What are you reading right now?

I read that a couple of weeks ago Ian. I'll be interested in your opinion, but won't spoil it for you by giving mine yet!

I'm reading 'Waiting For Sunrise,' by William Boyd.

Gobbled up Ben Fogle's Autobiography in one evening; now onto Clare Balding's! My Animals and Other Family is another "easy" read, but so intertesting to see what former Clare! Looking forward to her chairing Have I got News for You next week. My library is wonderful and getting all the new books and no reservation fees either!!

I am Reading a lot of Angela Carter non-fiction and her novel Wise Children

Just finished VIII by HM Castor which, you won't be surprised to hear, is about Henry VIII. It's written with the king as narrator and in the historic present which isn't so bad when it's a first person narrator. It attempts to account for the deterioration in Henry's character and appearance - and his obsession with producing a son and heir.
I think it was a Kindle Daily Deal.

Ben Fogle's autobiography; it's keeping me away from other thgings. A good easy read.

Dead End is a bit slow and boring so far, but I will persevere.

I have just finished The Kasmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas and found it an excellent read. Can highly recommend it. An easy but very different read.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. For me Robert Redford is Jay Gatsby. How can Leo Di Caprio be any better, though he is a fine actor, improving as time goes on.

This is going to sound ridiculous but on holiday in Crete last week I read The Great Gatsby - I had never actually read it before - you cannot help but imagine Robert Redford in it the whole way through though - not a bad thing! I hear it is being re-made with Leonardo Dicapprio. (sp?)

I Am God was a brilliant read. Am just about to start Dead End, by Leigh Russell.

Trying hard with the new Sebastian Faulks A Possible Life; has anyone else read/finished it?

Good as Dead is brilliant!

Just finished reading 'The Great Escape,' by Paul Brickhill. I am now starting to read 'Good As Dead,' by Mark Billingham.

Taboo was really good. Now reading I Am God, by Giorgio Faletti, OK so far.

I'm just starting on John Major's new book, My Old Man - it's a history of British Music Hall, his father having been a Music Hall artiste.

Just finished The Killing Kind, by John Connelly, never read him before, quite enjoyed it. Just about to start Taboo, by Casey Hill, a new author to me.

The 19th Wife - about the polygamists of the Church of the Latter Day Saints. Wonderful.

flowerfriend delighted to hear that you too are a Wiliam Boyd fan! Looking forward to our lunch on Tuesday.

Thanks for that JO4, will buy it for OH. He will love it, I think.
Myself , I have just started The hare with the amber eyes. Interesting so far..
All the locations described , can be looked up on Google of course.

Look what's coming out in a couple of days

I've just finished Waiting for Sunrise. Just love William Boyd. His plots seem to me to be getting more complex with each new novel. One of my sons used to work for WH Smith and hand on proof copies of new books to me. He also got several signed copies of books for me, including David Attenborough's autobiography.

Sweet Tooth was a really good read - Ian McEwan - although every review I have read seems to have panned it. Now reading Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd and I am racing through it.

Although I do buy books from time to time, I am fortunate to have an extented family member who is single and in a well-paid job and I get passed on books from her at a cracking rate. She is a prolific reader and always passes on books as soon as she has read them. Lucky me.

BH is, so far, my favourite Dickens novel. Despite the ridiculous 'spontaneous combustion' death of Krook! Ridiculous or not, it was all wonderfully described.

Having been telling myself to read 'Bleak House' for so many years, I've just finished it - and I'm bereft! I wish I was starting it all over again!
I've often found Dickens a bit tedious - it may go back to bad memories of set books when I was at school. But this book I found so very moving with the most beautiful passages illustrating the plots and personalities and thus enabling me to accept the more farcical episodes and characters he loved to create.