What are You reading right now

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 26 Apr 2007, 19:42

Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher novel, Bad Luck and Trouble, James Bond for the 'noughties'.

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 26 Apr 2007, 20:19

bearcub wrote:Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher novel, Bad Luck and Trouble, James Bond for the 'noughties'.

I've not long finished "One Shot" and enjoyed "Killing Floor" must get this new one

When I visualise Jack Reacher I always see the face "Rockford" ( James Garner) for some reason

Jamesie · Post by **Jamesie** » 26 Apr 2007, 20:41

"Leap of Faith", which is the biography of Queen Noor of Jordan. Very interesting.

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 26 Apr 2007, 22:23

Not long since read The Hard Way (jack Reacher Novel)
My son pictures Reacher looking like 47 from the Hitman games.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 27 Apr 2007, 23:55

the latest Alexander McCall Smith (Love over Scotland, A 44 Scotland Street novel), was excited to get it today in Glasgow. Totally addicted loved the others in the series. A good read

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 27 Apr 2007, 23:56

Jamesie wrote:"Leap of Faith", which is the biography of Queen Noor of Jordan. Very interesting.

I borrowed it off my mum to read but never got round to reading it

, heavy going.

arachnid · Post by **arachnid** » 28 Apr 2007, 16:05

At last!!! I've finished reading " Bleak House" !!!!

Enjoyed reading it once I got into it, but it's a long read!!!
Will have a day or two respite before I decide what to read next!!!

A thinner book I think!!!

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 02 May 2007, 13:58

The Time Traveller's Wife

I can't believe I've waited so long to read this. I'm about half way through; nothing overtly significant has happened yet, and yet it can carry on as it is for a long time yet without disappointing me. Go get it, I say.

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 02 May 2007, 20:44

Just ordered the Eejits. It sounds hilarious.
It's Roal Dahl's "The Twits" in Scots.
check it out here

The Eejits

aileenandfearghal · Post by **aileenandfearghal** » 02 May 2007, 22:47

mr magnolia wrote:
The Time Traveller's Wife
I can't believe I've waited so long to read this. I'm about half way through; nothing overtly significant has happened yet, and yet it can carry on as it is for a long time yet without disappointing me. Go get it, I say.

This is a great book. The only book I've ever cried over!!

I've recently finished My Heart Is My Own, a biography of Mary Queen of Scots. An absolutely brilliant book, especially for someone like me (a foreigner) who didn't learn about her at school. Even for well versed Scots, this has lots of new research from original sources and is very well written.

This insipred me to get another historical biography, so now reading God Is Truth, Ghandi's Autobiography. Much more hard going, but interesting still. I loved the film and I'm loving the fact that I'm reading his story written by his hand.

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magbagpuss · Post by **magbagpuss** » 03 May 2007, 08:21

I'm reading C.S Sansom's Sovereign, it's a cracking story in Henry the 8th's York. This is his 3rd book with the main character ,a lawyer Matthew Shardlake now working for Archbishop Cranmer. Lots of plots and sub plots , great people. Very good at capturing that moment in history , great historical detail.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 04 May 2007, 23:52

mr magnolia wrote:
The Time Traveller's Wife
I can't believe I've waited so long to read this. I'm about half way through; nothing overtly significant has happened yet, and yet it can carry on as it is for a long time yet without disappointing me. Go get it, I say.

fab fab book I loved it.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 04 May 2007, 23:56

aileenandfearghal wrote: I've recently finished My Heart Is My Own, a biography of Mary Queen of Scots. An absolutely brilliant book, especially for someone like me (a foreigner) who didn't learn about her at school. Even for well versed Scots, this has lots of new research from original sources and is very well written.

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Thanks for that, sounds really interesting book

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 05 May 2007, 07:19

Just finished Warren Fellows "The Damage Done" about his time in Bang Kwang prison in Bangkok.

Now starting a series of comics someone has given me on loan :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Star

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 05 May 2007, 20:58

Sandra wrote:
mr magnolia wrote:
The Time Traveller's Wife
I can't believe I've waited so long to read this. I'm about half way through; nothing overtly significant has happened yet, and yet it can carry on as it is for a long time yet without disappointing me. Go get it, I say.

fab fab book I loved it.

They're turning it into a film now too.......

arachnid · Post by **arachnid** » 05 May 2007, 23:10

Sweet Francaise by Irene Nemrovsky

Born in Kiev in 1903, Irène Némirovsky fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became an acclaimed novelist. She wrote over 10 novels, including an unfinished magnum opus Suite Française which was published posthumously in France in 2004 and has become an international bestseller. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 07 May 2007, 11:42

Sandra wrote:
mr magnolia wrote:
The Time Traveller's Wife
I can't believe I've waited so long to read this. I'm about half way through; nothing overtly significant has happened yet, and yet it can carry on as it is for a long time yet without disappointing me. Go get it, I say.

fab fab book I loved it.

I finished the last quarter or so of this very early on Saturday morning, wth a stray magnoliette cuddled up to me on the sofa. At the end, I had to pop into our bedroom to check with mrs m that I was still here, whilst blowing my nose in a manly way...

(I have to admit that I was in danger of losing a bit of interest in the middle third of the thing, as it strayed close to Mills and Boon territory! And I was disturbed beyond reason to note that on Amazon, top of the 'previous purchasers also bought' list was Cloud Atlas

)

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 07 May 2007, 21:54

mr magnolia wrote:And I was disturbed beyond reason to note that on Amazon, top of the 'previous purchasers also bought' list was Cloud Atlas )

Your point being??

I'm reading Human Croquet by the same person who wrote Behind the Scenes at the Museum (you can tell I never pay much attention to authors

). It's good.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 09 May 2007, 19:04

not really a proper reading book but I got Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries last week, recipes and snacks for every month of the year. His bio "Toast" was excellent.

Got an absolute stack of books to read and always if I see something I fancy buy it. I love the Alexander McCall Smith "Scotland Street" series, there is a new one out in June, was currently being serialised in "The Scotsman" but I prefer reading in one or two goes! Even got my West Coast family addicted

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 10 May 2007, 13:13

I'm now reading 'The Shining'.
I've decided as you may have nited to reda all of Stephen Kings books (just discovered I like him recently). Nex on the list is the new Jack Reacher book Bad luck and Trouble

magbagpuss · Post by **magbagpuss** » 10 May 2007, 19:34

just finished The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger. Great laugh , knows New York really well , very tongu

e in cheek about fashion industry , I'm not bothered about labels n what folk wear , i think it's the person that's important but it shows you how some people think ,a great light read.

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 10 May 2007, 21:49

magbagpuss wrote:just finished The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger. Great laugh , knows New York really well , very tongu e in cheek about fashion industry , I'm not bothered about labels n what folk wear , i think it's the person that's important but it shows you how some people think ,a great light read.

I enjoyed the book too. The movie was also good. Meryl Streep was great as Amanda

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 12 May 2007, 22:27

About to retire to bed with the medicinal hot choc mentioned on the "what are you drinking" thread, two hotties, three wee teddies and Christopher Brookemyre's "A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil".

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 14 May 2007, 17:17

Ho Chi Minh's Prison Diary

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 16 May 2007, 14:57

bearcub wrote:Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher novel, Bad Luck and Trouble,

I've just finished reading it too.
I enjoyed it. Don't you think the character has gotten a bit colder and a lot less tolerant?

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 16 May 2007, 15:05

Just started Jeffrey Deaver's "The Bone Collector".It looks like it's going to be a good read
The Bone Collector (1997)

Lincoln Rhyme, ex-head of NYPD forensics, was the nation's foremost criminalist, the man who could work a crime scene and come away with a perfect profile of the killer, frozen in time. Now, Lincoln is frozen in place — permanently. An accident on the job left him a quadriplegic who can move just one finger, a great mind strapped to his bed, mulish and sarcastic, hiding from a life he no longer wants to live.

Until he sees the crime-scene report about a corpse found buried on a deserted West Side railroad track, its bloody hand rising from the dirt. It belonged to a man who got into a cab at the airport and never got out. Reluctantly, Lincoln Rhyme abandons retirement to track down a killer whose ingenious clues hold the secret to saving his victims — if Rhyme can decipher them in time. The search leads him to the Bone Collector, whose obsession with old New York colors every scrap of evidence he leaves for Rhyme and his new partner, Amelia Sachs, whom he drafts as his arms and legs. But she's never worked a crime scene in her life — and he can only whisper in her ear as she does the exacting work he loved more than anything else.
I've read an other of his books with the character Lincoln Ryme character (I think it was the twelth card) and enjoyed it. I think this is an earlier one.

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 20 May 2007, 11:57

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

arachnid · Post by **arachnid** » 20 May 2007, 17:13

bearcub wrote:The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

Sounds a bit like the " Fable" game I'm playing on x-box just now!!!

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 09 Jun 2007, 22:41

Terry Pratchett
Pyramids

do you know its subtitled The Book of Going Forth?

Not long finished Brookmyre's Tale edged in blood and HB pencil which was ok, his novels featuring Jack Parlabane are amongst the best but my fave is the Sacred Art of Stealing

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 10 Jun 2007, 09:34

SoupDragon wrote:Terry Pratchett
Pyramids

do you know its subtitled The Book of Going Forth?

Not long finished Brookmyre's Tale edged in blood and HB pencil which was ok, his novels featuring Jack Parlabane are amongst the best but my fave is the Sacred Art of Stealing

I must catch up with the more recent Brookmyre stuff. Boiling a Frog was one of the funniest, blackest books.
It had in me in tears.

I don't seem to manage to read books these days. I can barely scan a newspaper.
At the weekend I go for all the supplements and look at all the pretty pictures of houses and clothes.

Guess the price of the London properties in the Sunday Times Homes mag is a source of much entertainment.

Not that I'm superficial or owt.

magbagpuss · Post by **magbagpuss** » 12 Jun 2007, 11:01

Just finished a really sweet book that had been a gift from a dear friend . Not normally too keen on true life animal stories as I end up crying ....... but The Cats On Hutton Roof (clever play on words ) by Marilyn Edwards is beautifully written about her life with 3 furry folk . Factual not cloying I read it in 1 go , Well Derek ain't going to die of starvation having to wait for dinner a bit longer . The book is the 3rd of 4 . It wound'nt matter if you read 1 or 4 they stand up on their own , cat lovers give it a try. Marilyn leaves an e-mail address and does reply. Never done it before but let her know how much I had enjoyed her tail !!! apologies for that ! Reply in 2 hours asking about our cats.You have no idea how special that made me feel. Let me know if you read this .

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 12 Jun 2007, 11:46

Literaly just finished reading The Stand. It was one of those books that's hard to put down. A long book but worth the reading. I really enjoyed this one.

Synopsis:
One man escapes from a biological weapon facility after an accident, carrying with him the deadly virus known as Captain Tripps, a rapidly mutating flu that - in the ensuing weeks - wipes out most of the world's population. In the aftermath, survivors choose between following an elderly black woman to Boulder or the dark man, Randall Flagg, who has set up his command post in Las Vegas. The two factions prepare for a confrontation between the forces of good and evil.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 12 Jun 2007, 13:24

The Insider by Piers Morgan, quite entertaining.

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 12 Jun 2007, 15:51

I'm reading...nothing! Woohoo!

Because I have returned from Dundee, course over, diploma in hand

, and I am free for the first time in three years to watch trashy TV, or (which is closer to what I've doing) sit in a chair and stare into the distance as I try and recover from a week with no sleep... I did return with six new text books mind you. It's like an addiction. Perhaps I should see a counsellor.

I probably should have put this in a thread on its own but I felt too shy to brag in my very own thread so thought I'd hijack this one.

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 12 Jun 2007, 16:01

bellybabe wrote:I'm reading...nothing! Woohoo!

Because I have returned from Dundee, course over, diploma in hand , and I am free for the first time in three years to watch trashy TV, or (which is closer to what I've doing) sit in a chair and stare into the distance as I try and recover from a week with no sleep... I did return with six new text books mind you. It's like an addiction. Perhaps I should see a counsellor.

I probably should have put this in a thread on its own but I felt too shy to brag in my very own thread so thought I'd hijack this one.

Brag away....well done counsellor BB

Must be a great feeling