Last week I felt a little all over the place, recovering from the mess that the freak October snow-storm caused, plus the parental units are staying with us while my dad recovers from surgery. This week, I hope to catch up on things - because I'm so way behind it's crazy! I need help in the organizing department - I start out good, but tend to fade as the end of the week approaches.

Weekly Reading with A Few Bad-Ass Vampires And Some Funny Business

Last Week I read
Someday This Will Be Funny, Lynne Tillman. I don't know why the word "funny" is used in the title of this book - because there will never come a day when these short stories will be considered funny.

Shadow Kiss, Richelle Mead. Now here is a book I thoroughly enjoyed from beginning to end. And the end - I was like, whoah!!! I was so mad that I didn't have the next book in the series on hand and ready to read. But better believe I requested all the rest of the books in the series from my library - they are going to the top of my to-be-read list.
Since making her first Strigoi kills, Rose hasn't been feeling right. Something dark has begun to grow in her mind, and ghostly shadows warn of a terrible evil drawing nearer to the Academy's iron gates. And now that Lissa and Rose's sworn enemy, Victor Dashkov, is on trial for his freedom, tensions in the Moroi world are higher than ever.

Currently Reading
Embassytown, China Melville. One of the books on my Fall 2011 Reading List.
Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie. Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambassadors can speak Language, and connect the two communities. But an unimaginable new arrival has come to Embassytown. And when this Ambassador speaks, everything changes.

Next
Before I Go to Sleep, S.J. Watson.
Christine Lucas, a 47 year old woman who suffered a terrible accident twenty years ago that caused an anomaly with her memory - every morning she wakes up not knowing who she is. Some days she wakes thinking she is a little girl; other days she believes she is back in college, before her accident. She never remembers that the man laying beside her in bed is her husband, Ben. Each morning he must remind her who she is, where she is, how old she is, and what happened to her. Post-it notes and pictures cover her bathroom mirror as a reminder of her life.

- via Book Journey's What are you reading meme.