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Aw but Syl...I'm sooooo lazy particularly when it comes to reading.

For those that liked Cinder...the second in the series is out....Scarlett. It's next on my pile to read.

I'm about 80% through listening to "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern. It is fabulous so far. I haven't read such a unique and imaginative book in ages.

I'm also a few chapters through "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama. It's oldish, obviously, but it's decent.

"Where'd You Go, Bernadette?" came in at the library, so I need to go get it tomorrow. I'll probably put Obama's on hold so that I can finish this one quickly.

Silly Ro.... I meant don't be lazy to google stuff...

Blush, I love that you have emergency paperbacks. I do too. I use them when I travel and just leave them about....

Started Scarlett (2nd in the Cinder/Lunar series). It's good. Unfortunately I've forgotten a lot of Cinder....

I finished "Boys Adrift" (non-fiction about development of boys in America today). Interesting stuff.

Now I'm starting "The Highly Sensitive Child" (self-explanatory) and probably "So Much For That" by Lionel Shriver.

Rowan wrote:Started Scarlett (2nd in the Cinder/Lunar series). It's good.

I went to the library last night because I got a notice Cinder and a few other books were on the hold shelf. I get there and it's not at my library but one like 1.5 hours away because I selected the wrong location when I added it to my hold list. I'm so annoyed with myself.

So now I have to add it again and wait. On the plus side, Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell *was* there and it's so good.

Still reading Scarlet. I don't have much time to read lately and that makes me

Vampires in the Lemon Groves is SO SO good. It's by Karen Russell, who wrote Swamplandia!. I don't even like short stories and I loved this book. I'm actually still thinking about some of them. Highly recommended.

I tried to read the Autobiography of Us but it's not really grabbing me.

I'm now halfway through When did I get like this? The screamer, the worrier, the dinosaur-chicken-nugget buyer and other moms I swore I'd never be by Amy Wilson. It's pretty funny.

mellen, I didn't like Swamplandia. Maybe the only person on the planet. Do you think that's a prerequisite to Lemon Groves?

Finished Scarlett at lunch today. It took a bit to get into this one (about halfway) but I did enjoy it. Did a little digging Book 3 is Cress (Rumpelstiltskin) and Book 4 Winter (Snow White). M guess that Winter was about Snow White...never even occurred to me!

Not sure what's next. Reading has been so slow lately....

I finished listening to "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern--really liked this. I read some online criticism that she broke the cardinal writing rule of "show don't tell," and I guess that is true...but it was still such an inventive idea for a novel that I really liked it a lot. Great book.

And I also just finished "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?" and didn't much care for it. It was all right but just didn't seem to make a lot of sense at the end, and it seemed like it finished before it should have too. So many book endings are disappointments.

Rowan, no I don't think so. I loved her writing in these stories. Whimsical, yet creepy, haunting but refreshing....definitely off the beaten path. There are quite a few of the stories that I just keep turning over in my mind.