What are you reading at the moment

I`m really enjoying City of Bones

Have begun to read "C" and am rivetted! Hard work though. It has the same feel as "The Children's Book" by A.S. Byatt, but even more abstruse. Will need a good dose of fun reading after this...

To Hattie64. Hi I'm new to Gransnet saw your posting dated 28/Sep when you said you were reading Ruth Rendall's "The Vault". Did you ever read a Sight for Sore Eyes, it's very good and the Vault, is I believe, a follow on from that book. You might like to try it if you thought the Vault was any good.

Well BaNANA, I have finished the Vault, in my opinion it was absolutely dreadful. Considering that Wexford had just retired, so would be about 65, if that, he is so naive, a real bumbling old man. The plot was tiresome and just went on and on. There are so many excellent crime books being written these days that it was not hard to compare them against this book. As I said, this is only my opinion, but have a peep on Amazon and read the reviews on there!!!.

A friend today recommended 'Cutting for Stone' by Abraham Verghese, anybody read it? if so what do you think?

I didn't particularly care for "The Vault" either. As you say, Hattie, Wexford didn't come out of it well at all.

Has anyone read the Sue Grafton books, working through the alphabet with the titles, A is for..........., etc? I`read them all up to U, I`ve just seen that V is about to be released, looking forward to it.

Not ready any of the Sue Grafton books numberplease but must ad them to my never ending list.
I've just started reading 'Fallen' by Karen Slaughter about a female FBI investigator who comes home to find her baby locked in a shed and her mother missing.

Just read "A Woman in Berlin" by Anonymous; am amazing book by a German woman enduring the last days of the war when the Russians arrived in Berlin. The matter-of-fact way in which she describes the struggle for food and the multiple rape that she suffered is extraordinary.
Now just starting the new biography of Harold Macmillan.

I am reading and listening to books on how to discover the inner self. I want to discover who I really am, why I am here and how to live in the present!
If any of you are interested in this topic(s) - tell me as I want to hear and maybe get another forum started to research this. Mike

I`ve now finished City of Bones. I`ve gone backward because I came to ichael Connelly`s books only in the last 12 months, now I`ve actually read the one where Harry Bosch retired, which has satisfied some wondering. Really enjoyed it.
Am just starting The Empty Chair, by Jeffrey Deaver, another in the excellent Lincoln Rhyme series.

I had a frozen shoulder and my physio 'unfroze' it in under two sessions. I know someone else this happened to too. It hurt but it went!

I am re-reading the Scotland Street books so that I can read his latest addition to this series. I read it so quickly the first time. It is an easy read.

Well, I can heartily recommend The Empty Chair, by Jeffrey Deaver, Lincoln Rhyme at his very best, and a couple of unexpected twists near the end. I`m just starting a Robert Crais book, The Last Detective. I`ve only discovered this author recently, after recommendations on another forum, so am reading books as I find them, so not in order.

J.G. Ballard's Autobiography................so far so v. good.

Much to the surprise of those who know me, I WAS an avid reader of whodunnit's; including many of those written by authors cited above. Now however, I hardly read much at all. Unfortunately I have only so much free time (not enough) and I tend to spend what little I have on Gransnet instead of inside a good book.

Snowdrops by A.D.Miller. All about the seamy side of life in Russia from an ex-pat's perspective - enjoying it after a hesitant start.

I have ordered Snowdrops from the library, a lot of books have a hesitant start!!. Starting a new book, I frequently find I have to reread the first few pages before I can really get 'stuck in'. I downloaded a freebie audio book recently onto my Ipod, The Honorable Schoolboy by John Le Carre. I just cannot get into it, as can't flip the pages back. So won't bother.

I'm enjoying this post reading about what every one is reading and surprised that grannyactivist has no time for reading. In all my life as long as I can remember I have been reading a book. I even read a book whilst in labour and the midwife said 'We're here to have baby not to read books'
It is my worst case scenario to be somewhere with nothing to do and nothing to read. Very often I am the only one reading a paperback in the doctor's surgery.

I'd better read The Vault as I have so much enjoyed Ruth Rendells books especially those by Babarba Vine and perhaps she is losing her touch.
At the moment I am reading 'A Man of Parts' by one of my favourite authors David Lodge. He is one of the few men whose books I read, as I prefer women writers, but not Chick Lit.

That's just it Hattie. Same with my Kindle. Its really difficult to go back to re-read a bit.

I have just downloaded Tom Sawyer onto my Kindle as I am thinking of buying my grandson one for Christmas and I need to find some good, easy to get into books to start him off.

Anything to get him off the dreaded playstation.

(I did read it when I was a child but need to refresh my memory)

Numberplease I will look for The Empty Chair. Haven't read any Jeffrey Deaver books for a while and I had forgotten about the Lincoln Rhyme books, which are always fantastic. I've finished The Brave (free from Gransnet) which was excellent, and have now started reading The Other Hand by Chris Cleave (also known in the USA as Little Bee). So far, so good - it's a tale about illegal immigrants being detained in Dover and the subsequent trials of Little Bee, a girl who has suffered hardship and violence in her African homeland.

Have just checked out "A Man of Parts" on Amazon Charlotta Sounds interesting. About H G Wells. His love life sounds, um, interesting!

I've been reading "A Catcher in the Rye". What a load of rubbish! It's back to the charity shop with that, and I'm starting "The Pilot's Wife" by Anita Shreve. I've read several of hers and I love her style of writing.

I liked 'The Pilot's Wife' nanaC.
Am currently reading 'The Sex Diaries' on my Kindle. Its not as steamy as it sounds, in fact it's quite a sad investigation into most people's sad sex lives!!