What Are You Reading Right Now?

[Deb in IA]

One recommendations through the DIS I've also enjoyed The Other Boleyn Girl, The Kite Runner, Water for Elephants, Secret Life of Bees (not my favorite) & many others.

I am about 100 pages into The Kite Runner, but it is so sad. My heart is breaking for Hassan.

Without giving the plot away, please tell me that it will get better for him? I don't think I can take it if it doesn't . . .

 

[dairyou]

I saw the movie and if it is the same as the book, no it doesn't.

 

[Kristineamb]

Mark of the Lion (A Jade Del Cameron Novel) by Suzanne Arruda

 

[bawsmom]

I felt the same way as you do. I don't think it got any better myself and was wondering what all the hoopla was. I got 3/4 done and then skipped to the end

thanks

i think i'll move on to something else...

 

[JohnsPrincess]

I'm reading The Host by...um...well I'm Totally blanking on her name, but the same woman who wrote the Twilight series!! It's very good, but no where near as completely amazing as the series.

I just read Tales of Beetle the Bard since I knew it would be really quick. It was cute!! (J.K. Rowling)

 

[MELSMICE]

I am about 100 pages into The Kite Runner, but it is so sad. My heart is breaking for Hassan.

Without giving the plot away, please tell me that it will get better for him? I don't think I can take it if it doesn't . . .

Hassan has a tough life, but the book is definitely worth reading. It was probably one of the best books I have ever read.

Right now I am reading the author's 2nd book - A Thousand Splendid Suns.

 

[bawsmom]

Hassan has a tough life, but the book is definitely worth reading. It was probably one of the best books I have ever read.

Right now I am reading the author's 2nd book - A Thousand Splendid Suns.

both of those books were tough for me to read but in hindsight they were worth it... really good books!

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

I am trying, for the third and final time, to read Wicked.

 

[rcraw45425]

Just ordered the first three "southern vampire" books. I finished Polar Shift by Clive Cussler earlier this week. Hope I enjoy the Sookie books more tahn the Anita Blake series, I only read the first two or three of them before tiring.

 

[PhotobearSam]

I am STILL reading Patricia Cornwell's "The Last Precinct"

It's the most BORING Kay Scarpetta novel yet...I am 3/4 of the way through and it's just picking up a LITTLE now...Next on deck is London Bridges by James Patterson and Half Blood Prince (Harry Potter) These will have to be better.

 

[rcraw45425]

I am STILL reading Patricia Cornwell's "The Last Precinct"

It's the most BORING Kay Scarpetta novel yet...I am 3/4 of the way through and it's just picking up a LITTLE now...Next on deck is London Bridges by James Patterson and Half Blood Prince (Harry Potter) These will have to be better.

I vaguely remember that one. I think that London Bridges was just okay, I remember reading it when it came out. I never was able to finish "Step on a Crack" by Patterson and someone else, now it's on the bargain table at B&N!

 

[LoveKermit]

Just jumping in as I've actually had some time to read.

I'm painfully trying to finish Sin in the Second City (I live near Chicago). I call it my hooker book. But it's non-fiction. I read Grisham's non-fiction right before it. I'm non-fictioned out.

But I got A Thousand Splendid Suns for Christmas. I love it! If I were single, not a parent and didn't have a job, I would have finished it in a day. But I'm trying to read it slow because I really enjoy it.

I also got Atonement and the new Grisham, but they've been packed and we don't move until the end of March (at the earliest).

Tinkerbellarella--I made it through Wicked. I even made it through Son of a Witch. I think I must hate myself. But I really enjoyed his Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. It moved MUCH faster than the other two. I won't read him again though.

Anyone read the new Wally Lamb? (Sorry, I'm not going to backread posts)

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

Tinkerbellarella--I made it through Wicked. I even made it through Son of a Witch. I think I must hate myself. But I really enjoyed his Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. It moved MUCH faster than the other two. I won't read him again though.

I read Mirror, Mirror. HORRENDOUS. And the last two times I tried Wicked I was still in school, so not really able to concentrate on it. I find it a bit more interesting this time 'round. However, even as much as I love words and despite a BA in English, I still need to read this book with a dictionary by my side. I've just orderd Confessions from paperbackswap. I can't recall if I've tried to read that one before.

 

[OceanAnnie]

I'm almost done reading, Thirteen for Dinner, by Agatha Christie. Really good. I still don't know who did it, but I do have an inkling.

 

[BusyMom2Three]

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields, a Pulitzer winner, pub. in '93. It starts out somewhat bland but gets more complex and even profound as it progresses. I am about 3/4 of the way through it, and it is amazing at this point. I just finished Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, which can be exciting, startling, and audacious (in good ways, unless you're a major prude, and is also a Pulitzer winner--this is a current trend of mine), so I think The Stone Diaries seemed quaint and domestic by comparison at first.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Team of Rivals. It's not a fast read, but it's a really great biography of Lincoln and his cabinet -- their relationships and leadership.

 

[RUDisney]

I'm going to start Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara today. I joined a book club at our library and this is the first installment. The theme of the club is PA writers.

I've been reading bunches of parrot care training books lately. We bought a sun conure 2 weeks ago and it died the first night we had it. The necropsy showed that it had a heart attack for no apparent reason. So, we're waiting for the aviary to decide whether or not she owes us our money back or a new bird before we proceed with our attorney against her. She's claiming that a heart attack does not mean that the bird was sick and therefore, she owes us nothing.

So, anyway, one way or another, I will have a new bird from her or from somewhere else and I plan to work with my bird on talking and tricks. I've had parakeets before, but never a parrot. FWIW, the books have been very interesting, especially when written about someone's own experiences in training their little bundle of feathers.

 

[Simba's Mom]

I'm finally getting to read "The Christmas Sweater" by Glenn Beck. I wanted to read it all during the Christmas season, but just now got to. It's good.

 

[Planogirl]

I'm reading "Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World" right now. The author tends to ramble a bit but it's a sweet book about an amazing cat.

 

[LBAK]

I just finished The Thirteenth Tale for my bookclub and it was interesting. Was great for a discussion but a little dark. I also read Sunday at Tiffany's by Patterson and I enjoyed it. Now I'm going to start The Gatehouse by DeMille. Can't wait, I love his books.