An Enjoyable Read...

I finished up The Impossible Dead (Ian Rankin) and then had to urge to re-read Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. I have been wanting to do this for awhile so it seemed like a good idea. I was glad I did because it has been so long that I had forgotten quite a bit of the story (detail wise) and was glad to revisit that world. Gaiman is such a good writer.

Then I was going to read P.D. James' Death Comes to Pemberly, but after a few pages I decided that I did indeed want to reread Pride and Prejudice first, so that is what I am doing now. It is going fast, thankfully, so I can then get on to the P.D. James!

How One Book Makes You Read Another...

I just finished reading Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte). I had never read it before. I mostly stayed away from those books unless I had to read one for an English class. My sister seemed to really like them (you know, the Bronte Sisters, Jane Austen...) so I figured they could be her kind of books. I read Pride and Prejudice because it was on the syllabus for first year English. It was okay, but never made me want to pull out any of the others by Austen. So, anyhow, I was reading the Jasper Fforde books and the first one, The Eyre Affair, has a lot to do with Jane Eyre so I kept thinking I should probably read it. When I was at Cole's, picking up some books for Mark, there was Jane Eyre, just waiting for me on the bargain stacks. It was alright and added much to the appreciation of The Eyre Affair. Now I am onto the next in the Jasper Fforde series and I am content. It seems to have a lot to do with Hamlet and I have already read that several times.

I do want to say that I have loved reading Edith Wharton for some time... but she was American so for some reason that made the difference for me.