Books you're currently reading???

[DanaC]

What was My Friend Leonard like? I almost bought that a few months ago.

I ended up going back down to Leicester again Yesterday to see Sundae, have a few beers and help her with a few other bits and bats (trips to the city dump, and old clothes to the charity shop etc) .....mainly it was for a few beers and a laugh though:P Anyway....what am I writing about?....oh yeah, whilst there she loaned me a few books that I haven't read. So, on the train back, I started Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. What a superb book. It's basically a detective/mystery type story, but that doesn't do it justice. The mystery is the backdrop, what's important is the characters and the intertwining stories of human relationships, love, loss and growing up/old.

It's a really bitter sweet book. I found myself chuckling a few times on the train....but at times I also had to put the book down and get ahold of myself, cause I felt like I was about to start sobbing. Tears pricking the backs of my eyes, the whole works. Two and a half hour train journey and the book was halfway finished.