12/5 It's December! What are you reading this first full week of the month?

[Stacey]

I can't believe it's December already. Where did November go?

The Snowman has my total attention this week. I've only read a few pages, but can't wait to dig in.

[Stacey]

I actually posted in the right folder this week.

[Carol]

I'm reading The Paris Wife

[Theresa]

I am reading The Beauty and the Sorrow, a nonfiction work on the First World War. It's fabulous.

[Caroline]

I just finished Never Let Me Go last night (sad story!) and will begin One for the Money today. The movie, starring Katherine Heigl as the lead, is coming out soon, so I want to FINALLY know what all the hype is about this series of books.

[Caroline]

Vicky, I have heard not-so-great things about Explosive Eighteen--pretty much what you said. My friends feel that at this point Evanovich is just churning out books in the series to make a quick buck without putting a quality story out there. :( I am just starting this series, so IDK, but to me it seems 18 books is too many to have in a series. I assume she'll stop at 20. At least it seems that's what she ought to do.

I think you'll find that Catching Fire will get you out of your rut. If there's one book that does NOT bore, that is the one! :D

[Melissa]

Carol wrote: "I'm reading The Paris Wife"

I loved this book!

[Melissa]

This week I'm reading A Million Little Pieces.

[Sam]

This week I'm reading Ice Princess, The Preacher and The Stonecutter which are all by Camilla Läckberg (I borrowed them off my nan and it's about time I read and returned them!).

Also plan to read A Room With a View by E.M. Forster and make a start on Heartstone by C.J. Sansom.

After that, who knows...

[Gretchen]

Just finished The Thirteenth Tale what a gem! Can't believe took me so long to get to!

Starting On Chesil Beach another that has been on my shelf far too long.

[Caroline]

Gretchen wrote: "Starting On Chesil Beach another that has been on my shelf far too long."

This has been on my shelf for too long too (as has The Thirteenth Tale; I ought to get to that sooner rather than later as you're just one of many who say they liked it!). I tried his Enduring Love a few months ago but couldn't get through the first chapter. It just wasn't for me. :( I hope Atonement is better. I saw that movie and liked it so thought I'd try the book.

[Liz]

I'm currently reading Blind Fury by Lynda LaPlante. Not sure what's up next - maybe something light. I did just buy "Explosive 18". The Plum books are the only ones of hers that I'm buying. Any others I'll get from the library. I agree that it feels like she's churning them out. Of course she's still not as bad as James Patterson. I was looking at the Goodreads "new releases" for Dec. & he has FOUR books on it. The Alex Cross & the Women's Murder Club series are pretty much all of his I read any more & I'm not that enthused about the Women's Murder Club book these days either. He definitely has some writing partners that are better than others. After a stand-alone that I REALLY disliked I've pretty much left those alone unless I read something really positive about them.

[Theresa]

I absolutely adored the novel Atonement, which I think is McEwan's best. I liked On Chesil Beach, too.

[Stacey]

Ian McEwan is one of my favorite authors. I liked Saturday and Amsterdam, too!

[Lynne - The Book Squirrel]

I have 2 book club reads to do for this month Dune by Frank Herbert and The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies and I also waiting on a book from the library Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski, which is read in various directions!

[Heather]

I am just about done with The Buddha in the Attic and about a quarter of the way through Breaking Night: A Memoir. I am so looking forward to the Christmas break and the free time it will provide me for reading. The list of "to read" books is getting mighty long...