Finished 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' - like The Catcher in the Rye but less annoying.

Now reading 'Juliet Immortal' - which isn't officially out until August so I'm going to crack on and read it to feel special

reading the first book of Neal Stephensons baroque cycle, Quicksilver on ebook its the type of book ereaders are made for.

I'm reading Robin Hobb's "Fool's Fate", the last of the Tawny Man Trilogy which followed on from the Farseer Trilogy. She writes a very good book! Luckily, I still have a fair few of hers to get through!

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

Brilliant book. I'm currently reading the penultimate Harry Potter book. Hadn't read any of them but started them about 4 weeks ago and have read them back to back. Don't quite understand the hype but I'm quite enjoying them.

Thanks. I'm over half way throught Out now, and will be getting her others. I've not read much set in Japan, so it has been interesting in that sense, along with the main storyline.

About 3/4 of the way through Game of Thrones at the moment - absolutely loving it! Can't wait to start book 2 so that the whole story is new, rather than trying to think back to a certain point in the TV show.

Also started listening to the Harry Potter books on my mp3 player - never tried audiobooks before but so far really enjoying it - great for working out to in the mornings, especially as the chapter lengths time how long I need to be working out for

The Understudy by David Nicholls.

Loved all of those and the Soldier Son trilogy. Haven't read the Rainwild Chronicles yet though.

I'm reading the second book of a trilogy - Harry Potter fanfic . It's VERY good.

I've got the Liveship Traders trilogy lined up and the first of the Rainwild Chronicles. Should keep me happy and quiet for a while

Janice YK Lee - The Piano Teacher

Currently reading The Kindest Thing by Cath Staincliffe.

It's about a woman who helps her terminally ill husband to die, then ends up charged with his murder. Really good so far.

A Game of thrones - George R.R Martin

RD Wingfield- Winter Frost

Sepulchre by Kate Mosse

The Foucalt Reader.

http://books.google.com/books/about/...d=BMjfAAAAMAAJ

..... I wasn;t previously aware that he'd dealt with psychiatry, thus anticipating R D Laing & Thomas Szasz.

The Morbid Age. Richard Overy

..... and the Welfare State ...... brought into being under Clem Attlee's government ..... was the reward to the British People for fighting it! Now being dismantled, just as exactly those same people need it ........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement...elfare_reforms

....... the long 1930s depression only ended - in UK and USA - as both countries geared up for a wartime economy (USA by proxy at first, under FDR) ........ a very different reality than the neocon ecomomics now peddled as "truth" .......

Somebody's Husband Somebody's Son: The Story of Peter Sutcliffe by Gordon Burn - Burn spent 3 years in Bingley (Sutcliffe's home town) researching his life. It's a tremendously interesting read.

I've finished 'Juliet Immortal' today. It was quite good, surprisingly so. Based on the premise that Romeo killed Juliet to gain immortality but he joined the dark side and she joined the light side. They now inhabit other bodies to meddle with soulmates: Juliet wants them together, Romeo tries to convince them to kill each other. It sounds very odd but was quite enjoyable - a little like The Host by Stephanie Meyer if anyone has read that (a far better tale than her Twilight series!)

Finished The Book of Human Skin this morning and absolutely hated it.

Then I watched the TV book club and they all loved it. I turned it off in a huff.

lol - I saw that. They couldn't praise it enough. I'm tempted to read it. What was it about the book you disliked Kay?

The heroine! She was so unrealistic and one-dimensional, just could not root for her at all!

I think the main reason I'm so annoyed is that I really liked it for the first 200 pages or so but then it got quite bad. I even said to my mother when I was half-way through that I was really loving it so I hoped that the ending didn't ruin it.

There is also one egregious plot device that I couldn't tell you without ruining the book.

As for the TV book club, I found it weird that they described it as a mystery, because there was no mystery element to the plot at all as far as I can remember.
Also they said something about not being able to guess how the nun would come into the story and it tells you in the first few pages that Marcella becomes a nun so it doesn't take a genius to work out how she comes into the story.


Sorry I wrote an essay. Hope it was helpful anyway.

Thanks fort that. It was interesting hearing a different perspective

I've got lots to read at the moment, so it wasn't a priority. It just sounded like quite an unusual book. The non-celeb book club seemed less enthusiastic didn't they?

I'm currently reading a travel book by Danny Bent. You've gone too far this time sir is a true account about a primary school teacher who decides to travel across Europe and Asia on a bicycle. So far it is a good read and makes me want to see more of the world.