Books, Books, Books - What are you reading??

Wuthering Heights is on my to-read list. Hopefully I can check it out of the local library tomorrow! I heard there are so many plot twists, and that it's very interesting. Yay!

Just finished- A Year In the Merde- Stephen Clarke

Oh is it good?

Yes, i loved it!

Metro 2034, the first book (Metro 2033) was the one I read just before... also I am struggling with The Physician for no real reason, but I am determined to finish it... eventually.

Currently reading Under the Net by Iris Murdoch.
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I have such a terrible habit, I've now limited myself to a book every five pounds lost... and I'm trying *not* to spend all of my money in the used bookstores or pre-ordering every book by my favorite authors off of Amazon so I have them on day one (except for one that I will get tomorrow, for one of those five-pound rewards).

I use to do this!

But I am so addicted I can't do it anymore. It was:
5 pounds: One book
+5 pounds: Two books
+5 pounds: Four books
+5 pounds: Eight books

Then I moved onto: I could not buy any new books until I read five "paper" books. That lasted until I got addicted to a series. Oopsy! I have not bought any books other than two, since I finished that series (minus E-Books, they don't count if they are 1$ or less lol).

Haha! The only reason I can do it right now is that my life is super-busy these days, barely any time for reading for fun... Otherwise, yes, I am one of those people who will bring home a bag of books from the local new/used or the nearest multi-story independent bookstore (not that we have those here, where we often come out on top of the list of Most Illiterate US Cities - I wonder if those things are related), and then read them all in two days and become traumatized that I'm out of books.

I do not yet have a reader, though I bought Mom a Kindle a year and a half ago. I both covet and fear it. I love the used bookstore thing too much, and I'm a highly tactile person, and I *love* the smell and feel of books... not to mention going to the author talks and waiting in line for signatures and all of that. But I'm sure I will give in eventually, it's too easy and too cheap and too convenient not to.

Reading Gone Girl. It's stressful but I can't put it down.

One of my favorite books of the past few years was 11/22/63 by Stephen King. It's not his normal nightmare fuel story. It is excellent.

Easy by Tammara Webber
...typical cliche chick book.

Gone Girl is next on my list, hoping to start it today!

Farmers of Forty Centuries by F.H. King
Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Just finished:
As Sure as the Sun by Anna McPartlin
Dr Who Books (David Tennant ones)
Bleakdoor

Reading:
Fallen Book 3
Gateway for Farie

I love the used bookstore thing too much, and I'm a highly tactile person, and I *love* the smell and feel of books...

Used Books scare me sometimes lol because I am so OCD. I have recently started to get them. Started with the Harlequin books

I love used books. They have an extra story. Are they a lost favorite (we *all* have those books we read once or twice or even thrice a year)? A mismatched book and reader, separated? An idea outgrown? Or worse, an idea abandoned? A gift, discarded? Or spurned? Is there a reader somewhere, having passed on, leaving his books to carry on without him?

Sometimes you find a note in the margin, or a receipt used as a bookmark. Where has this book visited? Was it merely a tool to ease the tedium of a commute by train? Or a grand adventure in a favorite chair by the window? A welcome escape from a terrible life? A life-changing idea for a mind ready to be opened? They could have been anything. Can be everything.

That being said, I do get a case of squick if they're sticky or dirty or otherwise gross. What sort of person would do that to a book?

I just finished Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (and Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling. Such a nice, simple read but absolutely hilarious at once. I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to read next, but I have a few Candace Bushenll books so I may start one of them

I'm a bit of an oddball. I'm currently reading Zombies, a collection of zombie short stories, and rereading Jane Eyre. I like a bit of variety I suppose.

I keep putting this info on my website in hopes my students will care...so far no luck there, but hey, maybe someone here will.

Currently reading: Yaman Tilki by Road Dahl (translated by Gönül Çapan -- that's Fantastic Mr. Fox in English, by the way, and my favorite Dahl book, possibly next to the The BFG)

The Last Three Books/Series I Read: Half-Sick of Shadows by David Logan (can't recommend that one, I don't get this current mania for plots that don't make sense and involve rape and incest and whatever...thus re-reading Fantastic Mr. Fox to get the taste out of my brain)

The Parasol Protectorate Series (Soulless, Changeless, Blameless, Heartless, Timeless) by Gail Carriger (AWESOME. Okay, maybe not going to win any prizes for literature, but fun, great reads, and smart enough to still be not boring by the fifth book)

Artemis Fowl and Artemis Fowl: the Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer (two of my students are writing term papers on these books this semester, so I felt like I should read them...I know there's a lot of hype and they're quite popular, but really? Aeh. And I love YA/Fantasy/Science Fiction, so I'm not sure why I didn't like these more.)

Doctor Who- Shada