What are you reading?

Foreign Correspondence by Geraldine Brooks. 

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.........Good book and the film does it no justice.....or does it?  So much in the book that they did not or could not put in the movie due to the violence it portrays....but guess that is the way movies go.....take care!!!!

Ten Days of Christmas by G.B. Stern. The perfect read for this week.

Just started English Passengers by Matthew Kneale for my first book club group. I picked this one, hopefully everyone will at least somewhat enjoy it!

I'm reading Terry Pratchett's Snuff on my kindle. I bout it when it first came out but I can't bring myself to read it because I hate navigating the footnotes. Blech.

Oh-oh!  I am already hooked on Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks, and I've only read chapter one.  I cannot recommend her books enough.  Foreign Correspondence was lovely.

Started The Postmistress by Sarah Blake. About the 2nd World War so thought it would be interesting.
But some of it makes me uneasy -- like she sets the main action in a town on Cape Cod (sounds like Provincetown) but names it "Franklin". Thing is, there is a Franklin, Massachusetts -- not on the Cape. If you want a fictitious town, why not give it a completely fictitious name? 
Some of her description of wartime London doesn't sound right to me either -- but couldn't really say why. But then she describes the appearance of "Keep Calm and Carry On" posters on buildings in London in 1941!! Although these were printed early in the war they were never displayed! Artistic license?

Artistic license?

Or lack of research?

I finished Freedom by Jonathan Franzen last week and then had a quick re-read of Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey. Now I'm in the middle of Summer in February by Jonathan Smith - they're filming it down here this month and it stars the dreamy Dan Stevens (Cousin Matthew from Downton Abbey). Part of the filming is at the home of a friend of mine, so I'm dropping  not-too-subtle hints about being invited round!

Now I'm in the middle of Summer in February by Jonathan Smith - they're filming it down here this month and it stars the dreamy Dan Stevens (Cousin Matthew from Downton Abbey). Part of the filming is at the home of a friend of mine, so I'm dropping  not-too-subtle hints about being invited round!

Fun! 

I'm reading The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

I just started Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon on my Kindle, and I love it!

8 Days To Live by Iris Johansen.

The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk. It's a great book so far!

BostonDiner- Those inconsistencies always annoy me!

Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France by Évelyne Lever is my current read. Now I keep on nagging DH for a trip to Versailles this Spring!

Just finished reading Jane Eyre then The Picture of Dorian Gray.

I've been reading a lot lately!

Try Anything Twice by Jan Struther
Coventry by Helen Humphreys (I really can't recommend this one highly enough)
Mr Tibbit's Catholic School by Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani (also very good)

And now I'm reading The Young Ardizzone - autobiographical memoir type thing about Ardizzone's youth, with his gorgeous gorgeous illustrations.

I'm reading The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

How is it? (No spoilers, please!) I'll be reading it in March for one of my book groups.