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So what's in your 'Book Pile'?

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Mumcentreplus · 30/01/2010 22:54

I'm currently reading..

Frankenstein -Mary Shelley
Don't Tell - Karen Rose
on the last few pages of Run for your Life -James Patterson -thought it was a bit crap tbh
and about to start Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris...

sure I've got another one floating about somewhere

anyhoo..

So I've told you mine ...now tell me yours

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Wheelybug · 02/02/2010 19:47

I am just finishing off The Island by Victoria Hislop - reading it because I just finished Moloka'i by Alan Brennert (I think) which is about a leper colony in hawaii and was absolutely brilliant so was continuing on a theme. The Island is ok butnot a patch on the former.

To read I have

Book club - The Reader (when it arrives)
Sea of Poppies
Becoming Queen (about early life of QUeen Vic)
latest Patrick Gale
and just ordered the latest pb lady detective book and the new Adriana Trigiani book - light reads

And then I have shelves of to be reads in the book case () but too many to mention.

elkiedee · 02/02/2010 22:41

Struggle or Starve, edited by Sian Rhiannon Williams and Carol White - a collection of pieces about working class Welsh women's experiences betweeen the wars. Most of what I've read so far is memories of childhood, and it's very good.

The Coldest Blood by Jim Kelly - #4 in a crime series set in the Fens - Philip Dryden is a journalist. I read the first 2 years ago and then picked up #3 and this one in the library a couple of months ago. There's another one which I'll probably seek out now, either the books have got better or the series has grown on me.

Nick Hornby, Juliet Naked - I've decided to try and follow all of the TV Bookclub discusssions - I'd already read The Little Stranger and knew I wanted to read Sacred Hearts, and most of the others sounded quite interesting too.

Sue Townsend, The True Confessions of Adrian Mole - bought the first 7 of the series as a set a few months ago and am planning to try and reread/read them all this year.

Joan Aiken, The Stolen Lake - 4 books in this series were among my favourite childhood reading - this was published when I was 12 but I don't think I read it until later and I only bought this copy in 2000 so I don't seem to have had my own. I'm also reading the whole series, which now includes 11 books, only 6 or 7 of which I've read before. I have read this but don't remember anything the way I do with the early ones.

Christina Hardyment, Dream Babies - a book I heard of on Mumsnet, a history of parenting manuals. It's fascinating stuff.

ed Peter Marakevelis, San Francisco Noir - a collection of crime short stories I've been meaning to read for years. I'm planning to try and read one of these "Noir" anthologies a month this year too.

OrientCalf · 03/02/2010 13:27

elkiedee I bought the first three of the Joan Aiken Wolves series a few months ago, remembering I enjoyed them when I was little. I haven't read them yet, though, but am thinking of getting hold of the others

BelleDameSansMerci · 03/02/2010 16:49

Oh I loved Joan Aitken. I've been buying them all for my DD (2.4) in the hope that she will grow up to love them as much as I did (not expecting her to read them just yet!).

I love the short stories too... She was one of my favourite authors when I was young.

BelleDameSansMerci · 03/02/2010 16:50

Aiken, even. Multi-tasking on a conference call!

WhatNoLunchBreak · 03/02/2010 17:55
  • "Women Who Run with the Wolves", by Clarissa Pinkola Estes - a veritable tome, so it's a medium-term thing
  • "Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace with Marriage", by Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat, Pray, Love fame
  • "Still Small Voice", by Michael Jacobs - part of my studies in counselling, but great nonetheless
  • Just about to start "They F**k You Up" by Oliver James
OrientCalf · 03/02/2010 18:01

oh yes belledame - the necklace of raindrops is lovely

MrsJohnDeere · 03/02/2010 18:08

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
Monty Don - Ivington Diaries
Amanda Vickery - Behind Closed Doors
Book 3 in Twilight series
Paul Kildoff - Ruinair (about Ryanair)
Margaret Forster - biog of Daphne du Maurier

I'm flitting between them all as the mood takes me.

tillyfernackerpants · 03/02/2010 18:11

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Under the Dome
Wild Swans
Madame Bovary

Plus a few crime/mystery books which are my relaxing reads!

KurriKurri · 03/02/2010 18:13

Wolf Hall (Need to restart, got distracted first time)

Far Cry - John Harvey

World Without End -Ken Follett (sequel to Pillars of the Earth which I've just finished)

BlueStockings by Jane Robinson

The Balkan Trilogy -Olivia Manning

and two charity shop books I bought on spec. because haven't read anything by them before:

The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde and
West Coast - Kate Muir
so if anyone's read them and can tell me to surge ahead or not waste my time, let me know

Elasticwoman · 03/02/2010 21:12

I'm re-reading Catcher in the Rye.

Recently enjoyed Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Any one else like that?

Look Back in Hunger is the auto-biog of Jo Brand. Very interesting esp with regard to parenting.

LoveTheCarbs · 06/02/2010 19:37

I have just finished The Road. Thought it was great but was expecting a grimmer ending, so was almost pleasantly surprised! Not that it was a particularly happy ending but it certainly wasn't as bad as I was expecting. Now I'm going to read some of the threads written on here about it which I didn't read at the time as I didn't want to read any spoilers.

Next I am reading the 12th book in the Wheel of Time books.

Then in my pile I have:
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Lost Souls by Poppy Z.Brite
and How to Sell by Clancy Martin

All books I got for Christmas, so am looking forward to them all. Although now I am back at work, don't have as much time for reading.

EdgarAllenSnow - I felt the same about that trilogy. It started off interestingly but the ending was rubbish. Just didn't go with the rest of the story. I often think authors have difficulties with endings.

LoveTheCarbs · 06/02/2010 19:46

OMG, now I wish I hadn't read the thread.

SPOILER ALERT

There I was thinking that at least in the end of a harrowing and depressing story the boy was being helped by a nice family and that ultimately there was some hope and kindness in that world of utter desolation and famine and now I read it was probably the boy hallucinating. That actually makes more sense. How depressing.

SnowWoman · 06/02/2010 20:05

I'm currently reading The Wee Free Men/A Hat Full of Sky/ Wintersmith all by Terry Pratchett

Next up are

Testament by Alis Hawkins
Relics of the Dead by Ariana Franklin
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
The Black Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey
and John Peel's autobiography Margrave of the Marshes.

Just finished the Guild Trilogy by Joshua Mowll (but that was for work) and A Different Light by Elizabeth Lynn, which I haven't read for years but dug it out after reading Ways to Live Forever

southeastastra · 06/02/2010 20:08

was going to add: jo brands autobiography and my booky wooky but realise this is fiction

Doobydoo · 06/02/2010 20:17

Wolf Hall
Her Fearful Symmetry[Audrey Niffenegger]even though I didn't like the Time Travellers wife.
Dreams from my Father[Barack Obama]
Brick Lane[Monica Ali]

What's the Children's Book like?

I have a Kindle which is fab as even though I love books I like to choose depending on mood so don't have to hoike them around

FlyMeToDunoon · 06/02/2010 20:27

three piles
Pile one-read Patricia Cornwells
pile two- unread next two Patricia Cornmwells
Pile three, wel just the one- currently reading Patricia Cornwell.

janeite · 07/02/2010 12:43

World Without End - I liked it better than the first one.

Jasper FFFFFFF - he annoys me but they are okay for 'Famous Five' reading: ie brainless nonsense for when you don't want to think at all.

Neil Gaiman is good.

I was really, really disappointed by Margrave of the Marshes.

It was my birthday yesterday and dp bought me Jeremy Paxton's book about Victorian art - looking forward to that. Also a book about polar exploration, which is always something to be relished with a mug of hot chocolate!

Kaloki · 07/02/2010 13:00

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Crime by Irvine Welsh

Need more, but all my books are in storage!!
Hopefully I can get some out in which case I can also add
Plains of Passage by Jean M Auel
Shelters of Stone by Jean M Auel

Mumcentreplus · 07/02/2010 13:09

FlymetoDunoon Show off! (think she likes Patricia Cornwell maybe)

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FlyMeToDunoon · 07/02/2010 13:37

still only reading one at a time. The library had several I hadn't read so I grabbed them all.

Bobbiewickham · 07/02/2010 13:55

Currently on the pile...

Anna Karenina - loving it but taking it slowly.
Women Who Run with the Wolves - always by my bed.
Oh Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle - am trying to love it.
As I Lay Dying by Faulker - challenging. To say the least.
There's always a Wodehouse floating nearby, too.

Need a fun book, having looked again at that list!

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