What are you reading?

I read it for the first time a few years ago and it became my new favorite book!

It's definitely higher up on my list than it was! I think it might be because I understand the language and the context much better than I did back then.

I read that for the first time a couple of months ago. I had problems with the male characters in the book, but I quite liked Jane!

Same. I really, really like her. 

Just finished reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo on holiday and started the sequel.
~Excellent book, I couldn't put it down and it's been a whilse since I last read a book.

Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper. It's SF, set in the distant future when humans are colonizing planets. Certain protects are afforded planets that are already inhabited by sapient beings, but other planets can be contracted by companies who own the rights to all exports. On one of the later planets, 25 years down the road, a possibly sapient species of adorable, friendly, small, fuzzy animals are found. Think Ewoks, but smaller and no-one finds them annoying.  The people who discovered them want them recognized as sapient and the people who run the company that stands to lose the planet (and export rights to a rare and very valuable rock found only on this plant), want them discredited and hunted into extinction as quickly as possible. Sounds familiar, right?

The nice thing is the book was published in 1962 and is in the public domain so you can read it for free. John Scalzi, one of my favourite SF writers just published (in the US) an updated version of the story called Fuzzy Nation so I'm reading the source material first 

Just finished reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo on holiday and started the sequel.
~Excellent book, I couldn't put it down and it's been a whilse since I last read a book.

I read the trilogy and absolutely loved all the books.  Then I bought the DVD's - didn't mind the subtitles.  They were very good. 

Have read Brat Farrar and The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey.  Am now reading The Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin for a book club.  This would be a good book to read at the beach.

Have read Brat Farrar and The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey. 

LOVE LOVE LOVE Josephine Tey.

However, I have to disagree about Steig Larsson. Ugh. The worst book in the world. Ever.

I'm still not finished The Woman in White and I don't want it to end. But I'm also reading Love Virtually by Daniel Glattauer - a German email love story.

Reading Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh. 

Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie - because I just went on a trip to her holiday house in Devon and this is one of the books she set there. It's a typical Christie, but I'm really enjoying the feeling of knowing exactly what the place looks like as she describes it!

Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie - because I just went on a trip to her holiday house in Devon and this is one of the books she set there. It's a typical Christie, but I'm really enjoying the feeling of knowing exactly what the place looks like as she describes it!

I looked at your blog post and loved it! We go to Dartmouth all the time for the regatta. Next year I am putting my foot down and going to visit Greenway!

I'm reading a YA book "The Demon's Surrender", for review. Quite good, really.

Finally finished COMC. Overall I enjoyed it, though I felt the end was a bit rushed (perhaps that's just compared to the first 2/3 which seemed to be all setup).

Almost done with The Swan Kingdom, a YA retelling of The Wild Swans. Still enjoy Daughter of the Forest better, but this is significantly shorter. I'm relieved to be 90% through after 2 days, though, spending months on COMC had me doubting my ability to read quickly!

Just finished Gypsy Boy and am starting The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.

Finished The Swan Kingdom, now on to Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime based on other people in this thread. I'll probably multitask with something fiction-y, too, but so far it's really interesting.

Started The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber last night.  Oftentimes I'm a bit slow warming to a book, but this one has drawn me in from the very first sentence - hope it keeps on like that!  DH and I both enjoyed the TV adaptation of it recently - I think I might like the book even more.

Started The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber last night.  Oftentimes I'm a bit slow warming to a book, but this one has drawn me in from the very first sentence - hope it keeps on like that!  DH and I both enjoyed the TV adaptation of it recently - I think I might like the book even more.

I absolutely adored that book! And I tried really hard to like the TV adaptation, but I kind of thought it was awful. I'm no prude but, honestly, I don't need to see that many naked people.

I absolutely adored that book! And I tried really hard to like the TV adaptation, but I kind of thought it was awful. I'm no prude but, honestly, I don't need to see that many naked people.

I'm not sure what it says about me, but the fact that there were naked people barely registered.  I know they were there, but it's not something I spent any time thinking about. 

Started The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber last night.  Oftentimes I'm a bit slow warming to a book, but this one has drawn me in from the very first sentence - hope it keeps on like that!  DH and I both enjoyed the TV adaptation of it recently - I think I might like the book even more.

I'm reading this too, and for the same reason!  I loved the TV version.  Of course, my girl crush on Romola Garai is well documented  .

Just finished Gypsy Boy and am starting The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.

Ohh, Daughter of Time is one of my favourites!