I'm reading the Vampire Academy series. I'm fascinated by vampires in pop culture, and how they're becoming less like monsters and more like superheroes. Thanks to Twilight, they even sparkle.

That said, the Vampire Academy series is quite horrid. And I'm on the third book. Clearly, I'm a masochist.

Last night I finished "The Husband" by Dean Koontz (was okay not as good as his other stuff)

Now I am reading "Crave" by J.R. Ward

Current food for thought list...
 

Winter weather has kept me from going to my favorite bookstore or library to check out alternate reading materials, so I am here to say that I am still reading from a couple of books I spoke about last time.

I read "Dancing with Embers" and "Written On the Sky" but was touched more by the former book of poetry than the previous book of poetry.

My interest in the Mary Wollenstonecraft Shelley "The Annotated Frankenstein" bored me to tears, sadly. I think I'll ask a few more questions about works like this, next time I visit the library.

On the other hand, I find the book of poetry (The Poems of Li Ho) rich with dense history not only about Li Ho, but about cultural impacts during the life and times of Li Ho. It's not a very big book of poetry but what makes it hard to just read for leisure is that editor David Hawkes painstakingly provides footnotes about people or places or things or even highly-regarded cultural notions upheld and revered by members of society, back in his lifetime. So, what I'm trying to say is that a person can't just read the poetry for sheer pleasure without reading a commingling of other ideas which, at times, can puncture what seems like a complete picture. So I'm still wading with poetry by Li Ho.

I am wait-listed for a book I placed on hold, weeks ago.
I imagine it will be available some time in March, maybe early April.

Slices of Life by Georgia Beers

(I tend to like any book this author writes)

The Rape of Europa~ Lynn Nicholas

After finishing the Monuments Men I thought I'd give this a try. Very similar but a more detailed account.

I Love You Again
 

I Love You Again~Kate Sweeney

Very cute story about a couple who were together for 18 years and then took a break from each other! Some very funny stuff in this book that most of us can relate to. Check it out

High Desert by Katherine V. Forrest
Another in the great Kate Delafield series. i just started it. i can't wait to really get into it. That should be page 2.

Try O Captain my Captain by Katherine V. Forrest. This is a short read but excellent.

I just finished a great juicy bonkbuster A Kept Woman... very fun and salacious.

musica
 

"An Equal Music" by Vikram Seth

Reading this once again...delectable writing

Greco

Life, the Truth, and Being Free by Steve Maraboli

I've been on a waiting list for this book. It's been around awhile but Amazon had run out. It's supposed to arrive late next week. The book ended up interesting me because I've loved/used so many quotes from it.


Anyway, I'm excited!

I didn't like it. I loved A Suitable Boy. I read that he has written a sequel called A Suitable Girl, I think. Not released yet. He's still editing. I hate it when a writer you like takes years and years to write a book.

I am reading The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. So far, it's entertaining.

Never thought I'd read a graphic novel...