What are you reading the week of Sunday, April 5, 2015?

[scarletwoman]

Good morning to you all, and a Happy Easter to those who celebrate it!

Well, I ended up setting Moby Dick aside after page 83 (chickened out) and picked up At Play in the Fields of the Lord instead. On the first page I realized I had, in fact, read it before - but apparently too many years ago for my poor memory to sustain. Still, it was wonderful to re-read it. It's an awesome book and I highly recommend it. Not light reading, but the writing is gorgeous and it's a powerful story.

Someone had mentioned P.D James in last week's thread, so I looked over her bibliography to see if there were any of her books I might not have read. I knew I had already read every book of her Dagliesh series, but I wasn't sure about some of her others. So I ordered the two Cordelia Gray books and one other stand-alone.

Once again, by the first page of An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Cordelia Gray #1) I realized I had already read it. Bummer. But since it was either that, or back to Moby Dick, I've been carrying on with Cordelia - and enjoying it well enough as light entertainment.

However, I'm rather frustrated at this point. I have 11 new books that I really want to read on hold at the library, but not a single one of them is available yet.

I've been reading synopsis after synopsis (synopses?) of books that have either been recommended on Fantastic Fiction, on GoodReads, or brought up in posts in these weekly reading threads, and nothing has quivered my reading antennae since The Sea Runners. I suppose I'm too picky. I won't do "thrillers", stories with serial killers, dystopian novels, supernatural novels, spy stories, most historical fiction (although I am willing to make exceptions), and I'm not fond of American novelists or American settings in general. Yes, I am very hard to please.

Nevertheless, I very much look forward each week to hearing about what you're reading! One of you just might come up with exactly what I'd like to read next!

Thanks in advance...