The Woman in White

I finished The Woman in White today. I had originally been keeping up with the The Big Read V, but then life happened. Oh well. It's only been a week.

It's a fun detective sort of story. Young Laura Farlie marries the seemingly perfect Sir Percival Glyde according to her late father's wishes. Sir Percival (of course) turns out to be a right beast and just wants Laura for her money. So he and his partner in crime, Count Fosco, orchestrate an elaborate plan that involves faked deaths, misplaced identities, a dark secret regarding more than one person's parentage, and a secret society.( read more... )

Randoms

• yuki_onna writes about the publishing industry and why everybody who writes or reads should want it to stay alive. Couldn't have said it better myself. Publishing may seem big and evil sometimes, but we'd be screwed without it.
  
  
• The 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List is making me so happy. *grabby hands*
  
  
• Couldn't resist this meme. Find out what song was most popular on the day you were born here and post it.
  Mine's Escapade by Janet Jackson.
  
  
  
  
• I want to try making baklava this weekend. Don't know if I will, but I have a hankering for the desserts of my childhood.