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.

Not long ago I finished Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise, which was one of the most memorable and moving books I've read in ages. It's not new though, published in pbk a while ago.
Dh has just finished One Good Turn, and loved it. He is almost a bigger fan of Kate Atkinson than I am
Oh, and I also liked Vikram Seth's Two Lives, about his uncle and aunt. Magical.
Mark Haddon is on my list, and will also look out Joshua Ferris.

Well I set myself a challenge of reading all the Richard and Judy summer reads which I have just finished. I liked the Memory Keeper's Daughter, How to Talk to a Widower the Jane fallon one in particular. Did not rate Savage Garden at all

I'm reading the Journal of katharine mansfield which is a very bookish kind of thing to read...it has little sparks of brillliance and is kind of desparing and very much of it's time..the thing i don't like is how they use initials J. came today and we visited K. and M. but I do like the little scraps of writers lives in diaries and notebooks and journals

its time blooming rogue apostrophe

I'm reading Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. I'd never heard of her before I read the on-line review in the Guardian, but I do like her writing style and the book itself (a year in the life of a family being almost entirely self-sufficient)is turning out to be a bit of a joy.

Just started "A Piece of Cupcake" and trying to finish the "Rights of Man".

Marian, I was given Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise as a present so I'm looking forward to reading it. Will I need the tissues?

Sorry, Marina

I just finished Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Really liked it. Haven't read her Purple Hibiscous..so will read that too soon
I've just started reading that Bill Bryson Thunderbolt kid one...but thinking of giving up as he is annoying the shit out of me.
I have Beryl Brainbridge's Every Man for Himself waiting in the wings

Just finished The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood which was fabulous, and I've started an Elizabeth Jane Howard one (The Long View) which is clever but making my head hurt. Both libary books.

Am most pleased to read on here that Barbara Kingsolver has got a new one out, her Poisonwood Bible is one of my all time favourites.

I've just finished The Raft, which is a book from 1942 about some US airmen whose plane crashed in the Pacific, and am now reading QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman. Can you tell I don't much like reading modern fiction?

oh and before that I read Achtung Schweinhund by Harry Pearson, which was quite funny (though not his best).

ladymac - I loved that book too!! Twas a truly lovely read. Then read The Mermaids Chair (same author) and it was a disappointment really.

I am reading 3 novels in one at the moment by Robert Crais ... Elvis Cole Detective ones ... fun, fast and not too heavy.

Want to read Rupert Everett's autobiography soon, for a bit of fun...

I have two on the go at the moment,

She Has Come Undone by Wally Lamb.

Quite dark.

So. my chewing for the brain is Pip by Freya North. A colleague gave it to me and taxing it is not.

MrsW - it's non-fiction this new one; an account of she and her husband and their 2 daughters' year of sustainable living. I do recommend it

Currently reading 'The Jump' by Martina Cole.
Read '2 Women' by her before.
Both enjoyable, if you like that sort of thing.

currently reading This Book Will Save Your Life by A M Homes - it's excellent!

Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson.

Small pile of Ian Rankin growing next to bed as DH finishes them and hands them to me to read next...

Mumsnet by some parenting type people.

It's ok. It has a bit of everything for everyone I feel. Violence, sex, humour (kind of), debates, fashion, relationships etc. But it's a bit too, mumsy, for me.

Speedymama, yes you will. Not so much for the excellent novellas themselves but more for the incredibly moving story of their writer, her family, and how the manuscripts came to be published.

Liking the sound of the Kingsolver (got one of her other books but never got round to reading it yet ). Have got Half of a Yellow Sun waiting to be read so glad to hear good reviews of it. Bree, thanks for reminding me of Wally Lamb, I'd forgotten about him, I read one of his other books (the one about the twins, one is a scizophrenic) and thought it was one of the best books I'd ever read.

The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas.
Very good so far (forty pages).

Just about to start Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair. Just finished "The Five Poeple you Meet in Heaven" and "For One More Day"

Just finished Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani. A light read which I found plodded a bit at the beginning but I enjoyed it so much by the end I ordered the other 2 in the trilogy.

Just started Englands Mistress by Kate Williams - a book about Emma Hamilton.

I also have half a yellow sun on my 'to be read' shelf along with the Mark Haddon new one and many other books I have just found having unpacked my books after 9 months in packing cases. Must read more and buy less.

Just staretd The Last Secret Of The Temple by Philip Sussman. 100 pages in and its very good.