Where is your bookmark?

[Karena]

Jeane wrote: "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 u..."

Oh no! I need to send you the link from Book Riot that counts down Brown's tropes by the numbers. E.g. how often they mention Robert's Mickey Mouse watch or how often he mentions he's claustrophobic. You'll have to let me know how it is because that article made me not want to read it. :/

[Rose]

I'm about half way done with Anna Karenina. And I just finished The Host by Stephenie Meyer. Now, I'm reading Princess in Love by Meg Cabot.

[[deleted user]]

I'm about a quarter way through Blindness and so far Jose Saramago doesn't seem to like quotation marks. But it's pretty interesting so far!

[Andrew✌️]

I finished The Guilt of Innocents and I like it very much. If you like medieval mystery, this is a series not to be missed. I read all these books. My review:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Now, I'm reading A Tale of Two Cities.

[Tee]

It's non fiction month in my book club on Facebook so I'm reason A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.

[Francie]

I'm reading Ender's Game (Audible version). My daughter has been begging that I read it as it is her favorite of all time.

[Becky]

Right now I am about half-way through Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (at the beginning of Volume 2). It is my first Austen.

[Anil]

Just finished The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I'm 15% into Jane Eyre and will start Solaris tomorrow.

I read two books at the same time. A physical copy and an e-book via iBook or Kindle apps. That is why I've given the percentage for Jane Eyre.

[Jessica]

Reading The Handmaid's Tale and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[xenu01]

My husband is insisting that we read Gravity's Rainbow, because it's on both of our must-read lists but I've been dragging my feet on it for years. It's awfully slow-going thus far! I think we've read 10 pages.

[Kaitlyn]

Jessica wrote: "Reading The Handmaid's Tale and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

I'm reading the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest also! I'm about 35 pages into it and am enjoying it. How do you like it?

[Karena]

Hmm. I just finished Atlas Shrugged, Solaris, and The Phantom of the Opera (trying to keep ahead of you all, it's tough!). Getting ready to start The Village as a buddy review with Angie and as a fun read I'm reading Dark Descendant.

[Jessica]

Kaitlyn wrote: "Jessica wrote: "Reading The Handmaid's Tale and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

I'm reading the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest also! I'm about 35 pages into it and am enjoying it. How do you li..."

I am liking it. I had a little trouble getting into at the beginning due to the treatment of the patients. Just made me sad. But once you get to the 50/75 page mark it picks up with a good plot. :)

[Andrew✌️]

I just finished Dubliners and I'm still reading A Tale of Two Cities.

[Tee]

Jessica wrote: "Reading The Handmaid's Tale and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

I've read both of them.

Handmaid's Tale is a brilliant, polished and emotional story. It was the first of all my dystopian fiction titles and without it, I may have given up entirely on the genre. But no, I'm a dystopian fiend now!!

Cuckoo's Nest is also quite compelling. I picked it up used and I happen to have picked up a fairly rare edition apparently. Nurse Ratched is far more wicked in the book than the film BUT it she was also the best part of the film, playing her so very well.

[Tee]

Francie wrote: "I'm reading Ender's Game (Audible version). My daughter has been begging that I read it as it is her favorite of all time."

I just picked this up today!!! Can't wait to dig my teeth into it.
:)

[Nadja]

I still haven't finished the books that my page lists as currently reading, and I have my spots saved in a bunch of books on my Kindle. BUT most recently I'm in:

The Wizard of Oz (read as a kid but re-reading and looking for the secret progressive agenda (anti-gold standard) I've heard about)
Margaret's Ark (I think it's a self-pub and it's taking a bit too long but it's interesting)
What's Wrong with the World (essays by my favorite author, GK Chesterton)
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (beloved reread by GKC)

I thought Phantom would take a lot longer than it did so started early only to finish within about 4 days (oops... hope I can remember what happens when for the discussion). So I think following some comments here I may try Les Mis - film was great, but I haven't done too many quite long novels in the past 2-3 years (I LOVED A Tale of Two Cities but that kind of tired me out for a while). :-)

~N~

[xenu01]

I also have multiple books open! I'm about 50 pages into Gravity's Rainbow (determined to finish but I need to break it into chunks), 1/6 of the way into Life After Life (Kate Atkinson) and I just started Lauren Willig's The Ashford Affair for lunch-break reading.

[Andrew✌️]

I just finished A Tale of Two Cities and I started Long John Silver. Now I want to take the old habits and read one book at time.

[Beth]

I'm reading Ender's Game and on book 3/5 from The Hitchhiker's Guide Collection. I'm also hankering to read Scarlet by Marissa Meyer.

[Tee]

Beth wrote: "I'm reading Ender's Game and on book 3/5 from The Hitchhiker's Guide Collection. I'm also hankering to read Scarlet by Marissa Meyer."

Ender's Game is excellent! I just read it last week!

Scarlett is terrible. Absolute crap. Better not...


On another note, I'm reading Gulliver's Travels currently! First part down, three to go. Great stuff!

[Karena]

Reading The Secret History and our side read of The Year of the Gadfly. It seemed like an interesting combination. Also I'm reading Indexing which is a Kindle serial which updates every two weeks with a new segment until the book is complete. It's a fun idea, I like it a lot.

[xenu01]

Karena wrote: "Reading The Secret History and our side read of The Year of the Gadfly. It seemed like an interesting combination. Also I'm reading Indexing which is a Kindle serial which updates every two weeks w..."

Is Year of the Gadfly anything like Special Topics in Calamity Physics? I love that book, although I know it isn't for everyone.

[Karena]

xenu01 wrote: "Karena wrote: "Reading The Secret History and our side read of The Year of the Gadfly. It seemed like an interesting combination. Also I'm reading Indexing which is a Kindle serial which updates ev..."

I've barely started Gadfly, but I'm really enjoying it so far. It's a YA book which says a lot for me since I generally don't read a lot of the category. Special Topics sounds really interesting though. Man, now I'm going to have to add another book to my ever growing TBR list. :) Thanks!

[Chiara]

I'm reading Dubliners, by James Joyce. I've always wanted to read it, ever since I first saw it in a bookstore a few months ago. I ended up finally getting in at the library last week. I'm halfway through and I am not disappointed. I love how he portrays common Irish families during a period of instability in such a simple yet enchanting writing style.

[Andrew✌️]

Chiara wrote: "I'm reading Dubliners, by James Joyce. I've always wanted to read it, ever since I first saw it in a bookstore a few months ago. I ended up finally getting in at the library last week. I'm halfway ..."

I finished this book about ten days ago. I agree with you about the style, but the stories leave me little stunned. In general it's not clear the sense, it's a simple narration of a fact or situation.

[Alana]

Just finished Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Wow, what a read! It's long, but boy, some good, interesting stuff in there!

[Beth (bibliobeth)]

Halfway through Natural Causesby James Oswald. It's the first in a new series, and quite good so far. Feeds my crime love!

[Tessa]

Im making my way through Scarlett. And I really don't like her. Not the book, I enjoy the book. But Scarlett..we are not going to be friends.

[Travis]

Working on The Brothers Karamazov. Fyodor Dostoyevsky rarely dissapoints

[Travis]

Alana wrote: "Just finished Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Wow, what a read! It's long, but boy, some good, interesting stuff in there!"

I highly recommend what I gave 5 stars No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt another chunkster

[Karena]

Tessa wrote: "Im making my way through Scarlett. And I really don't like her. Not the book, I enjoy the book. But Scarlett..we are not going to be friends."

Tessa, this made me literally laugh out loud.

[Becky]

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

[Tee]

I'm reading both The Shipping News and Never Let Me Go.

On deck I have Cloud Atlas and Gulliver's Travels.

[Alana]

I started and abandoned Cloud Atlas this morning, so you'll have to let me know what you think.

I do, however, highly recommend Never Let Me Go.

[Tee]

Never Let Me Go has me hooked.
I WAS going to watch a movie, but I had to stop it so I could go back to reading it.....so very good. I hope to finish it tonight, in fact. And I just started it yesterday.....lol

[Jessica]

Tanya wrote: "I finished One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, read The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, and now I've just started The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Pretty heartbreaking so far."

I LOVE that book. One of my favorites!

[Tee]

Jessica wrote: "Tanya wrote: "I finished One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, read The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, and now I've just started The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Pretty heartbreaking so far."

I LOVE ..."

Which one? lol

[Jessica]

Never Let Me Go

[Jessica]

For this month, I have quite a few I want to tackle. I finished Solaris just in time lol.

Reading The Year of the Gadfly and The Windup Girl atm.

[Anil]

Finally made more than 50% into Jane Eyre. It is not that the book is boring, but I had some problems that prevented me to read it faster.

[Karena]

Tanya wrote: "Never Let Me Go has me hooked.
I WAS going to watch a movie, but I had to stop it so I could go back to reading it.....so very good. I hope to finish it tonight, in fact. And I just started it yes..."

I have both The Shipping News and Never Let Me Go and I really want to read them. This is convincing me to move them up in my priority list. =)

[xenu01]

Tanya wrote: "Never Let Me Go has me hooked.
I WAS going to watch a movie, but I had to stop it so I could go back to reading it.....so very good. I hope to finish it tonight, in fact. And I just started it yes..."

I read it with my husband, and there was so much temptation to skip ahead- such a good book! I did find it interesting that everyone was white in the movie, since it kind of seemed as if Ishiguro deliberately avoided mentioning race throughout the entire book.

[Andrew✌️]

I finished Long John Silver, a novel on sailors and pirates, based on the character of the book "Treasure Island". A good story, interesting and fascinating
but whose strength is the expectation of a link with the orignal story of Stevenson.

[Beth (bibliobeth)]

Never Let Me Go is great! I'm about to start Ancient Light by John Banville.

[Catherine]

Just finished Dracula by Bram Stoker and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Yes, there is a pattern there! I've been reading for a MOOC on SciFi/Fantasy and the class reading list includes mainly classic works that are early SciFi or Fantasy. It's a wonderful class!

[Karena]

Catherine wrote: "Just finished Dracula by Bram Stoker and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Yes, there is a pattern there! I've been reading for a MOOC on SciFi/Fantasy and the class reading list includes mainly classi..."

I love reading books that go together in a theme! I just read
The Year of the Gadfly and am still trying to read The Secret History. Both have secret school societies.

[Tee]

I'm reading Moby-Dick for the classic author challenge. :)

[Andrew✌️]

Tanya wrote: "I'm reading Moby-Dick for the classic author challenge. :)"

And till now what do you think? I read it some years ago, but it wasn't like I expected. Little action and so much bla,bla...

[Travis]

Catherine wrote: "Just finished Dracula by Bram Stoker and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Yes, there is a pattern there! I've been reading for a MOOC on SciFi/Fantasy and the class reading list includes mainly classi..."

I was surprised how good Frankenstein was Dracula just didn't work for me though