Week of 1/13: What are you reading now? What's waiting on your nightstand?

[SusanH]

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. :)

[SusanH]

Last week I read The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. I really enjoyed it. It's a funny fantasy set in an alternate-reality London in 1985. Many things are different (time travel is common, Russia and England are still fighting the Crimean War) and literature is now paramount. Our heroine, Thursday Next, is a literary detective on the trail of a killer. Full of literary jokes and very clever.

I then read Jennifer Weiner's latest, In Her Shoes, which I thought was better than Good In Bed. It follows two very different sisters and the trials of their relationship.

Right now I'm reading A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House, which is about a Cherokee woman in the early 1900's in Kentucky and the Irish family she marries into. I haven't read that much yet, but so far I'm enjoying it.

Next up: something by Annie Proulx, either The Shipping News or That Old Ace in the Hole. I also have Stephen Ambrose's Personal Reflections of an Historian waiting. As usual, all of my hold requests came in at once!

Oh, Lisa - I started Visions of Sugar Plums and couldn't get past the first chapter. It doesn't get better, does it. Fantasy doesn't belong in the Stephanie Plum world and if she uses the "oh, it was all a dream" solution at the end I'll feel terribly put out.

[Caryl]

Susan, you've been reading lots! I have The Eyre Affair sitting here, waiting for me. I don't know when I'll get to it, but I look forward to it. I'll have to look for a Jennifer Weiner book soon, too.

I didn't get much reading done last week because I was finishing a quilt for my sister's baby, due February 1st. It was nice to do some hand work each night, but I'm looking forward to getting back into books!

I started Hot Six (a Stephanie Plum mystery) while waiting for my mom to get Prodigal Summer back to me. I am also reading The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin because... my sister's asked me to be at the birth of her baby with her and her husband! I'm so excited. So, my reading goals this week are to finish Hot Six, get half-way through The Birth Partner and get a good start on Prodigal Summer. We'll see how I do!

[Laura_008]

I am now reading From a Buick 8 by Stephen King. I like it so far, but the story seems to be moving kind of slow.

That knocks it down to 8 books to read waiting on my headboard :D (my night stand is too over-crowded for books, lol!). I have Lake Wobegon Days (we used to have it on tape and listen to it on trips when I was a little girl), The Pilot's Wife, and The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver to list just a few.

[Ursula]

I'm reading Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingslover.

Next is The piano tuner by Daniel Philippe Mason. I'm going to give this one a try, but I'm not sure if I'll stick with it. I heard a good review on NPR, so I requested it.

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[Lisa Jo]

Last week I finished Prodigal Summer, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Barbara Kingsolver is one of my favorite authors and I enjoyed this book just as much as I did the first time I read it. I have just started Donna Tartt's The Secret History which looks very promising. However, I'll be setting it aside as I don't think it will be as good a vacation read as The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc, which I just picked up today.

Susan, I didn't know Jennifer Weiner has a new book out! I just popped over to my library's website to put it on hold. :) Though Stephanie does not "wake up" at the end of Sugar Plums you may wish that having read it was just a bad dream. It's really awful. Oh, and I really liked The Shipping News and plan to reread it fairly soon.

[djk42]

Just started The Locket which is series two from Evans (The Christmas Box author). Not bad. :)

[kpow]

Susan, I just finished reading The Eyre Affair for my book club as well! It was great. Our next selection is The Lovely Bones.

[davidsmom]

I just finished reading White Oleander (see other post). On my bookstand waiting to be read is The Nanny book (I can't remember the title) it's about a girl who is a nanny to the rich who later tells all their secrets. I am also going out on Thursday to buy Caramela, by Sandra Cisneros. I actually had to order it, you'd think with latinos the majority where I live they would have had it, but oh well.

[Laura_008]

Davidsmom - I just read both White Oleander and The Nanny Diaries. Are you following me around the library? ;) The Nanny Diaries is hysterical! I literally laughed out loud reading it!