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I'm reading The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood and I'm... uh.... kinda bored. :crystal Crystal and Beverly, does the science fiction story matter for the rest of the story? I wanna cry every time that starts. Iris's story is much more interesting, although it moves too slowly for my taste. Ooh, ...

Ooooooh! The Blind Assassin is one of my favorite books EVER! So, so good.

I finished up Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, and loved it. Really, it's very good.

Now I'm on to Alice Hoffman's The River King.

I finished up The 19th Wife a few days ago. It was okay, enjoyable enough, but not fantastic. I've just started Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, and I have high expectations for it.

I finished Then We Came to the End a few days ago -- that was a seriously good book. I highly recommend it.

Now I'm on to The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff. I'm less than 100 pages in, and I haven't decided yet how I feel about it.

I just a few minutes ago finished Man Crazy by Joyce Carol Oates. It's the first of her books I've read (!), and it was pretty darn good, if not a little depressing.

Now I'm on to Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris.

Blush! I'm so glad you mentioned that Joshua Ferris book! Several months ago I heard an interview with him on the radio, and I really wanted to read the book, but I was in the car when I was listening and had forgotten his name by the time I was home and could write it down. Is it good so far?

I finished The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (two thumbs up!) last night, and am on to The Burnt House by Faye Kellerman today.

Sílvia, I sort of go hot and cold (usually within the same book!) on John Irving. He's sort of weirdly sex-obsessed, but overall I really like his stuff. I read A Prayer for Owen Meany last year, and I LOVED it. It's one of my all-time favorites. A Widow for One Year is very good, too. In fact, the...

Oh, wow ... you should totally get it, Sílvia! It's a huge sensation over here ... it was just made into a movie (Swedish language, though), and there's been so much hype. The author was from the next town over from mine, so he's a bit of a hometown hero in these parts. He actually died four or fiv...

I think Great Expectations is an excellent read! Right now I'm working on Män som hatar kvinnor (Men Who Hate Women) by Stieg Larsson. It's a suspense/detective novel, and very good so far. The English translation is called The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- everybody I know who's read it can't put...

It was me who took forever to read The Blind Assassin. :blush Like Crystal said, though, it wasn't in a "slogging through it" kind of way, it was because I was busy (Petra was a baby, we were doing a lot of Mosaic Minds work, etc.). I loved it very, very much, though. Seriously, maybe one ...

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I need to get in and update a little -- I'm in a very non-reading way at the moment, unfortunately.

Oh, and about Lolita -- isn't the language fantastic? And to think that he wasn't even a native speaker ...

I'm reading The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff ... it's good but kind of slow-going.

How many books did you read this year? (if you're into tracking that sort of thing) ~~36 ... quite a few short of the 50 I aimed for, but oh well. What was your favourite book read this year? ~~Probably On Beauty by Zadie Smith. Or maybe A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Although, looking back...

I'm working on Blood on the Tongue, a detective novel by Stephen Booth. It's the third in a series that I think is pretty good (despite the fact that the non-word "disorientated" slipped past the editors on at least one occasion -- I have a hard time getting over things like that ).

I'm reading High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. I'm almost finished and I've really enjoyed it -- he's such a good writer.

A few days ago I finished Anna, Hanna och Johanna , then I read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time . Both were good, and I especially liked the second because it was a quick, satisfying read. Now I'm on to Searching for Caleb by Anne Tyler. It's the only one of her novels I haven't ye...

I finished up A Prayer for Owen Meany a couple of days ago ... wow, what a fantastic book. John Irving kind of gets on my nerves sometimes, but I was completely captivated by this book. Really, one of the best books I've read in a long time. I was so moved by it that I went looking for reviews onlin...

Still working on A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Loving it.