Whatcha Readin'?

[Marseeya]

I just started Lord of the Rings: Return of the King last night and hope to finish it up over the weekend. School starts on the 9th and I have five books lined up that I want to read before I have to go back!

DS got me Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Part 2, so I have to get Part 1 and read it first.

He also got me Deception Point by Dan Brown.

Also, I have this 1500 page monster entitled A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth that I was hoping to read over my break. It looks like a great book!

I just don't think I'm going to get all this done. I probably won't have much time for pleasure reading until school lets out in May because I'm taking two lit classes, a history class, and a classroom management class from a teacher who overloads on the reading.

 

[SC Minnie]

In the middle of Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell.

 

[DisneyDmbNut]

Just started it...true story about a man in rehab...very good!

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

Just finished: "Restless Souls: American Spirituality from Emerson to Oprah" (non-fiction) by Leigh Schmidt

Currently reading: "Velocity" by Dean Koontz

Next up: "The Historian"

 

[Christine]

I just finished My Friend Leonard last night. This is the "sequel" to A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. It was pretty good. Definitely a bit more upbeat than the first book.

My next book is Cleopatra by Margaret George.

Marseeya--I read A Suitable Boy . It is pretty good but it takes a LONG time to get through it. It is a very good story but I wouldn't call it "gripping" or a "page turner" but worth the read if you've got the time.

 

[lemondog]

Currently reading: Memoirs of a Geisha. I can't put it down!

Next up: A Dean Koontz book DH got me for Christmas, but I can't for the life of me remember the name, lol!

 

[Tina]

Just started Memoirs of a Geisha this morning.

 

[LeCras]

I'm re-reading Stephen King's Christine at the moment - I've read every single one of his books at least twice...most of them five-six times...guess I'm a King addict! Before that I read Eats, shoots and leaves by Lynne Truss, brilliant book!

Charlotte

 

[bicker]

I'm struggling to get through A Feast for Crows by George R R Martin. Gosh, this series has gone downhill. I cannot wait to get Treason Keep by Jennifer Fallon.

 

[Hercules10]

I ~ahem~ read Playboy for the articles.

 

[T1130]

I am reading Haughting Rachel by Kay Hooper. I just finished Amanda by the same author both very good.

 

[Buckalew11]

The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg.

I have no idea why but I am loving this book and this author's style of writing!!

 

[NMAmy]

The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg.

I have no idea why but I am loving this book and this author's style of writing!!

I love Elizabeth Berg. Open House is a great book, too.

I just finished (like minutes ago) S is for Silence by Sue Grafton. I love the Kinsey Millhone series. It was very well done--I didn't figure the killer out ahead of time which is always a plus in my book.

Now I have to pick from my stack of Christmas books. I got a new mystery by Donna Andrews (I love her books--very off the wall mysteries), Adrian Mole and Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend, and the new Sweet Potato Queens book. I'm not sure which one I'll pick.

Another Christmas book I got was Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. I've read his other books but somehow missed this one. There's a hysterical story about a group of people with no common language but very basic French (they're in a French class) trying to explain Easter to a Muslim. Not to mention that candy in France is brought not by a bunny but by a flying bell.

Before all these, I went back and re-read the entire Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. Since I'd read them as they came out, (and the first one was more than 15 years ago) there was a lot I'd forgotten since they have so much detail. It was great reading them one right after the other.

 

[disneylizzy]

My friend is just finishing A Million Little Pieces and then I am starting it. She can't put it down.

While reading Lord of the Rings - picture Orlando Bloom and Viggo Mortensen

 

[pixiemomma]

I just finished The Constant Princess by Phillippa Gregory. Not one of her better works.

Next is The Boys of Winter about the 1980 US Olympic hockey team.

Christine, Cleopatra is very interesting as is all of Margaret George's work. Very few writers can keep me engrossed for over 700 pages!

 

[Christine]

Christine, Cleopatra is very interesting as is all of Margaret George's work. Very few writers can keep me engrossed for over 700 pages!

Oooh, I can't wait.

I didn't realize that Phillippa Gregory had a book called The Constant Princess. Is it new? She is one of my favorite authors but she has lost me on some of the books (didn't like the Meridon series too much).

On a side note--Wicked tonight for you?

 

[Marseeya]

My friend is just finishing A Million Little Pieces and then I am starting it. She can't put it down.

While reading Lord of the Rings - picture Orlando Bloom and Viggo Mortensen

No problem there! I was at Walmart this week and found an Aragorn action figure (here's a similar one: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008YGBO/002-9498084-0412018). DH thought I was nuts for buying it and I said, "But it was on clearance for $4!" and he just said, "Oh, that makes it okay then."

 

[Marseeya]

For those of you reading Memoirs of a Geisha, you have to read Geisha, A Life by Mineko Iwasaki. The author is the woman who Arthur Golden based his Memoirs on, and she's suing him for misrepresentation!

It's a good book -- a bit difficult to read because it's a translation, but still very good.

 

[barbeml]

I'm reading "A Million Little Pieces" (wow) and re-reading the "Betsy-Tacy" books I loved so much as a kid. Talk about polar opposites!!

 

[Christine]

For those of you reading A Million Little Pieces , I highly recommend the author's next book My Friend Leonard . This book provides a LOT of resolution to the first book.