Well, I finished "The Nanny Diaries". Loved it, made me alternately laugh and cry--those poor kids.

Also finished "Cabinet of Curiosities". I really liked that too. Funny thing about those Preston & Child books, I always figure out the whodunit part early on, but it doesn't stop me from really enjoying the books. I just like the stories they tell, I guess.

I'm reading another one of theirs now, "Mount Dragon". I'm just a few pages in though, so I don't know how it's going yet.
Also rereading Harry Potter 6. I've just read it one time so far, I need to catch up.

Oh, and the library just informed me that one I had on hold, "Son of a Witch", is in. That's the sequel to "Wicked". Has anyone read that one yet?

Has anyone read Melissa Bank's "The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing"? I was thinking about buying it, and I wanted to know if it was any good.

I liked it very much. Not a very plotted book - no plot at all now that I think about it, but she has a bright wit, and a good eye for a scene. If you really need a 'story' then this may not be for you, but if you don't mind reading just for the pleasure of it, it's very enjoyable.

Ooh, thank you!

Story, schmory.

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Can't wait! I'm headin' to the bookstore tomorrow! Thanks again!

I generally read more than one book at a time. Right now, I'm in the middle of reading America, The World's Last Best Hope by William Bennett, Che Guevara: A Biography by Daniel James, and Like a Fire is Burningby Gerald N. Lund. I'm also trying to read several others, but probably won't have them finished (or even really begun) prior to them needing to go back to the library.

I'm reading Ben Elton's "The First Casualty" - a bit of a departure for him, as it is a historical novel, and a fairly grim one. Pretty good, though, though I must say that WWI books tend to fill me with despair, and this is no exception.

I am re reading Marcel Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, which I last read at age 16 and I feel I skipped a lot then to get to the action bits. I find some of the description parts long winded even now and from past memory I found it a bit depressing, but I am trying...

So, the Ben Elton was bit of a disappointment, very uneven. Not quite as good as I had hoped. I've also just read the new one by Laurie R King, the latest in her Kate Martinelli series, and it was better than I had expected. A nice tie-in with her other series, the Sherlock Holmes one.
I am just starting a book by Mat Caward, in a series I have never tried before, and it is very promising.

By the way, SillyLily, as I remember the "Girl's Guide..." it's more of a batch of linked short stories than a novel, probably why I don't remember much of a plot.

I have almost finished reading "Time Traveller's Wife", an excellent book.

Oh really? Who wrote that and what is it about? Please tell.

OK So I "chickened" out , went back to the library and took out the Proust in English translation... it might not take so long!

Who wrote it? It is by Audrey Niffenegger.

Sounds a litle strange, but it is about a couple and the male is a time traveller, something over which he has no control. He suddenly finds himself either in the past or future. In one of his flips back to the past he meets a six year old girl and she is destined to be his wife when they are both in 'present time'. They meet numerous times in the fourteen years that it takes before they finally meet in the present.

Oh, I'll send it to you when I have finished reading it, you will enjoy it.

I'm reading "Hell's Angles" by Hunter S. Thompson at the moment. Basically, I'm just killing time until tomorrow when the new Laurell K. Hamilton comes out.

I just finished reading Crime Beat by Michael Connelly. It was a collection of some of the articles he produced on the crime beat when he was a journalist. Not as good as his Bosch series, but not bad. Just waiting till Monday for the new Kathy Reichs now.

Angela

I just finished reading "The Hollow Man" by Dan Simmons, and now I'm onto another Dan Simmons book, "Summer of Night." Both books were endorsed by Stephen King I've noticed too. I feel as if I've been living under a rock, that I've never heard of Dan Simmons until recently when he was recommended to me in one of the discussion posts. He's wonderful - a very skilled sci-fi AND horror author.