What will you be reading next?

[Amber]

Awesome Chimney! I hope you are enjoying the artwork too. :)

[Amber]

I'm not sure what I will be reading next but right now I'm between two books the hunger games first One and im also reading tori spellings new book anyone have any books they think I will like

[Tracey]

Next for me is a toss up between The Winter Ghost by Kate Mosse and Who on Earth is Tom Baker autobiography?

[Athina]

For the first time in a long time I have absolutely no idea what to read next...

-the curse of having just finished a really great book that sets your expectations up on the clouds-

[Leslie]

Ath wrote: "For the first time in a long time I have absolutely no idea what to read next...

-the curse of having just finished a really great book that sets your expectations up on the clouds-"

Do you want suggestions? And if so, maybe indicate what type of book you feel in the mood for...

I have a fairly long list of what I wanted to read in January, so I know that I will be reading next - a play (either Travesties by our winter playwright Tom Stoppard or a Shakespeare play) and then a Barsetshire novel by Angela Thirkell...

[Leslie]

Tracey wrote: "Next for me is a toss up between The Winter Ghost by Kate Mosse and Who on Earth is Tom Baker autobiography?"

Tracey, I must have overlooked this when you posted it but I am a Tom Baker fan, so that title made me smile (Who on Earth is Tom Baker)!

[Athina]

Leslie wrote: Do you want suggestions? And if so, maybe indicate what type of book you feel in the mood for... "

Sure, suggestions are always welcome! Right now I'm looking for something that doesn't demand too much energy or effort to read but that is nevertheless worth reading. Very vague, I know but that's the definition of I-don't-know-what-to-read-next mood...

[Leslie]

Ath wrote: "Leslie wrote: Do you want suggestions? And if so, maybe indicate what type of book you feel in the mood for... "

Sure, suggestions are always welcome! Right now I'm looking for something that does..."

I looked over your shelves & it looks like I am not the person to make recommendations for you as we have very little overlap. However I did see So You Want to Be a Wizard on your to-read shelf - sounds like it might fit the bill? Or, since you liked Isabel Allende, maybe a Louis de Bernières book?

[Amber]

I just finished un lun dun so will finish a dozen black roses and will find my next ya book for kid zone reviews soon.

[Clare]

Next I plan to read The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton and then some Ernest Hemmingway but I can't remember which books of his I have here in London!

[LauraT]

Clare wrote: "Next I plan to read The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton and then some Ernest Hemmingway but I can't remember which books of his I have here in London!"

The Luminaries it's on my TBR list .. after I've finished moving!!!!

[Clare]

I got it for Christmas Laura, really looking forward to it. Will be interested to see what you think of it also.

[Tracey]

I just collected this from the library and intend on reading it over the weekend
Snow Country

[Christine]

Stormdancer
Me Before You
The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

[Dhanaraj]

Tracey wrote: "I just collected this from the library and intend on reading it over the weekend
Snow Country"

I love Kawabata's writings. Hope, you find it very interesting...

[Laurel]

Next one will probably be Iron Council by China Mieville which I'm very much looking forward to as I LOVED the first two books he wrote in the Bas-Lag series (Perdido Street Station and The Scar

[Pink]

Men at Arms next for me. Today I finished off Robinson Crusoe, then read a Manga and YA book (which I abandoned) tomorrow it's back to my favourite type of book, with some Waugh!

[Jenny]

Laurel wrote: "Next one will probably be Iron Council by China Mieville which I'm very much looking forward to as I LOVED the first two books he wrote in the Bas-Lag series


Laurel, I've been eyeing Embassytown by him for quite a while now, did you read it?

[Laurel]

I haven't got to that one yet but as I've enjoyed everything of his that I have read so far I will definitely be checking it out at some point and am pretty confident it will be good.

[Shirley]

I'm about to start reading The Twelve by Justin Cronin. I read The Passage about two or three years ago so it's about time I read the next book of the trilogy!!

[Erica]

I've been travelling around Europe for the last 5 weeks. Visited Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp near Berlin two days ago and I picked up the book Night by Ellie Weisl so will start reading that on the flight home.

[Jenny]

Which places apart from Berlin and Sachsenhausen have you been Erica?
I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau a few years ago while being in Poland. I hadn't slept all night since it was a red-eye flight and went there feeling very fragile already, which might not be the best state to be in when visiting a concentration camp. Horrifying. Would be interested in hearing your thoughts once you've finished 'Night'!

[Erica]

I went to Ireland (Belfast, Newry, Derry, Donegal and Dublin) and the Uk (Edinburgh and London), then Amsterdam and Bruges. Lots of beautiful old sights so liking forward to finding some books set in these places as well to get stuck in to.

[LauraT]

Jenny wrote: "Which places apart from Berlin and Sachsenhausen have you been Erica?
I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau a few years ago while being in Poland. I hadn't slept all night since it was a red-eye flight and..."

My mom visited that camp just a couple of years before dieying and said it's a place too see before you die...

[Caolán]

Shirley wrote: "I'm about to start reading The Twelve by Justin Cronin. I read The Passage about two or three years ago so it's about time I read the next book of the trilogy!!"

Same here - I remember reading 'The Passage' when it came out, and then I never heard of the series again. I wasn't even aware that the next one was published.

[Shirley]

Caolán wrote: "Shirley wrote: "I'm about to start reading The Twelve by Justin Cronin. I read The Passage about two or three years ago so it's about time I read the next book of the..."

Yes, and apparently a third is being written.

[Gemma]

I'm going to read The Snow Flower & The Secret Fan. This will fall part of my continent challenge for Asia.

[Shirley]

Gemma wrote: "I'm going to read The Snow Flower & The Secret Fan. This will fall part of my continent challenge for Asia."

Oh I absolutely loved that book, Gemma! Parts of it were hard to read, but the story is wonderful.

[Leslie]

Gemma wrote: "I'm going to read The Snow Flower & The Secret Fan. This will fall part of my continent challenge for Asia."

Good choice!

I am not sure what to read next - either The Prime Minister by Trollope (since I am still working on the Palliser series challenge from last year!) or Vile Bodies by Waugh (as part of my 2014 category challenge)... although I really should be looking for books for my Around the World challenge too!

[Tracey]

Yiphee now Inkheart is finished I have either Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing or The Time Machine by HG Wells. hmmm decisions decisions.

[Anastasia]

I'm going to start Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family, ...wish me luck!

[LauraT]

Anastasia wrote: "I'm going to start Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family, ...wish me luck!"

A really beautiful book Anastasia!!!! You won't regret it!

[John]

When I've finished The Pickwick Papers, I've decided to read eleven old favourites quickly in February before turning to some new authors and some classic ones:

The old'uns, all from 1953-63 are:

A Summer Bird-Cage by Margaret Drabble
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
The Humbler Creation by Pamela Hansford Johnson
Under The Net by Iris Murdoch
The Great Fortune by Olivia Manning
The Picnic at Sakkara by P H Newby
The Man Who Won The Pools by J I M Stewart (aka Michael Innes)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Mr Pye by Mervyn Peake

Happy reading hours ahead during this wretched wet weather here in England's Peak Districk.

Hope these give some ideas to others!

[Dhanaraj]

About to start Rebecca.

[Tracey]

John you just gave me 11 new books to add to my tbr mountain !! :)

[Tracey]

Dhanaraj hope you enjoy Rebecca.

[Dhanaraj]

Tracey wrote: "Dhanaraj hope you enjoy Rebecca."

Having received many good reviews and many of my friends having great love for it, I think Rebecca will surely be an interesting read.

[John]

Tracey - that's the trouble, so much to read! Each Goodreads thread throws up new tbr all the time, doesn't it? Just today Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks has been mentioned - it's been in the loft for years waiting to be read, and I'd forgotten about it until now! On the tbr it goes.

[LauraT]

Dhanaraj wrote: "Tracey wrote: "Dhanaraj hope you enjoy Rebecca."

Having received many good reviews and many of my friends having great love for it, I think Rebecca will surely be an interesting read."

Great book

[Charbel]

Let us know how you find Rebecca.

[Dhanaraj]

Charbel, I will surely let you all know of my impressions of Rebecca.

[Tracey]

My next book will be my recommendation swap from Shirley which is .. The girl you left behind by Jojo Moyes. I haven't read anything by this author before and I am really looking forward to it. should be starting it this week. :)

[Leslie]

My next books will be Middlemarch and Knots and Crosses. Probably the Ian Rankin first as I don't want to start the Eliot until I finish my Trollope...

[Marian]

I'm going to be rereading Jean Rhys' 'Good morning, midnight' and Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs Dalloway' . Two books that I've recently fallen in love with, and choosing to write a paper on!