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I vote for the Weird Sisters - I've heard great things about it and our library doesn't even have it yet. Wah!

That is...if I get a vote.

I finished Sworn to Silence by Linday Castillo. Nice little murder mystery with a bit of Amish thrown in. I like the lead character - Kate Somethingorother who used to be Amish and is now the Chief of Police in the town she grew up in (1/2 amish and 1/2 "English"). There is another in the ...

Jen Lancaster has a new book coming out in the spring -- its fiction this time. I guess she realized she was "out of" memoirs.

I still really like her and read her blog regularly. I like her snark but sometimes it rubs me the wrong way.

I have Unbroken in my queue at the library. I think I'm 12th or so. I read The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton yesterday. I really liked his writing -- never read anything from the author before. Its the story of a young man who went through a traumatic event as a child and hasn't been able to talk si...

I finished Such a Pretty Face by Cathy Lamb on Monday. It was just ok - I only finished it because I kept thinking it would get better. I started By the Time you Read This by Lola Jaye yesterday. I may give it up. Its the story of a girl who's father dies at 30 and has left her a manual of life and ...

Spudd, I grabbed him randomly off the new release shelf at the library. I love his writing - he's one my fave finds for this year.

5 Stars Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter 4-4.5 Stars The Time Traveler's Wife The Other Eight Hours (non-fiction) A Thousand Splendid Suns So Much for That Never Look Away Caught Fear the Worst Throw out 50 Things (nonfiction) Room Leaving the World Strangers at the Feast The Good Daughters I'd Know...

Mellen, I love that you read so much historical fiction. That's totally how my holds come in too. What else you got?

Let me retract my excitement for My False Friend. I loved it until the end - it was rushed and I'm not entirely sure what happened. I hate when an author spends so much time on development and then rushes the end. Bah. Next up is April and Oliver (Tess Callahan?). I'm 2 pages in so no comment yet. I...

I'm having a really good string of reads these days. I"m almost done The False Friend by Myla Goldberg - so far so good! its the story of a woman who's best friend was kidnapped when they were young but years later as an adult she remembers what really happened to her. She goes back to her home...

Loved, loved, loved My Name is Mary Sutter. Go out and read it.

Also read This is Where We Live by Janelle Brown which I really liked and breezed through. Recommended.

Not sure what's up next. Need to get cracking in December.

I'm reading My Name is Mary Sutter and loving it. Its the story of a midwife who wants to go to medical school and become a surgeon. The kicker? It takes place during the Civil War. I hate to recommend things before I finish so I'll wait.....

I've been on a decent roll lately with good books. Just finished: The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman Both were 4 stars in my book (out of 5) but I'm really stingy with my 5 stars. :) Also breezed through Supercompetent by Laura Stack last night. I love her Lea...

Wow Spudd, that's a crazy number of holds. I"m lucky to go to a library that has a decent selection but that the online hold option isn't used by the masses. I think the longest I waited was for the Henrietta Lacks book which was 17th or so.

Whatcha reading? I'm currently on p.3 of Strangers at the Feast by Jennifer Vanderbes. I know.........seriously I had 3 minutes to read yesterday. I'm also trying to learn German so I'm spending some free time with that. Mellen, I loved Room too! I thought it would be hard because I have a son but I...

My dh wouldn't know what a vanity was....

I'm reading Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter and I'm loving it. I really had to force myself to go to bed last night and not stay up all night reading.

Can't believe there isn't a thread yet. I'm moving slowly this year at #53, at this rate I will hit 100 books by the end of the year but will not beat last year's total of 125. I just finished The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore. It is the story of 2 men with the same name, who grew up in the same neig...

Happy 2010 Everyone!!! Just finished #124 yesterday. It was Identical by Ellen Hopkins a YA book written in verse. I'm loving her stuff. This was the story about 2 identical twins who are very different from each other. This wasn't as good as her Crank/Glass series but still interesting. Up next is ...

Honestly, I think she is enjoying them. Her posts are so much more interesting than the woman who is doing a book a year. I think she just spends all her free time and part of her sleep time reading and I think she reads fast. In the last couple of years I've really worked at finding *good* books by...