6. Dexter by Design - Jeff Lindsay [***]
Tags: crime fiction
7. The Haunted Hotel and Other Stories - Wilkie Collins [***]
Tags: classic fiction, short stories, supernatural
8. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome [****]
Tags: classic fiction, humour
9. To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis [****]
Tags: sci-fi, humour
10. The Slap- Christos ( Read more... )

Only five books read in January. It's some sort of negative record, but let's blame Dickens because he's a) dead and b) responsible for the my spending the first three weeks of 2011 squinching my eyes in stubborn determination. In addition to my review, under the cut, I should mention that if you're going to pick up any Dickens work, it's worth ( Read more... )