TBR: 370.

• What did you recently finish reading?

Rose Lerner, Sweet Disorder, True Pretenses: two related romances (same setting, characters from the first appear briefly in the second). It's been a while since I found a new-to-me romance author whose books I just fell right into, and this was really good timing, as last week was stressful to ( Read more... )

TBR: 372.

• What did you recently finish reading?

Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (reread): I have no idea why I didn't like the Witches books as much as some of the others the first time around; I enjoyed this one immensely. (I've been rereading Discworld by groups (I guess is the best way to put it), so I reread the Rincewind/Wizards books first and ( Read more... )

TBR: 386 (yikes!).

Also, what happens when I forget to do bookposts is that bookposts end up insanely long, so please pardon me if that happens here.

• What did you (not so) recently finish reading?

Dorothy Whipple, Because of the Lockwoods: Dorothy Whipple is so insanely readable. I'm glad Persephone have republished so many of her books, as I ( Read more... )

I don't know, is it totes obvious that one of my New Year's goals has to do with posting more often? ;)

TBR: 300.

• What did you recently finish reading?

P.G. Wodehouse, Summer Moonshine: excellent non-series Wodehouse with a particularly intricate plot having to do with a possibly-stolen Gainsborough miniature. I didn’t totally care for the ( Read more... )

I don't know, Wednesdays are just not a good day for posting.

TBR: 207

• What did you recently finish reading?

G. B. Stern, A Deputy Was King: loved this and am hoping I'll be able to track down the others in the series (I think Virago did at least one other).

Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty: I always enjoy Taylor's insightful, elegant ( Read more... )

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

-- Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of Pointed Firs

This entry was ( Read more... )

but that movie meme sort of struck my fancy (via several people):

Everyone should post their ten most CRUCIAL CRUCIAL CRUCIAL-ASS movies, like the movies that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnations (not necessarily your ten favorite movies but the ten movies that you, as a person existing currently, feel would help ( Read more... )

It’s been years since I did one of these, but what the heck, I happen to feel like it today.

I read 361 books this year, so it’s hard to choose out the best, but happily, I can look at what I rated five stars on Goodreads. (These are all new-to-me books, as opposed to the quite a few five-star books I reread.)

- Noel Coward, The Letters of Noel ( Read more... )

• What did you recently finish reading?

A bunch of rereads while I was feeling stressed and unwell recently: all three Howl's Moving Castle books (first is still easily the best), Connie Willis' Bellwether (fine, but fluffy) and Lincoln's Dreams (tied with To Say Nothing of the Dog for my favorite Willis).

Sharon Shinn, Reader and Raelynx and ( Read more... )

TBR: 235.

• What did you recently finish reading?

Margot Livesey, The House on Fortune Street: The only Livesey I'd previously read was The Flight of Gemma Hardy, which is a retelling of Jane Eyre that I liked but didn't love. I liked this one much more. It's a series of intertwined narratives by four different characters, gradually revealing ( Read more... )