I'm reading ...

 

 

   

     It's World Book Day today so what better than another round up of what we're all reading (and Dovegrey says it's alright to read all day, so that's a relief - not so sure about her 'World Washing the Floor Day' though....). I have one or two things on hold, but a couple of books are very much 'live' just now, and they are J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country for our Book Group discussion next week and Margery Allingham's Sweet Danger which I chose from all the excellent suggestions for escapist reading you gave me. There are others you mentioned which I very much want to take up, but that was the book to hand so that's what I'm reading and it is pure escapism and wonderfully enjoyable - more on it when I've finished.
    Not content with these and the enormous TBR pile ( more from there to talk about soon) I have just ordered another book because of a review, and must now choose what the Book Group will read next - always a tricky decision.
    That's my little lot - what are you reading?

   

Comments

[Dark Puss]

I am reading, and will finish today, Carr's A Month in the Country. I am also reading, and will finish this week, Murakami's Kafka on the Shore and Duffin's little monograph How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony.

[Mary McCartney]

Sara Maitland's 'A Book of Silence' arrived this morning and I'm several pages into it already despite the large tbr pile. Also flicking through Thane Prince's 'Simply Good Food' that my husband brought home from a charity book sale in work yesterday.

[Lisa W]

I am also reading 'A Month in the Country,' along with 'The Road Not Taken: A Selection of Robert Frost's Poems.' I read most of Robertson Davies' books in my twenties, and remember him as a fine, clever, and at times dark writer. It would be interesting to revisit some of his stories now.

[Claire]

A memoir, "This is Not About Me", Janice Galloway. I would highly recommend it.

[Lindsay]

Short Stories by Henry James, The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination by Bronowski, the new Slightly Foxed, and Seven Suspects by Michael Innes.

Delighted to see you reading Sweet Danger: Amaada is truly delightful, n'est pas?

Next book group - you could do worse than a Robertson Davies - The Cunning Man, Tempest Tost, and Fifth Business are the ones I wd recommend, but others may have different favourites (I've chosed TT and FB because they are each the self sufficient first novel in a trilogy).

[Lindsay]

Does that mean you have finished Negative Spin in Alpha-Gamma Disintegrations, by A F Raud of Geneva?

[Barbara MacLeod]

Oh, yes please! Can I 'second' the Robertson Davies' book suggestio?

[Dark Puss]

I'm struggling through Electromagnetic Interactions and Hadronic Structure by Close, Donnachie and Shaw actually!

[Cornflower]

Struggling, Dark Puss? Surely not!

[Cornflower]

Amanda is delightful!
For the book group, the die is cast - I ordered the next book this afternoon, so all will be revealed soon.
As to the J.L. Carr, if you've read it, Lindsay, you'll have encountered Mr. Jagger!

[Barbara MacLeod]

"Don't Sleep, There are Snakes" by Daniel Everett which I originally heard on Radio 4 some months ago. (I finished "A Month in the Country" with ease.)

[Louise]

I've been trying to rent a copy of A Month in the Country (starring Kenneth Branagh and Colin Firth) for quite a while now but to no avail. Luckily it's showing at my local cinema in April. Just wondering whether the adaptation is any good?

[Claire]

Albeit that nothing quite captures the book, I enjoyed the film very much. It was adapted for screen by Simon Gray. You must have a good local cinema, Louise. We just get the blockbusters and others for a week if we're lucky.

[Becky]

For school, Much Ado About Nothing AND Macbeth (9th and 10th graders, respectively); for home, Marian Keyes's The Other Side of the Story as fluff-to-get-through-March reading and Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning as my Lenten reading this year.

We have no local cinema at all (the one we had did a "shutter it overnight and vanish" act), and I keep wondering if I could club together with friends and open one with a cafe/pizza place in it. . .

[Fran]

Spent yesterday early morning finishing The Glassblower of Murano, went shopping...just popped into a charity shop... and found a Barbara Pym; Quartet in Autumn which has filled this afternoon nicely.