What are you reading?

Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris. We can just assume I will be reading these books for a while, since I have 7 more to go after this one. 

Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris. We can just assume I will be reading these books for a while, since I have 7 more to go after this one. 

I just finished from Dead to Worse.....they are a good read..I think so anyways...

I just finished from Dead to Worse.....they are a good read..I think so anyways...

Yeah, I'm definitely enjoying them. Fast paced, lots of action and a bit of humour along with a few lusty vampire sex scenes... what more could you want? 

The Tenderness of Wolves - now that I've been sick for a week and living in my bed, I am reading a lot more when I'm not asleep. Is that a UP to being ill?

I just started The Crimson Petal and the White. Seeing as it's nearly 900 pages long, I probably won't be posting anything new here for some time. 

I just started The Crimson Petal and the White. Seeing as it's nearly 900 pages long, I probably won't be posting anything new here for some time. 

I got about 600 pages in and couldn't be bothered to finish it. 

I got about 600 pages in and couldn't be bothered to finish it. 

I'm about 100 pages in, and it's one of the best things I've read in ages! Fabulous! 

I just started The Crimson Petal and the White.

I loved this one!!   

I'm nearly finished with The Lacuna.  I think this is one of the first Barbara Kingsolver books that I'm actually breezing though - I normally find her books hard work.

I've not posted in this thread for a while, but I started a book this weekend and had to recommend it to people.  Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Post-War Britain is a pretty compulsive read.  It does suffer a bit from being the diaries of several people, and it's a bit hard to keep them straight, but it's really interesting and has given me insight into the thoughts of people in wartime Britain.  ETA: I am going to try to find the book the editor put together of wartime diaries after I finish this.  I wouldn't have picked this one up, but I am constantly on the lookout for this book I've seen (overpriced) on the inter-war years in Britain. Every library/secondhand shop I go to I look for it, and I came across this.

I've not posted in this thread for a while, but I started a book this weekend and had to recommend it to people.  Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Post-War Britain is a pretty compulsive read.

I'll keep a look-out for that one! I love World War II diaries and memoirs and have quite a few of them:

Betty's Wartime Diary, 1939-1945 by Nicholas Webley
We Are at War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times by Simon Garfield
Good Evening, Mrs.Craven: The Wartime Stories of Molly Panter-Downes and Minnie's Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes both by Molly Panter-Downes

Bon Appétit by Peter Mayle. I <3 his Provénce adventures with a passion.

Then I have a slew of graphic novels lined up for after that, and they're mainly by Neil Gaiman. I hadn't been paying attention and didn't realise that Crewe's library had such a good selection of graphic novels!

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.

Looks like no-one else is reading it.  It was pretty blah.  I've returned it and am now reading Charlotte Bronte's "The Professor" which is much better.

I'm about halfway through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and am not impressed.

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knewby Daniel Pool...for anyone who enjoys Victorian literature but doesn't always understand rules, customs, terms, etc. of the age, this book is for you.  It's a great read and is inspiring me to read Hardy, Eliot, Austen (I realized I've only seen the movies). 

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knewby Daniel Pool...for anyone who enjoys Victorian literature but doesn't always understand rules, customs, terms, etc. of the age, this book is for you.  It's a great read and is inspiring me to read Hardy, Eliot, Austen (I realized I've only seen the movies). 

Sigh ... another book to add to my ever-growing list. Thanks.