What are you reading right now?

Tegan and Number I've not long finished 'And the Mountains Echoed' also By Khaled Hosseini... wonderful BUT you will need a box of tissues AGAIN!
Im now reading ' The Casual Vacancy' by J.K. Rowling, I'm afraid it's a case of 'I've started so I'll finish'....

I really liked the characterisations in "Instructions for a Heatwave" and thought it was really well written, but I thought the main plot was a bit weak. Enjoyed it though.

Now reading "The Hour I First Believed" by Wally Lamb. Loved his other two books "She's Come Undone" and "I Know This Much is True", but this one's a bit harder to get into.

Finished "Instructions for a Heatwave", set in the extraordinary hot summer of 1976 one of the themes covered is dyslexia before it was recognized and how it blighted the sufferer's life.

Half way through "The house we grew up in" by Lisa Jewell. Really enjoying this. Like the last one, family dynamics but this time with an eccentric mother who is a compulsive hoarder at the heart of the story. Compulsive and fast moving read can really recommend it if you like books about dis functional families. Don't be put off the pastel type cover, it's not chick lit.

number; I'm hoping that when I retire [3 weeks to go] I can start reading properly again, although I'm a much slower reader than you. ATSS's is still 'with me', and my eye's well up with tears whenever I think of it. I wanted to contact grannyactivist as soon as I'd finished reading it to thank her for taking on her two 'new sons', as I feel I understand a bit more about the situation in Afghanistan now.

Tegan, when I bought A Thousand Splendid Suns, it was because it was on special offer at Waterstones, only £3.99 because I`d spent over a certain amount. It didn`t look my sort of book, but oh how glad I was that I bought it, I thought it was a wonderful book. I read it before I read The Kite Runner, which I also loved, but ATSS was my out and out favourite.
I`ve got some more books on order from Amazon, but in the meantime I`ve raided my daughter`s long ignored bookshelf, and am in the middle of A Handful of Happiness, by Evelyn Hood, again not my usual read, but quite enjoying it. It`s about life and love in the tenements of a town near Glasgow during and just after WW1.

I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns last week and am so glad I stuck with it [even though I was an emotional wreck by the end of it] and then read The Hunger Games. Given that it was one of my favourite films of last year [so I knew what was going to happen] I still found it gripping and incredibly well written. Now desperate to read part two but can't because I don't want to ruin the film when it comes out in a couple of months. So reading the story of Foinavon, the 100/1 shock winner of the National. I met the author at our racing club last April and his jockey is a stalwart of out club. Again I can't put it down [even though I know what happens]. The period detail is wonderful [I'm reading it in grainy black and white].

I've got a bit out of touch with Kathy Reichs, number - thanks for the reminder.

Bananas I'm about half way through "Instructions for a Heatwave" and I'm really enjoying it.

Just started Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell

Now reading another in the Kathy Reich series about Temp Brennan, called Bones are Forever.

Reading 'Spartacus: The Gladiator,' by Ben Kane.

Just finished reading 'Relish' by Prue Leith..for my book group. Glad I found it in Poundland! It was her autobiography. Many things about her that I did not warm to but then surprised by some attitudes that seemed to contradict actions etc! Discovered that actually she is not a particularly great cook!

Really enjoyed Trust Your Eyes, now coming towards the end of Last to Die, by Tess Gerritsen, it`s been very good. Have also recently read XO, by Jeffery Deaver, brilliant, full of lots of twists and turns.

I'm reading 'The Queen and I,' by Sue Townsend.

Still hacking my way (enjoyably) through Ulysses, and at the same time thoroughly enjoying Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart, which is very funny and very silly. The style is that of her sit-com character, with some dialogues with her 18-year-old schoolgirl self.

Bit of a contrast - can't be bad!

Just finished Michael Connelly's The Reversal and started the next one The Drop.

numberplease I've read Linwood Barclay's No Time For Goodbye and remember enjoying it.

Am halfway through Linwood Barclay`s Trust Your Eyes, very good so far.

I'm bereft just finished Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, sublime! I'm starting The Somnanbulist or however it's spelt, feeling the need to hang around in the 19th century a little longer!

Citadel was a cracking good read, a bit long, but so well written. Would make a great film if they stuck to the book.

I'm half way through The Taliban Cricket Club by Timeri N. Murari.
A touching, audacious and surreal story. Riveting. A novel of hope.

Gosh! It must be about 50 years since I read Clochmerle - I thought it was SO rude

I am re-reading Clochmerle - so funny!

I am reading Winter of the World, 2nd in the Ken Follett Trilogy - I love his books, the characters and plot are brilliant, but you also learn so much about British History

I'm just starting on The Twins, but alternating with The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey which I'm reading for about the twentieth time. I'm also dipping into a book about Bloody Mary.

I'm reading Secret Asset, by Stella Rimington; and Sophie's World, by Jostein Gaarder.