I have just started "Before Green Gables" - it is great so far.

Panda, where did you get "Dead in the Family"? Dymocks told me not until next month (and DH and I are hanging out for it!)

Molondy - I got a quarter of the way into it, and put it back into the 'to be read' pile. As I wasn't really concentrating as there was a book I had just purchased that I wanted to read more.

But from what I had read so far, I didn't hate Michael, he was appalling but it was written in such a way that it was all quite amusing too, i.e. the bag of potato chips incident, weeing in the snow etc.

I'll get back to it soon.

I have just started reading New Moon and i cannot put it down.

Started Alice I have been, sounded interesting but am having trouble getting into it.

So i started Alice i have been and have stopped, read about 100 pages BORING.

I am back to finishing of the Sookie Stackhouse series

I have just finished "Before Green Gables" - it was really sweet. I think the author won a prize to be able to write the book as it was 100 years since Anne of Green Gables was written in 2008.

I am now reading "Grave Sight" by Charlaine Harris to get me in the mood for "Dead in the Family"

Where soldiers fear to tread at work in the fields of anarchy by John Burnett.

John Burnett participated in the World Food Programme in 1998 and this is about his journey about the unpalatable realities of aid-provision.

I am still in the middle of Cold Comfort Farm

But CCF is a laugh out loud hoot. Ay, all that clettering (with a stick), scranletting, mollocking and Amos frittening the quiverers with his hell-fire sermons...

The Starkadders of 'Howling' remind me of a great many posts and posters on EB...

I'm reading The Book Thief at the moment.

Hi all
hope you don't mind my posting I often lurk here reading reviews given I seem to have next to no time to find any good books like I used to enjoy before kids.

I have just started The Eternal Son by Cristovao Tezza
(an autobiographical novel about a young father whose son Felipe is born with down syndrome.) Wondering if anyone has read and could share some comments

I also just finished the Book Thief which I loved and think it would make a great movie.

Annetta

I am a massive Anne of Green Gables Fan and would love to read this! Who is the author?



I have read that book too and thoroughly enjoyed it!

At the moment I am reading "The Kite Runner" - it is fantastic and I highly recommend it

I adore Cold Comfort Farm, it's hysterically funny. Try and track down Conference at Cold Comfort Farm--it's not as funny but it's still good.

I just finished the latest Diana Gabaldon and jeez. What a fecking bore that was!

Just started the GoneAway World by Nick Harkaway and enjoying it so far.

Hi Lulujayne3, Before Green Gables is by Budge Wilson - Canadian I think who won the right to write a prequel from the AoGG peple. I found it in the kids section at Borders if that helps.

I am currently reading "One day in May" by Catherine Alliot - seems pretty light and easy so far.

atm reading My Steve, wasn't a big Steve Irwin fan just saw the book and was curious, I'm enjoying it though.
Next I'll be reading Lisa Williams book Life Among the Dead.

Finished "One Day in May" , pretty disappointing ending actually - a bit lazy I think

Now reading "Grave Surprise" by Charlaine Harris

I am reading The Enemy by Charlie Higson

very interesting LOL, my 13 year old DS was keen for me to read it as
he thought it was great.

all the "grownups" are these infected zombie type things and it's set in London.

It has got me in.

Hey Michelle, maybe you and your son could try "Gone' by Michael Grant next. One day all the adults (everyone over 16) just disappears. There's a sequel just out too. Worth a read!

Funny you should say that autumntree he has that book and has started it,
but has put it down - he said "it's a bit weird" LOL

Point of Rescue by Sophie Hannah. Have really been enjoying her crime/thriller books.

STOp- go back and read all the Jack Reacher novels. 61 hours is the 14th book!

I am reading the Laurell K Hamilton books. Just finished all the Anita Blake series an am now reading the Merry Gentry books. Not usually my style fantasy fiction but mixed into modern day with too much sex in them is keeping me highly amused!

I finished Persuasion by Jane Austen a couple of days ago.
I'm not reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.

Of course I am now reading "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" I really am hopeless!

71Cath you read so much, WOW

Daisygoat, what are the Anita Blake books like?

I am nearly finished Book 8 in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series and will then catch up with the newest editions of others I have left behind the the BDB

I know Deja vu, a friend of mine says I eat books (it is true!). That is why I mostly get them from the library, and I just try to buy the really special ones.

I really enjoyed "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" (of course! ) I just quickly read "Eclipse" again to get myself in the mood for the movie and I am now onto "Shakespeare's Landlord" by Charlaine Harris - I love Sookie and Harper, so I thought I would give it a go.

Haha I read Eclipse a month ago, to remind myself after all this time what the movie might be like!

Reading is great, I have never been a big reader but it just takes you away from the every-day stuff (and even more sometimes LOL)

100% agree Deja Vu!

I am now reading "Red Square Blues" It is by Australian author Kim Traill, and I am really enjoying it. She went to the (then) USSR at about the same time I did, so I am really relating to her experiences. Of course I came home and was boring and went to uni, got married, had kids etc, but she seems to have been wandering around Europe for 20 years - so jealous!

Only 13 days until I see Eclipse at midnight! And I am forcing DH to read Bree Tanner as well.

i'm reading michael parkinson's autobiography

I just finished The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver which I adored. It has got me all interested in Frida Kahlo so at the moment I am reading a book about her and Diego Rivera. So interesting and very unusual for me to read non fiction!

Me too Kay1, I never read non-fiction!

Wow, it is quiet in here!

Well I finished "Red Square Blues" - good but a bit too long and very hard to keep all the characters straight in your head. Still worth a read though for anyone who is interested in modern Soviet/Russian history.

I have now started "Dead in the Family" - great so far.

I'm reading The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff, it's my book club book for this month. Not bad so far.

I have an Agatha Christie biography from the library I'm dying to get into...

I am now reading "Grave Secret" (Charlaine Harris)

I counted this moring and i have 9 books on my bedside table...woops!

I'm reading the new Guy Gavriel Kay novel "Under Heaven" - gorgeous as usual....

It has been quiet in here lately - maybe everyone is like me - so exhausted at night it is taking forever to read anything!!!

I agree Molony, very quiet - maybe everyone is too busy reading!

I am reading number 4 in the Corrina Chapman series - "Trick ot Treat"

The Laughing Corpse. The second Anita Blake novel. Im definitely reading too many vampire novels lately.

Deja Vu- I loved the Anita Blake series- they are poorly written (literature wise),at some stages totally cross into pure pornography but are fantastic entertainment.... which is the reason I read!
I just downloaded the two latest AB books Flirt and Bullet and read them

The Merry Gentry novels by Laurell K Hamilton also are very similar and were uttery enjoyable in a less gory but more magical kind of way ( same level of sex though lol)

I have now started on the Sherilyn Kenyon Dark Hunter Series which are rather unique and fun too.

In between I have read any latest new books from fave authors. I downloaded the new Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum book Sizzling Sixteen and started it last night.

Thank goodness for downloads or I would be utterly broke

I'm almost finished Breaking Dawn (again ) and have Blue Eyed Boy by Joanne Harris, I'm really looking forward to reading it. I was tempted to buy the new Sookie novel but I'm kind of over the whole vamp lit thing, I really need a break from it

Open - Andre Agassi's Autobiography. It is so much better than I expected, a really good read.

I am now reading Spirit Bound - number 5 of the Vampire Academy series. I am another person that needs to stop reading so much vampire literature!

I'm reading The Girl Who Played With Fire, the second book in the Millenium series. For those having trouble getting into the first book (TGWTDT) I recommend sticking with it, eventually you don't have to keep flicking back to the family tree at the front and it moves at a much quicker pace. I am looking forward to seeing the movie, I have heard good things about it which is often rare of a movie based on a well loved book.

Just finished The Enemy by Charlie Higson,
thoroughly enjoyed it, (the book recommended by my 13 yr old ds)
Am looking forward to the sequel.

Now reading Slumdog Millionaire (love the movie) and still reading Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy
(in the glovebox) LOL

Peace frog the movie of TGWTDT is fabulous, I really enjoyed it. Make sure you see it before Hollywood does a cr*ppy remake, as the Swedish version is fabulous.

Still going with "Spirit Bound" at the moment - I havent had much time to read lately.

Thanks for letting me know 71Cath, can't wait to watch it!!

I love these threads, my wish list on book depository is huge now!

I'm reading Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison, which is interesting. Have almost finished that and looking forward to something meatier.

I'm also trying hard to get through Catcher in the Rye but finding it really hard to read. The style is so different and I'm finding it awkward to get into the flow of it. TBH I was expecting a lot more from the book, it's actually pretty boring.

I'm reading House Rules and I see a few others have / are as well!

Just finished 'Justice Denied' the Jaidyn Leskie story. Last night I started the Phillip Island murder.

Before Justice Denied I read Judy Morans 'My life' and before that was Eavesdropping on evil - the story of the Silk/Miller murders.

I sense a little theme.......

I just finished Brooklyn - Colm Tobin for book club. I'm now reading The Merry Go Round in the Sea - Randolph Stowe, a couple of the ladies in book club rave about it.

Its been years since I read it last (I've read it at least 2 - 3 times) but I would imagine it seems quite old fashioned these days. I do love it to bits though..

I have started "Eat Pray Love" after hearing so much about it. I am about 70 pages in so far and I am not sure - it seems a bit sanctimonious so far? Much like "Julie and Julia" (which I hated!) I will keep going for a bit longer before it gets canned!

I'm currently reading JR Wards - Black Dagger Brotherhood Series....the best vampire books around i reckon