What are you reading June 2014

[Linda]

Ach! June 1.

I'm listening to (and almost finished with) A Burnable Book in the car. On my iPad I'm listening to book:My Beloved World|13642929]. My carry everywhere book is Jane Eyre (which if I'd stay home instead of going to book things, I might get to spend some quality time with). And my at home book is almost finished and is Eat, Pray, Love

[Liz]

i read eat,pray & love, i really enjoyed it. i didn,t like the movie.

[Miggsy]

I actually started on two books by Barbara Michaels' The Dancing Floor and The Crying Child but stopped after a handful of pages; I just couldn't get into them. Maybe I'll try them again some other time.
In the meantime, I intend on continuing Stephen King's On Writing and then Linda Gillard's House of Silence .

[Liz]

iam reading the gold finch, i recommend the son by phillim meyers. it is very, very good. liz

[NV]

Finishing goodnight Tweetheart & the truth about Alice. If I have more time, Complicit as well.

[Maureen]

Starting . Very happy to be reading a new Howard Norman!

[Becky]

still reading & I started

[Gerald]

OMG it's June?Listening and reading FIVE CAME BACK.

[Sue]

Big line-up for June following Bookcon and Roxane Gay's recent book giveaway on Twitter. I've started her An Untamed State and am looking forward to receiving her ARC of We Are Not Ourselves which she is graciously sending to me in the mail!

My haul at Bookcon included Alex, The Girl in 6e and two titles published by Other Press which specializes in translated books: All Days Are Night and Days in the History of Silence.

Not sure I'll get to all of these in June, but I'll give it a shot!

[Becky]

Sue-I am reading We Are Not Ourselves but Roxane Gay is not the author….is it the same book or another with the same name?

[Sue]

Becky - It's Roxane Gay's copy of the book. She tweeted the other day that she had a bunch of books to give away, galleys, arcs, duplicates, etc. She listed the books on her Tumbler and if you emailed her your address and the name of the book you wanted, she said she'd send it out. I was lucky enough to catch the tweet early on and had my pick of a fairly long list of great books. I chose We Are Not Ourselves because I've been hearing about it all over Goodreads lately.

[JenRaye]

For June, thus far, I am without an audiobook for my 45 mile each way commute, so I have been listening to back episodes of BOTN. My go everywhere with me book is A Game of Thrones. Out from my local library is the ebook version of Seating Arrangements. I must have added a good 10+ books to my TBR pile after listening to Anne and Michael over the past week. I am very excited about too many of them to decide what comes next.

Michael, A Life In Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley is on it's way to me as a Father's Day gift for my husband. He is a graphic designer with a love for illustrations, graphic novels, and books. Your description of the title sold me on it for him. Can't wait to give it to him...and to dive into it myself!

Thanks to both you and Anne for all your recommendations.

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I just started and promptly fell in love with No Country .

[Becky]

Sue wrote: "Becky - It's Roxane Gay's copy of the book. She tweeted the other day that she had a bunch of books to give away, galleys, arcs, duplicates, etc. She listed the books on her Tumbler and if you emai..."

Oh very cool!

[Linda]

Finished listening to both A Burnable Book My Beloved World and A Burnable Book. Started listening to Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln in the car. (No long trips scheduled. This one will take awhile.)

[Dree]

Started Cloud 9 with another group, and I have The Flamethrowers up next.

[Angie]

Just started Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close for another group and as soon as it's available from the library The Invention of Wings.

I just finished The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. I was a little disappointed in it, so 3*** from me, but would suggest it to anyone who loves time-travel books.

[Papermaker]

I'm reading The Hundred-Year House and I'm listening to Don't Know Much About the American Presidents.

[Pam]

Listening to The Book of Unknown Americans, part of my summer challenge to read fiction with non-White protagonists.

[Amy]

Linda, my husband just this week finished reading "Team of Rivals. He immediately came upstairs to find me and put it into my hands--he liked it so much he wanted me to read it ASAP. I can't start it right now--so you'll have to let me know if you like it so I can tell him that at least somebody else I know is reading it! : )

[Linda]

Amy wrote: "Linda, my husband just this week finished reading "Team of Rivals. He immediately came upstairs to find me and put it into my hands--he liked it so much he wanted me to read it ASAP. I can't start ..."

Amy, my husband listened to it quite a few months ago and he liked it. Doris Kearns Goodwin is my favorite and I own a hard copy, but I picked the audio from the library for the drive to and from NY. As it turned out, I already had A Burnable Book, so that is what I listened to on the long trip.

With as little as I drive, this is going to be a long wait for me to get to the end.

That said, We Were Liars just came in at the library and I'm putting all other books on hold and digging into that.

[Shanna]

I just started reading The Fault in Our Stars. Hoping to finish it in time for the movie this weekend.

[Melissa]

I am reading an ARC of Dear Daughter: A NovelDear Daughter and so far it is a good read. On June 1 I finished Me Before YouMe Before You and I enjoyed it. It was a good summer read.

[Andrea]

Just finished The Martian. It was the perfect book to get me back on track after Owen Meany, which after listening to the last podcast, I want to classify as a classic. I hope Owen is around for a long, long, time! The Martian was a great adventure and now I've started Last Days of Summer. After only I few pages I knew it was going to be a wonderful start to my summer reading! I love all the places that reading takes me to and the feelings it can pull out of me!

[Gayle]

I'm listening to Killing Jesus: A History by Bill O'Reilly. I listened to his other two books, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever and Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot. There is a lot of historical information I had never known about all three "assassinations".
And I couldn't pass up the tease by Anne and Michael - I'm about a fourth of the way through All the Light We Cannot See. Again, it has a historical setting (oh, hey, maybe I can use it to mark off one of my BOTNS Bingo ssquares!) with detail I had never imagined nor learned. I'm also reading A History of the World in 6 Glasses. Hmmm, I wonder what's up with all the history contexts...

[Jen]

I just finished Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole. It's a pretty interesting look at Nigerian culture from the standpoint of one who left and came back. Pretty short too.

Recently just started The Secret History from the library and Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides from my TBR pile at home. Guess it's not going to be a light-hearted June for me!

[Laurab]

I am reading The Dovekeepers , I am about 35% into it (on kindle) and really liking it so far It is about the fall of Jerusalem in about 70 CE. The story is set around the lives of four women who live in a fortress and the society built by the people who escaped.

[Linda]

We Were Liars came in for me at the library yesterday, so I dropped everything else.

[Robin]

Trying to finish by Peter Matthiessen for my Library group tonight.Not a book to rush through. A Buddhist retreat in a Death Camp. Very good, very hard read.

[Claire P]

Just finished We Were Liars, and The First of July, both of which were terrific. Now I am reading Doris Lessing's In Pusuit of the English and In Pale Battalions (I want more WWI reading). Next on the list, however, will beA Burnable Book

[Steph]

- for one book club and for another. Loved the description of and I have it in my Nook so that's next!

[SarahK]

I am readingLife After Lifeand really enjoying it; I'm planning to read The Ocean at the End of the Lanenext

[Laurab]

Steph wrote: " Loved the description of [bo..."
I'm about 65% into The Dovekeepers now and it is really a wonderful read. I want to read
[book:The Invention of Wings|18079776] next.

[[deleted user]]

As I continue to read , and have already read , I'm continually being shown how unoriginal is.

[Rita]

I had some different things to read, until I got the Book Riot Quarterly box. So now, I'm currently reading A Rogue by Any Other Namewhich will be followed by followed by . I'm hoping to also squeeze in . Since it's only the first week I should get to them all.

[Kelly]

Linda wrote: "Ach! June 1.

I'm listening to (and almost finished with)A Burnable Book in the car. On my iPad I'm listening to [bookcover:My Beloved World|1364..."


I loved My Beloved World. What do you think of it?

[Kelly]

I'm a teacher, on summer break for almost two weeks now (bliss!), and I'm currently on a 5-book roll, all books I've liked:

1. Julia Glass's And the Dark Sacred Night - she has never failed me.
2. Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen - best title ever, and I looked for Susan Gregg Gilmore after hearing her on BOTN!
3. A Wall of Light by Edeet Ravel - I randomly picked this up at the library, and loved the trigenerational portrait of Israel.
4. Postcards by Annie Proulx - I read this for book group; it was intense and a little depressing, but beautifully written and some of the sentences made it worth it.
5. Just got The Goldfinch on hold at the library, am currently riveted by it.

Not sure how to properly put titles in on this... can anyone help? It doesn't feel right to leave them unitalicized.

[Angie]

Kelly wrote: "Not sure how to properly put titles in on this... can anyone help? It doesn't feel right to leave them unitalicized.
"

Kelly, when writing your comment you can insert book covers and book links by going to the "add book/author" button above the comment window. When you click the button a search box pops up where you can search for the book you'd like to reference and add it to your comment. Sometimes you need to cut and paste it where you wanted inserted in your comment.

I hope that helps.

[Virginia]

Claire wrote: (I want more WWI reading). Next on..."

Claire - Have you read Pat Barker? She is an absolutely wonderful novelist who has written a whole bunch of books about WW1 and I think they are based on real people.

[Linda]

Kelly wrote: "Linda wrote: "Ach! June 1.

I'm listening to (and almost finished with)A Burnable Book in the car. On my iPad I'm listening to [bookcover:My Belo..."

Really good. Justice Sotomayor comes across as very down-to-earth, concerned with the individual, intelligent person.

[Becky]

Linda-good to hear, I want to read this

[Karen]

Just finished We Were Liars. Now beginning Lost for Words by Edward St. Aubyn.

[Asif]

Just started Camus' The Stranger. I'm already putting this one on my all time favorites list. The prose is beautiful, a great translation no doubt. Camus writes in first person which reads as third person. Very surreal.

[Harmony]

Mr.Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore....loving it!!

[Rita]

Harmony wrote: "Mr.Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore....loving it!!"

I thoroughly enjoyed that book when I read it!

[Becky]

Just finished Astonish Me , I really liked it, it did not blow me away but it was very good….4 stars

[Angie]

Rita wrote: "Harmony wrote: "Mr.Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore....loving it!!"

I thoroughly enjoyed that book when I read it!"

I did as well!

[Sue]

Karen, have you read the other books in the Melrose series? I have them on my iPad but never got very far. Then, I read the profile of St. Aubyn in the New Yorker and found myself freshly intrigued. I think I'll try to get back to them this summer.

Karen wrote: "Just finished We Were Liars. Now beginning Lost for Words by Edward St. Aubyn."

[Linda]

Finished my stay-at-home book Eat, Pray, Love so now I'm starting Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole. Working at my stockpile, slowly. Very slowly.

[Victoria]

Rita wrote: "I had some different things to read, until I got the Book Riot Quarterly box. So now, I'm currently reading A Rogue by Any Other Namewhich will be followed by [bookcover:Please Igno..."

How is the Rogue book? I subscribe to that as well. I think that might fill in the square about "a book you don't think you will enjoy" on my bingo card. I am not a romance reader.