What are your reading at the moment & any suggestions

Sandyglen · What are your reading at the moment & any suggestions

I am reading Martina Cole "The Take" and thoroughly enjoying it, She just gets better.

Also have read a lot of Jodi Picoult books recently they are very good as well.

Any suggestions fo other good books.

Niki

I've just finished reading 'The little prisoner' by Jane Elliot. Sad book,couldnt put it down

sun-seeker

I was reading the two derek acorah books bloody hell they scared the hell outta me im scared of ghosts!

eloisa

I'm reading my way through Diana Gabaldons time travelling series again as I have run out of books :?
Have not long finished the latest Patricia Cornwell, Predator, that was ok but not as good as her earlier stuff
Ellie

staceylc

If you like epics try Stephen Kings Dark Tower Series. I read them before but now I have all 7 books I started again from the beginning.

On book 5 at the moment.

First book is quite hard to follow but stick with it.

GoldenChippie

I have just finished "there are gods in Alabama" by Joshlyn Jackson

its a great book about a southern girl who makes a deal with god that she will never tell another lie, or go back to her hometown, if in return God promises to never let anyone find the body of the man she murdered!! or did she?

its great really enjoyed it

Sandyglen

Daughter's reading Patricia Cornwall "The Predator" and she said the same thing. I thought her last few books haven't been very good.

Kathy Reichs has seemed to taken over her mantel with her Tempe Brennan books.

nuttynet

im reading the lonely bones a ver weird book, my next book will be angelas ashes.

chocaholicsanon

just going to start reading martina cole, the jump.
just finished derek acorah ghost hunting.
and stephen kings dark towers series is good.

polar

Im just about to start Kathy Kellys new one well its out in small size so its now so new and am just finished Mandescue Hellers the Charmer it was brilliant. She is the same type of writer as Martina Cole. Hubby has bought me here new one The Take for Christmas so am glad to read here that she just gets better and better

chocaholicsanon

nutty net, are you sure its lonely bones and not lovely bones, as the later is so sad. but i couldnt put the book down.

newbutt1

Just finished reading the Davinci Code by Dan Brown, thought it was a bit slow to start but turned out to be a good book (well my type anyway), just started Angels and demons by him now.
I've started to collect some old ones ready for my hoildays in January, you may know some of them: 3rd Degree by James patterson, Disordered Minds by Minette Walters, The Memory Game by Nicci French and Kisscut by Karin Slaughter, should help pass the time while I'm soaking up the rays.

jayne :)

Guest1

Bill Bryson...trailing round America . I cant remember the title, they are all a bit similar - funny tho!

sancho proudfoot

Notes from a Big Country, perhaps guest?

As for me I'm reading "The Last Runes of the Earth" the sequel - after 20-odd years - to the two trilogys of stories about Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, by Stephen Donaldson.

Very much an acquired taste, and you have to have read the first 6 books to follow this one!

(Actually, to be wholly accurate I'm mostly reading "The Certificate in Regulated General Insurance Handbook" as I want to try to get the exam out of the way before Christmas, but that's not recommended foot up with a glass of plonk and the tin of Quality Street reading!!)

shorty

newbutt i have read all of those!!!! Also have read a lot of Jodi Picault recently, excellent.

Cadge

Just finished The Bad Mother's Handbook, Kate Long. A great book, makes you laugh and cry, really got in to all the 3 main characters of mother, daughter and grandmother.

Now starting Blood Knot by Denise Ryan. Same mould as Martina Cole, but set mainly in the Liverpool area.

Dee

Jane and Mike Tomlinson The Luxury of Time.

A really good book ,lots of emotions while reading this book crying 1 minute laughing the next ,angry the next.

What a brave lady she is !!!!!!!!

Liz0

Reading the Davinci Code at the moment. My Mum has just given me Josephine Cox Nobodys Darling she thought it was really good.

PeterRayner

Reading "Frankie" Frankie Dettori`s autobiography.

Cromwell

Im reading "ROOTS" by Alex Hailey......... :wink:

Ive read it before. Good read. Im definitely going to get
the DVD, now ive started reading the book again. :)

Louise xx

eloisa

Is it just me or did anyone else prefer angels and demons to the davinci code?

garryb

cromwell we got the triple dvd set of roots from amazon for £15.
really enjoyed watching it again.

garry

Cromwell

Thanks Garry. Ive seen it advertised at HMV for £14.99.
Think i will go and buy it at the weekend.

I would like my children to watch it.........very thought provoking.

:)

Louise xx

garryb

no problem
mary has never read the book so that might be a christmas present idea.
its the only idea ive had so far.
mary just finished goodbye dearest holly,and is reading sarah payne a mothers story says both are recommended,but mary reads any type of book and goes through about three a week

garry

madsue

guest, I just read Jodi Picaults one about the designer sister, can´t remember the name of it. What other ones has she written and are they as good? Just finished reading Sheila Hancocks book which I really enjoyed.

Can you all tell, I don´t remember titles

shorty

ooh madsue i leant them to my mate...i read the designer sister one, the other one I think was called The Pact....yes it was, about teenage sweethearts....very good. I have my eye on another on Tesco by her but i cannot remember the name will tell u when I buy it very soon!

Sandyglen

She has written loads, read "The Pact" a little while ago, enjoyed that. Have another one called "Plain Truth" haven't read that yet and she also has a new one out, think it is called "Salem"

The one you have read was called "My Sister's Keeper". Remember reading that on holiday and bought tears to my eyes at the end.

madsue

Thanks guest, you sound like me!! I have to be reading, and have been known to have three books on the go at a time. Think that's probably why I don´t remember the titles!!!

madsue

Thanks to you too sandyglen!! I do tend to do that, find an author I like and then read the lot. Trouble is, I then forget which ones I have already read and get them again!!!!! I blame the covers.........they all look the same don´t they! Penny Vicenzi (is that the right name?), et al, just seem to change the hat, or the womans face, for each successive book!

Sandyglen

I know what you mean. Every time I go shopping in Tesco's I usually pick up a book. Went on holiday in October, got a book out to read and I had bought it twice

and only read it about 2 months before.

shorty

madsue I am lethal with books. My idea of total heaven is a free day in Waterstones with a free trolley full! I SO love reading, always have. My son has inherited it too, he is 12 and we took 12 thick books on holiday for him. He read the lot and started on mine

Carol

I cannot read anything unless it is true
I am reading "Stolen Innocence" by John Batt
It is very good so far

Carol

numberplease

I`m in the middle of "Twisted" by Jonathan Kellerman, would recommend anything by him, also anything by Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, and James Patterson. I loved Dan Brown`s "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons", planning to get his other 2 books soon. You`ll have gathered that I`m not into lovey-dovey romances!

GoldenChippie

guest - have not read any Jodi Picault - which would you recommend first?

shorty

:) I'd read The Pact first, I think that was published a few years ago but is available evrywhere

GoldenChippie

thanks i'll go look on ebay for it

awwww love all the new emots :albino:

crew4

The only thing I seem to be reading at the moment is Christmas store gift catalogues! - planning what to get everyone.

Hopefully I'll get some books for Christmas and can settle back down in the New Year and get back to normal reading!

joolz307

I love to read - have just started Da Vinci Code.

Also like to read true stories such as Boy called it, Angels Ashes, Goodbye Dearest Holly, The Kid and I also read a lot of true crime books Yorkshire Ripper, Cromwell Street (Fred West) - I like the forensic side of a case and how they catch them!!

Joolz :wink:

madsue

Although I read loads of chicklit rubbish, I love travel books and have read all Bill Bryson, and most of the ones written by people who go live in other countries. I have read Boy called It etc, joolz, but not yet felt able to read Goodbye Dearest Holly, as we were staying in the house next door when it all happened so it is too close

I will have a look for some of the others you recommend, as I am fascinated by forensics, and would have loved to have been clever enough to have trained in something like that.

emmarushuk

Currently reading the latest copy of Heat.

I worship my Tuesdays. Got some great gossip and pictures of celebs without make up. My life is now fulfilled

staceylc

I'm not allowed to buy any more books.

I have over 100 that I have bought and haven't read yet. My problem is I keep reading things that I've already read and don't get to read the new ones.

jema

joolz307

madsue,

The Holly book is brilliant - I understand why you havent read it but its a fathers story - it doesnt focus on the crime itself too much - its more of how it affected him and his family and living with the police in their house everyday and the media. Very interesting.

I too wish I had been clever enough to go into Forensics - Im a fan of Discover Channel and CSI - its so clever how they can catch someone with the smallest of evidence.

Joolz :wink:

Sandyglen

Anyone read "A Brother's Journey" by Richard B Pelzer. He is the brother of David Pelzer "The Boy Called It" and it is about his life and what happened after his brother was taken into care. Couldn't put it down last night.

jema

If We are back on this one, I am now on the Tony Benn diaries for 1991-2001 which are quite fascinating.

hbrac

Bella, Take a Break, Good Housekeeping and Woman and Home

I spend too much time on here to concentrate on a book

emmarushuk

Just read Heat!

shorty

Just started a book I got for Christmas called "The Little Prisoner" by Jane Elliot.....true story of child abuse, think its going to be extremely harrowing. Just finished another Jodi Picoult "Samen Falls" - very good!!

Sandyglen

guest have your hankies at the ready

Just finished mine it's harrowing. How their mother got away with it, god only knows.

k&r

i have the book by holly wells dad to read and got shane richy's autobiography to read as well

bobian

guest - I got that one for Christmas too - from my Mum - not started it yet - cant find my new specs

Emma

I have read 'My sisters kepper' 'the pact' and 'salem falls' by jodi picoult i also bought vanishing acts for myself for xmas can't wait to read it. she is my favourite authour around at the minute

numberplease

I`m reading Dan Brown`s Digital Fortress at the moment, then I`m off up town on Saturday with £70 worth of book tokens I got for Christmas. Am I going to have a ball!

shorty

I really like her too, Emma.

Sandyglen and Bobian...I keep having to put it down, its horrific. But also riveting.

shorty

Oh numberplease, that would be my idea of utter heaven!! Tell us what you buy, please

vonne

Reading the lost girl by caroline roberts. The wests nanny

Got sharon osbourne book and gloria hunnifords carons courage for xmas

bobian

Oooh Numberplease- you lucky thing what a great present!! I always say Christmas isnt Christmas unless I get a book

numberplease

The family all thought I was nuts asking for book tokens for Christmas, but like you and guest, Bobian, it`s MY idea of heaven as well. There are a few books on my wish list, and as I can`t afford to buy books all that often, the list has grown quite a bit. I may not get them all, because I don`t know if they`ve all gone to paperback yet, but I`ll get as many as I can.

bobian

Numberplease -Do let us know what you get! I am quite excited for you

Have you ever used The Book People On Line? Great source of cheap books and not a club

http://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/we...mp;catalogId=10001&langId=100

numberplease

Well, I haven`t spent all of my book tokens yet, but I`ve made a damn good start. I`ve got 3 biographies, "Just a Boy" by Richard McCann, the son of the Yorkshire Ripper`s first victim, "Too Many Mothers" by Roberta Taylor from The Bill, and "Behind Closed Doors" by Martine McCutcheon`s mum Jenny Tomlin. I also got the one remaining book by Dan Brown that I haven`t read, "Deception Point", "London Bridges" by James Patterson, "Straight into Darkness" by Faye Kellerman, "Private Eyes" by Jonathan Kellerman, and finally, "The Various Haunts of Men" by Susan Hill, an author I haven`t tried before, anyone else read anything of hers? I`ve just got to get the festivities over and done with now, then I can get down to some reading!

Sandyglen

Just started "the Lincoln Lawyer" by Michael Connelly. Will let you know what it is like when I finished. Noticed in Waterstones yesterday they have a lot of biographies half price including the 2 I bought as presents

Managed to pick up some books in W H Smith for £2.99 including a Martina Cole one.

vonne

Just had a look bobian........What a great site and like you say the added bonus of it not being a book club.

Thats the one for me from now on..Thanks

bobian

They are excellent Vonne - been using them for years now - brilliant service and very quick - great for sets of kiddies books etc.
Numberplease - I like your choices - think I have read a Jonathan Kellerman - the only Susan I know is The Woman in Black (I think she went to school with my mother in law!) Have read Deception Point.

numberplease

I`ve added a bit more to my collection tonight, someone gave me some books they`d finished with, so I should be OK for a while! There are 4 Wilbur Smith`s, who I`ve never read, a Sidney Sheldon omnibus, 1 Richard Laymon and 1 Andrew Kavan.

Sandyglen

Just finished "the Lincoln Lawyer" by Michael Connelly. Really enjoyed it and it is a move away from his Harry Bosch character. This one is about a guy called Micky Haller who is a defence lawyer and usually acts for low lifes, druggies etc. and lands a big case which will earn him a lot of money, but all is not as it seems.

If you are a Michael Connelly fan, I think you will enjoy it.

Theberrybrooks

Just reading "the undomestic goddess" by Sophie Kinsella, love it cant put down!

Jane xxx

eloisa

I'm reading the "Belgariad" series by David Eddings. It's basically about a normal boy that finds out that his aunt and great grandfather are sorcerers and that he was born to save the world from an evil God. Sounds a bit naff now I've read that through but it's not, I got caught up in the story right away and the characters are very believeable

Emma

I'm reading Next To You by Gloria Hunniford about caron Keatings battle with Cancer and mainly about her life!

Its really good although very sad

shorty

emma you are a mad cow too, there are three of us in the cow clun now! I am about to start reading "Every light in the house burnin'" by Andrea Levy, came highly reccommended.

Sandyglen I love Michael Connolly I will look out for that one.

Sandyglen

My daughter has just finished reading "The Predator" by Patricia Cornwall and said it was awful

I used to really love her books, but lately I think she has gone off the boil so I won't bother reading it. I Think Kathy Reichs has taken over Cornwall's mantel with her Tempe Brennan character and are a much better read.

Sandyglen

Shortly they have it on offer in W H Smith about £8 for the hardback.

shorty

ooh, well i may wait for the paperback, i dont cope with hardbacks too well but thanks! Has anyone read any Karin Slaughter? Better than Kathy Reichs, VERY unputdownable. The first one is called Blindsighted.

Sandyglen

Yep, I've read it

Just going to start a Martina Cole one "Broken" which I picked up for £2.99 in Smiths.

shorty

we have very similar reading tastes, sandyglen!

mum+bigson

just read "Tess Gerritson Body Double" she is an amazing writer. Her other books are fantastic. Also love James Patterson. I love books that make you think...

Paignton

Sandyglen

Have to agree Mum, James Patterson is one of my favourites, Have you read the latest one. He doesn't have much luck with his love life. I wonder if he is going to get back with the mother of "Little Alex"

guest it's a shame I can't pass my books on to you

I give them to a lady who I worked with, she has just retired and her husband who is also retired likes the same books as me. Then they go to the charity shop.

northeast

Ive just finished the fog for the 3 rd time

shorty

I love james patterson too, read them all! And Dean Koontz and Stephen King

northeast

Stephen King is one of my favourite writers loved the book ,and the movie Christine,and many more

shorty

i dont like the films of the books at all but my fave book was IT closely followed by The Stand

northeast

emmarushuk

Stephen King freaks me. IT gave my nightmares for months

I really Love Marion Keyes, especially Rachels Holday. The first of her books that made me laugh out load!

eloisa

I love both the book and the film of the stand, one of my favourites of all time

Sandyglen

guest, we have definitely got the same taste

Finished the Pact recently and got Salem Falls to read.

shorty

I liked Salem Falls best of all!

sunbear

Just finished Micheal Crichtons State of Fear...not one of his best but certainly makes you think about global warming in a new light

shorty

I really loved that one of his, forgot he is also one of my favourite authors (there are so many

)

staceylc

Stephen King is my all time favourite. Reading number 6 of the Dark Tower Series at the moment. My favourite though is The Stand. The most amazing book I've ever read, although the dark tower series is nearly on par.

numberplease

I`ve just started the first of the Wilbur Smith`s that I was given, "Shout at the Devil", but I`m not sure it`s going to be my cup of tea, I`ve never read anything of his before. Anyway, I`ll see how it goes, so far the only book I`ve started but not finished is "War and Peace", probably a brilliant book, but a bit heavy going.

boaz

Hi number...

Wilbur Smith's an author I can't seem to get on with either...

Dougie

numberplease

I`m also waiting for the latest Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs and James Patterson books to go into paperback. I don`t know why they don`t bypass hardback altogether, most people want paperbacks nowadays. I once waited over a year for a James Patterson book to go paperback.
I know it`s a few years old now, but "Bella Mafia" by Lynda la Plante, is a really good read. I saw the film after reading it and was glad I`d read the book first, because the film was a real let down.

eloisa

I quite enjoyed Predator, it was denitely better than Blow Fly which I found really hard work. I like Kathy Reichs too, not sure if I would agree that she has taken over from our Pat yet though

Dougie

Scarlett

The Stand is my favourite book of all time.

in 1979 when it first came out I wrote to Stephen King via his publishing company telling him how much I had enjoyed the book. He wasnt that famous at the time of course!

Ive got a personal signed letter from him in reply, and its one of my most treasured possessions!

numberplease

I also enjoyed " The Stand", but it took me quite a while to get through it, as with "Pet Semetary". Have you read "Rose Madder" guest? It was OK, but not typically Stephen Kingish.

shorty

Rose Madder is one of the very very few books i have not actually finished, just couldn't get to grips with it at all!

MikeCunliffe

I'm on the second book of the second series (first one had about 5 in the series) of Colonisation by Harry Turtledove.

He's an alternate history author and in this series lizard type creatures have arrived at Earth to colonise it. They believed we still were technologically fixed in the middle ages but after a 600 year journey they arrive towards the end of the 2nd world war and find we've developed the A-Bomb.

They don't quite manage a full colonisation but are left with the USA, USSR and Germany as potential enemies, Britain's empire has gone, the French are history (great eh!) ....... you get the idea.

Wonderful stuff.

Mike

staceylc