What are you reading right now?

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

Sir Terry Pratchett's latest - Raising Steam.

I'm re-reading Tea with Mr Rochester by Frances Towers, short stories.
It's one of my treasured collection of Persephone books. Anyone else love Persephone books? They have introduced me to some authors I had heard of but never read. Dorothy Whipple being one of my favourites. Wonderful short stories, sadly the author's only book as she died of pneumonia only months before the book was printed.

I cant recommend highly enough "A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry. I read it some time ago and thought it was so moving and so well written, you were there with the characters, feeling all their experiences. Life in the slums of Mumbai, as it was and still is for some, sadly. It is now this month's book for our book group and I will be interested to hear what the others think of it.