What are you reading?

I just finished 'A piece of cake' By Cupcake Brown...it left me ... just..."wow"

Im in the middle of a collection of short stories by Arthur C Clarke.

I'm reading Tony Visconti's autobiography. I'm really enjoying it. He's led a very interesting life. Can't wait to get to the Morrissey bits! Though loving all his Bowie info too.

I'm reading this at the moment. Gripping stuff, if slightly unbelievable in parts.

Barack Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope.

I'm reading my first Hemingway, For Whom The Bell Tolls. I'm enjoying it but so far it's definitely not a 'wow' book, unlike the first Hardy I read recently, The Mayor of Casterbridge, which I loved.

I'm reading two books at the moment. One is a compilation of MR James' ghost stories and the other is another compilation, but this time by HP Lovecraft.

There are a plethora of books out here about BO, but for some strange reason I've not been compelled to buy one. Although I'd like to read one in due course. Any good?

I've just finished the Uncommon Reader by alan Bennett, which I loved.

Am now reading some trashy Jane Green book.

I'm reading Iain Banks' "The Steep Approach to Garbadale" which I'm really enjoying. Not much liked any of his since "The Crow Road" so this is a nice surprise.

I've just finished this too and the set of The Lost Boy, A Boy Called It and a Man Named Dave. I'm just about to start Richard Hammond's autobiography

I'm currently re-reading all of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series, this time slotting the short stories in the correct places, except I haven't yet worked out where the novella 'Micah' sits in the sequence 'cause I haven't read it.

I haven't got up to the bit where it all goes weird and Anita turns into a nymphomaniac - that's at about book 10...

I'm finsishing off Chris Brookmyres new un which is fab, as the all are.. A Snowball in Hell .. it is called but it is part of a set.

Also waiting for the newest Stephanie Plum book by Janet Evanovich to turn up from Amazon.. Completly opposite to Brookmyre but also quite fun.. more chick lit like :-)

I've just finished "A Mother Like Alex" - it's one of the most inspiring books I've ever had the pleasure of reading. I'm not a fluffy person at all but it's had me sobbing in parts - happy sobbing ?

It's a true account of a woman who adopted 7 children with special needs, and cared for 2 others - most of them Downs children. An absolutely remarkable lady with so much strength and spirit.

There is an article in the Daily Mail about her today; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1090103/Why-I-Downs-syndrome-baby-adoption--loving-mother-took-in.html

I really want to watch the documentary on her next week but we haven't got Sky.

I am part way through

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

It was recommended to me on here and so far it is fab - very enjoyable. After that I have a John Grisham - The Appeal to read.

I'm about halfway through "This Charming Man" by Marian Keyes, yes it's only chick lit but i'm really quite enjoying it ?

Ooh - I read an article in the Sky Mag about this. It was an interview with the biological mother of one of the boys Alex adopted - it had been an open adoption so she could keep in touch with her son. That article had me sobbing, and my husband has banned me from watching the documentary. The book would have me in bits...

I'm re-reading Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland and have literally only got a few chapters to go ... the emotional bit at the end ... <sniff>

I've just read this book as well and also sobbed the whole way through. I couldn't watch the documentary either. Alex Bell is an amazing woman but I also think that Sue was brave - not for her decision, but for opening herself up in the newspaper article and the book. Some of the comments that people have made on the Daily Mail article are mind-boggling.

I have just finished Monster Love

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Monster-Love-Carol-Topolski/dp/1905490267

which is a very unsettling read

and am now reading an Adele Parks book, can't remember the name, but then they're all the same really

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I loved this; although I found the style a bit hard going and stilted at first I came to realise that this was entirely appropriate and reflected the character. As the character became less uptight so did the style, and I have really enjoyed reading it.

I'm reading "Call if the Weird" by Louis Theroux. If you like his Weird Weekend TV series, then you'll like the book as it's him returning to America to catch up with some of the people featured in his documentaries and find out what's been happening.

I saw Louis Theroux for the first time interviewing and shadowing Jimmy Savile, and I'm afraid it scarred me for life! I found him highly irritating, lacking social skills and in-your-face, so since then I've not given him the time of day and read or watched anything with him in. From the odd comment I've picked up on Hitched, I'm in the minority, so perhaps someday I'll give him 5 minutes and see if I still find him annoying.

Same goes for Jim Carrey. I saw The Mask. Hated it. Can't watch anything with him in without my skin crawling (although I've had to watch as Mr P likes him .. his straight roles weren't as bad)