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[JSou]

Edith, I have that one and have been wanting to get to it here soon. Would love to hear what you think about it when you're done.

[Edith]

Jessica - I'm already in love with the way that the author writes. I'll keep you posted but I have high hopes for this one.

[Kimberly]

I'm reading People of the Lake: Mankind & Its Beginnings by Richard E. Leakey. It's a good read so far. I'm also reading Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandelaand I love it.

[Tani]

I'm also reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and liking it a lot. Like others have said, the first 40-50 pages dragged a little, but once I got past those, I've been really into it. It's annoying really, because it's so much not a book that I would have chose to read if so many people hadn't been so enthusiastic about it. I hope it continues to be as good throughout!

[Ann from S.C.]

I just finished FORD COUNTY by John Grishom and gave it 4 stars. Now I am reading THE WIVES OF HENRY OADES by Johanna Moran and loving it! It s fantastic! I can't put it down!

[Maureen]

Recently started Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World.

[The Romance Reviews (Carole)]

Tani wrote: "I'm also reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and liking it a lot. Like others have said, the first 40-50 pages dragged a little, but once I got past those, I've been really into..."

I heard this is good. I really have to pick this up.

[Sasha]

I just finished King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa with the Africa book club; it's great if you like feeling bad about humans. Just started Machiavelli's The Prince. The introduction was excellent. I'll let you know about the rest of it.

[Chrystal]

I just finished Masquerade.....going to start Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah later today.

[Jeane]

Catamorandi wrote: "I loved The Bell Jar. It is one of my favorite books. Hope you like it."

I would really like to read that one, feeling so curiois about it. It is especially nice I think if you live in a city where the author once lived...like with he having lived in Dublin. I read a bit about ehr online and thought about the places and the things she did when I was in the city center.

[Jeane]

Ana wrote: "I started yesterday "Watermelon", by Marian Keys. It's the first book I read from this author and I'm loving it!"

Ana, I read another one of her as my first Keys book..Angelsand liked it a lot. Then I read also Rachel's Holidayand Watermelon. They are so good to read! Aparently, the part of Dublin used in the story, is very realistic for the period of the story. At least I was told by a lady who used to live in that area during that period.

[Jeane]

Kimberly wrote: "I'm currently read The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith. i started reading it last night after it had been sitting on my bookshelf for about 8 mont..."

Kimberly, the serie is easy and fast reading, and great stories!

[Jeane]

Reading Atonement

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Reading Labyrinth, by Kate Mosse. Sufficiently interesting so far.

[Lekeshua]

Reading The Girl Who Played With Fire. Had to force myself to put it down. Good so far only 100 pages in.

[Charlotte]

Just finished The Time Traveler's Wife and now am reading Prozac Nation. I've read some terrible reviews of it but I'm enjoying it a lot so far.

[Jason]

Hi everyone I finished The search for Super Strings tonight and enjoyed every page. I have gone back to civilizations and that's OK to. Got as far as the sixteenth century and the new world, so obviously got a while to go yet. Its amazing how much information it manages to get into each chapter, when you consider how much its restricted by limitations of space in a comparatively short book.

[Angela]

I'm currently reading Guest House by Barbara K. Richardson. So far it's been a good read.

[Marti]

I am reading The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard. It is a first reads and is really quite good. Bonded with the characters and want to know what is going to happen even tho .... I think I know But need to find out for sure....

[Jayme]

I'm reading the book of lost things next too! Right after I finish Endless Nights.

[Bridgit]

I'm diversifying my reading here - no platform can hold me:

e-Book - Age of Innocence - 1/2 done
Audio Book - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - just started(has anyone else noticed how often they talk about Jews and Jew bread and Micks? Some of this is not coming across well 50 years later...)
Real Book - Lord of the Flies (about 10 pages left) and Shades of Grey is in the batters box.

May have to take a bit of a reading hiatus so i can indulge myself to some March Madness. . .

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Julia Child's My Life in France - great read so far.

[Tara]

I just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It was decent; nothing overly fantastic.

I am in the middle of A Clash of Kings and I'll start The Count of Monte Cristo sometime very soon, hopefully.

[Liz]

I'm readingAt Home in Mitford by Jan Karon. I started it about two years ago & just couldn't get into it. Now that it's on my TBR 2010 Goal List, I don't have a choice but to finish it! Now that I've actually gotten further along in the story, I'm enjoying it much more than I thought I would.

[Mary]

I finished Saving Ceecee Honeycutt: A Novel which I loved - 5 stars! I agree with Carole - I would definitely recommend it to fans of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help.

I just started Major Pettigrew's Last Stand which looks promising as well.

[Marti]

I just finished reading The Scent of Rain and Lightning and loved it! I am now moving onto reading The Wives of Henry Oats. I noticed Ann from S.C. is enjoying it - so I hope I will too!

[Carol]

Debating which book to start next. I want to finish The Prince Of Marshes. I finished Go Down Moses by William Faulkner. That was a fantastic book.

[Mary]

Mary wrote:"I just started Major Pettigrew's Last Stand which looks promising as well."

I just bought this from Amazon! It sounds delightful.

I just finished The Lady in the Tower by Alison Weir, and started Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters, but I must not be finished with the Tudors yet because when I came home from work this morning I went straight to the bookcase and grabbed The Six Wives of Henry VIII, also by Alison Weir. I skipped Katherine of Aragon and most of Anne Boleyn, though, and started with Jane Seymour.

[Suzanne]

I just finished Saving Ceecee Hunnicut and loved it. I'm now about to finish Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah. I've been enjoying this especially since Russian history has always fascinated me.

[Suzanne]

Brooke wrote: "I am currently reading Middlesex. I am only over 100 pages into it. I am curious to what everyone thought of this one!"

I had this one on my bookshelf for over a year before I decided to pick it up and read it. I was glad that I did.

[Patricia]

Suzanne wrote: "I just finished Saving Ceecee Hunnicut and loved it. I'm now about to finish Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah. I've been enjoying this especially since Russian history has always fascinated me."

I'm just about to finish Winter Garden and will be reading Saving Ceecee Hunnicut next! I don't know if it's this cold I have or the book but it seems like it took me half the book to really get into it.

[Petra]

I'm still listening to Haunted. Really, this is a weird, weird book! It's the ultimate in Reality TV where each "constestant" wants/needs to be the "main feature", the one in the spotlight at all times. They are in an impossibly strange situation and keep trying to outdo each other for when they are "rescued" so that they will be the "star" in the movie that will be made of their experiences. (they're all convinced that their plight will be turned into a movie). Bizarre, bizarre, bizarre.
I'm continuing with Cujo. It's not a great story...moves rather slowly. Lots of inappropriate reactions and anger from characters.
Despite these books, I think I'll start Italian Shoes: A Novel tonight. It's a library book and needs to go back soon.

[Sasha]

Petra, Stephen King says that Cujo was written during the worst of his alcoholism and he doesn't remember anything about writing it. Weird, huh? It's a decent book.

[Linda]

Mary wrote: "I finished Saving Ceecee Honeycutt: A Novel which I loved - 5 stars! I agree with Carole - I would definitely recommend it to fans of The Secret Life of Bees and [book:..."

Mary: I totally agree with you about Saving Ceecee Honeycutt. I loved the characters; they took on a reality to me that doesn't often happen when I read a book. I, too, gave it a 5.

[Petra]

Alex wrote: "Petra, Stephen King says that Cujo was written during the worst of his alcoholism and he doesn't remember anything about writing it. Weird, huh? It's a decent book."

Hmmm, interesting. That makes sense, in a way. It could explain the outrageous bursts of inappropriate anger and rage that some characters have, two characters are constant drinkers (one of them is violent, too) and there's a sub-plot of horror (which at the moment seems to be a red-herring and not a part of the story). Basically, a little bit "all over the board".
Thanks, Alex. That's an interesting bit of information. So far, it is a decent book.

[Sasha]

:)

That's from his book On Writing, which is actually a really decent book. Toward the end he describes his wicked terrible car accident; it's one of the scariest things he's ever written.

[Jason]

Suzanne wrote: "I just finished Saving Ceecee Hunnicut and loved it. I'm now about to finish Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah. I've been enjoying this especially since Russian history has always fascinated me."
I finished a Russian history book a while ago about the fight against Napoleon and I am reading a very interesting book about the KGB. I have been lucky enough to visit Moscow and its a brilliant place really is. I have read loads of history and culture books about Russia over the years. If you would like we could become friends and share our interest in Russia ?

[Jayme]

I loved On Writing!! I did it in audio book and he read it himself, which I thought was cool. Not what I imagined Stephen King's voice to be like.

[Sasha]

Yeah, be friends and then give me book recommendations. I just finished reading the Communist Manifesto, about to start Anna Karenina, and have vague plans to read up on my Russian history at some indeterminate point after that. Happy to take advice on books about the Russian Revolution.

BTW Jason, I'm prob'ly gonna start Civilization: A New History of the Western World tonight. Unless I get distracted by something shinier.

[Sasha]

Morning Jayme :) What's his voice like? I imagine it...ah, normal, actually.

[Alisha Marie]

I finished Carrie by Stephen King and was majorly disappointed by it. Definitely my least favorite King so far. Now I'm reading The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton and am loving it so far. I read The House at Riverton about two years ago and it's one of my favorite books ever so I have high hopes for The Forgotten Garden.

[Mary]

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[Jayme]

It's a little higher pitched than I thought it would be, Alex. It's nice though. He actually sounds a little like the narrator from The Wonder Years, if you ever watched that.

[Kirstin]

I loved The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton! And I read Saving Ceecee Hunnicut a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed it also. I hope you guys enjoy them both.

[El]

King's got a nasaly thing going on with his voice. Like Jayme, it's not what I expected either.

(Sorry, that was just a "look at me, look at me" moment. Continue, please.)

[Chantelle]

I'm struggling with Persuasion and The 19th Wife right now...they're both in slow spots or something. Wanna give me some encouragement? I've got sooo many good books in my TBR pile but I'm delaying my gratification until I finish these two. :)

[Jayme]

Yeah, that's the word I was looking for, El! Nasaly, not hugely so, but it's there.

[Mary]

It's kind of weird because he's so tall, you expect a more Herman Munster-type voice, and instead you get, I don't know, Mortimer Snodgrass.

[Paula]

Liz, I've read all but the final 2 or 3 in the Mitford series. The first one was slow for me as well but they pick up. Some are better than others, I just finished "In This Mountain" and it was one of the just ok ones for me. I space these out a lot because of that.

[cazdoll]

at the moment im still reading inkheart it's very good at the momement im enjoying it like i did harry potter 1-6