What are you reading at the moment, part2

Carol Shields 'Dressing Up for the Carnival'. Another writer who masters the art of short-story telling wonderfully. Acutely perceptive.

Seem to be having a run on Canadian authors......and short stories.

There seems to be a [dress] pattern forming here....

I'm halfway through The Shadows in the Darkness by M.L Briers. Good book. Very funny.

Just finishing Trace by Patricia Cornwell. I must have missed this one as I thought I had read all her works.

I downloaded Red Mist by the same author onto my Kindle (£4.99) and loved it. She really does know how to write a cliffhanger in my opinion.

I am reading Iain Banks's latest novel (not his sci-fi genre), Stonemouth. It's beginning to annoy me and I'm only just over half way through it. Gang activity in a small town in the North of Scotland? Probably not as odd as it sounds!

I started Trace, but couldn't get into it. I've read most of PC's Scarpetta novels and enjoyed them, but am really hung up with this one. I have just finished The Seahorse by Tania Unsworth, and am now reading White Teeth by Zadie Smith, which I'm enjoying more than I thought I would. Looking forward to my birthday - DS is buying me Bring up the Bodies.

peaches41, I too like Patricia Cornwell, but I think she went off the boil a few books back, but coming back into her own again now. Red Mist was great.

Just downloaded Bring up the bodies onto my kindle!

jeni - how much was it? I've heard it's really good.

I found that the hardback edition was a bit cheaper than the Kindle edition on Amazon - with free postage. Of course, it's a great deal heavier!

I recently re-read a couple of books from my childhood, Little Women, and Good Wives, both by Louisa May Alcott, and enjoyed them just as much as I did almost 60 years ago. I`ve just begun another of hers, Little Men, also not read in an awfully l-o-o-o-ng time.

Just finished The Secrets Between us by Louise Douglas a good page turner and am now reading Sue Townsend's The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year, I've got to a page 100, very funny so far.

Enjoyed Little Men, now on another thriller, British this time, Finders Keepers, by Belinda Bauer, only just started it, but it looks like it`ll be well okay. Local children are being kidnapped out of cars, and notes left saying "you don`t love her/him".

Inspired by jeni I too have downloaded Bring Up the Bodies and am really enjoying it. It is so much easier to hold on a Kindle than the book, as I found when I had the hardback edition of Wolf Hall. (Who need to go to a gym when you've got muscles from holding a book in bed?!!)

Finders Keepers was really good, and have just finished another good `un, by one of my favourite British authors, Susan Hill, it`s called The Betrayal of Trust, one of the Simon Serailler tales. My next book, although not started yet, is Torn, by Casey Hill.

Torn is shaping up very nicely. I read another of Casey Hill`s books not long ago, Taboo, which I enjoyed, this has the same main characters..............and some very gruesome murders, you wouldn`t like it Marelli!

I've just finished Dolly - Susan Hill's latest ghost story. Only a little book, but good - as I think all of hers are. I think I've read Betrayal of Trust, number. When was it published? And no, you know I can't read anything gory, number! For such a gentle-looking lady, you've got a very bloodthirsty taste in literature!!
I'm reading Beauty by Raphael Selbourne: Young Bangladeshi woman has been forced to examine her own beliefs and think seriously about her future. While her brothers search for her across the city (of Wolverhampton) the conflict between her desire for personal freedom and her sense of family duty deepens.
Really enjoying this.

I love Susan Hill, but am not really into ghost stories, prefer my bodies REAL!! I like her Simon Serailler stories best. Not sure when The Betrayal of Trust was published, can`t check, it`s joined all the other "read" books in the garage.
And, "Gentle looking lady"? Exactly in which direction have you been looking Marelli? My husband will tell anyone who`ll listen that I`m neither gentle, nor a lady, lol!! Beauty sounds interesting though.

Torn was very good, if a little gruesome, am now reading Now You See Her, by James Patterson and Michael nLedwidge. It`s OK, but I`ve read better by these two.

Just finished Penelope Lively's How It All Began - there are some very pertinent observations on ageing in there.

Now You See Her turned out better than I expected from the beginning. Have just started A Dark Place to Die, by Ed Chatterton.

I didn`t like it at first, but it`s grown on me, enjoying it now. It started with a body being found on a beach by the Mersey, Crosby beach, where the Gormley statues are. The body is tied to an iron post which is sunk into the sand, facing seawards..............and burnt.

I read and enjoyed that book but am now on Scarpetta for my library books club - I used to really enjoy Cornwell books until the last few and I'm struggling with this one - has anyone else read it?

I`ve read it Clematisa, but have found Patricia Cornwell to have gone "off the boil" over the last 3 years or so. I still read the books as they come out, but don`t enjoy them quite as much, but I live in hope!

Just finshed Mercy by Jussi Adler Olsen- another Scandi thriller- I do love them!
I thought it would be a bit grim but it wasn't quite as expected or as bad as cover made it sound. Not just another 'crime against woman' exactly but shows 'victim' as a very empowered woman.

DH loved it too as did 99% of Reading Group.

DH now starting the 2nd in series & I have the 3rd ordered from library.