What are you reading?

101 Damnations, a collection of short essays by humourists on their own personal hells.

There's one in the book entitled 'Change is Hard' or something similar (don't have the book in front of me at the moment and I'm too lazy to run upstairs and get it), but it addresses one of my pet peeves.  Why oh why is it when you purchase something at the store, the cashier invariably places the bills/notes and receipt in your hand and then places the coins on TOP of the paper?  Why can't they put the coins in your hand first, with the paper on top?  I'm always left with purse/wallet/purchases in one hand, trying not to drop the coins that are sliding around on top of the relatively slippery paper in the other hand, all while trying to get out of the way of the person behind me in line!!! 

(Sorry, probably should have posted this in the 'Little Things That Make You Snap' thread instead!)

Vision of Light by Judith Merkle Riley. A great read about a woman, who has the rare gift of healing, who pens a book about her life in 13th Century England and then is tried as a heretic. 

The Art of Happiness - The Dalai Lama & Howard C Cutler MD

A friend gave me this for my birthday a year and a half ago and I still haven't finished it. It made me depressed. We agreed it was disappointing that it was a lot of the author's stories with a wee bit of Dalai Lama's philosophy.

I am reading Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox. It is a very amusing anthropology book. It just be a must read for people who want to move to England.

...and I am STILL trying to get through To the Baltic with Bob 

I am reading Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox.

Excellent read!

I'm reading Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland.

From the Scotland's Past in Action series, Spinning and Weaving.

A Summer Tide by Tony Peake.

Wicked

I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe.

Devoted Ladies by Molly Keane.

Year's Best SF8, Science Fiction collection from 2003.  (I'm a little behind the times...)

The Year of Yes by Maria Headley

So far so good.

I am reading Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox. It is a very amusing anthropology book. It just be a must read for people who want to move to England.

I have his one for the next read, I can't wait!

The Other Side of Me - autobiography of Sidney Sheldon

The City Of Fallen Angels ~ John Berendt
He wrote Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and i loved that one.  This is sort of similar, about the Fenice opera house fire in Venice.  Very good so far!

South Country Secrets by Barbara Euphan Todd. A children's book that I haven't read since I was really young. It's sort of a travel/history book about the south of England - disguised as fiction, but is really good and entertaining!

A Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion  (thank you, Geeta!)


Also happened to spot an old post of chary's in the Library thread:  www.readitswapit.co.uk, which looks like a fantastic site!  Worth looking into.  Anyone ever actually used it?