What are you reading today?

The weekly space to talk about the books you are reading and what you'd like to see covered on the site

Welcome to this week's blog. If you are visiting for the first time, TLS is a space where you can discuss authors, share interesting links to other bits and pieces you've found on your travels around the web, and talk about the books you're reading.

If you'd prefer to show us what you are reading, you can do that too by uploading a snap of the cover to our Flickr group, like mjeshenton, who is responsible for the picture at the top of the blog. Thanks mjeshenton and hope you had a good, uneventful flight.

Here's a roundup of what you were reading last week and what you thought of your choices.

ISWilton:

I've just finished a super novel about the poet Edward Thomas. It's called 'A Conscious Englishman' by Margaret Keeping. It deals with the last few years of his life - when he's attempting to write poetry for the first time, and his friendship with Robert Frost. But what I really love about this novel is that it is also very much about his relationship with his wife Helen. Part of the narrative is in her voice and this really works well.

monkeyman57:

I'm re-reading a book I finished not long ago: 'Keep it Dark' by Will Jonson. Best thing I've read this century, but hardly anyone else has heard of it & I've seen no publicity at all.

DanHolloway:

I've also been involved in drawing up an alternative to Granta's Best Young British Writers list, which has been very interesting and raised lots of fascinating questions. (My list is here - I would wholeheartedly commend all the writers on it to everyone here.

writersden:

Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian." The first time I read it I thought of it as a "Western," but after recently rereading the book of Genesis I decided to see if I could get a bit deeper with it. It's like reading a totally different book. The wandering in the desert, humanity at its most primitive, the constant confrontation with a nature that is pitiless and overwhelming...incredibly powerful.

Here's the list of books we'll be reviewing over the coming week, subject to last-minute changes, of course.

Non-fiction

• The Story of Music by Howard Goodall
• The God Argument by AC Grayling
• The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
• Noise by David Hendy
• Vow by Wendy Plump
• British Writers and MI5 Surveillance by James Smith

Fiction

• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
• Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
• The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
• Lenin's Kisses by Yan Lianke
• Motherland by William Nicholson
• The Secret of Death by Andrew Taylor

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