What book are you reading at the moment

[CrazyJay]

Currently reading THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini. It's certainly making me think about my opinions on being broke, about how lucky we are in the UK compared to other parts of the world such as the Middle East etc.

Will I still moan about being a bit hard up? - Well, I probably will, but att he same time I'll try to keep it in perspective with what being really poor must be like.

[CarnoustieCats]

...still on Harold Robbins. Finished The Dream Merchants and The Carpetbaggers and about to start The Inheritors. Ideal easy re-reading as spending a lot of time in the garden (and the bath!)

[Gothicina]

Think I'll read Stowaway to Mars by John Beynon (aka John Wyndham), next I'd imagine it's pretty dated as the copyright says 1935. I can't remember if I've read it before or not, if I did it was at least 25 years ago.

I had read it.

I followed that by his excellent The Chrysalids, I'd forgotten how good it was, I really think that it's a book crying out for a sequel.

Then I changed pace & read "The Summer that Never Was" by Peter Robinson, it was OK but I didn't really take to the lead character, so wouldn't actively seek to read more Inspector Banks books.
Still on the murder theme, I then read, "The Bone Garden", by Kate Ellis, that one I really did enjoy, I will probably look out for more of her Wesley Peterson books.

I'm now back into my comfort zone, Anne McCaffrey this time. I've re read "Dinosaur Planet", & have just started re reading "Dinosaur Planet The Survivors".
Then I'll have to reread "The Planet Pirates" Trilogy, Sassinak, "The Death of Sleep" & "Generation Warriors" as they are all tied together.
I love the way she tells some of the same story from a different person's perspective, as in "The Survivors", & "The Death of Sleep", although I shouldn't forget her co-authors in the Planet Pirates, Elizabeth Moon & Jody Lynn Nye.

[Naturelady]

Just finished Insomnia by Stephen King. Started The Black House.

[gyronny]

Now reading Roma, by Stephen Saylor. It's a bit simplistic, always a fault of the huge history novels I think. Trying to cram the entire history of a city into one book doesn't leave much room for a satisfying plot or characters.
Also reading Xenophon's retreat, which so far seems to be more about the history of the Persian/ Greek wars than Xenophon himself.
I just read Gothicina's post re Robinson and Ellis and I'm the complete opposite! Can't get on with Kate Ellis's books, but enjoy Peter Robinson.

http://gyronny-books.ebid.net

[CrazyJay]

I've just started reading 'Brighton Rock'. Even though it's been a good few years since i saw the film, this is so close to it, that I can still see all the scenes and all the characters in my mind.

[Gothicina]

I've not been reading quite as much lately, but have still got through a few.
Finished The Planet Pirates trilogy, then as I'd managed to get a hardback copy re read Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsdawn.

Next came John Wyndham's Web, this book was not published until 10 years after his death, to my mind not his best, but I did enjoy it.

I've just finished Katharine Kerr's Freeze Frame, which is more Sci-Fi, makes a change from her long running Deverry Series. Next on the agenda will be her Polar City Blues, followed by Polar City Nightmare.

I keep saying I won't buy any more books, but just came across one here on eBid that I really cannot pass by, so I put in a bid. It's a book I've never owned, but used to borrow regularly from the library. The last time I read it I was still at school, I read an excerpt from it for my Oral English Exam.

Was so pleased to see it, I forgot to change ID's before I bid

[bykimbo]

Was so pleased to see it, I forgot to change ID's before I bid

Love it.

[Naturelady]

Finished the Black House. Started out slow and then didn't want to put it down. Now reading I'm Not Really Here by Tim Allen. Cute so far. Really does sound like the Tool Man was his character also touches on his family life and going through changes after turning 40. Am about halfway through.

[Gothicina]

Well now I've won my auction, & the item has been invoiced & paid for, I'll tell you what this mystery book is.

It's called "The Animals Came in One by One", & was written by Buster Lloyd Jones.

To many of you that will mean absolutely nothing at all.

Although his 2 biographies never got the sort of acclaim given to those by Alf Wight aka James Herriot, or those by Gerald Durrell, the founder of Jersey Zoo, Buster Lloyd Jones was at one time the most sought after Veterinary Surgeon in Britain.
He also founded Denes in 1951

The excerpt I read was about one of the dogs Buster rescued during the war, a Borzoi, who managed to escape to give birth in a lake, bet you didn't know water births were around during WWII