What are you reading?

Next I'll either read The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton or Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

Both excellent choices!

I'm reading some chick lit now!  "How To Walk In High Heels" by Camilla Morton.  It is funny and quite instructive.  Good, light, interesting reading.

June

Hey June,

I just saw your posts on trying to get through "The Scarlett Letter" and empathize with your pain. Though it's kind of odd, the way I used to get through the more dry classics was to literally read them out loud to myself. Also, watching a good film version of a book that is pretty close to the book and then trying to finish helps a lot. The BBC version of P&P (with the hunky Mr. Firth  ) helped me finish the novel because it allowed me to see the language better.

Just a thought!

Practically Perfect by Katie Fforde (my only chick-lit guilty pleasure).

Hey June,

I just saw your posts on trying to get through "The Scarlett Letter" and empathize with your pain. Though it's kind of odd, the way I used to get through the more dry classics was to literally read them out loud to myself. Also, watching a good film version of a book that is pretty close to the book and then trying to finish helps a lot. The BBC version of P&P (with the hunky Mr. Firth  ) helped me finish the novel because it allowed me to see the language better.

Just a thought!

I watched the movie and from what I saw, it was nothing like the book!  So, I'm still debating whether I want to finish it or not.  Thanks for the idea though

June

Just started reading 2 books, "How to survive your mother" by Jonathan Maitland and "The velvet rooms" by Sam North.  Velvet rooms is based on characters in a on line chat room and the Jonathan Maitland book is a riveting true account by a Maitland who is a Journalist and reporter on a consumer show about his rather unusal mother.  Will give a review when I finsh both.

I'm reading The Gun Seller by the one and only Hugh Laurie! 

Just finished In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Foods. Food, politics and religion. 

Just finished In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Foods. Food, politics and religion. 

Sounds like a great book!  Serious.  I'd love to get my hands on this one.  Who is it by?

June

I liked it!

Stewart Lee Allen is the author. ISBN 0345 44015 3

Thanks!

Started reading Ali Smith's The Accidental yesterday -- having a hard time remembering the last time a book grated on my last nerve the way this one is doing, but I'm 2 or 3 chapters in so I feel committed now.  Hope it gets better.  Struggling presently to see what all the hoopla was about over this.

Just finished Restless by William Boyd and am in the middle of The Book Thief.

I am currently reading "The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel" by Jed Rubenfeld.  I only started it this morning but so far so good.  It seems promising.

June

I am currently reading "The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel" by Jed Rubenfeld.  I only started it this morning but so far so good.  It seems promising.

I bought that book a couple of weeks ago, but haven't read it yet. Let me know how it goes!