What are you reading

[Chrissi]

at the moment?

In need of some inspiration!

[Banana]

Last Boat to Danzig - Joyce Alexander

http://www.rednritten.com/shop/novels_danzig.html

I am really into it - a thought provoking story....

[capricciosababs]

got a good rolf harris book all about his cats but not started it so far - fab cat cartoons he has devons his drawings are delightful and funny !

[Charlie]

Wicked - about the early years of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory McGuire - quite political and I love it

[Mochali]

The queen and I - Sue Townsend

[mimazali]

I need a new book too... any good historicals about?

[noodle]

Im reading 'A Cat called Birmingham' by Chris Pascoe. Its pretty good, quite funny. :happydance:

[avalanche]

real girly rubbish...
This charming Man by Marian Keyes.....
I always struggle to get into her books though as she writes the way she talks so I just see her instead of the characters.

[Carole]

People and Places by James Lees-Milne all about the early days of the National Trust and the first houses to be given to them - it's a better read than it sounds because a lot of the early donors were quite odd and dotty characters.

[Sharon]

Street Kid by Judy Westwater, quite harrowing but a very good book.

Product Description
John Peel first brought Judy's moving childhood story to light on "Home Truths". Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father and kept like a dog in the backyard, she went on to suffer at the brutal hands of nuns in a Manchester orphanage, before living wild on the streets. This is an incredible, heart-wrenching story of a child who refused to give up. After a childhood lived in terror, in 1994, Judy was presented with an Unsung Heroes Award for her charity work with street children in South Africa. Her moving story came to light after Judy was interviewed by John Peel on BBC's "Home Truths". "Street Kid" is the inspirational and heartwrenching story of her early years. At age two, in postwar Manchester, Judy was snatched from her mother and sisters by her psychotic father - a spiritualist preacher. He kept her in his backyard, leaving her to scavenge from bins to beat off starvation. At four, she was sent to an inhumanely strict catholic orphanage, before being put back in her father's cruel care. For the next three years, she was treated as a virtual slave. After being taken by her father to South Africa, Judy ran away to join the circus where she found her first taste of freedom and friendship - before her father tracked her down. Weeks later, Judy was alone again and living on the streets, too terrified to turn to her circus friends. For 9 months, 12-year-old Judy made her home in a shed behind a bottle store before collapsing in a shop doorway from near-starvation. Finally, aged 17, Judy managed to pay her way back to England to find her mother and sisters. But, her return to Manchester cruelly shattered any dreams of a happy reunion. Determined that her childhood experiences should in some way give meaning to her life, Judy has worked tirelessly to help children in need back in South Africa in the very place she had been treated to such abuse herself. She has opened 7 centres to date.

[Banana]

I. Finished my book this afternoon, it was extremely upsetting and real - I never really considered how hard it was for the German people who were against the Nazi's...

If anyone wants to borrow it I am happy to send if to anyone who thinks they will read it...

[Sharon]

I. Finished my book this afternoon, it was extremely upsetting and real - I never really considered how hard it was for the German people who were against the Nazi's...

If anyone wants to borrow it I am happy to send if to anyone who thinks they will read it...
Anna, its sounds like the kind of book I'd like to read. I love to borrow it, if thats ok

[Banana]

Yes of course!!!

Shall I post or are you coming to a local show soon??

[Sharon]

Yes of course!!!

Shall I post or are you coming to a local show soon??
I'm at the Breed 32 next week, but not sure if I can make it to the London. Maybe posting would be best

[Banana]

I am at the Breed 32!!

[edenport]

Most of our books are still in boxes, but I'm just about to start reading Jade ~ Forever in my Heart :sofa:

[Sharon]

I am at the Breed 32!!
:hd:will see you there then

[Needleworker]

Bought a book by Katie Fforde in sainsbury's cos I loved the cover!!! She turns out to be SO good decided to buy all hers and was surprised and delighted to be treated by my Mum to them, bliss.......gonna work my way through them all..........highly recommended

http://www.katiefforde.com/pics/covers/300_04_SP.jpg

[Lucia]

I'm re-reading 'The Dark is Rising' series by Susan Cooper - a kids' book allegedly, but in the same way as 'The Hobbit' and the Harry Potter canon are kids' books! :D

[fenpedia]

im reading Daniel Silva "mark of the assassin" its outstanding

[Dragonsausage]

Rereading Appassionata by Jilly Cooper as 95% of my books are in storage (including my "to read" pile - D'OH!!!!) But have been to the library and borrowed....

Darkmans by Nicola Barker:
This is a rowdy, riotous tale, a tale in which the medieval past takes on a face, name, and occupation and roams around the humdrum town of Ashford, bringing chaos to the lives of those it picks on. No one is safe: not upstanding Beede and his drug-dealing son, nor teen chav Kelly who zestily finds God (much to the dismay of the Reverend responsible), or Gaffar, the tiny, amorous Kurd with an unusual fear of salad. Darkmans is a world where language snaps and crackles like static, twitching with barely containable energy. Past and present mingle and blur, and the lines between fantasy and reality, sanity and madness are continually rubbed out and redrawn - but by whose hand? And what about the grand scheme of things - is life a coincidence or is it a pattern, plotted by all-seeing, unknown forces?

The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow:
Jennet is the daughter of the Witchfinder of Mercia and East Anglia. Whilst her father roams the countryside in search of heretics, Jennet is left behind to be schooled by her aunt Isobel in the New Philosophy principally expounded by Isaac Newton. But her aunt's style of scientific enquiry soon attracts the attention of the witchfinders. To save her aunt, Jennet travels to Cambridge to seek the help of Newton himself. Isobel is burned at the stake but in her dying moments, begs Jennet to devote her life to overturning the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. This is a huge rollercoaster of a novel as Jennet travels to America and witnesses the Salem witch trials; is abducted by Indians; begins an affair with Benjamin Franklin; travels back to England and finally meets the real Newton; is shipwrecked; then ends up back in America where her brother is now the Witchfinder Royal. In a great final showdown between old superstition and new science, Jennet decides to have herself accused of witchcraft in order to disprove its existence.

Monster Love by Carol Topolski:
'I've kicked myself that I didn't do anything about it then. I've often thought, what if I had? Would she be alive now?' Charlotte, neighbour 'I wonder at how gullible I was...because when I asked them if I could see Samantha, just for the record, she said she was playing at the rec with her friends and I just went Oh, OK' Kaye, social worker 'You see it all the time in videos and that, but until you're in the room with them you don't really know what it means' Sharon, juror No one in the neighbourhood has seen the Gutteridges' little girl Samantha for months. But Brendan and Sherilyn look happier that ever, so nothing is wrong. Is it? For the Gutteridges, Samantha was just a thing that threatened to worm its way into their perfect love. For everyone else, her story is the stuff of tabloid headlines. But this time it's not in a newspaper, it's happening right next door...

Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich: (a guilty treat!)
Stephanie Plum's ex-husband Dickie Orr has disappeared and Stephanie is the prime suspect in his disappearance. Is Dickie dead? Can he be found? And can Stephanie stay one step ahead in this new, dangerous game? Joe Morelli, the hottest cop in Trenton, New Jersey, is also keeping Stephanie on her toes - and he may know more than he's saying about many things in Stephanie's life. It's a cat-and-mouse game for Stephanie Plum and the ultimate prize might be her life...

Heart Shaped Box by joe Hill:
'Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail. So Jude did. He bought it, in the shape of the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because he wanted it: because his fans ate up that kind of story. It was perfect for his collection: the genuine skulls and the bones, the real honest-to-God snuff movie, the occult books and all the rest of the paraphanalia that goes along with his kind of hard/goth rock. But the rest of his collection doesn't make the house feel cold. The bones don't make the dogs bark; the movie doesn't make Jude feel as if he's being watched. And none of the artefacts bring a vengeful old ghost with black scribbles over his eyes out of the shadows to chase Jude out of his home, and make him run for his life . . .

Then We Came tothe End by Joshua Ferris:
They spend their days – and too many of their nights – at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues. There’s Chris Yop, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl Garbedian, secretly taking someone else’s medication; Marcia Dwyer, whose hair is stuck in the eighties; and Benny, who’s just – well, just Benny. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them. Then We Came to the End is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. It’s the story of your life and mine.

American Desert by Percival Everett:
Theodore Street is driving towards the ocean where he plans to drown himself. But, on the way, he is hit by a van and he sails through the windscreen, his head sliced from his body. At his funeral days later, he sits up in his coffin, apparently resurrected. Theodore becomes an object of derision and morbid curiosity to the press, a prized specimen for scientists and Satan incarnate to an obscure religious cult deep in the desert. Fascinating, surreal, and wildly satirical, Percival Everett sends up the press, religion, UFOs and the military, and offers a meditation on what it is to be alive.

Should keep me going for a bit....lol