What are you reading right now?

Just finished The Kite Runner, which was a great book (saw the film, too, on TV last night), and now I'm reading We Need To Talk About Kevin, which is stylishly quite different, but proving to be a riveting read.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Fairy stories for grown ups Gaiman.

Filmwise I loved Stardust but hated Coraline; the man has a fascinating mind.

@ Micelf if you enjoyed reading bout the links between theWedgwoods and Darwins you might enjoy books by Charlotte Moore. She wrote about her two autistic sons George and Sam . She has also written the history of her family home-many links with the Darwins. She mentions frequently Gwen Raverat, the artist who se memoir A Cambridge Childhood I read recently. They were an extraordinary bunch . She illustrated the book and I kept wondering how on earth she got people to buy her woodcuts as the drawing was so un attractive but I saw a couple of her woodcut in Plas y lyn very recently and changed my mind.

Not enjoying 'Beautiful Ruins' one bit. I'm more than half way through it an feel like giving up.

In contrast, I did enjoy Beautiful Ruins, was doubtful at first, found it a tad confusing, till I got into it proper. Am now just starting Killing Call, by Stephen Booth. I love the Derbyshire Peak District settings for all his books.

Still struggling with "Beautiful Ruins".

I have just finished 'Forest Gate' by Peter Akinti. I usually pick one book at random when I visit the library takes me to all kinds of different reading. Some I don't get past the first page, others I enjoy. This one I read through, not because I particularly enjoyed it, but it showed a life I am only dimly aware of (it is based on fact), and I found it disturbing that things like this can happen in this country. Food for thought.

I have just finished "Still Alice" by Lisa Genova. I cannot recommend it too hioghly. It tells the story of a highly intelligent female Harvard professor who gets early onset Alzheimer's Disease. In the most extraordinary way it gets inside the head of someone for whom life is becoming a puzzle and to be feared.

Do read it - it is very profound and deals with what the self is - where it begins and ends. And with the things that really matter in life. It is a sad read, but also uplifting.

I read "Still Alice" a couple of months ago and would recommend it as well. I had forgotten the author's name so thank you Mishap.

Loving "Beautiful Ruins". Great plot and very easy to read.

And my book is called Kill Call, not Killing Call, silly me! It`s not bad, so far.

Just finished Ruth Rendell's St Zita Society, okish not one of her best. I am now going to start Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, I finished her Booker Prize winning The Blind Assassin a week or so ago which was one of the best books I've read so far this year, but hear Alias Grace is even better so I am looking forward to it, particularly as the TV is such rubbish at the moment, although Who Do You Think You Are is on later which can be interesting.

I`m in the middle of Wrath of Angels, by John Connelly, another in the Charlie Parker series, not quite as enjoyable as some of the others, but OK.

Right now, I have two on the go... both on the Kindle. One is The Long Earth by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett. Definitely not a Discworld novel, this is about the effects of being able to travel through an infinity of alternative Earths.

The other, somewhat to my surprise, is James Joyce's Ulysses - I approached it with fear and trembling, but it turns out to be very enjoyable.Can't help but see Milo O'Shea in my mind's eye when reading of Leopold Bloom - I know he did play the part in a filmed version.

I`m reading another Charlie Parker book by John Connelly, The Lovers, it`s been very good.

numberplease; Another John Connelly fan!! wooo! I've read all the Charlie Parker series, and also Nocturnes, which contains a Charlie Parker novella, can't wait for the next one to come out.

Just starting The Reversal by Michael Connelly, and every now and again keep dipping into The History of England by Peter Ackroyd and Stupid White Men by Michael Moore - oh the corruption!

Feetlbaum; I used to read the Discworld novels years ago and sort of fell out of reading them. Though not a discworld saga, let us know how you get on with The Long Earth.

shelby75, although I love the Charlie Parker books, I must admit to only coming upon them in the last 12 months, so haven`t read more than about half a dozen, but will definitely be reading more. I`m also very fond of Michael Connelly`s Harry Bosch stories, love them!

I'm reading Sunlight through the Shadows by Rita Trotman. If you ever raised money for Romania or went out to help then you shouldn't miss this. It's the inside story of the orphanages and how three lads escaped to a better life. Twenty years of her detailed diaries are used by a volunteer to write the story and a lot is also told by the boys themselves. I couldn't put it down. Hurrah for my Kindle!

Medieval Terms and Phrases by Christopher Coredon and Ann Williams

Very revealing and interesting.

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I`m reading Citadel, by Kate Mosse. I loved her Labyrinth, wasn`t too keen on Sepulchre, but really enjoying this, I love how she successfully mixes medieval and modern.

I've just read After the Fall by Charity Norman. Although not a thriller there is an underlying menace to at least the first half of the book, as you try to work out if the terrible fall was an accident or deliberate. If deliberate who did it, and also whether the little boy who fell, will live or die. It is the sort of book you race to finish and then wish you could read it again.
I've just started A Summer Place by Sloan Wilson and I am finding it hard work. I can't think why I found this book so good when I was sixteen. I shall persevere.

I have just finished The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith, aka J K Rowling.
I loved it, she does tell a good tale.

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

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.