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I am reading The Richer, The Poorer, a collection of short stories by Dorothy West. I love it!

What about you?

I'm reading Whitethorn Woods, by Maeve Binchy. I'm not a big fan, I gotta say. I generally like her books but this one is getting on my nerves.

On audiobook I'm listening to Angela's Ashes. So far I'm enjoying it, although it is rather depressing.

I'm reading The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman. So far I like it, but I'm only on page 40. Has anyone read it? I'd never heard of it, but three things attracted me to it at the store: its title, the comparison to Donna Tartt's Secret History, and the fact that the main character is a Latin teacher. I must confess, I'm a sucker for novels whose characters work with languages. The main character in the book I just finished was a translator.

Spudd, I've read about 5 books by Maeve Binchy. The first 3 were fun. Light and fluffy, but fun. Then I thought I'd had enough. WAAY too much sugar! Also, let me know what you think of Angela's Ashes. I tried to watch the movie, but after the third child died in less than 30 minutes, I gave it up! Let me know how depressing it is. If it's anything like A Fine Balance, forget it!

Blush, that sounds like a Harlequin Romance!

Blush - ew, even that synopsis turned me off.

I just started "Everyone Worth Knowing" or whatever it's called - from "The Devil Wears Prada" chick. I have "Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke lined up next.

Crystal Meth wrote:
I just started "Everyone Worth Knowing" or whatever it's called - from "The Devil Wears Prada" chick.

Wha??? Crystal reading best-seller, fluff, pulp fiction????

*faint*

But seriously, how is that? I heard that "The Devil Wears Prada" is actually a rather crappy book.

Lady Bug wrote: Wha??? Crystal reading best-seller, fluff, pulp fiction????

*faint*

I've told you before, chicklit is as low as I go. Do not even mention Harlequin romances or Dean Koontz in my presence.

<--- book snob

I went to the library for some more books to eat.

Picked up "Ella Minnow Pea" and "Without You" - a biography from one of the original cast members of Rent.

I finished "Whitethorn Woods", finally. It was terrible. At the end she did start bringing back some of the characters from earlier, but I couldn't remember who they were, because she'd introduced like eleventy-hundred characters since then and it was 200 pages ago. Bah.

I'm now reading "The Witching Hour" by Anne Rice. DH picked it up for me at Value Village so I figured I might as well read it. I feel I might have read it years ago as a teenager, but I can't remember anything about it, it just has that familiar feeling. So far it's all right, but the chapters are SO long. I hate too long chapters. The chapter I'm currently in is 50 pages, which doesn't make for very good "I'll read one chapter then go to sleep" reading.

Still listening to "Angela's Ashes". It's okay.

I just started Barack Obama's memoir, Dream From My Father. I'm only a few pages in but so far its very good. I *heart* him!

I'm reading Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa. I love it, but I haven't been able to read much fiction lately with all the reading I've been doing for my course. I'm really, really enjoying it. I just wish I had time to read everything, dammit!

I read so many on vacation I can hardly remember them all. Here are the ones that stand out:

Vanishing Acts: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
The Polished Hoe: A Novel by Austin Clark
Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

Also, two James Patterson books and a Harlan Corben mystery.