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[Karin]

I just finished The Martian which is probably the best or one of the two best novels I've read so far in 2014 and posted a review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... . Now I'm reading The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, The Murder of Roger Ackroydand Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.

[Reggia]

Hi everyone!

Karin, the "Omnivore" book sounds very interesting... I'll have to add it to my TO READ list.

[Karin]

Reggia wrote: "Hi everyone!

Karin, the "Omnivore" book sounds very interesting... I'll have to add it to my TO READ list."
It is interesting.

[Sally]

I've just fallen madly in love with a book called The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss!

Here is my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Werner]

Starting yesterday, I'm currently reading , by David Barbour and Richard Raleigh. This one has been on my radar since it was published back in 2000 (I read reviews in the library trade journals), since I'm a fan of both H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard; those real-life authors are fictional protagonists here, in a tale inspired by HPL's Cthulhu Mythos canon.

[Janelle]

I'm currently binging on the Scarlet Pimpernel books. They're frivolous nonsense, but I love them just the same.

[Ann at the Beach]

I'm enjoying reading And the Mountains Echoed

[Ann at the Beach]

Charly wrote: "Ann is that by the Kite Runner author? Did you read that one? Wonder what you thought if you did."

Charly -- this is the same author. I have not read Kite Runner but saw the movie and found it to be a very moving story. I may go back and read it as I am finding "mountains echoed" to be a very good read.

[Reggia]

I just began Anna Karenina.

[Ann at the Beach]

Getting ready to begin The Cuckoo's Calling

[Sally]

I finished The Lost Sisterhood recently, it was my first ever ARC from NetGalley :-)

Here is my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Sally]

I just finished, and ADORED, The Wise Man's Fear, the second book of The Kingkiller Chronicle - 5★s.

Here is my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Ann at the Beach]

Finished The Cuckoo's Calling and give it 4*s. My next read is Doctor Sleep. I loved The Shining so I am hopeful that this one is equally good.

[Sally]

I just finished reading The Scandalous Duchess, a fun read with a few flaws - 3.5★s.

Here is my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Sally]

I just finished Mistborn: The Final Empire and am now a card-carrying Brandon Sanderson fan! What a great start to his Mistborn trilogy - 4.5★s.

Here is my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Werner]

Wow, I haven't posted here in quite awhile; sorry! My wife and I are currently reading by Linda Howard as our "car book." Just recently, I finished Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (which was the common read for this month in one of my other groups); and I'm now reading Saints Alive! New Stories of Old Saints: Volume II Celtic Paths by my friend and fellow Goodreads author, Andrew M. Seddon. It's a sequel to his Saints Alive! New Stories of Old Saints. And finally, I'm intermittently reading a collection of short supernatural fiction by one of my favorite authors, Manly Wade Wellman, Valley So Low: Southern Mountain Stories.

[Werner]

A book I'd recently requested through interlibrary loan, (a historical novel by Norah Lofts), arrived yesterday. It's the common read for July in the Lofts fan group I belong to here on Goodreads; but since it's due back on July 21, and I'll lose some reading time while we're out of town on vacation the week after the 4th, I went ahead and started reading it last evening.

[Ann at the Beach]

Just finished Doctor Sleep I give it 4* It is a followup to The Shining It brings you up to date with Dan -- the little boy Danny in The Shining.
I am starting And Then There Were None

[Ann at the Beach]

Finished BY Agatha Christie in one day ! Great fast read. Classic mystery by the "queen of mystery". Next by Jodi Picoult

[Sally]

Today I finished The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson. It is the second book in the Mistborn trilogy and a very strong fulcrum for the series, I think. I thoroughly enjoyed it - 4★s.

Here is my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Ann at the Beach]

Just finished Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult

I give it 3 *** Next up

[Sally]

I just finished reading Storm Front by Jim Butcher - a great one for anyone looking for a fun, quirky read! 4★s.

Here is my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Reggia]

...still reading Anna Karenina. In the last two years, I just don't read like I used to. :-(

[Sally]

I just finished The Hero of Ages, the final book of the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. I found it a very thought-provoking book in ways that I did not expect - 4★s.

My review is here:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Reggia]

LOL, Charly... it's not quite that bad but it's close. :-/ I've been reading "Anna" for a month but the last two years in general have resulted in very few pages of any books. (and to think I used to knock a book every few days, smh)

[Werner]

Reggia, for the benefit of abbreviation-challenged group members like me, what does "smh" stand for? (When you tell me, I know I'll kick myself for not deciphering it on my own! :-) )

[Reggia]

LOL, sorry... Shaking My Head... at myself, I might add. :-p

[Werner]

Thanks, Reggia! (That makes sense in context, but you don't need to shake your head at yourself; a busy life and work schedule plays havoc with reading time for a lot of us, and it's not really something you can help much. :-( )

[Reggia]

To be sure, I always take a book to work but it is so hot now that I am forced to take breaks inside. I absolutely cannot focus in a breakroom full of folks going in and out, especially the young ones.

I'll keep working on it... I won't give up and Charly, yes, that's true, a great many changes.

[Reggia]

I can take it whenever I want; it's just an extremely busy environment. At one break yesterday, I went in there and closed the door. My intent was to block the noise outside the door but everyone that entered came in with hushed tones, lol, I did enjoy that! Unfortunately, half of them exited without reclosing it behind them, argh! And if I go somewhere to eat it costs me dollars and calories... I just can't be happy, eh?! I did manage to read a few pages... I think if I put my mind to it it will help. The 'zoning out' a book gives me is indeed a break. :-)

[Ann at the Beach]

Finished Murder At Wrigley Field. A light mystery read (my favorite genre) about baseball (my favorite sport) at Wrigley Field ( I was visiting Chicago !)

Next read--

[Sally]

I recently finished Gossip from the Forest by Sara Maitland, a fascinating and beautiful book about the role forests have played in fairytales. It was an absolute joy to read, I highly recommend it for anyone interested in folklore and storytelling. I don't do this very often, but I'm giving this book 5★s.

Here is my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Werner]

While I'm between novels, I've started on a posthumous collection of stories by one of my favorite authors, Robert E. Howard: . The protagonist is a tough, adventuring Puritan swordsman in the 17th century, who seeks out and battles supernatural forces of evil. I probably won't finish it before we go on vacation again in early August (and I have another common read coming up after that); but I'll read what I can in the interim, and finish it later.

[Ann at the Beach]

Beginning Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
Its historical fiction set during the years before the civil war. Should be a refreshing change of pace.

[Sally]

I just finished reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. There really is more to this book than a lot of people might expect - 4★s.

Here is my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Sally]

I just finished The Way of Kings, the brilliant first book of Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive. Very highly recommended - 5★s.

Here is my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Werner]

Barb and I started a new "organically-powered audiobook" for the car yesterday: by Suzanne Arruda (2006). It's a series opener set just after World War I (actually, it starts a few months before the war's end), in which American former ambulance driver Jade Del Cameron finds mysteries to solve amidst the nefarious goings-on in British East Africa.

[Ann at the Beach]

Just finished The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka 4 ****

A beautiful telling of the story of Japanese picture brides arrival in San Francisco in the early 1900s until the time of their internments during WW II -- a sad time in US history.

[Sally]

I just finished Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey, the first collection of short stories I have ever LOVED! Highly recommended - 5★s.

Here is my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Werner]

One of my other Goodreeads groups is doing a common read this month of , a historical novel by one of my favorite authors, Norah Lofts. So I've recently started reading that one.

[Mary]

Currently reading The Graduation Present by JT Twissel. Really enjoying it--so funny. Also, just finished Please Pretty Lights by Ina Zajac. Highly recommend both.

[Ann at the Beach]

Currently slogging through Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks I usually enjoy historical fiction and thought that i would be fascinated by the topic...John Brown/aboltionist but unfortunately that has not been the case.

[Sally]

I just finished Vanity Fair, which I found surprisingly audacious for a nineteenth-century novel - 4★s.

Here is my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Tria]

Can't insert links from the app, but Seanan McGuire's The Winter Long.

[Tria]

Charly, there isn't one in the Android app.

[Werner]

The classics group I belong to here on Goodreads picked Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor as a common read for September/October; since I was the one who nominated that book, I was particularly pleased with the choice! I've started it a little early, since I'd just finished my previous book today. This has been on my to-read shelf forever, so I'm glad to finally be reading it.

[Werner]

I'll try to remember to post a link to my review here, Charly. (Alas, since I have to watch my cholesterol now, I can only consume Lorna Doones in book form!)

[Sally]

I recently read Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson and was completely and utterly captivated! It's not often the second book in a series is better than the first. This one gets a rare 5★s from me.

Here is my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Athira]

I just finished with The Rosie Project and going to read Kane Chronicles series.

[Ann at the Beach]

I am reading The Passage by Justin Cronin