What are you reading at the moment

Not to mention her wedding dress! Glad you`re liking Before I go to Sleep, it`s had mixed reviews.

'Feminine Gospels' by Carol Ann Duffy (wonderful poetry) and 'Leading from the Front' by General Sir Richard Dannatt (well, I was getting desperate!).

That sounds just what I need, artygran. I looked at the reviews on Amazon and decided to order it right away. Thanks.

Loce Carol Ann Duffy. - have you read "The world's Wife"? From Mrs Darwin:

"Went to the zoo.
I said to him
"That chimpanzee over there
looks just like you."

But Mrs Lazarus is heartrending.

I will look out for it. I love her work.

Also love Carol Ann Duffy. I am reading Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada. it is very bleak but I can't put it down. It deals with Berlin during the war, and is about a couple who try to form some resistance to the Nazis. it is based on a real couple, and the descriptions of life during that time are grim and terrifying.

Anyone out there read "Other People's Money" by Justin Cartwright, I'm halfway through and really enjoying it, about a failed bank very topical!

Today I finished Dissolution by C.J. Sanson. I think someone on here recommended it.

A big Thank You to whoever it was. It was really good. Have downloaded next one in the series.

Might have been me. I loved this series.

I also love C J Sansom, have read all 5 of the Matthew Shardlake stories, and am waiting avidly for the next one. I`m glad you enjoyed Dissolution Jingl. C J Sansom reckons there might only be enough years left in that period for one more book, pity.

I am reading an excellent book called "Your immune system and how to take care of it", an account for non-medical people of how your immune system worls and how to help it do its work.

It is In Kindle format at www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Immune-System-Take-ebook/dp/B007P3NPKM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1333277273&sr=1-1

I've downloaded a sample, Elegran and it looks both informative and readable, as one might expect, given the authorship. I'll download the whole book when I've finished the less than gripping chick-lit I'm reading now.

After seeing many glowing recommendations, I`m reading My Dear, I Wanted To Tell You, by Louisa Young, and am very surprised to find that I`m really enjoying it, although the descriptions of life, and death, in the trenches in WW1 are extremely graphic at times.

I read, and greatly enjoyed, the first three Matthew Shardlake novels - I have lost touch with them after "Sovereign" and didn't realise he had written anymore. I'll look out for them.

I am reading The Righteous Man by Sam Bourne, having recently finished another of his books Last Testament. I have downloaded The Chosen One on to my eReader, ready for when I finish this one in a few days. They are such interesting books - the author's real name is Jonathan Freedland, a journalist. Highly recommended!

Artygran, I presume that you`ve read Dissolution, Dark Fire and Sovereign? The other 2 are Revelation and Heartstone, in that order.
I finished My Dear, I Wanted To Tell You, it was very, very good, although quite sad. I`m now reading Sister, by Rosamund Lupton, although I`m not very far into it yet, it`s a bit slow getting going.

I have finally got round to reading 'When God Was a Rabbit' and so far am enjoying it thoroughly - especially the chapter on the nativity play. I almost fell out of bed laughing!

I'll make a note of that, number; thanks. I'm going to have another go at The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble. I read half of it and then my interest flagged so I put it away.

Just finished a thriller, 'Revenge of the Tide' by Elizabeth Haynes.
Now I'm going to read 'The Captain's Daughter' by Leah Fleming -
'For May Smith, travelling with her husband and baby girl Ellen, stepping foot on the Titanic marks the start of an incredible journey, one which is destined to take her from the back streets of Bolton to the land of opportunity: the United States.
But when the 'unsinkable' Titanic hits an iceberg one cold dark night, May's dreams are instantly shattered. Jumping from the sinking ship at the last minute, May loses sight of Joe and Ellen. Distraught, she is pulled into a lifeboat. Minutes later, the real-life Captain Smith swims to the lifeboat and hands May a baby swaddled in blankets.
Beside herself, and in virtual darkness, May believes the baby to be Ellen. This rescue is witnessed by fellow survivor, Celeste Parkes, married to an American industrialist who is on her way back to Ohio after her mother's funeral.'

I've just finished "Mummydaddy" by Jeremy Howe. The true story of -- oh it's too complicated to explain so I copied and pasted Amazon's gumpf:

In the summer of 1992, Jeremy Howe and his wife, Lizzie, were tending to last-minute holiday preparations. Lizzie was leaving to teach at a summer school before she could join Jeremy and their two daughters, Jessica, six and Lucy, four, at the seaside. That night, arriving at his mother’s in Suffolk, Jeremy managed to get the excited girls to go to sleep, irritated that their mother hadn't called to say goodnight as she had promised. Just after midnight the household was woken by a policeman who had come to tell them that Lizzie was dead. She had been murdered. Twenty years after that terrible night, Jeremy and his girls are not the people they might have been had Lizzie not died. They’re certainly different, but not damaged. This is the candid, heartrending story of how they got there, of how, faced with the worst thing that could possibly happen, they put their lives back together, bit by bit and piece by piece. It's a story of how Daddy became Mummydaddy and of the pitfalls along the way, from how on earth you decide what to tell your children about their mother's violent death to the practicalities of knowing what they like in their packed lunch; from helping your children to grieve when your own grief is so sharp it threatens to overwhelm you to making sure that they brush their teeth and comb their hair. It's a story full of tears, but also of love and family and redemption.

I love Barbara Erskine and have read all her books to date, so when I picked up Winters Children by Leah Fleming i was interested to see it is the same genre. I must say I'm half way through and am pleasantly surprised. The story has gripped me, not as threatening as Barbara's books tend to me but there is menace nevertheless. A jolly good read that I would recommend.

I finished Adrian Mole in the early hours of this morning when I couldn't sleep and now I'm reading Don't Sell Your Coat by Harold Ambler and, in parallel, JessM's book on the immune system.

Just put down two books hot of the presses -the new Lindsey Davis (not a Falco this time) A very slow burn, but you get absorbed by the shenangigans in the reign of the Emperor Domitian in first-century Rome; it charts his descent-from the height of power to the depths of madness told from the perspective of two courtiers and unlikely friends who together are the witnesses to the goings on.
Second book was a contrast the new Alexander McCall Smith Mma Ramotswe novel.........The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection.

Yes I know they are a bizarre contrast, but it helps to vary things. Both were splendid

Has anyone tried the much vaunted book by Alexandra Shulman? I seem to read reviews everywhere I look, but not sure if yet another chit-lit is worth an hour or two?

Sophie Kinsella - "I've got your number". I've never read any of her's before, but it's a lol chit lick of a romp! Good beach reading.............yes I know it's not beach weather today. A complete contrast to what I usually read but great fun.

I have now finished 'When God Was a Rabbit', moved from laughter to tears and back again. The narrator, Ellie, and her brother, Joe, are the nucleus of the story. The fact that she becomes a newspaper columnist writing a regular feature called 'Lost and Found' gives us the theme of the novel. If you haven't read it, don't hesitate.