Books I've read

I've managed to read a fair few books in my last weeks of pregnancy and the first couple weeks of new babyness. Strange!

Someone lent me an Anne Tyler, who I've never read. Digging to America is just my kind of thing - a believable, honest look at adoption in multi cultural America, told through convincing and likeable characters, funny and moving. It's gorgeous, I highly recommend it. The story of two Korean babies, adopted on the same day, one by an Iranian family, one by an middle class American family, and their ensuing friendship.

And in a swing into a different genre entirely, Janine Ashbless writes erotic fantasy literature - Cruel Enchantments is a collection of fairy tale type stories (fairies, witches, werewolves, dragons, though I'm really not sure about that one!) with quite considerable erotic content. Just the thing to tide me through this post perineal tear, breastfeeding induced period of libido-lessness. It's fun, but it's also beautiful, well crafted writing.

http://www.janineashbless.com/