What are you reading now?

Just updating our reading list. What has everyone been reading lately?

I just finished rereading The Book of Lost Things, one of my all-time favorite books. Now I'm going back to The Magic Lands and soon starting Crocodile on the Sandbank.

Interesting - I've got a bookring going for The Magic Lands at the moment although I didn't read it myself as it looked too violent (I'm really really pathetic with violence) I'm reading This Little World by Francis Brett Young at the moment, whcih is a marvellous evocation of the inter-war changes in a small sleepy Midlands village.

You know the author of Magic Lands is an LT author. If you don't like violence, I wouldn't recommend Book of Lost Things, but it is a really great story! It is violent in the Grimms fairy tales sort of way.

I started Crocodile on the Sandbank last night and it is hilarious! I love it! Yet another great book I heard about through LT.

Yes, the reason I have a copy is that I recommended he got in touch with his local BookCrossers to help promote it and ended up hosting a BookRay myself...

I just started in on How to Read a Book which is one of my favorite books of all time!

That sounds like a fun book, Tyro.

Today I started reading Chasing Vermeer. I might still finish it tonight, but it is getting a little late. Other books are more or less on hold right now pending more free time.

How to Read a Book is not a real gripping page-turner, but yes, it is well worth a periodic re-visit. It's a must for any serious student. I should read it again too!

I just finished the dark, sometimes funny, Booker Prize winning The White Tiger.

Just finished a Persephone Book, A House In The Country which is quite a dark examination of why we go to war, written in 1944.

I've read The Black Book of Secrets (liked it a lot), Marked (so-so, I won't buy it, but might read the rest of the series), The Dragon of Trelian (my February Early Reviewer book which I loved), and reread Night of the Soul Stealer. I'm on spring break this week which is perfect for extra reading time!

As I said in the other thread, In Tearing Haste plus just finished Gifted.

Well, spring break is over, which has curbed my reading this week. I reread Twilight (yes, everyone snicker) this week and have started rereading Harry Potter and the Sourcerer's Stone.

(There seem to be some touchstone issues)

The CR Way by Paul Mcglothin. Interesting notion about restricting calories per day to live healthier and much longer. Apparently done with lab animals since 1930 and is now the gold standard in labs to compare to if you want to make a claim that something makes you live longer. I'll tell you when I'm 120 yrs. old if I believe it .

I'm reading Griff Rhys Jones' autobiography after a wonderful stint with the Andrew Marr history of journalism. I would read the phone book if he wrote it - fantastic. And, I believe, a runner!

Once, that sounds interesting. Though I think I'd rather have cookies than an extra-long lifespan. ;)

I'm reading Midnight is a Place and Holocaust Diaries by Nonna Bannister from LT's ER program.

I hear you Lefty.
I can consume chips, chocolate, and cookies, etc like they were going out of style. I am definately a binge eater. I can be "good" all day and then eat 1/2 of a pineapple upside down cake for evening snack. 1,500 calories all day followed by 1,500 more calories of cake. What's that word??? Oh yeah, moderation.

lol -- yes, moderation is hard for me too! There is just too much good food in the world.

Lately I've been reading Half-Blood Prince again (movie this summer!) and The History of Now which is very different from my usual reading habits, but I am enjoying it. I finished Secret Holocaust Diaries, which was good but introduced a host of new horrors of the holocaust I had not known before. I've never read anything from the Russian side. They were crazy in many ways the Germans were plus a few of their own tricks.

I'm reading The Forgotten Garden which is quite* good, in a Rosamund Pilchery, slightly guilty way, and When The Lights Went Out Britain in the Seventies which is brilliant.

* that's "quite" as in the English meaning (a bit) rather than the American (very, as I understand it)

You are quite (American) right about the word "quite", Lyzzy! I never knew the word had different meanings. Thank you for yet another culture lesson! :)

Ooh I had difficulties with that one when I was in a relationship with an American. "You're looking quite pretty" "Gee, thanks!"

lol! Yes, I can see how that could be a problem!

I'm currently reading Ulysses, and am up to about episode 11. I haven't a clue as to what year I'll finish it. 'A literary marathon.

So I'm still rereading Half-Blood Prince but have also started Harry, A History (really fun for a HP fan to read!) and Fingersmith (which is really keeping me on my toes -- very engaging).

I finished Ulysses, knocked out Falling Man and am know onto that unbelievably poignant and disturbing peace movement classic, Johnny Got His Gun.

I'm reading The Mitford Sisters' Letters and Aneurin Bevan by Michael Foot so I'm having a good old mid-20th century time at the moment! Both excellent. Oh, and a silly cosy mystery for on the bus as the other two are a bit large, Murder on a Bad Hair Day

I've started Midnight for Charlie Bone because curiosity finally got the best of me. It's actually better than I thought it would be. I'm also reading Dragonspell.

I finished my Half-Blood Prince reread -- just a few weeks before the movie comes out! :) I've also finished Harry, A History, which was a fun read for a Harry Potter geek like me, and Fingersmith, which was different than a lot of my normal reads but good.

Well, I'm still on some kind of anti-war bender. After Johnny Got His Gun I'm now reading Catch 22. Compared to the former, I'm finding the latter merely zany.

I'm reading Murakami's What I talk about when I talk about running and it's excellent so far. A book about running for non-runners, really, but I'm getting a lot out of it.

So not a huge fan of either Midnight for Charlie Bone or Dragonspell. Neither has engaging characters, which is my favorite part of any book.

Now I'm mostly reading The Neverending Story (which I am loving) and The Witch Family (just okay).

I'm reading Far Forest by Francis Brett Young which is a Hardyesque novel set in the turn of the 19th/20th century Midlands; managed to get it down from a few at the same time to that one and time to start a new one for commute/lunch...

This past week or so I started reading the Sherlock Holmes stories. I am absolutely entranced. They quickly became a leading favorite. Why did I not read these sooner!? I've read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, Hound of the Baskervilles, and I am currently reading The Sign of Four. After the first couple of stories I realized I was quickly becoming obsessed and have picked up one story after another since.

I am a very happy reader right now. :)

I'm reading a really big biography of Edward Heath which is good but exhaustive and a bit exhausting, and Stuart Maconie's Adventures on the High Teas which is a lovely book about "Middle England" (in temperament and geography), gentle but funny, in fact laugh-out-loud funny at times.

I remember reading all the Sherlock Holmes as a teenager. You know how you like to read ALL of something at that age? Really good reads for any age though!

I just finished reading Knit Two by kate Jacobs. Currently listening to The Shack.

what is that about?

Finishing up The Year of Living Biblically, I haven't ever read the bible so it is entertaining and educational at the same time.

Next is Stones into School's by Mortenson.

Ooh I've got the Year of Living Biblically on my TBR shelf, should get to it in a few weeks. I've liked his one about reading the encyclopedia and think it looks good.

Hey, how's this for topical! I'm finally reading Born to Run.

How are you liking it, Sandy?

Lately I'm rereading Order of the Phoenix. Also reading Voyager, book 3 of the Outlander series. Kind of a fluffy read, but fun!

So far so good. It does make one want to shed their shoes. But my PT howls that my leg has so many congenital malformations that my patella would probably fly off and roll down into a sewer...

lol, that is quite the mental picture! Keep your patella on your knee, please! :)

'Recently finished that cult classic Once a Runner. I can see that it would be an ok read for a not-so mature high school age male in the late 70s, but I think it is no longer worth the time.