Just finished Winter in Madrid by CJ Samson, about a group of people in 1941 in Madrid. I really enjoyed it.

I'm currently re-reading Second Violin by John Lawton, a murder mystery set in Vienna, Paris and the UK in 1938.

I gave up on the Grapes of Wrath - not my cup of tea at all. I am now about half way through Water for Elephants and enjoying it.

I really enjoyed that book.

I am re reading The Witching Hour by Anne Rice which I have read so many times before but I am enjoying as much as ever.

I've just started "One Day" by David Nicholls. I gave up reading Wuthering Heights, I found the writing style way too annoying and that was only the first two chapters.

I've just finished "Sarah's Key" - I found it really moving. Now onto "The Jewel of St Petersburg". I don't know anything about it but it mentions the Romanovs in the blurb and I am obsessed with them!

I really enjoyed One Day, especially since the protagonists are around the same age as me (but older). It was quite funny how much I recognised aspects of mine and my friends lives in the plot

Dog Boy Eva Hornung. This months bookclub book, first chapter but seems a little disturbing so far.


Excellent, I downloaded this today and is next on the reading list.

Angelica by Arthur Phillips - its kind of a retelling of Henry James' Turn of the Screw written from 4 different perspectives. Its good so far. Creepy in an old fashioned kind of way.

Waiting desperately for the new George R R Martin which is supposedly due any day now....

I have put down "The Jewel of St Petersburg" momentarily while I re-read "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" for the billionth time, in preparation for the movie next week.

I started Slaughterhouse Five last night, but I don't think I will be finishing it!

I finished Room by Emma Donoghue last night. It was fantastic. I read it on my e-reader and wasn't watching the pages and got a shock when it ended. I was completely hooked!!

Oliver...Charles Dickens

Previously Great Expectations.

Dickens is cool !

Having finished Second Violin, I went onto Lily of the Field and then Black Out, all by John Lawton. I've just started another in the series, Old Flames, which will be followed by the last book, A Little White Death.

After that, I'll sort through the goodies I've got recently from Book Depository!

Exactly the same here last night - read it all last night. I had red eyes today at work but was worth it.

The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller.

I'm going to start 'the crimson petal and the white' by Michelle Faber tonight.

I have 'The Cutting Stone' (Abraham Verghese), 'The Help' (Kathryn Stockett) and 'The 19th Wife' (David Ebershoff) downloaded on the kindle waiting for me.

I've just started Room and am still reading The Historian.
is the whole book (Room) written from the child's viewpoint?


Went to the book fair and grabbed a heap of books super cheap, the Summer Garden cost $1 and Tatiana and Alexander cost me a whopping 40c. Will. Have to actually start reading bronze horseman now that I have all 3 books!

I started I came to say Goodbye last night, and pretty much instantly regretted it, because it sucked me in and I couldn't put it down until it was finished. Sooooooooooooo tired today

I'm picking up Water for Elephants from the library tonight.

I've really really got to stop sitting up half the night reading. I picked up Water for Elephants last night, and couldn't put it down, I really enjoyed it.

I put Sara Gruen's other book Ape House on reserve tonight.

I'm was just about to start a fluffy book that was on the recommended reads stand in the library - Becoming Scarlett by Ciara Geraghty, but I'm thinking I might re read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows again in preparation for the movie.

I have just started "The Last Station" which is a fictionalised account of Tolstoy's last year.

Scrap everything I said in my last post about my next book. I finally got the email to say the new Stephanie Plum was waiting for me. I'm off to sit in a hot bath and read.

Have just started Brideshead Revisited - anyone read and loved it? I'm a bit late to the piece, I know

Just started to read again as I've returned to work part-time and have a bit of a commute.

Am currently reading The Bay by Di Morrisey.. Picked it up in a rush at the second hand book store. I hope it gets better!

Water for Elephants was a good, easy read.

I havent done Brideshead Revisited but similar genre was The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy. Excellent read and recommended.

I enjoyed Brideshead Revisited and the movie with Emma Thompson was really good.

I finished "the LAst Station" and am now onto some fluff = "A Weekend with Mr Darcy"

I'm reading BelCanto which has been recommended on EB many times.

I'm reading BelCanto which has been recommended on EB many times.

Re-reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson for the millionth time, definitely one of my desert island books. After this I've got The Outsider and Faranheit 451 on the list.

just finished the Historian and also the Happiest refugee. Off to the library today but will have the kids with me which means i just randomly grab books and find out what i have picked up when I get home!!

Halfway through "Without Mercy" by Lisa Jackson. Good so far, can't wait for the ending!!! Who is the leader????!

Oh, library surprise - that is always fun!

I am now reading more fluff - "Versace Sisters". I haven't really got the energy for much else at the moment.

Have just started The Room, it's going to be hard reading after finishing One Day, which was brilliant...now I can't wait for the movie!!

Just finished The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society (loved it) and have just started Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.

I have recently finished 'animal farm' and am currently reading '1984'.
I am trying to read or reread a few 'classics' in between other books at the moment.

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Me too. I'm reading Wuthering Heights. Heeeeathcliiiiifffff!
How are you coping with 1984? I felt like I was watching a horror film when I read it. Somehow made me really really uncomfortable and I had to force myself to read the last couple of chapters.

I have that coming in the mail for DH's birthday.... I cannot wait!


LOVED that one!

I just finished The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

I now need to finish the Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson.

Finally got my hands on a copy of "Smokin' Seventeen"

I love Stephanie Plum!

I loved this book. I will be getting The Wise Man's Fear soon I think.

How is the new Stephanie Plum?

I just read "The Midwives Confession" by Diane Chamberlain and ended up skipping massive chunks - I just wanted to know what happened, and got bored with all the filler. A little predictable, too. It got great reviews though, so maybe it was just me.

I'm starting Cold Comfort Farm next.

Re-reading Arms and the Woman by Reginald Hill. It's still as funny as ever.

Started reading The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet on my Kindle...so far seems a good read, havent read much though!

Just finished Memory Keeper's Daughter for book club. I had read it years ago, so was good to refresh.

Have started The Slap, am not sure what I think about it so far as so many of the characters aren't at all likeable.

The new Stephanie Plum was great - I liked it better than number 16.

Now onto Dorothy Koomson, "The Woman he Loved Before"