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Beautiful gothy art style that I'm rather enjoying. Learning a bit about Tarot as I go as an added bonus. Bought the first three of these at the used book store while out of town. I suspect they'll all three go down pretty quickly.

I have decided not to read this one. I was reading it for our book club, but I can't make the meeting due to a business trip. I'll try to get started on next month's selection (The Pillow Book) instead.

This is our book club's book for December.

Yeah, I am not far yet. I really don't WANT to add another new book, but our book club is reading this for November. So there you go. Hopefully I will finish off a couple of books I'm close on soon. I'd like to only be reading, say, a dozen things at once.

I was really enjoying this, but I felt like I should slow down, go back, reread. Davis spends a lot of time on Haiti's history, so parts of this fly by like a novel, but parts of it are far more difficult/slow for me because I want to remember every detail and unfortunately my head just isn't like that. Trying to get past that, get back to this, and continue wtih the intent to finish.

This is the book I'm reading most consistently right now. It's my first non-Amber Zelazny. So far it feels kind of Amberish despite that. Enjoying it despite (or perhaps because) of that. Gloriously short chapters that are easy to pick off in spare moments. This is probably the next book that will get finished and receive a full review.

I was really loving this until someone pointed out that this is one of those Big Epics That Is Actually Not Finished And Maybe Never Will Be. So I stepped away from it for awhile, but have now inquired with friends and been told I should finish it anyway, despite the Epic Fail of Failing to Finish. We'll see if I can get over my grudge and start enjoying it again.

Just finished the second story, looks like there are a couple more left. I'm enjoying this immensely, and stringing it out so it doesn't end too soon. When the time comes that it does end, I'll have to find the next one and keep going.

I really love this series, and would have completed it long ago, except that I loved it so much I decided to start over and read it out loud to Sam, but we stalled for some reason. So now I've come back, found where I left off, and am hoping to finish.

This one, thus far, feels like a chore. Continuing because it's one of those classics with which you're supposed to be familiar and lots of people like it for some reason. So far, the only plus is that one of the rabbits is named Pipkin, and I think that's a cute name. Unfortunately, he is a rather pathetic little bunny.

Just finished the second story, looks like there are a couple more left. I'm enjoying this immensely, and stringing it out so it doesn't end too soon. When the time comes that it does end, I'll have to find the next one and keep going.

Sam and I reading this one together. Or, more precisely, he is reading this to me at bedtime some nights. As such, it is even more surreal than it should be, as half of it I've absorbed while drifting off. Still, it's excellent and very amusing and I am becoming a huge Charles Kingsley fan. We are nearly half-way through it.

Starting chapter ten, and enjoying it, insomuch as you can enjoy a book written from the perspective of a killer with whom you share just enough in common to make you fascinated and uncomfortable. Written by someone else with information pulled from a journal, I wonder how much of this is supposition and how much is from Michael Oros' own mind. He's on the run, living off the land, doing okay despite winter coming.

Loved the prologue in this weird, "oh crap is this another Twilightesque controlling love story" sort of way, but the first two chapters have been sort of slow and plodding. Waiting for Kate to Get to Her Point and for it to start getting good again. Right now it's a sort of lame Girl, Interrupted with a gothy, even-more-emo twist.

Loved the prologue in this weird, "oh crap is this another Twilightesque controlling love story" sort of way, but the first two chapters have been sort of slow and plodding. Waiting for Kate to Get to Her Point and for it to start getting good again. Right now it's a sort of lame Girl, Interrupted with a gothy, even-more-emo twist.

Nearly done with this one. It is comprised of a number of chapters divided into four "books," and I have just finished the third of these. Looking forward to finishing this one off soon, though I've enjoyed it. I need to see out more Nancy Springer.

This is a super easy YA book, but for some reason I am plodding through it. I don't quite get why, and don't dislike it enough to stop reading. Hoping it will pick up soon.

French books always go a bit slower for me, and I haven't read in French in awhile, so it's been slow but I am picking up speed. This is my first Camus. He's doing a very good job of making me feel as numb as the narrator, which is, I think, how I'm supposed to feel.

Sigh, only .05% done! It's a very large book. I am on Chapter VI, and am actually not feeling at all overwhelmed by the prospect of all the pages that lie before me, because he's a wonderful writer. I suppose the main impediment toward moving forward is that it is the thickest and heaviest book in the Currently Reading pile, and thus remains on the bottom of the stack upon my night stand.