What are you reading now and next?

[LaSoiDisantDame]

P;ease indulge my nosiness

haven't seen one of these threads for a while, & love scanning them for future reads.

I am reading The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Dickens) & One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest(Ken Kesey) Find msyelf swapping these two around according to my concentration levels but enjoying them both in different ways

On my To Read Next Pile is Revelation (C.J Samson -loved the first three), A Prayer for Owen Meany and This Thing of Darkness (Harry Thompson)

But I know when I;ve read two of those I will panic & need new ideas. Help!

I am re reading at the moment as I got back lot of books from my younger years on my last visit at my parents. Re-reading "Gone with the wind" now and will probably get on to re-read "the pigeon" (Patrick Suskind) next or Waiting for Godo wichj I last read in school!

Please read Godot and which

ooh good more posts!

Shiney I felt bad when I read yours, if I'm honest I'm not into chick-lit these days, but that's because the plots all got a bit samey iykwim

but that's not to say someone else won't be interested

I like a mixture of high-brow/low-brow..those Sansom/Shardlake books I raved about for instance are not highbrow in the slightest and they're great

Come to think of it neither's Stephen King

Just to clarify:This thread.Is Not. Elitist.

P.s i have been known to ..er read Now Magazine occasionally

Now reading Lost and Found by Lucy Cavendish - much better than i thought it would be

Next reading - probably A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donelly)

(Last read Woman in the Fifth by Douglas Kennedy which was an unbelieveable load of tosh)

Not elitist, you say?

Well I'm off then...

Just finished Small Island (yes, very last year, but hey ho!) and loved it, reading The Other Hand by Chris Cleave which I am loving but is incredibly moving and uncomfortable in parts, now, and will read Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger next. Had a really good run of reads lately, waiting for the duff one...

Just finished K.A Kerley's last one and about to start the new Stephen King.

J.A.

Inthis - look out for the BBC adaptation of Small Island coming soon.

New Stephen King - am hoping it's going to be in my stocking.

Waiting For Godot - love, love, love it.

I finished Weaveworld last night: remain totally underwhelmed by it tbh and couldn't rec it.

Now - do I want to read Half Of A Yellow Sun or a du Maurier now/ The DDM one is called something like Hungry House or Angry Hill or something.

"Sunday Telegraph" Guide to Commuterland: Country Life within Reach of London!

Is the new Stephen King Under the Dome? it does look good!

I'm reading Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles by Richard Dowden, it's very interesting and relatively balanced.

Next on my list is 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' by Stieg Larsson.

Janeite, I heartily recommend 'Half of a Yellow Sun' it's beautifully written and utterly captivating.

Thanks. Have just started the Du Maurier! I decided Half Of...looked a bit intellectual and am too tired to think much at the mo!

Ah LaSoi, but once youhave finished Owen Meany you will have to start it again striaght away. Wonderful, wonderful book and I am very of you reading it for the first time.

I'm reading Wolf Hall but need to interrupt it to read A Room with a View for book group.

This is wonderful for finding new books to read even if you're not in a book group.

And if anyone fancies joining one and lives within driving distance of Wigan, you're welcome to mine.

good to know Lillibet ,

I was actually eyeing up Wolf Hall, what do you think so far? A good friend actually suggested I read another of Mantel;s, A Place of Greater Safety (?)

That link was v good and has been added to my now bulging wishlist

what was it in the end Janeite? Hungry House or Angry Hill...[mystified]

Now: Notes from an exhibition -Patrick Gale (liking this so far)

Next: The Corrections -Franzen or Life: A User's Manual - Perec

HTH

Hungry Hill! Am liking it so far.

girl with dragon tattoo just finished - brilliant! Am now reading the sequal= the girl who played with fire. reminds me I must go and find it and read some now!!

just finished insomnia by stephen king..not usually a fan but was desperate for a book..it was great!
next mitford sisters letters or the help.

I loved Insomnia

Thought you were joking Janeite, until i googgled HH

Currently reading "The High Lord" by Trudi Canavan, will be reading "Filth" by Irvine Welsh next

Not fiction, but I am reading 'Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties by Lucy Moore'. If you're interested in that era it's really fab

Got to read all the Dark Tower books bar the last one before DS arrived. DP told me the last one was rubbish so have'nt been able to bring myself to pick it up since.

Don't really trust him with books though, he hates Margaret Atwood so there must be something wrong with him....Is the last one any good?

Currently reading The Colour Purple, as chapters are so tiny that even my non-existant attention span since DS was born can cope with this.

Oh and The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao but got stuck halfway through...

Filth is v good, liked everything from The Acid House to Porno but felt he went a bit off the boil after Porno?

Haven't read Dark Tower series, Bustle,but it sounds like you need to go with your instinct r.e Atwood

Hopefully Janeite will turn up and put you straight

got so many ideas from this thread and am now trying very hard not to reach for the plastic and BUY THEM ALL