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Still reading "What to Eat," but I also started "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" because it came in at the library. "What to Eat" is so interesting; food politics are fascinating and also disturbing. And so far the other is quite good too, though I'm fewer than 100 pages into it.

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.

Beverly, do you also have to buy all the books you wanna read in English? I hate that . There's a library that belongs to an English school near here, but I'd have to pay for parking there, so I think it's worth buying whatever I want in paperback.

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 buy quite a few books from ebay (either .com or .co.uk), and that's usually a bit cheaper. Still, though, I spend way too much money on books.

Yeah, me too, but it's my only luxury, so f-it. At least I can say to myself that I'm improving my English. What's your excuse?

I finished A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. It was quite good! Yes, it's another book about witches, vampires, etc., but it's a more adult one.....and not anywhere as goofy as the Sookie Stackhouse novels. There is a lot about history weaved in through out the book - I would definitely recommend it.

I tried to start reading Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua and I can't do it. The tone and subject matter annoyed the hell out of me, as I suspected it would.

Next up is The Cypress House by Michael Koryta.

Wah! I'm in a book funk. I finished The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman this weekend (which wasn't good) and haven't been able to get into anything since then. I had gotten Being Polite to Hitler from the library but the character/intro just didn't grab me so I dumped it.

Mellen, I put A Discovery of Witches on my queue at the library. Sounds good.

Spudd, glad you liked This is Where We Live.

I have a pile from the library but everything just looks ick. Hope this doesn't last long.....

Also on my list this month:

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
The Stuff that Never Happened by Maddie Dawson
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell