I'm taking a leaf out of LB's book (blog, really) and posting my current reading. Check hers out at 3 Ring Binder.
I listen to audio books all the time, like most people listen to music. Right now, I am listening to Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Everyone should read the Anne books, starting with Anne of Green Gables. They are delightful stories with a fun main character; I alternately laugh out loud or cry whenever I read these books. I am having a hard time getting into Jane Eyre, but to be fair, it's hard to do it when I know I could be listening to my Anne book. Once I'm finished with that, perhaps I will enjoy Jane Eyre more.
I'm reading the fourth book in Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire series, Dead to the World. Very funny, very Southern grown-up versions of Twilight. These books don't take themselves as seriously as most vampire novels, and I love the main character, telepathic cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse. And Eric Northman, a vampire, is on my short list of fictional men I am in love with, right up there with Fitzwilliam Darcy (Pride and Prejudice), Gilbert Blythe (Anne of Green Gables), George Emerson (A Room with a View), and Radcliffe Emerson, the Father of Curses (Crocodile on the Sandbank).
I am just starting Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy, a series of essays about the philosophical elements of Joss Whedon's Buffyverse. Also just starting Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, the story of her family's year long venture into producing their own food or buying it locally.
I start grad school on Monday, so my reading will be focused on Ancient Greek rhetoric (Aristotle and Plato, in translation) and late 18th century British writing (Sheridan, Wollstonecraft, Goldsmith, and Johnson). But here is the list of what's on deck for my personal reading:
audio - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Matilda by Roald Dahl, and a Scott Powell history class (either History Through Art of Ancient History)
print: The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper, Mr. Darcy, Vampire by Amanda Grange, Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach
Happy Reading!
