What are you reading?

Enterprising Images: The Goodridge Brothers, African American Photographers (1847 - 1922) by John Jezierski

The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama.

Bought Eat, Pray, Love; To Kill a Mockingbird; and the Perks of Being a Wallflower (sorry, they're upstairs. Forgot their proper titles and spellings) at Waterstone's today. I really need to stop buying books, though!  

The Art of Happiness by the Dali Lama. Bought Eat, Pray, Love; To Kill a Mockingbird; and the Secret Life of a Wallflower at Waterstone's today. I really need to stop buying books, though! 

It is a bad habit 

It is a bad habit 

Yeah, good and bad rolled into one. I reckon I'm really gonna have to stop, though. I don't relish the thought of being completely skint like I used to do when I was in my 20s. Oh life!

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory which I picked up at Oxfam.  Next will be the movie.  I was taught to read the book first, then watch the movie.

I watched an interview with Philippa Gregory on BBC Breakfast last week.  She does an incredible amount of research for her books.  Her purpose is to reveal the role that women played in influencing events and shaping history. 

There's a saying which I love:  Behind every successful man stands a woman.

Yeah, good and bad rolled into one. I reckon I'm really gonna have to stop, though. I don't relish the thought of being completely skint like I used to do when I was in my 20s. Oh life!

Ha, I won some high street vouchers for filling out a survey and thought "excellent, I will use this to buy some of the stuff we need at Boots, what a saving!". Then I walked by Waterstones.
Oh well, there are more harmful addictions out there.

I avoid bookshops as much as possible (also garden centers and wool shops  ) because I know if I go in I will not come out empty handed.
Must get into the library mode again -- but I really like having paperbacks to read on the T and library paperbacks and always so manky.

I've started buying ebooks and now it's like I have a bookshop in my pocket at all times! I'm never going to have spending money for anything else every again.

I'm currently reading Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot. It's a chick-lit about a former teen Pop Idol who gets a job as an RA at a college dorm after her mother steals all her money, her label drops her 'cause she wants to sing her own songs, and she catches her fiance with the latest Pop Idol. And then girls start dying in the dorm *dun-dun-DUN*

I haven't read any of her teen books (Princess Diaries and whatnot) but her adult book heroines tend to read the same: first person narative, good-hearted and trying to see the best in people, average intelligence but no street smarts, easily embarrassed by sex, full of not-always-reliable trivia that she "read somewhere".  I'm not sure the book is worth what I paid for it, but I'm 61% of the way through and it's increasingly entertaining.

Book Mooch is great if you don't want to spend your life's savings on books! I've only used it a bit, but I really like it.

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory which I picked up at Oxfam.  Next will be the movie.  I was taught to read the book first, then watch the movie.

I watched an interview with Philippa Gregory on BBC Breakfast last week.  She does an incredible amount of research for her books.  Her purpose is to reveal the role that women played in influencing events and shaping history. 

There's a saying which I love:  Behind every successful man stands a woman.

This is one of the few books turned into movies that I really, really like, because they were faithful to the book itself. I also thought Like Water for Chocolate (book and movie) were really, really great as well.

I'm re-reading The Joy Luck Club for the umpteenth time. Old standby, found it at a charity shop!

I'm reading The Historian.  Only on Chapter 5 but it seems pretty bleh right now.  I'm wondering if it gets better or if this will be a few hundred pages of my life wasted.

I'm reading The Historian.  Only on Chapter 5 but it seems pretty bleh right now.  I'm wondering if it gets better or if this will be a few hundred pages of my life wasted.

I completely love The Historian, but I can see how it wouldn't be to everyone's taste.  It is pretty slow-moving at the beginning, but I love the detail and the writing style, and how it's creepy and eerie rather than gory or outright scary.

I completely love The Historian, but I can see how it wouldn't be to everyone's taste.  It is pretty slow-moving at the beginning, but I love the detail and the writing style, and how it's creepy and eerie rather than gory or outright scary.

I loved it too! I do remember that it took a little while to get into, but I was sad to see it come to an end.

I completely love The Historian, but I can see how it wouldn't be to everyone's taste.  It is pretty slow-moving at the beginning, but I love the detail and the writing style, and how it's creepy and eerie rather than gory or outright scary.

I agree! I also have to give myself a bit of time between readings, because I get too into the story and keep looking over my shoulder because I spook myself out. I also get sad when it ends, though!