cloud Atlas and tiny tots - am off on holiday tomorrow so maybe I'll get a chance to finish it while away (ha!). Glad you enjoyed it. I'll let you know how I get on.

If you like Cloud Atlas - have you read Number 9 Dream and Ghostwritten? I think they are far more special than CA. (But I don't really rate Black Swan Green.)

If you are going somewhere where you can read and read & haven't read those two, arm yourself with them!

ROFL at chick licks

Don't know if these are your thing but some great books I've read recently are

We Need to Talk About Kevin
Cloud Atlas
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
The God of Small Things
After You'd Gone

Oooh niceglasses - Middlemarch is my favourite book EVER EVER EVER.

I'm reading Alistair Campbell's diaries.

It's probably been mentioned before, but 'The Secret Life of Bees' is an absolutely wonderful book.