# Whatcha reading Jan. (09) edition **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading-jan-09-edition/479409 **Category:** Cafe Society **Created:** [December 31, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading-jan-09-edition/479409 "2008-12-31T21:57:16Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 119
### Author: ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy) #### Post date: [January 21, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading-jan-09-edition/479409/119 "2009-01-21T00:00:50Z")
Typically I only check in at the beginning of the month with these threads and usually mainly due to my bad luck I’m reading or about to read something absolutely terrible. However I have just read an absolutely brilliant book, one so good that I felt the need to rush out and share it with people. After years of it being on my “I should read that sometime” list I finally got to the often recommended _Bridge of Birds_ and it was everything that it was promised to be. It was witty, charming, more clever than it had any right to be, sorrowful, and touching. It’s magnificent and I could not put it down. So there you go, I do read great books occasionally. 🙂 And continuing that theme I’m about to read the last two volumes in the Lone Wolf and Cub graphic novel series but that may deserve a thread of its own when I finally finish it. For prose novels my next one is _Mythago Woods_. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading-jan-09-edition/479409)._