What are you reading now and next?

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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!

just finished F Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby. It was one of those books i felt I ought to get round to reading. It's so beautifully written that i could ignore the clunky plot. Might read Tender Is The Night in the new year

Have got Genesis by Karin Slaughter and The White Queen by Philippa Gregory to read next.

Now - The Children's Book, AS Byatt
Next - Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

Ergh.

Just finished Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck, short story collection. Very impressed. I want more.

Just about to start a book by Laura Wilson, historical crime novel, second in series set during WWII in London, 1st was Stratton's War and I can't remember the title of this one (in my bag).

just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns.

it was ok spose. not the 'HOLY SHIT IT'S WONDEFUL!' that everyone said it was.

i learned more factual stuff about Afghanistan i spose.

anyway. i have nothing to read now except this trashy trash trash shit trash fre with a magazine from last year that i haven't touched. I need something for the train - but i am stuck

Reading now - The Gargoyle which has to have the most surprising of beginnings I've ever read. Am really liking the writing style.

Reading next -....

help! I don't know what, I feel a visit to the library coming up.

I liked 'The Gargoyle'.

'A Thousand Splendid Sons' was v disappointing I thought.

I am desperately trying to read 'Guernica' which is excellant so far, sadly UCO seems to prefer ' That's not my bunny'

Well, just finishing "thank you for the days" by Mark Radcliffe which is, albeit a light read, one of the funniest books I've read in a very long time, definitely recommend it although you do have to appreciate rock music and beer to get the best out of it.

Have read the first two of the Millenium trilogy which are great if you like thrillers.

I'm saving Wolf Hall for my book group.

I'd like to read something really gripping which isn't a thriller/crime novel/chick lit/aga saga. Amy suggestions??????

I'm currently reading Watership Down for the nth time. I have been in a Twilight haze for some time, but thankfully Watership is getting me out of it now. Book before that was Watchmen graphic novel, which I've finally got round to after my friend lent it to me some time ago! Next I think it's probably about time for a classic, but I'm not sure what.

Tiger - if you are amenable to fantasy as a suggestion you can't go wrong with Robin Hobb's Farseer books. They are utterly absorbing and feel very very real. I have been lending them round work and getting my colleagues addicted!

Actually, I know what I'm reading next. Same friend who lent me Watchmen also lent me Brave New World, which I'm shocked that I've never read before. I have just noticed it on the table - it is next on my mental list now!

Yesterday I read, 'Teatime For The Traditionally Built' which was a bit of a non-story, I felt. Shame because I love the characters.

Tonight I will start 'Purple Hibiscus' and am lookingforward to it, as I really liked 'Half Of A Yellow Sun' a few months ago.

The Laura Wilson book I read in December was An Empty Death, and it's wonderful - I liked it much better than the first in the series. A man finds a dead body and takes the opportunity to assume a new identity. He is quite amoral and may go to great lengths to maintain his new life as a hospital doctor. Or will he? Lots of twists and turns in the story.

I've just finished reading Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone, which I also thought was a great book, and which has a hospital setting too, in Ethiopia and the Bronx. It's also a story about twins and growing up and oooh, lots of stuff.

I started reviewing books for a friend's website at the end of last year and have had a succession of good reads from there, only one I didn't really like much. My current read from that source is a new children's book - Beswitched by Kate Saunders. It's a time travel book set at a boarding school - a very 21st century girl with her own phone and laptop finds herself stuck in 1935. I'm really enjoying the read and it's making me want to get out my time travel childhood favourites - Charlotte Sometimes, Come Back Lucy, A Traveller in Time. Anyone remember those?

Look forward to hearing what you think of Purple Hibiscus, Janeite.

Charlotte Sometimes is one of my favourite books ever - and the song is pretty darn good too!

I didn't start Purple Hibiscus - I read the Sainsbo's magazine instead!

Now - Fingersmith, Sarah Waters (working my way through Sarah Waters having loved loved Little Stranger.
Next - Purple Hibiscus (also read and loved Half of a Yellow Sun)

The House on the Strand - Daphne Du Maurier.

No idea what to read next