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[Marti]

I just finished The Postmistressby Sarah Blake. I found it mesmerizing and wondered how all the story lines were going to fall together. I am sure it is a book that many people here on TNBBC are going to enjoy...

I do think next I might read either Jonathan Kellerman's new book called Evidence or An Impossible Attraction by Brenda Joyce. My book club is reading Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult. I have finished it already.

[Rene]

Marti: The Postmistress is patiently awaiting me in my Kindle! I will get to it in a week or so. I have just started The Same Sweet Girls and I cannot put it down.

[Jason]

I am reading Con Air a climate change book. Its very interesting and totally blows Al Gores movie out of the water. It had me convinced that anthropogenic global warming doesn't factor into the equations way back in chapter one !!!

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner)]

Just finished Blindness. I cannot even express how much I LOVED this book. I feel liked I haven't been this wrapped up in a book in a while.

[Jayme]

Oh my lord, Jason, I should probably keep my mouth shut and not go there, but that kind of "science" makes me puke! The only thing about that book that makes me happy is how few shelves it's on. And it's Air Con, not Con Air.

[Michelle]

Just finished The Shipping News and Shutter Island. Just started The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-Time.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

LOL, Con Air is an action-adventure movie with Nicolas Cage.

[Jason]

In My Defence I wrote that in the middle of the night
and I am sorry you hate it so much Jayme, I wouldn't have mentiooned it if I knew how you felt about it.

[Becky]

Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri

[El]

Still plugging away at The Voyage Out and The Historian (someone please tell me this book does eventually end...). Started Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself last night. It occurred to me that while I had read excerpts of his narrative for school, I'd never been required to read the whole thing. So I'm finally getting around to that.

[Lori Ann]

Finished A Great and Terrible Beautyand am now starting The Secret Life of Bees

[Chrystal]

I just finished Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood) by JR Ward and started Calling Home by Janna McMahan.

[Efe]

I just finished Twilight, and I thought it was soooo boring. I am now reading New Moon which I am hoping will be better than Twilight, and The Picture of Dorian Gray so that my brain doesn't atrophy.

[Rachel]

I'm about halfway through The Invisible Man and not really that far into Harry Potter and the Bible: The Menace Behind the Magick, finding both books a little slow and not really holding my concentration. I picked up A Thousand Splendid Suns this morning and realized that my lack of attention really was about the material and not me, because this book sucked me right in.

[Sasha]

Wow, that Harry Potter and the Bible book sounds like total crazytime.

[Rachel]

Alex wrote: "Wow, that Harry Potter and the Bible book sounds like total crazytime."

It sorta is, depending on your view of Harry Potter and religion. I think i'm having trouble getting past the fact that the author wrote the book after only the 4th Potter book had come out, so he's judging an incomplete story.

[Sasha]

I'm an atheist so I'm a little outside of that debate, but Harry Potter's not exactly the first series of books to deal with magic, right? My guess would be that the Harry Potter generation will be no more likely than anyone else to turn into crazy occultists.

If there's a huge surge in virgin-sacrificing in 2030, though, I will gladly admit I was wrong.

Good point on the incomplete story.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

I am just starting In the Woods by Tana French.

[Catamorandi]

I am getting ready to listen to Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah. I listen better than I read. I comprehend more.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Wow, Catamorandi, it's exactly the opposite for me. If I just listen, I fall asleep. It's really depressing. I hope you like Firefly Lane!

[Kiyo]

Iam currently reading CUTS by richard laymon. It is richard laymon. it mystery and suspense........the guy albert is crazy!

my website is wwww.Itskiyosworld.synthasite.com/

[Kiyo]

Mandy wrote: "I'm reading Double Cross by James Patterson - so far so good.

Sherrie: I got Angels & Demons for Christmas, did you like it? Also in my mountain of books to read sitting on my cupboard is The ..."

doube cross is verry good.....it has a surprising end

[Susanna]

Oops. It seems I've taken a full month's break from Atlas Shrugged . I have a third left of the book so I hope to sweep through it by the end of the week.

[Rachel]

At any given time, I am reading three books: 1 fiction, 1 non-fiction, and a re-read. Right now, I am into the second book of Pamela Aidan's Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy, which retells Pride and Prejudice from Darcy's POV. It's called Duty and Desire and I enjoyed the first one, so I am looking forward to the rest. I am also reading The Essence of Style. It's all about how the culture of France in Louis XIV's reign was the precursor to modern luxury living. Very interesting. I am also re-reading The Historian.

[El]

Re-reading The Historian, Rachel? Kudos to you! I'm having trouble getting through it the first time. :)

[Carol]

El wrote: "Re-reading The Historian, Rachel? Kudos to you! I'm having trouble getting through it the first time. :)"

It was not one of my favorites, I gave it away pronto.

[Cait]

Last night I finished reading (and crying over) A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway. While I admit that the characters occasionally came across as socially retarded with their clunky dialogue, the story as a whole was subtle and heartbreaking.

Now I'm starting The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie for a more amusing, light read. I'm also going to start taking In Cold Blood with me to the gym to read during my workouts, as I don't think it will make for very good night time reading for me. :o)

[Cait]

Jamie wrote: "Just finished Blindness. I cannot even express how much I LOVED this book. I feel liked I haven't been this wrapped up in a book in a while."

Weren't some of the scenes just absolutely horrifying?
I was very taken with that book as well. What an intense reading experience.

[Sasha]

Yeah, Blindness had some rooooough scenes. I dug it, but I know one person who thought it was too much.

Has anyone read the followup, Seeing? My wife liked it at least as much; it totally didn't work for me and I quit. (My wife is more likely to be right than I am; I didn't give it a fair shot.)

[Carol]

Blindness was terrific, In Cold Blood was haunting and The Sweetness At the bottom of the Pie, just that. A sweet book for everyone.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Jamie wrote: "Just finished Blindness. I cannot even express how much I LOVED this book. I feel liked I haven't been this wrapped up in a book in a while."

Oooohhhh.... That made me oh so happy. I love when people love Saramago. I wish I could rewind time and read this book for the first time again....

[Lori, Super Mod]

Alex wrote: "Yeah, Blindness had some rooooough scenes. I dug it, but I know one person who thought it was too much.

Has anyone read the followup, Seeing? My wife liked it at least as much; it..."

If you are expecting it to be like Blindness, you will be disappointed. Its not quite a sequel, more political, but it takes place in the same town, with some of the same characters. I rather enjoyed it.

[Carol]

Wait 20 years Lori then you will have forgotten. hahahahaha

[FromAna]

Catch 22

[Jason]

Ana wrote: "Catch 22"

Very enjoyable novel 22 though its hard to follow at times in your head, with its surreal and anarchic humour, though I suppose thats the point of it.

[Petra]

I'll be finishing Gods Behaving Badly: A Novel tonight and then continuing with Sweetheart, the second Gretchen Lowell mystery.

[FromAna]

Very enjoyable novel 22 though its hard to follow at times in your head, with its surreal and anarchic humour, though I suppose thats the point of it."

HAving a hard time really (caring :/) getting into it I mean but I have a no book left behind policy so I'll stick it out to the end

[Beth]

No book left behind! That's cute!

[Lori, Super Mod]

Ana, you are stronger than I! I tryed to read that dang novel twice and couldnt get more than 40-some odd pages in .... I still own it, so maybe, just maybe, someday...

[Carol]

I liked catch 22, but that was years ago. I picked it up recently and though why did I like it. No I will not re-read it and you can't make me.

[Bhumi]

I own the book but haven't read it yet. Maybe I should try...

[Carol]

If you do let me know. I don't want to read it, but I would be interested in what you think.

[Liz]

I enjoyed Catch 22. I read it in high school and at the time it was not a quick read for me but it was funny!

[Tonya]

I've always wanted to read Catch 22. I plan to attempt it but right now I have too many other books pulling at me. I'm ready to start Brother Odd by Dean Koontz and Speaker for the Dead by Orson scott Card. I also have The Gunslinger and The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy calling my name. So many books...so little time!

[Carol]

I am reading The Woman In White-Wilkie Collins. It is deliciously chilling.

[Petra]

Carol, I really enjoyed Woman In White. It's gothically wonderful.
Another Wilkie Collins book that I enjoyed is The Moonstone.

[Carol]

So I understand . Over in Constant Reader there is an archive discussion for Moonstone. I will check it out when I read it. I want to totally absorb this one first. They are trying to find the woman who delivered the letter to Laura. They are in the graveyard.

[Ann from S.C.]

Am really getting into THE GIRL WITH DRAGON TATTOO. It is geting good!

[Claire]

Rene wrote: "I read Hot Zone several years ago and it still haunts my memory. It was very scary and a hint away from being true."

I also read Hot Zone at least 10 years ago and really liked it. It was hard to put down.

[Sasha]

Mm, I've heard great stuff about Hot Zone. Its author, Richard Preston, also wrote The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring, which is pretty exciting for a book about trees, and edited my favorite in the Best American Science and Nature Writing series (2007).