Where is your bookmark?

[Anil]

I'm about to finish Emma. Only 60+ pages left. I'm also reading My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley. I've finished almost 1/3 of the book.

[Pink]

I'm jealous of you reading Emma, I have read no Jane Austen ( hangs head in shame)

[Anil]

It is the third book of Austen I read, but I guess I'll give a break for some time to read the remaining Austen books. I've had enough of genteel women and men!

[Pam]

Reading CALEB'S CROSSING by Geralding Brooks and ELEGY FOR EDDIE by Jacqueline Winspear.

[Rose]

I just finished Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare. It is the last book in The Infernal Devices series. Now I can't wait for the last in The Mortal Instruments series. And the movie comes to the theater in August. I'm currently reading the second book in The Princess Diaries series...Princess in the Spotlight.

[HeatherIlene]

I just finished Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. -- I don't remember reading it as a kid. I also borrowed The Notebook from the library. I can't quite explain why, but I've heard people talk about it -- "Have you seen/read it? You've HAVE to" -- so curiosity has gotten the better of me.

I'm also reading Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo which I'm really enjoying. I was a backer on Kickstarter and eagerly awaited its debut! It's a fun adventure of one family's month-long stint living in Tokyo, Japan. The author is a food writer and it's a bit like his love letter to Tokyo through his encounter with the city's culture and food.

[James]

I have just started reading the Great Gatsby. I have wanted to read it for a long time and I know a new film version is about to be released. I like to read books before I see a film so I can imagine it myself.

[Bird]

I am reading The Great Gatsby as well, but I have to do this for school and I really don't like the story. Just not my type of book...
I just finished reading 'Sleuteloog' (I don't think it is translated into English actually) and in my upcoming holidays I will be reading lots of Dutch, English and Spanish literature.
I hope I will have time to read something for myself soon...

[Anil]

I have finished reading Death of a Salesman and My Father and Myself. I've begun reading Sense and Sensibility on my Kindle app and a physical copy of The Catcher in the Rye.

[Jean]

I just finished reading Crossed by Ally Condie and The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve. My oldest had to read The Giver by Lois Lowry last year for school. She said it was really good, so I'm reading that one next.

[LaLaLa Laura]

right now I am reading The Hobbit for our very own Jessica's group, Literary Adventure.

[LaLaLa Laura]

I wonder where my bookmark will be in July. speaking of which, let your voice be heard on our poll!
link: July Poll

[Swati]

Currently reading The Round House by Louise Erdrich

[Christine]

Travis of NNY wrote: "To everyone tackling Les Mis in spite of some parts dragging I guarantee the end will not disappoint and it will all be worth it"

I may have to rethink this read. This is one of the few books I abandoned once started. I felt like just as I would get interested in characters/events the book would drone on. Maybe I will get back to it. Thanks.

[Elizabeth]

I'm attempting to finish Moby Dick. I bought it and started last year but got so busy and forgot what had happened so far and then kept putting off picking it up again!

[Angel]

Just finished Jerusalem, a Biography, from Simon Sebag Montefiore, and starting something lighter now: The mission song, from John Le Carré

[Shelley]

I just finished The Great Gatsby and I really liked it. I wanted to read it before I went to see the movie and also because it's been on my to-read list for a long time. (P.S. - sorry I haven't been active here for a while; semester's almost over!)

[Karena]

Hmm. I'm swapping audio between Atlas Shrugged and Anna Karenina and I just started The Golem and the Jinni on my kindle app. As I usually have a few books going at a time, I'm about to start The Beautiful and Damned for my buddy read with Angie.

[Jess :)]

Today I started 1776. I have also been listening to an audiobook of The Arabian Nights: Their Best Known Tales--So fun :)

[Andrew✌️]

Elizabeth wrote: "I'm attempting to finish Moby Dick. I bought it and started last year but got so busy and forgot what had happened so far and then kept putting off picking it up again!"

I understand you. I needed almost two years to finish Moby Dick. And then I buried it in the library :)

[Andrew✌️]

I'm reading The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, taken from local library last week.
It's the first visit to library in the last twenty years.

[HeatherIlene]

Started reading Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. I really hate putting this one down.

[Anil]

I am still reading The Catcher in the Rye and Jane Eyre.

[Ashley-may]

I am just finishing up We'll Always Have Paris by Ray Bradbury and just started a re-read of Jane Austens Mansfield Park.

[Margaret]

Andrew wrote: "I'm reading The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, taken from local library last week.
It's the first visit to library in the last twenty years."

Twenty years! Wow. Hope you enjoyed it and will go back soon. I love the library and do not think I could live in a place without a good one.

I also have fond memories of this book. I read it in a college course on Steinbeck, and after reading it our class was able to take a field trip to the Salinas Valley where he lived. I still own the book and you are inspiring me to get it out and read it, or give it to my kids to read, or read it to them... aaahhh... :-)

[Andrew✌️]

Margaret wrote: "Andrew wrote: "I'm reading The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, taken from local library last week.
It's the first visit to library in the last twenty years."

Twenty years! Wow. Hope you..."

Yes, I enjoyed it and I've rediscovered the pleasure of going to library, though it's a little small. Usaully I buy books, but I think I will pass more often in the city library.
As regards the book, it's the first novel of Steinbeck I read and I discover it here on Goodreads. Until now it's exciting and engaging and I hope that continues.

[K. G.]

I just finished PLAYER OF GAMES by Iain M. Banks. I'm now working on A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING by Ruth Ozeki.

[Anil]

I finished Through the Looking-Glass and I've begun Anna Karenina.

[Alana]

Working on The Blind Assassin at the moment. Was nervous about it at first, but I should have known it would suck me right in. It's an Atwood, after all!

[HeatherIlene]

I've also started readingPractical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven't Touched Since High School by Kevin Smokler. I hope to finish soon so I can submit some questions for the podcast!

[Karena]

I just finished The Kitchen House which will be the subject of my Playing With History review tomorrow, and I think I'm starting Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal to lighten up between listening to Anna Karenina and Atlas Shrugged.

[Alana]

You're doing AK and Atlas Shrugged at the same time? Wow, and I thought my doing it back to back was too much!

[LaLaLa Laura]

I know! and while taking care of two children full time! she is Superwoman!

[Amanda]

I'm working my way through Servant of a Dark God by John Brown and In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust.

[Jessica]

Karena wrote: "I just finished The Kitchen House which will be the subject of my Playing With History review tomorrow, and I think I'm starting Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal to lighte..."

Wow! High five for AS and AK! I am sending lots of reading power and happiness your way. :)

[MiA]

I'm on part three of Anna Karenina. Half way through The Silver Chair. Almost done with My Name is Red.

[Karena]

Alana wrote: "You're doing AK and Atlas Shrugged at the same time? Wow, and I thought my doing it back to back was too much!"

Jessica wrote: "Karena wrote: "I just finished The Kitchen House which will be the subject of my Playing With History review tomorrow, and I think I'm starting Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhoo..."

Haha. Yeah, my husband has been harassing me to read AS for awhile so I decided to listen to it while I do some database work (copy and paste type stuff so I don't get distracted from listening). Luckily the stories are different enough that it's easy to keep apart.

Thanks for the reading power! It's aways appreciated!

[Bian is always tired]

[Andrew✌️]

Today I finished The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights. Interesting book, though I didn't read the original Work of Thomas Malory.
Tomorrow I'll start Anna Karenina

[Anil]

Still reading Anna Karenina and Gulliver's Travels. I've just finished the third part of Anna Karenina and hope to finish part IV today. I'll start reading Gulliver's travel to Brobdingnag soon.

[Jessica]

I am still reading Anna Karenina, but decided to take a small break between parts, from here on out with The Fault in Our Stars I am loving this book. John Green is such a great writer. Really enjoying both books. :)

[Pete]

Yesterday I finished Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Goodwin and today I read the The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway. I thoroughly enjoyed both books. I think I'm looking to read something a bit lighter next though.

[Alana]

I'm about 1/6 into Team of Rivals and I'm really enjoying it. Did you like it, Pete?

[Amanda]

I'm making my way through A Tale of Two Cities and I just started Salvage the Bones.

[Rose]

I recently finished reading Cinder by Marissa Meyer and The Cruelest Month: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny.
I'm currently reading The Host by Stephenie Meyer. So far it is just okay. I actually think it's going to make for a better movie than book.

[Jeane, Book-tator]

Anil wrote: "Still reading Anna Karenina and Gulliver's Travels. I've just finished the third part of Anna Karenina and hope to finish part IV today. I'll start reading Gulliver's travel to Brobdingnag soon."

I have had Gulliver's Travels sitting on my shelf for what seems like forever! I need to just read this book finally!

[Chiara]

Finishing Great Expectations, next week I'm going to finish rereading Anna Karenina and I'm planning on reading a poetry book by Carlos Drummond de Andrade this weekend.

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I'm currently into Goethe's Faust (the second part) and so far, I must say I adore his prose, its so rich and full of insight, and I especially enjoy all the mythical allegories appearing, even if I have to look up some of them all the time. Annoying though that I know the ending from school lecture...

[Jeane, Book-tator]

So can you believe what I did when I left on vacation to Europe? I left my book at home! and my husband has been hogging the ereader. I thought, no problem, my mom always has a ton of books I end up going home with anyway! But she's been reducing her print book collection also! So all she had for me wasMetro Girl by Janet Evanovich! (yeah I didn't make it ten pages into that.) So I decided to go ahead and pick up Inferno by Dan Brown at an English bookstore in Brussels. Haven't had a whole lot of time because I ended up falling asleep on the train back to the Netherlands last night, but still can't wait to see what he says about Alighieri The Divine Comedy

[Andrew✌️]

I finished yesterday the book of the month, "Anna Karenina".
Now I have began a more light novel, The Guilt of Innocents. I like the atmosphere in these medieval mystery novels.