What You're Reading the Week of 20 January 2007

Living Free Joy Adamson On the road again shortly so the week has time-warped itself by a day or so.

I've been reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke this week and making slow going, it's heavy (literally) for a paperback and a bit dense - I can't remember when I last saw a five-page footnote in a modern novel. I'm about a third of the way through and have no idea where the plot is headed - if anywhere. I have though decided not to use up any of my precious baggage allowance with it so it will remain here until I'm back next week.
Apologies for managing to start two threads for this week. I did something odd when posting this one and it disappeared . . . but evidently not permanently. Sigh.

GreyHead - My son gave me a copy of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, but I haven't started reading it yet. It's in my ever growing "to be read" stack.

My time has been very short lately so I have not been reading much. *hiding head in shame* I'm reading The Dark is Rising and hope to start The Book Thief this week.

There appear to be 2 topics in this group for the week of January 20th. Strange. You may want to cross-post on the other topic where there are more messages.

I have never been so early in the thread before! Whee!

It's YA day...reading 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous by Graeme Aitken. (Heavens, no touchstone?) It's a clever book, but nothing that'll keep me up tonight reading it.

Currently I'm reading Dorothy L Sayers' The Complete Stories which is a lot of fun. I just finished the Lord Peter Whimsey stories and am now moving on to the others.

I just read Plum Lovin' by Evanovitch---pure escapist lit at its best.

I finished Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers. A great read. Fun characters, good mystery and great moral questions debated.

Just finished Angels and insects by A S Byatt this morning - two literary romance novellas set in 19th C, one excellent, one hard going. Now I'm starting We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver.

gaskella: I have never been so affected by a book as I was with We Need to Talk About Kevin. It's amazing. Good luck.

gaskella, I will second amandameale's comments. Mind-blowing.

I started Stolen by Kelley Armstrong last night but had to stop. I'm waiting to get a bit more info on the story from a friend before I decide to continue reading it or not.

So, today I'll be starting Boys that Bite by Mari Mancusi for a myspace book club I participate in.

>11 Jenson_AKA_DL: I'm curious as to why you had to stop?

I am reading:

Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash (I loved Helen and Teacher and we homeschool and are studying the late 1800's so I am trying to read things relating to 1880 and later!)

Getting Stoned with Savages J. Maarten Troost, sequel to the Sex Lives of Canibals (Okay, so this has NOTHING to do with our "school" reading!)

Just finished Enslaved by Ducks by Bob Tarte and hope to read his "Fowl Weather"

Also reading Tom Sawyer

> 11 : demonlover : I enjoyed all of Kelley Armstrong's books though they are not to everyone's taste. They are thoroughly modern fantasy set in a world of pretty human werewolves, witches, etc.

Theory's Empire Heavy. 700 pages, most of it readable.

>12 Morphidae: Stupid little reason like getting worried the storyline was a little too much like something I had planned to write. I've decided to continue on with it anyway.

>14 GreyHead: I read Bitten a few months back and liked it okay but wasn't sure at that point if I wanted to read the rest of the series. Then I saw it sitting in the library rack a couple weeks ago and decided it was time to give the series another shot. I really like Jeremy's character and hope he's got a good part in Stolen.

I'm new to librarything and just started going through the groups and signed up for this one :-) This week I have been reading Open House by Elizabeth Berg. It's about a woman going through a period of self-discovery after her husband leaves her.

who can kindly teach me how to get a book title to show up in blue as a link?
THANKS!

maybe this is how
Eleanor and Franklin

nope, that wasn't it...mabye this
Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash

TogetherForGood: to touchstone a work, put single square brackets around titles, and double brackets around authors. Sometimes they're twitchy, so beware.

I am reading The Kite Runner for a book discussion. I really was not looking forward to reading it and was prepared not to like it. I love it. It so well written.

TogetherForGood: Also, if it doesn't link to the right title, click on "others" and it lists other titles that are alike or are the same and then you can chose the right one from there. The touchstone you did linked to the wrong book that has the same words in the title.
Here's the right one: Eleanor and Franklin. It's the second on the list when you click on "others".