What Are You Reading Right Now?

[Briarmom]

I know, I just hate that. I can not for the life of me get into Eat, Pray, Love. I got it b/c everyone raved about it, but I am just not feeling it yet. I will give it another try, though.

Hmm. It might just not be 'you'. I didn't realize how people project themselves into certain books until I read how people (here on the DIS and elsewhere) were upset with her 'whining' or whatever. It actually shouldn't have surprised me because hanging out on the DIS I should realize that everyone has to do everything this way or that way or it's wrong (not saying that you do that Fliers).

SHE was going through something in HER life and this is how SHE handled it...anyway, I've marked mine up in a million places. I know I won't be able to take a year off and find myself (nor has anyone offered to pay me to do so) but I love learning lessons from books like this. I loved A Year By the Sea as well.

I've picked Pillars of the Earth back up and gotten into it again. I hope I can just finish it. This is so not like me!

ETA: Fliers, didn't you go to Rome? The first part (the eating!!!!!) is in Rome. Mouth watering Rome....

 

[KarenB]

I just don't know what to read.I think it will be Jodi Picoult's Salem Falls. I hate to admit this, but lately I have had trouble focusing on books when the print is small. I may have a hard time with this one for that reason.

Karen

 

[Kelliroo3]

I just don't know what to read.I think it will be Jodi Picoult's Salem Falls. I hate to admit this, but lately I have had trouble focusing on books when the print is small. I may have a hard time with this one for that reason.

Karen

Have you tried reading glasses? My mom does not wear glasses but she uses the glasses you get at Barnes and Nobles to read. She said they work for her.

 

[Mickey Fliers]

Hmm. It might just not be 'you'. I didn't realize how people project themselves into certain books until I read how people (here on the DIS and elsewhere) were upset with her 'whining' or whatever. It actually shouldn't have surprised me because hanging out on the DIS I should realize that everyone has to do everything this way or that way or it's wrong (not saying that you do that Fliers).

SHE was going through something in HER life and this is how SHE handled it...anyway, I've marked mine up in a million places. I know I won't be able to take a year off and find myself (nor has anyone offered to pay me to do so) but I love learning lessons from books like this. I loved A Year By the Sea as well.

I've picked Pillars of the Earth back up and gotten into it again. I hope I can just finish it. This is so not like me!

ETA: Fliers, didn't you go to Rome? The first part (the eating!!!!!) is in Rome. Mouth watering Rome....

Oh, yeah...absolutely adored Rome. As I was reading, I was very envious of her time there. What an incredible opportunity.

I don't feel like she is whining, although I have heard others say that. Maybe it is because I have yet to come to that sort of crossroads or have yet felt that need for self-reflection, that I am having a hard time relating to her story. I haven't gotten too far (picked up Traveler then Boleyn) so I do plan on getting back to the book. It just hasn't grabbed me, yet.

 

[Metro West]

I just started this. So far, it's OK. It's not really grabbing me, but there is just enough going to keep me reading. I'm curious to see what others think of this book.

I finished it the other night...it gets better toward the end. It's typical Stephen King and it's MUCH better than Cell.

 

[Chloe'sMom]

I am currently reading "Pride and Prejudice" - I've never read it before, in fact I've read very little of the classics - and they are so affordable and Barnes and Noble ($5.00 for a good long book) that I've started reading them.

~amanda

 

[clutter]

Here's a new book to throw into the mix: I just started The Book Thief. Really weird beginning, but it's starting to grow on me. I've heard great things about it, but strangely not here on the Dis!

Just finished Grisham's newest The Appeal. Very good.

 

[Kelliroo3]

Here's a new book to throw into the mix: I just started The Book Thief. Really weird beginning, but it's starting to grow on me. I've heard great things about it, but strangely not here on the Dis!

Just finished Grisham's newest The Appeal. Very good.

Actually it was listed here. It might have been on a different book thread though. I really want to read it!

 

[CajunDixie]

I'd rather read a good Nora Roberts or Tami Hoag...But for the next few months I'll be reading parts of Mosby's EMT-Intermediate 1999 I only have to read parts of it at least because I'm going for EMT-A and there doesn't seem to be a good textbook for that.

 

[AmazingGrace]

I agree, MELSMICE. I had to get over the whole Time Traveling thing, b/c honestly, that just confuses me..

Anywho...I got really engrossed in the characters and the true love between Clair and Henry. Heartwrenching stuff.

I'm reading it now. It's just really intense.

 

[jennobrn01]

The last book I read was Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. It's a little dense reading (again, not a vacation book) but it is an amazing story how one American, Mortenson, manages to navigate the political, religious and tribal cultures in Pakistan to build schools in the most poverty-stricken areas. I highly recommend it.

That's on my list to read! With your review I am even more eager to begin. I've been reading more books whose topics are concentrated in the Middle East and have been enjoying the broader understanding I've gained.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Now I'm reading Snow Falling on Cedars which I will be putting up because I just cannot get into it.

A read this a few years ago. It wasn't the best read.

I'd give it another try.

Thanks for the advice. I will give it another shot when I need another book to read

 

[OceanAnnie]

I've been in a reading slump lately. I started reading, "A year by the sea". Couldn't get into it. I tried several times and then just put it down.

So, now I have two books on hold. "All the way home" and "Last to know" (murder mysteries) both by Wendi Corsi Staub. I'm not 100% sure I haven't read either of these. I really like the author. I'm hoping these books will get me out of this slump!

 

[Kelliroo3]

I've been in a reading slump lately. I started reading, "A year by the sea". Couldn't get into it. I tried several times and then just put it down.

So, now I have two books on hold. "All the way home" and "Last to know" (murder mysteries) both by Wendi Corsi Staub. I'm not 100% sure I haven't read either of these. I really like the author. I'm hoping these books will get me out of this slump!

I hate when you can not get into a book, especially if it's one where you originally thought you would love it. I'm like that with Life of Pi. I'm trying to get into it, and I am but it is going slow.

 

[Texa]

Just finished Life of Pi. Now started Green Grass, Running Water. I also need to read a novella by Saul Bellows for a course I'm taking. Saul Bellows, not my favorite.

 

[Kelliroo3]

Just finished Life of Pi. Now started Green Grass, Running Water. I also need to read a novella by Saul Bellows for a course I'm taking. Saul Bellows, not my favorite.

Hey, I just finished Life of Pi today too. What did you think about it? I'm not sure what I'll read next.

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

Trading Commodities and Financial Future: A Step by Step Guide to Mastering the Markets by George Kleinman

 

[liamandcaili]

I don't feel like she is whining, although I have heard others say that. Maybe it is because I have yet to come to that sort of crossroads or have yet felt that need for self-reflection, that I am having a hard time relating to her story. I haven't gotten too far (picked up Traveler then Boleyn) so I do plan on getting back to the book. It just hasn't grabbed me, yet.

I read eat.pray.love a couple months ago and I never really got into it.

I've been reading more books whose topics are concentrated in the Middle East and have been enjoying the broader understanding I've gained.

Three Cups of Tea is definitely a good one for that.

Next up for me is The Senator's Wife.

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

I am reading Strange Defeat by Marc Bloch for my Europe 1933-1945 grad class. It is about the French defeat in 1940 and the resistance movement. It is kind of like a memoir since Marc Bloch was part of everything.

Next is The Warrior and the Priest by Cooper (last name) which is about TR and Woodrow Wilson for my presidential biography seminar.

 

[Simba's Mom]

I just started a book by Barbara Delinsky,The Secret Between Us. From what I've read so far, this seems to be a great book.