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Yep, Sílvia, I thought it was the best of her books -- very good!

I finished Water for Elephants and LOVED it. I couldn't put it down. Now I'm getting ready to start The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells.

Oh, wow ... The Postmistress was a *terrible* book. Bad writing, bad plot, just bad, bad, bad.

I've just started Water for Elephants now, and so far I'm liking it.

Bugsy, the middle of the Larsson trilogy was the weakest, I think, and the third one does pick up and get better, if I remember right. I think my main problem with The Time Traveler's Wife was that I couldn't make my brain let go of trying to figure out the logistics and just roll with the story. I'...

Finished The Time Traveler's Wife, and I'm sorry to report that it left me a little meh. I liked it okay, but I didn't love it.

Now I'm starting The Postmistress by Sarah Blake. It got mixed reviews so I'm a bit apprehensive, but we'll see.

I finished Started Early, Took My Dog while we were on vacation, and it was so good. Kate Atkinson's books just get better and better.

Now I've started The Time Traveler's Wife, a million years after everyone else read it. So far I'm equally captivated and confused.

mellenhead wrote:

Beverly wrote: Started Early, Took My Dog

I want to read that book because I just love the name so much.

The title is what got me, too!

Finished Middlesex, and I really liked it. After that I've been reading Kate Atkinson's detective series with Jackson Brodie. They're pretty good -- right now I'm on the fourth one, Started Early, Took My Dog, and it's a good read so far.

I'm still working on Middlesex. It's good and I wish I had more time to sit down with it.

I'm working on Middlesex. So far I like it, but I'm getting to read only five or ten pages a day ... at this rate I'll finish by Christmas.

I just finished up The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (I think Sílvia read it a little while ago, too). I thought it was pretty good -- definitely kept me turning the pages!

Not sure what I'll read next.

I took a break on the Swedish book since it doesn't really seem like one to read in fits and starts, and that's what I've got to work with these days. I started instead on Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. She's a British mystery writer whom I haven't read before. So far it's really good. A later boo...

I've bought several books in the past week or so, and I'm not sure what I'm going to read next. Yesterday I read the first few pages of a Swedish book that got pretty good reviews ( Om inte nu så när by Annika Thor -- it's not yet translated to any other languages), and I may go with that. It's ab...

I'm almost finished with The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. It's really good -- probably my favorite of her books.

Rowan, it took me a little while to get into the first one, but once it took off, it really took off!

Bugsy wrote:I have "The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood and am maybe 50ish pages into it. Liking it so far! I love her writing so much; it's so damn descriptive.

I LOVE that book! Seriously one of my favorites.

Now I'm reading "Words the Dog Knows" on Beverly's recommendation. So far I'm really enjoying it, I've laughed out loud several times. And it's Canadian! I'm always surprised when someone who's not Canadian recommends a book I've never heard of, and it turns out to be Canadian. I *think* ...

I've started both At Home: a Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson and Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, but I'm not really getting a chance to read either.

Yeah, I do, and it irks me, too! The library in town has a decent-sized English collection for a town its size -- probably a couple of thousand English books, but most of them I'm not interested in reading. Also, the library is twenty minutes away, and for whatever reason, I hardly ever go there. I ...

I finally finished This Body of Death by Elizabeth George. It was good, but sort of depressing (all her books are lately, it seems). I haven't decided what to read next, but it will probably be Room, since I just got it in the mail yesterday.

I'm still working on This Body of Death by Elizabeth George. It's good, but I'm not finding a lot of time to read right now.

I ordered Room to add to my to-read stack.