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[Flora]

Alex wrote: "Flora! Canterbury Tales, huh? I've been thinking a lot about that book. I took a whole class on it in college, which I'm using as an excuse to not read it again...but I have this nagging voice t..."

I've got a newer version by Burton Raffel. Its seems to be really much easier to read than what I had to endure in college. I'm really enjoying it so far.

Im also reading Their Eyes Were Watching God and I'm really enjoying this one

[Adina]

I'm Reading Travels with Charley: In search of America By John Steinbeck , and The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.

[Mary]

I've just started Doomsday Book--hopefully it will inspire me to finish Death and Burial in Medieval England: 1066-1550.

[Sasha]

OMG Travels with Charley! I used to love that book. (I liked anything that involved dogs.)

Fiona - ah, so it's a modern translation but it's still in verse. That seems like it might be a good compromise, and Raffel's translation gets high marks (I just looked it up). Cool.

[Sasha]

Mary - Huh, Doomsday Book looks interesting. If you dig it I might just try it. Death & Burial looks...morbid. I'm reading about that same period right now - The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, which I kinda don't like so far.

[Mary]

Alex wrote: "Death & Burial looks...morbid. "

Sadly, it is not all that morbid, otherwise I might've finished it by now.

[Sasha]

Ha!

[Adina]

Alex wrote: "OMG Travels with Charley! I used to love that book. (I liked anything that involved dogs)

Alex- Its sooooo good. I love Steinbeck , but I too, also like anything with dogs :) Can't believe I never read it before. Quickly becoming one of my favorites.

[Edith]

I'm reading Shiver. I needed something light and easy after reading Joe Hill.

[Jodi]

I just finished reading and now I am starting

[Lori Ann]

Edith I just read Shiver too! Def a nice easy read

[Rosalie]

I just finished THE SCARLET LION and decided I needed to take a vacation from Englis Kings & Queens. I started PEACH BLOSSOM PAVILION by Mingmei Yip, which is about a house of prostitution in Shanghai in the early 1900's. Precious Orchid is the richest, most celebrated "MING JI" prestigious courtesan in all of China.

[F1Wild]

Adina wrote: "I'm Reading Travels with Charley: In search of America By John Steinbeck , and The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson."
Steinbeck is my all-time favorite and Travels with Charlie is superb, but a bit different than his usual works. I just reread it recently and found it eerily relevant to current times.

[F1Wild]

Rosalie wrote: "I started PEACH BLOSSOM PAVILION by Mingmei Yip, which is about a house of prostitution in Shanghai in the early 1900's. Precious Orchid is the richest, most celebrated "MING JI" prestigious courtesan in all of China."
Thanks so much for this title - the genre is one near and dear to my heart and I will be placing this on my TBR list immediately - PLUS, there is a Kindle edition! Let us know what you think of it.

[Donna]

Jodi wrote: "I just finished reading and now I am starting "

I read Tallgrass recently and really enjoyed it. Wonderful characters.

[KHoopMan]

Mary & Alex, Doomsday Book is one my all-time favorite books. It is an experience. You hit a certain point in the book and it becomes physically/emotionally impossible to stop reading. No joke. It's. Not. Possible. To. Stop.

[Jayme]

Doomsday Book has been on my list forever! Maybe it's time to bump it up the list.

[Madeline]

Doomsday Book looks intense! I'm going to add it to my list.

[F1Wild]

I've been wanting to read Doomsday Book and have been clicking for it to be published for Kindle.

[Ruby]

I think Tallgrass is the only Sandra Dallas book I haven't read (Jodie, Donna). It looked like it was a departure from her usual... and I love her usual! Have either of you read her other books to say whether it is similar or quite different?

[Sydney]

Just finished Fool still reading One Hundred Years of Solitude,

[El]

I'm reading a couple different things but have also just started Our Mutual Friend. It's time for a lil Dickens in my life.

[Katie]

I just started Murder Most Frothy yesterday. I need something light and fluffy right now since I don't have much time to devote to reading with a teething baby.

[Linda]

Just finished and would give it a 4.2. Beginning to end, this novel pulled me in and kept my attention throughout. Some novels ebb and flow, but this one was true straight through.
Am just about at the end of Widow's War by Sally Gunning and have been pleasantly surprised with it. Though I majored in history in college, this is not a time period I have given much attention to and am really learning quite a bit. It is really a solid read.

[Jodi]

Ruby wrote: "I think Tallgrass is the only Sandra Dallas book I haven't read (Jodie, Donna). It looked like it was a departure from her usual... and I love her usual! Have either of you read her other books to ..."

I read her first 5 novels several by her years ago, but had not read any of her newer books. I have to say I have really enjoyed all of her books. You really should read Tallgrass. You will fall in love with these characters. If you like Audio books you should go that route. Lorelei Kingis amazing.

[Sherrie]

Just finished The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, which was really great.
Am now starting audio of What the Dead Know and so far it's got me intrigued.

[Claire]

♥Hαlєє♥ wrote: "I'm reading and it's pretty good. Has anyone else read it?"

Halee, I've read My Sister's Keeper and really liked it. I'm going to read her new book which I've heard is excellent.

Right now I'm reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattooand really enjoying it.

[Lori Ann]

El I agree, nothing better than a lil Dickens in your life! How is Our Mutual Friend?

Right now I'm reading Netherland and finally finishing The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals if I don't get distracted again by my tbr pile...

[Brenda]

♥Hαlєє♥ wrote: "I'm reading and it's pretty good. Has anyone else read it?"

I read "My Sister's Keeper" a couple of years ago for book club. It was an interesting book.

[El]

Lori Ann, I'm only about 57 pages in to Our Mutual Friend, but so far so good. Only a gazillion pages to go! :)

[Matthew]

I just finished The Villa of Mysteries by David Hewson. It was the 2nd book in his Nic Costa series and I must say it was much better than the first one.
Currently I'm reading A Spectacle of Corruption: A Novel by David Liss. This is the 2nd book in his Benjamin Weaver series and so far it's pretty good. I also enjoyed the first novel in this series A Conspiracy of Paper quite a bit. The series takes place in England in the early 1800's

[Maria]

Matthew wrote: "I just finished The Villa of Mysteries by David Hewson. It was the 2nd book in his Nic Costa series and I must say it was much better than the first one.
Currently..."

i really like David Liss's work. i've read the two you've mentioned, and The Whiskey Rebels which was really good. i haven't read The Coffee Trader yet, and he has a new one, The Devil's Company which is another Benjamin Weaver one. can't wait to read that one!

[Maria]

i finished lauren willig's Masque of the Black Tulip last night, and i enjoyed it. i'm going to try and track down the 3rd in the series, my library doesn't have that one, but it has the others. go figure.

not sure what's up next, maybe i'll browse for something different at the library this evening.

[Margaret]

♥Hαlєє♥ wrote: "I'm reading and it's pretty good. Has anyone else read it?"

I read it last year and I really liked it. The ending surprised me!

[Margaret]

I just finished Of Mice and Men and will be starting Her Fearful Symmetry next

[Kristin]

I was thinking about Her Fearful Symmetry too, Margaret!

Finished Shutter Island this afternoon and just have soooo many good books on my TBR. Not sure which direction to head next. Guess it's time to narrow down the Summer Reading List for this year and get a serious list put together for beach days and outdoor evenings...

[F1Wild]

I finished reading Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden late last night and although it was pretty darn good, I just didn't get as involved emotionally with the characters, especially the main one, as I did with those in The Help & Wench.

I just barely started a book long on my TBR list, My Splendid Concubine by Lloyd Lofthouse (who is married to author Anchee Min). It's the story of Sir Robert Hart, the “godfather of China’s modernism,” (inspector general of China’s Customs Service, builder of China’s railroads, postal and telegraph systems, and schools) and his first real love, Ayaou, a young concubine.

The best part is that Amazon offers the Kindle version of this book for only $1.95!!

[Rachel]

Just finished Let The Right One In. I'm gonna take the plunge and start Blindness tonight.

[Marti]

Claire wrote: "♥Hαlєє♥ wrote: "I'm reading and it's pretty good. Has anyone else read it?"

Halee, I've read My Sister's Keeper and really liked it. I'm going to read her ne..."

My Sister's Keeper is one of my favorite books by Jodi Picout

[Julie]

Adina wrote: "I'm Reading Travels with Charley: In search of America By John Steinbeck , and The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson."

I was very disappointed in Travels with Charley. I wanted to read about his travels but he spent more time talking about his dog than anything else.

[Dara]

Marti wrote: "Claire wrote: "♥Hαlєє♥ wrote: "I'm reading and it's pretty good. Has anyone else read it?"

Halee, I've read My Sister's Keeper and really liked it. I'm going t..."

I have read most of JP's books...My Sisters Keepr is definitely one of my favorites.

[Dara]

I am currently reading Dean Kootntz's Your Heart Belongs to Me

[Katie]

Maria wrote: "Matthew wrote: "I just finished The Villa of Mysteries by David Hewson. It was the 2nd book in his Nic Costa series and I must say it was much better than the first one..."

I loved the The Whiskey Rebels! It was a free ebook, however, I would've paid $10 for the pleasure I had from reading it.

[Margaret]

Kristin wrote: "I was thinking about Her Fearful Symmetry too, Margaret!

Finished Shutter Island this afternoon and just have soooo many good books on my TBR. Not sure which directio..."

I have had it on my book shelf for a while now, so I thought I should finally just read it hehe

[Maria]

katie, have you read anything else from him? if not, i highly recommend that you do. he has just the right amount of fiction blended in to historical events to make it easy to read AND learn something new. i'm hooked on his writing!

and to whoever is reading Travels with Charlie...we had to read that my senior year in high school. what a snooze-fest! there was waaaay too much focus on that dog, instead of on the journey he was supposedly taking. sorry if you are liking it, it just was not my kind of book.

[Katie]

I'm finally reading The Handmaid's Tale. It's a scary tome about the degradation of womens' rights.

[Natalie]

Finished "Shot in the dark" by Elizabeth Moon. Now I'm rereading "Great Deliverance" by Elizabeth George and "Barbarians Inside the Gates" by Thomas Sowell (essays)

[Mary]

Eliza wrote: "Mary & Alex, Doomsday Book is one my all-time favorite books. It is an experience. You hit a certain point in the book and it becomes physically/emotionally impossible to stop readin..."

You are so right, Eliza! I stayed up late today finishing this and I must confess to a few tears at the end. It was really, really good, after an initially slow start.

I'm now reading The Chaneysville Incident.

[Margaret]

♥Hαlєє♥ wrote: "Margaret wrote: "♥Hαlєє♥ wrote: "I'm reading and it's pretty good. Has anyone else read it?"

I read it last year and I really liked it. The ending surprised..."

I don't want to spoil it for you, but I'll say that it's something very unexpected. It's sad, and I still can't decide if I liked the ending or not.

[Margaret]

Katie wrote: "I'm finally reading The Handmaid's Tale. It's a scary tome about the degradation of womens' rights."

How are you liking it? I started reading that few days ago and got to page 110 and needed a break from it. I don't know what it is with that book. I liked some of it and then it got to a slow point