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[Flora]

Just started The Handmaid's Tale after finishing The Girl Who Played with Fire and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

[Rosabelle]

Just finished How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill, an inspiring story and makes me want to order my caramel machiato everytime i read this book :)

I'm now currently reading Me and Mr. Darcy by Alexandra Potter, while at the same time re-reading the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

[Leslie T.]

I'm listening to World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks. It's the first book I've listened to that has a full cast and I love it.

[Joanie]

Alex wrote: "Always here for you, with the Boston. :)

How're you liking Anna Karenina? I love that book."

I'm liking it much more than I thought I would and much sooner. I expected to have to plod through for a long time before the book really caught my interest but that's not the case. The problem I'm having is just having the time to read during the week. Of course if I didn't watch so much cheesy reality tv I'd probably be making a lot more progress!

The Rory Gilmore book club is reading Anna K for the months of July, August, and September so I've set myself up with a reading schedule of sorts (something I never do but figured it was worth a shot) so I can finish by the end of September.

Anne-Sarah's Key left me feeling wrung out and exhausted. It was good (except for a little part at the end) but harrowing. Definitely an important read though.

[Sasha]

Ha, World War Z has a cast? That's awesome. Fun book, too.

I have that feeling a lot, Joanie. "For a guy who loves reading, I sure did just spend three hours watching Top Chef."

[Mafi]

Garden Spells, Sarah Adisson Allen

[Maya]

I'm reading The Notebook By Nicholas Sparks I'm really enjoying it so far i just saw the movie last week i really liked it as well but i didn't really cry during it I've heard most people have bawled their eyes out but i did cry when i saw A Walk To Remember which surprised me i didn't think i would lol

[Carol]

I loved the movie didn't care for the book as much. It made a better movie than a book. haha
And you can't fault James Garner and Gena Rowland either. Who played them as a young couple I can't remember.

[Joanie]

But Top Chef is so good Alex, you can't regret it too much! I often watch tv with my book in my lap as if I'm going to read while I watch-doesn't usually happen though.

[El]

Christine, is the Gaskell a particular favorite of yours that you're re-reading it already? Or did you get distracted by a squirrel and realize you didn't absorb any of it the first time (which is easily something that could happen to me)? :)

[Lori, Super Mod]

I finished Fangland and was really underwhelmed by it. That's two in row.

Here's hoping 33 A.D. changes things.

[Maya]

Carol (Kitty) wrote: "I loved the movie didn't care for the book as much. It made a better movie than a book. haha
And you can't fault James Garner and Gena Rowland either. Who played them as a young couple I can't reme..."

Ryan Gosling as Noah and Rachel McAdams as Allie

[Carol]

Thanks Maya, they were not a memorable as James and Gena.

[Maya]

no problem :)

[Nancy]

Hi Lori,

I just joined when I saw your post on Dexter. The books are great but the series on showtime is even better.

We have to rent it cause we don't have showtime but it's so worth it! Michael C Hall who plays Dexter is perfect for the role.

It's definitely obsession worthy!

Nancy

[Nancy]

Hi Lori,

I just joined when I saw your post on Dexter. The books are great but the series on showtime is even better.

We have to rent it cause we don't have showtime but it's so worth it! Michael C Hall who plays Dexter is perfect for the role.

It's definitely obsession worthy!

Nancy

[Nancy]

The Magic of Ordinary Days (A. Creel)

This was an awesome book! I saw this noted as to read by recynd.

You will love it. Looking forward to your take on it.

Nancy

[Felina]

Leslie wrote: "I'm listening to World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks. It's the first book I've listened to that has a full cast and I love it."

I've read the book a few times and listened to the audiobook a few times and I just love that book. Its unfortunate that the audio is abridged so there are a few stories from the book that got left out. Still love hearing Alan Alda in there.

[Matt]

I'm currently reading It by Stephen King. I've always loved his style and the genre in general. I'm about halfway through, and I plan to read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell after.

[for-much-deliberation]

Matt wrote: "I'm currently reading It by Stephen King. I've always loved his style and the genre in general. I'm about halfway through, and I plan to read [book:Jonathan Strange &..."

Wow Matt, 'It' is one of my favourites its great that you're enjoying it.

[for-much-deliberation]

I'm currently juggling between 'Catch-22' and 'Sphere'.

[Dawnette]

I am reading The Dante Club and Ghost Story. I am surprised at how much the two are alike, I am listening to one in my car reading one at home. Both include a group of older, successful, intelligent men in a sort of "club" and strange mysterious happenings, and murder.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Erika wrote: "Lori wrote: "I finished Fangland and was really underwhelmed by it. That's two in row.

Here's hoping 33 A.D. changes things."

33 A.D. is an interesting concept. I'm..."

Will do Erika. I am only a few pages in at the moment, but I will let you know what I think as I go.

[Ann from S.C.]

Petra wrote: "Ann from S.C. wrote: "Just started SARAH'S KEY by Tatiana De Rosnay. It is very intense. (This is while I am still plodding through 2666.)"

Oh dear.....an intense book while reading 2666! That's..."

I am still in part 1!

[Maria]

i read Lulu in Marrakech by Diane Johnson today. it was not that great. based on the title, and even the description on the jacket, i expected something lighter, maybe funnier even. however, it was fairly serious, and this would have been ok, but it wasn't very well done. the main character was not developed correctly, i thought, and i felt like we never got to see the real her. if there is a follow up to this book, which wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility, then maybe her character will be better developed further. otherwise, this one was a bust.

[Maureen]

I'm about half-way through with The Singer's Gun and very much enjoying it. I've also just started listening to A Mercy. Toni Morrison narrates it herself. Her voice is so soothing.

[Madeline]

That's crazy wierd Knarik, I don't know about the original but I didn't find anything of that nature in this translation. I'm googling it momentarily though, cause you've piqued my interest. The epic is phenominal though with or without the DNA! The flood portion is so similar to the biblical, but in my opinion better told, although it has been awhile since I've read the biblical. It just felt more devastating some how. (I wonder if while re-reading all these epics I read in high school I'm going to be constantly staggered by how much better they are than I'd remembered).

[Petra]

Matt wrote: "I'm currently reading It by Stephen King. I've always loved his style and the genre in general. I'm about halfway through, and I plan to read [book:Jonathan Strange &..."

I enjoyed Jonathan Strange. It was a fun, easy reading book.
I was at the Library today and the Books For Sale rack was full of Stephen King books (both hardcover and paperbacks). Guess someone cleaned out their bookshelves of all Stephen King novels.

[Petra]

Ann from S.C. wrote: "Oh dear.....an intense book while reading 2666! That's..."

I am still in part 1!..."

I'm looking forward to your thoughts on it.

[Marti]

Maria wrote: "i started, and finished, Crush on You by Christie Ridgway today. total brain candy and fluff read, but i need something easy to top off the last few books i've read.

i just came bac..."

I am looking forward to reading The Map of True Places- would love to hear about your reaction to it.

I am reading The Alexander Cipher and am quite enjoying it.

[Sue]

Finished Perfect Sax and trying to finish up The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsso I can get to Mudbound

[Mary]

I'm reading Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr; haven't read any of her other memoirs and am not crazy about this one so far, so I picked up What Is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman, which is quite good.

Er, also Infinite Jest, still.

[Sasha]

I just finished reading about Noah in the Old Testament, coincidentally; I agree with you, Madeline. Like many stories in the OT, it's a little fractured and weird. Gilgamesh tells it better.

Knarik, that's a crazy theory and sorta fun, but I don't remember anything like it in Gilgamesh either. Since flood myths exist in pretty much every culture ever, it'd be interesting to go through all of them searching for evidence.

In my opinion, any evidence found would be a push, though; these myths were written by humans with no way of knowing about DNA, so there's just no way any of it happened.

[Petra]

Alex, two novels based on Noah's story, that you might find interesting, are Not Wanted On The Voyage and The Preservationist. There's some interesting takes/interpretations in them.

[Sasha]

Ha...I love the description of the second book.

He sends his daughters-in-law out to gather animals, but offers no directions, money, or protection.

"Well, I got two cats and a dead raccoon. What's with this rain?"

[Wendy]

I'm reading The Story of Edgar Sawtelle about 100 pages in, so far I like it...

[Maya]

I have just finished Kelley Armstrong's Haunted and The Notebook By Nicholas Sparks and am currently reading Kelley Armstrong's next book Broken, Little Girl Lost By J.A Kerley and The Missing By Jane Casey

[Kristin]

I just started . I love her books, i wish they'd never end!

[Brenda]

Rosabelle wrote: "Just finished How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill, an inspiring story and makes me want to order my caramel machia..."

I just picked this book up this weekend off the bargain table. I am hoping it is a good read.

[Maria]

i started Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan today, and so far so good.

[Madeline]

Those both look good Petra, I think I'll put them on my list.

I wonder if anyone has compiled all the flood stories in to one volume? That would be pretty sweet.

Haha Alex, that seems to me about how that would go. The wives were kinda the most shafted. Their families died... suck.

[Irene]

I'm about three quarters of the way through The Mage in Black.
Have you ever been reading a book and you want to scream out loud "DON'T DO IT!!!"?
It's mostly an adventure story but there is a romance portion and the leading lady, in a moment of weakness, just had glorious sex with the wrong guy. I can already predict Mr. Right is going to find out about her little glorious indiscretion and this is not going to go well...

[Marti]

In the House of Sand and Fog - I yelled at the book as I did in the Edgar Sawtelle book...Unfortunately - it didn't change a darn thing1!!!

I am reading Summer's Child....

[Kristi]

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender

[Sue]

I'm reading Girl in Translation and loving it! What a good read this is. I love watching the main characters; they're interesting and real. I highly recommend this book.

[Patricia]

I just finished Deliverance by James Dickey. I'll preface by saying that I've never seen the movie and just heard that it was very violent. I actually thought the book was really good. It was well written. . . very descriptive. I don't want to give anything away for those who haven't read it. Thoughts anyone?

I'm now moving on to The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.

[Sue]

Kristi-How is that book? I've read mixed reviews about it and thought I may as well skip it. What do you think?

[Sasha]

I would totally read a dispassionate analysis of all the flood myths. Good idea. One of us ought to write that. :)

[Kristi]

Sue wrote: "Kristi-How is that book? I've read mixed reviews about it and thought I may as well skip it. What do you think?"

Sue, so far I'm liking it. I've only just begun it last night and after a couple hours of reading, I'm on...pg 69, I think. So, I think it's a pretty quick read. It's an easy read. Meaning it's not hard to follow, it's not chock full of big words I have to keep looking up, and the reading just flows along real nicely. It's a cute story so far too.

I always review books when I'm done with them. So I'll make sure to let you know.

[Petra]

Madeline wrote: "I wonder if anyone has compiled all the flood stories in to one volume? That would be pretty sweet. ..."

That would be an interesting volume to read.


I'm still working on 2666. Gosh, what a tome!