Finished a 60ish page novella the other day....The Lifted Veil by George Eliot....a gothic/crime European tourist's lightness of being account of the not so grown up life. Though short you may struggle early on.

Just starting Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde .... I definitely like the short ones

So who was shorter? Jekyll or Hyde? But weren't they ....

Hyde was shorter because he was always hunched over... They didn't look the same at all, oddly!

Just re-read Karen Chance's two Dorina Basarab books. Amazing!

Wendy by Karen Wallace

Alison Weir's Lancaster and York - the War of the Roses. Up to a young Henry VI so far and not a flower in sight. Swiz.

Don't Tell, by Elizabeth Chandler.

I don't seem to have anything to read anymore! I just finished Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz, and I can't find anything to read...I believe a trip to the British Heart Foundation shop is in order!

You are feeling alright? You'll be looking for a book by I.Keele-Dover next!

Oh gosh, that didn't even register, I had to read that quite a few times! Nahh, it's a bit of a tradition, I always buy books from the charity shop, they're always in near-perfect condition, they're much cheaper (plus the money goes to charity too!) and I tend to give them back to the shop afterwards so they can be resold my mam always says it's pretty much like a library book situation, only I don't have to feel terribly guilty if I lose them!
I did like the I.Keele-Dover comment though!

Richelle Mead's 'Georgina Kincaid' series.

I'm about half way through George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four at the moment. I'd been meaning to read it for years, but never seemed to get around to actually doing it.

I seem to be having "reader's block" at the moment

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, a Booker Nominee from last year. One of the best Ive read for a while

The Olive Tree: A personal journey through Mediterranean olive groves by Carol Drinkwater
Natural Stain Remover: Clean your home without harmful chemicals by Angela Martin

Just started re-reading Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton! Haven't read it in ages, but I remember the book being very different to the film.

Me too, Panthera! I keep picking up books that I adore, reading the first few chapters, forgetting I've started it, then starting another book! Most annoying...

Northanger Abbey .... it's so funny

Snap!
Pleasurably creepy story and very well written.

Yes!! One of my all-time favourite books, along with Pride and Prejudice.

I've just started Narrow Dog to Carcassonne by Terry Darlington. Very deadpan and laugh-out-loud funny.

Halfway through a book about Mozart that I got from the charity shop. I cant remember who it's by and I'm too lazy to run upstairs and have a look.

Re-reading Sabriel by Garth Nix (for the hundredth time! I love Garth Nix).

Lang Lang - Journey of a thousand miles and the Pianists Problems by William Newman.
After that I have a stack of Peter Robinson Inspector Banks to get through. I will be reading them in the order that they were written. My head can't take it if I read a 'series' out of synch.

"Am I too loud?"

Gerald Moore's memoires as an accompanist.

An excellent book, full of insight and wisdom.

I'm reading "This is your brain on music" by Daniel Levitin. It's quite densely written, but I'm finding it fascinating.

I just read The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. I liked it, it was interesting, if a bit predictable, but I disliked the ending, which seemed to dwell on mortality, loss and the inevitability of death in a way that was trying to be profound, but didn't really have anything new to say.

Then I read two pages into an interview with the author, that was in the back, but I got to the answer which implied that anyone who didn't like the ending wasn't sufficiently intellectual to appreciate its themes, and I got irritated.

Actually though, it is worth a read, especially if you like Fairy Tales, and don't want to have to think too much.

Grass For His Pillow, by Lian Hearn.

Soldiers in the Laboratory: Military involvement in science and technology - and some alternatives by Chris Langley (available to order from Scientists for Global Responsibility)

James May, Notes from the Hard Shoulder

NB. that's notes in terms of words, not musical notes - despite the fact that James May has a degree in music and plays the flute, piano and harpsichord.

And Major Morgan.

I'm reading Ironside, by Holly Black.

The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips

The Brass Verdict-Michael Connelly

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Girl Meets Ape by Chris Manby

Ive started 'We are all made of glue' by Marina Lewycka. Its a laugh a minute, and I think more entertaining than her ones about Ukranian Tractors and 'Two Caravans'

Oh, don't tell Solari, he'll just tell you that it's such a good read, 'you can't put it down'!

Have just finished reading The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins. Next in line is a novel by Molly Keane that I'm being lent by a colleague (have forgotten the title but it's not Good Behaviour); then The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing. And then I think Wolf Hall, as I started it last week at my Dad's house and we have a copy at home.

I love this




I haven't read the Dawkins, but I've read a lot of Mollie Keane and enjoy her books very much, and I've just finished Wolf Hall, which I thought was wonderful.

I've just started A Company of Liars by Karen Maitland - enjoying it so far.

I've read this - it was quite funny! And I enjoyed it because it had lots of monkeys

I'm reading Garth Nix's Sabriel AGAIN. Man, I love that book.

Slow North Yorkshire: Moors, dales & coast, including York by Mike Bagshaw

Riding the Rockets by shuttle astronaut Mike Mullane. Very funny - and quite an eye-opener.

I never usually read books...no time...

As mentioned elsewhere, I'm in the trash phase of my summer holiday.
So I'm reading Jilly Cooper's Wicked, and Appassionata, simultaneously, having finished Riders yesterday. I can't find my copy of Rivals, which is my usual second choice.

I'm not proud.

:-)

Not far from finishing the 6th and final book in the series I'm reading (Robin Hobb's Tawny Man Trilogy, which is a follow on from the Farseer Trilogy)... I always feel devastated when I reach the end of an epic story

I'm hoping George RR Martin's next A Song of Ice and Fire book will be out soon otherwise I'm going to go mad... arrrrgh!

I'm reading my sister's books. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is the most recent, which is very good, but I can't shake the guilt of not doing my course reading, so I'll be starting on that soon.

Just finished "The Passage" and now started on "Apartment 16"

I've been steadily working my way through Steven Kings books, so I'm now reading Michael Connelly's Trunk Music for a bit of a change

I'm reading Ben Elton's Meltdown. I've read all his others but somehow missed this one coming out and found it whilst bookshop browsing the other day. Typical, started it yesterday and two thirds through it

I'm reading Iris Murdoch's "The sea, the sea"* and so far I love it!

*I originally wrote Murdoch's "The waves" - almost but not quite!