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

[imaynotbeperfectbutimokmummy]

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

I go in and say to the ladee

" i dont want dying kids, terminally ill sisters or anything set in India"

Good strategy Simples

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones by Alexander McCall Smith. Wonderful

at Simple. I like it!

HazyJane - The Graveyard Book is lovely, isn't it?

I quite liked the Theroux travel books BUT he is so horrible about everybody, iirc.

I have just finished Fly in teh Ointment by Anne Fine. It's teh closest to mislit I'll get.

I'd only read her children's books and was interested to read an adult one. It was alright.

janeite, I'm going bok shopping soon - please recommend a reasonably straightforward, enjoyable yet faIRLY intelligent book for me

have you all read the finest kind of english womanhood?
utterly fab

Have you read the CJ Sansoms, Pointy?

Brideshead Revisited?

The one that has impacted on me the most so far this year has been 'A Clockwork Orange' but it is not enjoyable.

I read a history of surgery, which I enjoyed hugely - could find the title if that's your sort of thing?

The Giles Milton history books are good too - the novel is bonkers.

Have you read any Gaiman?

yes I have read ...womanhood. A good read, entertaining with a sizzle of sex.

REcommend a Gaiman to me please, janeite

I am reading The Book Thief

Because it was recommended to me by the Amazon search engine thingy based on my previous purchases

It's too early to tell how I'll find it, but initial impressions are good: I'm engaged with it

I am reading 44 years with the same bird by Brian Reade. Its a bout a mans lifelong support of Liverpool. I am really enjoying it.

Gaiman's 'American Gods' is good fun.

I'm getting a bit annoyed with Intersex now. The parts where she talks about intersex are very interesting and will be useful to me, but loads of it is just her boring on about going to S&M clubs and having promiscuous sex with girls. I don't have a problem with either of those things, but really there's only so many descriptions of fisting that one reader needs. The tone is very 'look at me, aren't I rad? aren't I dangerous, living in this amazing queer world that you tedious hets know nothing about?' A bit like those mummy memoirs that seem to imply the author thinks they should get a medal for having a child. Yawn.

I'm reading Old Filth by Jane Gardem. I'd heard it recommended on several radio programmes and finally got a copy. Very good read. I haven't read any novels for ages and couldn't find anything to get into, but I'm really enjoying this.

I have just started The girl who played with fire, Stieg Larson,sequel to The girl with the dragon tattoo, I am really enjoying it, I think there is one more after this one, not sure what its called though, anyone else read them?

I'm halfway through White Tiger by aravind Adiga. Bought it as it looked interesting, great reviews, won Man Booker and I 'm interested in indiA. It is living up to its reviews - I'd thoroughly recommend it. Next up is The Master and Margarita.

Terpsichore, haven't got onto the Evelyn Waugh letters, but will take a look. Just got the Mitford sisters' letters out of the library.

Mrs Danvers, the Mapp and Lucia books seem to go in and out of print. You can get them on Amazon though.

Am reading Engleby by Sebastian Faulks, it's pretty good but not hugely gripping me (has taken me a month to read 200 pages, am not much in a reading mood these days though).

Am scouring these pages for some ideas of books to take on hols.

Have just finished The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk-Kidd...was fab.

Am currently reading The Fifth Woman, part of the Wallander series. Never read any of them before but I enjoyed the Swedish tv show so thought I'd give it a try despite not really liking crime novels as such. And it is quite good, I like Henning Mankell's style of writing, better than some home grown crime writers so I think I'll give some of the other books a try. Wallander as a character seems more real than the cardboard cut out typical detective fare. I feel sorry that he won't be writing any more Linda Wallander books at the moment after the actress killed herself, that is sad in itself as I can picture her as I read it.

I was at the library the other day so have a whole host of gems to keep me busy for the rest of the summer!

I've just started Dark Fire by CJ Sansom, I enjoyed the first book, Dissolution

The Island Victoria Hislop. My mum gave it too me. It's fairly good, light reading - didn't put it down until midnight last night though!!!

I am reading Skull Beneath the Skin by PD James, becasuse it is a nice thick book that is just the right size for reading with one hand whilst I bf ds during long night feeds. I am choosing my reading solely on grounds of size and ease of holding these days.

I am reading Parenting Made Difficult: Notes from the Alphabet Soup of Fatherhood by Phil Hogan. It is laugh out loud funny. I am also indulging myself with Sue Grafton's T is for Trespass - this is my comfort reading.

I have just fnished Mudbound , which I really enjoyed ,and totally recommend it.

It's set on a Missisipi farm in the 1940's. It's very harrowing in parts, but very well written. I couldn't put the book down , and I have a two year old.