Just finished with Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. The title of the book is a term for a petty thief. The title also alludes to the eroticism in the book. In the story, Sue Trinder, a fingersmith under the matronly Mrs. Sucksby. Sue poses as a maid for Maud Lilly in order to help a man named Gentleman steal Lilly's inheritance. Of course things don't go as planned.

The first blurb on the back states:

"Superb storytelling. Fingersmith is gripping; so suspenseful and twisting is the plot that for the last 250 pages, I read at breakneck speed."

-USA Today

I find that funny because the last 100 pages seemed to take me forever.

Next up shall be Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. In addition I will try to find the urge to keep calling it Far From the Maddening Crowd.