What Are You Reading Right Now?

[rcraw45425]

I hated both of these books. My Dsis loves Nicholas Parks and recommended The Notebook to me. I finished it, but didn't like it. I haven't seen the movie either.

A friend recommended Good in Bed and all I could think was if the lead character could start feeling good about something and have a better attitude about life, she'd get a guy. I stopped reading that because she was annoying me.

How about that for two differing opinions of the same books.

I just finished The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. It was historical fiction about Vlad Drakula. Not your typical vampire book. I found it to be very good.

I'm currently reading Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. I'm fascinated by Russian history and so this book has been right up my alley. It was recommended by one of my aunts who is uber-religious. She loved it and as I'm reading it, I can't believe she made it past the first few chapters since it is full of adulterous thoughts and actions, though not vivid descriptions of them... (at least so far.) I'm on about page 250 of 812, so I don't know what will be coming yet.

I got a notice that Twilight is being held for me at the library. I plan to read that out loud with my kids.

Tell me more about the Historian. I picked it up on the markdown table at B&N for like $6 and it's decorating an antique library table in my bed room right now, lol. That's where the "non trashy, look good in public" books go. Right now it's that, Murder in Coweta County, The yada yada yada of Phenix City Alabama (aka sin city in the 50's), and one called the Big Eddy Club (those three are sorta local stuff about crimes in our area). I honestly didn't realize that the Historian is a Vlad book! I will have to pick it up. I'm still plowing through Devil in the White City, non fiction about a serial killer at the Chicago World's Fair. It's not that it's bad it's just I can't concentrate for some reason.

 

[RUDisney]

The Historian is about, well, a historian that goes on a quest to find where the lost/hidden tomb of Vlad Drakula is hidden. Along the way, he meets additional historians and anthropologists and through a series of old letters from his mentor on this subject, and his own letters, his young daughter becomes hooked into the quest for Dracula, too. While his house is in Amsterdam, in much of the book he is in Istanbul, Bulgaria, Hungary, and France.

I thought it started slow, but it got to the point where I didn't want to put it down, though I had to every now and again to digest the history that I had just read.

At one point in the book, it said that Josef Stalin admired Ivan the Terrible and that Ivan the Terrible admired Vlad Drakula. When I told this to my DS, who is named Ivan and hates everything that the Terrible did to sully his good name, he got quite angry to think that Ivan the Terrible actually wanted to emulate the actions of this other horrible man.

 

[Snow White Trash]

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

 

[rcraw45425]

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

How are you coming with this? I'm having a little trouble getting into it, but as I mentioned in an earlier post it may be that I am having trouble focusing on reading right now. Both girls are out of school and areconstantly demnding to to something or go somewhere. Hope it picks up a little or I find more uninterrupted time.

 

[java]

I just finished The Invisible Wall and then ran out to buy the sequel The Dream So I'm reading that one now. It is a beautifully written story about a Jewish boy growing up on a street in England during WWI. The street is Half Jewish Half Catholic. It has been compared to Angela's Ashes, which I found very depressing.
This one is very sad but hopeful at the same time. So I give it 2 thumbs up.

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

I was a reading fiend this past weekend. I read:

Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
Such A Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair by Laurie Perry

and I just started The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs.

I love not having class and being able to read whatever I want!

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

I was a reading fiend this past weekend. I read:

Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
Such A Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair by Laurie Perry

and I just started The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs.

I love not having class and being able to read whatever I want!

WOW!!!!! That is speed reading!

 

[CharityLynn]

LEt see I finished
Lost SOuls by Lisa Jackson today (I'm a big fan of hers adn would reccommend her to anyone they are suspense novels)

Killer INstinct by Victoria Laurie

Hex marks the spot by Madelyn ALt

Quicksand by Iris Johanson

I just started The Host by Stephanie Meyers..not sure if I'm going to like this one..I like my fantasy without the scifi lol...not big into aliens, outer space but give me a vamp or a werewolf anyday lol

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

WOW!!!!! That is speed reading!

Well, to be fair, I only had a few pages of Good in Bed left, but positively sped through the others. It was a nice relaxing way to spend the weekend.

 

[pixie dust 112]

I just finished The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. I absolutely loved it!

 

[suzimar57]

"not buying it: my year without shopping" by judith levine

 

[Pixiedust34]

I just finished Water for Elephants. It was pretty good!

 

[Grog]

Just finished Quartered Safe Out Here by George McDonald Fraser and just started Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear, which is about the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.

 

[Simba's Mom]

I just finished Season of Strangers by Kat Martin. It's romantic suspense, yes, but also kind of fantasy involving aliens and the paranormal. Not what I usually read, but I enjoyed it.

 

[RUDisney]

I finished Anna Karenina this morning and started reading Ronald Reagan's autobiography, An American Life, this afternoon. I'm also reading Stephanie Myers, Twilight out loud to my kids. They are LOVING it (as am I!)

I found that I loved reading Tolstoy. I'm psyched about getting War and Peace from the library when I go again.

 

[rcraw45425]

Since I last checked in I have been devouring the Laurell K Hamilton Anita Blake books. So far I have read three, along with Elizabeth Lowell's new one Blue Smoke and Murder (read it in less than 24 hours). Trying to start Mary Higgins Clark's new one, also still have the latest Jim Butcher Dresden Files book and the latest Clive Cussler Oregon Files book, along with some more Anita Blakes.

 

[MELSMICE]

A little less than 100 pages into The Thirteenth Tale. I'm enjoying it so far. Not something I normally read, but I like it.

 

[paintnolish]

A little less than 100 pages into The Thirteenth Tale. I'm enjoying it so far. Not something I normally read, but I like it.

I really liked it! Had to read it for a Lit Theory and actually enjoyed- not something that often happens in school. I passed it to a friend then. She tore through it. Can't wait to hear what you think of the end.

I am jumping on the Twilight bandwagon. I am liking it so far. I almost finished The Lightning Thief, but it just wasn't grabbing me. It's sitting in my car waiting for me to be bored enough soemtime to finish it!

 

[KarenB]

SAIL, by James Patterson. Very quick read as usual. Next up is The Last Lecture.

 

[Terry36]

SAIL, by James Patterson. Very quick read as usual. Next up is The Last Lecture.

I love JP. How is this one?

I am currently reading Stephen King's Darma Key!