What are you reading right now?

I know what you mean, everything post-crash seems to be a rambling, meandering mess.

I will crack on with book two and then not say I wasn't warned by book four

Thanks for that!

Finished 'Transition' by Iain Banks last week, seeing as he left out his middle initial I guess it's not seen as one of his sci-fi novels but certainly seemed that way to me. It wasn't a bad read but it didn't quite live up to the expections from the opening chapters.



Just started reading 'Skippy Dies' by Paul Murray.

I have given into the pressure and am reading the Harry Potter series, up to Order ofthe Pheonix at the moment

I was a late comer to the books too.

Thoughts?

I expected them to be a bit more childish further into the series but they got a bit more dark/grown up fairly fast. And even in the first book I thought certain things were a little grim for children. So far I found them a little hard to put down at times and she did a good job of making characters you hate

Death and the Penguin, by Andrey Kurkov. 'Tis quite interesting.

Love this book and love Kurkov. He's brilliant.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman which I picked up after reading the top 100 scifi/fantasy list Shiva posted a while back. Enjoying it so far...

Reading 1Q84 at the moment. It's just brilliant, I can't put it down.
Murakami so deserves the Nobel price.

I'm in the middle of Game of Thrones. It's quite good but so damn long (and I love long novels). I've already seen the tv show so that might be why I'm not totally engrossed, it would probably be much more exciting if I didn't know exactly what was going to be happening.

I really just wanted to read it to see what happens after the AMAZING ending of the TV show but didn't want to skip book one.

I've been going into so many book shops since I've been back (StupidCupid can attest to this) and I've already bought waaaaay too many books. Fuck yeah reading!

Reading The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. Excellent so far

I am reading a series of books by an author called don Pendleton. They were written around the time of the vietnam war and are about a vietnam vet getting revenge on the mafia for the death of his family. Apparently marvel has cited them as partial inspiration for the punisher. Good books, though a little short at an average of 200 pages. Easy reading too, though at times the author stretches the heros luck and the mafias incompetence. A minor thing is that it's a little strange reading a series like this and not seeing mobile phones or the internet

1Q84, by Haruki Murakami. At 925 pages, it's a characteristically long work, featuring the sort of surreal elements one comes to expect from Murakami - as well as vivid descriptions and characterisation. I'm halfway through right now, and I'm hooked.

I'm reading "The Stranger's Child" by Alan Hollinghurst. It's something of a disappointment after the wonder "The Line of Beauty."

Finally got around to reading The Hobbit last week.

Didn't have any books here but now have a choice of two;
"A Brief History of the Middle East" by Christopher Catherwood or,
"Labyrinth" by Kate Mosse.

Think I'll go with the latter first and as I don't read the back of books (consider the back cover a spoiler and it's what I do when books are loaned to me/presents) so I've no idea what its about.
Mystery book.....

I'm reading Matthew Quick's "The Silver Linings Playbook" at the moment about a guy who goes back to live with his family after being released from a mental institution and who is expecting to be reunited with his estranged wife.Wonderful book so far.Looking forward to the film which stars Bradley Cooper,Jennifer Lawrence from "The Hunger Games" and Robert De Niro and which is directed by David O. Russell who directed "Three Kings" and "The Fighter".

Depressingly I am reading the same book since September. Work and other stuff has squeezed all spare time I had and I really miss reading. My words is not good now it is worser then before becos of this.

In a non-fiction phase at the mo so working my way through 'In Europe' by Geert Mak.

I have made a new reading discovery. I love Historical fiction (Phillippa Gregory, Elizabeth Chadwich etc etc)

I have just now at this stage of my life discovered that ‘Mills and Boon’ also have a ‘Historical’ series of novels. I have just bought ‘Betrothed to the Barbarian’, ‘Lady with the Devils Scar’ and ‘A Not So Respectable Gentlemen’ (aren’t they just so me?)

My reading life will now be full of ‘heaving bosoms’,‘throbbing manhood’s’, ‘bodice ripping’ and not a single 'F' word in sight. Come to think of it that’s no change at all.........

Look at the covers. I want to wallpaper my house with them