What Are You Reading-November 2012

[Kelli]

Welcome! This ongoing discussion is your place to share what you are reading and what you think about it!

[Miranda]

Today I picked up Barbara Kingsolver's new novel, Flight Behavior, and Mary Oliver's new poetry collection, A Thousand Mornings . Both are true favorites, so I'm sure I'll have some good words to follow up with later on in the week. :)
I hope the rest of you Kingsolver fans out there have gotten a copy in your hands, too!

[Deb]

I've been listening to Gold by Chris Cleave. I loved Little Bee so much I was a little afraid to start it...would it be as good? I'm not sure about it being as good as Little Bee yet, but I am getting thoroughly wrapped up in the story about a trio of Olympic bikers. Two of them are married and have a daughter with leukemia--and then there is Zoe, whose personal life is a wreck and yet she's the one who has won the most gold medals and gotten the big endorsements. I can't wait to see where he's going to go with this story.

[Kelli]

I just finished reading The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie E. King as well as The Barbary Pirates by William Dietrich. Both were fantastic books. The first book was the debut title in the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series while the last book was the fourth in the Ethan Gage historical adventure series.

I have started Insurgent by Veronica Roth finally and hope that I can fly through it (and enjoy it) so I can move on to some other titles that will help me on the US Roadtrip Challenge. I also hope it is as entertaining as the first book in the series Divergent.

[Catya (LizBenAt)]

I just finished Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist and it was amazing! I'm still reading UnEnchanted but it's only a couple of pages to go. I hope the ending will be good :)

Afterwards I'll read Pandemonium and I hope it'll be just as good as Delirium which I've loved a lot.

[Melanie]

I just finished The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Not my favorite book, but it does make one think. I'm not reading Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff.

[Deb]

Melanie wrote: "I just finished The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Not my favorite book, but it does make one think. I'm not reading Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff."

I hope you mean you are now reading Lost in Shangri-La...
I am too, I'll wait to compare notes with you in Book Club. I like tales of survival so that aspect of is appealing to me.

[Melanie]

Deb wrote: "I hope you mean you are now reading Lost in Shangri-La...I am too, I'll wait to compare notes with you in Book Club. I like tales of survival so that aspect of is appealing to me."

You caught the typo. I'm currently reading Lost in Shangri-La and I'm enjoying it. :)

[Kara]

Got my copy of Sapphire Blue!!! Just a couple of pages in it, but yippie!!

[Catya (LizBenAt)]

Kara wrote: "Got my copy of Sapphire Blue!!! Just a couple of pages in it, but yippie!!"

I love Sapphire blue :D glad you like it!

My reading was messed up last tuesday when my Kindle broke :/ I'm re-reading the Matched series now because I have paperback copies of those...

Melanie wrote: "I just finished The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Not my favorite book, but it does make one think. I'm not reading Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff."

The Handmaid's Tale is another book I'd like to read. I've started it a couple of years ago but I never finished it for some reason I can't remember anymore.

[Kelli]

A friend of mine told me that I should read Harry Turtledove and let me borrow a copy of How Few Remain. It is an alternative history book where the Confederate States were the winners of the civil war. This story starts in 1881 with the CSA buying more territory which sparks another devastating war. I'm almost 200 pages in and actually enjoying it. It has crammed tons of historical figures that we love in it: Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, General Custer, Stonewall Jackson,and Frederick Douglass.