What are you reading at the moment? [nosy]

[MrsDanversBites]

and is it any good?

I seriuosly NEED this kind of thread for book ideasand haven't seen one for a while so...

I'll start:

Nearly finished The Little Stranger and liking it, not in a terrified way but enjoying the psychological twists nonetheless

Have nothing AT ALL to read next however

basildonbond i love the Philip Kerr Bernie Gunther books!
David Downing writes a similar thing set in pre war Berlin.

Am currently liking Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood's latest, having just finished (and really enjoyed) Wolf Hall - best book I've read in a long time.

For non-fiction, try Race of a Lifetime - the story of the Obama election primaries and presidential election, based on interviews with people involved in the campaign. Lots of gossipy stories interspersed with election tactics and political intrigue.

Currently reading "Life according to Lubka" by Laurie Graham and loving it.

I have read several of her books and think she is very good indeed.

Duma Key by Stephen King. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of time to read and this is going to take a while. It took me 3 months to read Under The Dome.

I've just finished A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon. It was a charity shop buy and an absolute triumph. Funny and touching. Short chapters - that always keeps me galloping through a book.

Next up is The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, if that is the third in the Steig Larsson trilogy. I'll have to look out for the new Margaret Atwood.

Am currently finishing 'The fear of flying' for book club. Finding it quite tedious.

Next up is either Wolf Hall, White Queen or another tudor one that dh bought me (a coincidence that all are similar in subject !).

Am currently reading "East of Islington" and would recommend others not to bother. It is a series of observations of her time in East of Islington ?Hackney and all the people she met there. I would think there's a fair amount of stretching the truth to make it "funny". Part way through and I discovered it was written as a column for some publication.

Will plough on with it, only because I paid money for it, but am not impressed.

Agree with Janeite re: 'The Behaviour of Moths'...really didn't like it; thought it bore all the hallmarks of a first-time novelist assembling all her materials very carefully but failing to breathe a spark of life and spontaneity into what she was writing.

I've just finished 'The Ten-Year Nap' and 'The Position' by Meg Wolitzer. Both highly recommended, especially 'The Position' which is very funny in places.

Now just starting 'Sunnyside' by Glen David Gold - enthralled by it so far. Also dipping into David Kynaston's 'Austerity Britain', which is great, but definitely a bedtime-only book, as it's too heavy to prop up except with the help of a supportive duvet!

wheelybug, white queen not a tudor one....and not as dark and rompy!

Have started the Chuck Palanuick (sp?) one: it's called Invisible Monsters iirc and it is VERY odd indeed!

Just finished The Quantum Zoo by Marcus Chown, non-fiction science that will blow your mind.

pollywolly - I thought that as I wrote it but thought its all still a bit similar=ish. Is it good ? I didn't really enjoy the Mary Queen of scots one so am now a bit put off.

I finished Fear of Flying last night and I bought 'One Day' today (after seeing lots of recommnendations on here) and started it on the bus home so will be shelving the tudor (and other periods of history ) for a bit.

wheelybug, it's all a bit "prince sees fair maiden outside her country home...instant lurve..blah, blah"....the only one of hers i've given up on!