Haven't seen a 'what are you reading?' thread in a while.

[MiaWallace]

So what are you reading? Would you recommend it?

I'm currently half way through The Book Thief. Took a few chapters to get into it but now really enjoying it.

A Good Day for a Dog by Carlo Gebler. It's really really good.

zippie and little, I have the film recorded but want to read the book first.
Have you Read On The Beach by Neville Shute?

Finished 'The Other Boylyn Girl' last night - really good.

Next book will be Jodi Picoult - Mercy.

The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Alison Weir (for about the 6th time)

Switching between that and Alchemist by Peter James.

Just finished Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult.

Vanishing Acts is a good one by Jodi Picoult.

Love Jodi Picoult

I'd forgotten A Town Like Alice - I loved that book - thank you .

I'm reading "When Will There Be Good News" by Kate Atkinson - it's great but is getting so tense that it's sort of unbearable to read at the moment. I could finish it in a couple of evenings but keep stalling and reading crap magazines because I don't want more bad things to happen in the book.

i hate jodi picoult
trash

am reading MR whicher

just finished 1000 splendid suns.
Might read kite runner next.

this is fantastic

The suspicions of Mr Whitcher is fantastic, we have just had that as our reading group book.

I have almost finished Ian Mckewan's Atonement. I found it a little hard to get into but I am really enjoying it now the pace has picked up.

Our next book group read is The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. I read it last Summer and loved it, one of my favourite books ever.

Thirty-three Teeth by Colin Cotterill

Dr. Siri Paiboun of Laos?"reluctant national coroner, confused psychic, [and] disheartened communist"?employs forensic skills and spiritual acumen to solve a series of bizarre killings in Cotterill's quirky, exotic and winning second novel, set in 1977.

Very entertaining.

And have just finished Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, which was brilliant.

1000 Spendid Suns is next on my reading group's list.

I'm working slowly through Montaillou, which I've thought I should do for about 20 years. It is quite eccentric (marvellous description of a sly treacherous priest "growing old in debauchery and denunciation"); & interesting independently of its subject as a marker in the development of social-history-writing.

Not reading anything else - as if I do I won't persist, I think. But I have Fisher's Hornpipe waiting for a re-read, and Three Men in a Boat, and I think it's time I did James Baldwin again too.

I'm reading Waterlog by Roger Deakin which is just brilliant. It's about swimming in 'wild' water all over the UK

"Roger Deakin set out in 1996 to swim through the British Isles. The result is a maverick work of observation and imagination, a uniquely personal view of an island race and a people with a deep, instinctive affinity for water."

It's just such an odd and excellent book. I love the idea of it but would be loathe to jump into the bodies of water he jumps into!

Muffin and Lurker- agree about Wife in the North- it was on Radio 4 wasn't it?
Someone leant it to me when I'd run out of books on holiday - turgid sef indulgent...

The Outsider- now that's a fab read.

Just finished 'March' by Geraldine Brooks
(really liked it)
Have 'The End of Mr Y' by Scarlett Thomas to start tonight

I'm very jealous of those of you reading "A Town Like Alice" for the first time - superb book. I also loved "The Book Thief".

I've just read:
"Arthur And George" - brilliant.
Malorie Blackman's new teenage one: rubbish
Meg Rosoff "What I Was" - also rubbish.

Am now reading Margaret Atwood's "Oryx And Crake" and loving it so far - I've only just started it though, so no spoilers please!

I'm also trying to read this:
which came highly recommended but am hating it so far. She seems to have failed to have understood why semi-colons were invented so it goes on and on and on like this for ages with only the occasional comma to separate her thoughts, like this, so it is really really irritating and just when you think she will finally remember about semi-colons she puts another bloomin' comma in instead and then I want to scream and through the book out of the window. SO it is now back at the bottom of my pile!

actually Second Glance by Ms Picoult is fab, I'm loving it.

I thought Mr Whicher very frustrating.

I've just finished reading a play Copenhagen.

Am going to read Freakonomics next.

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I keep picking "Blood River" up and putting it down again in the library! I'd be interested to know how you get on with it.

I absolutely hated "A Quiet Belief In Angels" - but dp loved it.

my bf was reading freakonomics last weekend when we were away..i kept getting quizzed on sections of it and guess what the answer to this is and do you agree with this

it sounded quite interesting

i thought tho it was written in the nineties and actually it was 2005or something

is yours the free with a newspaper one?

1000 splendid suns-I didn't enjoy as much as kite runner tbh.