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[Ann from S.C.]

I finished CAT'S EYE and gave it 3 stars. I liked it, but there were several charaters I could not stand. Now I am reading another Atwood novel, THE HANDMAID'S TALE. I am liking it so far.

[Alisha Marie]

Sera, even though I'm only like on Chapter Three of Sweetheart, I like it so far. I will let you know how I feel about it when I finish it (which shouldn't be too long from now since it has short chapters and books like that go by extremely quickly). Also, it's good to know that Heart-Shaped Box was creepy. I own it, but haven't read it yet. I'm thinking about picking it up really soon.

[Lisa]

Jamie wrote: "Lisa - I'm not sure if any of the other Anna Pigeon books will change your mind, since Flashback is a pretty good representation of the series as a whole. I enjoyed several better than this one, th..."

See after I read "Flashback," my mom said "Oh, you really should read them in order because then you wouldn't feel like there were too many characters that weren't developed because you would already know who they were." I think she might have told me that beforehand!

[Lisa]

Vanessa wrote: "I just started Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil. I really like it so far. Makes me want to go to Savannah. :)"

Loved this book! Great characters, unique story. I also read "City of Falling Angels" by Berendt but I wasn't as wild about it.

[Robin]

Operandi wrote: "I am reading The Hobbit. I just started it. I think it will be a lot of fun."

What a great book - I liked it a lot more than LOTR - enjoy!

[Robin]

Gail wrote: "re: #9279-- I recently finished The Hobbit. I liked it but it seemed like a story to read aloud to a child."

This was written as a "children's" story

[Robin]

Linda wrote: "Robin, I sometimes fear that I am becoming too OCD when it comes to getting to the next best read, but this group makes a person feel right at home even with their "issues". You are so spot on about the contribution this group makes to expanding ones horizons. The Book Thief, Shadow of the Wind, Blindness. I could go on and on but just say thanks to all of you. ..."

Thanks Linda - what a nice thing to say.

[Robin]

Fiona!!! - You just can't stop messing with my TBR list can you....I'm already reading Howl's now I just added ICTC -- I can't keep up ;-)

[Robin]

Fiona wrote: "I'm thinking of reading IT by Stephen King but I'm too scared/excited to open to the first page. Help!"

I liked IT - but don't expect it to beat the Stand - My husband liked it a bit more than I did - but still well worth the read.

[Robin]

Leslie wrote: "Just finished Coraline by Neil Gaiman. I hear about him all the time from my students, and I loved the movie Stardust. This book blew me away! It is a simple story, with an obvious plot line, but t..."

Great comments Leslie - I've been thinking of reading this one - I have a big stack atm but soon...soon.

[Chrystal]

Finished with the 4th Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.....getting ready to start Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich. Anyone else read this one?

[Jamie]

Chrystal - I've read Plum Spooky - I thought it was a lot better than the other between-the-numbers books and on par with the numbered books. Very funny, too!

[Jamie]

Lisa - You may want to check out Track of the Cat, then. I don't think it would be a big deal that you've read Flashback already. It's too bad your mom offered you that advice a bit late! : )

[Melissa]

So, Fiona. I tried to find I Capture the Castle at my library and they only have it on video and audiocassette. They don't have the actual book!

[Jeane]

Jessica wrote: "I am onto Ball of Fire. I'm pretty sure it's the only biography on Lucille Ball that I haven't read yet."

Well jessica, then you better tell me who it is! :-)

[Jeane]

Ann from S.C. wrote: "I finished CAT'S EYE and gave it 3 stars. I liked it, but there were several charaters I could not stand. Now I am reading another Atwood novel, THE HANDMAID'S TALE. I am liking it so far."

Ann, I think that one is in the possible group reads..right? It looks interesting...

[Fiona (Titch)]

Your not messing with mine Fi (hahaha)

[Fiona (Titch)]

Well maybe u should try the book I am reading lol. The Anatomy of Deception - Lawerence Goldstone

I have left a Opening Paragraph in the thread and also Book Recommendation as well. Go and have a sneaky peek lol

(I dare ya)

[Linda]

Just finished The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks on my MP3 and really liked both the story and the reader. I highly recommend this one whether you read or listen to it.

Also completed (boy this has beeen my weekend) My Enemy's Cradle by Sara Young. Another one at the top of my hit parade. Well written and very interesting story. If you like historical fiction, be sure to pick this one up.

[Sera]

I agree that "IT" is the best King book, even though the ending was a tad bit underwhelming. I love books that start out with the characters as kids and then tracks them into adulthood. King is a master of that approach.

[Gretchen]

im half way through the kite runner! i started it yesterday! its pretty good a little dumbed down i think...

[Fiona (Titch)]

Just finished The Anatomy of Deception - Lawerence Goldstone (ML). Will read Martin Misunderstood - Karin Slaughter & The Witch's Trinity - Erika Mailman (ML)

[Maria]

Vanessa wrote: "I just started Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil. I really like it so far. Makes me want to go to Savannah. :)"

i really liked this book. i've re-read a few times, and i've enjoyed it just as much as my original reading of it. and i agree, i'd love to go to Savannah to see in person what's described in the story!

[Katie]

So my mom really did not like The Time Traveler's Wife. It took her too long to get into and I think the language threw her off. I haven't read it yet, but I felt bad that it was such a miss.

Fiona: Ironically enough I was at my local thrift store yesterday and I was looking through all the books and what should catch my eye but I Capture the Castle! I picked it up immediately and bought it because you and a lot of other people have been talking about it. I decided to give it to my mom to read first as I'm still only half-way through with The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Does ICTC appeal to a lot of different people? I'm just hoping she likes it after my recent suggestion fell so flat haha

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Savannah is lovely, Maria - I hope you go there, sometime.

[Katie]

The other was The Time Traveler's Wife. She definitely didn't like it. She's very picky about her books. If she doesn't get hooked by the second page, she doesn't want to read it. I've had a lot of hits lately actually(in the past few months I've recommended and she's loved: Water for Elephants, The Thirteenth Tale, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Memoirs of a Geisha, and The Red Tent.) I love when I recommend something that she loves, so keep your fingers crossed that she likes ICTC!

[Maria]

i just finished Girls in Trucks from Katie Crouch. i was seriously disappointed in this book. from the looks of things here of GR, i wasn't the only who felt this way. i had really high hopes for this one, it was set up in reviews to be a good story, and it just fell flat.

now i have to try and write a review on the book for the local library back where i grew up, and it's not going to be easy to explain the story without giving it bad comments. *sigh*

[Olympia]

Lori wrote: "I am curious to know what everyone is currently reading.

I just finished High Fidelity by Nick Hornby this morning and jumped right into The Town That Forgot To Breathe.

Strange book to pick ..."
I just finished yesterday my fifth book for this year. A Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult.Excellent book with the twists of organ donation, capital punishment and religion.Very Picoult to tie all them together in a novel a reader can not put down.And if you put it down you can't wait to get back to it.

[Olympia]

Aimee wrote: "I made a trip to the library today and came home with too many books.
The Poisonwood Bible-Barbara Kingsolver
The Yiddish Policeman's Union-Michael Chabon
The Castle in the Forest-Norman Mailer
..."

Where do you find the time to read all that? wow I wish I could read like that. Thats excellent.

[Debby]

I finished reading The Shack, which I really liked.

I'm now reading Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern. This is the first book I've read by her and so far so good. It's about a 9-year-old autistic boy who witnesses a nurder and is so traumatized that he regresses. His mother is on a mission to help him express what he saw in order to figure out the crime. I'm about halfway through the book - disc 4 of 7.

[Liz]

Debby, Eye contact sounds really good.

I just finished E.M. Forester's A Room with a View which I really enjoyed. I'll start The Taming of the Shrew today, because I need to have it read by Wednesday. If I get time soon I'd like to work some more on Alexander Pope's The Dunciad, although by a week from Wednesday I need to reread Frankenstein. I've also added Stephen King's Four Past Midnight to my current shelf because I have copy at home and although I've only read one of the novellas in it, I intend to read the rest when I get the chance.

[Kristina]

I'm reading Les arbres en parlent encore by Calixthe Beyala. I'm reading it in Swedish, but I don't think it's been translated into English.

[Kellie]

Just finished Huckleberry Finn.
Started Star Gazing by Linda Gillard

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

I just finished The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I really enjoyed it, mostly because of the narrator.

Now I'm getting started on Portrait in Sepia A Novel. What can I say? I'm visiting the Cuban in-laws in Florida. The Spanish authors leaped off my shelf and into my hands.

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

Fiona, how's It going? I haven't read it, but I think of it as being more straight-up horror than The Stand. I would recommend The Dark Tower series to you, starting with The Gunslinger. That, to me anyway, is the closest he got to the feel of The Stand. But it's a huge commitment--7 HUGE books!

[Linda]

Debby wrote: "I finished reading The Shack, which I really liked.

I'm now reading Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern. This is the first book I've read by her and so far so good. It's about a 9-year-old autistic..."

Debby: I read Eye Contact last year and thought it was quite good. Hope you enjoy the balance of it.

[Jackie]

JG wrote: "Now I'm getting started on Portrait in Sepia A Novel. What can I say? I'm visiting the Cuban in-laws in Florida. The Spanish authors leaped off my shelf and into my hands.

I love Isabel Allende's books. I think I've read everything by her. I believe I gave this one four stars, but since it's been awhile I don't remember much about it.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Just finished Martin Misunderstood - Karin Slaughter Will now read The Witch's Trinity - Erika Mailman

[Mosca]

Just completed The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. This is an excellent book that I will be thinking about for a long time. Very bleak, but very well written and thought out. Memorable characters.

As usual, selecting the next book is difficult for me. But I will try The Piano Tuner A Novel by Daniel Mason and see if it stays in my lap.

[Liz]

I agree with people who say how hard selecting what book to read next can be. For me it depends on what needs to get read for class. However, I'm the type of person who, when I've got time to do my own reading, will kind of map out what I want to do ahead of time in my head. I've spent my past two summers living away from home and only able to pack a few books, so I chose carefully and wound up kind of deciding and order to read them in because I had varying genres.

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

Mosca, I don't remember much about the actual plot of The Piano Tuner, but I do remember that I loved the beautiful, dreamy language.

[JuliAnna]

Mosca wrote: "Just completed The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"

Mosca, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a great book. I just read that this summer, and I couldn't believe that I hadn't ever read McCullers before. Let me know what you think about The Piano Tuner. From the description, it looks very interesting.

[Dorie]

I finished “Hogfather” by Terry Pratchett and had lots of problems with this one. Way too many characters, a confusing plot, and the narrative switched every other page. I do love Death though, and loved the scenes he appeared in.

I’ve just started “The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death” by Charlie Huston. It’s about a guy who gets a job cleaning up crime scenes (yuck!). I’ve read and loved all Huston’s other novels, even though his stories can get quite violent and profane. He’s certainly not for everyone. But he is unique for thriller writers I think, in that he also brings much emotion and heart to his characters.

[Stephanie]

Just finished Revolutionary Road over the weekend and started on Requiem for a Dream.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

I finished Cyril Aldred's Egyptian Art last night. Interesting reading.

[Maria]

i started The Last Lecture from Randy Pausch last night. i should finish it tonite if i can stay up long enough to do some reading!

[Lindsey]

Recynd, I've read Karen Moline's Belladonna too! It was dark and brooding and well paced and mysterious and sensual and scary and thoughtful and suspenseful. It had a piece of everything. As far as stories about a character defining themself via life's adversity ... this was TOPS.

She wrote another book titled Lunch which had the same vibe, but I confess that other than remembering the mood of that novel, I recall nothing else. It just didn't sit in my gut quite the way Belladonna did. Know what I mean?

Also, hi. I'm reading The Sea of Trolls.

[Maria]

just finished The Last Lecture. so glad this was put in to book format! i saw the lecture the evening that he gave it, the local news stations here did a thing on it. it was such a great way to transmit what he was thinking and going through in an accessible way to people, whether they were a part of his life or not.

not sure what's up next to read, i may take a break for a few days, and wait until the weekend to start something new, but we'll see!

[Ann from S.C.]

I am still reading THE HANDMAIDS TALE, but I also am reading something light, NIGHTS IN RODANTHE by Nicholas Sparks.

[Selena]

I'm currently halfway through Jose Saramago's Blindness. I have to admit, I did not know that this book would be... difficult to read.

And yet, I imagine that he perfectly depicts what humans would be like if we suddenly went blind.