What are you reading?

Mrs Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman.  Very good so far.

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. Everyone seems to love this book, but I'm not convinced yet.

I'm currently rereading Brave New World, which I came across while using the Stumbleupon website yesterday.  I've never read a book online before, but I'm finding it surprisingly enjoyable.  I'm also amazed at how little I remember from my first reading in high school. 

In print, I'm also reading Love in the Time of Cholera, but I'm not sure if I'll manage to persevere to the end.  I'm finding it incredibly wordy.

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. Everyone seems to love this book, but I'm not convinced yet.

I picked that up in a train station when it was first in paperback.  I didn't like it, but unfortunately, it was all I had to read on a 6 hour train ride.  I liked the first chapter or so, but after that, not so much.  I feel sorry for the author's mother.

I liked the first chapter or so, but after that, not so much.

That's pretty much how I feel about it. At first it was funny, but now I'm sort of thinking, "Enough, already!" It's too much of the same thing over and over again, and feels as if Burroughs is going for the shock factor more than anything.

Confessions of a Doorman, by Robin Barratt.

I'm about to start The House at Riverton by Kate Morton. DB's mum gave it to me as a belated b-day present, so I figure I should bump it up on my reading list.

Just finished One Man's Wilderness.  Well worth a read. 

I'm enjoying the current issue of GRANTA - the new nature writing.

I'm reading Atonement. I haven't seen the movie (yet) but I thought I'd better read it before I do, otherwise I'll never get around to it.  I've not read any Ian McEwan before but he's an easier read that I thought he would be.

Reading 'Otherworld' at the moment, loving it!

I just finished Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.  I will either love an Atwood novel or not be able to get a few chapters into it.  After this novel, I've decided I want to go back and retry the ones I couldn't get into.  After reading so many technically clumsy writers recently, her skill was really refreshing.

Oh I loved that one! Absolutely one of her best; my second favorite Atwood after the Handmaidens Tale.

The Antipope-Robert Rankin

I was on a mini-holiday for the past 10 days, so I read Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford, The Casino by Margaret Bonham, Queen Camilla by Sue Townsend and House-Bound by Winifred Peck. Now I'm reading Lady's Maid by Margaret Forster.

Strip Jack - Ian Rankin