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   I'm almost finished with Morning Star by Desiree Finkbeiner. Its not bad but a little too pure for my tastes.
      I'm almost finished with Morning Star by Desiree Finkbeiner. Its not bad but a little too pure for my tastes.
     Riley wrote: "Suzanne C wrote:
      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.
 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.
      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.
     The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew - not bad at all!
      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
 I just started reading The Submission, by Amy Waldman, which is one of the three finalists for the One Book One Lincoln.
      I just started reading The Submission, by Amy Waldman, which is one of the three finalists for the One Book One Lincoln.
     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."
      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.
 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.
      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.
     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.
      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.
     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 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.
 Yesterday, I finished reading Seven Up by Janet Evanovich and today I've started The Client by John Grisham.
      Yesterday, I finished reading Seven Up by Janet Evanovich and today I've started The Client by John Grisham.
     I just finished The Moment:  by Douglas Kennedy this is my review www.goodreads.com/review/show/335636057
      I just finished The Moment:  by Douglas Kennedy this is my review www.goodreads.com/review/show/335636057
     Finishing Jeeves And Wooster Omnibus and rereading One For The Moneyplus finishing teaching 150 freshman To Kill a Mockingbird- life is good!
      Finishing Jeeves And Wooster Omnibus and rereading One For The Moneyplus finishing teaching 150 freshman To Kill a Mockingbird- life is good!
     I just started reading an ARC of The League of Strays by L.B.Schulman...
      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
 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.
      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.
     One hundred years of solitude and Night by Elie Wiesel.
      One hundred years of solitude and Night by Elie Wiesel.For more reviews check out http://asolitarypassion.blogspot.com/
 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.
      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.
     Started an historic romance which is not one of my usual genres but I do occasionally like something a bit different.
      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
 
     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
      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
     Hiba wrote: "One hundred years of solitude and Night by Elie Wiesel.
      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.
 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.
      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.
     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!
      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!
     I'm currently reading Dark Kiss by Michelle Rowen which I will later review on... http://teenyreader.blogspot.co.uk/
      I'm currently reading Dark Kiss by Michelle Rowen which I will later review on... http://teenyreader.blogspot.co.uk/
     Chris wrote: "I am reading F Scott Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and the Damned." It's damn beautiful!"
      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.
 I've finished reading The Client by John Grisham last night and now I'm reading Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon.
      I've finished reading The Client by John Grisham last night and now I'm reading Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon.
     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.
      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.
     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.
      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.
     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.
      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.
     Since my last update:
      Since my last update:Finished:
 Worth Dying For,
 Worth Dying For, 
   61 Hours and
 61 Hours and 
   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.
 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
 The Rose GardenI 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 -- I just love the ghost. And I like how the author has sort of cleverly expanded his abilities. Be reading more of these.
 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 which I was able to read without a pang now that I know the series isn't ending and the new one is out!
 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 which is enthralling although I'm taking it slow and reading other things alongside,
 11/22/63 which is enthralling although I'm taking it slow and reading other things alongside, One Shot -said I was on a Reacher trip... And
 One Shot -said I was on a Reacher trip... And 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.
 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.
     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.
      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.
     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.
      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.
     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 :)))
      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 :)))
    
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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.