What are you reading?

Just started Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters. Loving it! Really like this soooo much better than The Little Stranger. That one was so slow and took ages to really pique my interest, but this one sucked me in from the beginning.

Love the book and DH got me the dvd while we were still LDR'ing!

Love the book and DH got me the dvd while we were still LDR'ing!

I didn't know there was a dvd. I can only imagine how interesting THAT must be.  I'm sure DH wouldn't mind sitting through that one with me... LOL. 

I'm reading Dark Matter by Greg Iles. I don't like this one nearly as much as some of the others he has written, but its okay.  Picked up a few other paperbacks from the market today that look interesting... hopefully good holiday reads! 

I didn't know there was a dvd. I can only imagine how interesting THAT must be.  I'm sure DH wouldn't mind sitting through that one with me... LOL. 

I'm reading Dark Matter by Greg Iles. I don't like this one nearly as much as some of the others he has written, but its okay.  Picked up a few other paperbacks from the market today that look interesting... hopefully good holiday reads! 

Hee!!! Yes, indeed, the dvd's great!

 I picked up Geisha, by Liza Dalby; So You Don't Want to Go to Church-I can't remember the authors' names and Russian Concubine-again, can't remember the author's name. Picked those 3 up on Saturday with the drapes. Also picked up a compilation of Rosamunde Pilcher novels, and Rebecca, by Daphne Du Morier. I probably misspelled her name.

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese.  Delicious!  The setting so far is in Ethiopia.  If The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns were dishes of ice cream, Verghese's book is a hot fudge sundae.

DH brought me the paper back of The Girl who kicked the Hornet's Nest as seems all they have available here is large-print version of this one.
DS found the Swedish film on pay-per-view but we just had to laugh as it reminded us of the Swedish Chef on the Muppets (no offense to Swedish-speakers) 

Skippy Dies-Paul Murray

Katie Fforde's "Artistic License".  I don't read much stuff like this at all, but it looked good and mentioned Ireland and art.  So far it's alright, but seems to be lacking something to make it really good.

I'm in the middle of four books, a situation I'm really not happy about.

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie. Absolutely amazing and riveting. But I had to put it aside a couple of weeks ago before I went on holiday because it's a heavy volume and I didn't want to lug it around with me.

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell. Wonderfully charming, but when I got to page 186, the next 50 pages were missing! They hadn't fallen out; they were just never printed. So that's on hold until I can get to the library to find a complete copy.

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake. I'm reading this (the entire trilogy, actually) for one of my book groups, and I'm LOATHING it. So I'm putting it aside until I'm in a more tolerant frame of mind.

A London Family Between the Wars by M.V. Hughes. This is what I picked up to help me recover from the traumas of Gormenghast, and I'm so glad I did. It's exactly what I needed. An easy read, but sweet, gentle and, above all, completely comforting.

Katie Fforde's "Artistic License".  I don't read much stuff like this at all, but it looked good and mentioned Ireland and art.  So far it's alright, but seems to be lacking something to make it really good.

I find her books readable, especially for times when I need something light to read, but it's not great literature or anything.  She can be entertaining, but I've read at least one of her books that wasn't even that.  They're just slightly elevated romance novels, but that's okay.  We need stuff like hers sometimes. :-D

Just finished Philippa Gregory's White Queen. I had never read any PG before, but I found the characters in this one a bit wooden. Are any of her other works worth reading, or is it always like that?

I find her books readable, especially for times when I need something light to read, but it's not great literature or anything.  She can be entertaining, but I've read at least one of her books that wasn't even that.  They're just slightly elevated romance novels, but that's okay.  We need stuff like hers sometimes. :-D

Yep, I totally agree. 

Pandora's Daughter by Iris Johansen.

Just finished Philippa Gregory's White Queen. I had never read any PG before, but I found the characters in this one a bit wooden. Are any of her other works worth reading, or is it always like that?

I love and own The Other Boylen Girl. I've skimmed over her other volumes in the bookstores and the library but I've never felt compelled to make a purchase, or even borrow anything of hers from the library. Thing is, I WANT to like more of her works because I like Other Boylen Girl so much, but I can't do it. :/ Don't know how helpful that is!

Oh, and currently reading Cocaine Nights by JG Ballard.

Just finished Philippa Gregory's White Queen. I had never read any PG before, but I found the characters in this one a bit wooden. Are any of her other works worth reading, or is it always like that?

Her stuff gets donated to my charity shop frequently.  Don't know if that means it's not good enough to keep.