What are you reading?

[Mikey]

What was the last thing you read? The Gospel of Mark (I'm not religious, honest)
What are you currently reading? M&S Christmas catalogue
What do you plan to read next? Country living magazine
What is your recommended read? I'm with lynda, the vine.

[HotStuff]

What was the last thing you read? - Making Money by Terry Pratchett.

What are you currently reading? - Vegetable Growing Month by Month by John Harrison.

What do you plan to read next? - Getting Things Done by David Allen.

What is your recommended read? - Sniper One by Sgt. Dan Mills.

[kiwirach]

What was the last thing you read? - magazines

What are you currently reading? - End of Food by Paul Roberts(i think it is)

What do you plan to read next? - not sure, got two pick from the shelf to not send to storage.....thinking Lisa Jewell for the plane and not sure what the other will be to read b4 i go!.

What is your recommended read? hmmm...no good asking me....i can admit to liking American bodice rippers for loosing a miserable afternoon!!.

[Mrs Dobby]

What was the last thing you read? - Dreaming the Serpent Spear - Manda Scott - last part of her brilliant Boudicca Quadrology!

What are you currently reading? - Priestess of Avalon - A precursor to The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, brill!

What do you plan to read next? - No idea yet, funds too tight to buy anything, so will be rereading something from my collection, again!

What is your recommended read? - Manda Scott, Stephen R Donaldson, Tolkien, Bernard Cornwell, Pratchett, Frank Herbert, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey, JK Rowling

[Zem]

Oohhh, I finished this last night - what do you think so far??

It's the first Ben Elton book I've read, I picked it up as I have friends that love him and friends that seem to hate him.

I'm less then 100 pages in so still holding off on opinion a bit but so far it seems really good. Very interesting idea, although there are a few irritating plot issues that I can't quite get my head around and I’m hoping he'll explain soon.

[Zem]

What do you plan to read next? - Do Not Pass Go, by Tony something or other. He's a travel writer.

Is that the one about Monopoly? My OH loved that book.

[Zem]

Most of my mates seem to be bonkers about Time Travellers Wife and I've seen it crop up on here in a few posts as well.

Gonna have to add it to my Amazon wish list clearly.

[nilling]

Why read when you can listen to podcasts? You're all SO 20th century! *kidding*

My fave podcast author is Scott Sigler: horror/sci-fi.

[crazy_red]

Confesses to being a total bibliophile

Part of the house sorting strategy involved packing up my (way too distracting) fiction 'library' and putting it into storage in the loft and only having my research/reference books out <sob>

I can lose weeks reading..

What are you currently reading? Shakespeare in a Nutshell,and various ref/instruction/research books, some work related, some about different crafts, preserving, gardening, DIY......

What was the last thing you read? Integrated Pest Management Strategies for Musems, Galleries and Historic Houses (yeah, seriously)

What do you plan to read next? Not sure, but i'm trying to avoid the mortgage statement

What is your recommended read? People have such different tastes, I always find this sort of question really difficult, so i'll plump for the 'Gardener's Rest' thread, as it makes me giggle

[moggssue]

I just love books, its soooo difficult to chose, but here goes ...

What are you currently reading? A How To Scrapbook book, an old Patricia Cornwell and GYO

What Was The Last Thing You Read? Odd Thomas, The Accident Man, and a Laurel K Hamilton book but I cant remember the name, how bad is that!?

What do you plan to read next? Hmmm, huuugggge list of choices - probably the sequel to The Accident Man, or a Lee Child, or Wuthering Heights again (following a visit to Haworth)

What is your recommended read? Again a huuugggge list - lets keep it simple - Terry Pratchett, Anne Rice, the Brontes, Lee Child, and definitely The Secret Hunters by Ranulph Fiennes (should be compulsary reading!)

[OverWyreGrower]

Most of my mates seem to be bonkers about Time Travellers Wife and I've seen it crop up on here in a few posts as well.

Gonna have to add it to my Amazon wish list clearly.

My mum lent me this. Initially I found it quite hard going, but couldn't put it down in the end!

[bobleponge]

Books. I love books. If I could find a woman made from books I would mar....... ok maybe not but you get my drift.

What are you currently reading? Surviving Auschwitz. A Jewish guy who's job it was to chuck dead Jewish bodies into the incinerators. Strangely lacking in atmosphere for a book I thought would be really interesting.

What was the last thing you read? Pantani. I adore "le tour" so its a bittersweet read indeed, showing how the entire operation was riddled with drugs and corruption. Also "The last commandant" by Rudolf Hoess, who was the last man in charge of Auschwitz. Again another not very interesting book for someone who you would have thought would have a tale to tell.

What do you plan to read next? Have brought America's secret war, by George Friedman with me for this trip. Looking for inspiration on this thread but you seem to be predominantly fiction readers, and I just cant read the stuff.

What is your recommended read? 2 books I would urge anyone to read: Papillon by Henri Charriere. That a single book could change the entire French penal system in less than 5 years says a lot. Endurance by Caroline Alexander. Ernest Shackleton?? My hero. The trip across glacial South Georgia after almost a year stuck in the ice is an epic.

[dandy]

Just read the Darwath trilogy by Barbara Hambly - love her stuff. She also wrote the Dragonsbane books and the Sunwolf/Starhawk books.

[Rhona]

Like everyone else, can barely think of just one or two, but to have a stab at it;

Reading now; Donna Tartt - The Secret History. I read it a few years ago but very happy to reread. Sophie Kinsella - Shopaholic And Baby. (yes, well. I love a bit of Sophie Kinsella in amongst the highbrow stuff and at least I'm honest!)

Last book I read; Kazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans. Ishiguro is my favourite modern author (though I may be the only person on the planet who loved The Unconsoled). And a bit of poetry - love Garcia Lorca.

Read next? No idea. Tried The time Traveller's Wife and couldn't get to love it. It will probably be That's Not My Fairy when baby girl wakes up tomorrow morning though!

Would Recommend? Life Of Pi, Madame Bovary, Touching The Void (see bobleponge...not all fiction!), The Remains of The Day (more delicate than the film).


Probably lots more!