I'm reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and I'm really getting drawn in to the story.  Good writing, well paced.   I don't know how it will end but I was thinking it would be a good title to mention to others.

I'm also listening to The Terror by Dan Simmons.  I check audio books out of the library about 3 at a time.  I only finish about 1of 3 since I'm very particular about a reader.  Most I quit after one disk.  This is a winner.

John Lee has a very rich voice and he gives the characters distinct vocal qualities (accents, lisps, dialects) that really bring Simmons already engaging writing alive.  The Terror (real name of one of the lost ships) is based on a true story of a lost Artic Expedition.  A big part of Canadian history.  Kinda like our Donner Party.  Simmons gives adds macabre twist of Terror.

I just started The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin and it is totally absorbing. I have made myself put it down because it is one of those books that you just want to keep reading until you finish it and I need an absorbing book for tomorrow's wait at a hospital while my husband has an out-patient procedure.

I loved The Terror, Kerry!  It's one of my favorite books ever.  If you like that one you should read Simmons' book Carrion Comfort.

I just finished A Game of Thrones, it's one of the best books I've read all year!  I'm also currently rereading Devil in the White City (my all time favorite book).

7spiders,

I am about 1/2 thru The Terror.  The 110 survivors just abandoned the second ship.  Saw your profile, we read many of the same sort of books.  

A Game of Thrones is excellent, too bad the series really lags after the 2nd book.   King's Dark Tower has the same problem, the authors drag their epic series out for so many years, they lose their muse (or their editor).

Isn't DitWC being made into a movie?  I really like the history of Chicago.

Finished The Terror.  Very entertaining.  I hadn't ever heard about the Franklin Expedition before reading Simmons book.  

I did have a funny coincidence.  I received the album Sean-Nos Nua by Sinead O'Connor from the CD swapping site in November (my only "new" album since May) and have been playing the songs in the car.  

Song 3 is called "Lord Franklin," a song about the Franklin Expedition.  I had been listening to this song over and over and had no idea it was the about this expedition.  A history site had a summary of the expedition and mentioned Sinead sang about it in a song.  On the album I ordered.

Oh, yay!  The Terror is on my to be read shelf - now, I am jazzed about it!!!!

I finished Game of Thrones in December on audio and really enjoyed it.

Right now I'm reading The Secret History of Dreaming by Robert Moss, which is a wonderful book about dreaming in various cultures, religions, and even in the lives of famous and not-so-famous people.

I'm also listening to Forest Mage by Robin Hobb, which is really hard to get through in a good way.  The main character is going through so much turmoil and tragedy that I have a hard time listening to it, but I want to know so badly what's going to happen.

I'm reading Doc by Mary Doria Russell, about Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Dodge City, etc, and I'm amazed at how much I'm enjoying it. It was in one of those "best book of 2011" lists and I was able to find it at my library. Western topics aren't usually my favorite thing, but this is excellent.

Reading "A Discovery of Witches" by Deborah Harkness and it is just fascinating and well written. Vampires, witches and demons are not my usual fare at all but this is just fabulous!

Some of these are on my wl so glad to hear they are actually good.  I am now reading The Paperback Christmas and will pass this off to my DD before swapping it out.

I just finished reading Yours Until Dawn and it was absolutely wonderful. LOVED it! It was my first book by her, and I will be looking for more.

Tonya

"Mean what you say and say what you mean, those that matter won't mind and those that mind don't matter."

I'm reading Becoming Marie Antoinette---(link in my siggy)----even though it is fiction I can tell the author did a lot of research.  Did you know they had braces even back then?

Just finished "The Gargoyle" a very engrossing, fascinating book (IF you can get past the gruesomeness of the detailed description of the main character's horrific car crash and wounds/burns).  Highly recommend! The Terror and The Night Circus sound interesting; will have to check them out!

Just finished The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell.  This is a really good King Arthur story.  Cornwell tries to keep it as close to the historical record as possible.  Arthur is not a king but a warlord for the Britons.  He gets his sword from Merlin but it is not Excaliber until later.  Merlin is a Druid with robes and a staff but performs no magic.  The Winter King is Mordred, Arthur's half brother.  Many of the people are still very Roman in dress and habits.  The time of Arthur is soon after the fall of Rome when the Romans abandon England so they can defend their shrinking empire on the continent.  Many Romans flee to Brittany, now in modern day France.

I'm reading BEGUILED by Alice Borchardt (sister to Anne Rice)  A "magnetic, lush historical fiction,"  Loving it!

Life of Pi by Yann Martel. I find the pages are flying by.

Loved "The Terror" and "Doc" is on my Wishlist............currently reading  "the Beach" by Alex Garland and it is really drawing me in.

I am reading The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman and it is one of the best contemporary novels I have read in years. 

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I am finishing The Kitchen House, it is really good.

I just finished a 'can't put it down' novel by the same author that wrote Still Alice, Lisa Genova.   The book is Left Neglected.  Can't stop thinking about the plot and how this novelist got into the mind of a woman with brain damage.  Really interesting;  and makes you thankful for everyting you've got.

I agree about The Gargoyle! One of the better books I read last year. A very good story of love and loss.

I'm reading the first book in the Sevenwaters series by Juliet Marillier and completely hooked so far. I'm also reading the Game of Thrones series and just started book 4. I have heard that this book is the weakest in the series, but I have high hopes anyway. I was so ticked off in the last book (Red Wedding) that I almost gave the series up, but a friend urged me on. I need to know what happens next! :)

Just finished Left Neglected too. I would recommend it. Now I want to go back and read Still Alice, though the idea of reading about early onset Alzheimer's scares me. I also recently read Faith by Jennifer Haigh. a good read.

Kitty, I too have had Still Alice for a long time but am afraid to start it!