What's Everyone Reading in the New Year?

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I've started w/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

My best friend got me the 50th anniversary edition of Lord of the Rings so I am working through that after I'm done with the Hobbit.

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Harlen Coben - THe Innocent. Not only unputdownably gripping, but it's also set in the exact part of NJ I used to live in so i'm having a little pang of nostalgia.
Then it's back to counselling textbooks.

I normally start the New Year reading my Christmas presents, and then move onto dh's ... but this year I got no books for Christmas ... none at all! I am really shocked. Dh only got two, and they don't interest me.

I'm halfway through The Time Traveller's Wife which dh bought me

Pruni
can I also say that having books on your bedside table is not the same as actually reading them apparently...
I though maybe some Dickens because I loved Bleak House and have read shamefuly little Dickens
David Copperfield maybe?

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Not on the Label by Felicity Lawrence.... well it is definitely making me rethink my way of byuing food!!!!

know what books I got for Christmas?
[grumble grumble]
a Lynda La Plante and a homeopathy handbook
wtf??
I swear these people have never met me
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anyone rad the Mao book by Jung Chang - quite fancy that

Oooh, the Francis Wheen is excellent, Pruni. Get stuck in! De Botton isn't bad either.

As for me - The Politics of Birth by Sheila Kitzinger

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Tell me more..... I certainly plan to buy far less from Sainsbury's !!!!

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We are lucky that we can buy bio-dynamic meat from a local farm, I plan to buy there even more and if possible JUST there. It's more expensive but we'll just eat a bit less and more vegetables, rice, potatoes...
We have a very good organic vegetable shop near us - FAR cheaper than sainsbury's.
We make our own bread (1x week) but I was saying to DH that we are lazy about it and if we bought a machine we would make our own more often... maybe only make our own.... but need to find a good machine that allows for fresh yeast and all sorts of grains... will start a thread on this !

I'm reading Disney War by James Stewart and when I've finished that I'm going to read maybe the Time Traveller's wife (is it good Cam?) or Olivia Joules and the overactive imagination, which I probably won't finish as I expect it's crap and/or Fat Land, about why Americans are the fattest nation in the world. That combined with You Are What You Eat, will, I hope, inspire me to keep up with my diet. I fancy not on the label and the one about supermarket power too, I might buy them next year. I've got the bad mother's handbook which I keep starting but I don't think I'm going to finish it.

I'm reading:

Clay by David Almond (love his books)

plus dipping into:

American Exorcism
The Selected Poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay
and
Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? (Christmas present) which is surprisingly spot on and snortingly funny

I'm alternating between "Small Island" and Boris Johnson's "Lend Me Your Ears". Just re-read "How to be Good" before giving it away. I enjoyed it more second time round.

Ooh, did Jekyll and Hyde at college last year, better than I expected.

Reading at mo:

The Broker (John Grishma- present from DH)

Somerset carnivals by Roger Evans and Peter Nicholls- vaguely know both author and photographer, and Dh is photographed (though not mentioned) 4 times in the book

Theology: A very short introduction by David F Ford, for Uni

Harpsi- what's the Mao book about, doing Chinese Culture in Global Civ. at the moment so would it be a good read for that (just to get my head round a bit more)

I'm 1/3 way through Guardians of the Dawn by Richard Zimmler. Very good but quite harrowing in parts. Then got to read Brick Lane for my book group.

peachy claire - a biog of Mao bythe woman who wrote Wild Swans, supposed to be very well ersearched

have just reread About a House on fire by andrea ashworth,great read!

Got Blue Hibiscus,can't remember the author but it seems really good so far,an african childhood remebered type thing.

Just also finished Shipping News,by Anne Proulx,strangely mesmerizing.

Got Small isand for xmas which I'm exchanging tomorrow as have read it.Took me a few days to remeber that I'd read it

Thanks Harpsi have put that in my absket- like wild Swans when I read it many moons ago, will have to re-read that too(why didn't I keep my copy? essay on women in chinese culture due next term.. Doh)