What book are you reading at the moment, who is the author and what made you want to read it and did you enjoy it?

My lastest read is:

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction

It is based at the time if the civil war in Nigeria in 1960 and how three lives intersect with one another. One is the house boy Ugwu, second in Olanna, who married the master of the house boy and the third is Richard the boyfriend of her sister. It is a bit slow to begin with, until you get to know the charactures then it becomes absorbing as the war breaks out and what some of us remember as Biafra is written about. The ending is abrupt and you want it to finish by telling you where all the charactures are, but you are left wondering.

I chose this book because I wanted to read something difference from my usual type of real life stories. The front cover also catches you eye and the reviews are good.

I enjoyed reading it, not the best book I have read, but all the same contains some very interesting description.

I have just read 'sevdalim hayat -zulfu livaneli'.(it is turkish btw)
It is about his life, his memories.
It is a kind of book as soon as you start to read, you want to finish it.

The second book I am still reading is 'The God delusion-Richard Dawkins'

I've just finished Jodi Picoult 'Nineteen Minutes'. A wonderful read!

In the meantime, I keep reading websites with baby names...a tedious, dull and, above all, irritating read

I am still trying - and mostly failing - to read some assorted Turkish children's book that I have.......

I am sooooo excited. Just picked up the new "Fearless Fourteen" by Janet Evanovich...

The Stolen Child....Kevin Donohue. It is kind of a strange book but I can't seem to put it down. It is about a boy who is stolen by a changeling and how their lives intersect. It is oddly fascinating and quite a departure from my usual repertoire of historical fiction.

Now I am reading these classic novels=

1-Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
2-Adolphe by Benjamin Constant
3-Victoria by Knut Hamsun
4-The Stranger by Albert Camus
5-White Nights by Dostoyevski
6-Yeşil Gece by Reşat Nuri Güntekin
7-Huzur by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar