Book Talk: I've Been Reading...

All this Buffy watching and posting is seriously getting in the way of all my reading and posting - as if I really needed to get even further behind.  Some multitasking is definitely required.

Oh well at least this book post shows that I have at least been trying to mix it up a little reading wise.  

Lots of chick lit this time round, all of which had been sitting in my To Be Read pile for absolutely ages so it felt good to finally get to them.  Even better they ranged from being good to really really good so that's always a nice thing.  

I especially loved Maybe This Time and The Memory Collector, both by authors that I have read before and enjoyed.   In fact I've probably read nearly all of Jill Mansell's books so no surprise that I would enjoy her latest. 

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me was my first graphic novel in a really long time.  Mostly because I am really fussy and super hard to please in regards to graphic fiction.  The illustrations really have to work for me for me to enjoy them which generally means they have to be fairly realistic and not too arty.  Which I know totally goes against the whole idea of graphic novels.   Laura Dean though worked for me and the story was a realistic look of how we sometimes let 'love' or the idea of love blind us.

After that it was three really excellent reads - two non fiction and 1 crime novel.. You just knew that there had to be a crime novel in there somewhere.

Both of the nonfic were fascinating reads; the first looked at the various Scandinavian countries and asked the question "are they as happy as all the surveys say" and the second looked at whether our population really is set to keep on increasing or is it actually decreasing and what does this mean for the future.

I read both of these in one sitting as they were so good.

And finally a crime novel.  A new to me author which means I now have a brand new crime series to work my way through.  Yay for me.