What are you reading?

she's come undone-- wally lamb

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.

The first time I read it, I was alone in my flat in Prague.  I actually had to leave all the lights on downstairs when I went up to bed, because I was scared to turn my back on the dark! 

I also get sad when it ends, though!

Me too!  You guys should read The Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova's latest book.  It has that same attention to detail and character study, and the same slow pace, but with a fantastic and really satisfying ending.  I highly recommend it. 

Me too!  You guys should read The Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova's latest book.  It has that same attention to detail and character study, and the same slow pace, but with a fantastic and really satisfying ending.  I highly recommend it. 

Cool, I didn't know she had a new book out. I'll have to keep an eye out for it! Thanks for the tip!

Trying to get through Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger, but not doing well.  I am also reading the Kate Atkison book When Will There Be Good News?  I am not sure if I've read her before or not.  I may have read an older book of hers when I was staying at my parents' house.  My dad is a detective/crime/thriller reader, so I read quite a few of those type books when I was there for a couple of months a few years ago.

I am also reading the Kate Atkison book When Will There Be Good News?  I am not sure if I've read her before or not.  I may have read an older book of hers when I was staying at my parents' house.  My dad is a detective/crime/thriller reader, so I read quite a few of those type books when I was there for a couple of months a few years ago.

Kate Atkinson is relatively new to the whole detective book thing. Before she started on her Jackson Brodie series (there are four books), she wrote other fiction, which was also good. You might have read Behind the Scenes at the Museum or Human Croquet? I really like her writing. Last week I went to a panel discussion with a couple of mystery writers and they were all in agreement that Kate Atkinson is a great example of "literary" crime fiction.

I just finished The Lacuna and highly recommend it. Barbara Kingsolver is always brilliant and this one was truly wonderful.

Now I need something lighter (and shorter) so I'm going for Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years.

No I haven't, but I will try to check them out.

I told DH about The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova, so we went and bought it yesterday.    He's the one that suggested I read The Historian, so we're both looking forward to this one. Thanks Historyenne!

I told DH about The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova, so we went and bought it yesterday.    He's the one that suggested I read The Historian, so we're both looking forward to this one. Thanks Historyenne!

You're welcome!  Let me know what you think of it!

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*

Oh, I read that one! It was amusing and kept me fairly anesthetized at a pretty horrific time.

Oh, I read that one! It was amusing and kept me fairly anesthetized at a pretty horrific time.

Her characters really grow on me   I'm on the second one now.

I read those Meg Cabot books too.  They're a weird mix of books and total eye wash, but not horribly written.

I read the latest Faye Kellerman, which was..okay.  I've read better, but I've been reading her for years (as with Jonathan) so I feel the need to continue with them, despite the books not being all that great.

I'm in the middle of reading Demille's latest, the Lion.  So far I want to say better than Night Fall, Wild Fire, and certainly the Gate House..but whether it's better than Plum Island, or the Lion's Game..not sure yet.

I've just started A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book.

Still working on Lynda Barry's Cruddy (), but as I am still sick, I think I'll be working on the Dexter trilogy soon.....

I just finished Jennifer Crusie's latest, Maybe This Time.  Crusie was never happy with the way the Governess in Henry James' Turn of the Screw stoicly carried on without sending for help so she wrote a book about a high school teacher who is hired by her ex-husband to get his recently-orphaned wards up to speed education-wise and figure out what's going on at the creepy old mansion in the back of beyond where they've been living.

If you're not familiar with Crusie, she tends to be witty (though this one lacked the laugh-out-loud every 5 minutes quality that most of her books have) and never writes the same book twice. Chick lit from a woman with a PhD in feminist studies and literature? Who'd'a'thunk.