I've been traveling a lot this month--camping trip, wedding, shower, wedding, wedding, and none of them near each other--so in between road trips I read
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West finally, long after most of my friends, and re-listened to the audiobooks of the first Harry Potter and Susan Cooper's
The Gray King. Now I have several
books in progress and can't seem to focus on any of them--James Clavell's
Shogun, Thomas Hardy's
Jude the Obscure (I would really enjoy it, if I didn't know it was going to end badly. The Impending Sense of Doom--it's a Hardy, of course it will end badly, the man was pathologically opposed to happiness-prevents me from investing anything in the characters), and
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond.
Really I want graphic
novels right now--something visual. I read two volumes of Frank Miller's
Sin City ('The Hard Goodbye' and 'That Yellow B******') and Max Allan Collins'
Road to Perdition, which was excellent. I'm really annoyed that my dad's copy of
Batman: Year One has vanished, because I wanted to read it, and neither my dad nor my brother seems to be able to find their copies of Frank Miller's
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. What's a girl to do? I guess I'll re-read
The Watchmen and see if I can pick up a few new volumes of Rurouni Kenshin, since the last one I read was vol.14.