The week's reading...

As I've gotten into Mansfield Park, I've started to like it more. I'm sure I'll end up enjoying it. It seems to be more serious than Austen's other novels...

I'm a third of the way finished listening to Double Whammy. It's great. It's definitely early Hiaasen, but some of the recurring characters in his later novels appear.

Yet another classic I need to read...

Brideshead Revisited. Never read it before! My mother is ashamed of me. :p She wants to see the new movie version of it, so I'd better pick up a copy. Books are almost always better than the movies...and I've heard that this film really chops up the novel.

Started Mansfield Park, I can say it's not my favorite Austen. I'll keep reading it, though...

Not really "reading"...

I borrowed this terrific book from the library: 500 Handmade Dolls: Modern Explorations of the Human Form. It's really more of a picture book- it's filled with beautiful photos of art dolls, from the traditional to the unusual, dolls made from cloth, to dolls made from whatever the artist could get a hold of. I'm inspired. I'd love to try my hand at doll making again.




I suppose I could count it in my total number of books read! :p Each photo has a detailed explanation from the artist on how he or she came up with the idea for the doll, and what it was made of.

Oops.

So much for my reading plans for this week. I've read nothing since Thursday! I listened to Death of a Village on cassette tape, but that doesn't count towards my total because I'd already read it...

While house sitting for my sister this week, I've mostly watched movies and television. I will start Mansfield Park tonight, though!

Almost there...

I read the last two Torchwood novels over the weekend, bringing my total number of books read to 48!

Something in the Water was creepy- about an alien "water hag", who reproduces by implanting men with her "babies". Rather disgusting, but fun.

Trace Memory was better, and was more like a Torchwood episode. A man from the fifties survives a mysterious explosion and keeps popping up in different places in time- including the pasts of the Torchwood staff. Nice little glimpses into each character, and an interesting villain in the "men in bowler hats"- the aliens who are chasing the time shifter.

I keep finding books...

...by favorite authors that I somehow missed. I just downloaded the audio of Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen to my MP3 player. It's one of his first books, so that's probably how I missed it! One summer, I read most of his books. I think there are a couple of others that I haven't read! I'll keep looking for them.

This doesn't mean that I'm not sticking to my current reading plan. That's the nice thing about audio books- I can read more than one book at a time.

No more Hamish. :(

I finished Death of a Dreamer last night. I've now read all of the series...and I'm really looking forward to the next one! Dreamer was pretty good.

I still have the two Torchwood novels to read, and will probably finish them this weekend. After that, I will finally (yes, really) read Wings of the Dove and Mansfield Park. I also have The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Middlemarch in my to-read pile. After I'm done with that, I'm going to start reading M.C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin series. I hope they're as good as Hamish Macbeth!

So by the end of the month, I will have met my reading goal for 2008! I think I may end up reading almost 80 before the year is out...so I will make 100 my goal for 2009. There are enough books in the world to do it!