What are you reading at the moment, part2

The Song of Achilles which arrived this morning and now I can't put it down - well, I have right at this moment, just to get up to date with GNet.

Just finished 'The Help" by Kathryn Stockett. It was excellent and I could not put it down. I even read it for an hour before breakfast.

Just Alice by Lisa Genova, which is about a 50 year- old Harvard professor who is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. This is a MUST READ very moving, illuminating but not depressing.

I`m just coming to the end of a lovely little book, A Street Cat Named Bob, by James Bowen. A street busker and recovering drug addict finds an injured cat, nurses hm back to health, then finds the cat doesn`t want to leave. I bought the book because the cover jumped out at me, the cat is the absolute image of our lovely Pepper.

Glitabo, I just picked up "The Help" from second-hand stall, so I am now looking forward to reading it.
I have just started another book by Louise Penny, who writes detective books set in Canada. I do love her books and feel her hero, Detective Gamache, is adorable. It was interesting to read in the foreword to this book that she realised she had based her hero on her husband; she didn't realise this at first, but as the books have gone by, she has come to see the truth. So I'm not alone in having a wonderful hubby - currently dozing by the fire, though pretending to watch rugby league!

number; was the cat a big ginger tom? I saw a newspaper article about him a while back but forgot what he was called.

That`s the one Crimson, in his photo he`s the image of our Pepper. I`ve finished the book now, only started it this morning, but it`s only 279 pages. Lovely little story.

Thought graces suggestion of Just Alice sounded a good read so tried to download it onto my kindle...only to find I'd already read it. Ironic or what?

I am reading The Seamstress by Maria Duenas. It is set in Spain and North Africa during the Spanish civil war. I am finding it a gripping read so far.

Just starting Deal Breaker, by Harlen Coben, but think I might have read it before.

If Pepper looked like that then he's going to be a hard act to follow; I always wanted a ginger cat. A friend of mine who lives on a farm used to have lots of them and they were female; I'd always thought ginger cats had to be male. Good luck with the little white cat tomorow but watch out for it being deaf if it's white..is it the blue eyed ones that have a problem with deafness? You know, I kept that newspaper article [I only looked at it a few days ago] but I can't find it anywhere now.

I saw some white kittens on another website that were deaf, but they all had blue eyes, and it doesn`t say that she`s deaf, so hopefully not.

Well, if it all goes well, she's got a lovely loving home to go to. Lucky girl!

I've just started The Girl At The Farmhouse Gate by Julia Stoneham. It's the story of a group of land girls and the friendship/hard work/heartbreak that surrounds them during WW2. It's a little like the TV series, Land Girls and I'm really enjoying it so far.

Just put down The Casual Vacancy by J K Rowling................W E L L a solid story, but it is spoiled by page 14 by the gratuitous, unneccessary bad langauge. J K R is capable of good description and her adjectives have already given colour to this character who needs not speak these words to show his character. That said, it is really a story about teensagers, their lives and angst set in a town absorbed by it's parochial affairs. . A good yarn despite the fact J K R wants us all to know that she can write for grown ups too. I was first to reserve it at the library, but wouldn't want to have spend the full price on it!

Just finished Alice Munro's 'Too Much Happiness' - one of my favourite authors.
I think she masters the art of short-story telling wonderfully.

Now onto The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society having read about it elsewhere on GN; such a good read and in many ways a relief after The Casual Vacancy!

Just finished Deal Breaker, although I had read it before. Now just about to start Death Mask by Kathryn Fox, an Australian writer, I`ve read a couple of other books by her, she`s not bad.

Crikey number; you don't half get through some books! I can't seem to read these days.

I am about to start Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. This is for the next reading group meeting. I am not looking forward to the feet binding bit.
Just about finished Song of Achilles and I did enjoy that.

Finished Girl At The Farmhouse Gate. It was enjoyable but I didn't realise it's the second book about the characters involved and Julia Stoneham spends a lot of time flashbacking which I found a bit tiresome.

Now moving on to Waiting for Hitler by Midge Gillies. She's married to Jim Kelly who writes the Fenland detective series which has been discussed on here. I'm only on chapter 2 and I can't put it down. It looks like a gripping slice of social history - a bit like Millions Like Us by Virginia Ironside. I seem to have got into a bit of a groove with books about WW2.

Crimson, I only get through 2 or 3 a week, depending on thickness. I read a few pages with my coffee when I get up in the morning, a few pages in the afternoon, and a few before I go to bed. Trouble is, I don`t like to throw them out, so every now and then I have a nice little old man with a trailer come and take them to the British Heart Foundation shop in town.
Just getting into Death Mask, very topical, about top sportsmen using their positions of power to aid in their sexual gratification.

Enjoyed Death Mask, now reading The Murder Game, by Beverley Barton, but not very far into it yet.

have just finished victoria hislops The Thread -very good. now deciding between -Sing you home or Lone wolf both by jodi picoult, one of my favourite writers.

Do read The Seamstress, best book I have read this year.