What are you reading?

Splitting my time between The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, since I've never read it, and Man Walks Into a Pub: A Sociable History of Beer by Pete Brown compliments of my UKY Secret Santa.

Just finished The Grapes of Wrath.  Holy cow, those last 5 or so pages are depressing.  Well, the whole thing is depressing, but I really enjoyed it.  Can't believe I hadn't read it sooner.  I think it might just now be on my "favorites" list.

Still working on my beer book, since I ended up spending most of my time on Grapes.

I recently read The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas and am now nearly finished Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea.

Up next is Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.

Tell me how it is when you're done - it's been on my list for a while.

I am reading "Half the Sky - How to Change the World" by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn, which is brutal, but compelling.  For escape, I am also reading "World Without End" by Ken Follett (sequel to "Pillars of the Earth").  I was on vacation in Seville last week, and so read "Driving Over Lemons" and "Parrot in the Pepper Tree" by Chris Stewart, which was a fun read about life in rural Andalusia. 

Also reread "Animal Farm" in anticipation of my 14 year old reading it for home school.  Should make for some interesting dinner table discussions!

Tell me how it is when you're done - it's been on my list for a while.

It's non-fiction, so it's taking me a bit longer than a normal read. I'm finding it fascinating!

I've just read a couple of disappointing rubbishy books and am now really excited to start The Woman in White later today.

Just starting The ice princess by Camilla Lackberg. The blurb claims it's up to Stieg Larsson's standards. We'll see.

Has anybody read Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes?  I was given it as a gift and am starting it now.

By the way, I really liked One Day and wondered if anybody else on here did?  I feel sure it will become a movie because it was made for it.  I only hope they don't relocate the setting from London to the US because I think it would lose some of its appeal.

Has anybody read Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes?  I was given it as a gift and am starting it now.

I've considered reading that one, so let me know how it is! I read Snobs and really enjoyed it but have yet to move on to his other titles.

On a side note, I briefly met Fellowes's editor about a year ago. He's the literary director of the Man Booker Prize now, but quite a few years ago had approached Fellowes to write a novel after seeing Gosford Park (of which Fellowes wrote the screenplay). And that's how the literary world discovered Fellowes. 

That's interesting about Fellowes, elle.  I'm not too far into Past Imperfect yet.  In fact, I think I've confirmed that I'm the slowest reader in the world - on a train journey an hour and a half long, I read 33 pages. 

I've started re-reading Jane Eyre.  Haven't read it since I was 14, and I'm enjoying it even more than I enjoyed it then. 

...I think I've confirmed that I'm the slowest reader in the world - on a train journey an hour and a half long, I read 33 pages. 

No, I'm waaaay slower than you.  You put up so many books on this thread that you're reading or have read, while I'm barely getting through one!  I'm notorious, however, about picking a book up, getting distracted doing other stuff, and then not finishing it until months later.   

Right now, I'm reading a book called Eat My Globe by Simon Majumdar - BIL lent it to us.  I believe it's along the lines of Anthony Bourdain's A Cook's Tour - although I have not read that one before (DH has so we have it on the shelf).  The Majumdar book is mildly amusing (I liked the bit where he was rubbing pork butt at the American Royal BBQ competition in KC) but I'm kind of getting bored with it, because I find his writing style from one chapter to the next a bit too...I don't know, linear & repetitive maybe?  Like I went here & I did this & I did that & blah blah blah.  I mean I guess that's the nature of the book, but it's starting to really bore me and I find him OTT narcissistic.  I wonder if Bourdain's book would be better?

It's not so much the slowness -- but the fact that after about 2 pages I fall asleep! 

I've started re-reading Jane Eyre.  Haven't read it since I was 14, and I'm enjoying it even more than I enjoyed it then. 

I read it for the first time a few years ago and it became my new favorite book!

I've started re-reading Jane Eyre.  Haven't read it since I was 14, and I'm enjoying it even more than I enjoyed it then. 

I read that for the first time a couple of months ago. I had problems with the male characters in the book, but I quite liked Jane!