Tell us about what you are reading at the moment.

I am currently absorbed in "Sense and Sensiblilty" by Jane Austen. I'm very much a fan of "Pride and Prejudice" but this is only my second book by Austen. Hope to try more in the future. So far, so good.

I picked up a Bill Bryson book this afternoon, Down Under, for use in another thread here and have started it all over again - been chuckling all night

Otherwise, I've been a bit slack on the reading front lately!

Read them all, Blurrystar, even if you never read another book. Wonderful all of them.

Having just finished a Sandra Brown, I am rereading the 6th Harry Potter. Knowing how it turns out is not detracting from my enjoyment, although the page-turning, get-it-finished pressure is gone!

Re-reading Dan Brown- there are lots of bits I missed the first time around.

Jane Austen? The predecessor of a chick-flick, and I would not touch it with a 40-ft pole..

I just finished The Hobbit (for the umpteenth time) and have started a book by Ben Bova called Colony. I've heard good things about Ben Bova but never read anything, but my mom recommended this book, so I went ahead and picked it up. I'm in a real reading phase lately. I went through a knitting phase early in the summer, but in the last two months I've read about 2 dozen books, and I'm NOT a fast reader.

I have just finished 'Hard Eight' by Janet Evanovitch. Really good entertainment! I recommend the 'Stephanie Plum' series wholeheartedly. Not great literature, just great fun!

Democracy In America by Alexis De Tocqueville.
classic story of the development of democracy in America in the 1830's
rivetting stuff
can'tput it down

I just finished reading "Adrian Mole & the Weapons of Mass Destruction" by Sue Townsend, and am now about half of the way through "A Raisin in the Sun" which is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry.

A new Adrian Mole book? Has it been out long, Gemini? I must look out for it.

"What's Bred in the Bone" by Robertson Davies. I edited a quiz the other day on the first book in the trilogy, "The Rebel Angels" and realized that it's been too long since I read these books.

I'm currently reading Inca Gold by Clive Cussler. Very entertaining.

I've been reading Lisa Scottoline's books this summer. If I find an author I like, my preference is to track down all the books and read them in order (even if, as in the case of these books, it really doesn't matter). I have 3 libraries fairly close to me, so this is usually not a problem. I'm on the 7th one now - I believe there are 12 so far. For those not familiar, Scottoline's books are legal thrillers. Great entertainment!

I'm an Umberto Eco fan from way back, just reading his newbie 'The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana' and yes, something just doesn't add up....

I'm reading "Honey,Baby,Sweetheart" by Deb Caletti. I really like her first book ("The Queen of Everything") and this one's OK but I find myself wanting to re-read "Odd Thomas" by Dean Koontz. That book is great!

I'm in the middle of another Dick Francis, and to my astonishment, I don't remember having ever read this one before! I thought I'd found all of them...

I used to be a voracious reader, but now that I have 3 year old and 6 month old children, I don't get much chance. I tend to read "easy" things, things I've read before, or occasionally things I simply MUST read. (Harry Potter, for instance. )

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I tend to read "easy" things, things I've read before, or occasionally things I simply MUST read.

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I know what you mean about 'must read' books. I have a few. I have to read a James Herriot book every night before going to bed. I've read all his books many times over and I never tire of them. They make me feel good. His humour and warmth are contagious. I highly recommend them!

I am reading a Biography about Richard Harris called:

Richard Harris Sex, Death & the Movies
An Intimate Biography

Author is:

Michael Feeney Callan

I am learning so much I never knew about him.
If you were or are a fan I recommend this book.

PF

Just finished Ursula LeGuin's "The Word for World is Forest", very hippie.
And have just begun reading "The Best of Murray Leinster",no I never heard of him either. Sci-fi short stories.
Plus I'm flicking through Isaac Asimov's "Catalog of Catastrophies" for quiz purposes.
That's way too much sci-fi but I'm broke at the moment otherwise i'd go buy a new travel book of some sort.

At present I'm re-reading One Day In the Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Alekzander Solshenitzyn. This book always puts suffering and opppression into perspective for me, and is very well written, easy to read before I fall asleep. Why I'm reading it just now? I don't know. It fell off the pile of books [still loitering in my dining room, but not for long ]

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At present I'm re-reading One Day In the Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Alekzander Solshenitzyn.

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Ooh, I haven't read that in years, I'll have to pick that up again! I wrote one of my better lit essays on it many moons ago.

Yes - it's so vibrantly written you can almost feel the biting , relentless cold. I read it every few years!

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have just begun reading "The Best of Murray Leinster", no I never heard of him either.

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Tsk tsk, young people these days - no appreciation of the classics. Isn't his "First Contact" the one where the human and the alien end up sitting around and telling dirty jokes?

Leinster was an old pulp golden ager, and quite a bit of his stuff holds up pretty well now. Anyone at all interested in science fiction should check out those old "Hall of Fame" books that Robert Silverberg edited, back in the early seventies. They give a good overview of the best of the pulp stuff. Much of it really is good.

I've finished "Bred in the Bone' and have gone on to "Fifth Business" - it looks like I'm on a Davies kick. I'd forgotten how fabulous these books are.

Im currently in the middle of "Dime Store Magic" by Kelley Armstrong. I just finished her book "Bitten" which was awesome, one of my all time fave books.