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[Susan]

I loved the Hunger Games.

[Mary]

I've just started Death and Burial in Medieval England: 1066-1550 and have These Is My Words as my back-up plan.

[Tracy]

I started The Blue Notebook over the weekend. It's a very dark topic, but a good read, so far. It's drawing me right in.

[Marti]

I finished House Rules late last night. I felt I needed to finish it before I went to sleep. I was waiting for the WOW ending. Unfortunately, I had figured it out.. still found the book to be quite good. I gave it five stars when it probably was more like a 4 and 1/2 stars. The rating is so high as the book made you really think about why things are the way they are. I also have really started to think about children who have siblings with severe disabilities and how their lives are proscribed by their siblings limits. Not only do they have to take a back seat to their siblings, but they are expected to help take care of them forever.

[Liz]

I just finished Outlander & loved it! I'm still reading Three Cups of Tea & am trying to decide on my next book to read. I'm torn between The Maze Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, & Dragonfly in Amber.

[Linda]

Started this morning. Looks like a quick read and so far so good.

[El]

I'm currently reading Death Kit: A Novel by Susan Sontag. I previously read her first book (The Benefactor: A Novel) which was only so-so... this was her second book and already I'm enjoying it so much more. I'm just finishing up my lunch break at work and am very grumpy about not being able to continue reading.

[Liz]

I just finished Midnight's Children and am working my way through the appendices of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, and am also reading Breaking Dawn.

[Bhumi]

I'm reading the second in the Sookie Stackhouse series, Living Dead in Dallas.

[Vicki]

chucklesthescot wrote: "I'm on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which has been a fun read so far. I'm probably going to go with The Hunger Games as my next read."

Jessica wrote: "Vicki wrote: "I am reading A Reliable Wife. It is quite strange."

Yeah, the language is holding me in. But otherwise, I am really creeped out.

I just finished a Reliable Wife last week. Let me tell you, it does not get any less strange as you read further. ..."

[Maria]

i'm STILL reading Shutter Island, i just haven't had enough hours in the day to actually sit and read it. if i had a good 45 minute chunk of time, i could finish it. i just have so much going on right now, that i don't have extra time to read. hopefully that will change after this weekend (race weekend, yay!). although i will say that Shutter Island is totally not what i expected....

[Brenda]

Joseph wrote: "I just finished Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell and have started The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne"

Joseph...what did you think about The Boy in the Striped Pajamas? I just finished this book yesterday and I really enjoyed it.

[Brenda]

Tracy wrote: "I started The Blue Notebook over the weekend. It's a very dark topic, but a good read, so far. It's drawing me right in."

Tracy...What is The Blue Notebook about?

[Jenna]

Reading The Girl Who Played with Fire and am really enjoying it. I struggled to get into the first one, but this one grabbed my attention right away.

[Cait]

Elizabeth wrote: "I am currently reading "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemmingway"

I read this recently and words fail to describe how much I loved it.

[Lianne]

I've finally started reading Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall after it had been sitting on my TBR list for a whole school year. Should be an interesting read =)

[Tracy]

It's the story of a 12 year old girl in India who was sold into prostitution by her father. Her way of coping with her situation is writing stories in her blue notebook. It is a horrible but fascinating read. You know, like a horrible car wreck that's terrible, but you can't keep from looking. It is beautifully written.

[Bridgit]

I started Jack Finney's Time and Again last night and its been great so far. I love learning local history - especially about New York City where I live - so this is really striking a note with me.

[Dana *]

I just finished A Touch of Dead and am 1/3 into God of the Razor while also starting The 13th

[Katie]

I'm reading a GoodReads giveaway win, Essie in Progress: A Novel. 50 pages in and I'm loving it!

[Linda]

Vicki wrote: "chucklesthescot wrote: "I'm on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which has been a fun read so far. I'm probably going to go with The Hunger Games as my next read."

Jess..."

I just got A Reliable Wife at the our local consignment store. Soooo, it the strange you both mention a "good" or a "bad" strange?

[Kat (A Journey In Reading)]

Tracy wrote: "It's the story of a 12 year old girl in India who was sold into prostitution by her father. Her way of coping with her situation is writing stories in her blue notebook. It is a horrible but fascin..."


It sounds like a wonderful book. I added it to my TBR list!

[Karina]

Just finished the Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes and will be jumping into 2 books; Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie and The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence. Two completely opposite genres! This should be interesting!

[Devin]

I finished The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and really really liked it. Even after it was done I wasn't ready to put it down so I read all the afterwards (about the author, about the book, about her other books, etc etc). So good!

Now I just started Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. It's too early to give an opinion, but I'm really hoping it's good because it was my suggestion for my book club and I've had too many thumbs down on my past suggestions! Fingers crossed.

[PDXReader]

Finished The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, which I enjoyed much more than I thought I would. The writing style reminded me of Eric Larson's. If you liked The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, I suspect you'll enjoy Ghost Map as well.

[Lori, Super Mod]

I am just starting Legend Of A Suicide, it's a semi-autobiographical novel about a boy whose father commits suicide, and his return to hometown 30 years later.

[Suzanne]

I just finished Little Bee. I enjoyed the prose and the way that the author could get into each character's head. You could almost see through their eyes. However, and if this makes any sense, I didn't love the storyline itself.

[Flora]

I'm working my way through Anna Karenina, its been really good but very long. I'm begining to wonder if it actually ever ends. I've also been trying to get started on Shutter Island but haven't had the time to get very far into it.

[Vicki]

Linda wrote: "Vicki wrote: "chucklesthescot wrote: "I'm on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which has been a fun read so far. I'm probably going to go with The Hunger Games as my nex..."

I am still trying to figure that out. The characters are really messed up. At least the guy is and he seems to have an obsession with sex that is beyond any sort of norm I know of. Yet for some reason I feel I need to know where it goes. From what I hear, it's only going to become even more strange.

[Vicki]

Tracy wrote: "It's the story of a 12 year old girl in India who was sold into prostitution by her father. Her way of coping with her situation is writing stories in her blue notebook. It is a horrible but fascin..."

This reminds me a bit of the YA novel, Sold, which I felt was eye-opening, but a great read. I will have to check it out.

[Ann from S.C.]

Finished THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE and gave it 5 stars. Now am reading CODE TO ZERO by Ken Follet.

[Carol]

I am reading The Quiet American -Graham Greene.

[Marti]

Linda, I thought The Reliable Wife was good. The story line was different and there were some twists. I can understand the description of strange, as in different.

I am going to add The Blue Notebook to my TBR list - which is getting very long!!!

I am reading The Secret Duke right now. Something light and frilly after House Rules.

[Nicole]

I just finished the Godfather, all in three days! It was a delightful read, Puzo is great. Now I'm about to try Winegardner's attempt at a sequel: The Godfather Returns. I'll give it a chance, but if it's not up to Puzo's standard I might have to put it down...

[tiasreads]

I just finished The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton & absolutely loved it! Now I'm waiting for my tiny, small-town, underfunded library to get Water for Elephants & The Help. Or maybe I'll just go to Barnes & Noble! :)

[Flora]

Nicole wrote: "I just finished the Godfather, all in three days! It was a delightful read, Puzo is great. Now I'm about to try Winegardner's attempt at a sequel: The Godfather Returns. I'll give it a chance, but ..."

I loved the Godfather, but it was a long time ago when I read it but I know it took me longer than 3 days.

[Renee]

I finished One For the Money Sunday and started Dead Until Dark Sunday night. Both of these are really good reads, espically the Sookie Stackhouse series. I can't wait to read the others.

[Claire]

I'm almost to the end of In The Woods by Tana French and am anxious to finish to get on the discussion board for this book and see how other people felt about it. I have mixed feelings about it ---it seems like its taking me forever to get through it (mainly due to other things I've had going on) but I liked it for the most part.

[Mel]

I just finished Big Girl by Danielle Steel. Not my normal read but the dysfunctional family/misfit child angle intrigued me so I picked it up. It taught me that you can never go home again which is ironic because this was the theme of the book but not what I meant by it - what I meant is that books/authors that I could tolerate as a teenager no longer are readable more than two decades later.

Is her writing always like this I wondered? And if so how on earth has she made so much money and been so successful? (Of course I wonder the same thing about James Patterson). She writes as if she were a freshman English student writing her first story or a foreigner who had learned all her English fluency through textbooks. The words are stilted, the sentences lack flow and not once in a reasonably large book did she manage to create a visual image for me. Every sentence was carefully placed as if it was staging for some momentous event until you realized that EVERY sentence was carefully placed and there was no foreshadowing intention. Yikes. I don't recommend it. Will move on to more mediocre fiction Summer Knight before delving into something more demanding.

[KHoopMan]

I just finished up an exhausting trial and I haven't had time to read (or clean, or grocery shop, or do laundry) for weeks! I can't wait to get back into The Eyre Affair.

Devin- thank you for the book suggestions! I'm glad to see that you liked The Poisonwood Bible, it's one of my favorites! I feel that I can trust your recommendations now : )

[Beth]

I just started reading The Book of Awesome: Snow Days, Bakery Air, Finding Money in Your Pocket, and Other Simple, Brilliant Things by Neil Pasricha

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Mel - as far as I can tell, Danielle Steele has been writing the same book under different names for thirty years. Beats me why she's a bestseller.

[Tracy]

I still read Danielle Steel and have read almost all the books. I agree that it's pretty much the same book with different names and her books no longer hold the attraction for me as they used to when I was younger. There were a couple of her books that had more substance than most..Message from Nam and Zoya. Those were favorites. I think her appeal is because her books are simple romance novels.

[Mel]

Tracy/Susanna - my criticism isn't so much as to predictible saccharine plots which I was expecting as it is to her ability to actually "write". One would think after the hundreds of books (at least it seems like hundreds) she has published her writing style would have developed more fluidity, style and imagery and read less like a textbook reading sample for english as a second language students.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

A lot of authors get "too big" for editors.

[Matthew]

I just finished Scorched Earth by David L. Robbins. It's a legal thriller that takes place in a small Virginia community. Basically a husband and wife bury their child, the church where the child is buried is burned to the ground and the husband is the only suspect. It is a good read and I would recommend it to those who like legal thrillers. A lot of twists and turns at the end too!

So today I will be starting Path Of The Assassin by Brad Thor. It's a espionage story which I typically enjoy.

[Kathy]

Reading The Shadow of the Wind. It's fantastic so far. The translation is fantastic and the characters are so endearing.

[Kat (A Journey In Reading)]

Kathy wrote: "Reading The Shadow of the Wind. It's fantastic so far. The translation of is fantastic and the characters are so endearing."

Oh I LOVED that book! Beautifully written and it stays with you.

[Susan]

I am now reading The Iron King and it is really good so far!

[Maria]

i finally finished Shutter Island yesterday. i enjoyed it, and gave it 4 stars, but i think it was closer to 3.5 stars. after all of the hype, i think i expected something a little bigger, but i did really like. i'm not 100% certain what occured at the end there.....for a minute, i thought maybe he completely imagined the chuck character, and therefor the doctor, and that the "intro" at the beginning was actually from him, but i guess not. intriguing to say the least.

i have Pillars of the Earth which i can't wait to read up next. i don't know that i'll be able to concentrate on it though, so i may need to hold off until after my race this weekend to start it. maybe i'll pick up a re-read to get me through lunch hours the next 2 days.