What ARE you READING? (2026)

[Jark]

DP

 

[Suedehead]

I really loved Less, it was so funny and charming. I never bothered with Less is Lost though since it just sounds like more of the same... he does have a new book out I've noticed but I think it sounds a bit overly cosy...

Less was wonderful. Loss is Lost, not so much.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Fruit Fly on the other hand…..

I've just abandoned it. Awful.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

THE END OF EVERYTHING

Despised this too. It sets up an interesting premise and then just doesn't bother to do anything with it. Sets up a ton of mysteries and doesn't even attempt to explain them.

I've since learned that the author has never had much of a relationship with PLOT

Need to find a nice safe read because three duds in a row is never fun.

 

[FannyFaudrey]

An old classic: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.

 

[jyxz]

I've just abandoned it. Awful.

Yet seems to be riding high and almost universally loved everywhere I look.

Glad I wasn’t the only one to hate it.

 

[jyxz]

Currently hate reading the evilly long (672 pages ) Doom Painting by AK Blakemore. I’m only persevering as it’s an ARC. I absolutely ADORED their last book (The Glutton) but this one just isn’t my bag - 1381 Peasants revolt anyone?

 

[Suedehead]

Fruit Fly is my book of the year. Oh!!!

 

[Joseph]

Knocking this out today. Already a 10/10 read.

 

[Mark R 3]

Karen Kingsbury - One Tuesday Morning.

 

[Suedehead]

Just finished this. One of the most moving but equally unsettling books I've ever read. Surprised I'd never heard of it given the fact that I now officially have a postgraduate degree in the 'ARTS'

 

[jyxz]

New book delivery

 

[jyxz]

Also

Currently reading ‘Dodge City’ by Patrick DeWitt and it’s such a palate cleanser from Taiwan Travelogue that I had to read for my book club.

 

[Shirley]

I read THE LONELINESS OF SONIA AND SUNNY by KIRAN DESAI which was really good if very long

Now I am reading BUCKEYE by PATRICK RYAN

Yes it's obviously FAMILY DRAMAS SEASON

 

[Sardonicus]

that I had to read for my book club.

 

[jyxz]

I read THE LONELINESS OF SONIA AND SUNNY by KIRAN DESAI which was really good if very long

Now I am reading BUCKEYE by PATRICK RYAN

Yes it's obviously FAMILY DRAMAS SEASON

I thought Buckeye was really good

 

[Whatevar]

I’m reading that one about Facebook. Quite good so far.

 

[Suedehead]

about 50 pages in and enjoying it so far

 

[Suedehead]

Disclaimer - I loved Shuggie Bain but Young Mungo was a DNF for me

 

[Debbie Jellinsky]

I didn't finish John of John, all that doom and gloom and gay misery got on my nerves after a while.

 

[Suedehead]

I didn't finish John of John, all that doom and gloom and gay misery got on my nerves after a while.

 

[Shirley]

I thought Buckeye was really good

IT WAS. I didn't realise it involved and was written by THE GAYS

Just got THE THINGS WE NEVER SAY by ELIZABETH STROUT out of the library which just proves it is worth LYING ON THE FLOOR RUMMAGING IN THE BOTTOM SHELF OF THE BOOK TROLLEY even if you do look like a MADMAN

 

[Apoca]

This one is quite interesting. In a way, it’s a very balmy read and frames winter or fallow times quite nicely but as it progresses, the saxophones of privilege are getting louder.

 

[Shirley]

Just got THE THINGS WE NEVER SAY by ELIZABETH STROUT out of the library which just proves it is worth LYING ON THE FLOOR RUMMAGING IN THE BOTTOM SHELF OF THE BOOK TROLLEY even if you do look like a MADMAN

Well this was a good read as expected but possibly not her best. Just felt the characterizations were a little slight, but we can't always have OLIVE KITTERIDGE

Then I read THIS

which was a bit more like it

I went to the COUNCIL ESTATE LIBRARY for a change so UP NEXT it's

I see HARRISON won the BOOKER. Oh Jarv and Mary

 

[Shirley]

Goodness that was good. SO EXCITING

Got THIS from the library, I'm ON A ROLL at the moment

 

[jyxz]

Currently reading (and so far loving) this

A raw, propulsive and hilarious novel by a wildly talented new queer writer that gives us a new kind of antihero – an unhinged twink grappling with existence in 2016 Britain.

It’s the end of 2015. For our narrator, every day is mostly the same; a visit to the local corner shop to retrieve a blue plastic bag of wine and off-brand cheese puffs before falling into the sofa crevice to get drunk, get high, and stare at the television.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Currently reading (and so far loving) this

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A raw, propulsive and hilarious novel by a wildly talented new queer writer that gives us a new kind of antihero – an unhinged twink grappling with existence in 2016 Britain.

It’s the end of 2015. For our narrator, every day is mostly the same; a visit to the local corner shop to retrieve a blue plastic bag of wine and off-brand cheese puffs before falling into the sofa crevice to get drunk, get high, and stare at the television.

Get that fox to the INFAMOUS XXX SEXY DOG LONGE

 

[jyxz]

Get that fox to the INFAMOUS XXX SEXY DOG LONGE

Is there a DEAD sub-forum?

 

[FannyFaudrey]

I'm feeling rather frazzled by the state of the world among other things, so I'm treating myself to some "cosy Christmas crime".

 

[jivafox]

Finished this last night, liked it a lot. A scamming gold digger gets turfed out by her rich boyfriend during a summer on Long Island and instead of going back to the city she stays behind and spends the week before Labour Day drifting and plotting and scheming her way into the sad pathetic lives of the lonely rich people who are unfortunate enough to cross her path.