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What are you reading now and next ?

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Wheelybug · 13/04/2009 19:33

Alwayes like reading these threads and am on MN far too much at mo whilst I am bfing so me -

Sashenka by Simon Montefiore. Was a mothers day pressie. It is ok but not wildly page turning hence why I am on MN and not cracking through it.

Next - the luminous life of Lilly Aphrodite, beatrice colin. For book club.

Also have Becoming Queen, Kate Williams, Sea of poppies, Amitav Ghosh and the new Phillipa Gregory on my imminently to be rad pile.

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Medee · 14/04/2009 20:29

Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love. Been meaning to read it for a while, and so far so good. Having read a bit about the Mitfords, it is fun to try and spot the authobiographical bits.

Litchick · 14/04/2009 20:42

Just finished Child 44 - utterly fabulous.
Am going to start The 19th Wife when kids go to bed.

tillyfernackerpants · 14/04/2009 20:52

Just finished Beneath the Skin by Nicci French, bit blah

Reading Sense & Sensibility, ok

Next will either be Brideshead Revisited, The Queen's Fool (Philippa Gregory) or The Lake of Dead Languages

lalalonglegs · 14/04/2009 20:54

Just finished Things My Mother Never Told Me by Blake Morrison - a memoir about his mother and how her identity became subsumed by his (rather bumptious) father. Very good portrait of women of that time (WWII) and how even intelligent and independent women often just ended up conforming.

Started Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd - who I love - this morning.

brimfull · 14/04/2009 21:00

litchick -whats child44 about?
have just started 19th wife -tis great

ohdearwhatamess · 14/04/2009 21:11

Just finished Justine Picardie's book about Daphne du Maurier, 'Daphne'.

Next is Finest Type of English Womanhood.

tillyfernackerpants · 14/04/2009 21:12

ohdear, what was Daphne like?

notnowbernard · 14/04/2009 21:14

Great Expectations

The first time I have read any Dickens, aged 31

Better late than never

francagoestohollywood · 14/04/2009 21:16

Eleven kinds of loneliness by richard Yates.

Next, I don't know.

ohdearwhatamess · 14/04/2009 21:17

tilly - pleasant, easy read. The Margaret Forster biography is much, much better.

liath · 14/04/2009 21:19

Am just starting Suite Francais by Irene Nemirovsky & enjoying it so far. May reread The Handmaids Tale after as it's been mentioned loads on here recently & I haven't reread it in years.

Lala - Brazzaville Beach is ace - my Grandma bought it for me and it was my first William Boyd book. Now he's one of my favourite authors.

marymungoandmidge · 14/04/2009 21:22

Just read The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - excellent - weird and I found it totally consuming...also just read We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver- which I found okay but didn't really enjoy the style and not keen on Lionel Shriver..

On the lookout for next great read as also reading a bit of chick lit - she says shamefacedley - One thing led to another by Katy Regan...total b*llocks really, but someone picked it for Book Club as a laugh I think.............

ohdearwhatamess · 14/04/2009 21:27

tilly - a pleasant, easy read. Nothing more or less. Not a patch on the Margaret Forster biography of several years ago - unputdownable imo.

ohdearwhatamess · 14/04/2009 21:28

apologies for double posting - pc doing odd things

hannahsaunt · 14/04/2009 21:31

Now: in the middle of Winter in Madrid (CJ Sansom) and loving it.

Next: hmm; there's a question. Possibly the new Kate Atkinson simply because it's by my bed but I haven't read the previous ones in the series so may need a trip to the library first to get those.

(Amelia Peabody is one of my (many) guilty reading pleasures too )

christywhisty · 14/04/2009 22:22

Just finished The Comfort of Saturdays by Alexander Mccall Smith

Just started Hold Tight by Harlen Coben

tigerdriver · 14/04/2009 22:27

Now: the casebook of Dr Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
Next: ooh, don't know - possibly Mystic River, Denis Lehane

yappybluedog · 14/04/2009 23:09

lala - have you also read When did you last see your father?

Very moving, love Blake Morrison

Molesworth · 14/04/2009 23:16

Just finished Mark Haddon's A Spot of Bother - lightweight but very enjoyable

Next on list is The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

HerBeatitudeLittleBella · 14/04/2009 23:17

Just finished Ian McEwan's Atonement - v. v. good

Am just starting Oliver James Affluenza - dire. Something about his writing I just don't like.

Cosmosis · 15/04/2009 11:42

hannahsaunt, I hadn't realised it was part of a series till half way through, it works fine as a standalone novel.

hannahsaunt · 15/04/2009 11:48

Oh, but I was looking for a reason to buy (even more) books !

cyteen · 15/04/2009 11:49

Now: Surviving The Death Of A Sibling by T J Wray

Next: I'd like to be reading A Dance With Dragons but he is still writing it so I'll have to take something off the shelf instead. Still got loads of new books from birthday/Christmas to read, trouble is they're all really grim!

janeite · 15/04/2009 11:53

Tiger - I'd be interested to know what you think of the Frankenstein one, as I don't know anybody else who has read it.

'Daphne' I found unreadable, I'm afraid.

Yesterday I re-read 'Charlotte Sometimes' - gosh I love that book!

Today I got 'Ursula Under' through the MN book swap, so am looking forward to that.

muggglewump · 15/04/2009 15:25

I've just picked up 'A Thousand Splendid Suns', in a Charity shop today (50p for the hardback because it has a stain on the cover!, bargain) so that'll be next. I've heard it's a great book.