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.

'nother nod for 'Year of Wonders' I am not into historical fiction, but this was great, and partially true I think??

ooer west wittering? spent a birthday there once...

Have Just finished David Mitchell's Black Swan Green - beautifully written and to be thoroughly recommended.

Am now reading Winnie and Wolf, also fabulous and complex and packed full of interesting ideas...

Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca (again) and Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman (again)

but that's because I have to analyse them for an end of course assessment. Love both books. Can't wait to read them again without the need analyse!

Finished Memory Keepers Daughter yesterday and loved it. Reading The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox now and really enjoying it, Maggie O'Riordan is a great author, I've loved all of hers. Also read the ubiquitous Harry Potter this summer, also Digging to America by Anne Tyler. I have Hunting Unicorns by Bella Pollen, The NightWatcher by Sarah Waters and something else that I can't remember to read next. I want to read the new Laurie Graham about the Kennedys asap.

the border of east and west, bundle

'Fugitive Pieces' by Anne Michaels (I think). Overwritten and dull, I thought. She is a poet first and I think shorter would be better.
'Black Swan Green' by David Mitchell, which I enjoyed.
Just started on 'Can you forgive her?' and will make the Palliser series my next target.

have just finished an oldie... Foggage by patrick mcginley...very (blackly) funny ...about a dour reclusive sister and brother and their rampant incestuous reltionship that carries on until they start getting into company....i think it may offend some people but it tickled me

before that read Relentless..cant remember the author but it was a R&J one. It was an old, old plot but hooked me in right to the end

I've had Year of Wonders on my bookshelf for what seems like forever, it never appeals but I will look at it more favourably next time.

Finished Memory Keepers Daughter, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Digging to America by Anne Tyler, both The Kite Runner & A Thousand Splendid Suns, Love Falls by Esther Freud...

Now what?! I need something good, fast. Please.

The end of Mr Y.....

fantastic book....

I've just finished 'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides, it's a fabulous book!

Also I've read An Instance of the Fingerpost, by Iain? Pears. I found it gripping and couldn't not put it down.

Shall I start a new thread? This one is a bit long for my dial-up.

'Couldn't not put it down'???? Oh, ykwim!!!!

Fine. Start a new thread. Whatever it takes to get those MNers off their porn fixation. and I need a new good book to read, pronto.

I;m reading the 'Friday Night Knitting Club' and thoroughly enjoying it. Great character build-ups.

Halfway through Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn, which is a rollocking good read thus far.

Just read Dan Rhodes - Gold, which was curious, and Mark Haddon - A Spot Of Bother which left me slightly perplexed and unsettled.

I agree Middlesex is an amazing book Suedonim.

I am reading a good trashy novel Sushi for Beginers can't remeber the author.

I have just finished reading another Joanne Harris book - Coastliners, read all of hers after reading Choclate. Fantastic books, wish she would write some more as I love her style.

Joanne Harris seems to knock out a novel every 5 minutes Skribble! I must admit I liked Chocolat but didn't get through any of the others - DW managed a few but now she's given up on her too.

She's a poor mans/womans Carol Shields.

Just finished Vinegar Hill. Very good. Reminded me of Anita Shreve. Very much enjoy American fiction of this type if anyone could recommend any other authors for me would be grateful.

The Burning Girl - Mark Billingham.

Not in the least bit 'high brow' but I enjoy his books as I like Tom Thorne, the main character. They are very easy to read as well.

Right now I am reading 2 books 1 is called "To die for" about the journey of an anorexic girl and her fight against the illness and 1 is a "Chickensoup for teh soul" book...

Just finished Other Colours by Orhan Pamuk.

I loved it - it reminded me of being married to my ex, but without the violence.

I'm ENJOYING the book of lost things although it makes me pine a bit for my Angela Carter years, and just picked up friday night knitting club with a sandwich from Tesco and have made a sneaky start on it.

Fortune's Rocks.

About half way through 'Middlemarch' by George Eliot, which I never seemed to get round to reading although always wanted to. Very enjoyable.