Let's do the "What book are you reading?" thread again!

[Soubrette]

I just read "The Other Boylen Girl" about the sister of Anne Boylen-King Henry the 8th's wife. It's fiction and I was pleasantly suprised by how much I liked it.

I also liked it; I love historical fiction from this era. I just finished "The Queen's Fool" by Philippa Gregory...liked it, although maybe not as much as "The Other Bolyn Girl."

I recently read "The Collectors" (or something like that) from Balducci...didn't like it at all. I used to read his stuff, but I guess my tastes in reading have changed to much.

I'm getting ready to read "Partly Cloudy Patriot" by Sarah Vowell. I loved her book "Assination Vacation."

 

[Dismom+two]

I am just about done with the book I am reading....LIFEGUARD by James Patterson.
I really enjoy his writing...nice short chapters makes for an easy read.

 

[Simba's Mom]

Right now I'm reading "River Road" by Joann Ross. It's typical contemporary chisled body/luscious curves stuff. He's FBI, being the body guard for a Soap Opera star. Very predictable-I just haven't figured exactly on which page, they'll fall into bed together. But it's good for a mindless read.

 

[Deb in IA]

I liked The Constant Princess but for some reason I had a harder time settling down to it than I did The Boleyn Inheritance. !

I just finished The Boleyn Inheritance last night!

This was the first Phillipa Gregory book I read, and I understand that she has several along these lines . . . The Constant Princess and The Other Boleyn Girl, which I have not read yet.

I thought the Boleyn Inheritance was pretty good. It reads very quickly. The switching back and forth between the 3 narratives was a bit disorienting at first, but I got used to it after a while. Are the other books told from several differing viewpoints simultaneously as well?

 

[BuckNaked]

I'm about 1/4 of the way through "Team of Rivals". It's by Doris Kearns Goodwin (excellent writer, I love her work), and it's about President Lincoln's cabinet.

 

[Kama89]

Just finished Phillipa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl not long ago and am close to finishing The Queen's Fool. TOBG was the first Gregory I've read. I thoroughly enjoyed it! Loved the fact that so much of it is based on historical fact. It encouraged me to look up a bit of Henry VIII/Anne Boleyn history. Interesting stuff. I've got her "Virgin's Lover" on the shelf which... in a sense... picks up where Queen's Fool leaves off, although it's not a sequel. Hmmm, I say much more and I'm blabbing spoilers! Hush Kim!

 

[Kirby]

I finished reading Night Class by Mauve Binchy today.

There's a book swap going on over on the exchange board if anyone is interested.

 

[Christine]

Another person here who loved The Boleyn Inheritance. I read the other Phillippa Gregory books and few years ago, and loved them.

 

[Griggle]

I recently finished You Suck by Christopher Moore which I loved.

I just finished that also...good one! A Dirty Job is my favorite of his.

Currently reading "Nature Girl" and "Sacred Games"....need one to offset the other.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

I just read "The Other Boylen Girl" about the sister of Anne Boylen-King Henry the 8th's wife. It's fiction and I was pleasantly suprised by how much I liked it.

Just last night I finished The Boylen Inheritence.....great book by Philippa Gregory. If you like "The Other Boylen Girl" read her trilogy...Wideacre, The Favorite Child & Meridon....you will really enjoy them.

 

[momof2inPA]

I just read "The Other Boylen Girl" about the sister of Anne Boylen-King Henry the 8th's wife. It's fiction and I was pleasantly suprised by how much I liked it.

And I'm reading the sequel, the Boleyn Inheritance.

 

[hpygrll]

I'm reading "Shadow Dance" by Julie Garwood.....Good so far

Jenny

 

[Ready to go in Ok]

I am reading Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters, and Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros. Both very good reads, and absolutely nothing alike.

 

[cybrkitn]

Just about finished with Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Then I'm gonna read a non-fiction book before I start to tackle Frank Perretti's "The Visitation".

 

[Alyssa88]

Dying To Cross, it is a book I am reading for a class but it is pretty good, and very sad.

I recently got done reading Suvivor by Chuck Palahniuk- very good.

And of course- South Park and Philosophy , which is excellent.

 

[Glynis]

I just finished reading Second Glance by Jodi Picoult. I love her books, and I think this was my favorite so far. On tap, Mercy by Joci Picoult, the Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards and the 10th Kingdom by Kathryn Wesley. I loved the mini-series a few years ago, and the book really fills in some of the gaps.

 

[julie_yet]

I just finished State Of Fear by Michael Crichton. What the heck? I usually really like his books but this did not read the same as his others. I realize how impossible his other stories are: dinosuars, time travel, killer gorillas. All the preposterous stuff that happens to the characters in this book doesn't seem to phase them.

 

[nsyncraider17]

Let's see...

Hiroshima by John Hersey. For class, but it's pretty good.

The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War. For class, pretty boring.

The Laid Daughter by Helen Bonner. Also for class, and I just started it, but it seems interesting. It's a true story written by a woman who was sexually abused by her father when she was a child. (The class is about narratives written after traumatic experiences)

A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin. For class, about the Apollo program. I actually really like this one.

And if I ever get caught up on reading for school, I'm most of the way through A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin, the second book in the Song of Ice and Fire series. So far, it's an excellent fantasy series, but I probably won't have time to read the rest of the books that are out until summer. Ah, the life of a college student.

 

[mking624]

I am currently reading Modoc. It's "supposedly" a true story about an elephant. Beautiful story, but highly doubtful it's true (for example, the author says the elephant had tusks, yet in the pics they show of her of early to late life, she had no tusks....no dates are ever given...none of these supposed "facts" can be found anywhere except in people referencing the book itself).

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

I'm reading the Walt Disney bio by Neal Gabler and The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner by David Bach