What Are You Reading? October 2013

[Bill]

Haven't read any "classics" in some time. Not sure qualifies since it may not be the author's best known work but it has been made into a movie a few times.

[Ronald]

I started reading and already laughing a lot.

[Melanie]

Bill wrote: "Haven't read any "classics" in some time. Not sure qualifies since it may not be the author's best known work but it has been made into a movie a few times."

I've heard of it. Let me know how will you like it.

[Melanie]

I'm reading Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass for the Kansas Humanities Council and I just picked up Child of All Nations

[Bill]

Melanie wrote: "Bill wrote: "Haven't read any "classics" in some time. Not sure qualifies since it may not be the author's best known work but it has been made into a movie a fe..."

I would strongly recommend this book. Kind of a love triangle set in 1950s Vietnam as the locals fight to free themselves from the French. Without giving anything away a British reporter and a newly arrived American fight for the affection of a Vietnamese girl. But its so much more than that!

[Bill]

Next up: . Not sure if it'd be considered post-apocalyptic, but I came across it on a list. What's different is it takes place in India.

[Melanie]

Bill,

I will have to put it on my list.

[Ronald]

Finished book seven and started on

[Bill]

Next up: Back to World War II historical fiction this time centered around a German officer & his involvement with classical music and as an intelligence officer in occupied Finland.

[Melanie]

I just finshed a couple of books that weren't that great. Child of All Nations had great potential, but didn't go anywhere. I actually ended up hating Kully as the book went on and on without doing anything. The Weird Sisters is okay, but the sisters told most of the story as a collective which would be like Blair, Jo, and Tutti telling The Facts of Life as a collective - three totally different people that probably wouldn't agree on an event that happened.

[Melanie]

I have started reading Allegiant which is the final in the Divergent Trilogy. I have read the last paragraph and loved it!

[Melanie]

Ronald wrote: "Finished book seven and started on "

I just put this in a Little Free Library yesterday.

[Ronald]

Melanie wrote:
I just put this in a Little Free Library yesterday."

That is cool, I was reading about the little free library idea and I would be tempted to make one.