What are you reading right now? CURRENT THREAD

[[deleted user]]

Started "What You Leave Behind" by Jessica Katoff on Kindle What You Leave Behind and Sweet Memories by LaVyrie Spencer in paperback Sweet Memories

[Jen]

I just started Howl's Moving Castle- I kept seeing that book turning up on everyone's list, so I thought I'd give it a try. So far, I'm really enjoying it.

[Lisa]

Jen wrote: "I just started Howl's Moving Castle- I kept seeing that book turning up on everyone's list, so I thought I'd give it a try. So far, I'm really enjoying it."

Yes, it's a fun book. It's not really my kind of thing but I ended up really enjoying it.

[Manybooks]

Lisa wrote: "Jen wrote: "I just started Howl's Moving Castle- I kept seeing that book turning up on everyone's list, so I thought I'd give it a try. So far, I'm really enjoying it."

Yes, it's a fu..."

Maybe I should actually read the book sometime (I need something fun).

I've been reading "The Treasure Chest" series by Ann Hood (great middle grade time travel series featuring twins). Fun and enlightening so far and very fast reads. I've read the first three books of the series, Angel of the Battlefield #1, Little Lion #2, Jewel of the East #3 in something like three days (so far, I've liked Jewel of the East #3 the best, it features Pearl Buck and late 19th century China). Am now reading Prince of Air #4 (which features Harry Houdini). If you are planning on reading the series, you should start with the first book and read them in order because the books are episodic and build upon each other.

[Andrew✌️]

I just finished Different Seasons and a couple of day ago I started In Cold Blood, the first book I ever read by Truman Capote.

[Jen]

I finished Howl's Moving Castle and loved it! I'll look for the second one now. I have never seen the movie either, so maybe I'll have to check it out. I started Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle yesterday and I find it is really drawing me in. That was another book that I saw on a lot of people's lists. The only book I'd read by him previously was The Last Unicorn.

[[deleted user]]

Reading "Arnco" by Ben Muse on Kindle Arnco and Summer Island b Kristen Hannah in paperback Summer Island

[Lizzie C.]

I have just finished reading The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami. I've almost finished reading everything he's ever published (more accurately everything that's ever been translated). He is amazing and his books are great comfort reads, in my opinion. I think The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is his best work, so far and highly recommend it!

[Jane]

Good to know Alizee, thanks. I'll have to get The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle -- great title.
I'm just finishing How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, by Mohsin Hamad, who wrote The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Both are fascinating novels.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

I'm reading some heavier (but good) non-fiction, so for a lighter read I'm going with The Garden Plot, a mystery set in London.

[[deleted user]]

Reading in paperback, "The Secret Baby" by Amy Frazier and on Kindle "Dreams Don't Wait" by EC Sheedy

[Lee, Mod Mama]

I just finished reading the latest in my favourite mystery series A Dark and Twisted Tide by S.J. Bolton. Great characters!

[Lisa]

Lee wrote: "I just finished reading the latest in my favourite mystery series A Dark and Twisted Tide by S.J. Bolton. Great characters!"

Lee, How hard core/violent are the books in this series? I have the first on my to-read shelf.

I'm trying to read Nevada Barr's latest, Destroyer Angel, but it may be too much for me. It's too bad because I've loved her books for years. Her first, Track of the Cat, is still a favorite of mine. But my tolerance for violence are terror is getting lower & lower & lower, it seems.

[Lee, Mod Mama]

I wouldn't call them hard core or violent. This last one was perhaps the least violent if my memory serves me correctly. There is some description of crime scenes but the books are very character driven and that's why I love them. They are a bit gritty but not over the top.

[Lisa]

Thanks, Lee. Maybe I'll try the first one.

[Lisa]

Nevada Barr is full of menace from the first pages of this latest book.

[Lee, Mod Mama]

I haven't read a Nevada Barr book in a while. I just checked and I'm up to number 10 in the series. I do enjoy her books too, some more than others. :-)

[Lisa]

Lee wrote: "I haven't read a Nevada Barr book in a while. I just checked and I'm up to number 10 in the series. I do enjoy her books too, some more than others. :-)"

Well, if you want to know why I put this down very early on: The was a sense of menace from the very beginning and then the final straw was when (view spoiler)[ a man threw a service dog against a tree and killed it. (hide spoiler)] That was enough for me, at least right now in my life.

[Lee, Mod Mama]

Oh no! I don't blame you for not wanting to continue after that, Lisa.

[Lisa]

Lee wrote: "Oh no! I don't blame you for not wanting to continue after that, Lisa."

I couldn't. Even up until that point, the feel was so violent. Too bad though because at least part of the premise was so interesting. Camping equipment for disabled people.

[Andrew✌️]

In these days I'm reading Don Quixote. Unfortunately, for number of pages, I think this will be my book for still a couple of weeks.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

The King's Dogge: The Story of Francis Lovell, fine so far.

[Lee, Mod Mama]

I just started The Lewis Man. Like the first in this trilogy, has a strong sense of place and interesting characters.

[[deleted user]]

Just started in paperback "The Woods" by Harlan Coben I'm only on page 25 and
WOW! Bizarre in a good way.

[Lee, Mod Mama]

I'm about to pick up Heart of Steel. I don't read a lot of romance but I enjoyed the first one in this steampunk themed series to try the second.

[Andrew✌️]

It's rare for me to read two books at time, but in these days I started also Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders.

[Jennifer]

Finished The Bright Forever -- meh. Reading Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures and The King's Concubine: A Novel of Alice Perrers and enjoying both. Just finished the last released in Louise Penny's Three. Pines series and the next one can't come out soon enough!

[[deleted user]]

Just starting in paperback "Lake News" by Barbara Delinsky and on kindle, "Cart Before the Horse" by Bernadette Marie

[[deleted user]]

Just started in Hardcover, "Gone For Good" by Harlan Coben . This is the second book by this author I have read in the past two weeks. I am SO addicted.

[Andrew✌️]

I finished Don Quixote, a good novel, a collection of the adventures of this character, a funny but also wise man. I read also Pale as the Dead, an easy mistery and now I'm reading Desperation. In this case, I'm recovering everything that I have ever read by Stephen King in the last twenty years.

[[deleted user]]

Started on Kindle "After the Sky Fell Down" by Megan Nugen Isbell

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Just finished Cleopatra's Daughter, which was very nice.

[Andrew✌️]

After finished The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon, now I'm reading Smoke and Mirrors and The Drawing of the Three.

[[deleted user]]

Just started "The Newcomer" by Robyn Carr in paperback.

[Ashley]

I'm reading the fourth book of Game of Thrones (Feast of Crows) and I just started Agatha Christie's collection of Miss Marple short stories.

[[deleted user]]

Just started on Kindle "The Bride" Novela by Christine Dorsey

[[deleted user]]

Just started on Kindle

[[deleted user]]

Just started "The Hero" book 3 by Robyn Carr

[[deleted user]]

Just started on Kindle, "Guilty Innocence" by Maggie James.

[Andrew✌️]

I finished The Drawing of the Three and I started The Number Of The Beast on my Kindle.

[[deleted user]]

Just started in paperback, "The Chance" by Robyn Carr. The 4th book in the Thunder Point series.

[Manybooks]

I am reading Betsy Tacy Treasury and three academic books on school/college literature for girls, Mädchenliteratur und weibliche Sozialisation: Erzahlungen und Romane fur Madchen und junge Frauen von 1918 bis zum Ende der 50er Jahre : eine motivgeschichtliche Untersuchung (reread, and still interesting, and at times infuriating), College Girls: A Century in Fiction (also a reread and so far, the best all-round analysis of North American college fiction I have read) and finally, Higher Education for Girls in North American College Fiction, 1886-1912 (just started reading this book, and so far, quite interesting, although it drives me batty that I don't have access many of the primary works and getting many them would be much too difficult and much too pricey).

[Lisa]

Oh, Gundula. That sounds great. I love the Betsy-Tacy books though there are still a few I haven't read.

[Manybooks]

Lisa wrote: "Oh, Gundula. That sounds great. I love the Betsy-Tacy books though there are still a few I haven't read."

It's the first four books all in one (and then, I want to read the later books as well).

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Lisa wrote: "Oh, Gundula. That sounds great. I love the Betsy-Tacy books though there are still a few I haven't read."

They are charming, aren't they?

Gundula - are some of the primary "college fiction" books available on Gutenburg?

[Manybooks]

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Oh, Gundula. That sounds great. I love the Betsy-Tacy books though there are still a few I haven't read."

They are charming, aren't they?

Gundula - are some of the primary "college..."

Probably, I should check that out, I keep forgetting about Project Gutenberg.

And I am loving the series so far.

[[deleted user]]

Just started on Kindle "The Visions of Ransom Lake" by Marcia Lynn McClure

[Andrew✌️]

A couple fo days ago, I started The Eye of the World, first book of WoT series.

[Ashley]

Starting Book 5 of Game of Thrones, A Dance with Dragons!

[Lisa]

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith AKA J.K. Rowling, second in a mystery series. Good so far but I just started.