What's with today, today?

I wanted to write this post ages ago, in responses to the post over on Stuck-in-a-book   post , but blogger has been playing up and uni assignments have been calling... so some of these books are out of date, and some have been changed, but here we go... The book I'm currently reading... I loved Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles  SO MUCH when I was younger, but I haven't read anything else by her (or even the whole set of the Chronicles, for that matter). This is living up to my expectations, it's a regency/fantasy book and it's so much fun! The main character is a street urchin in London who dresses as a boy to stay out of trouble and takes a job breaking into Mairelon the magician's caravan and is then taken on as an assistant. Adventures ensue. The last book I finished... I am reading quite a bit of fantasy at the moment I feel, and this is also set in a quasi-regency period, but with the added complication of an alternate hist...

Well it is certainly a woeful year for blogging for me. But it is a hectic year for uni, work and apparently everything else. Heading into panic mode. So at the moment not much is getting done, and all my books are comfort reads. Books to read when your brain is all worn out at the end of the day. If I look at my current reading list, I think it pretty much sums up all my comfort-read categories: 1. Agatha Christie Maybe that should be 'murder mysteries', but there are few things as comforting as Agatha Christie. I'm currently reading 'Lord Edgeware Dies', which has Poirot, dead actresses and suspects galore. Agatha Christie has written so many books I don't think I've read them all, the only problem is that it can be hard to sort out the ones I have read from the ones I haven't. Pretty sure this is a new one though. 2. Anything with a really strong plot Fast-paced books, preferably full of action, wake you up at the end of those 10 hour days. I ...