Last week I finished a great one called "Enemy Women" by Paulette Jiles. While I'm not usually a Civil War buff, this one (a historical fiction) honed in on a particularity about Missouri, that it was apparently not wholly Rebel or Union, but each county or farm, even, was something different. Anyway, it's about a young girl that gets sent to prison in St. Louis for Rebel spying, catches TB, falls in love with her Union captor, who helps her escape, then embarks on a "Cold Mountain"-esque trek back to her farm to find her family. It's beautifully written.
After reading such staunch, serious stuff, and living a nightmarish finishing up school, I have embarked on a ChickLit streak that will last through my beach weekend. So far I have read two books by Helen Fielding that have kept me in stitches, and am now on a Katie Fforde, although I have one more Fielding waiting...
