Sunday Salon – Currently Reading

Published on by Margaret

tssbadge1I love starting to read new books and planning which books to read next, so the Currently Reading section on the sidebar over on the right is often not up to date. These are on the sidebar:

  • I am still reading After the Victorians by A N Wilson. It seems as though I’ve been reading it for ever, not because it’s boring or hard going, far from it, but because I only read small snippets when I have my breakfast – I don’t have a lot for breakfast! So far I’m up to 1941/2 and I have to say that Churchill doesn’t come over very well to me. It’s made me want to read his biography to get a fuller picture of the man.
  • I started Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and have actually put it to one side – again not because I wasn’t enjoying it, but because I was reading it in bed at night and it’s too big and heavy to hold lying down. My eyes kept closing and the book kept falling out of my hands. I need to read it in the mornings, sitting up!
  • The Case for God by Karen Armstrong is fascinating – but it’s slow going because it too is a large, heavy book and also because it’s non-fiction I need to be fully awake to read it. So that has to wait for a morning time read as well.
  • Yesterday I started The Bradshaw Variations by Rachel Cusk. This is a paperback and much easier to handle in bed and so far I am enjoying it. I thought when I started it that maybe I wouldn’t as it’s written in the first person singular – not my favourite style – but the content is so absorbing that I don’t actually notice it anymore.

The folowing books are not listed on the sidebar but are books I’ve started and would love to continue reading, but there is a limit to how many I can keep in my mind at one time:

1599Slaves

I really, really want to find time to read these books as well (all borrowed from the library):

Oh, for more reading time!

14 thoughts on “Sunday Salon – Currently Reading”

  1. I’ve really enjoyed the Winspear. She’s another writer I think just gets better as she goes on. I know just what you mean about ‘Wolf Hall’; in fact I have advised one friend who has bad arthritis not to even try until the paperback edition comes out, but it is wonderful. And do carry on with ‘1599’. It has some marvellous insights into the social and political history that was influencing Shakespeare as he wrote. I can’t wait for his next book, which is apparently on the authorship question.

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  2. I almost always check your sidebar to see what you are reading now. It comforts me because I too like to read several books at a time. But now I learn you have even more books checked out from the library. You are my kind of reader!

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  5. I don’t have a breakfast book. I have a bedtime book, a driving book on CD, a walking book on MP3 player. I have vacation books and book group books. No breakfast book. Cool.

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  8. I hope you like The Slaves of Solitude–I read it earlier this year and was very impressed by Hamilton! I have certain books for reading while walking on the treadmill or reading in bed–and how hefty they are usually comes into play! I’m in line for the Hilary Mantel book–I’ve heard good things about it so far.

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  9. I used to read a lot of books simultaneously until I began to realize that I was losing track of the books I was reading. Sometimes it’s good to set a book aside for a few weeks in order to concentrate more on each individual volume.

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  11. I’m curious about the Karen Armstrong book. She’s one of my favorite religious writers, and I always learn so much from her. Also, enjoy the Patrick Hamilton (if you do stick with it); like Danielle, I read it earlier this year and really loved it.

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  13. I have Karen Armstrong’s The History of God, and really enjoyed it–but it was slow going for me, definitely! I’m that way about non-fiction too–must be fully awake to read it. Looks like you’re reading some great books these days :)

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