Week of 12/16: 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.

[SusanH]

I finished Love Medicine, so Hooray! for me. I was sick, so I put aside all weighty books and read several Georgette Heyer novels. Fluffy, amusing and light, they were exactly what I was looking for. I'm still working on The Birchbark House.

My to-be-read pile is threatening to take over the house:

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver - this has been on my pile for weeks now, but I never seem to be in the mood to start it.

Between Ourselves: Letters Between Mothers & Daughters edited by Karen Payne - with many thanks to Kathleen for mentioning this last week.

The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain - I probably won't read the whole thing, but I'd like to read some of it and the illustrations look wonderful

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool - I've read that this is not entirely reliable, but it sounds like fun anyway.

Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman - a medieval history that looks rather intimidatingly large for holiday reading.

[Ursula]

I read several books over the weekend but can't remember a single one at this moment. Hmm, why do I read if I can't remember. Oh, yeah, because it feels so good at the time.

Per SusanH's recommendation, I picked up a Jennifer Crusie book and plan to read that. I think it's called Crazy for You.

OH, and I'm half way through a book Lisa Jo recommended called Smart Mom's Baby-sitting Co-op Handbook: How We Solved the Baby-sitter Puzzle. I'm taking a "Toddler and You" type class after the New Year and hope to start a Co-op from that. I'm getting excited because my husband and I have never been out to dinner alone or gone to a single cinema since our daughter was born. I'm ready now to do that.



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Ursula
Me: 35, Dh: 34 (1989)
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[Caryl]

Susan, my TBR pile is pretty dangerous, too!

Ursula, the Babysitting Co-op book sounds really neat. Thanks for posting about it! I'm going to look for it at my library.

I am still working on Skipping Christmas. Sigh. I have not been skipping Christmas, and so have had very little time to read. It's such a slim little book, I feel like I should have finished it by now!

I did finish Love Medicine, and I'll post about it soon on the last discussion thread.

Next up: My aunt just gave me the newest Maya Angelou book, A Song Flung Up to Heaven, and it's another slim volume, so I think I'll try to get through that one during the holidays.