What I'm reading right now

So, I'm not usually one to jump on the bandwagon of books which are massively hyped up - I avoided the Davinci Code like the plague and wouldn't even consider picking up the Twilight books until I finally caved and read the back of the book in Waterstones so it's safe to say I haven't bought into the hype surrounding The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo - sure I've read the reviews in the paper and magazines but it just didn't seem like my kind of book.  Then I saw the trailer for the movie and it looks incredible.  I'm a firm believer in reading the book before seeing a movie version because books are usually that much better so when someone offered to lend me the book I said thank you. 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo isn't my usual kind of read, I'm not really attracted to thrillers especially ones with multiple narratives but I'm going to give this one a go.  Has anyone read it?  I'd be really interested in your comments/thoughts/critisims of it....

What I'm reading right now....

This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen

Synopsis:  All Remy has to remember her father by is a song.  'This Lullaby', with the memorable line, 'I will let you down'.  Having seen her mother go through four failed marriages, she's pretty sure that's what most men do.  So she's determined to keep the men in her life at arms' length.

But when Dexter comes crashing into her world.  He's everything she hates: messy, disorganised, impulsive and worst of all, a musician like her father.  So why is it suddenly so hard for her to stick to her own rules?

I picked up this book when I was scouring the shelves of the book shop today it sounds quite intriguing.  I'm only a few pages into it but it seems interesting, Remy is in her late teens rather than being the standard sixteen or seventeen, she's left high school, is cynical and damaged and has lost her faith in men.  I'm interested in how this story is going to develop and what Dexter is going to be like....

What I'm reading right now

Here's the thing: I am a book addict, I have a serious problem, I can't walk past a book shop without going in. The books call to me, they whisper to me, flirt with me, wink at me and seduce me. This week I wandered into the lovely bookshop in the town I live in, it comes complete with three floors and a coffee shop, anyway, I toddled into the shop with a list of books I wanted; turned out they didn't have half the books on my list and I ended coming out with the list being twice as long. So, here's what I did pick up; Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris. It's part of the Sookie Stackhouse series - what the True Blood television series is based on. I've watched the tv show because it stars Anna Paquin - a fellow New Zealander, so it's all about patriotic loyalty. So I thought I'd give one of the books a shot....I'll let you know how it goes.