Hehe, I'm not a fan of Paulina Simons. I read The Bronze Horseman, and really liked the beginning -- the portrayal of life in war-torn Soviet Union was excellent -- but I thought the protagonists' relationship was pure mush and the sex scenes melodramatic (okay, we get that she's a virgin and the dewdrop of innocence, can we move on now?) Yay to Harry Potter. My friend reads the Twilight series purely to poke fun at them, hehe. Haven't read them myself, so don't have an opinion there.

This semester, I've mostly been doing reading for my literature subject. So I've read To the Lighthouse, The Waste Land, Dubliners, Metamorphosis, Hiroshima Mon Amour, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Wide Sargasso Sea, The God of Small Things and Waiting for Godot, plus poems by Sylvia Plath and John Forbes. Out of those, I'd recommend If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (about a reader who's whisked through a journey of different books; weird philosophical stuff, but fun); Wide Sargasso Sea (the backstory of Bertha from Jane Eyre; really takes you away from the stereotype of the "madwoman in the attic" to look at her life in the West Indies); and The God of Small Things (the most colourful descriptions and metaphors, best writing style ever). I'm currently reading the Death Note manga series, a collection of Japanese essays and have borrowed Wicked from the library. Fun times!