What are you reading in 2015?

[Jason]

aaaaah yes my time as a sexiest pig. Good times!

[Jo]

Did you want to use a spell check on that comment J?

[Jason]

Nope. Haha. I am super sexy in a rolling-about-in-my-own-filth kind of way.

[Paul]

Just stared Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field, the winner of the Wainwright prize, http://wainwrightprize.com/2015shortl...

[Jackie]

I'm now reading Columbine by Dave Cullen.

[Jan]

Jackie wrote: "It's a group called Psychological Thrillers (I think). Honestly, that was all I asked "please can I opt out of the daily emails" and she said "I'll fix it" and booted me out. Lol. Talk about a li..."

I'm with you, Jackie. The Handmaid's Tale didn't do anything for me.

[Paul]

Hoping to read these this week:

The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives
Down To The Sea In Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

[Sophie]

I've just finished (2*) and have just started for something completely different. I like to balance out romance books for horror/thrillers and vice versa so I've gone from cheesy romance to zombies! lol

[Jackie]

I liked it in the end Jan. The second half was v good but it just took me until then to get into it really.

[Tytti]

I've been reading parts of "Beria's Gardens" (after Lavrentiy Beria) that I bought yesterday. (I don't really like to read non-ficion books of that kind from cover to cover.) There are some interesting anectodotes there...

One man had been a party secretary who organize the visit for a group of Englishmen. They visited two kolkhozes and admired fine mirrors in both of them. Unluckily for the man one of them had drew his initials in the dust, and they noticed it was the same mirror. The sentence: five years of forced labour.

Another man had been sentenced for antirevolutionary propaganda. Only problem with that was that he was blind, deaf and mute... There are also stories on how to cheat in the work load and still get enough food in order to live, maybe, and some stories about the lives of ordinary Russians, like how people in towns admire all the new equipment but how on the countryside the work is still done mainly by hand, and some information of the situation of minorities. And remember this came out in 1957, so it has similar stuff than Gulag Archipelago, just 16 years earlier.

[Johanna]

So far I've read 19 books, six of which I loved: Cloudstreet, Disgrace, The Moon and Sixpence, The Book of Night Women, The Goldfinch and The Orenda. Also, two difficult but truly worthwhile reads were The Sound and the Fury and Crime and Punishment.

[Jackie]

I'm reading Started Early Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson.

[Saffron]

I have 6 books on my list of currently reading.

On the Road Which I have been half way through since January, I just can't bring myself to finish it but as I actually purchased the book I feel I have to.

Adrian Mole Cappuccino Years I keep this by my bed so when I am waiting for my Husband to get ready for bed I can read a couple if entries a night.

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity I am working though this for the second time, a really useful tool.

Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement

Freedom This is quite a tough one just down to lack of natural break, it needs a lot of attention but am getting through it slowly.

The Iliad Really need to crack on with this but keep getting distracted by other books.

[Jon]

Just started The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C Clarke. I buy books faster than I can read them and some of them have been sitting on my shelves for more than a few years. This is one of the more dusty ones

[Jackie]

I'm going to start Candlemoth by R.J. Ellory today.

[Joy]

Jackie wrote: "I'm reading Started Early Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson."

I enjoyed that one, though not quite as much as When Will There Be Good News?, which I think is my favourite Kate Atkinson.

[Joy]

Im reading The Valley of Amazement, which is absorbing.

[Jackie]

Joy, I think I'm bit of a Kate Atkinson groupie. I seem to enjoy all her books lol.

[Paul]

I have only read Life After Life by her, and whilst it was really nicely written, I was underwhelmed by the plot.

[Paul]

Just started Think Like a Freak. Great so far

[Jo]

Reading Kind Worth Killing. Been a couple of twists, interested to see how it plays out. Reasonable holiday fodder. Hoping for a Big Bang ending!

[Jan]

Been re-reading The Orchard Keeper, just to see if I can follow the story through all the incredible imagery.
Also reading The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek. He's almost as good as Thomas Sowell at making a complex subject graspable.

[Cindy]

I'm currently reading The Accidental Apprentice, written by Vikas Swarup, the author of Slumdog Millionaire. I was looking forward to it, since I enjoyed the movie (Slumdog Millionaire), but so far, I really don't like the author's style of writing. I'm hoping it gets better.

[Joy]

The Valley of Amazement is giving me mixed feelings. On the one hand I'm galloping through it, finding the characters convincing and the story compelling, but on the other hand, after 400 pages, I'm beginning to tire of things always turning out badly for the main character. If she meets someone who seems kind its a dead cert they're either going to betray her or die!

[Paul]

Just been working out what I have to read in June and it is 23 books! Better get cracking...

[Jan]

Reviewed Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan. Extraordinary blow by blow on the incredible complexity of the Paris Peace Talks after WWI. here

[Debbie]

Jan wrote: "Reviewed Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan. Extraordinary blow by blow on the incredible complexity of the Paris Peace Talks after WWI. here"

Oooh, I've just added that, I have her The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned Peace for the First World War for my dusty shelf xx

[Paul]

have these to read this week:

Sea Legs: One Family's Year on the Ocean
Tiny Stations: An Uncommon Odyssey Around Britain's Railway Request Stops
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

[Jackie]

Starting Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks today.

[Jan]

Debbie wrote: "Jan wrote: "Reviewed Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan. Extraordinary blow by blow on the incredible complexity of the Paris Peace Talks after WWI. here"

Oooh, I've just added that, I have her [boo..."
Oh, thanks for letting me know, Debbie. I'll have to get that one. She is thorough, not to mention a damn fine writer.

[Jan]

Well, I succeeded in creating a link; it just didn't link to the text...or anything else. I'm looking for a tutorial.

[Paul]

What type of link are you trying to make Jan?

[Jackie]

I'm reading The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian.

[Paul]

I now have the Bob Marley tune in my head Jackie!

[Jason]

Let me help you with that Paul.... Don Quixote.

[Jackie]

I like that song, Paul. I didn't have it in my head until you mentioned it lol.

[Paul]

Jason wrote: "Let me help you with that Paul.... Don Quixote."

That is one for Jo, Jason...

[Jason]

Oh dear, I hope she doesn't spot my post, don't want her angry with me again.

[Paul]

I sent her the link to the song but she didn't want to listen! Aiming to read these this week:

Robopocalypse
Descent
Britannia Obscura: Mapping Hidden Britain

[Jackie]

I'm now reading This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash. Really enjoyed A Land More Kind Than Home by him, so hope this one is as good!

[Faisal]

Invisible monsters, by chuck Palahniuk. His books never disappoint.

[Jo]

Reading Dissolution which is great so far, I just need a bit of reading time!

Listening to The Climb: The Autobiography which has got off to a great start, I am really interested in his early life and can't wait to hear about his cycling career too.

[Jo]

Jason wrote: "Oh dear, I hope she doesn't spot my post, don't want her angry with me again."

I can never be angry with you for long J, you know that, I'm a soft touch really.

[Paul]

Cannot believe that the climb wasn't already on my TBR. Thanks for the reminder Jo.

Descent is really good so far, it is a mash up of Close encounters of the third kind and 1984, with the dry Scottish humour all the way through

[Sam]

I'm struggling with Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, need some encouragement please.

[Jackie]

Going to start reading Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin.

[Sophie]

I've just started This House is Haunted by John Boyne. It's been a while since I've read a Victorian-style ghost story so am looking forward to (hopefully) getting the creeps tonight!

[Jackie]

I'll be starting The Convictions of John Delahunt by Andrew Hughes today.

[Paul]

currently reading The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Harrowing and grim, but beautifully written

[Pat]

It's fabulous isn't it Paul?