Save me from myself. I've jettisoned another book that was on my current reads pile. I was actually just starting to get into it, but it was a victim of a fast approaching library due date (which can't be renewed) and loud and awful music at the gym (again). I know I should be able to concentrate better, but certain types of music (played at certain loud volumes) just rattles me and puts my teeth on edge (I think I am going to give ear plugs a try--does that sound excessive?). Since I was already feeling the slightest bit tepid about the book anyway, I decided it was better to just chuck it in now and hopefully go back to it later (check it out again later that is). The thing is this makes me feel like I can now just pick up any other book that strikes my fancy, when in reality I have more than enough books underway to occupy my free time. Put it down to simple gluttony. I've been eyeing a stack of hardcovers that I couldn't wait to buy when they were first released (some have since come out in paperback--ack!) that I'm feeling the need to read now. I'll try to resist, but I make no promises.
That wasn't what I wanted to write about today, though. As I'm in between books (finishing them that is) I thought I would share some of the new titles I've been taking notice of lately. These are all books that are coming out in the near future. I think I will have to split the list in two in order to keep my post brief.
Emily's Ghost: A Novel of the Bronte Sisters, Denise Giardina - Is it just me or are the Bronte's the subject of lots of fiction lately?
John the Revelator, Peter Murphy - An Irish coming-of-age novel (because you can never have enough of these in my book)
Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood - Yay, a new Atwood novel. This looks like more Dystopian fiction.
Distant Hours, Kate Morton - I'm not quite sure what her new one is about--WWII perhaps? I liked her first book enough to buy the second and will buy the third as well.
Treasure of the Gold Cheetah, Suzanne Arruda - I've been very bad--collecting her mysteries set in Post-WWI Africa but haven't read them yet. This is #4. I'd better get going with these.
White Garden: A Novel of Virginia Woolf, Stephanie Barron - And now V. Woolf is the subject of fiction.
Forests of the Night, David Stuart Davies - A new mystery series set in Post--WWII London!
Close-Up, Esther Verhoef - Crime fiction by a Dutch author who's been compared to Ruth Rendell!
Part 2 coming soon. Now I'm off to go check out that pile of books of mine. Sometimes just looking is enough. And sometimes it isn't.