What are you reading? Showing 22,501-22,550 of 28,901

[Flora]

I'm finding The Blind Assassin to be very different from Oryx and Crake. Its certainly not drawing me in as quickly, that not to say I don't like it. I haven't gotten far enough into it yet to make a decision.

[Mary]

I finished Room - 5 stars - couldn't put it down.

Hard to decide what to read next. I am thinking about The Forgotten Garden.

[Lillie]

That is one book I cannot wait for!

Mary wrote: "I finished Room - 5 stars - couldn't put it down.

[Steph]

Mary wrote: "I finished Room - 5 stars - couldn't put it down.

Hard to decide what to read next. I am thinking about The Forgotten Garden."

I felt the same way! I think it is totally worthy of the Booker prize. But then again I haven't read the other books on the short list.

[Ruby]

Kitty wrote: "Flora wrote: "Just finished The Quiet American. It was definitely not what I expected and I loved it.

Now moving on to The Blind Assassin"

Glad you liked it. Try some mor..."

I second the Graham Greene. My personal favorites are

The Honorary Consul and The Ministry of Fear: An Entertainment, but probably The Power and the Glory and Brighton Rock are the most amazing generally.

[Madeline]

Ooh Ruby you read Inanna? I've been pretty much feeling like I'm the only one! It is amazingly good isn't it?

[Anne]

I've just started reading Ms. Hempel Chronicles.

[Ruby]

Madeline wrote: "Ooh Ruby you read Inanna? I've been pretty much feeling like I'm the only one! It is amazingly good isn't it?"

YES! It is sort of mind-blowing to be able to relate so much to a person from SUCH a long time ago. Enheduanna seems like someone I would like. :)

[Gitte]

Flora wrote: "I'm finding The Blind Assassin to be very different from Oryx and Crake. Its certainly not drawing me in as quickly, that not to say I don't like it. I haven't gotten far ..."

Yes, they're very different - Atwood's work tend to vary a lot. It also took me a while to really like The Blind Assassin.

[Joanie]

Emily wrote: "I stopped by the library today. My boyfriend was sitting using his computer, so I had lots of time to just roam around looking at stuff. I accidentally went a little crazy. Here's what I ended up w..."

This happens to me all the time! I end up taking out way more books than I can read in the allotted time but I just can't stop myself!

Here's my list of books currently checked out from the library:
Dark Tide:The Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Commencement
Secrets of Peaches
Soul of a Chef
Remains of the Day

Audio Books:
A Touch of Dead
Dead and Gone
Dead in the Family
Good Omens

I remember walking to the library as a kid and the librarian giving me a paper shopping bag to carry my books home because I had checked out so many. Now I have a canvas bag I bought at the library-I have a problem!

[Patricia]

I finished South of Broad by Pat Conroy and now moved on to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

[Sasha]

Have you read Alice before, Patricia? One of my favorites.

[Jayme]

That book sounds cool, Jo. I love the first sentence of the description. Any book described as "beer-soaked" has to be good, right?

[Leslie T.]

Ulysses is killing me, so I've decided to take a break and now I'm reading The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[Jamaie]

Reading How Not To Make a Wish. Not bad so far. About a woman moving on..and that's all I'll say for now. (:

[Jayme]

I love being offended. Might have to put it on the list, Jo. Thanks.

[Ruby]

Joanie wrote: "Emily wrote: "I stopped by the library today. My boyfriend was sitting using his computer, so I had lots of time to just roam around looking at stuff. I accidentally went a little crazy. Here's wh..."

As I recall I used to whine at my father to take me to the library (my mom was the reader in the family) because I could use him as a pack animal! Have fun with Good Omens! It was one that everyone passed around in high school in our crowd, and I still love it.

[Rosabelle]

Finished reading I Am the Messenger.. loved loved loved it.. and now i'm currently reading Smoke and Mirrors by Tanya Huff.. looks like it's better than the first one.. didn't particularly like the first one..

[Karen]

Die for You by Lisa Unger

[Petra]

Leslie T. wrote: "Ulysses is killing me, so I've decided to take a break and now I'm reading The Picture of Dorian Gray."

One definitely needs to take breaks while reading Ulysses. I tried to set a minimum of pages to read each day. I could (and often did) read more but I tried not to read less.
As I read Ulysses (and started to get the hang of the story), I wondered why Joyce made the story so difficult for the reader to read. It's really a good and positive story but it's hidden under so many literary experimentation (?? is this what Joyce was doing??) and lots & lots of convoluted wordings.

[Maria]

i finished Haunt Me Sill today. it was different. the end let me down a bit, i will say that. she leaves it open for a third book with these characters, and i'm hoping that if she does write one, it's with a better ending. there was so much build up and crazy action, that the way things ended was a drag. i didn't read the first one, Interred With Their Bones and i do plan on going back to it, i just hope it isn't as unsatisfying at the end.

the next book i'll be picking up is Grave Goods. i love this particular series, so i'm excited to start it.

[Irene]

just started
this series had a slow start but each book is better than the one before

[Julie]

Lori will be happy to know that I just started Blindness :-)

[Linda]

I am reading I'd Know You Anywhere. So far interesting although I must admit I don't understand some of the main character's actions. It does make me think though.

[Sasha]

Yay Blindness! Such a great book.

[Patricia]

Alex wrote: "Have you read Alice before, Patricia? One of my favorites."

Nope, my experience with Alice has been limited to the Disney version. I'm enjoying it so far. A quick, silly read.

[Petra]

I finished The Girls last night. I found it to be a touching, loving, sad, humerous and "real" story. It touched on a lot of emotions. It's written as a memoir about cojoined twins with each girl writing different chapers. The author did a marvelous job of giving each girl a voice and character and writing style. One gets to know each girl as a seperate personality and individual.
This is a story that will stay with me for awhile.

I've now started Still Alice.

[Janny]

I am finding Maiden Voyage fascinating, and far better than I thought - I love sailing with a passion, and have read plenty of offshore voyagers, before this one. The combination of Tania's extreme youth (age 18) and her 26 foot sloop and her cat on an around the world voyage has given this one a fresh flavor. Her effort took place two decades ago, before the current rash of news coverage on the young women sailors who were lately in the spotlight.

[Sasha]

Wait, she brought a cat with her? Ha!

[Esther]

I'm reading Once Bitten by Trina M. Lee.
At the moment I have an almost pathological need to read but I don't have a lot of time so I am 'hoovering' through all the short books.

[Madeline]

Ruby wrote: "YES! It is sort of mind-blowing to be able to relate so much to a ..."

That's exactly how I felt! Astonished that she could be so relevant. She was obviously such a force of personality. I have a feeling living around her in a temple would have been like living in a whirlwind!

Now I'm reading Anne of Windy Poplars, I've been slowly making my way through the series. Abrupt difference between these two! Intense and Savage to sweet and delicate (comparitively).

[Linda]

Petra wrote: "I finished The Girls last night. I found it to be a touching, loving, sad, humerous and "real" story. It touched on a lot of emotions. It's written as a memoir about cojoined twins wit..."

Enjoy Still Alice, it's a wonderful book.

[Maria]

Petra wrote: "I finished The Girls last night. I found it to be a touching, loving, sad, humerous and "real" story. It touched on a lot of emotions. It's written as a memoir about cojoined twins wit..."

i loved The Girls, i read it last summer. it did have a good amount of believability to it, which isn't always the case in fiction. glad you liked it!

[Madeline]

Alex wrote: "Wait, she brought a cat with her? Ha!"

Poor cat! Lord... I would not want to be trapped on the ocean in a small boat with a cat. ><

[Linda]

Since I am reading from a kindle now I find myself reading more than one book at a time. It is so easy to move from one to another that it seems natural. Has anyone else found this to be true for them too? I am reading Voyager, Sworn To Silence, and The Woman in White. Woman in White is slow for me. It took three pages (on my kindle) just to describe Laura! I hope it starts moving faster soon. I gave up on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. After 125 pages I didn't care about anyone enough to finish. I don't get the hype at all.

[Linda]

Linda wrote: "Since I am reading from a kindle now I find myself reading more than one book at a time. It is so easy to move from one to another that it seems natural. Has anyone else found this to be true for t..."

I read more than one book since owning a Kindle too. I also have dozens of samples downloaded to try out, love this feature. I liked Sworn to Silence (and the sequel), but I also liked All of Larsson's books (3rd one being weakest and my least favorite).

[Linda]

I just started The Yellow House: A Novel and so far it is a very compelling read.

[Sasha]

Linda, I have that temptation on the Kindle too! I fight it as hard as I can, because I feel like if I gave in it would ruin me.

Other Linda, I also download sample chapters compulsively. That part is great. Sometimes I'm not sure what to read next, so I just read all the samples I've got until one grabs me and won't let go. Great marketing tool!

I've just finished Don Quixote, which I thought was a heartbreaking work of staggering genius (what up Dave Eggers); now I'm starting Huck Finn, for the first time since puberty. Looking forward to it.

[Ruby]

Madeline wrote: "Ruby wrote: "YES! It is sort of mind-blowing to be able to relate so much to a ..."

That's exactly how I felt! Astonished that she could be so relevant. She was obviously such a force of perso..."

I am also a big L. M. Montgomery fan - been rereading them all for a long time. The last four in the Anne series - the two about her marriage, the one from the point of view of the children/neighbor children, and the one about the Great War that ends the series, are some of my absolute favorites. I also love the Pat books, the Story Girl books,
A Tangled Web, and above all my top fave, The Blue Castle.

I'm dying to read her collected journals that have now been published, and a biography or two, none of which I've gotten my paws on yet. :)

[Janny]

I finished Tania Aebi's Maiden Voyage - it was delightful.

And actually, cats do extremely well on sailboats, if they are brought up as kittens. I can easily see why she took her cat, having sailed offshore for quite a few passages in small sailboats - the companionship would be invaluable on a long, hard voyage alone.

[Claire]

Petra wrote: "Claire wrote: "Oh good, The Blind Assassin is on my tbr......the only one I've read of hers is The Handmaid's Tale and I loved that...."

Claire, the world of Margaret Atwood's books is a great p..."

Thanks for the recommendation of Oryx and Crake, Petra. I almost bought it a few weeks ago when I was in Barnes & Noble but opted for another book. I'll have to get it ----- I'm excited to delve into more of M. Atwood's books.

[Emily]

I just finished Little Black Book of Stories, which was a pretty good short story collection by A.S. Byatt. I am currently reading The Good Daughters: A Novel and The Haunting of Hill House. Next on the list is Their Eyes Were Watching God, in honor of banned book week, and The Art of Devotion, which I just ordered from paperbackswap.

[Alisha Marie]

I just finished Winter's Bone and I thought it was great. It was bleak and depressing, but pretty much amazing. I'm still reading In Cold Blood and am going to start A City of Ghosts: Stories which was a First Reads win.

[tiasreads]

Madeline wrote: "Alex wrote: "Wait, she brought a cat with her? Ha!"

Poor cat! Lord... I would not want to be trapped on the ocean in a small boat with a cat. ><"

My aunt & uncle are remodeling a sailboat to live on & they will be taking their cat onboard. Their 15 lb., 8-yr-old cat, who has never been on a boat in his life, who is used to roaming the neighborhood whenever he pleases. That just doesn't seem fair to me- taking a cat out of his habitat & sticking him on a boat.

I just finished The Kite Runner and am now half-way through The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Both are really good!

[PDXReader]

I really liked Still Alice. I've learned a lot from many books over the years, but this is one of the few that I can say added to my understanding of a subject or situation. I also appreciated that it wasn't overly sentimental.

Finished Blindness and The Age of Innocence. On to a review book by David Grossman, To the End of the Land, and a light mystery, the second in a series by Louise Penny.

[Sasha]

Claire, give me a holler when you get around to Oryx and Crake. It's very high on my read list too, so if I can I'll come along with you.

[Claire]

Alex wrote: "Claire, give me a holler when you get around to Oryx and Crake. It's very high on my read list too, so if I can I'll come along with you."

Sounds good, Alex. I may try to read a scary book for halloween but will put Oryx & Crake high on my list and will let ya know.

[Jason]

Currently reading The House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne. Better than I expected. I'm enjoying it more than The Scarlet Letter (although, to be fair, I've only ever read Scarlet Letter when it was assigned to me in high school so I might appreciate it more now).

After this I'm planning to read Blindness by Jose Saramago.

[Kristin]

I am reading and .
and I just finished last night. and started Art of Racing last night and im already almost done with it, only about 40-50 more pages to go, i'll finish it before bed I wanted some quality computer time first haha.
Im really enjoying it so far and I can't wait to get to the end to see how it ends.. even though i'm sure I can already guess.. Then I need to put my mind to finishing Society of S, It's a good book but a little more detailed than I thought it was going to be and I guess my mind just wasn't in the mood for that kind of writing at the time.

[Emily]

I just finished The Haunting of Hill House. It was really surreal and just strange. I'm going to need some time to think about it before I give a more coherent review than that.
I'm currently reading Cassandra Rising, an anthology of Science Fiction short stories written by women. The first one was really good, so I have high hopes for the rest.