hi all, has anyone read the dresden file series? i have just started watching the dvd series and wondered whether it was worth getting the books?

I've just a few moments ago finished 'The Age of Innocence' (Edith Wharton). I chose it only because I've come across Funtrivia questions about it from time to time, and so was curious. At first I thought it was just a pale imitation of a Henry James novel, but the way she handled the emotions of Newland Archer's relationships with Countess Olenska and his wife, May, meant I could barely put it down once I got into the second half. Really good - if you like this 19th century 'society' manners stuff!

Hi everyone! After joining in the Book Club discussion on Pride and Prejudice, I "stumbled" across this thread. Not having time to go back and read all the posts, I don't know if this book has been mentioned or not, but I just finished reading "A Promise to Remember" by Kathryn Cushman. I found it to be a very interesting look at the upper and middle class and how they stereotype each other. Would love to know what others think about it. It raises lots of "food for thought"!

Hi and welcome to books Martha That does sound interesting. I will look out for it.
I am rereading "Up into the Singing Mountain" the sequel to "How Green Was My Valley" By Richard Llewellyn. Its about life for the Welsh Settlers in Patagonia. The language takes your breath away.Beautiful.

I haven't posted here for a while...oops.

Since I last posted, I've read

The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson. It's a wonderful, intricate, beautiful brick of a fantasy novel. I love it. It's amazing.

The Magic in the Weaving - Tamora Pierce. This is a reread...for about the 7th time. It's still fantastic. It's a mark of her writing skills, and how much I loved them as a child, that I still enjoy them just as much 7-8 years after I originally read them.

I'm currently reading Great Expectations...for my English literature course. It's great...I'm really liking it. But it's taking me a while to get through.

I see I haven't posted here in a while either.

Currently reading:

The Black Echo by Michael Connelly - the first in his Harry Bosch series and excellent.

Captain Fracasse by Theophile Gautier - loads of fun

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - jury still out on this one

I love the character of Wemmick and his aged parent.

Currently reading "The Curse of Chalion" by Lois McMaster Bujold, as recommended by LeoDaVinci on the Fantasy suggestions thread.

Thank you so very much, I'm just loving it. ("Paladin of Souls" up next)

Just finished "Hell Hole" by Chris Grabenstein. It's ok. A light reader and very entertaining with humour and sarcasm throughout.

In the middle of "Spook" by Mary Roach

About to start "The Last Testament" by Sam Bourne

Currently reading John Milton's Paradise Lost...loving it.

Also still reading Great Expectations, and I tried to start Fielding's Tom Jones, but the syntax really threw me off...

Keep plugging away at Tom Jones - I found it took about 50 pages or so before I got into the swing of it. It really is a hilarious book, and well worth reading. So much more fun than Dickens.

Just finished reading "Whisper on the Wind" by Maureen Lang. It is a novel set during World War I (about 1916-17). This is the first book I've read by Lang, but will most likely read something else she's written.

Currently reading 'One of our Thursdays is missing', the latest Jasper Fforde. Such lovely nonsense

Welcome to books, elbereth!

Currently rereading Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss...it's a brilliant book...one of the best fantasy books I've read.

And about to start The Turn of the Screw by Henry James...I need to read it by Thursday...as well as preparing a presentation and an essay by then.

You'd think a sensible person would stop reading the fantasy book...but no.

Though...the presentation and the essay aren't on Turn of the Screw...they're on things I've already read.

I need to get back into Fforde loved what Ive read so far. I'm reading Needful Things by Stephen King at the moment.

Kate Atkinson- Started Early, Took My Dog. So far it is as good as everything else she has written, From "Behind the Scenes at the Museum" onwards. This one features Jackson, the ex cop, again. I always enjoy her books.

There is nothing particularly "high-brow" about the book I'm reading at the moment.
It's from the editors of the totally irreverent website Cracked.com and it's called "You Might Be a Zombie and other Bad News".
Sort of a "strange facts" compendium, it's interesting, smart, funny, disgusting, cool and scary all rolled into one ~.
Not recommended for young children.

(everyone's entitled to a guilty pleasure once in awhile, yes? lol)

Thank you ^^

Charles Dickens' David Copperfield at the moment. Before that was a A Confedracy of Dunces by John Kennedy TuYouoole. I haven't decided what's next, Lolita perhaps?

Couple of interesting books, just recently.

Cinderella Ate my Daughter by Peggy Orenstein - more of a long magazine article than a book, really, looking into the proliferation of girly girl culture aimed at very young girls.

The Berlin Noir Trilogy by Philip Kerr - detective novels set in 1930s Germany. I've only read the first book so far, March Violets, but am very impressed. Very dark, and you need a strong stomach for some of it, but good.

The No (censored word meaning nasty person) Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't by Robert I. Sutton - Interesting book about the way nasty and mean people can really hurt your business, how to avoid hiring them, and how to neutralize them if they get in.

I'm currently reading the third book in the Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins. It's entitled Mockingjay.

I just finished "Hounded" by Kevin Hearne. It's a mindless read about a 21 century old Druid living in Arizona. I'm anxiously awaiting the next Dresden files book. "The Land of Painted Caves" was a serious disappointment. I'm going to start "The Death of Common Sense" this afternoon.

Currently reading Death of a Chimney Sweep by M. C. Beaton, the latest in her Hamish Macbeth series. There are nearly thirty of them now, fun books all.

I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one who thinks "The Land of Painted Caves" is disappointing. That's the book I'm reading now and have been for the last month. I just can't seem to get through it.