Week of 12/23: What are you reading now? What's waiting on your nightstand?

[Caryl]

What are you reading this week? What are you looking forward to reading soon?

You can just list the book or books you're working on, or you can add a few sentences about them, or you can write a short review for us, if you like!

Share your book experiences with us here. :)

[Caryl]

I finished Skipping Christmas last week. Now I just have to find time to watch A Christmas Story again. I love that movie!

I also started The Lovely Bones. We went to the library this week, and it was there waiting for me. (I had requested it.) I'm already 2/3 of the way through! It's really captivating, but also very sad. I am reading like a crazy because I need to see what happens at the end. Sebold is a good writer, too, and knows how to keep the story moving.

This coming week, I expect to start either my new Angelou book or The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald.

[Lisa Jo]

I'm finishing up Sense and Sensibility. On the nightstand are A Single Step by Heather Mills McCartney, which Ursula recommended, Visions of Sugarplums, Janet E's holiday Stephanie Plum story, and Prodigal Summer for next month's group read. I think the Janet E will be up next. :D

[Laura_008]

I have a bunch waiting on my nighstand right now. I'm reading a book by Judy Blume called Deenie. It's about a girl who is diagnosed with scoliosis. I have scoliosis and it's a very interesting read for me. I've never seen a fiction book about scoliosis before.

On my nightstand is the 4th Harry Potter book, White Oleander , The Pilot's Wife , The Nanny Diaries , and a few other various paperbacks.

Merry Christmas! :)

[SusanH]

Caryl, I think you should read The Bookshop as Fitzgerald is an author I have long been curious about. So read it and let me know what you think! :)

I read next month's group read this week. :o I didn't mean to read it so early, but once I got started, I couldn't put it down! I also read Good in Bed which I thought started well and then went on a little too long. Overall I enjoyed it, but I would have edited the last half more strictly. I am currently trying to read Charlotte by Julia Barrett, which is a completion of Jane Austen's last fragment of a novel, but the transition from Austen to Barrett was so jarring and the new section is so awful that I doubt I'll finish it.

Next up: I don't know. I have a big stack of books to get through, we'll see how many I manage!

[new_here]

I just got Life Prayers by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon. (They also wrote Earth Prayers.) I'm also about to read Women Who Run With Wolves, borrowed from my mom.

A little more "new-agey" than I usually read, but they sound good. :)