All New What Are You Reading Now Thread

[Banshee]

The Book Thief - by Markus Zusak - brilliant - one of those books that has you smiling on one page,then

choked on the next.

[kate o]

I've been reading lots of teenage fiction recently in preperation for September and I've just read a good 'un called What I Was by Meg Rosoff.
I'm looking forward to the second installment of Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking triolgy, which is next on my list. If anyone ever has to buy a present for a teenager (as in 12-15ish) I'd go for one of these, they're great.

[Szabo]

Really enjoying this at the moment.

[rover]

The Book Thief - by Markus Zusak - brilliant - one of those books that has you smiling on one page,then

choked on the next.

Read it a little while ago. Fantastic.

[NicholasVanWotsisface]

Bad Monkeys - Matt Ruff

[kevo]

London Belongs to Me by Norman Collins

[kate o]

Just about to start Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.

[GustavusTheGreat]

Ruddy excellent.

[icehaven]

I just read 'What Was Lost' by Catherine O'Flynn, it was OK.

[Airbrushed From History]

Really enjoying this at the moment.

This would be a great compliment to your current reading, but perhaps you've already read it:

[Moscow Olympics]

I'd have been Raskolnikov but Mother Nature ripped me off

[efeelola]

i am reading the second volume of this:

mega epic historical fiction about the farmer rebel/revolutionary li zicheng who overthrew ming dynasty in 1644 then got kicked out of the palace by the manchu two months later.
there are 10 volumes all together.

and this:

[binklebracket]

Following a recommendation on this very forum back in Oct 2007 I have just got round to starting:

Scapa Flow - The Story of Britain's Greatest Naval Anchorage in Two World Wars

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scapa-Flow-Britains-Greatest-Anchorage/dp/1405007850/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256985260&sr=8-2

It's an absorbing set of accounts by forces personnel of all ranks concerning their tours of duty in the Orkneys.

It explains early on that as it's a Nordic word, Scapa rhymes with capper not scarper.

Cheers
bb

[Lancashire Fusileer]

Wood Engraving and the Woodcut in Britain.

And

Citizenship and Identity in a Multinational Commonwealth (Poland-Lithuania in Context 1550-1772)

Christ on a bike. Only some Posy Simmonds is keeping me on the level

[Szabo]

This would be a great compliment to your current reading, but perhaps you've already read it:

No I haven't, I'll put it on me list,thanks.