What are you reading at the moment, part2

Still reading Game of Thrones and likely to be doing so for the forseeable future. I know it's easy reading popular fiction but I think it's beautifully written. I can see why the producers of the tv series found it so good to adapt, because it's so descriptive.

Yes Anno, thank you, I`ve read a few of the Stuart McBride books, love them, especially some of his gritty characters!

Only just caught up with this thread and anno I have just finished Critical Mass , the 16th in the V I Warshawski series and it is very good ,if involved. Also like Stuart McBride athough some are dark.

Mersey View was very enjoyable, I love Scouse humour! Am now reading A Hopscotch Summer, by Annie Murray, set in a poor area of Birmingham in 1931.

I'm reading The Girl on the train currently riding high in best seller charts. Fast moving thriller, I was drawn in from the outset. None of the characters are quite what they seem on the surface, I'm enjoying it as it's not too formulaic. Hoping it doesn't have a damp squib of an ending.

I've just started that too, TerriBull, it's had good reviews!

Thanks to those who recommended 'The Girl on a Train'. I've just finished it. A good read.

'Curtain Call' by Anthony Quinn. Very good so far.

"Us" - David Nicholls. I loved "Starter for Ten" and "One Day" but am having more trouble getting into this one.

Just started "The Girl on the Train", utterly engrossing!

Really enjoyed The Girl on the Train, which I galloped through, although I would say that like a lot of books the conclusion for me didn't quite live up to the unraveling of the plot. Don't want to spoil it for anyone else though because it's a good read.

I have now also just finished The Book of You, another un-put-downable about a nasty, deranged stalker.

"My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You", by Louisa Young, a book that brought tears to my eyes. It's the most moving novel about WWI that I have read. I didn't expect to like it but couldn't put it down.

Forensics, an Anatomy of Crime, by Val McDermid. Very informative book about forensics through the ages. Have just finished it, and just about to start on In the Bleak Midwinter, by Carol Rivers.

Just finished Runaway by Peter May. This is about five teenage boys who leave their hometown, Glasgow in the mid sixties for London when it was "swinging". The narrative switches between that time with a descriptive backdrop of sixties London and the present day when three of the remaining five travel back to the capital. Along the journey they confront unfulfilled ambitions and an unsolved murder. This is the second Peter May book I have read, Entry Island being the first and like that book this one didn't disappoint. I like his style and hope to read others he has written.

He's a prolific writer, Terribull. Those two stand alone, but there are several series including the Lewis trilogy and the Chinese Detective series. You'll be so glad you discovered his books!

Thank you for those recommendations annodomini I think we may have some of the Lewis series lurking around the house somewhere but in the meantime my husband has just dug out "Extraordinary People" for me. Yes I'm glad I've discovered him.

'Alif the Unseen' by G. Willow Wilson.

Almost impossible to describe. It's about a young man, half indian, half arab, who lives in an Arab country and earns his living by finding ways to access the internet on behalf of customers, who use it both legally and illegally, as there is a lot of censorship. He is gradually becoming aware that someone is even better than he is at hacking, and that they work for the government and wish to harm him and other hackers, who are gradually disappearing all around the world.

He hopes to marry a girl who is of a far higher caste than he is, but she has a marriage arranged for her. They meet up for the last time and she hands him an ancient book. The book turns out to be a book written by a djinn, or djinns, the equivalent of the Bible or Quran. The govt. hacker tracks him down and he has to go on the run, taking a childhood girl friend with him.

I'm only halfway through it, but it's fascinating. The combination of life in the present, on so many levels, the descriptions of the city and way of life, the ancient legends as well as what appears to be magic at times, without descending into the sort of vampire/witch/werewolf type genre.

I remember further up the thread someone mentioning the Merrily Watkins books, I down loaded one onto my Kindle but I can't get into it.It is The Prayer of the Night Shepherd. It may be too far in the series to pick up with characters and perhaps an on going story.

I'm re reading Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies because after watching it on television I just had to!

I`ve just finished Birmingham Blitz, by Annie Murray, I`m fast becoming a great fan of hers, well worth a read. Am now reading And She Was, by Alison Gaylin, a thriller about a woman who can remember every detail of every day of her life, except the day her sister disappeared.

Just finished the epic Edge of Eternity, the last in The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett. A really good read and full of recent historical events which has opened my eyes quite a bit. Over 8 hours worth of reading, but worth every minute.

I'm just starting 'Hawk' by Helen MacDonald, it's beautifully written and difficult to put down