Just finished "Rachel's Tears" which was about a girl who was killed at Columbine. Great book but very sad.

Getting ready to start "What Survives? Contemporary Explorations of Life after Death"

I'm currently re-reading 'Perfume' by Patrick Suskind for the umpteenth time. I read it over again every other year or so to see if I still like it.

Almost done with "Interpreter of Maladies
" by Jhumpa Lahiri. I HIGHLY reccomend it to anyone who knows how to read, and I'm generally not a fan of short stroies. These are fabulous. I also just finished "Ya Yas in Bloom," the third and most recent in the series, which was surprisingly good.

"An Irreverent and Thoroughly Incomplete Social History of Almost Everything" by Frank Muir. A very, very funny book with a lot of material that would be of interest to any trivia buff.

I finally broke down and bought AND started "The DaVinci Code" - surprised to see how quickly I got sucked into it! I was certain I'd take forever to read it as I rarely have time to read a magazine these days, but I'm already a third of the way through it since Saturday. Surprisingly easy read ~

Purple Hibiscus (I might have spelled that wrong). It reminds me of a more serious version of the "No. 1 Ladie's Detective Agency" series, which are fantastic. Both are fast reads, so lack of time is no excuse!

Just finished re-reading Donna Andrews' "Owl's Well That Ends Well", the 6th in her Meg Langslow mystery series. I love amateur sleuth series, especially humorous ones, and these are utterly hilarious! Meg and her loony but lovable extended family have kept me in stitches through "Murder with Peacocks", "Murder with Puffins", "The Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos", "Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon", "We'll Always Have Parrots", and "Owl's Well That Ends Well", and I'm eagerly awaiting "No Nest for the Wicket" which is due out later this year. The titles alone are enough to grab me! I just discovered this series in January or February and have already read them all twice (yes, I do re-read mysteries, if the background is engaging!) I also enjoyed the Turing Hopper cybersleuth series by the same author.

Michael Swan's "The Marches of El Dorado". About the authors exploration of 1950s Guiana. AND Stephen King's "Song of Sussanah" yet another of the Dark Tower series.

Am reading 'Twenty Something - The Quarter-Life Crisis of Jack Lancaster' by Iain Holligshead, it's actually really good. What I find a little weird is I can never relate to chick lit, but feel more at home with what they're starting to call 'lad lit'. Do I think like a bloke? eek!

I'm into book 11 of the World of Time series now. These have taken me somewhat longer than the Goodkind books, I think. Or maybe I've just been busier. Mid February I'd just started book three, so 8 books in 3 months. Slow for me.

"Get Off the Unicorn" is a great book. Did you know her working title was "Get of the Unicorn" (as in, the progeny of the unicorn) but the publishers so didn't understand the grammar that they thought it was a typo, and even after it was explained to them, they thought the phrasing too obscure, so left it "Get Off" instead? "Get of" makes much more sense in context. Anyway, that's one of my favorite 'universes' by McCaffery. Read "Flight of Pegasus sometime this year, don't remember when. Or maybe late last year. Along with Rowan and the rest.

When I'm through with Book 11 in Jordan's series, I've got a whole stack of turn-of-the-century novels to plow through, that I picked up at the thrift store a while back. They look positively charming on the whole. There are a couple I probably won't read due to condition (like Valiant: Dog of the Timberline, for instance, and the 1890's "Rollo in Naples" who's pages are positively crispy with age), but with titles like "The Secretary of Frivolous Affairs" who could resist?

right now?


1harry potter 5and 6 (again)
to kill a mocking bird
and sisterhood of the traveling pants

Dombey and Son!
Ashamed to say I never read it before. I wish I had , as it is turning out to be just brilliant. Why on earth has no one filmed or TV mini series it yet?? It really is wonderful.Dickens at his fabulous best.

Which one is that Ren? I always get them mixed up, though I know I have read them all. It's not the one where the bad guy spontaneously combusts, is it? No, I think that's The Old Curiousity Shop.

Well Old man Dombey at last gets a son after having only one daughter whom he resents and neglects (called Florence). He only has time for his son and heir and grooms him to take over the firm, which is all he cares about. We see what happens to Florence. I am only a little way in, but loving it, mainly for the amazing characters in the story.

OK, yes I remember that one. Characters are what he does best.

I'm currently knee-deep in rereading "City of Sorcery" a Darkover book by Marion Zimmer Braidly and am starting to reread "Triss" a Redwall book by Brian Jaques.

I almost forgot! I'm also reading a modernized version of "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer.

The autobiography of Johnny Cash. So far, so good.

Just started "The Husband" by Dean Koontz. Riveting!

Well, I FINALLY finished Stephen King's "The Stand". Whew! I mean, I love that book and have read it at least 100 times, but it takes forever to read, especially if you are busy and don't have a lot of time to sit down and read the thing.

Right now I am reading Mary Janice Davidson's "Undead and Unwed". This series was recommended to me by Gamemaster1967, and I am loving it! It's hilarious! This book is a little lighter reading than what I typically read, but that can be a good thing, you know?

at the momenet I'm reading "Unnatural Exposure" by Patricia Cornwell.
I'm hoping it's just as good as Kathy Reich's books

I think Patricia Cornwells's first few books were as good as Kathy Reichs', (in fact, Cornwell came first) but after about five of them, I lost interest. A little too much paranoid-conspiracy stuff, not enough good story telling.

Starting yet another Charles de Lint novel. This time it's "Spirits in the Wires". A virus is sent to an internet web site as revenge. But this is no ordinary web site, as the virus leads to people disappearing inside the worldwide web spirit wonderland. Yikes! How they escape, I haven't read that far. Maybe they sell themselves on ebay?

"White Teeth" by Zadie Smith
"The Mayor of Casterbridge" by Thomas Hardy
"The Eye in the Door" by Pat Barker

I tend to read many books at once and still buy more if I ever stumble into a bookstore. I can't help myself!

I just finished "Life of Pi" which was slow in some parts, but overall a worthwhile and interesting read. Now, I'm onto "The God of Small Things" which I've heard so much about. Let's see if it lives up to the hype ...

I can't wait until my break which starts next week! Then I can finally get back into reading mode properly without worrying about uni assignments and such. I've also borrowed several of my texts which I'll be studying next semester for Literature, and which I'm quite looking forward to. Especially, "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "Dracula" and "All the Pretty Horses". I'll let you know what I think when I get up to reading them!

I've just started reading Stephen King's latest "Cell". I have a feeling I will be up late reading this one.