Currently reading The Historian. A long, detailed vampire story with suprisingly little interaction with vampires thus far. Told from the point of view of a historian and his daughter. Lots of european history. I find this one interesting for the history and the storyteller does a really good job of creating suspense without overdoing it.
In the last week I also read Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay and Personal Demon by Kelley Armstrong. Late Nights was a good story about a group of people working at a CBC radio station in Yellowknife, with evocative descriptions of the north and interesting characters. Personal Demon is the latest from the Women of the Otherwold series, which is complete fluff but fun to read and I appreciate the strong female leads. My only beef with Personal Demon was that Hope seemed to need more rescuing by her male suitor than some of the other characters. I hope this isn't a trend with the series, because the kickass female leads like Elena are the reason I read it.
Listening to Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult. I'm enjoying this one and have been listening to it while stitching and while folding laundry or doing the dishes. You can read the prologue on amazon and it had me hooked from the beginning. Excerpt from amazon.
From Publishers Weekly
Picoult ( Songs of the Humpback Whales ) brings her considerable talents to this contemporary story of a young woman in search of her identity. Abandoned by her mother when she was five years old, Paige O'Toole has been left with painful doubts about her self-worth. She leaves her Chicago home for Cambridge, Mass., at 18 to fulfill herself as an artist, but must work in a diner because she can't afford art school. When she marries Harvard medical student Nicholas Prescott, his parents disown him, disapproving of their Irish Catholic daughter-in-law. Again Paige is forced to sideline her creative needs and work as a waitress in order to support Nicholas until he is able to establish his career as a cardiac surgeon. Paige is soon overwhelmed by the demands of Nicholas's socially sophisticated world, and after the birth of their son, Max, she becomes emotionally and physically exhausted. Unable to communicate her terrors about herself to Nicholas, she leaves him to search for her mother, who may hold the answers to her life. Told in flashbacks, this is a realistic story of childhood and adolescence, the demands of motherhood, the hard paths of personal growth and the generosity of spirit required by love. Picoult's imagery is startling and brilliant; her characters move credibly through this affecting drama.
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That stocking would drive me insane before I got an eight of it done, I don't understand how you can pick at it without going loco! I can't wait to see the finished product tho!
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