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I'm reading Villete by Charlotte Bronte.....so far, I think it is a fantastic novel. [But I understand why Jane Eyre is better liked... can't say which I like more at this point...]
 

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"Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford

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"Chesil Beach" by Ian McEwan
 

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I'm currently reading Cast in Chaos by Michelle Sagara, which is book seven--I think--in the Chronicles of Elantra series. I will be utterly heartbroken when I get to the end of what is published for this series.

Also working on Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake. It's wonderfully creepy but I'm not fully engrossed in it yet.
 

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Starting Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. Didn't see the TV series so this works out well. The e-book has been cut to $2.99 on amazon.
 

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Just finished The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt, and before that The Coward's Tale by Vanessa Gebbie, and before that Hull Three Zero by Greg Bear. Three novels that couldn't be more different from each other, and all thoroughly enjoyable.
 

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Christine, by Stephen King. I rewatched the movie the other night (fun in a bad-movie way). I'm not a King fan, and so far this is making me remember why: He writes great characters, but he has diarrhea of the pen. I'm already skipping entire pages.
 

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Stephen King's On Writing. With easy to read guides, knowledge of the craft, and smooth as butter prose, you really can't go wrong with this read!

If it informs you of anything, I read 150 pages of it in less than two hours.
 

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Bright Lights, Big City

I've got about ten pages left. I've really enjoyed it. Nice and easy but with depth.

Next up: Porno or Filth. Getting into Welsh after finally reading Trainspotting.
 

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I'm reading Chesterfield's Letters to His Son 1746 - 1771.

I can't descrie it better than the wiki article on the guy. The thing I love about these letters is that they are the real deal. This was real living back then and the way people in the upper crust really wrote. I just find that fascinating.

This collection, also called Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, comprises over 400 letters written beginning in 1737 or 1738 and continuing until his son's death in 1768. The majority of the letters were written between 1746 and 1754. The letters are written in French, English, and some in Latin. They are mostly instructive letters on such subjects as geography, history, and classical literature. Later letters, written when the author had become an established minor diplomat, deal largely with political matters.[4]

The letters were first published by his son's widow Eugenia Stanhope in 1774, and the Letters to his Godson (1890). The Letters are brilliantly written, full of elegant wisdom, of keen wit, of admirable portrait-painting, of exquisite observation and deduction.

In the Letters to his Son Chesterfield epitomises the restraint of polite 18th-century society, writing from Bath on 9 March 1748:
"I would heartily wish that you may often be seen to smile, but never heard to laugh while you live. Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill-manners; it is the manner in which the mob express their silly joy at silly things; and they call it being merry. In my mind there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. I am neither of a melancholy nor a cynical disposition, and am as willing and as apt to be pleased as anybody; but I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason nobody has ever heard me laugh."
 

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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Bradbury....just got past the dust witch and her balloon, and his writing is from a different time (I wish he'd show more sometimes, and wax poetic a bit less) but I'm really liking the book.
 

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Christine, by Stephen King. I rewatched the movie the other night (fun in a bad-movie way). I'm not a King fan, and so far this is making me remember why: He writes great characters, but he has diarrhea of the pen. I'm already skipping entire pages.

It seems that's a problem with a lot of his older works, but I think that's no longer as much of a problem.

The whole "diarrhea of the pen" thing is the reason why, in my opinion, his newer works UNDER THE DOME, and 11/22/63, succeed against his oldies like THE STAND.

*Dodging tomatoes and lettuce being thrown at me.
 

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Just finished Legend by Marie Lu. Excellent dystopian read.

Next up: 11-23-63 by Stephen King. Taking it on the airplane Friday.
 

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Just started A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan, as part of a reading group.