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[Reggia]

Recently finished The Charming Quirks of Others and now rereading Huckleberry Finn.

Finally gave in and bought a copy of The Help. After two weeks on my request list at the library, I had made it to #400-something from 600+ requests. Looking forward to the read.

I also began Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. I can only read a few pages at a time.

[Kim]

Reading Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales. I've been working on a knitting project, so I'm behind in my reading this week. I hope to get in some good reading time tomorrow.

[Nicole]

Reading Silent in the Grave...and it's turned out to be a Sherlock Holmes rip-off...!

[[deleted user]]

Currently reading James Lee Burke's Last Car to Elysian Fields. Also read Gravity by Tess Gerritsen, about 5 J. D. Robb "Death" series. With only half an arm, I'm glad I have my books on cd and Kindle. Watching me with a hardback or paperback is a hoot.

[[deleted user]]

Finished Elysian Fields. Now on a Kathy Reichs' kick (have read 3 of hers) and now on The Surgeon by Tess Gerritson which came before The Apprentice which I listened to on cd.

[Patti]

Jane Stevenson's "Good Women" a collection of 3 novellas. It's one of the most distrubing read I've done in year....

[[deleted user]]

All most done with The Surgeon. Also started The Hunchback of Notre Dame for the classics read.

[Katy]

I am reading Anna Karenina. I read it through once, finishing last week, and I'm now going over it, again. It's for a book club, so I want to be as ready as possible for the discussion in February.

[Reggia]

Welcome, Katy! So glad to have you join us! :-)

[[deleted user]]

Welcome Katy. Nice to have you with us.

Im reading Skeleton Bones by Kathy Reichs and listening to 3 Jack Higgins novels on cd (The White House Connection, Dark Justice and one more)

[[deleted user]]

Correction above: Kathy Reichs' book is Spider Bones. Getting too many titles mixed up. And reading Hunchback of Notre Dame for classics group.

[[deleted user]]

Now on to two Tess Gerritsen cds.

[[deleted user]]

I'm such a wimp. I gave up on Hunchback and am now reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
My son gave me Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin unabridged cd trilogy set for Christmas. So I am set for a few months. Anyone read them?

[Werner]

I read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and wasn't really impressed with it. Of course, I read it in a pirated 19th-century English translation which probably butchered it. Verne is one writer who was really badly served by his contemporary English translators, but the older translations (since they're now in the public domain) are the ones that most readers encounter.

[Reggia]

I am reading Broken for You, my first purchase on the Kindle. I've only read a few chapters, and my discussion for it was this past Monday. Yes, I went. Anyway, has anyone read this? or looked at it? I was excited about the story as it promised quirky, eccentric characters (as Anne Tyler's) but...

The writing itself is very difficult to read. It's the worst grammar I've ever seen in a book, sometimes verbose. Earrings for an elephant? Oh, and please don't judge my grammar, lol... besides not being a graduate (of anything), my comments are not a published book. For now, I do want to keep reading -- believe it or not -- just hope my frustration levels out. :-p

[[deleted user]]

My objection to reading bad books is they take up the time I could be reading a good book.

[Werner]

Good point, Syra; that's my objection to them, too!

[Reggia]

Excellent thoughts all the above! :)

I've discontinued that book but would like to get back to it... think it's an interesting story, I just wish it had been edited.

I'm now reading East of Eden -- my first Steinbeck novel.

[[deleted user]]

LOL. I'm taking a bread from Cornwell and reading Jack Bickham. Met him years ago at writers' conference. Best teacher I've heard.

[Werner]

Now that I have time to get back to actually reading books on a regular basis, I've just started my Goodreads friend Scott Stabler's epic fantasy novel The Knights of the Dawn King (2011), which I believe is intended to be a series opener. I know, Charly, it doesn't do anything towards meeting my classics challenge! :-) But I'd promised Scott last year that I'd read and review it, and I've been anxious to carry through on that for some time.

[[deleted user]]

My husband is on a history kick and he read 1491. Lots of information not usually known. Also he enjoyed it.

[Werner]

Last year, a Goodreads friend generously offered to give me a copy of Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights by Thom Hartmann, if I'd promise to read and review it. I took him up on that, but up to now haven't had time to make good on my promise. So I just started that book today!

[[deleted user]]

The Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver.
Listening to Gideon's Sword on cd by Lincoln Childs and Douglas Preston.
Also finished Game of Thrones, Books 1 and 2, unabridged (37 and 30 discs) by George R R Martin, read by Roy Dotrice (the many of a thousand voices).

[Margaret]

I'm tackling a 9 book collection by Fitzgerald. I hadn't read any of his short stories before and I don't think I'd read anything by him since school before this. It's almost like rediscovering his work all over again.

[Werner]

My oldest daughter read and liked Point of Honour, a book I gave her for Christmas back in 2009. Knowing it was on my to-read list too, she brought it over as a loaner when she was here last year. Since I need to return it eventually, I thought I ought to try to give it some priority; so I started reading it yesterday (and am already thoroughly into it!).

[MichelleCH]

About to start Cold Mountain - just finished reading On the Beachwhich was ok. It felt a bit dated.

[Barbara]

I am reading Three Bags Full.

[MichelleCH]

Charly wrote: "Please let us know what you think of it, looks interesting." Agreed - and very tongue in cheek

[Barbara]

Charly wrote: "Just finished Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History."

What did you think of it? I started to read it last summer but did not finish it.

[Werner]

The book I've just started reading is Pro Luce Habere (To Have Before the Light) Volume 1, by my Goodreads friend Krisi Keley (my copy was a kind gift from the author herself, who's one of the most gracious ladies I know). It's the first volume of a two-volume prequel to her debut novel, On the Soul of a Vampire (2011), which is one of my favorites. I gave this one priority on my to-read list because I'd promised her last year that I'd review it.

[[deleted user]]

Reading The African Queen and Patricia Cornwell's Black Notice

[Barbara]

I finished reading Three Bags Full. The book begins very slowly with a lot of fodder about the sheep. It seems very quirky at first, but the ending is magical.

I am now reading Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution.

[[deleted user]]

ooooo I may have to check out that Madame Tussaud book.

[Werner]

Daphne Du Maurier's Jamaica Inn has been on my radar for a long time, but especially since I saw the miniseries version starring Jane Seymour and Patrick McGoohan. Yesterday, I started reading it, and am thoroughly enjoying it --though I've already noted significant differences between the book and the TV adaptation!

[[deleted user]]

I loved that book. Read it about 3 times years ago.
Naturally they change it for tv. Novellas are the right length for a tv movie or regular movie like Stephen King's Stand By Me. Finished Patricia Cornwell's Black Notice and now reading her Point of Origin (missed it in the order) and the African Queen.

[Werner]

True, Syra, full-length novels tend to have to be shortened and simplified for dramatic adaptation in the roughly two-hour typical time frame for a movie. That's excusable; the differences in this case are less so, because the adaptation was an over three-hour miniseries with much less time constraint, and the changes took more time to dramatize than staying with the book would have. (The natural deaths of Mary's parents are transformed into a murder and a suicide!)

[[deleted user]]

Ah the need for more drama! And the change in society from when she wrote it.

[[deleted user]]

Finished Point of Origin. Still reading African Queen and Tony Hillerman's Sinister Pig.

[Werner]

After dipping into it here and there for years, ever since I discovered it on the shelf of the library where I work, I've decided to finally read the rest of Great English Short Stories. It's sat on my "being-read-intermittently" shelf for far too long!

[H]

I'm reading The Stranger and The Brothers Karamazov. The latter is going to be a long project for me, as I really want to absorb everything it has to offer.

[Reggia]

Welcome to the group, Lunar! :) Unfortunately, those are two books on my abandoned list but I plan to get back to them one day -- enjoy your reads.

Please feel welcome to join in all the threads here or start new ones!

[H]

Thanks :) Charly your 12 in 12 challenge really intrigues me, because I try to read classics as often as possible. I mean, they're classics for a reason.

[Barbara]

I am readingCleopatra's Daughter. I is the second book I have read by this author, and I found Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution more enjoyable.

[H]

Charly wrote: "Well jump on in to the challenge. You can either back track or pick up from here. My goal is to read 12 traditional classics by the end of the 2012 calendar year.....and to make it I may need to be..."

I'd love to! I think The Brothers Karamazov will have to be my first.

[MichelleCH]

Charly wrote: "Just finished something called The Cut; basic crime novel, nothing to go crazy about."
Very appropriately named it appears.

[H]

I keep getting sidetracked from 12 in 12! Currently reading The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie. Charly, you might want to check it out. It spoofs the crime/spy genre very nicely and is very funny.

[Barbara]

I am reading The Tea Rose.

[H]

You're welcome, Charly. I hope I'm not hijacking the thread! I'm reading more Wodehouse, the 3rd in the series.

[Werner]

Nah, Lunar Lunacy, you're not hijacking the thread at all!

[Werner]

I'm putting in as much reading time as usual; but since I'm currently reading a 1,047-page book, it's been awhile since I updated my report. :-) (Okay, granted that I'd already read some of it before I started on this go-around; but there was still a LOT of it unread.)