I'm reading The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After: Being the Private Correspondence Between Two Prominent Families Regarding a Scandal Touching the Highest Levels of Government and the Security of the Realm by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. This is the 3rd about these characters which began with Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot. The story is told in a series of letters between the two main characters with each author providing the voice for each character. The first book started as a writing game that the authors recognized was a book after several months went by.
Phantoms freaked me OUT when I read it in high school!!!
I am in the middle of Live a Little but the premise is annoying the heck out of me, I don't think I can finish it. It's the whole plot of the book, so I guess it's not spoiling it to say a woman is mistakenly diagnosed with cancer. When she finds out she doesn't have cancer, she doesn't tell her family (or anybody else) that she's not dying. Who would let their family go on thinking they were going to die?? I hate the main character - which is a shame, the author can be VERY funny. I might have to see what else she's written.
Guns, Germs, Steel
Overheard in New York
Cold Mountain
Vanity Fair-again
The Women's Guide to Hunting and Fishing
******* Out of Carolina
A People's History of the United States
When I was at my parent's this weekend I read "The Hidden Force" by Louis Couperus. Late 19-th - early 20th century Dutch novelist, book is about colonized (currently) Indonesia and the slumbering power of the natives and their country. It does not make easy reading, but exactly those feelings he describes lead to independence of the country, so I think it's very special he could more or less "see" that some 50 years before it happened.
To bring some more balance into my reading I am re-reading the entire Merry Gentry series by Laurell K Hamilton at the moment.
I am reading "Hating Women - America's hostile campaign against the fairer sex" by Rabbi Schmuley Boteach. I'm not very far into it but it's interesting so far.
I finished the second Amber Chronicles book today by Roger Zelazny.
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. It was made into a movie with Queen Latifah and Dakota Fanning. I'm lovin' the book, I haven't seen the movie.
right now I'm reading a book that someone left behind in my office. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet. ironically, I gave my mother this book for xmas last year because shes in the oprah book club. I'm about a hundred pages in so far, and although the plot has grabbed me and kept me going, the writing style is a bit bland in places.
Oooh, I have Hurry Down Sunshine on hold at the library (hasn't come in yet). Alinnell and I could so share books
I think you're right. We have a lot of similar tastes and likes/dislikes. DS is reading The Host by Stephenie Meyer and he says I really need to try and finish it as it gets better. I really don't think I can do that.
I'm still struggling through The Other Queen by Phillipa Gregory. It just doesn't hold my interest as much as the other two I've read.
