What are you reading and why? Jul-Dec 2014 Showing 401-450 of 1,221

[Peggy]

I've started Rose of Sarajevo. I'm buddy reading it with Sarah and doing a netgalley review for it.

[Lisa]

I am starting The Magician . I haven't read any W. Somerset Maugham before but have heard some good things about him and this one sounds like it could be quite enjoyable.

[Sandra, Moderator]

I just finished The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie that was just ok for me, probably because it has been in my list for so long that my bar was set too high.

Today I'll startTrieste by Daša Drndic.

[Husain]

Hello nice to meet u all
Im luffy from Inida

I love reading Book and Stories
That what i want most in world

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

It is a best one (Y)

[Cherie]

Welcome, Luffy! Sherlock Holmes is my favorite literary character - ask anyone!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Welcome Luffy! Great to have you here with us. Cherie is telling the truth :P

[Janice, Moderator]

jaxnsmom wrote: "Have you seen all the awareness and funds being raised by the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge? I thought this article made some good points."

Yes, it's all over Facebook and many of my friends have participated. I agree with the comments made in the article, and I agree that we shouldn't wait for a challenge to give.

[Husain]

All right

[Sandra, Moderator]

I gave up Trieste by Daša Drndić, since I couldn't get into her style.

I'm reading now Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

[Paakhi]

I finished reading The Night of January 16 th. Its a short play written by Ayn Rand along the premise of a man against society. I strongly recommend it :)

[Cherie]

I finished The Girl with No Shadow and am starting Peaches for Father Francis in a few minutes.

[Janice, Moderator]

Cherie wrote: "I finished The Girl with No Shadow and am starting Peaches for Father Francis in a few minutes."

Ditto! LOL!

In addition to the books Cherie has mentioned, I finished The Wine of Angels and will be starting Brutal Youth this afternoon. First I have to do some neglected housework and shopping. I must ignore the siren calls of the books.

[Dawn]

I just finished Appetite and wasn't a big fan. But if anyone loves 'foodie' type books this could work for you, half the book is descriptions of food.

I'm starting The Raphael Affair for a (different groups) challenge where I needed the subject to be about art theft.

[Peggy]

I finished Rose of Sarajevo. It was a bit confusing, but also interesting and I learned a lot. I reviewed it here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Now back to In the Land of the Long White Cloud, which I abandoned to read The Rose of Sarajevo.

[Debra]

I finished Patient Zero which is one of the best zombie books I've ever read. I'm planning to keep up with this Joe Ledger series. Maberry is an exceptional writer. If you haven't read his Pine Deep series, you are missing out on some fantastic horror and suspense thrillers.

[Travis]

Debra wrote: "I finished Patient Zero which is one of the best zombie books I've ever read. I'm planning to keep up with this Joe Ledger series. Maberry is an exceptional writer. If you haven't ..."


I've got to read more of that series. Patient Zero is the only one I've read as well

[Lisa]

I finished The Magician which I rated 4 stars. This was a dark, gothic tale and I really enjoyed it. I found I got through it pretty quickly and I liked the writing style. I will definitely be reading more by W. Somerset Maugham in the future.

I am going to start listening to the audiobook of The Eagle of the Ninth: A BBC Full-Cast Radio Drama tomorrow.

[Dawn]

I finished The Love of a Good Woman. A set of 8 short stories.
I thought it was time to shake up the genres and add some literary type books into my reading. So I am reading my way through the Scotiabank Giller Prize winners. This one was the 1998 winner.

And I've started The Englishman's Boy, though not a winner it was on the 1996 shortlist.

[Tasha]

Dawn, I see that The Orenda didn't make the short list on Scotiabank Giller Prize. :(

[Dawn]

I am working my way up from the first to the newest so I hadn't noticed that yet.

That was a 5 star for you I see. :)

[Travis]

Finished Lord of Chaos now another break from the series. Started All Quiet on the Western Front read about 1/3 and decided it probably is too real and depressing to read in one sitting so I started Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain much more light hearted

[Cherie]

Travis - I think you will enjoy Emperor Mollusk. I thought it was fun and there are some great laugh-out-loud moments, at least for me. :)

I can understand how AQotWF could not be great in one sitting. I listened to the sample on Audible. It was really a long sample too.

I finished the last Chocolat book last night and started reading Hounded for the group read. Two of the Nicholas Flammel audio books came off of hold for me so I have The Sorceress qued up as well as Sarah's Key, which I started once, but need to re-start again.

[Mariab]

I can say now I haven´t finished Empire of the Sun for the August reading. I´ll finish it (and continue posting my comments in the pertinent thread) before I start Hiero's Journey for the challange

[Sarah]

I finished my chunkster Shift as well as the buddy read book Rose of Sarajevo. VERY different books but I enjoyed both. Now I'm going to continue with Lolita now September has started as well as reading Spell Bound which should be a quick fun read.

[Gavin]

I'm reading Ghost Story

[Tasha]

I read Ghost Story in my teens and loved it but when I reread it a few years ago it didn't have the same impact. Not sure if it was bc it was a reread or what but I hope you enjoy it like I did the first time I read it. I just remember loving it and thinking it was so creepy. It stayed with me for years. Enjoy!

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished Peaches for Father Francis at 2:30 this morning. I promise that I won't complain about being tired. But I am... tired that is... just saying.

I'm still reading Pines for the monthly challenge and Brutal Youth for another group. Nothing new to start.

[Dem]

just finished A Song for Issy Bradley This is my review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/1036478947

[Cherie]

I started reading The Rosie Project last night and 100 pages went by so fast I could not believe it. I won't say what time I finally went to sleep, but the sun was almost up.

It is one impossibly outrageous line after another, like David Hyde-Pierce in Frasier or Sheldon in Big Bang Theory.

[Peggy]

I'm glad you're enjoying it Cherie :)

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Cherie wrote: "I started reading The Rosie Project last night and 100 pages went by so fast I could not believe it. I won't say what time I finally went to sleep, but the sun was almost up.

It..."

That's a sign of a good book. Hope you survived the day!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle for my chunksters. I am reading Hounded as well, and started The Secret History

[Debra]

Rusalka wrote: "I finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle for my chunksters. I am reading Hounded as well, and started The Secret History"

I've got The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle on my TBR. How did you like it Rus?

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I really enjoyed it, although I didn't know what was going on half the time. But the storytelling is so good, I didn't care! Travis summed it up pretty well though, which is that no normal person can really understand all the things going on in a Murakami novel.

[Debra]

I read the weirdest, strangest, grossest book by the writer of Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk titled Haunted. The writer claims that a total of 73 people fainted during his reading of one of the stories in the book, called Guts, while he was touring. It's pretty gross, but I can't imagine fainting over it. This isn't a scary book at all, but most of the stories about each character nestled within the big story are horrific in nature. The characters are very well-developed and not people to be liked. I have no idea how to rate this book. It certainly gets a 5 for grossest book I've ever read and for the plot. Not for the squeamish.

[Peggy]

Hm Debra, I'm very sure I don't want to read the book but I'm also very curious about what can be so gross that 73 people faint!

[Debra]

Peggy wrote: "Hm Debra, I'm very sure I don't want to read the book but I'm also very curious about what can be so gross that 73 people faint!"

Peggy, I bet some people will read this book just because of my somewhat negative endorsement. LOL We ARE curious creatures.

[Travis]

Debra wrote: "Peggy wrote: "Hm Debra, I'm very sure I don't want to read the book but I'm also very curious about what can be so gross that 73 people faint!"

Peggy, I bet some people will read this book just be..."

Funny you say that. While I'm not drawn to gross. We are reading Heroes Die
In another group. I went to see if audible had it. They did. First review was 1 star said too gruesome. This books graphic language was enough of a turn off but the graphic violence made it too much. To summarize. My first thought was graphic language and violence in fantasy sounds like Joe Abercrombie I have to read this now.

[Travis]

I started Summer of Night given the time period and kids on summer vacation full of mystery and danger I find it more similar to mccammons boys life so far than the frequently compared It by Stephen king. Pretty sure I've seen the movie but never read It but still not finding the similarities so far

[Travis]

On Murakami my favorite has been the first I read Kafka on the Shore. The most understandable books I felt were of the the Rat series. They were his first books and I've read #3-#4 since #1-#2 are collectables and good luck finding either one for less than $175 but they go up in the thousands after that. I think it was A Wild Sheep Chase and I can't think of the other one. They make sense more than any of his other novels and I've read quite a few now

[Travis]

A Wild Sheep Chase
Dance Dance Dance
Kafka on the Shore

Got crop consultants to pull in any minute so trying to speed post things here

[Debra]

Travis of NNY wrote: "I started Summer of Night given the time period and kids on summer vacation full of mystery and danger I find it more similar to mccammons boys life so far than the frequently compared..."

This was not one of my favorite Simmons books. I'm curious to see what you think of it. It's the only one of his I gave a low rating.

[Debra]

Travis of NNY wrote: "Funny you say that. While I'm not drawn to gross. We are reading Heroes Die
In another group. I went to see if audible had it. They did. First review was 1 star said too gruesome. This books graphic language was enough of a turn off but the graphic violence made it too much. To summarize. My first thought was graphic language and violence in fantasy sounds like Joe Abercrombie I have to read this now.

Heroes Die has a 4.09 average rating. Seems like quite a lot of people found it amazing. I don't care for graphic language and violence for it's own sake, but do read a lot of books with graphic violence in it. Can't be a serial killer book fan without a lot of that, usually.

[Travis]

Debra wrote: "Travis of NNY wrote: "I started Summer of Night given the time period and kids on summer vacation full of mystery and danger I find it more similar to mccammons boys life so far than t..."

I think you meant to say Simmons

[Debra]

Travis of NNY wrote: "I think you meant to say Simmons

Duh! You are right! Fixed it.

[Sarah]

Off to be "curious" about Haunted and Heroes Die now! I'm one of those people who like to know what all the fuss is about. I've heard many people say things about films being too violent etc. that is a good enough endorsement for me to rent it out straight away! But I'm a bit weird...

[Debra]

I knew my review would snag a few readers. Let me know what you think, Sarah.

[Sarah]

I saw it's short stories which isn't my thing so I haven't added it to my wishlist.

[Debra]

It's stories about each character set within a larger plot. It's the way the author tells you how each person got in the predicament they find themselves in with all the other characters. It doesn't read like short stories and I almost passed it by because of this. But my son intrigued me by saying how gross and weird it was. The format in Haunted didn't bother me; it's all connected.

[Sarah]

Thanks for the clarification Debra - that's make sense!