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[Linda]

Just finished Girl With A Pearl Earring and am not certain why I even gave it a try. Rarely do I dislike a book this much, but it goes to the top of my worst reads in a long time.

[JuliAnna]

Jeane wrote: "Question of Blood
My first rebus book (Ian Rankin) but just great. I loved the series on tv and the books are just as great. "

There is a series on TV? Gotta get cable again someday. I love the books. I'm glad you enjoyed your first. And, it must have made for an interesting training.

[Gretchen]

Linda wrote: "Just finished Girl With A Pearl Earring and am not certain why I even gave it a try. Rarely do I dislike a book this much, but it goes to the top of my worst reads in a long time."

really? i was going to get that book. but now i think ill hold off!

[JuliAnna]

Fiona wrote: "I thought it was okay, but nothing worth the hype it got."

Couldn't have said it better myself (about Girl with the Pearl Earring].

As for me, I finished Love in the Time of Cholera, which I really enjoyed despite my fears to the contrary. I'm almost through with Watchmen, which I am enjoying again, but I plan to be careful with who I recommended it to. And, I'm halfway through Anna Karenina.

I'm thinking about the second Sookie Stackhouse due the recommendations here. But, I also need to start an interesting nonfiction book, The Invention of Air, for another group.

[Jackie]

I started The Lightning Thief today. So far its okay, I needed something fun though.

[Vicki]

I am reading Love is A Mixtape, by Rob Sheffield.. I like it so far.

[Melody]

Susanna - I also have just started The Time Traveler's Wife and I am finding it a bit confusing. Hopefully everything will become clear soon.

[Allison]

I just finished Mistress of the Art of Death...and I'm about to start Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas, just for a light read before starting ICTC on Valentines.

[Katie]

I'm having a really hard time finishing The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I'm not sure why. I find the story interesting and I like the main character. For some reason I'm having a hard time with it.

So in light of that I actually started to re-read Sense and Sensibility tonight. :) I just watched the 2008 mini-series and I hadn't read the novel in forever. It's definitely gotten me in a better mood about reading.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Still reading Skin Privilege - Karin Slaughter

[Tango]

Linda wrote: "Just finished Girl With A Pearl Earring and am not certain why I even gave it a try. Rarely do I dislike a book this much, but it goes to the top of my worst reads in a long time."

Wow! I read this book well before the hype, really loved it and have read all her others. The book was much better than the film, although I enjoyed that too.

[Robin]

Linda wrote: "Lollie wrote: "I just started Lisey’s Story – Stephen King. I love what I’ve seen already and I’m only about 150 pages in."

Lollie, I read Lisey's Story and really thought King was back in that ..."

Wow - good to hear - I need to look into Lisey's Story

[Stephanie]

Finally finished The Audacity of Hope while being snowed in up in the mountains over the weekend. And I'm about halfway through The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and really liking it so far. Would have gotten much more reading done due to being snowed in, but was helping to entertain two small kids (my niece and nephew) with cabin fever all weekend! :)

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I am finished reading "Prophet of Yonwood" not reading anything right now!

[Linda]

Fiona wrote: "Why's that Linda? I thought it was okay, but nothing worth the hype it got."

Other than the constant worry and whining, I didn't really get anything from it. Everytime I thought there was a possibility of something happening, I was disappointed. Guess, you have to have some ho hums to appreciate the yah hoowies.

[Linda]

Just started C.J. Box's Three Weeks to Say Goodbye. Too soon to make a judgement, but listened to his Blue Heaven and really liked that one.

[Nadia]

I am reading After Dark by Haruki Murakami. I loved the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and thought I would give this one a go.

[Stephanie]

Linda wrote: "Guess, you have to have some ho hums to appreciate the yah hoowies."

Linda - So true and well said! :)

[alicia]

I read The Big Nap in one day.Now on to the 3rd book A Playdate With Death.

[Justine]

I just finished The Gargoyle. I did not love it until the final chapter. This is the first time, for me, that a book has lived up to the hype.
I've since moved on to Little Earthquakes for something quick...to make up for the lost time from The Gargoyle (because it took me a whole three days to read it).

[Chrystal]

Just started A Good Woman by Danielle Steel. Pretty good so far.

[Paula]

Robin wrote: "Kim wrote: "
I'm about half-way through The Devil in the White City. It is starting to pick up a bit but there is so much detail, and I tend not to enjoy a lot of details about mundane things.

I listened to "The Devil in the White City" on audio and enjoyed it very much. I liked learning about the first ferris wheel etc. but of course, the serial killer was the focal point for me. I found another NF book about just the serial killer (can't remember the title just now) but it really didn't add any more than what we learned in White City.

[Paula]

Jackie, I started "The Lightning Thief" while working in a elementary school one day. I read a couple of chapters and it was interesting so I'm hoping to get back to it soon. I'll be working 2 weeks at another elementary school starting Friday, so maybe I can get back to it.

[Jeane]

Gretchen wrote: "just started marley and me!!! only on page 37 but its cute already!"

have fun!

[Jeane]

Linda wrote: "Just finished Girl With A Pearl Earring and am not certain why I even gave it a try. Rarely do I dislike a book this much, but it goes to the top of my worst reads in a long time."

Linda, why? I thought it was a very strong story and one of the few I would reread.

[Jeane]

JuliAnna wrote: "Jeane wrote: "Question of Blood
My first rebus book (Ian Rankin) but just great. I loved the series on tv and the books are just as great. "

There is a series on TV? Gotta get cable again someday...."

The training became for sure very funny in my head! Oh yes there is a serie, don't know if they are showing it now but last year I watched it every week on tv in Belgium. I of course have the image of the actors now but it is okay because they did very well. And I am almsot finsiehd with the book and love it.

[Jeane]

Fiona wrote: "Right, I am reading...

The Loop by Nicholas Evans. I'm hoping this will be a quick read so I can get..."

Like all of his books I got completely absorbed by it but with this one I only stopped reading once for a quick bathroom break and then read till I finished it. So it was a one day book for me.

[JuliAnna]

Fiona wrote: "I'm hoping this will be a quick read so I can get it done by Valentines to start I Capture the Castle with the other girls. "

I never heard of it before, but it looks like it could be a very enjoyable read. I remember The Loop as going pretty quickly.

[Linda]

Jeane wrote: "Linda wrote: "Just finished Girl With A Pearl Earring and am not certain why I even gave it a try. Rarely do I dislike a book this much, but it goes to the top of my worst reads in a long time."
..."

Jeane, Some books you love, some you like, some you struggle with and some you put down. I guess this is just one I struggled with and for no particular reason than it just seemed to want to be more and never really fulfilled that promise. I have been fortunate to discover many great reads through this group, some even grabbing me from the first page. But by the last page of Girl With A Pearl Earring my only feeling was "oh well" guess that one's over with.

To those who loved this book, please this is simply my view, not a criticism of anyone's taste.

[Lisa]

I'm reading "What Happened To Anna K?" I have never read "Anna Karenina" and thought that I might need to read it first, but now I'm glad I didn't. This was I'm able to just enjoy it as a work of unique fiction. One day, maybe, I'll actually get around to "Anna Karenina."

[Jeane]

JuliAnna wrote: "Fiona wrote: "I'm hoping this will be a quick read so I can get it done by Valentines to start I Capture the Castle with the other girls. "

I never heard of it before, but it looks like it could b..."


you read The loop????!!!!!!! What did you think about it/ Read any of his other books?

[Jeane]

Linda wrote: "Jeane wrote: "Linda wrote: "Just finished Girl With A Pearl Earring and am not certain why I even gave it a try. Rarely do I dislike a book this much, but it goes to the top of my worst reads in a..."

I understand it can happen that it makes you feel like that. When I enjoyed a lot a book I always feel a pitty when it doesn't give the same feeling to someone else. Hopefully you sson read again books that blow you away Linda! :-) What books did you love?

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner)]

just finished a reread of one of my favorites..Franny and Zooey. And now I'm reading Jessica Z.

[Ann from S.C.]

I finished GERM. It started out good, but ended up ok for me. Now I am into I AM LEGEND, and it is different from the movie, which I liked. But I am really liking this book!

[Laura]

Allison wrote: "M wrote: "I just finished Living Dead in Dallas, the second book in Charlaine Harris's southern vampires series and I loved it. I liked the first book fairly well (Dead Until Dark) but like the se..."

Glad you'll be reading Messenger Allison! Hope you love it....

[Laura]

Susanna wrote: "I started The Time Traveler's Wife last night. Interesting so far."


I'm curious what you'll think of this one Susanna, as I was considering pushing it up on my TBR after Outlander. I used to think I'd never want to read a time travel book, but O changed my mind.

[Donna Jo]

I just finished Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet. For something different I am starting The Naming by Alison Croggon.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

I finished The Time Traveler's Wife this afternoon.

It is indeed an interesting book. Not your standard sort of time travel, either.

I ended up giving it three stars - it was certainly not a waste of my reading time.

[Catherine]

I'm about 100 pages into Coraline. I'm really liking it, but I have a low tolerance for reading on the web!

[Selena]

Hey Catherine! Also reading Coraline over here :) Although, not quite as many pages in, sadly

[Alisha Marie]

I just finished Loyalty's Web by Joyce DiPastena and it was a bit "meh" to me. It was okay, but not great. I'm not terribly disappointed considering it was a First Reads win and I didn't pay for it, but still I expected a bit more from it.

Now comes the task of finding my next book to read. It's seems a bit harrowing now considering it's about two in the morning here. Hopefully whatever I pick will be engaging considering Loyalty's Web was not.

[Lynai]

I'm midway through Coelho's The Alchemist now. Hope to finish it tonight. So far so good. But I expected more, though. And it wasn't that thrilling coz I already "sneaked" and read the last chapter. Bad, I know. ;)

[Robin]

Lynai wrote: "I'm midway through Coelho's The Alchemist now. Hope to finish it tonight. So far so good. But I expected more, though. And it wasn't that thrilling coz I already "sneaked" and read the last chapter..."

I found hte Alchemist an "over-rated read (for me at least). I've been in many book club discussions on this book (a favorite of many book clubs) and all in all I found much "lacking". But I do think that alot depends on the "age" you are when you read this book - younger people tend to like it more - older dinosaurs (like me) - not so much.

-- Wife of GR author Michael J. Sullivan: The Crown Conspiracy (10/08) | Avempartha (04/09)

[Lori]

Lynai, Have you read The Witch of Portobello, also by the same author? If you've read it, what was your opinion? I just ordered it from Amazon. My ex read it and really liked it, but then he felt that its profundity wore off with time. I still want to give it a chance.

[C.J.]

Thought I'd stop lurking and say hi.

I'm reading Harlan Coben, The Innocent. My reads tend to be various thriller and mystery writers since I am a writer myself. I'm really enjoying Coben's voice. I'm just underway but I'm intrigued by the characters.

CJ

[Linda]

Jeane wrote: "Linda wrote: "Jeane wrote: "Linda wrote: "Just finished Girl With A Pearl Earring and am not certain why I even gave it a try. Rarely do I dislike a book this much, but it goes to the top of my wo..."

Jeane, I loved The Shadow of the Wind, The Art of Racing in the Rain, North River by Pete Hamill, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

[Linda]

Just started The Secret Life Of CeeCee Wilkes yesterday and am over 100 pages into it. This one is a keeper. One of those books that had me at page 1.

[Jessica]

Linda, I read The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes last year and really enjoyed it. It was a great book.

[Allison]

woohoo Heather, I'm glad you're starting Dragonfly!!

[C.J.]

Linda wrote: "Jeane wrote: "Linda wrote: "Jeane wrote: "Linda wrote: "Just finished Girl With A Pearl Earring and am not certain why I even gave it a try. Rarely do I dislike a book this much, but it goes to th..."

The Shadow of the Wind was the most liked book read at our book group last year. I enjoyed it, but I had a bit of a problem that the author needed to include a 100 page letter to make the plot work out. It seemed a bit hokey to me. Otherwise I thought the prose and the story were wonderful.