What are you reading?

Just finished Water for Elephants and let me just say, I want to weep at the sheer awesomeness of this book.  I highly recommend it!

Dystopian stuff is my genre.  Let me know if you run out of things to read.

Cool I think I'll be finishing up the most well known in about a week, and will want to move on, so I'll definitely hit you up for suggestions

I'm working away (M-F) at the moment and we're super busy until around 1am then we have to just wait for the US to catch up for a few hours, so I've taken to lying on the sofa in a big conference room with cans of coke zeros and piles of books

Still plugging away at War and Peace. I can't wait to be finished so I can post something different here!

Just adding on here for any avid readers, the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" is coming!  

Probably not as pertinent now as it once was, but the novel remains as awesome literature.  And there's the very one-off chance somebody may have read it.  Who knows?

It's about a little girl in Alabama whose father is a lawyer and represented a black man accused of rape.  What I liked was that all the 'good' characters had suggestively heroic names, like 'Scout'.  

I forgot.  It was also a movie.  And the actor who played the crazy guy in the woods was a very very young unknown who later became famous.

Just adding on here for any avid readers, the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" is coming!  

Probably not as pertinent now as it once was, but the novel remains as awesome literature.  And there's the very one-off chance somebody may have read it.  Who knows?

It's about a little girl in Alabama whose father is a lawyer and represented a black man accused of rape.  What I liked was that all the 'good' characters had suggestively heroic names, like 'Scout'.  

I forgot.  It was also a movie.  And the actor who played the crazy guy in the woods was a very very young unknown who later became famous.

I think it's quite standard fare for High school students to read in the US

I'm not a USC but I have read it several times, it's one of my favourites   The film is also very good.

Probably more than an off chance that someone's read it.  It's usually listed as many people's favourite novels.  It's definitely in my top ten.

Read Mockingbird in school and loved it!


Currently on Walden by Henry David Thoreau and awaiting 6 new books from amazon.

Just finished Water for Elephants and let me just say, I want to weep at the sheer awesomeness of this book.  I highly recommend it!

I'm reading it now...very good!

Still plugging away at War and Peace. I can't wait to be finished so I can post something different here!

I feel this way about the Duchess of Devonshire.    It's a good book, but I'm ready for it to be over and move on to something else! I have less than 200 pages to go!

I feel this way about the Duchess of Devonshire.    It's a good book, but I'm ready for it to be over and move on to something else! I have less than 200 pages to go!

Oh, I loved that one!! I'm jealous of your 200 pages, though. I think I still have 800 or so.

I feel this way about the Duchess of Devonshire.    It's a good book, but I'm ready for it to be over and move on to something else! I have less than 200 pages to go!

Yeah, I also felt that it was good book, but went on a bit.

Still plugging away at War and Peace. I can't wait to be finished so I can post something different here!

I read this for a book group years ago, so I had to keep up in order to do the discussions each week.  I don't think I would ever have read it so quickly otherwise.  As best I can remember I really enjoyed most of it, got bogged down by a long section in the second half, and then was a bit disappointed by the ending.

I'm reading Indian Summer by Alex Von Tunzelmann.  Non-fiction behind the scenes 1947, during the independence of India and partition with Pakistan. It's so good!

Re-reading my assorted PG Wodehouse....it's still as entertaining the hundredth time as it was the first. 

Re-reading my assorted PG Wodehouse....it's still as entertaining the hundredth time as it was the first. 

I never get tired of PG Wodehouse!