What are you reading?

Hope they show it again this year.

It's available on DVD!  I think I got it for Christmas last year.  It's nice not to have the million-and-one adverts ITV always crams in at the end

Disgrace by J.M Coetzee

We read that in our book club.  Let me know what you thought when you're finished?

Jewlz lent me the Sookie Stackhouse books, and I just finished the first one. Pretty good, so far, though I'm waiting for them to get into the non-TV stuff.

Jewlz lent me the Sookie Stackhouse books, and I just finished the first one. Pretty good, so far, though I'm waiting for them to get into the non-TV stuff.

Once you get to the third or fourth book, you get into more non-TV stuff, though some things in the TV series they pulled from the last few books (like the fairy stuff, which doesn't come into play in the books until the ninth book or so). It's all mixed up now. 

Jewlz lent me the Sookie Stackhouse books, and I just finished the first one. Pretty good, so far, though I'm waiting for them to get into the non-TV stuff.

Right on! I love the Sookie Stackhouse books. They are a super easy read and I got totally addicted to them, I read the first 9 books in about 2 weeks


I am going to start in on a copy of Wicked next. I really want to see the show so I figure I best get cracking on reading the book! 

At work: Postcards by E. Annie Proulx

At home: Careless in Red by Elizabeth George.  (Love the Insp. Lynley books but not the TV series)

We read that in our book club.  Let me know what you thought when you're finished?

Sure thing!

(Love the Insp. Lynley books but not the TV series)

Me too! The books are so much better!

Have you read the latest one, This Body of Death? I'm waiting until Feb when it comes out in paperback.

I'm about to start Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad for my book group. I'm not sure why, but I don't think I'll like it.

The Girl With Glass Feet by Ali Shaw.  I'm not too far into it yet.  It's a little slow, but I am enjoying it so far.

Has anyone ever done Book Crossing, where you tag your book with a code, put it somewhere in public, and someone else comes along and registers it online with the barcode and you can track it?  Sort of like 'Where's George" crossed with geocaching.  I heard about it the other day and was wondering how it worked in practice.

Actually, while I'm throwing out online bookstuffs is anyone on Goodreads?

Oh wait, I came onto this thread sideways and I see BookCrossing has its own thread.  Whoops.  Excuse me while I go pour over that.

The Girl With Glass Feet by Ali Shaw.  I'm not too far into it yet.  It's a little slow, but I am enjoying it so far.

Has anyone ever done Book Crossing, where you tag your book with a code, put it somewhere in public, and someone else comes along and registers it online with the barcode and you can track it?  Sort of like 'Where's George" crossed with geocaching.  I heard about it the other day and was wondering how it worked in practice.

Actually, while I'm throwing out online bookstuffs is anyone on Goodreads?

I'm not on Goodreads, but I adore librarything.com

Currently reading a few CJ Sansom mysteries. Quite fun, I must admit. Just finished writing a review for Alan Bradley's newest Flavia de Luce mysteries, which are absolutely amazing. Highly recommended.

The Shardlake series by Sansom is topnotch.  Can't wait for the latest.

Have you read the latest one, This Body of Death? I'm waiting until Feb when it comes out in paperback.

I didn't know Elizabeth George had a new book published.  Will keep my eye out for the paperback in February, if I can wait that long.

I prefer the books over the TV series as well.

Done with "You shall know our velocity" and just started "Dark Angel" by Geoffrey Archer.

About to finish A Traitor to Memory by Elizabeth George.  Not really enjoying it all that much, but I have to see it through to the end.  This is my first book by her so I don't know if I just don't like this one or I don't like the way she writes, particularly the characters.  Most of them are annoying.

ETA:  I like the police people well enough, but she has this one American character in this book who is supposed to be from California and she seems a bit contrived.  I think that's part of what's putting me off.