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.

I am reading the Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean - Dominique Bauby

It's beautyfully written! But not actually fiction...

We need to talk about kevin.

The Outcast by Sadie Jones - The're making it into a film apparently. I really rather liked it - very well written and utterly unputdownable. Sort of along Atonement territory.

I'm re-reading that great literary classic Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone .
Haven't yet read the final book yet so am going back to the beginning and will re-read them all.

Also reading William in Trouble (it's my bedtime book... the one that I fall asleep reading and dh has to remove from my face when he comes to bed)

Have just started Warrior of Rome, and am dipping in and out of Knitting Rules.

Oh I am so jealous that you get to enjoy The Deathly Hallows, Oggsfrog. If I could have a memory wipe each year, in order to revisit books for the first time over and over again, I think I'd choose The Deathly Hallows, Pride And Prejudice, Brideshead Revisited, Waiting For Godot and Hedda Gabler: a strange mix, but I like it!

Am reading I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe ... recommended by a Mumsnetter! Enjoying it so far.

Teddycat-I recommended March Violets I think!
I love the Berlin Noir novels.
Have recently readthe new Peter Robinson book,plus
The Guernsey literary and Potato peel pie society
The Palace of Strange Girls(or something)by Sallie Day
Am just starting the new Kate Atkinson.

I'm currently working my way through the modern classics that I have somehow missed along the way... 've recently finished:

Atonement
The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
The time travellers wife
The Secret History - Donna Tartt

the neville shute one is also on the list to read along with one hundred years of solitude and birdsong by sebastian faulkes.

I also recently read fingersmith by sarah waters although I don't believe this is on any modern classics list

yes silentterror it was you - thanks!
Forgot all about the handmaid tale might have to reread, i remember being blown away by it.

I loved "The Handmaid's Tale" - am enjoying "Oryx And Crake" but not as much.

I didn't like "Fingersmith" but might try another of hers at some point to see if it was that particular book, or the writer that I didn't like.

have just started The crimson petal and the white
am loving it so far
and even better it's a great fat book so will keep me going for a while

missing by susan lewis

finished the anne enright. load of self-indulgent wank, really. at least i know not to bother with any of her novels.

CatIsSleepy - I finished The crimson petal and the white last week. It is very good but not for the faint hearted

Just finished: "The End of the Alphabet" by CS Richardson, which is a lovely little book

Just started: "Blindness" by Jose Saramago (trying to race the imminent film release)

I am reading mn.

OR Lollipop shoes Joanne H

If I am in bed and it is not soooo late.

@cyteen: please don't write off Anne Enright!! What Are You Like? was great.

I'm reading:

Michael Palin - Diaries (on and off for about 2 months now, it's a monster 600 pages of very small print and too big to carry around on a commute)

Amitav Ghosh - Sea of Poppies (only started today, not sure I'm going to like it based on the first two chapters, but I'm Booker-shortlist-reading...)

Chris Cleave - The Other Hand (currently on hold for aforementioned Booker reasons)

i am reading In to thin Air..about the everest disaster in 1996

it is very interesting tho a bit heavy on the inter expeditioniary competitiveness

Ooh Zippi I read that years ago. I used to be very into 'armchair mountaineering' .
I've got one by Matt Dickinson called 'The Death Zone' that gives a British perspective on that storm.
It's supposed to have been the worst 24 hrs in the history of Everest.