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Blue Shoes and Happiness ~Alexander McCall Smith

That sounds interesting - in particular to me because I bought a pair of blue shoes for my birthday and they bring me much happiness!  I wore them in Chicago last week and a woman stopped me in the Apple store and said 'those are the most beautiful shoes I've ever seen - where did you get them??'  She nearly cried when I said London.   

I am now trying to read The Prestige but may end up leaving it for my dad as he has started it here.  Am also rereading Inscrutable Americans by Anurag Mathur.

I highly recommend Alexander McCall Smith!!  This book is the 7th in The #1 Ladies Detective Agency Series, and I have loved them all. Light but not brainless, quick reads. Fabulous characters. Really worth a look!

Currently reading 'The Afterlife Experiments.' I will read just about anything, as my rather large collection of books will show, but I am deeply into paranormal studies at the moment.

Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella    Easy chick lit read.  It's okay not bowled over by it.  I didn't want anything heavy atm

Superstitious by Karen Robards

I highly recommend Alexander McCall Smith!!  This book is the 7th in The #1 Ladies Detective Agency Series, and I have loved them all. Light but not brainless, quick reads. Fabulous characters. Really worth a look!

I have read quite a few of these! Well written.

My current book was a Christmas present... To the Baltic with Bob by Griff Rhys Jones. I just started. I've traveled around the Baltics so I hope to have a good grasp of the story.

My last book was Speak Rwanda. I thought it was a good story set during the Rwandan genocide. I travelled there a couple of years ago so it was very easy to put a feeling the story I was reading.

My current book was a Christmas present... To the Baltic with Bob by Griff Rhys Jones. I just started. I've traveled around the Baltics so I hope to have a good grasp of the story.

Cool! He was speaking at the Hay Winter Festival last month, but it was sold out so we couldn't get tickets. I think he was promoting Semi-Detached (which I'd like to read), though, and not To the Baltic. The next day we bumped into him in the deli in Hay!

(which I'd like to read), though, and not To the Baltic.

yeah, it is a snoozer and not very funny.    330 pages to go whoo hoo!! I polished off some chick lit book over the weekend just to feel accomplished.

(which I'd like to read), though, and not To the Baltic.

yeah, it is a snoozer and not very funny.    330 pages to go whoo hoo!! I polished off some chick lit book over the weekend just to feel accomplished.

I just finished The Secret River by Kate Grenville, and have now started on The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama.

Just started A Year in the Life of TheManWhoFellAsleep by Greg Stekelman.

http://www.themanwhofellasleep.com/


Hmmmmm....

I just finished The Secret River by Kate Grenville, and have now started on The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama.

I really liked 'The Secret River'. Our book group has just discussed 'A Fine Balance' by Rohinton Mistry, which everyone enjoyed (for once!). Long but gripping read about India in the 1970s and how the very poor survive (or fall between the cracks) and how kind and generous people who have nothing are to each other. Moves from tragedy to black comedy between one sentence and the next.

A Fine Balance is one of my all-time favorite books ever.  It is so moving and funny and sad at the same time.  I absolutely love it.

Our book group has just discussed 'A Fine Balance' by Rohinton Mistry, which everyone enjoyed (for once!). Long but gripping read about India in the 1970s and how the very poor survive (or fall between the cracks) and how kind and generous people who have nothing are to each other. Moves from tragedy to black comedy between one sentence and the next.

I didn't enjoy the experience at all..

I didn't enjoy the experience at all..

It's sad but it's very honest, that's the way life in India is, often much much harder than what was described.  It's important I think.