A new "what are you reading at the moment?" thread

[Posey]

and what was the last book you read? And what will be next?

Just interested and always looking for inspiration though I have a huge "to read" pile already!

Am currently reading "Revolutionary Road"
Last read "Portobello" by Ruth Rendell
Next will probably be...oh I don't know, will immerse myself in book mountain and see what I fancy.

Last read = In the Dark, Deborah Moggach. Excellent as hers always are.

Before that "Decline and Fall" (for my book group). A re-read but worth it, made me want to read some Wodehouse.

Am going to bed to read in ten minutes. Might start the latest Peter Robinson as there has to be some crime amongst the serious stuff.

Or maybe a Denis Lehane.

Or maybe the latest Ladies Detective Club.

I too have a book mountain.

Have just finished the latest Peter Robinson - All the Colours of Darkness, I've just started The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde and I think the next one will be Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, but I'm a bit daunted by the size of it!

I'm just about to finish "Let The Right One In" by John Lindqvist. It's a contemporary vampire story from Sweden, and I have really enjoyed it.

Before this I read the entire Twilight saga and loved it! Obviously I have a bit of a vampire thing going on at the moment, which I never have before; was never into Anne Rice or any of that.

After this I have a couple of Kate Atkinsons to read - One Good Turn and When Will There Be Good News.

Reading Shantaram at the moment (apsie - it's great even if it is long. It is divided into "books" so I took a break at one point for a few weeks.)

Last read The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Next will read Money by Martin Amis

I have just finished 'The Dig' by John Preston, fiction set during the archaeological discovery at Sutton Hoo in the 30s. Fantastic. Next I'm going to read 'Trauma' by Patrick McGrath. I love him.

I'm reading The Case of the Imaginary Detective by Karen Joy Fowler and The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder.

Just finished the Twilight series & The Other Boleyn Girl, both of which I enjoyed.

Not sure what I'll read next. I've got Harlan Coben's latest and a Stephen King one I haven't read yet so might read those. Or I might hunt out some more historical fiction, The Other Boleyn Girl was my first venture into that genre & I really enjoyed it.

Last book - Nights At the Circus

Current - Watchmen

The Guernsey Liteary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

Last book was American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld.

Am now reading Cold Cream by Ferdinand Mount which I am bit underwhelmed by, but I am a bit bored of memoirs of upper class childhoods, not being very interested in which Pakenham was which and who was friends with Anthony Powell. However, he writes well and I think it will get interesting when we get to the eighties.

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which is unputdownable. Before that, White Tiger the Man Booker winner. I also thouroughly enjoyed two other Booker short list books - Fraction of the Whole and Northern Clemency.

Next, I am tempted to have yet another try and Herman Hesse Glass Bead Game; I've never managed more than 4 or 5 chapters...

Rosmerta I have read most of the series of the "other bolyn girl" all very good, especially the queens fool.
I am struggling through The Blind Asassin by Margaret Attwood at the moment, keep picking it up and putting it down, which is unusual for me as i usually end up reading books in one or two sittings. I am enjoying it though, i'm just finding it hard going.

The Savage Garden by Mark Mills. Very interesting and nicely written too.

I was reading a Pratchett before that; no idea what I'll be reading next.

Last book was the latest Linwood Barclay one

Currently reading City Of Fear by Alafair Burke

Next will be the new Janet Evanovitch Stephanie Plum book.

Currently reading Ant Egg Soup, accoutn of travels in Laos.

Just finished Muddling thrugh in Madagascar, Dervla Murphy.

Next will read either Random Act os Heroic Love or Don't tell Alfred.

just finished the enchantress of florence , salman rushdie.....never managed to read one of his before but this was a great romp of a story with a lot of funny asides.

currently the private lives of pippa lee, rebecca miller....woman married to high flier 30 years her senior moves to a retirement village in usa....enjoying it so far, multilayered thing

next is everything is illuminated

Just finished Kate Atkinson's When will there be good news?

Have started Galloway's The Cellist of Sarejavo.

Will read The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff next

halfway through: Twilight ( Bella is getting on my nerves a bit..)

halfway through: Saint City Sinners by Lillith Saintcrow

re-reading: A kiss of Shadows by L. K. Hamilton (its pulp really but I love the dark faery element)

next book: The Graveyard book by neil gaiman (for the new bookgroup Frizbe and I started on tuesday)

Last read - the Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood

Currently reading - The Cello fo Sarajevo, Steven Galloway

Next read - can't make my mind up yet. Have a book mountain to hike through and am torn between familiar (more Atwood); worthy (I've got a couple of Seb Faulks books I haven't got through yet) or light (Gaiman's Stardust)

I've read the Graveyard book by Gaiman and loved it. But then I love all things Gaiman.

Just finished "Skin Priviledge" - Karen Slaughter. I am still in shock at the ending!

Just started "The Curious Incidence of the Dog in the Nighttime". It has been on the shelf for ages and came as a recommendation. So far I am blown away! My nephew has Aspergers and this really adds a whole new dimension to the experience.

I've just finished "The Secret River" by Kate Grenville. - really enjoyed it.

I've now run out of books

So my friend has lent me a Penny Vincenzi to tide me over before I go on an internet bookshop shopping spree.

just read "going home" - think thats the title by rose tremain .... loved it ... experience of a person coming from eastern europe to work in london ....

now reading "we need to talk about kevin" Lionel Shriver - despite the content cant seem to put it down!

cies, i loved secret river, she does gruff awkwardness so well, heartwarming stuff wasn't it?

and porto..i've read each karin slaughter as soon as it has hit the library...what is going to happen with the series now?

Read : Archangel by Robert Harris

Currently reading Pompeii by same author.

Future : think I will re-read the other boleyn girl after seeing precious posts. I've read all of her historical fiction and a couple of her normal fiction stuff. I really enjoyed them.

The Chimney Sweepers Boy by Barbera Vine (Ruth Rendell).

It is bloody brilliant.

Last read - Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan

Currently reading -
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Next on my list is either

Atonement Ian McEwan or
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin