What are you reading?

I'm just about to start The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble. It's a book my Mum lent me many moons ago and I've never gotten around to reading.

The story goes:
In the early 1900s, Bessie Bawtry, a small child with big notions, lives in a South Yorkshire mining town in England. Precocious and refined in a land of little ambition and much mining grime, Bessie waits for the day she can escape the bleak, coarse existence her ancestors had seldom questioned.
Nearly a century later Bessie's granddaughter, Faro Gaulden, is listening to a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has returned to the depressed little town in which Bessie grew up and wonders at the families who never left. Confronted with what would have been her life had her grandmother stayed, she finds herself faced with difficult questions. Is she really so different from the South Yorkshire locals? As she soon learns, the past has a way of reasserting itself-not unlike the peppered moth that was once thought to be nearing extinction but is now enjoying a sudden unexplained resurgence.

I've also just finished '206 Bones' by Kathy Reichs and all I can say is I hope she's a better forensic anthropologist than author. She fills her books with way too much technical, forensic speak and not enough actual story. I don't think I'll be in any hurry to read any more of her books. I think I'll just watch Bones on TV instead.