What are you reading?

The Rose of Sebastopol by Katherine McMahon. Bit of a bodice-ripper but it's about the Crimean War and that's an era you don't run into too often in historical novels.

Messiah by Boris Starling.  I haven't had time to get to the library so I raided BF's bookshelf for something in the meantime.  So far I'm enjoying it.

I just finished "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese.  Great book.  Also read "The Book Thief" by Markus Zuzak which I enjoyed. Looking for a next novel.....

I just finished "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese.  Great book. 

Oh, it really was great!

I'm loving Purple Hibiscus. I highly recommend it.

Also read "The Book Thief" by Markus Zuzak which I enjoyed. Looking for a next novel.....

I liked that one.

I picked up "Best Friends Forever" by Jennifer Weiner at the airport on the way home (my phone/ebook reader battery was dead). I'd seen the movie "In Her Shoes" on a free pass - I used to work next door to a cinema and we'd get leftover advanced screening tickets - and hadn't much cared for it, so I'd given Weiner's books a pass but lately an author I like has been talking about how much she loves her and her books (they toured together and are still friends) so I picked it up and now I have 3 books going that I want to read at the same time!  Well, four if you count "Notes from a Small Country" but I'm not exactly dying to pick it up again...

I'm also re-reading The Wind in the Willows. 

I liked that one.

I picked up "Best Friends Forever" by Jennifer Weiner

Quick, fun - as I have found most of hers to be.

I'm double dipping - Hooked on Stieg Larsson. Currently "The Girl Who Played with Fire". Also just got and started "How Lucky Can You Be: The Story of Coach Don Meyer" by Buster Olney. Would highly recommend the latter as a holiday gift - particularly to any basketball fans in your life. Amazing story of a coach who has overcome massive obstacles in the last year-ish and lived to tell.

I'm also re-reading The Wind in the Willows. 

Love, love this book.   It's even better to read as an adult than as a child.

"As he hurried along, eagerly anticipating the moment when he would be at home again among the things he knew and liked, the Mole saw clearly that he was an animal of tilled field and hedgerow, linked to the ploughed furrow, the frequented pasture, the lane of evening lingerings, the culivated garden plot.  For others the asperities, the stubborn endurance, or the clash of actual conflict, that went with Nature in the rough; he must be wise, must keep to the pleasant places in which his lines were laid and which held adventure enough, in their way, to last a lifetime." 

The Death of Grass-John Christopher

Finally started Heartstone by C. J. Sansom.   

Just finished Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler. Hated it! 

Now I am working on The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. I'm holding my opinion till I finish. 

Just finished Dissolution by C.J. Sansom and have started Fall of Giants by Ken Follett, which should keep me occupied for quite a while.

Finally started Heartstone by C. J. Sansom.   

Ooooh, I like him.  I'm reading "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. It's really, really good.  Solid fantasy, but I'm finding myself very, very attached to the characters in it (at one point I got teary eyed! The only other books that make me cry are by Louisa May Alcott!)

I keep Wind in the Willows lying around (laying around?) and pop it open randomly almost every day. My favorite part is at the beginning when ratty takes mole on the picnic, and mole unpacks the hamper. A warm clearing by the river and all kinds of little pots of goodies...

I am just getting to eat pray love by Elizabeth Gilbert -  so far I am loving it