What are you reading AND what do you think? Showing 651-700 of 1,691

[Aoibhínn]

I'm reading The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales. The TV show Grimm is about start airing in Ireland for the 1st time this week. Since is supposed to be based on storylines from the book, I wanted to read it first before I start watching the series.

[Laura]

Ellie wrote: "I'm reading The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales. The TV show Grimm is about start airing in Ireland for the 1st time this week. Since is supposed to be based on storylines from the boo..."

I LOVE Grimm. Let me know what you think of the series once you start viewing.

[Aoibhínn]

I've just started reading the third book in the Stephanie Plum series Three to Get Deadly.

[Laura]

Rachel wrote: "Laura wrote: "I didn't realize it was open. I knew they were putting one in because I live five minutes away. I have been to several all over the state of Texas. I lived in Austin for 1 1/2 years a..."

I loved every minute of living in Austin. The only reason I moved back was to be closer to my family, especially my nephew. I still visit at least twice a year for at least a week and maybe one day I will move back again.

[Samantha]

i'm reading and

[Sashana]

How is Shadow Heir going?

[Jex]

I think I'm reading too many books at a time :-P

Finished
(audiobook) - The book is just as good the second time through. I don't know how I feel about reading it audio style though. I didn't really like the voices the author put with the characters and I felt that some of the emotion of the story was lost in the reading. It was still good though.

- Not a fan. At all.

Currently Reading:
- So far I love this book just as much as the first. I like that (view spoiler)[George is still kind of around even though she's not physically there anymore (hide spoiler)]. As soon as I get some time to actually sit and read vs these short spurts I've had, I'm sure I'll eat the book up.

- on to audiobook #2.

- I just started this one. I'm not too far in and can't say it's grabbed my attention much. Might be because I was reading while watching TV :-P

[Lisa Kay]

Jex wrote: "I think I'm reading too many books at a time :-P"

Been there!

[Kellyflower]

Trying to finish , but I'm having a hard time focusing on it.
Also trying to get into , just not doing it for me.

But really enjoying

[Samantha]

Sashana wrote: "How is Shadow Heir going?"

slow, I've heard mixed reviews on it so I'm scared to read it.

[Aoibhínn]

I've started reading Songs Of The Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult.

[Shay]

These are the books I'm actively reading today. I have a few (10 or so) others that I haven't felt like reading.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (from page 506)
The Memoirs Of Cleopatra by Margaret George (from page 312)
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Fine Art of Truth or Dare by Melissa Jensen
Affairs of Steak by Julie Hyzy

[Kellyflower]

Finished up Angelfall (really really liked it)
and now I'm reading Curio by Cara McKenna.

[Lisa Kay]

Just finished - loved it! Nice little vacation to Greece.

Currently reading and listening to .

[Laura]

I am currently reading .

I am only on chapter 4 but I really liking it. I never read the Vampire Academy books so looks like I need to.

[Sashana]

Laura wrote: "I am currently reading .

I am only on chapter 4 but I really liking it. I never read the Vampire Academy books so looks like I need to."

I think it's great you decided to read this one first. A lot of VA fans disliked this book (I think it's hard to not comapre it to VA since it's a spin-off) so you have the opportunity to read it with an unbiased opinion that the rest of us can't. I haven't read this one yet but I do have it checked out from m library.

[Laura]

Sashana wrote: "Laura wrote: "I am currently reading .

I am only on chapter 4 but I really liking it. I never read the Vampire Academy books so looks like I need to."

I think it's g..."

I saw that on the reviews, Sashana. It seemed like people who read the first series either loved it or hated it. I would like to think that I wouldn't be biased even if I had read VA first, but am glad that I decided to read this one first too. I am going to check out the others after I finish this one to see what the hype is all about.

[Aoibhínn]

I finished reading Songs Of The Humpback Whale last night and it was awful. Today I've started reading All We Know of Heaven by Jacquelyn Mitchard.

[Aoibhínn]

I've just began reading 11/22/63 by Stephen King today.

[Rachel]

Finished late, late last night

Started late, late last night

[Jennifer]

Finally finished all but one of the last batch of simul-books. (the one is an audio and I still have a few car trips to go before it's finished...) Chose the next group and started starting them yesterday:
The Brass Verdict (audio I'm finishing)
And Then There Were None
Truly, Madly
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Winter Garden Mystery
The Borgia Bride
The Ghost and the Dead Deb
Murder With Peacocks
Strictly Dishonorable and Other Lost American Play
The Affair: A Reacher Novel
The Kitchen Witch

All of them fit at least one challenge I'm in at the moment, and one is my first pen-pal read!

[Cindy]

Just started reading

[Laura]

I am currently reading



It is hard to get into but it received good reviews, we shall see if it gets better

[Sashana]

I just finished and it was really good. I didn't expect to like it more than the first two books. I felt like a lot of my questions were answered (of course I have many more new ones now).

[Aoibhínn]

I finished 11/22/63 by Stephen King this afternoon and it was brilliant! Now I've started reading Four to Score by Janet Evanovich.

[Auggie]

I'm currently reading by Jennifer Crusie. So far I'm loving it! I love her quirky main characters who are just a little different from what you might normally expect.

[Jex]

Just finished the audiobook of . It was an interesting book that's for sure. I liked the narrator and how she changed her voice to actually sound like the characters, although she didn't do guys voice all that well ;-P

Started a new audiobook and am liking it so far.

[Aoibhínn]

I've just started The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.

[Stefani]

I am working on....Absolute Fear. Admittedly the serial killer is sounding way too much like allll the other ones in this series, but there are a few things that are very intriguing to me. So far, its a wash.

[Aoibhínn]

I've just started reading Second Glance by Jodi Picoult this evening.

[Gin]

I just finished It was light and enjoyable
Working on Is a very good book, but definitely something to be in the mood for. It's quite violent and serious.
Just started listening to Loving it!!!!

[Sashana]

gin wrote: "I just finished It was light and enjoyable
Working onIs a very good book, but definitely something to be in the mood f..."

I loved Daughter of Smoke and Bone! It's being made into a movie (surprise, surprise). We read it as a BOM a few months ago. You can check out the thread it you want to, we have a few cool pictures scattered about. http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7...

[Laura]

Almost finished with . I am really enjoying it as I have always been fascinated with Jack the Ripper.

Will begin

[Jennifer]

Finished Truly, Madly and liked it so much I added the rest of the series to my already ridiculous currently-reading/next up list.

Current reads:
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
Death of a Man
Compromised
Jolie Blon's Bounce
The Drop
The Winter Garden Mystery
Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal
Strictly Dishonorable and Other Lost American Play

Next up (added as I finish the above...):
Murder With Puffins
As The Pig Turns
Death by Diamonds
My Favorite Witch
It Takes a Witch
Friday Mornings at Nine
Nothing to Lose
The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton
The Eleventh Man
Four of a Kind: A Novel
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Colorado Dawn
Deeply, Desperately
Absolutely, Positively
Definitely, Maybe
A Vintage Affair
Not Quite Dead Enough
The Help
The House at Tyneford: A Novel
Murder Your Darlings
Kitty Foyle
The Paris Wife
11/22/63
The Ghost and the Dead Deb
The Rose Garden
What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal
And Bright Young Things . Phew!!!

[Priscilla]

I am currently reading and I love it! Isabella is a sassy heroine and Sam is just wonderful. Reading , too. Love those cowboys!

[Rachel]

Wow, Jennifer! That is a lot of books. Are you really reading all of those under currently reading (as in, do you read them all at the same time or just have them lined up and read them one at a time?)

[Sashana]

I'd like to know how Jennifer is finding time to sleep with so many books. Care to share the secrect? How many books have you read so far this year?

[Jennifer]

Rachel wrote: "Wow, Jennifer! That is a lot of books. Are you really reading all of those under currently reading (as in, do you read them all at the same time or just have them lined up and read them one at a ti..."

I'm actively in the middle of all of them. Some electronic, some "real," and two audio (the first audio is having technical issues and may require finishing on my kindle, so I started a second audio. Don't usually do that.). I try to make progress on the audio, at least one electronic and at least one "real" daily but that can vary based on mood and circumstance.

The audio is for "can't actually read times," like driving. When the others are read depends on things like battery life and whether having a lamp on to read a "real" book is going to keep my husband awake etc. The "multiple books at a time" habit kind of grew out of those kinds of lifestyle drivers. And of course, the e-reader makes multiple books easy and also smooths the reading experience visually-- the text is always at a comfortable size etc.

[Jennifer]

Sashana wrote: "I'd like to know how Jennifer is finding time to sleep with so many books. Care to share the secrect? How many books have you read so far this year?"

Heh, only slept about five hours last night. Usually I do better than that! I've read 45 or so this year, not counting the ones I'm in the middle of at the moment. I read 300 last year (set that as my goal and made it at like 11:59 on 12/31...) but that included a lot of plays, which are short. I halved that number for this year because the pressure to make the number started taking some of the fun out of it last year.

As you can see in my previous post just before this one, the media varies. The other thing I do is vary the genres to keep from getting them mixed up- although at the moment two of my books have a strong stepmother character and that's drawn me up short a time or two, trying to remember who did what in which book!

[Jex]

Just finished last night. It's not my usual type of book but I enjoyed it. The fight scenes were very graphic. It was almost like watching a Mission Impossible type movie with how much you can visualize every move in a fight.

I'm about a chapter or two away from the end of (audio book). It's been an interesting story. Again, fairly graphic in all aspects. I had a hard time forcing myself to pay attention to this one. It had good moments, but had bad lulls in between good parts. I'll kind of be glad it's over.

Next up I'm going to read in audio form, and then start either or

[Aoibhínn]

Right now I'm reading Blue Sky Days by Marie Landry. I got it free as one of those read & review things. I'm 5 or 6 chapters into it so far and it's pretty boring. the novel is not very well written and its meant to be a YA romance novel but the main characters who are 19 & 22 talk like their in their 60's! And if that wasn't bad enough, the love story is far too unrealistic, so I'm finding it very hard to connect with the characters. I think this is one novel where I'm definitely going to struggle through it.

[Aoibhínn]

I decided its about time I started reading more classics so yesterday I started
reading by Emily Bronte.

[Aoibhínn]

I've just finished reading tonight and now I'm about to start .

[Laura]

I am reading one of our books of the month

and...

[Aoibhínn]

I finished by Janet Evanovich last night and now I've started by John Steinbeck.

[Jennifer]

One more done, 26 to go. Finished As The Pig Turns and was busily congratulating myself that I'm all caught up on this author when I found out she has published not one, but two more Hamish MacBeth since last I checked. Sigh. This one wasn't bad. She's been phoning them in somewhat the last couple years but still highly readable.

[Lisa Kay]

Oh, I've been reading to listen to that one, Jennifer, as my library has it on audio.

[Aoibhínn]

I finished reading by John Steinbeck last night and this morning I've started by Kathy Reichs.

[Lisa Kay]

Ellie wrote: "I finished reading by John Steinbeck last night..."

Just picked the CDs up at the library for that one, Ellie, afer being on the 'waitlist' for awhile.

[Gin]

Finished up
Loved it!
also loved it. Witty, original and dark.
A good YA PNR. Interesting concept

Next up for me