that's a great book. Read it a couple years ago

Just finished two mini books, one was The Cowboy's Lady and the other was The Sheriff Takes A Wife. Both good, similar in story line, I love Debbi Macomber's books. She has about 3 series of stories that I read as they are released.

The last few reads...

Water For Elephants...Sara Gruen (GREAT book!)
A Winter Haunting...Dan Simmons
Currently reading and almost done with...The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio...Terry Ryan (Saw the movie a few times and loved it and wanted to read the book)

Just finished the Andrew Morton biography of Tom Cruise, which is mainly about his connections with Scientology. YIKES! Can we say science fiction cult?????????? :o I'm afraid I'll never look at his movies the same again, a shame since he's a good actor.

I am nearly done with Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, which has been a fascinating lesson in old time feminism, although a bit difficult to read because of the Constante Capitalisation and Strangge Spellinges of Olde Wordes.
Next I am going to attempt to read the massive tome The Brother Karamazov by Dostoyevsky because I am told I would like it and, to be quite honest, a boy a fancy has listed it in his favourite books on his Facebook page and I happened to own it already so I thought, why not.
I do have a habit of attempting to read very pretentious books which can be sometimes rather hard to get through, and thus leave me avoiding them or taking forever to read them. I owe quite a lot of library fines on 'To The Lighthouse' by Virgina Woolf. eep.

The Fair Isle trilogy, by Susan Carroll... wonderful books. I read The Dark Queen and just finished the Courtesian. Looking for the Silver Rose.

http://rosario.blogspot.com/2006/05/...n-carroll.html

I'm reading the Odd Thomas trilogy by Dean Koontz.

Just finished The Post Birthday World which I absolutely adored. I'm almost done with Getting Rid of Matthew which has been moderate cheeky British fun in the style of Bridget Jones (great beginning, but I have a feeling the ending is going to annoy me). Next up - The United States of Argula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation because I'm a foodie and it was recommended by a friend.

I loved Prize Winner - I bought a copy for my mom and my step mom! Such a great book and based on such a remarkable true life story.

One for the Money by Janet Evanovich. On the recommendations of so many, I'm starting with the first one and see how I like them. So far, so good.

I'm a huge Jodi Picoult fan and just finished Songs of the Humpback Whale. Next by her I'm reading Mercy.

When she's ON she's GREAT, but sometimes I get very aggravated with her books (I hated Perfect Match with a passion). I have Change of Heart on my reserve list at the library, should get it in a few months ;) If you like Jodi Picoult, I would definitely recommend Laura Lippman (married to the guy that writes for the Wire, for added interest). She has written a series of mysteries with Tess Monaghan as the lead (which I think are okay) but she has written 3 great stand alone stories which are very Jodi-like (cool twisty type endings):

To The Power of Three

Every Secret Thing

What the Dead Know

The books do have some recurring characters, but they are fairly stand alone. I read them out of order, but I listed them by publication!

Thanks, I'll have to keep her in mind. I agree about Jodi, most of the endings of her books I don't care for. The only book though that I had a hard time finishing was Second Glance. I really didn't like that one at all. My favorites are Salem Falls and Plain Truth. I bought Change of Heart but haven't started it. I think she has 15 books, and I need to read 4: Picture Perfect, Mercy, Keeping Faith and Change of Heart. I have them all here ready to go, but I'm taking a bit of a break from her right now.

The picture of Dorian Gray, great book which could work as a movie.

I remember this as a movie! I looked it up on IMDB and it's been filmed many times, the most recently 2006. This is what I remember from when I was a kid - it was super creepy when I was little!

The Road by Cormac McCarthy (also wrote No Country For Old Men)

Really dark devastating book that I can't say I enjoyed but it certainly snuck up on me and packed a wallop at the end. Finished it in a coffee shop and had to hide my tears.