What book are you reading just now, why are you reading it and are you enjoying it?

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I am reading the life of pi by Yann Martel.

I am reading it because i bought it from the charity shop a while back, it sat around for a bit and i had just finished a huge tome about India. I also am trying to "read better".

I am enjoying it, its very entertaining, although it hasn't really challenged my beliefs in any way.

Am loving Pi's exclamation of "Jesus, Mary, Mohhamed and Vishnu" - I think it pays to cover all bases

Have just finished Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm, which I loved. Am now reading Freakonomics (for book club) which is so far up its own arse that I'm finding it distinctly tedious.

I am trying to read Daphne DuMauriers Bramwell Bronte, but it's slow going, so I've whizzed through (and enjoyed) Private Peaceful by Micheal someone - it was good but a bit too predictably sad for me, though I did have tears in my eyes in the end (it is actually meant for teens I think).

I love Daphne Du Maurier,so atmospheric!

I have recently read "Alias Grace" by Atwood and enjoyed,most stuff she writes is fab,but sometimes love my crappola crime fiction

oh I enjoyed the story of Bramwell Bronte - fascinating but a sorry tale.

I'm reading Stephen Fry's autobiography at the mo. Amazing to me how someone with his brain just can't seem to make the connection between his 'off-to-boarding-school-at-7-and-having-a-cold-fish-of-a-father' upbringing may have contributed to his damaged teenage behaviour and mental health issues. He defends it all. Even the corporal punishment!

Am reading John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meaney.

Dark humour, and a story of the effects of a misfit 'angel' on those around him. Getting the impression one can't speed read this as there are subtle threads and themes runnig through it- only about a third way on so far but it does require careful reading.

I haven't read any of the books mentioned so far!!

Michael Morpurgo. It's probably meant for pre-teens but it's pretty good, although yes, it is a bit predictable.

I am feeling that I must read "Owen Meany' after so many recs on here but the library didn't have it in last week. What is it actaully about?

lots of things, jan. It's how a physical andsocial misfit exudes a knowingness and authority in the world. Kind of thing. He accidently kills his best friend;s mother with a baseball ball, and is convinced it was God acting through him. So far.

I have just finished The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters, also for the Book Club. [waves to Ewe] Shouldn't say too much but [whispers] I didn't like it...give me Rebecca by Daphne DM anyday...

Bumperslucious have a look at this thread - lots of fiction and non fiction recommended.

I am reading a Michael Jackson biography and The Host

I'm having a trashy phase, I'm very tired

I'm reading Danny Wallace - Friends Like These. I love him. He makes me happy, which is always good.

Oh, and Tess Gerritson - Keeping The Dead. very easy reading, but less chirpy

I am reading 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'. I picked it up in the library as I wanted a light easy read and I am really enjoying it. It is written as a series of letters between people just after the second world war (no email!!).

I have been reading a lot of more 'serious' stuff recently and wanted something a bit more 'fluffy' but not your average 'chick-lit'.

My (main) current book is James Lever's 'Me Cheeta' - the supposed autobiography of the chimp from the Tarzan films. It was originally published without any credit to a 'real' writer but the secret of the author's identity eventually slipped out.

Have to say that it's hilariously funny about Hollywood stars of the 30's and their incorrigible boozing, fornicating and drug-taking (not sure how much of this is invention, but I suspect quite a lot is completely true!). And Cheeta's lordly perception of himself as one of the Hollywood greats is very amusing.

But it's also a really sad book, to my surprise. Especially about Cheeta's separation from his mother and sister in Africa, his ill-treatment in Hollywood, and his genuine love for Johnny Weismuller. Interesting that all the reviews focused on the funny aspect of what's actually a deeply touching novel.

I've also just read 'On Chesil Beach' for a forthcoming book group meeting. I'm not a great Ian McEwan fan tbh, but quite enjoyed it.

I am reading a Philip Roth for book club... but I have just ordered the new Jane Green from Amazon.

I have Catholic taste!

Oooh and I heart Sarah Waters.

kathyis6incheshigh, love love love E F Benson. Have you read the other 5 Lucia books?

Currently reading In Tearing Haste, the letters of Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor which I'm loving - all that "joyful feasting". Also In the Shadow of the Dreamchild, which reverals how biographers and the public colluded in building a distorted image of Lewis Carroll. Apparently he wasn't all about the little girls at all. It seeems quite timely with all the hoohah about Michael Jackson.

I'm re-reading The Corrections by Jonathon Franzen. I love it as it's tragic and really funny at the same time.

I've just read the four twilight books last week and I can't think what to read next.

SkterGirl - which Roth is it? We've got a shelf full and I've only read one.

I'm reading = Odette

Why = dgd aged 6 bought if for me at the school fete, with her own money she informed me.

Am i enjoying it = No, but feel i have to read it

Ohh artifarti, Last night i returned to mandallay.. it's one of all time favs

NicknameTaken, have you read the letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh? They are utterly divine (as any of the Mitford girls might well have put it). So funny and sharp. You don't necessarily think of letters as being a fascinating read, but I never wanted them to end. Heartily recommended!

my sisters keeper - Jodi Picoult - Want to watch the film but am trying to finish the book first

I'm reading Diary of an Ordinary Woman by Margaret Forster. I am enjoying it, but I didn't realise it was pure fiction till it was pointed out to me on here! Parts of it remind me of one of Sarah Waters' books, can't remember what its called but it, too, was set in WW2, and the main character drove an ambulance.

I've got two books on the go.

'Brooklyn' by Colm Toibin and re-reading To Kill A Mocking Bird', which i studied for GCSEs many moons ago.

Just finished World Without End (the sequel to Pillars of The Earth) by Ken Follett. Reading it because I enjoyed Pillars. It's a whopper -over 1200 pages - I was so immersed in medieval England, that when I finished it real life seemed like a bit of a shock!

Just started The House at Riverton by Kate Morton, was recommended on an MN thread i think. Finding it an interesting easy read so far.

Kathy & NT, I really liked Mapp&Lucia too, but when I looked for the rest of the series they seemed quite hard to get hold of, don't know why?

WHO runs Britain and why we are in the mess we are by Mr Robert Peston the TV journalist. I'm reading it very slowly - almost a month already - because I need to concentrate and there is so much detail. I have learnt loads about financial markets and am disgusted at the immoral aims of PEPs which (if I have a clear understanding) aim to make as much profit in as short a time as possible from big companies. They do this by buying them whilst undervalued and cutting everything to the bare bone to make the company look lean and profitable and then sell them at an inflated price. Individuals in the PEP owners and leaders of the company make millions if not billions. The pension funds lose billions/ millions. Of course I may have misunderstood. Up to page 80 or so I was never going to shop again at BHS but after page 80 found all the great things Phil G is doing for the UK and although not paying tax as his wife is a non domicillary, he is now paying corporation tax with BHS. This book is an EYE OPENER and a conversation starter.