What are you reading at the moment

Just re-reading Excellent Women by Barbara Pym - she's an author I return to over and over. A wonderfully affectionate yet ironic take on the lives of 'ordinary' women (not that there is such a thing ...)

Did actually get into The Time Travellers Wife this time, but still only half way through. Need another holiday perhaps ? [if only!]. Very much wondering what is going to happen. Am a very slow reader these days, however.

Broken was very good, but, sadly, the last of the Grant County series of stories. I`ll wait avidly to see what Karin Slaughter produces next. Am now reading, and enjoying, You Belong to Me, by Karen Rose, I love her books.

I have just started reading "Viking. Oddin's Child". "the heroes of the north live on".

I like a book about heroes.

Its the first of a trilogy and I got all three for a pound at a summer fair on Anglesey.

There is a new Bernard Cornwell coming out soon!

Never read him, what`s he like?

I've just finished reading 'Afterwards' by Rosamund Lipton which was an excellent read. I did work out 'who dunnit', but wasn't sure I'd got it right and it didn't detract from the story at all. I was going to say it's a very original concept, but it's not - something akin to 'Lovely Bones'. This is RL's 2nd book - haven't read the first yet - 'Sister' - but looking for it!

I thoroughly enjoyed "Sister" Taichi but the ending of Rosamund Lupton's books are very ambiguous - leaves me puzzling for days!
I don't seem to be reading as much as I used to before I discovered GN !!

I agree about reading less since GN. Not sure its a good thing.

Can't decide.

I've been reading the Redbreast trilogy by Jo Nesbo, so now I need a dose of non-fiction and am reading Neil Oliver's History of Scotland, revising and reviewing all the stuff that was crammed into me at primary school. A good read, especially if you are Scots or live in Scotland.

Menage a trois, by JC Thompson, available on Kindle, first book by this author, and so far gripping. Much more interesting that the title might suggest. Only a third through the book, so we will see.

Just finished a real nail-biter - 'The Midwife's Confession' by Diane Chamberlain. Lots of twists and turns and leaves the reader to try and work out what on earth has been going on before the story finally unfolds. Highly recommended!

jangly - I keep meaning to ration myself to a time limit on GN, but like so many other things I just don't have the willpower! Going to bed SO late these days trying to fit everything in...

I thoroughly recommend "The Midwife's Confession" as well, keeps you guessing right to the end and then you think "Wow, I didn't expect that"

i'm currently reading two books - both of them belong to a series.
one is "the yellow admiral" by patrick o'brien - one of the aubrey-maturin series. it's the third time i've read the series.
the other book is "clash of kings" the second book in the fire and ice series - game of thrones - by george r r martin. i've got the first one [which was dramatised on sky atlantic] and i intend getting all the others too. good books although you have to persist in reading them to make sense of the storyline.
jangly, i also like conn iggledun and simon scarrow - and bernard cornwell. have you read the saxon series? it's very good - i discovered this series in hospital when i saw a book on the secondhand book trolley.
i like a great many books ranging from jilly cooper to tom clancy via terry pratchett and can recommend most of the books i read ................ too many books and/or authors to list here.

I have now finished 'Independent People' by Halldor Laxnes. Initially a difficult book to get into, I was even tempted to give up, but fortunately I didn't. This is a brilliant book,set in Iceland just before and after WW1. and will definately be one of my all time favourite books. The author won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1955 and rightly so.

Just started reading The Turn of the Screw by Henry James as a bit of a contrast to the modern stuff I've been reading of late.

I really enjoyed Before I Go to Sleep and The Midwife's Confession (which I won on a Gransnet competition). With both books you really, really want to know what is/has been going on and it's difficult to put them down.

I have read all 9 pages of this thread and found some great ideas for future reading. I brought up another tab with Amazon on it and checked out the books mentioned here. If I liked the sound of them I put them on my Amazon wishlist. It's handy to refer to when I'm in danger of running out of books.

I have a Kindle, which I love although I get quite cross with some of the Kindle versions because it's as if some of them haven't been proof read. There's nothing like spelling mistakes to get my back up when I'm reading. But it's brilliant for reading in bed and in waiting rooms.

Thanks everyone for a brilliant thread

We saw the film of that in the grounds of Calke Abbey just as night was falling and someone was pumping out misty smoke from somewhere..be afraid..be very afraid......

I agree supergabs about the mistakes on Kindle. I'm not sure how or why the mistakes get there as I don't understand the science behind it!
Like you, I also put recommended books on my Amazon wish list but I'm in danger of it getting too long now. I think I've got enough on the list to last me forever.
At the moment I'm reading "Daughters in Law" by Joanna Trollope.

Yes I put recommended books on my Amazon wish list too. I've got to stop buying books for my kindle until I've read what's on there though, a couple of times now I've clicked 'buy' and found that I've already bought the book and its sitting somewhere on my kindle waiting to be read.

I have had Simon Scarrow's "Gladiator" for some time now and have struggled to get into it - I don't think I will read any more of his after this one, although I have loved all his others... I think I am losing my taste for blood and gore. I am interspersing it with a book on fly fishing (no, not by J R Hartley!). New pastime on the horizon!

One Day, thoroughly enjoyable, I have been reading this whilst on holiday. Despite critisism of the new film due to the Yorkshire accent of the female (American) actress, I will be going to view it!

I can't get into Simon Scarrow books. I have tried. I much prefer Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggledun.

Got The Midwife's Confession yesterday from the library - hooked already!

Jangly My son is a huge fan of Conn Iggeldun - he is going to bring me some of his "finished withs" next time he comes to see me.