When God Was A Rabbit - Sarah Winman

I must admit that now I'm halfway through it I'm completely forgetting it's a kids book - I'm loving it

The Song of the Quarkbeast is definitely next..

Currently reading Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer. It's YA fiction, but I'm absolutely hooked. Read it for 3 hours solid last night.

The Brass Verdict - Michael Connelly

One of the best books I read last year!

Outpost by Adam Baker - a slightly different take on the "end of the world" type story. Very pacey and gripping so far.

Richard, by Ben Myers. It's a fictionalised version of the last known days of Richey Edwards (of the Manic Street Preachers- even though much of their recorded output recently has been arse, The Holy Bible is one of my all-time favourite records, and at the time I was in a pretty bad place myself and identified with his shit quite a lot, so I had to check it out, really). Much in the vein of David Peace's The Damned United, I guess, and to start with it kind of annoyed me how much Myers was so obviously trying to write like Peace... but it kinda works, and he does it well, and Peace is such an awesome writer you can't really blame anyone for being inspired (I'm probably just cross because I've tried writing like Peace and it just hasn't worked. Myers is better at it than me- trufax).

There's still something weird about writing a book about the guy in the first person, and I wonder how his family/friends/bandmates feel about it- it's written with empathy and compassion, though, and it's not to my mind needlessly offensive.

All that said, though, I'm gripped, and fascinated, and it's a really, really good book. As much for the brilliantly chaotic flashback scenes about the band as for the intimate, measured internal monologue that forms the book's backbone.

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Yeah, I'm enjoying it, but there seems to be a lot of ermm waffle but I am almost finished, saying that I actually started reading it about 3 years ago, got half way through then I didn't read anything until a few months ago when the reading bug came back, which is why my resolution is to read every day, even if it's just a paragraph

Game of Thrones.

I read that last year and really liked it. I actually found it quite...creepy because I could imagine it and actually looked out to make sure the moon was normal

Siege - Simon Kernick, very good so far!

I want to read that, I find his books a bit hit and miss though.

Loved that book, think I may re read it

I do recommend it so far I've read all of his books and enjoyed the majority of them apart from The Payback which I was a little disappointed with.

I've just started to read The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins.

After a very slow start it gathered a bit of pace & ended up being a pretty good read.

I've been to Asda and come across the new 30th anniversary rerelease of the diaries of adrian mole aged 13 3/4 - reading it for the hundredth time, but the first in maybe 10 years!

Mark Steel's In Town - Mark Steel

I did too. Bit cloudy though!!

I've read the 2nd book in the trilogy, The Dead and The Gone which I also really enjoyed and now on book 3, This World We Live In. It does seem to be getting bleaker though!!

A Feast For Crows- George RR Martin

I have just started re-reading all the Harry Potter books. Enjoying them much more than I remember.

Glad it wasn't just me!
Oo I didn't realise there were sequels! Need to add them to my list now.

Finished Simon Hoggart's Send in the Clowns - a collection of his parliamentary sketches. Adds colour to the House of Commons's debates.

Jemima J by Jane Green

For those that are interested, "Before I Go To Sleep" and "Into The Darkest Corner" are amongst the books that are going to be reviewed on More 4's Book Club (Sunday evenings)