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What has your attention?

I'm still working on Slammerkin and loving it.

Gretchen wrote: "I'm still working on Slammerkin and loving it."

I really liked that, too.

I'm reading Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates. I have some library ones I need to get to and am feeling lots of pressure. They may have to go back and I'll be at the bottom again. I have the second in Discovery of Witches and Lifeboat. I also need to finish Salvage the Bones. Eek !

I'm currently reading The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963. Nex up is probably Strong Enough to Die, then Peter and the Shadow Thieves.

I am re-reading The Stand by Stephen King - this months audible download. I am still re-reading The Passage, need to hurry up as need to read the 2nd in the series The Twelve for review.

Also listening to Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters which was a bargain buy from Poundland, unabridged cds. I am reading Flowers for Algernon, Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith and trying to read Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky for my sci fi group, which is really boring and I haven't finished one chapter yet!

I've got 3 books going at once right now: The Plague, Invisible Man, and for levity, Finger Lickin' Fifteen. The Double Comfort Safari Club is calling my name, too, but I'm trying to hold off until I finish the ones I have open now.

I was trudging my way through Townie when I received The Sandcastle Girls in the mail from LT. I'm only on the first chapter but am enjoying it.

I just finished Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, and I will start Gone Girl.

Julie wrote: "I was trudging my way through Townie when I received The Sandcastle Girls in the mail from LT. I'm only on the first chapter but am enjoying it."

Sorry to hear your trudging through Townie. Usually enjoy his fiction work but The Garden of Last Days took me awhile to get through.

Carol wrote: "I just finished Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, and I will start Gone Girl."

What did you think of Wild? I read it while on a camping trip and loved it!

I just started a young adult novel, Delirium a few days ago. It's only OK. The writing is really mediocre, and the dystopian society this author has created is, so far, not making all that much sense. I am hoping more becomes clear as I read further; I'm about 80-some pages in. I also am not keen on the main premise of curing people of the ability to love, but I will be critiquing that further in my final review of the book.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm bugged by the number of authors who have jumped on either the vampire bandwagon or the dystopian/post-apocalyptic world bandwagon. It feels like more than a few authors are trying to make a quick buck with a formula they think is a sure thing. It's just upsetting to me that a young adult novel featuring sub-par writing can be published and sold alongside a beautifully written novel like White Oleander, a book the author admitted working very, very hard on (and you can TELL she chose every single word with care and that she has a background in poetry writing), yet each author can earn the same amount of money, or the book that is written more poorly (or that has the weaker story) could actually make more money. It's terribly unfair--and disappointing. I know young adult literature is hot right now, but I don't believe it needs to have such dumbed-down writing if it's for the high school set (which I feel the book Delirium is).

I'm reading The Dante Club at the moment and I'm about a third of the way through and really getting into it. I've also just received my copy of Crackscam which I plan to make a start on this evening.

I've also got My Bibliofile: A Reading Journal for Book Lovers, which I've started using and really enjoying all the little tasks and lists that it has to fill in. Trying to be a little selective about which books to review in it though otherwise I don't think it'll last long!