What are you reading the week of 22 October 2011?

This week's notable birthdays:

The 22nd:


Doris Lessing

Ann Rule

Debbie Macomber

The 23rd:

Augusten Burroughs

Michael Crichton

The 24th:

Denise Levertov

The 25th: Anne Tyler

John Berryman

The 26th: Pat Conroy

Beryl Markham

The 27th:

Fran Lebowitz

The 28th: Anne Perry

Evelyn Waugh

Thanks for putting the new thread up, Richard. I'm enjoying Cotton comes to Harlem and looking to start The Monkey Wrench Gang.

I finished The Kite Runner last week. I was very pleasantly surprised and happy that I read it. I didn't realize what the book was really about until I started reading. It made me late for work as I wanted to finish it over breakfast!

After such an intense story, I've moved on to complete fluff in Soulless by Gail Carriger. And I'm still listening to and loving The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley.

Enjoying Keeping the Dead, The Darker Sex and Planet Word.

Last night I finished the second of Louise Penny's Three Pines mysteries, Dead Cold, so my new bus book (at least for now) is a historical novel about Canada's first prime minister: Macdonald: A Novel, by Roy MacSkimming. And I'm still working my way through The General, by C.S. Forester -- what's taking me so long is the continual stopping to write down funny quotes. Lots of dry humour of the sort I love.

I finished The growing pains of Adrian Mole yesterday, and started some new (to me) science fiction today: The left hand of darkness.

I read Der Teufel vom Ryck, a medieval novel set in Greifswald, a city in norther germany where I live in. It was very good researched in medical details and also in the conditions of living and hierarchical details and general thinking. I really reall enjoyed it and it was one of the finest medieval novels I've read so far!

I also finished my re-read of The City of Dreaming Books. I read it again because in Germany the sequel to it came out and I couldn't remember many things. It was very good! So many fantastical details, a love for books and some great anagrams of real authors. Also some critical thoughts that I don't join in detail, buit it was so great. It is about books....!

I don't know what's up next, I still have some books started a few months agao and probably should finish them...

Just starting to read The Museum of Eterna's Novel: The First Good Novel by Macedonia Fernandez, and I am almost finished listening to Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope.

Still working on Mansfield Park.

It's not taking long because it's not good, I've just been terribly busy lately, and only have a little time in the evening for reading...ack!

I'm a third of the way into Moving on from Church Folly Lane by Robert T. Latham, a book about the transition of Unitarian Universalist congregations from attendance of below about 175 a Sunday to above 175 a Sunday. I'm reading it because we have a new minister at the church where I hang out, and we are developing a new mission statement.

Robert

Haven't had much reading time this week, so I'm only 50 pages into The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz, Volume Three 1863-1869. This volume begins with Schurz's description of his participation in the Battle of Gettysburg. He was a Union general. Touchstone not working, but here: http://www.librarything.com/work/10440733

I'm about halfway through the Margaret Drabble short story collection A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman. I so admire her ability to take you so deeply inside her characters. Lovely writing.

Next up: A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Thank you for starting us off, Richard . . . some favorites of mine in that list. I must add that today is also the birthday of a writer whose work I've come to appreciate in the last few years: Elizabeth Hay. Her latest book, Alone in the Classroom, is waiting for me in the tbr pile.

After hearing of the book here on LT, I read The Memory of Love. I found this to be a superb, moving and thought provoking novel. The book dealt with the struggles of love, war, and the aftermath of both. It's a captivating human drama. Excellent

I'm almost finished listening to Dog Gone It, a very manly man and manly dog mystery and reading Kissing the Witch, fairy tales retold in a very feminist, lesbian fashion.

Richard- Great job kicking off the week! I didn't realize Mr. Burroughs is Mr. Tattoo. I loved his books Running With Scissors & Dry.

I finished and loved Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. This is my 1st foray into Philip K. Dick and I plan on checking out all of his work.
On audio, I started another fun thriller called Ready Player One. It takes place in the near future but it's loaded with 80s pop culture references. I was in my 20s during that decade but I'm familiar with most of the icons. Tons of fun.
Also enjoying Mr. Peanut, just need to spend more time with it.

The Buddha in the Attic has proven to be a thoughtful read (meaning it got me to think) and although it doesn't have the power of Otsuka's first book When the Emperor was Divine, it certainly is worth reading.

She writes most of the story about experiences of Japanese mail order brides and their lives in California in the first person plural:

"We gave birth at the Kuwabara Hospital in San Jose. We gave birth on a bumpy road in Castroville in the back of our husband's Dodge truck. We gave birth on a dirt floor covered with newspaper in a bunkhouse to the biggest baby the midwife had ever seen."

Yes, it's a gimmick but it definitely works and draws the reader in. Recommended.

Quickly finished Julian Barnes The Sense of An Ending, a wonderful bittersweet book, highly recommended.
Back to Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens.

Finished Scriber by Ben S. Dobson and starting Grave Situation by Alex MacLean in the morning.

I finished The Night Circus, which was wonderful, and started World War Z which has been lanquishing on the shelf for quite a while.

I was glad to finish I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak this week on audio. My current audio is The Brandons by Angela Thirkell, which promises to be delightfully fun. I'm also still reading The Witness of Combines by Kent Meyers, which is so lovely I have been marking particularly wonderful passages to read again, which I don't usually do. Wish I had more time to read it.

After - - - - -years, finally got round to The Castle of Otranto.

Thanks for a great start to the week, Richard!

I'm still reading War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I love it! It's actually become my favorite book but I've been reading it since early September, so I have mixed feelings about the fact that I'll be finishing it up this week. I'll miss it very much, but will be happy to be moving on to other reads!

>7 Tallulah_Rose: Tallulah Rose--City of Dreaming Books sounds wonderful! I'm definitely going to look for that one.

I'm reading Tom Sawyer for the real life book club. It's fun, but not satisfying somehow. Tom is as one dimensional as a puppy--fun and funny and great to have on an adventure--perhaps even loving-- but I can't imagine actually trying to talk to him.

Also reading CS Lewis's The Pilgrim's Regress. I'm working my way through a whole pile of Lewis's books as I'm listening to the Teaching Company's class on his work. So far I'm finding it very amusing allegory as the Pilgrim struggles to find The Landlord.

Just finishing up Stephen King's Cell on my audiobook in the car. I haven't read too many of King's books but this one has me wanting to sit in the car in the driveway to finish it. It's not terribly scary--but I'll never look at cell phones quite the same way.

I'm about halfway through The Magicians by Lev Grossman. I thought I would be done with it already but it hasn't captured me like I thought it would. It's interesting though.

Reading It Is Dangerous To Be Right When the Government Is Wrong by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano.
Also Madame Tussard by Michelle Moran.

Thanks, Richard. Finishing When the thrill has gone by Walter Mosley. Wasn't sure I would like it but I do. Have to turn to posting some book reviews as soon as the dust settles.

Thanks for the start Richard. I finished Havemercy a few days ago and found it to be a huge disappointment. I also cannot understand why it is categorized as Steampunk... IMO it is fantasy, not Steampunk, but enough of that. I am now reading and enjoying Ami McKay's The Birth House.

I'm still reading The Russia House, but I had to stop and read The Help for my real life book group this week. I liked The Help, it was fine, but I wouldn't call it OMG the best book ever.

I am also starting a personal finance book called Stop Acting Rich by Thomas J. Stanley. He will probably tell me not to buy books and shoes. He is probably right, but still... that's not fun.

I'm still reading Shavetail by Thomas Cobb, and have started The Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer.

My reading has taken a bit of a back seat to helping my grandson with his reading of Watership Down. He's been working at this book since August and is only half way through. He has to finish and get a book report done by mid-November, so I have been reading it aloud to him which makes it go a little faster for him. I read this book 20 years ago and had forgotten what a beautifully written piece of work this is.

Just finished up my LTER win Redemption by Lindsey Gray a couple of days ago. Regretfully, I didn't get to read for 2 days, but just started Blind Faith, the thriller by CJ Lyons before bed last night, and can't wait to get back into it this afternoon. Has already got me hooked!

(25) "Reading It Is Dangerous To Be Right When the Government Is Wrong by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano"

mnleona, I'd not heard of that one before. I read about it at amazon.com, and am going to try to get a copy from the library.

What do you think of it?

#28 - jfetting - Re: The Help, I have to agree with you. I'm about 2/3-3/4 of the way through and have yet to feel that this was an important read for me. I do feel that it could have more impact depending on the reader's age and geographical location or personal experiences. I was 6 or 7 at the time this is set in and don't have much recollection of those times, plus I grew up in Canada, which definitely has a different perspective than the US generally speaking. As a novel, I find it interesting, well-written, and takes you into the story. But I'm not feeling a rave review coming on.

Finished The Left Hand of Darkness and loved it, still thinking about it. My next read is Smoke and Mirrors the last Gaiman book I hadn't read yet.

I'm enjoying Something Wicked This Way Comes much more than I thought I might from the first few pages; 2/3s finished with Monkey Bridge, which is very good; and half through Memory of Love, which is quite good, but not as engaging for me as Ancestor Stones was.

Yikes, Mr. Dark! Something Wicked This Way Comes is a good one.

The Annotated Persuasion edited by David M. Shapard was very enjoyable. The information on the times and illustrations and plot commentary all enhanced the reading of one of my favorites.

I love Something Wicked This Way Comes! I live near & work in Ray Bradbury's hometown of Waukegan, IL, so I have a special place in my heart for his books.

We Wanted to be Writers - now that the book is venturing away from experiences at the Iowa Writer's Conference and into more general writing experience and advice, I'm finding it much more helpful. I still disagree with some of the perspectives, but when you have input from so many people, you're bound to disagree with some of them.

For some reason, I find myself needing a bit of a break from Stephen King, so I'm leaving the Shining for a bit to read something else...just started Atonement today, which is probably my favorite book of all time, and I picked up a YA book called Chime by Franny Billingsley - I took a class of hers in college about writing children's fiction, which I loved, and she was in the final editing stages of this book when I was in the class. I'm really excited to read the final version!

Finished and posted a review for my ghost book of the month, The Main in the Picture by Susan Hill. Wasn't exactly a ghost story (despite having the subtitle of "A ghost story") but I like it anyway.

Now I've started my alien book of the month with The Taking by Dean Koontz.

#24, PaperbackPirate - That's how I felt about The Magicians, too, when I read it earlier this year. Enjoyable, but wasn't grabbing me as I'd anticipated. However, by the time I finished it, I was absorbed, and I'm looking forward to reading the sequel. Hope it improves for you!

I'm still reading and loving The Mists of Avalon. It's the perfect fall read, as I can just sink into it, which is what I always want in a book this time of year.

Wow, I've loved librarything but I gotta say my book purchases are clearly up! Good thing, I think. I just finished city of tranquil light, which I was very surprised by and thoroughly enjoyed. Now I'm reading the distant land of my father which has been a little slower for me to get started in. I'm also reading a worker's writebook which I received in Member's giveaway, and it has fascinatingly caught my attention: as I read my other books I think "there's the conflict beginning!" so it's opened my eyes to some story construct ideas. Which has been neat. I've lined up about 5 others, but two seems to be what I can realistically say I'm reading at one time and be honest about it!

>37 Ape: Stephen - As much as I liked The Man in the Picture, I agree that it isn't really a ghost story. More of a ghostly creepy story. Hill's The Woman in Black, however, is a very good ghost story.

>34 whymaggiemay:, 35, 36 - I have Something Wicked this Way Comes on its way to me from the library. It noticed it was a member recommendation under The Night Circus. I may have read it in HS, but I'm not sure. I'm looking forward to it!

#12 I read a Time of Gifts earlier this year and thought it was wonderful - the Europe he talks of just doesn't exist any more and the placces and characters he meets are brought to life superbly. I hope you enjoy it!

I'm reading something totally different though now (diversity is the spice of life and all that!)- Heat Stroke, a fabulous bit of escapism to the world of Weather Wardens & Djinn.

#41 Pedrolina -- Many years ago I read A Time of Gifts for a class and I loved it but didn't have time to really do it justice -- I promised myself I'd come back to it when I had more time to savor the beautiful prose and the chance to see Europe as it was before WWII. It is, as you say, superb, and I must also say I'm grateful for Jan Morris's introduction to the NYRB edition.

I have been MIA on this thread for quite a few weeks because it has taken me this long to finish The Brontes by Juliet Barker. I know that others on here have raved about it but it was just a tad bit too long and detailed for me. Interesting though.

I am currently reading Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese for my RL book club. I am only on page 25 but am enjoying it so far.

I'm reading The Potter's Field, the latest in Andrea Camilleri's mystery series, and as usual, Inspector Montalbano is hilarious.

This morning I finished Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith which I really enjoyed. It brought Stalinist Russia to life (albeit in a thriller manner).

I began Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly. I hope it grabs me as it has other folks on LT.

I finished reading One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson just in time to watch the BBC movie on Masterpiece Mystery Sunday night. I really like this author's style and will have no problem recommending these books to my mystery reading friends. However, this will be my last Jackson Brodie book for awhile, as I don't have any more of them in the house. It is time to read something else instead of getting more from the library. I made a resolution in August not to buy anymore books to read. I can only buy books for gifts, as the number of unread books in my house surpassed the 1,000 mark. Thanks to LT I now know the exact number of unread books I own. However, the world is conspiring against me as just reading through the previous 45 entries in this thread I found two more books I would like to read. You guys are deadly to my resolutions. yes, it is ALL your fault.

I am about to finish Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose. This is my book discussion group selection and I was not that enthused about reading it. However, it has proven to be surprisingly good. Makes me want to see the Lolo Trail, and since I love hot mineral springs in spa's perhaps take a nice dip in the Lolo Springs as well.

I am going to try to finish reading Dr. Zhivago this week before I pick up Night Circus for the November group read.

I'm almost finished with 'The Hangman's Daughter' by Oliver Potzsch. It's an interesting look into life in a small village in this tale of murder, witchcraft and detective work.

I finished Night Circus yesterday and loved it! Recommend it highly! Just started a YA book Beautiful Chaos pickes up right where Beautiful Darkness left off =:) Happy reading all!

>46 benitastrnad: Benita, I've taken to submitting invoices to the worst wishlist-fatteners here on LT. If THEY make books sound completely irresistible, THEY pay.

Funnily enough, I haven't gotten any checks yet. I'll have to send out some reminders.

Reading The Gulag Archipelago. DEEP!

As an archivist by profession I thought my first ebook should be none other than The Archivist by Martha Cooley :)

#47

I have a copy of Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch in English translation that I haven't started reading yet. I want to hear more of what you thought of that book.

I have just this moment finishedEssential Dykes to Watch Out For. I loved it. I nearly gave it 4.5 stars just because she ended it. It's going to be tough to move on from being wrapped up in that wonderful community.

In spite of the fact that it got worse with each chapter, this morning I finished Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy. Given my interest in the subject matter (Cuban revolution, the late 60s in the U.S.), I started it with such high hopes and I don't think I have ever been so let down by an author.

Then I immediately started The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje which, so far, is wonderful. So life is good again.

#52 - I thought Hangman's Daughter was interesting. I remember thinking that parts of it moved a little slowly and I thought it was a bit long. But it was a very interesting read into a geographic location and time period I did not know much about.

I am reading William and Harry as something to just get through. I don't have the brain power for much else.

I finished Silver Girl and it was similar to her other works but I enjoyed it. Now, I have started Tempest by Julie Cross which was my September Early Reviewer win that I just received last week.

Reading When a Crocodile Eats the Sun. I look forward to reading Night Circus. I'm glad to hear that people are recommending it.

I finished Smoke and Mirrors and started on Emma

A second start on Do No Harm by Carol Topolski. Weird how the first time I picked this up I just coudn't get into it at all and yet this tine it's already got me quite creeped out.

Woo! I finished Mansfield Park, and while I cannot say I liked it as much as Pride and Prejudice, I did enjoy it. It's not 'typical' Jane Austen, as we see in P&P, Sense and Sensibility and Emma.

Now, what shall I read next? Hmm...

I enjoyed every minute of The Potter's Field by Andrea Camilleri. I don't know how the translator, Stephen Sartarelli, does it, but it feels like reading it in Italian (which I can't do).

Next is Black Diamond by Martin Walker, a new mystery author for me.

Hallowe'en draws near, so I thought I'd give The Dunwich Horror and Others by H.P. Lovecraft a try, as the book has been lying around unread for ages. I'm not sure I can finish the story I'm reading at the moment, The Dreams in the Witch House, but that's out of boredom rather than horror. Like Algernon Blackwood, I suspect that Lovecraft's day is done.

David Kynaston's Austerity Britain: 1945-51 has bucked up no end after a dull second chapter, but there's a lot of it to get through yet.

Still reading The Kenneth Williams Diaries. It's 1964.

I've just finished War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

It is going to take me a while to reflect and absorb this one, for sure.

It has become my favorite book, for sure, although, I must say I had a hard time with the last 40 pages or so of direct philosophizing. I know that it was Tolstoy's way of summing up the amazing work, but that small, minor part just didn't work for me. It's as if he began speaking directly to the reader, rather than speaking through that wonderful, omniscient narrator that spoke for most of the epic, with a few exceptions. I'd much rather that characters, action, events...etc., were used to sum things up.

Still...oh,, what a magnificent book! How can one quibble with 40 pages out of 1400. and who else could have written 1400 pages so well?

Now, in a change of direction, I'm starting Quoth the Raven by Jane Haddam. I needed a lighter read after that...and something entirely differnt. Something to oient me again. Besides, I had this picked out as my Halloween read this year. I've not read this series or author before, but it looks like a lot of fun!

Since this is the whateverth anniversary of the movie of Catch 22 I've started listening to the audiobook. You gotta love Yossarian. This should be required reading for anyone with any power, governmental or otherwise, or anyone subject to that power. In spite of the fact that someone else is reading, I keep hearing Alan Arkin's voice. I've also started reading Half a Yellow Sun, nothing devastating yet, but I imagine that's coming.

I seem to have started The German Genius by Peter Watson. The long introductory chapter is mostly about how the holocaust seems to some people to be the whole of German history; the implication is that the book will present an effort to show otherwise. I am looking forward to this although it means I will not likely finish twelve books this month and may not get all the way through eleven.

Robert

#64> "You gotta love Yossarian."

You probably already know this, but my wife and I named our yellow lab Yossarian.

>64 Citizenjoyce: Rocketjk, I can see you might have a little trouble training his namesake. Surely you don't ask him to do anything ridiculous.

In kidzdoc's thread, I ran across an idea I thought very interesting. He made a list of his favorite *living* authors. I thought that sounded like an interesting idea. I've created a thread for it called Darryl's Meme. Come over and leave a list!

#67> Joyce, I don't know what's ridiculous to a dog, but he seems to take our silliness (no food from the table, you have to obey the "sit" and "down" commands before getting a treat, stuff like that) with the same good nature with which he goes through the rest of his day. He also likes being in my bookstore, where he gets to hang at least twice a week.

We named him Yossarian because when we met him at the shelter (he was about 6 months old), he seemed to us a jokester who could take us or leave us, a dog who would be friendly but skeptical of authority. We spent a long time considering names ("Portnoy" was an early suggestion of mine) but when one of us thought of "Yossarian," we knew we'd hit on the fellow's name. We were warned that dogs cannot learn to respond to names of more than two syllables, but it has never been a problem for him.

I keep reading a little every week on Jane Eyre but I have to admit that I am finding that book a real slog. Jane is so melodramatic. However, I did think that Pilot would be a good name for a dog. I really thought it would be quite literary.

#69
Today at lunch one of my regular lunch partners mentioned her cat Tenny. All of us thought this a very different name. Turns out it happens to be a short form of the cats full name. Alfred Lord Tennyson. I had a friend who named her cats after musical greats like Count Basie, Louie, and Benny, but I have never had friends who name pets after authors or literary characters. When questioned the owner of the aforementioned cat said that he just looked like a Victorian author. You said that the dog looked like Yossarian, so getting a literary name must all be in the attitude.

#70> LOL, well I don't think I said my dog looked like Yossarian. I think I said that the way he acted reminded me of Yossarian. Nevertheless, i agree fully with your central point: getting a literary name must all be in the attitude!

I had a pair of cats named Abbott and Costello once.

#70: My cat's name is Mrs. Gaskell after one of my favorite authors.

>63 bookwoman247: bookwoman247, I really enjoyed your compelling comments about War and Peace. I've never had the courage to try it, and so many have sung its praises. I may be diving in sooner rather than later. Hope you enjoy your current change of pace as well:)

I finished and reviewed Involuntary Witness, an Italian legal thriller, and could not be more thrilled with it. Amble over to my thread, post #90.

Reading and just loving A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr, it is a real delight!! Thank you fellow poster for the recommendation.

Finished distant land of my father which I ended up loving. Now going back to finish the immortal cells of henrietta lack which I'd started a couple of months ago. the war and peace thread caught my attention too. Never read it, sounds like I need to give it a go.

Reading Drawing Conclusions By Donna Leon. Since I haven't been there for a while I love reading about Venice. And, I always seem to enjoy Leon's books.

#73 AMQS and #76 Rbeelee: Definitely give War and Peace a go! Also read Anna Karenina if you haven't yet. That was the first of Tolstoy's work I read and fell in love with, and War and Peace confirmed my love for Tolstoy!

Here's a great article about Three Men in a Boat, a hilarious book that was recommended highly here and which I very much enjoyed.

The book has been in print since 1889, there are three different versions of the audiobook (narrated by Hugh Fraser, Martin Jarvis and Ian Carmichael), and now here's someone who's so delighted to have discovered it, she's encouraging everyone else to do so:

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/27/141239721/victorian-humor-at-its-silliest-cheesies...

Dangerous to Know by Tasha Alexander (paperback ed)

Black Diamond by Martin Walker was more fun and better than I expected. It started as a mild village cozy and became a story about an intricate multinational criminal enterprise, among other things. Main character Bruno was almost too good to be true, but in these days of conflicted heroes everywhere, that actually was pretty refreshing.

I'm still waiting for the new Murakami to show up from Amazon! Arggh. At least I've got a good one by Dame Agatha, Murder in Mesopotamia, to read while I'm waiting.

To join in the conversation about Catch 22: I had started it a while ago to read as background for my B.A.-thesis but only managed it halfway because things were closing in. From all your comments however I think I have to give it a second go. And honestly, I sometimes still think of Yossarian and his fellows...

Oh, Rose, definitely give it a second chance. I can't say women come off well, they're mostly sex objects, but as a commentary on the insanity of bureaucracy and war it can't be beat. You know how when you watch those old war movies everyone is rooting that our guys will take out their target, get up that hill, land on the beach, etc.? Yossarian says through the whole book, "why?" I also found it very pertinent how willing the officers were to put their troops at risk for their own glory. Couldn't help thinking of certain presidents we have had.

I finished reading Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambroselast night. This one was for our book discussion group and it was not a book that I would have picked to read. However, it was fairly good. Ambrose did not make an almighty towering hero out of Lewis, or any of the other characters, and did a good job of making the story interesting. Sort of makes me want to head out for the upper reaches of the Missouri River, or at least go canoeing on the Niobrara River in northern Nebraska.

Will start reading Night Circus at lunch today. I finally put in an Inter-Library Loan request for Potsdam Station so that I will get to finish reading it. None of our local libraries have it. Looks like the Nook is fried. Or at least that part of it is. But things are looking up for me in the technology department. I finally got an Apple Shuffle that I purchased back in 2005 to work. You got that correct. I have had it for six years and the thing never worked properly. Until yesterday. I had to wipe it clean and then start over with a clean slate. But it worked. Now I just have to find someplace to use it. If I listen to it in the car then I would be able to listen to my beloved NPR. I think I will keep the NPR.

Just finished The Night Circus and I enjoyed much of it, though I just wanted it to tie up all the loose threads and bring it to a close about 100 pages earlier. I guess I kept wishing that it somehow would channel Ray Bradbury when it seemed more intent on pleasing the current vampire/twilight genre and 21st century cool.

Beginning, with great anticipation, Murakami's 1Q84 tonight.

I have sadly finished A Month in the Country and have started, and enjoying an autobiography by Janet Frame To The Is-land. It is set in New Zealand, I always enjoy novels with this setting, my favourite was The Colour by Rose Tremain.

I'm halfway through You by Joanna Briscoe Aside from switching times and characters with every chapter, I am enjoying it.

I've finished and reviewed First Day On Earth, a dreadful YA novel, in my thread...post #200.

I am reading Ann Veronica by H G Wells.

New thread here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/125880