What are you reading right now?

Sir Terry Pratchett's latest - Raising Steam.

Now reading, and enjoying, A Question of Identity, by Susan Hill, the latest Simon Serailler story.

Sense and Sensibility - Joanna Trollope's new one. A 21st century take on Jane Austen's novel. I was struggling a bit with it to start with, because it was SO 'upper crust', that it was annoying me, but I soon discovered that this was needed so that the story fell into place in the same way. Really enjoying it now!

Marelli thank you for the review of JT's Sense and Sensibility. OH popped the book in his basket for me when he was shopping.
A nice surprise.

number, I've just finished A Question of Identity. I love the Simon Serailler series.

I've just ordered the latest DCI Banks (Peter Robinson) for DH for Christmas. We love those as well. There are now so many it reminds me of getting an Enid Blyton 'fix' when I was a child.

My 3 favourite detectives right now are Simon Serailler, Alan Banks and Roy Grace, what a coincidence that they`re all English!
I`ve just started reading Like This, For Ever, by Sharon Bolton. I`ve enjoyed a few of her books, but this one`s not really grabbing me yet.

My favourite detective at the moment is DI Tom Thorne written by Mark Billingham jus love a good who dunnit

I am enjoying "Bringing up the Bodies" by Hilary Mantel. It is fascinating.

I recently tried to read a book grabbed quickly in the library. A sort of cockney Catherine Cookson. Not really my scene. I had trouble getting into this book and thought it was because I had not really sat down with it properly. I tried again yesterday still no good and I ditched it.

Last night I started " Family Album" by Penelope Lively. I was hooked in the first two pages.
A seemingly jolly tale of a middle class family but almost straight away her writing subtly hints that things are not as cosy as they seem. What a very clever writer. I shall enjoy this book.

I've just read Tea with Mr Rochester Penguin and love the Persephone books. My idea of the perfect present is to be given one in the lovely classic wrapping.

I have just started "Herrings and Hellfire" by Christopher Rush, about his childhood in the East Neuk fishing village of St Monance in the fifties. His descriptions of the interwoven families remind me a bit the characters in Under Milk Wood, so does the language (but all with a very strong taste of the icy coast of Fife, facing out to the North Sea)

Like This, For Ever, is starting to pick up a bit now, think I`ll enjoy it after all.

I am Malala. Learning so much about this region ( The Swat Valley)

I'm reading 'The Goldfinch,' by Donna Tartt. It is a brilliant read and would recommend it to anyone.

Halfway through Broken Harbour, by Tana French, intriguing murder story set in Ireland.

I'm also reading The Goldfinch, which my son's partner very thoughtfully ordered for me as she knows how much I loved Secret History. This one is brilliant too.

I've just finished a kindle cheapie called The 10 pm Question by Kate De Goldi. It's charming and set in NZ. There are so few books set there that I try to keep a list. In my library it is the only book by her and it is in both adult and teen fiction, but no vampires if being classified as teen puts you off. Quite insightful for those w ith teens at home.

Broken Harbour was very good. Now reading Criminal, by Karin Slaughter, another favourite of mine.

Just finished The Thread by Victoria Hislop, which many GNs, seem to have already read. A very good read and it makes me really want to visit Thessaloniki.

I am now going to start Gone Girl, a book that I have been resisting for a while due to mixed reviews. My husband, having forgotten to pack his own books whilst we have been on holiday, has just finished it and tells me it's very gripping, in fact I know he couldn't put it down. So I am going to start it whilst we are hanging around at the airport later.

Felt a bit lt down by And the Mountains Echoed. Enjoyed reading it but didn't feel the same at the end as I did with A Thousand Splendid Suns [which I didn't enjoy reading so much but felt the end justified the pain of reading towards that end]. Hope that makes sense!

I loved The Thread, afraid Gone Girl didn`t do it for me. Tegan, I LOVED A Thousand Splendid Suns, even more than The Kite Runner, still haven`t read And the Mountains Echoed, but definitely mean to.

Meant to say, have been a bit short of books lately, have read a couple of the trashy paperbacks daughter used to buy back when, took `em off her old bookcase, VERY racy, historical stuff, not my usual reading material, but opened my eyes a bit! Haven`t started it yet, but my next read will be Merciless, by Richard Montenari, I quite like him.

Good to meet a fellow fan of Persephone Books Stansgran.
I'm reading 'Howards End is on the landing.' Susan Hill's account of a year of only reading books already on her bookshelves.
'Susan Hill encountered dozens of books she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time.'
One of my New Year Resolutions is going to be to read all the to-be-read books on my shelves before sending for anymore books from Amazon.

@PPB it's a good resolution I have promised myself I will read everything I have but I keep buying fearing I will be marooned in the snow/on a desert island with nothing to read so I have to save some thing. I would love my DH to have a Persephone book sent to me for every month( preferably weekly )from all those ringed in the catalogue left prominently on his bedside table. And why is it that when I don't look on the kindle daily deal there is something that is on my book list ?