What Are You Reading?

[bobleponge]

Just started re-reading (for about the seventh time) "Touching The Void" by Joe Simpson. Incredible story.

I met Joe Simpson a few times, he was a family friend of a mate of mine. Nice guy, and as he says in the book it was totally the right decision to make.

Its very very rare that I re-read a book, but was feeling a bit down after coming back home and seeing the state of my garden after 7 weeks, so pulled out French Revolutions, by Tim Moore. If you can read this without laughing then you're clinically dead.

[janeyo]

I am reading Young Wives Tales - Adele Parks. Light and funny and right up my alley.

[BumbleB]

I have a long train journey soon and have been searching for a suitable read.

Has anyone read 'A fraction of the whole' by Steve Toltz as this has been highly recommended ?

[SarzWix]

I've just been given a Kathy Reichs book by my friend, she loves them but I'm finding it hard going and a bit too gruesome - a bit CSI-ish, but when it's on the telly you can look away for the grim bits whereas in a book you have to read it really to know what's going on. I'm about a third of the way through it, and I'm not sure if I'll finish it...

[vikkib]

I have a long train journey soon and have been searching for a suitable read.

Has anyone read 'A fraction of the whole' by Steve Toltz as this has been highly recommended ?

I haven't read this yet but a friend recommended it to me the other day too. Does sound good! Might have to add it to the Amazon basket!

I finished 'Notes From An Exhibition' by Patrick Gale. I really enjoyed the story but felt a little bit disappointed at the end... not that kind of satisfied disappointed you get sometimes when you finish a really good book and are going to miss reading it. I just didn't feel it concluded in the way I expected it to, too many loose ends! I think that was the point, it was just several strands of stories from various members of a fairly disparate family but it means that since finishing it I keep thinking 'Oh, what happened to so and so'.

Haven't done a charity shop trek for a couple of weeks so I'm running a little light on choices for my next read!