What are you reading RIGHT NOW?

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Besty Whyte 'The Yellow on the Broom'

The Book with No Name - absolute tripe, but am determined to finish it LOL

Just finished Chesil Beach (loved it), just started Kafka on the Shore (loving it).

Call Me Elizabeth by Dawn Annandale.

It's supposed to be a true story about a woman/wife/mum who becomes a full time high class escort.

'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night'
I don't usually read fiction but its fantastic.

Restless by William Boyd - only just started, my friend recomended it to me.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Murakami short stories. Enjoying.

Stardust - Neil Gaiman.

Although technically I'm not quite reading it yet, I just finished Alan Bennett's Uncommon Reader so am kind of between books.

The autograph man Zadie Smith. It's pretty funny.

in a good light by clare chambers

Just finished Mary Kingsley climbing Mount Cameroon in the late 19th c, and have just charged through Ernest Shackleton's jawdropping escape from Antarctica in 1916 - something I'd rate (for the first time in years) as "unputdownable".

This sequence of intrepidity does make me feel like the most feckless lazy lump though.

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It's good but harrowing.

various threads on mn

Just started On Chesil Beach.

SueDonim - I am waiting to get Purple Hibiscus back from my mum to read it ! I read Half a yellow sun before christmas so want to read this too ! Have heard good things ofit.

I am reading Starter for Ten for my mn book circle . Very good so far.

I always read several books in conjucntion, so am also reading The Mitford Girls biog by Mary somebody (excellent, really recommend it), John Betjeman (biog) by AN Wilson (good reading alongside the Mitfords) and have just finished a book about council estates called Estates by Lynsey Hanley, which is brilliant, am thinking of starting a thread in non-fiction about it.

wheelybug - really enjoyed On Chesil Beach, what do you think so far??

Am literally only a few pages in (well probably 20) but so far so good. Very readable.

I have hte mitford girls biog sitting on my 'to be read' shelf - it looks interesting.

Mitford girls is very good; what a family!

Magnus Mills 'The Restraint of Beasts'

(or has this thread moved on?)

The Blessing by Nancy Mitford.

Not as good as Love in a Cold Climate, which I love.

Oooh - should read The Mitford Girls next really...

I have not read any Nancy Mitford other than the U or Non-U thing, should really.

Really recommend the biog, can't believe 6 such fascinating personalities existed in one family.

Arlington Park - wondering if I should bother in view of today's thread!

Benjamin Black's Christine Falls.

(BB is the name John Banville writes his thrillers under. Good plot, but achingly overwritten imho)