In your TBR pile....

[pat]

what cant you wait to read?

I ask this as today I went to the library to pick up a 'hold': Maos Last Dancer, by Li Cunxin. A true story of a ballet dancer from China. I cant wait to start it.

However, as I browsed, there was a couple of other novels that caught my eye: Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali. I read Brick Lane by Monica Ali and loved it. It was one of the only books I brought! It had been reviewed on Richard and Judy in their book club segment and caught my eye. Now I have just seen this one by her set in a village called Mamarrosa in Portugal, and it looks good. Also there was SHadows and Strongholds by EC.


Now I know I should read Maos Last Dancer first as it is in demand but.....

[JMJacobsen]

Picking the next one to read can take me up to an hour! I suppose it depends on your mood or if you have a review deadline or something like that. Next up for me is The Heretic Queen, by Michelle Moran because she was nice enough to send me a signed copy. I'm starting to get a bit burned out on British HF, so I'm hoping a geographical change down to Egypt will revive my spirits. :)

[Carine]

I can't wait to start The Heretic Queen.

After that it will be a choice between several of EC's books I have waiting for me, Katherine, The Welsh Trilogy and the Plantagenet series by Jean Plaidy ! Tough choices coming up in the future ! :D

[Vanessa]

The list is endless for me. I look at all my books and wonder if I will ever have time to read them all!:eek:

[pat]

The list is endless for me. I look at all my books and wonder if I will ever have time to read them all!:eek:

LOL! But is there one that you cant wait to read?

[Vanessa]

Well, Daphne by Justin Picardie (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/justine-picardie/daphne.htm), The Glass of Time by Michael Cox (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/michael-cox/glass-of-time.htm), The Rose Labyrinth by Titania Hardie (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/titania-hardie/rose-labyrinth.htm), The Man of Property by John Galsworthy (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/john-galsworthy/man-of-property.htm), The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/kate-morton/forgotten-garden.htm) and The Seance by John Harwood (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/john-harwood/seance.htm) all spring to mind!!! Not forgetting Shadows and Strongholds and Lords of the White Castle by Elizabeth Chadwick which I have on my list to read before the end of the year. Choices, choices, decisions, decisions...... Oh dear.:o:D

[Madeleine]

The list is endless for me. I look at all my books and wonder if I will ever have time to read them all!:eek:

Me too! sometimes it takes me ages to decide, but my next read will definitely be "The Secret life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd for my bookgroup as it's my turn to choose so I'd better read it....after that it will probably be Halloween so I may read "The Evil Seed" by Joanne Harris, then possibly "A Place Beyond Courage" by Elizabeth Chadwick, and then the list is endless (because it grows all the time):D

[Divia]

The heretics daughter will be at my library soon. Can't wait :)

[lindymc]

but my next read will definitely be "The Secret life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

I'm sure you'll enjoy TSLOB; it is one of my favorite non-historical fiction novels; one of those with such great lines that I found myself looking for someone with whom to share them. I would think it is a perfect choice for a book club selection.

[boswellbaxter]

I'm finishing up The Heretic Queen (which I'm enjoying). After that I've got way too many choices, but Deborah Cadbury's The Lost King of France, Barnaby Ross's The Passionate Queen, Gene Smith's American Gothic: The Story of America's Legendary Theatrical Family, and Elizabeth Norton's She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of Medieval England are high on the list. All except Ross are nonfiction--I've been in that kind of a mood lately.

[Misfit]

The only two that I am dying to read are EC's Time of Singing and Penman's The Devil's Brood. Impatiently waiting for October.....

[EC2]

Waiting for Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin but there's a loooong queue at the library.

[Leyland]

I have at least a couple hundred TBR's and still I order 2-3 books every week. I get a new one delivered and think that it should be an instant reader, but I'll put it on the shelves with all the others and it mysteriously becomes invisible. I've decided I should start at the top of one of the shelf stacks and pick that book no matter what it is.

They're all there because I want to read them, so I've got to stop wasting time choosing them, and just get busy reading them!

[LCW]

The list is endless for me. I look at all my books and wonder if I will ever have time to read them all!:eek:

Same here!! I have so many and so many that look good so it's usually just a random choice out of 3-4 books that I really want to read right then. Then of course there are the new books coming in like Heretic Queen, which I'm reading now, Devil's Brood, etc. which take priority over everything!

[Julianne Douglas]

Needle in the Blood, Leonardo's Swans, and The Inheritance of Loss are all lined up on the nightstand. But they'll have to wait until I've finished Someone Knows My Name, which I'm finding absolutely enthralling.

[LCW]

Waiting for Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin but there's a loooong queue at the library.

JMO (and I know you didn't ask for it :D ) this one is not worth the wait!!

[eclecticreader10]

I have over 75 books on my TBR list. I have them on spreadsheet in the order that I want to read them. However the one I had to go buy and move to the top of the list is The Heretic's Daughter. I just couldn't wait. I got it yesterday. I'll go back to my list when I'm done, unless, of course, something else grabs my attention.

[michellemoran]

Misfit: same here! EC's Time of Singing, of course, takes precedence, and then it's The Devil's Brood by Penman.

[Misfit]

Misfit: same here! EC's Time of Singing, of course, takes precedence, and then it's The Devil's Brood by Penman.


God help me if they both land on the same day. What's a girl to do???

[Telynor]

October is going to be one of those months with an embarassment of riches for books. So many new, interesting titles! So too, it looks for December with Colleen McCullough writing a -sequel- to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The mind boggles.

[michellemoran]

Well, Misfit, you can always take a day off ;] I think all jobs should come with reading days.

And Telynor, I had no idea CM was writing about Jane Austen. What an interesting subject to choose given her previous books.

[JMJacobsen]

A sequel to Pride and Prejudice? Hmmmm. Seems like there have been a lot of Austen "sequels" lately. Whenever I hear of someone trying to write a sequel to a deceased author's work, for some reason I always think of Rhett Butler's People. er....

[Tanzanite]

I have over 75 books on my TBR list. I have them on spreadsheet in the order that I want to read them. However the one I had to go buy and move to the top of the list is The Heretic's Daughter. I just couldn't wait. I got it yesterday. I'll go back to my list when I'm done, unless, of course, something else grabs my attention.

I have a spreadsheet as well for the same thing. I am really looking forward to Devil's Brood (of which I have an ARC). But it is going to have to go behind The Other Queen since I have to return it to the library this weekend before I go out of town. I know the reviews have not been good, but I'll at least give it a try.

[Misfit]

Well, Misfit, you can always take a day off ;] I think all jobs should come with reading days.

LOL, I actually have some vacation days I've been saving for October. Although my co-workers look at me like I should have my head examined.....

Whenever I hear of someone trying to write a sequel to a deceased author's work, for some reason I always think of Rhett Butler's People. er....

I heard that. :):p

[JMJacobsen]

I heard that. :):p

HA! I think of you every time I see that book on the shelves over at Costco!

[michellemoran]

HA! I think of you every time I see that book on the shelves over at Costco!

Me too! Although in my case, it's Borders! ;)

[SonjaMarie]

October is going to be one of those months with an embarassment of riches for books. So many new, interesting titles! So too, it looks for December with Colleen McCullough writing a -sequel- to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The mind boggles.

She is?! Oye, there are soooo many of them!

SM

[SonjaMarie]

"The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet: A Novel" is the name of the novel, I don't know if I want to read it since Mary was the least interesting of the sisters.

SM

[Telynor]

"The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet: A Novel" is the name of the novel, I don't know if I want to read it since Mary was the least interesting of the sisters.

SM

I agree. But McCullough is so darn good at creating a story, I'm willing to give her a try with this one. It can't possibly be as bad as The Trials of the Honorable F. Darcy, which is one of the worst novels that I have ever tried to wade through. In any case, P&P is next up in my Jane Austen pile for a reread.

I tend to heap my TBR books by Fiction, Nonfiction, our EC, Georgette Heyer, and MMPb's, with separate piles for each one. I try awfully hard not have them get too messy, but I fear that it is a lost cause.

[pat]

This is so interesting to me!

I often pick loads of books in the library, with not a lot of impatience to read them. Sometimes one really catches my eye, or a fav author is in the batch, and that will move them to the top, but I then work through, returning some unread. My 'pile' is kept beside my bed, with a total of 5-8 books in it! I do have a bookshelf with my brought books on it, ones that I wont part with.

[Kailana]

Man, everytime I think there is a book a just have to read... another one catches my attention. I am a really moody reader. I start a book and love it and then I get distracted and never finish it! There are books that I would love to read that have been on my TBR pile for years!

I think I am the only person on here not waiting for Penman and Chadwick's new books. I have only read one book by Penman and never read Chadwick before... I think I should get around to remedying that! Fantasy is my genre of choice, though, so I suppose I can kind of be excused...

[Carine]

Kailana, you're in for a nice surprise if you try a Chadwick, but beware .... you'll want all her books after you've read one !! :D

[Vanessa]

October is going to be one of those months with an embarassment of riches for books. So many new, interesting titles! So too, it looks for December with Colleen McCullough writing a -sequel- to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The mind boggles.


A book I have on my TBR pile is Old Friends an New Fancies, an Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen, by Sybil G Brinton, which intertwines the lives of the charcters from all six JA books. Has anyone read this one?

[pat]

Kailana, you're in for a nice surprise if you try a Chadwick, but beware .... you'll want all her books after you've read one !! :D

Oh how true!

[Madeleine]

Haven't there already been a few "sequels" to P & P, like Pemberley? I must admit I'm not keen on this type of book, however good the author is - sequels to "Rebecca" ("Mrs de Winter" by Susan Hill who I normally like) and "Jane Eyre" ("Mrs Rochester", can't remember the author) spring to mind as being little more than re-hashes of the original novels.

[Vanessa]

A sequel I enjoyed is Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/sally-beauman/rebeccas-tale.htm). It's set 20 years after 'Rebecca'.

[Madeleine]

A sequel I enjoyed is Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/sally-beauman/rebeccas-tale.htm). It's set 20 years after 'Rebecca'.

ah yes now that was excellent, I'd forgotten about that:D

[Leyland]

I read somewhere about 'newly rich' mansion owners in the past buying books by the yard/linear feet to fill their libraries. Many never read their colorfully leather bound treasures though.

So, I feel like I do buy books by the yard in increments of two and three at a time even though I don't have a library and I comfort myself knowing that I will read them all eventually! It doesn't get better than collecting books.

[JMJacobsen]

I read somewhere about 'newly rich' mansion owners in the past buying books by the yard/linear feet to fill their libraries. Many never read their colorfully leather bound treasures though.

So, I feel like I do buy books by the yard in increments of two and three at a time even though I don't have a library and I comfort myself knowing that I will read them all eventually! It doesn't get better than collecting books.

I've read the same thing...it makes me chuckle to think of someone doing that. Speaking of leather-bound treasures, have you ever seen the Easton Press catalog? Wow. Beautiful, but pricey.

[michellemoran]

Holy cow! Another Jane Austen book. I just received an ARC for Cassandra and Jane by Jill Ptikeathley. I guess Jane Austen is the new Anne Boleyn. It actually came two months ago, but I forgot to check my PO Box!

[Carine]

I read somewhere about 'newly rich' mansion owners in the past buying books by the yard/linear feet to fill their libraries. Many never read their colorfully leather bound treasures though.

So, I feel like I do buy books by the yard in increments of two and three at a time even though I don't have a library and I comfort myself knowing that I will read them all eventually! It doesn't get better than collecting books.

LOL, exactly Leyland, it doesn't get better than collecting books ! It's a great feeling, I even love just browsing through them and even just looking at them !

[LCW]

I was all excitied about reading The Fire by Katherine Neville next until I read the reviews and found out it's a sequal to The Eight. Guess I better read that one first!!

[Toelistangan]

I've got the following books on my bookshelf and planning to read them soon:
- Corsair by Tim Severin
- World Without End by Ken Follett
- The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory

ali

[chuck]

Next on my list of reads..."Flashman and the Indians and Lady of Hay"....