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[Renee]

I have started East of Eden by John Steinback. I also haven't read anything by Dumas. I have heard that his books are really good. I'm going to have to give him a try.

[Emma]

Sarah wrote: "I have just started Roses by Leila Meacham. I'm only a few chapters in, but it's already keeping me very interested. Has anyone else read this?"

I read that as one of my first books of the year and loved it! I was so hooked into the story and the characters-I love books with different perspectives, although these characters inner thoughts were written in very similar styles that I almost forgot who's point of view I was reading from. But it was a fantastic read and so worth the 624 pages! Let me know what you think as you get more into it!

[Madeline]

I just started I Was Told There'd Be Cake which is bizarre and funny.

I'm another on the Dumas love train! I've only read Monte Cristo, but I'll get around to his others sooner than later I hope.

[Donna]

I just finished The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar and One for the Money. Very different books but I enjoyed both.

[Apocralypse]

Im reading War and Peace and Right Ho, Jeeves...
Suffice it to say they are quite different

[Jamaie]

I am getting "Speak Softly, She Can Hear" from the library. It will be my first Pam Lewis.

Jodi wrote: "Over the weekend I finished and . Now I am getting ready to read ."

[Jodi]

Jamaie wrote: "I am getting "Speak Softly, She Can Hear" from the library. It will be my first Pam Lewis.


This is my first by her as well. We will have to compare notes. I just started reading it last night. I can't wait to hear what you think of it.

[Timmie]

Just finished The Great Gatsby(Fitzgerald) and The Baby Jesus Butt Plug(Mellick) Both were amazing, Very different from each other haha. Gatsby was aesthetically pleasing and relate-able , and Baby Jesus was just hilarious.

Now I'm going to Start Breakfast At Tiffanys(Capote)
Has anyone read it? opinions would be nice.

[El]

Timmie, I read Breakfast at Tiffany's a few years ago. I like Capote and haven't really come across anything by him that I didn't like. But if you've seen the movie and expect the story to be like it, you'll be disappointed. They're very different.

[Jayme]

I liked Breakfast at Tiffany's too...but I've never seen the movie. I wouldn't mind seeing how they are different from each other though, maybe I should pick it up soon.

[Flora]

I finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. It was a very quick read, just a day and a half. I really liked it, having the perspective from an autistic boy was certainly different.

Just started Middlesex not sure about this one yet.

[Sasha]

Middlesex is one of my favorite books ever!

[Lori, Super Mod]

Did I mention that I started Hot Springs yesterday? Approaching the half way mark. Interesting story about a mother who gave her daughter up for adoption and returns to kidnap her 5 years later. A little nutty, a little strange....

[Flora]

Alex wrote: "Middlesex is one of my favorite books ever!"

I'm glad to hear that it, the reviews that I have read have given me hight hopes. I've just started so I haven't formed an opinion yet.

[Timmie]

El wrote: "Timmie, I read Breakfast at Tiffany's a few years ago. I like Capote and haven't really come across anything by him that I didn't like. But if you've seen the movie and expect the story to be lik..."

I disagree, I'm not very far into it yet but so far the beginnings seem pretty similar(at least the dialogue).

[Carol]

The atmosphere in Breakfast at Tiffany's is different in the book than in the movie. I think the book is more intense.

[Sasha]

I don't think I can read that book because I have a weird hatred for the song.

[Petra]

Flora wrote: "Alex wrote: "Middlesex is one of my favorite books ever!"

I'm glad to hear that it, the reviews that I have read have given me hight hopes. I've just started so I haven't formed an opinion yet."


I really enjoyed Middlesex as well. I thought the story was rich and entertaining.

[Clare]

Just started Scott Westerfield's YA Dystopian series Uglies. It's good. Not GREAT, but good.

[Kelly]

I just started the bookAt First Sightby Nicholas Sparks

[Tess]

Joel, I love every single David Mitchell book. Black Swan Green is semi-autobiographical. I loved it, but then I grew up about 7 miles away from Mitchell in a small village (with a village green) and moved to Cheltenham when I was 12.

I read his books in order though: Ghostwitten, No. 9 Dream, Cloud Atlas, BSG and finished The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet last month. BSG is definitely a departure from his other books that's true. They are all wonderful, but my favourites are No. 9 Dream and Cloud Atlas.

[Tess]

I'm reading The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey. It's on the Shortlist for the Orange Prize, one of my favourite awards.

[Mary]

Tess wrote: "I'm reading The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey. It's on the Shortlist for the Orange Prize, one of my favourite awards."

Oh, that sounds good, Tess.

I just finished Spoken from the Heart and am going to start Every Last One.

[Adina]

I'm reading , and so far am in love with it. It seems to be one of those books that, judging from reviews, people either LOVE or HATE. I find it hard not to laugh out loud when I read it in public :)

[Natalie]

Alex - I read where Middlesex is your favorite book. I read it in 2008 and said this about it: “Interesting – was it real? I got impatient half way through with “Get to the Point”. If its the same "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides that I have on my bookshelf, I will reread and give it another try.

[Sasha]

Yeah, same Middlesex. It's a little bit of a love / hate book (although not as polarizing as Confederacy of Dunces, Adina!), so I'm not sure a second reading will change your mind. But I certainly loved it.

[Ruby]

I thought Middlesex was okay, but not nearly as good as I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb. A better book along the same lines, in my opinion.

[KHoopMan]

Lori Ann: I just read The Bell Jar this year. I thought it was amazing, let me know what you think!

Natalie: Middlesex is one of my favorite books, also. I was definitely in love with it by the halfway point though...I think it's worth the extra effort!

[Maria]

Madeline wrote: "I just started I Was Told There'd Be Cake which is bizarre and funny.

I'm another on the Dumas love train! I've only read Monte Cristo, but I'll get around to his others sooner..."

i read this in the fall for my library book club....i really thought the essays in the first half of the book were much better than the later ones. towards the end they got a little odd, in my opinion. as you said, very funny overall!

[Maria]

Petra wrote: "Flora wrote: "Alex wrote: "Middlesex is one of my favorite books ever!"

I'm glad to hear that it, the reviews that I have read have given me hight hopes. I've just started so I haven't formed an..."

i've actually read this twice, i liked it that much. it was better the second time around, and i liked it so much the first time, that's saying something. i learned a lot reading that, which is why i liked it so much, i think.

[Maria]

i picked up a pile of books from the library tonight, and i can't remember what everything is. however, i did start in on The Next Best Thing by Kristan Higgins, and it's ok so far.

[Marti]

I am about half way through reading Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. I am finding the book charming and enjoying the main characters.

[Sherrie]

Finished The Map of True Places (5 stars) and What the Dead Know (NOT 5 stars).
Started the audio version of Push today, and am still working on Reading Lolita in Tehran for bookclub next week. Any encouraging words for me on this one? It's going so slowly.

[Madeline]

Maria wrote: "Madeline wrote: "I just started I Was Told There'd Be Cake which is bizarre and funny.

I'm another on the Dumas love train! I've only read Monte Cristo, but I'll get around to hi..."

I've almost finished it now. A couple of the essays have been eh (like the construction, the moving and the butterflies) but overall I think she's pretty funny and I enjoy her quirky imagination and somewhat painful honesty.

[Marsha]

Geez... I was off for a year with very little damage to my out of control TBR and I'm looking at this old thread and it is setting my trigger to add large numbers of books all at once again. TNBBC turns me into a binge TBR user. This could become a problem.

[Claire]

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

[Ron]

I always have two books going. Current reads:

The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories - P. G. Wodehouse

[Ron]

Claire wrote: "Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë"

Surprisingly, I really enjoyed Wuthering Heights. I always thought it was more of a book for girls (not that there is anything wrong with that, but...); however it turned out to be quite dark and not sappy at all... much better than I expected.

I'd like to hear your opinion when you finish.

[Sasha]

I've read I Know This Much Is True, and I remain firmly in the Middlesex camp. I think we should have a Eugenides vs. Lamb rumble, like that first scene in Gangs of New York.

[Ann from S.C.]

I finished HONOLULU and gave it 5 stars. Now am reading STONES FROM THE RIVER by Ursula Hegi.

[Bridgit]

El wrote: "I'm finally actually reading The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession now, instead of just talking about reading it like I have been for the past few wee..."

Glad to hear you really liked the style of Lost City of Z, El.

I am starting that in the next day or so for my book club. Right now I am reading The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle, in which the main character, Professor Challenger is supposedly based off of the Percy Fawcett that The Lost City of Z is about. We are going to attempt to compare the fictional and non-fictional version of the two narratives. Should be interesting. Am about halfway through with ACD's book and am finding it very interesting to read a non-Sherlock Holmes tale by him. Still the same sort of style, but with this irascible yet brilliant zoologist.

[Sasha]

Oh cool Bridgit! Reading Lost City of Z made me want to do exactly what you're doing now. Awesome idea. I've never read anything non-Holmes by Conan Doyle either.

[Linda]

Adina wrote: "I'm reading , and so far am in love with it. It seems to be one of those books that, judging from reviews, people either LOVE or HATE. I find it hard not ..."

Adina: I listened to this books on my MP3 player and weighing in "I Loved It". Totally hilarious; kept me wanting to hear more.

[Lianne]

I've started reading China Mieville's Perdido Street Station a few days ago and started reading Ann Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance last night =)

[Maria]

i finished The Next Best Thing by Kristan Higgins, and started Hope in a Jar by Beth Harbison.

[Joel]

Li wrote: "I've started reading China Mieville's Perdido Street Station a few days ago..."

I picked up a copy of this a few months back after reading The City & The City. I want to read it but I gather it is a love/hate thing based on what I have read. What do you think so far?

[Natalie]

I'm still reading and taking notes on Croatia: A Nation Forged in War, Second Edition, by Marcus Tanner; finished readingThis Body of Death: An Inspector Lynley Novel by Elizabeth George; and beginning to read The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong, which I thought I had read but now I see I read just the first two chapters.

[Sydney]

Just finished Every Which Way But Dead
and now I am excited to read Cheat the Grave. Glass of wine is poured, now time to curl up and read!!!

[Madeline]

I finished I Was Told There'd Be Cake and enjoyed it, sending it to my friend in New York. Now I'm starting her next book How Did You Get This Number which I won in a giveaway. So far I like it a little more. I feel like her writing style has settled in bit more comfortably.

[Claire]

Gosh, I feel like I read at a snail's pace compared to all of you guys/gals here on Goodreads. I'm still reading.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and enjoying it. I've about 100 pages to go.