Books and Movies

Since last week, I gave up on Islands of Divine Music by John Addiego. Any book that I’m forcing myself to read is not worth what little reading time I have.

I finished The Professors’ Wives’ Club by Joanne Rendell. I liked it, but not enough to want to write a review.

I also finished A Letter of Mary by Laurie R. King, which I loved and did review.

I wrote a post on some of the books I’m thankful I found this year.

I read short story number three for the 100 Shots of Short Challenge.

I also joined The Art History Reading Challenge for next year, and compiled all of 2009’s Reading Challenges into one page.

I’m currently reading:

Irish Girls Are Back in Town

Like any short story collection, I like some and some are just okay. I’m looking forward to the entry by Cecilia Ahern.

I also started:

Blindspot by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore

I am loving this book! I was sent an ARC (the release date is December 9th), and it sat in the stack for a while. The story is told by two different narrators. Fanny Easton tells her story in letters to her friend, Lizzie. Stewart Jameson tells his as if he is speaking to the reader. Both have an individual and entertaining voice. The two find themselves in Boston in 1764, a hotbed of rebellion against the British king. Jameson is a portrait painter who escaped from his creditors in Edinburgh and is hoping to establish himself in Boston, without his history being found out. Fanny is a young lady - a fallen woman - who, of necessity, is posing as Jameson’s male apprentice, Francis Weston. The writing style is humorous, almost sly, especially the portions narrated by Jameson. I only wish I had more time to read it!

What are you reading this Sunday?