What are you reading?

Is it all chick-lit? Romance stuff? I like the concept!

Is it all chick-lit? Romance stuff? I like the concept!

Not chick-lit in the sense that it's all really well-written great stuff -- not throw-away beach reading. And not all romance, either. In fact, most of it isn't.

Jodi Picoult Vanishing Act

Okay, ladies, I completely recommend this book to you: Straight Up and Dirty by Stephanie Klein.  I'm reading it for my book club and just started it this afternoon and cannot put it down.  It's a very witty memoir.  If you enjoy Sex and the City, you'll enjoy it!

I second this recommendation.  I just finished reading Straight Up and Dirty and it's such a good book!!  The author's website (blog) is also very interesting http://stephanieklein.blogs.com/.

Is it all chick-lit? Romance stuff? I like the concept!

An English prof at George Mason has a blog that discusses the difference between Virago and Persephone as houses and what they like to publish. It's an opinion that maybe not all fans of Persephone might agree with though (warning!)

It helps to read her earlier post first to get her "terms":

"An archeaology of women's experience: 20th century, 2nd half"
http://server4.moody.cx/index.php?id=512

"Persephone and Ceres"
http://server4.moody.cx/index.php?id=299

"Persephone v. Virago Books"
http://www.moody.cx/index.php?id=514

Fingersmith-- sarah waters   (book club selection  for the month) 

What did you think,azroomie?  I liked it.  Kind of like the Crimson Petal and the White.

I'm re-reading one of my favourite books of all time, With Malice Toward Some by Margaret Halsey. It's sort of a semi-fictional diary of the American wife of an American university lecturer who comes to work in the UK for a year. It's full of really witty (and sometimes quite biting) observations about the British. It was written in 1938, but I think a lot of it still applies! I wanted to post a link here, but the book has been out of print for so long that I couldn't find one. I bought my copy at a library sale many years ago. If anyone can find a copy somewhere, I highly recommend it! 

Just ordered it off Amazon.com for $.70.  Shipping was $10!  Sounded too good to miss..it will be my Christmas reading.

Just ordered it off Amazon.com for $.70. 

 

I'm reading Wuthering Heights...again.  Not really sure why, as I'm not liking it any more this go round than any of the other times I've read it.  I just keep thinking I must be missing something...

I'm reading Wuthering Heights...again.  Not really sure why, as I'm not liking it any more this go round than any of the other times I've read it.  I just keep thinking I must be missing something...

that happened to me the last time I read it too!!  I found I was getting lost in the language, in a good way - I was loving the language, but it was frustrating me.  When I read it a long time ago, I focussed on the story and characters.   I've come to the conclusion that Victorian lit is like an impressionist painting; if you look at too closely, it doesn't make sense but if you distance yourself from it, the picture becomes quite clear.

Im reading The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks it is a follow up to The Notebook. so far it is a really great book. When I read The Notebook I couldnt put it down. Im not that much of a book reader either but I highly recomend reading it though.

I love Nicholas Sparks books...I can't put them down...I just read "A Night in Rodanthe" by him...it was one of the best books...

I'm re-reading one of my favourite books of all time, With Malice Toward Some by Margaret Halsey. It's sort of a semi-fictional diary of the American wife of an American university lecturer who comes to work in the UK for a year. It's full of really witty (and sometimes quite biting) observations about the British. It was written in 1938, but I think a lot of it still applies! I wanted to post a link here, but the book has been out of print for so long that I couldn't find one. I bought my copy at a library sale many years ago. If anyone can find a copy somewhere, I highly recommend it! 

I thought this sounded good, so I just ordered it off of Amazon as well- it cost me $5.44 with shipping.  I just finished reading MC Beaton's new book Love, Lies, and Liquor (love MC Beaton) and am currently reading I'm A Believer by Jessica Adams (it's not very good).