What are you reading at the moment

Oh I do hope you love his books as much as I do. We will be partners in crime adventure.

1222 by Anne Holt for Crime Book Club. It's different. I've read it quickly so it must be quite good. A slightly "old fashioned" whodunit.

Look forward to it!

Just finished Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. Unputdownable. The story revolves around WW1 and as I've just visited a battlefield and some of the places mentioned in the book it had particular significance. It's made me want to read the other two in the trilogy which are WW2 based I believe.

I`ve just read, in a very short space of time, a really short book by Catrin Collier, called Black Eyed Devils, only 79 pages, but really good. It may only be a short story, but I think it could be expanded slightly to make a very good film. It`s set in 1911, in Tonypandy, Wales, during a miners strike.

Thanks goldengirl - another one added to my wishlist!

I`m now reading The Wood Cutter, by Reginald Hill. I haven`t read much yet, but hope it picks up soon, I`m finding it a mite confusing.

Is that a Dalziel and Pasco detective story?

Not so far.

I picked up "The Midwife's Confession" from the library and started to read it yesterday I am engrossed already,I have just finished "The Bay at Midnight" by the same author and found it very good reading, a real page turner.

I really appreciate this thread. So many ideas for new authors and books.

"The Midwife's Confession" I have just finished it, throughly enjoyable read.

I`m still struggling with The Wood Cutter. I`ll finish it, and it`s not a bad story, just very drawn out.

Just read The Help" by Kathryn Stockett. Hard to believe such attitudes towards black people existed in our life time.

I just finished "The Help" by Kathryn Sockett" this morning. A really good read. I have recently read most of the works of Fanny Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" and "Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man"inclued. I couldn't put them down!

Oh I have a copy here of The Help. One of a carrier bag full from MIL. Thanks for the recommendation.

The Help is probably the only book that our NWR book group was completely unanimous about.

I really like Fanny Flagg, you don't want to read too many of them in one go though!!!
I am now reading 'The Lantern' by Deborah Lawrenson, set in Provence. Well written. I love the French influence though, and have thought I would rather like to go to Provence for a holiday next year.

So glad I persevered with The Time Travellers Wife. Now on the last few pages and know what phoenix meant. A great exercise in the 'suspension of disbelief', but beautifully written.

Yes Crimson, I enjoyed it too. But not the film of it, which didn't really hit the spot for me.

Finished it in the early hours of this morning. Now going to watch the film, if only to try to make sense of what I've just read. I don't really want to. I had a friend who would never watch an adaptation of a favourite book, because once you have a mental image of someone as a fictional character you can never get rid of it. I think short stories, like the Green Mile or Benjamin Button make better films because the producer can expand on the idea, rather than compress complicated ideas into a two hour film. But, as it is, Henry and Claire are very vague images in my imagination and I want to see how they've done it. Seeing Jane Eyre first, though......

Crimson Jane Eyre is wonderful, lovely dark and brooding Mr. Rochester. This was always my favourite book as a teenager,I liked Wuthering Heights, but never swooned over Heathcliff like I did Rochester! Love d the Time Travellers Wife, but never saw the film, I was put off it by friends who didn't like it.

I was a Heathcliff girl meself!

I think you go for either or, never both. I was going to meet and fall in love with Rochester....and dear reader I didn't- nothing like him, and now I'm quite pleased, all that moodiness and sulky furrowed brows would now make me want to give him a good slap!

Oh yes. Rochester needed a kick in the crotch didn't he, what with not telling J about the mad wife, not being in the least bit straight about the little girl, trying to enter a bigamous marriage and then suggesting J should live in sin with him. Goodness me!