Well, yesterday was one of the stranger Christmases I've celebrated, but bad weather will do that to you sometimes. I made loads of Christmas cookies earlier in the week to share with family and ate way too many of them! And I spent lots of time reading, which always is a welcome way to pass the hours. Hopefully today I'll finally get to see my family, so while I'm off traversing the piles of snow, I leave you with my last stack of new books for 2009!
A few more books I might read over the rest of my break (or later as the case may be):
Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens -- Complete impulse buy when I saw this on the bookstore shelves. The book has been a topic of discussion in one of my online book groups, and it sounds very good.
Mary Anne, Daphne du Maurier -- It's so nice to see DdM's books in US bookstores. This is a Regency nove, and it will be very interesting to see how Daphne handles it after reading so much Georgette Heyer.
The Lie, Petra Hammersfahr -- This is a German crime novel about a doppelgangers. It sounds quite good.
Beauvallet, Georgette Heyer -- Another yummy Heyer novel--another story set in the Georgian period.
The Patience Stone, Atiq Rahimi -- This is the winner of the Prix Goncourt--a story set in modern Afghanistan, which I fear will be in some ways painful to read but rewarding as well.
I received my first gift card (hopefully not my only one) of the season on my last day of work and I didn't waste any time using it. I spent it the same day it was given to me. How's that for an act of desperation--I've not book shopped for a while now so it was fun to browse the shelves of the bookstore! Did anyone else get a gift card or a book (or two?) for Christmas?