What are you reading?

Mrs. Dalloway

ooooo, how's that going? I read it in college and liked it, but I remember everyone in my (very small) class being slightly shell-shocked by the end.
Of course, we had also read "Chimera", "Going after Cacciato", and "Underworld" for the same course, so bemused expressions were commonplace.

ooooo, how's that going?

I actually finished it last night after I posted and I have to say that it's probably going into my All-Time Top 10 list. What a beautifully-written book! Each sentence took my breath away.

shell-shocked

Did you mean that to be funny? 

I'm about to start Colm Toibin's Brooklyn.

I just started reading "Shirley" by Charlotte Bronte.  Anyone else read this?  Did you like it?  I've gotten through the (long) introduction and basically it says don't expect Jane Eyre (I wasn't really), that there are few to no likeable characters, that there isn't really a central character, blah blah.  I made it sound really unenjoyable.  I'll give it a chance, though.

A 1000 Splendid Suns

That's a great book. Let me know how many times you cried when you finish

Oooh, I saw the movie and really liked it. Let us know if it's any good. It's a weird concept for a story.

I will. It is a bit "different" but interesting so far.

The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor

Too Big To Fail - about Lehman.  It reads like fiction, so scary that it's not.

I recently read The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert which was quite good, followed by The Ivy Chronicles by Karen Quinn which was not. What possessed me to go for chick-lit, I have no idea, except that maybe I needed something light after The Dark Room and the holocaust. But The Ivy Chronicles was so awful that I feel as I ate something bad and still can't get the nasty taste out of my mouth.

Now I'm reading Making Conversation by Christine Longford. It's so gentle and funny and sweet.

I recently read The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel by Maureen Lindley. It was awful. Now I'm onto The Visible World by Mark Slouka. So far, I'm undecided, but I haven't got very far in yet.

I just started reading "Shirley" by Charlotte Bronte.  Anyone else read this?  Did you like it?  I've gotten through the (long) introduction and basically it says don't expect Jane Eyre (I wasn't really), that there are few to no likeable characters, that there isn't really a central character, blah blah.  I made it sound really unenjoyable.  I'll give it a chance, though.

This is why I never read the introductions until I have already finished the book. I hate spoilers and don't like reading others people's opinions of a work before I have decided for myself. 

I read Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris last night. Very funny, raunchy, and just plain fun. Exactly what I needed after a hectic weekend. 

The Long Way Round, by Ewan McGregor and Charly Boorman. Seems pretty good just now, but, I've only just started.

Sophia Kinsella's latest "Twenties Girl"

The Guides of the Chalet School by Jane Berry (a dear friend of Em's). It's a fill-in title for the Chalet School series by Elinor Brent-Dyer. A real 1920's flavour 

Yesterday I read a children's version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Pynchon's The Cry Lot of 49 and Gravity's Rainbow