The Bicycle Book - Bella Bathurst

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/000730588...SIN=0007305885

Best-written thing I've read in ages. I don't read much non-fiction but am loving this.

A Room Swept White by Sophie Hannah. I haven't heard very good reviews about this but I have enjoyed her other books so thought I'sd give it a go.

still on "Fairacre Affairs" by Miss Read...delightful. I love her books

Tess Gerritsen - The Bone Garden. I'm halfway through and totally gripped!

Currently reading When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (sometimes I get the feeling that Cathy H of Never Let Me Go is narrating to me, but that's only fleetingly and maybe self-induced). Also reading The Invisible Man by HG Wells.

I enjoyed it, but I like all her books.

Finished The Guns Of Navarone. wasn't expecting to like it but i have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is what it is, it's not going to change your life but it's a thundering good read. An echo of a more innocent age.

Now onto Albert Camus - The Outsider - very quick read but very interesting so far.

The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson.

I think I must be the only person on the planet, yet to read the Millennium Trilogy.

Feeling somewhat hungover yesterday though and in the mood for something a little lighter, I downloaded The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl by Belle Du Jour and started reading that too.

I never read more than one book at a time before I got the Kindle, but now I usually have two on the go depending on my mood!

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill.

This book will 'haunt you and startle you and stay with you, and yes, visit you in your dreams'.

We shall see.

Currently reading "Burn, baby Burn" by Jake Barton...so far so good.

You're not the only one. I've yet to read the trilogy, also. Is it good so far?

Not too sure what I think about it at the moment.

A fair chunk of the politics and economics in the first chapter went over my head a little bit, but I'm perservering as a lot of people on this forum have said that it really gets going after the first hundred pages.

I'll keep you posted!

Currently reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and loving it, about 450 pages in. It's a brick though!

I've just started reading The Hobbit,i'm not familiar with the story.I hope i stick with it as i tried to read LOTR The Fellowship Of The Ring before the movie was released in the cinema but i struggled with it.Depending how i get on with The Hobbit i may give the Fellowship another look.

The Hobbit is much easier going than TLOTR,but both are well worth reading

Everything And Nothing by Araminta Hall, it's very good.

Cupboards were sticky from spilt jam and honey, and the oven smoked when you turned it on because of the fat that had built up over the years. Agatha would never, ever let her future home end up like this. She would never leave it every day like Ruth did. She would never put her trust in strangers.

Ruth and Christian are – just – holding their marriage together, after Christian's disastrous affair a year ago. But chaos beckons, and when the family are suddenly left without any childcare, Agatha comes into their lives to solve all their problems. But Agatha is not as perfect as she seems and her love for the children masks a deeper secret.

Everything and Nothing is a stunningly assured debut, superbly evoking an atmosphere of inexorable and sinister menace that builds to a mesmerising climax in a story that is, at its heart, about thwarted and damaged love.

"Belle" by Lesley Pearse. Bought it yesterday and read five chapters in bed last night. Gripping so far.

Before that I read "The Postmistress". I wasn't that gone on it. Thought it was a bit too cliched and contrived.

Finished The Outsider which I thought was excellent.

No onto The Book Thief - 50 pagers in, not really doing much for me yet.

William Faulkner - Sanctuary

I'm reading 'IT' by Stephen King at the moment. I've really got into Stephen King lately but I am a complete wimp and am currently afraid of being in the bathroom on my own

Angling Times

Alongside When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro, I've now started Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Even though I like the Firth and Ehle TV adaptation and the latest of the films (Knightley, Sutherland, etc), I've never got round to reading this classic. So far it's proving endearing. Better late than never.

i love Pride and Prejudice, love it, love it. I loved the Firth and Ehle Tv version but hated the Knightly film version, one scene in particular, when Mr darcy is seen walking accross what looks like a misty moor, Its P&P not Wuthering heights lol. I just can't watch it. Makes me want to throw a pillow at the screen. Great bloody book. Hope you enjoy.

Well, the film is shorter and has to make more compromises than the BBC six hour adaptation, so I tend to view them as different beasts, appreciating both on their own merits and flaws. I prefer the BBC adaptation, but am fine with the 2005 film.

The thing that surprises me is why I have left it so late to actually get down to reading the novel, seeing that I quite like this type of thing. I've had it on my "to do" list for years, but other books have jumped ahead in the queue. Let's hope I kick myself.

''The Pillars Of The Earth'' by Ken Follett. It's gripping and I'm enjoying it, but there is some violence in it, which is probably normal for the 12th century.