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message 27301: by Riley (new)

Riley Dawson Hushak Tellulah wrote: Much as I adore the book of Wicked, I found that his others didn't even come close. For me, anyway.

I felt the same way! I've read Son of a Witch, Mirror Mirror and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and I didn't like any of them nearly as much as Wicked. It was such a letdown.


message 27302: by Flora (new)

Flora Smith (bookwormflo) I'm almost finished with Morning Star by Desiree Finkbeiner. Its not bad but a little too pure for my tastes.


message 27303: by tiasreads (new)

tiasreads Riley wrote: "Suzanne C wrote:

I finished Fall of Giants last we..."

Did you like Fall of Giants? I want to read it but I'm not sure if I should commit to buying it or just go to the library. I really enjoyed..."


Riley, I really enjoyed Fall of Giants. It had it's faults, but they weren't big enough to spoil the read. Be prepared for some politics and war. The human stories were the good part.

I'm reading Wuthering Heights for the first time.


message 27304: by Ann from S.C. (new)

Ann from S.C. | 1395 comments I finished WORLD BELOW by Sue Miller and gave it a 2. Also read EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN by Janet Evanovich and loved it. Now am reading SECTOR C by Phoenix Sullivan.


message 27305: by Yuliya (last edited Jun 06, 2012 09:22PM) (new)

Yuliya (yuliyalovestoread) | 1685 comments The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew - not bad at all!
I would recommed it for whom likes The Help, The Kitchen House and Little Bee


message 27306: by Jodi (new)

Jodi | 9 comments I just started reading The Submission, by Amy Waldman, which is one of the three finalists for the One Book One Lincoln.


message 27307: by Linda (new)

Linda | 887 comments Lorraine wrote: "I'm reading Sacred by Dennis Lehane - the 3rd of the Kenzie and Gennaro series and the only one I haven't read."

I loved this one. Very intense.


message 27308: by Scott (new)

Scott | 257 comments I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Throttle. I don't know what I'm going to read next.


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Gary R | 117 comments just started Now You See Her by James Patterson by James Patterson.


message 27310: by Gary (new)

Gary R | 117 comments Gary wrote: "Soft Focus  by Jayne Ann Krentz"

just finished this one it was very good.


message 27311: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) I've just begun Fudge Cupcake Murder and am listening to Push.


message 27312: by Scott (new)

Scott | 257 comments I decided to read Double Cross: The Explosive, Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America. I'm just wondering how realistic it is since these are stories relayed to his brother.


message 27313: by Karen M (new)

Karen M | 1956 comments I'm reading The Vampire Hunter Chronicles, a bit different vampire story and good. I'm also reading Smokin' Seventeen, one to go but I'm #180 on the list and they have 25 copies available so I'll just have to be patient.


message 27314: by Callista (new)

Callista | 24 comments I started One Day by David Nicholls, since I've heard great things about it. I'm only a couple pages into it, but I'm enjoying it so far.

I also started Doomsday Book by Connie Willis and The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb, but it's slow going as of right now.


message 27315: by Aoibhínn (new)

Aoibhínn (aoibhinn) Yesterday, I finished reading Seven Up by Janet Evanovich and today I've started The Client by John Grisham.


message 27316: by Dem (new)

Dem I just finished The Moment: by Douglas Kennedy this is my review www.goodreads.com/review/show/335636057


message 27317: by PinkPanthress (new)

PinkPanthress | 1170 comments Eine kurze Geschichte der Zeit -by- Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking


message 27318: by Karen M (new)

Karen M | 1956 comments Happy, happy, getting caught up on Sookie Stackhouse series, reading: Definitely Dead Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #6) by Charlaine Harris


message 27319: by Paula (new)

Paula (paularo) | 48 comments Finishing Jeeves And Wooster Omnibus and rereading One For The Moneyplus finishing teaching 150 freshman To Kill a Mockingbird- life is good!


message 27320: by Flora (new)

Flora Smith (bookwormflo) Just started The Black God's War its really good so far.


message 27321: by Amy (new)

Amy Joynes (amyreadingalways) | 4 comments I just started reading an ARC of The League of Strays by L.B.Schulman...
The review will be up soon on http://teenyreader.blogspot.co.uk/ and goodreads :D


message 27322: by Gary (new)

Gary R | 117 comments Just started The Priest by Gerard O'Donovan


message 27323: by Riley (new)

Riley Dawson Hushak About 60% through The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America and enjoying it pretty well! For those who are looking for a murder mystery though, watch out--it tends to go into long passages about the construction of the fair, engineering, government, etc.


message 27324: by Hiba (new)

Hiba | 1 comments One hundred years of solitude and Night by Elie Wiesel.
For more reviews check out http://asolitarypassion.blogspot.com/


message 27325: by Paula (new)

Paula | 1098 comments I'm starting The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey


message 27326: by Ann from S.C. (new)

Ann from S.C. | 1395 comments I am reading LONE WOLF by Jodi Picoult and really liking it.


message 27327: by Claire (new)

Claire (clairebear8) | 514 comments I just finished The Likeness by Tana French. I love the way she writes. A very good book! Am now starting The Other Side of Suffering: The Father of JonBenet Ramsey Tells the Story of His Journey from Grief to Grace by John Ramsey.


message 27328: by Karen M (last edited Jun 12, 2012 04:49PM) (new)

Karen M | 1956 comments Started an historic romance which is not one of my usual genres but I do occasionally like something a bit different.

Heart of a Knight
Heart of a Knight by Barbara Samuel


message 27329: by Paula (new)

Paula | 1098 comments I'm also reading What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell for a f2f group next week.


message 27330: by Yuliya (new)

Yuliya (yuliyalovestoread) | 1685 comments not so bad, but kind of boring books - Looking for Peyton Place by Barbara Delinsky (hope other books by her more interesting) and even more dissapointing What Is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman just finished


message 27331: by Nicole (new)

Nicole | 41 comments Hiba wrote: "One hundred years of solitude and Night by Elie Wiesel.
For more reviews check out http://asolitarypassion.blogspot.com/"


Night is a powerful read.


message 27332: by tiasreads (new)

tiasreads I tried Wuthering Heights and put it down halfway through. What a bunch of loathsome, selfish, unsympathetic characters! Then I read Hold Tight, which was pretty entertaining.


message 27333: by David (new)

David Abrams (davidabrams) | 17 comments I've just finished reading Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War, am in the midst of Dust to Dust: A Memoir, and will start Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel shortly. It's an Iraq War trifecta!


message 27334: by Amy (new)

Amy Joynes (amyreadingalways) | 4 comments I'm currently reading Dark Kiss by Michelle Rowen which I will later review on... http://teenyreader.blogspot.co.uk/


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Chris Rakunas | 4 comments I am reading F Scott Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and the Damned." It's damn beautiful!


message 27336: by Tellulah (new)

Tellulah Darling (tellulahdarling) Chris wrote: "I am reading F Scott Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and the Damned." It's damn beautiful!"

I love Fitzgerald. Also his wife Zelda's writing as well.


message 27337: by Aoibhínn (new)

Aoibhínn (aoibhinn) I've finished reading The Client by John Grisham last night and now I'm reading Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon.


message 27338: by Lorraine (last edited Jun 15, 2012 01:37PM) (new)

Lorraine (saanichlori) I'm about half way through Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. While I find details of her life story to be hard to read, the details of hiking along on this trail are fascinating.


message 27339: by Karen M (last edited Jun 15, 2012 03:31PM) (new)

Karen M | 1956 comments We may be starting a theme here. I'm reading Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time which is about Bingham who laid claim to discovering Machu Picchu and the travel editor who many many years later followed in his footsteps/trail and then wrote this book.


message 27340: by tiasreads (new)

tiasreads I just finished The God of the Hive and am about to start The Sins of the Father.


message 27341: by Razmatus (new)

Razmatus | 23 comments The Bonehunters (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #6) by Steven Erikson already started :P


message 27342: by Gary (new)

Gary R | 117 comments I just started Red Mist (Kay Scarpetta, #19) by Patricia Cornwell by Patricia Cornwell


message 27343: by Paula (new)

Paula Now reading Linger


message 27344: by Flora (new)

Flora Smith (bookwormflo) I'm about 100 pg into Fifty Shades of Grey which I keep hoping is gonna improve. So far I don't think it lives up to all I've heard about it. I've also just started Nicholasas well as Red Leaves and the Living Token both of which I like so far.


message 27345: by Jennifer (new)

Jennifer (jhaltenburger) Since my last update:

Finished:

Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher, #15) by Lee Child Worth Dying For, 61 Hours (Jack Reacher, #14) by Lee Child 61 Hours and Persuader (Jack Reacher, #7) by Lee Child Persuader, all by Lee Child. On a Reacher roll, always like Reacher, but I have to admit reading his later books all in a row brings his recurrent formula of "town in trouble" into stark relief. I'd probably like them a teensy bit better if I spaced them out and didn't notice that so much. Hasn't stopped me from starting another one, though-- in my "currently reading," below.

The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley The Rose Garden
I liked this more than I thought I would-- I was just on the point of thinking she was going to wind it up as a typical time-travel romance when she changed it up at the end in a couple ways I never saw coming. Good book!

Finished The Ghost and the Dead Deb (Haunted Bookshop Mystery, #2) by Alice Kimberly The Ghost and the Dead Deb -- I just love the ghost. And I like how the author has sort of cleverly expanded his abilities. Be reading more of these.

Absolutely, Positively (Lucy Valentine, #3) by Heather Webber Absolutely, Positively which I was able to read without a pang now that I know the series isn't ending and the new one is out!

Currently reading:

11/22/63 by Stephen King 11/22/63 which is enthralling although I'm taking it slow and reading other things alongside,

One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9) by Lee Child One Shot -said I was on a Reacher trip... And

The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1) by Michael Connelly The Poet which I think I read about 14 years ago but have no memory of. I'm enjoying it but I think I might like Bosch better. We'll see.


message 27346: by Aoibhínn (new)

Aoibhínn (aoibhinn) I've finished reading Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon and now I'm a couple of chapters into Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James.


message 27347: by David (new)

David Abrams (davidabrams) | 17 comments I'm just starting Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: by Ben Fountain.


message 27348: by Karen M (new)

Karen M | 1956 comments Finished Heart of a Knight, historical romance which was definitely steamy. Started Death Is the Cool Night which starts with a death. Still slogging along with The Royal Victorians: King Edward Vii, His Family And Friends but made very nice progress with Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time.


message 27349: by Razmatus (new)

Razmatus | 23 comments still makes me wonder how one can read more books at once and really get into them all... I mean, doesnt it affect the reading in a way that you are not able to discover some subtleties, sometimes important ones, because your mind works on more than one book? just wondering... maybe most of you are able to do that... I for one dont venture into that territory, I just cant imagine reading more than one book with plot at pretty much the same time :)))


message 27350: by Emilly R (new)

Emilly R (rosario0829e) | 198 comments i just finished "INTERPRETER OF MALADIES"by Jhumpa Lahiri,i felt in love with this book and all the sotories in it.


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