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Finished Cathy Lamb's Henry's Sisters last night in the early hours - wonderful book.  Back to bed with my coffee now and starting Diane Chamberlain's Cypress Point - love her books.... 

After dragging myself through the (for me) enormously disappointing December (Elizabeth H Winthrop), I'm now much more happily reading Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans, a gloriously humorous and touching novel about life on the home-front and in the Ministry of Information in WW2.  Evans' style reminds me very much of Laurie Graham, though perhaps even a tad better.

"Do you think I should wear my good shoes for the interview?" asked Catrin, still curled beneath the eiderdown. "Not that they'll be looking at my feet, I suppose..."

 Starting the month with Walking in Pimlico by Ann Featherstone, which is a Victorian, warts and all, murder mystery with overtones of Tipping the Velvet.

'Here is a murder.

And here is yours truly, Corney Sage, comedian, clog-dancer, comic vocalist, actor and all-round funny fellow.

It cost me my health and reason, and still interrupts my sleep with bad dreams.'

More cheerful than it sounds and quite a story.

Yesterday I finished A Dubious Legacy by Mary Wesley,  not my usual type of book but I enjoyed this very much. Not sure what to read now but will probably return to The Winter House by Nicci Gerrard I really like her style but am finding this one rather depressing.

 I'm starting the month with Labyrinth - Kate Mosse for Goodreads Seasonal Challenge.

I started Pains on Trains by Andrew Holmes and Matthews Reeve this morning.  Its a collection of "pain-spotting" commuter stories with such delightful headings as "Death Breath", "the Stinker" the "Vomiter" and "the Pervert"!  I'm about halfway through and up to the "the Mobile Phoner" - I haven't yet come across "the Sniffer"! Its quite funny and very true!

 Currently reading The Keeper by Natasha Mostert .

Finished Blood Brothers by J.A. Kerley last night. Realised partway through this that I should have read The Broken Souls before this so I am now reading that

Currently reading Dreaming of Amelia by Jaclyn Moriarty which the lovely Anne Cater sent me. I'm about halfway through it and completely loving it - on my of my favourite teen authors.

I am currently halfway through Noahs Compass by Anne Tyler - it's ok, but I'm hoping ti picks up soon!

I'm still reading The Summer Psychic by Jessica Adams.  

This book was published in 2005 and I've found it odd how some of the things that the pyschic Jim predicted have come true to be honest, unless it's the way things have been twisted in the book.  It's an easy read and just what the doctor ordered at the moment.

 I finished the very enjoyable A Jarful of Angels by Babs Horton last night.

Today I've brought with me, to start at lunchtime, The Greenway by Jane Adams  I'm trying to read shortish books this month and thought I might also go through my selection alphabetically by author.

Even in her dream Cassie could feel the exertion of that run.  The sun, somehow heavy on her back.  The way she seemed to breathe the dust thrown up by their running feet.

Then, the sudden shimmer, like a displaced heat haze; the feeling of heaviness cloaked around her shoulders, the ground shifting beneath her feet.  Dimly, as she feel, she heard Suzie’s distant voice calling her name.

Falling, falling.

Cassie, the child, was engulfed in this blackness.  An absolute, soundless, thick as treacle blackness.  She couldn’t hear, couldn’t see, couldn’t breathe.

 Finished Walking in Pimlico (Ann Featherstone), which was very good indeed. It has Victorian vernacular (fascinating - I never knew, among much else, that 'shop' used to mean a place to work/live in), bloody murder, cross-dressing, filthy living conditions, freak shows, chases on cobblestones - you name it!

Now on to Berlin with The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite by Beatrice Colin, which I've been looking forward to reading due to interest in the subject and good reports (thanks Penny!) and am enjoying thoroughly.

I'm a couple of chapters into The Girl Next Door by Elizabeth Noble and enjoying it.