what book are you reading at the moment ?

[mollymandy]

Who wrote it and what did you think of it ?

[DONNA1458]

I am reading Mandasue Heller The Club. Her books are very much like Martina Cole's they grip you from the start.

[Aschenbach]

I've recently finished We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - an interesting if not exactly gripping dystopian satire where all human activities are reduced to mathematical equations.

I am just starting Suite francaise by Irene Nemirovsky which portrays life in France in 1940, as German forces prepare to invade Paris.

[giltbrookian]

Living room book:Tommy Docherty's autobiography.
Bedside book:Selected short stories by John O'Hara.
Both are "unputdownable."

[jake-the-peg]

I'm reading Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum again!

It's been about 10 years aince I last read it

It's about a bunch of people who come up with the ultimate conspiracy theory - in their first abortive attempt they come up with Jesus didn't die but married Mary Magdalean and founded the French Royal family - familiar?

One of them says something like " It's been done, holy blood, holy grail, what a load of rubbish you'd never sell more than a thousand copies of that"

The whole book revolves around people's willingness to believe conspiracy theories - Eco must have been rolling about laughing when the Da Vinci code came out

[Hellyon]

At them moment I'm in light summer rteading mode - I save the deeper stuff for winter! - I am reading Laurence Block All the Flowers Are Dying it's the latest in the Matt Scudder series.
Matt is a private detective in new york, the books have been going for 30 odd years now and Matt has aged in 'real time' during them. Block's descriptions of New York are truly atmospheric as is his exploration of Matt's alcohol addiction and long term sobriety. I'm very fond of Matt and catching up with him is like catching up with an old friend.

[growbag]

Hi, I've just finished "The Secret River" by Kate Granville (or possibly Grenville - can't remember which) which was great. It's about a mna and his wife in the 1800s who get transported from London to Sidney as convicts, and how they establish themselves in a new life. It doesn't skirt around difficult issues like how the Aborigines were treated and is at times quite harrowing. I don't usually like historical fiction but I thoguth that this was excellent.

[mollymandy]

Thank you for all your comments ... keep reading .