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[Candyce]

Donna wrote: "I just ordered Angel's Game sooo....???"

I'm in the middle of it. It's a good read

[Mary]

Sheri wrote: "right now I am reading "The Book of Negroes" by Lawrence Hill. I am only on pg 130 but already can NOT put it down, a fantastic book!!!"

This is my favorite thing about Goodreads! I have never heard of this book but after doing a liitle web-browsing I've added it to my Amazon shopping cart. Thanks for the rec!

[Ann]

I've just started The Gravedigger's Daughter--it's my first book by Joyce Carol Oates. Ohter recommendations for books she has written?

[Kathy]

Ann wrote: "I've just started The Gravedigger's Daughter--it's my first book by Joyce Carol Oates. Ohter recommendations for books she has written?"

Ann, I really enjoyed The Falls A Novel by Oates. I've thought about reading The Gravedigger's Daughter. I'd love to hear what you think of it after you've finished it.

[Juniper]

Hello!

Last night I read Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Patillo ~ a quick, enjoyable read. Today I am starting The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.

[Writerlibrarian]

Ann wrote: "I've just started The Gravedigger's Daughter--it's my first book by Joyce Carol Oates. Ohter recommendations for books she has written?"

We were the Mulvaneys. It's the one I've liked best from her along with Blonde (her take on Marilyn Monroe)

[Kathy]

Writerlibrarian wrote: "Ann wrote: "I've just started The Gravedigger's Daughter--it's my first book by Joyce Carol Oates. Ohter recommendations for books she has written?"

We were the Mulvaneys. It's the one I've liked..."

Writerlibrarian, Joyce can be a bit on the depressing side (yes, an understatement to be sure), and she hits her stride in the Mulvaneys. I disliked this book because I was so frustrated with the characters and was left just wanting to jump off a cliff (okay, a slight exaggeration). I think with any Oates novel, one has to gauge the depressive level and determine how much you can stand. I love her writing, and The Falls was excellent, but I sometimes hesitate to recommend her because of the depressive nature of her books. I guess what I'm saying is I wouldn't recommend her to someone who was chronically depressed. LOL (not laughing at the condition, but at the irony)

[Lori, Super Mod]

I finished A.Lee Martinez's "A Nameless Witch" and loved it! Very humorous and quirky! And now, I am starting The Monk by Matthew Lewis.

[Agnieszka]

I couldn't stop myself and began reading 'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath today. It has an amazing ambience and the pace is fantastic. I am glad I've picked it up.

[Dara]

Has anyone read Julie & Julia? I put off seeing the movie because we all know that the book is always better...but I have to say, this one is pretty slow going for me. I have been reading it for a week now and still have almost 100 pages to go. That being said, I haven't felt like giving up on it, and I think that part of it just may be me. I have had bronchitis for 3 weeks now and this week just really kicked my butt to the point I have been doing nebulizer treatments regularly and even resorted to my stupid vicodin cough syrup which I HATE! It makes me drowsy and keeps me awake and makes me itch all at the same time. On top of this I have a 12yo that has been home sick all week with mono! When it rains it pours I suppose.

Anyway, I wondered if anyone else had any thoughts about this book?

[Dorie]

I'm reading The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith, his follow up to 'Child 44' which I liked a lot. So far it's really good.

[Jennifer]

I just started The Queen of Everything

[Jennifer]

I just finished Odd Thomas which I really enjoyed. I think I am going to start Lolita this evening.

[Lindz]

Lolita is a great book. Though it will make shivers go up your spin constantly, and feel immensely guilty when Humbert makes you laugh. It is a triumph of words, and literature.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Jennifer wrote: "I just finished Odd Thomas which I really enjoyed. I think I am going to start Lolita this evening."

Are you planning on reading the rest of the Odd Thomas series, Jennifer? I loved Odd, he is a cool character.

[Writerlibrarian]

Kathy wrote: "Writerlibrarian wrote: "Ann wrote: "I've just started The Gravedigger's Daughter--it's my first book by Joyce Carol Oates. Ohter recommendations for books she has written?"

We were the Mulvaneys...."

I agree Oates is not for everyone and you need to be in the right frame of mind to start reading her. I remember one story in particular that stayed with me a while and was very haunting about suicide. She's not main stream.

[Jennifer]

Lori wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "I just finished Odd Thomas which I really enjoyed. I think I am going to start Lolita this evening."

Are you planning on reading the rest of the Odd ..."

I loved Odd, too. I definitely plan on reading the rest of the series.

[Liz]

Lori wrote: "I finished A.Lee Martinez's "A Nameless Witch" and loved it! Very humorous and quirky! And now, I am starting The Monk by Matthew Lewis."
Lori, I actually found The Monk quite hard to put down, which surprised me. I'll be eager to hear your opinion of it!

[Courtney]

I just finished J. Randy Taraborrelli's "The secret life of Marilyn Monroe". A must read for any one interested in her life. I am not sure what I will read next from the stack of unread books I have accumulated.

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

I'm reading Misery now. I've somehow never seen the movie, so it's pretty new to me. I just have vague ideas about what it's about. It only took about 20 pages for me to seriously hate Annie though! She creeped me out right away, but I quickly passed right by that to looking forward to see what happens to her in the end! In spite of not having seen the movie, I can only picture her as Kathy Bates. I may have to rent it soon.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Liz, Well, I started The Monk yesterday, and read about 140 pages. It is a little different than I what I had expected, but I am liking it.

[Maureen]

I finished The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (Buzbee) last night - very fun and interesting read about the love of bookshops and the history of bookselling.

Now I'm reading Peter and the Secret of Rundoon. I just found out that a 4th book in this series is out (or coming out soon).

[El]

Just throwing in my two cents about the Joyce Carol Oates discussion. I'm not a huge fan of hers as I read a few of her older books and felt they were all the same story; I felt if she hadn't exorcised whatever demon she had inside yet, it was never going to happen. But I did read A Garden of Earthly Delights and really enjoyed it. It's so different from the other books I had read by her, and I highly recommend it.


And to bring it back to the thread topic at hand, I just started reading Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater. It's more accessible and enjoyable to read that I had expected (sometimes books published in the early 19th-century are more dry...), so that's a bonus.

[Trish]

Just finished Dragonfly in Amber ( 2nd in the Outlander Series) it took me FOREVER to read kinda slow, but ended up loving it and will continue with the series. I am going to take a break from reading this week. I have a zillion Halloween activities I have to do with the kids and a HUGE stack of magazines staring at me. Next up for me is Catching Fire.
BTW, has anyone read Fire yet? The sequel to Graceling?

[Jayme]

Finally finished Guns, Germs, and Steel!!! Now for a quick read with The Year of the Flood. I've started it already, it's very Oryx and Crake, which I loved.

[Natalie]

I am in the middle of The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck). I checked out Dewey (Vicki Myron) as a fun read for when I need a break from such a depressing novel. Also I just purchased Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) from the local used bookstore, but haven't started it yet.

[Lindz]

I just finished reading Jane Eyre, it is a gorgeous read. Such a beautiful well written deep love story. I have totally fallen head over heels for Mr Rochester. I really hope you like it!

I have just started a bio on Edward I. It's really entertaining, it has everyone William Wallace, angry Welsh Princes, Crusades, Simon de Montfort, even the Mongol Empire has a brief cameo. I love it, at the moment every female character is call Eleanor!

[Marti]

I am reading The Lace Reader.

[Denise]

I just finished Have a Little Faith The Story of a Last Request by Mitch Albom. This was not up to par with his other books (For One More Day, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and Tuesdays with Morrie An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson. In fact this was very similar to "Tuesdays..." but not as good. (IMHO).

[Jenna]

Dara wrote: "Has anyone read Julie & Julia? I put off seeing the movie because we all know that the book is always better...but I have to say, this one is pretty slow going for me. I have been reading it for ..."

Dara,
I read Julie and Julia a few months ago and I liked it. However, I can see how you think it is slow. I actually thought this was a rare occasion of a movie being better than the book.

[Kerry]

I am reading "The Most Important Brand in The World, YOU" By Reginald K. Rhodes. He is self published and not in stores at this time. I doubt that anyone can get this on their shelf

[Ellen]

I just finished South of Broad by Pat Conroy. I have been savoring the idea of it for several weeks and waiting for the perfect time to start it. I loved it for the first 100 pages or so, then thought it hit a slump. I was becoming disappointed with the whole thing but as is my style I knew I would finish it, which I did yesterday am. I have been missing all the characters and their drama ever since! Guess I enjoyed it more than I realized. Discussed it with my sister, she says best book she's read in a long while. What'd anyone else think?

[Susanna]

I'm halfway through The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells. Once again I'm sure something is lost in translation as I'm reading it in Finnish.

In addition, I'm enjoying Night Shift by Stephen King. It's actually a re-read but this time I'm enjoying the stories so much more. Usually I'm not into short stories but I've read a few collections this year and I have to say that this one is by far the best. (Then again, I am a King fan.)

[KarenLee]

Susan wrote: "Ohhh how cool! I would have loved that!!."

It gave me cold chills. Not creepy cold chills, but excited, I can't believe it, cold chills.

[Loretta]

I just finished The Little Stranger and absolutely LOVED it. Got goosebumps a couple of times while reading it, in a good way, and that hasn't happened to me while reading a book in a long time.

I'm going to finish up my George Orwell essays this week - only two essays left! If I didn't have a pile of work that I've been procrastinating on all day I'd finish it today.

And then I think I'll go back to the John Crowley Aegypt series and start book 3,Daemonomania

[Petra]

I just finished reading Hit List and would highly recommend it for any mystery/suspense reader. It kept me entertained from the first page to the last. This is the first book by this author that I've read but I'll be looking to read her others.

I'm not sure what book to pick up now. I'll have to look over my bookshelves and see what pops out at me.

[Liz]

Last night I finished Guyland and I need to start The Sun Also Rises soon.
I'm also still working on Lady Audley's Secret and The Last September.

[Rosemary]

Dara wrote: "Has anyone read Julie & Julia? I put off seeing the movie because we all know that the book is always better...but I have to say, this one is pretty slow going for me. I have been reading it for ..."

Dara you poor thing! Get better and don't worry about the book. It's had a lot of hype and I thought it was a fun read, didn't make me hungry like I thought it would, though! I went through mono with my daughter when she was in high school, it must be so hard for you to be sick and have to take care of your child, too. I hope you both feel better very soon. Then you can worry about the book. It's always harder to concentrate on a book when you've got to cough your way through it. Take care.

[Paula]

The Broken Teaglass A Novel
Just started reading this book I won through LibraryThing. So far, it's a fun read . . . if you like lexicography (which I do).

[Angie]

I just finished South of Broad by Pat Conroy, and am starting The Lost Symbol By Dan Brown.

[Ann from S.C.]

PARANOIA was pretty good. Sorta like John Grishom. Now reading NIGHTEYES by Garfield Reeves-Stevens. Very ET like or close encounters.

[Lauren]

Got a little tired of The Stand so I am taking an hour or so to read Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara!

[Keta]

Currently reading Covet by J.R. Ward and Enchantress Mine by Beatrice Small. Just finished with Dark Hunder by Rita Herron. And these books will keep me busy for a while.

Keta Diablo
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[Lauren]

Okay so The Stand is REALLY dragging for me and The Book Thief is burning a hole on my bookshelf... I may have to pick that one up before I finish The Stand!

[Lauren]

I am about halfway through the book.

[Jeane]

After a for sure more than half a year super push from Fiona I am reading her I Capture the Castle

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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

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Fiona wrote: "Grain de Beaute wrote: "North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell "

Yay! That's brilliant Grain, I hope you enjoy it."

I've read so many good reviews about North and South. I'm very excited. ♥

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I'm reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I'm almost halfway thru and am really enjoying it.

Also reading The Lightning Thief which is brilliant! Great trailer too, which I saw on the website for the film... who knows when that will make it here, probably next summer :-(

Finished Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, which I loved. And Ella Minnow Pea A Novel in Letters which I loved too.

It's been a good month for books for me :-)))))

[Stephanie]

Lori wrote: "Stephanie, I struggled to want to pick up Something Wicked when I was reading it to. The movie was so creepy and strange, and the book just didnt give me the same feeling. Bradbury is such a talent..."

Lori - I'm glad to know it's not just me. I actually haven't read anything else by Bradbury yet (I know - gasp!) and I'm bummed I started with this one. A couple of the other members of my group had started it and had the same feeling about it, so I think we're actually going to change our read for next month rather than force everybody to read something they're not really into. I think maybe this is just one of those pieces that played really well to the audience for which it was first written, but as time went by it became less relevant ... it certainly doesn't give off as much of a creepy vibe as I expected it to.