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I'm going to start House of Leaves and Animal HOuse. I am hoping by Friday just want to finish two other books first. I am just reading too many books at one time.

[Maria]

i just finished Daddy's Girls, not sure what i'm going to hit next. i have 2 from the library on my table, and two that i bought a few weeks ago that i could read. i'll have to see what i'm in the mood for. i'm trying to hit 50 by the end of the year, but i only started in august, so i'm trying to get some lighter reads in!

[Sherry]

I finished Fallentoday and I think I'll read Of Mice and Men next.I got it in the mail today and I've been looking forward to reading it again ever since I read Cannery Row.Gotta love Steinbeck!

[KHoopMan]

I finished The Ruins last night; I was totally engrossed in that book! It picks up and never lets go. I didn't think I would like it, but it was a gift so I gave it a shot. Fantastic book!

[Melissa]

Let's see, I'm currently reading about four different books -- the one on the forefront is Curse of the Spellmans. Hopefully I can get started on Dracula this weekend.

[Catamorandi]

I am reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. I am very far into it, but I can tell that it is going to be a good book.

[Lori, Super Mod]

I finished Death With Interruptions a few minutes ago. Such a great book! This is why he is one of my favorite authors!!!!

Going to start on the group read tonite, Dracula... Time to get my halloween on!

[Connie]

Hi Ann: Funny, I actually liked Pi more before he got on the boat. Don't really recall why. Maybe it was all the lists he made (at least I think he made lost of lists, been a while since I read it). Glad you're liking it though. It's always nice when a book turns around like that. I'm still waiting for it to happen with The Historian.

[Connie]

Lori: Sorry if this is a repeat. Can never remember what I've said and to whom. "Saturday" was such a bore. Wasn't it supposed to be like some thriller or something? All this excitement that happens in one day. Bleh. I wanted to tear my eyelashes out one by one!

Have you read any of his other books? I've hesitated reading Atonement, but I hear it is night and day compared to Saturday.

[Catamorandi]

I am also reading "Callander Square by Anne Perry.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Connie,

I wouldnt read another book by that man if someone PAID me to. Saturday was my sleep aid. Five minutes of reading induced such heavy eyelids in me, that I would just conk out! There were MAYBE 20 solid pages, where something interesting happened. It would have done sooo much better as a short story. A very.short.story.
(A-hem)

[Angela]

Leslie- I listened to "A Long Way Down" also and liked it very much. I like the idea of reading a book together with your boyfriend. What a great idea!

[Angela]

Melissa- let me know what you think about Love is a Mix Tape. I just picked it up at the library, so I'm curious to see what othes think.

[Angela]

Marsha- watch the Masterpiece Theater version of Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth. (It was also the inspiration for the Darcy character in Bridget Jones' Diary.) It is so worth it...plus, I love Colin Firth. He is not conventionally handsome, but there is something about him that is so appealing. Anyway, I digress...I loved On Chesil Beach. However, I had a difficult time getting through Atonement, although I liked the movie. I think that you have to get through the beginning and stick with it in order to appreciate it fully.

[Mandy]

I decided I will read The Stand, meant to just flick through last night to see if I'd like it but before I knew it 67 pages were gone and I think it should hopefully be a pretty quick read even given the amount of pages.

[Angela]

Ooops- I meant the A & E version of Pride and Prejudice. I was daydreaming about Colin....

[Kellie]

Saved by Grace.
There is another thread out there called "Book Related Quirks" You will find many other folks that love to smell their books and do other things with them too!! :)
You are not alone.

[Krista]

bnoir,

I finished The Heart Shaped Box and last week and really enjoyed. There are about 100 pages in the middle where it kind of started to drag for me, but stick with it and you shouldn't be disappointed.

[Krista]

Oops! Forgot to mention I'm still working through Dracula. When I first read this (several years ago) it went pretty quick. Not sure why I'm not as into it this time. I don't really remember anything so it's like reading it for the first time. Just not doing it for me, though. Hmphf!

[Marsha]

Angela- I have the Colin Firth version too and I like it best for authenticity- but for beauty- I just love the last version of P & P. The scenery is breathtaking, and I love the score. I know they change a lot- but not so much as to really bug me. Besides, the scene where Darcy meets her in the morning at sunrise is just devastating (even if it is not in the book :) I watched the old version with Laurence Olivier sp? a few weeks ago and that was a great movie too.

I am not enjoying Atonement as much as Chesil Beach. I admire a good vocabulary and I like an author who will make be stretch- but the language seems overdone in Atonement- and it bothers me. I feel like I'm in a spinning class when for a good read I want yoga. It detracts from the story, which should always be the main thing in my book.

[toria (vikz writes)]

There's no nicer smell.

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I just finished The Hotel New Hampshire Tuesday and went on to Dracula. So far it seems to be a slow read but I am not very far into it. I trust it will pick up speed.

[Linda]

Saved by Grace, So smelling the books has not been my thing, but there are times when I take a pause in reading and just run my hands over the smooth cover of the book while I think about what I just read. Then it's back to reading.

Oh, by the way, glad to have you with us.

[Linda]

Eliza, I read The Ruins awhile ago and got the same vibe you have. There were times when it got a bit too dark for me, but never contemplated not finishing it. Trouble with that book was that I could just about see and feel what was going on in it at times. Too much sensory overload if you know what I mean.

[Linda]

OCD alert! Someone mentioned Dirty Job by Christopher Moore, so, of course, I had to run out and get it. The good news was that I traded in some books and didn't have to pay a dime for it. Oh, btw, thank you whoever mentioned this book. 70 pages in and moving right along.

[Erin]

Angela, I am with you on Colin Firth/Mr. Darcy. I just love him. I listened to the audio of Bridget Jones Diary and it had me laughing out loud when she interviews Colin and asks him repeatedly about the scene with his shirt all wet. (can't remember if that was the first book or second).

Anyone watch HBO series Rome? I almost fell out of my chair when I realized the guy who plays goofy Bingley in A&E version of P&P is Octavius (Octavian? I shouldn't be trying to think before second cup of coffee) in that series. It was like seeing Peter Pan play Braveheart.

[Erin]

Oh, Mandy, you are going to love The Stand. I think it was his best book ever. I listened to th audio of King's On Writing and he talks about how people still tell him that it was his best book and how that's a bit of sucker punch because who wants to hear that the book they wrote 20 years ago (and 20some books ago) was the best of them all. But I don't care. I think The Stand was flat out brilliant.

[Mimmi]

Aimeee,
I also have the Poisonwood Bible on my TBR pile. It looks real interesting. Let me know ho wit goes.

I just finished The Book of Lies and OMG! I loved it more than I would think. Yeah so I was a bit biased because he is the new writer for the Justice League, but the book was real good and it had some real inspiring quotes about life and how to always write out your own story, because everyone has a story to tell...

I am in the middle of the Left Behind series books, I am on # 3 , Nicholae. They are good, but I took a break from them.

I just started the Heretic's Daughter. So far , about 20 pgs in, its okay, nothing is really drawing me in yet.

[Connie]

Lori: I kinda feel that way, too. But then I think of Margaret Atwood and how the first book I tried of hers (The Blind Assassin) was so grueling, and in fact, I never did finish it after several attempts. I decided to give her another try and picked up "A Handmaid's Tale". I ended up loving it! I now want to read everything she has written. Isn't that funny?

Don't get me wrong, I totally get where you're coming from, and that's why I'm still on the fence about reading another McEwan book...because it was just so, SO, bad!

[Connie]

Let's see...I am still reading Economic Facts & Fallacies. Am nearly finished with The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Started and finished Anthem yesterday (very short book).

[Paula]

I'm reading a YA right now called "City of Masks" Mary Hoffman. It's ok so far, not really pulling me to get back to it soon but I'm still early on. It's a time travel.

[Liz]

I am reading "Frankenstein", that is my commuting book, the books writing is too small though, it may take me a while.

At work I'm reading "Number the Stars", a YA Newberry winner. I'm going to be reading a few of these so I can recommend them to my daughter.

[Ann from S.C.]

I finished LIFE OF PI and i am so glad I did. I picked this up a year or so ago and could not get into it. Well, thanks to all of you, I kept with it, and I loved it!! I love Pi!!! And Richard Parker! I told my boys (all 3) that one of the main charachters of the book I was reading was a tiger and they were so excited because that is the mascot of their favorite college football team. GO CLEMSON TIGERS!!! Anyway, I am so glad I stayed up until 2am finishing this book!!

Now, I am really getting into THE PRESERVATIONIST by David Maine (thank you Lori!). I reallylike his books!!

Then, I am also starting HOUSE OF LEAVES.

[Heather]

Right now I'm reading Joe College by Tom Perrotta and The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. I've kind of been in a book funk for the past week.. I need to snap out of it so I can begin Dracula!

[Lori, Super Mod]

Linda, Dirty Job was one of our group reads a few months back, be sure to visit the discussions thread on it when you are done! Christopher Moore at some of his best!

Ann... I would never steer a fellow reader wrong. Maine does a great job at breathing souls into his characters. I really felt for Noah in this book. Such faith and trust in something he cant see or feel, all the while being teased and made fun of.... That is beyond me!

[Emma]

Finished Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist! I loved it.

[Jaime]

Glad to hear that you also enjoyed it Emma...It was a lot funnier than I had expected.

[Sherry]

Ann,would love to hear what you think of The Preservationist. After reading The Fallen I put it as well as The Book of Samson on my immediate to buy list.

I finished Of Mice and Men today and I'm starting A Clockwork Orange.

[Chloe]

Jaime and Emma, is Nick and Nora's... a movie adaptation book or was it a book before it was a movie?

[Donna]

OK I tried to read All the Pretty Horses But I don't I am into at the moment. Maybe at another time. But now I am reading Real World by Natsuo Kirino

[Jaime]

Logan- The book was written in 2006...the movie comes out tomorrow (@least around here that is)

[Chloe]

Nice, I'll have to check it out then. I'm not a fan of books adapted from movies, but if the book came first then it's likely to be entertaining.

[Emma]

Yeah, the swearing was awfully amusing too.

[Catamorandi]

Nick and Nora were also in several movies in the 1930's. William Powell and Myrna Loy starred.

[Andrew]

Liz....both Number the Stars and Frankienstien are both great books. I hoep you enjoy them both

[Kristie]

Tomorrow I am starting to re-read Choke. I want to re-read it before I see the movie.

[Cynthia]

Just finished The Heretic's Daughter which was really interesting a very detailed historical fiction taking place in New England just before and during the Salem witch Trials. I really enjoyed it...took awhile to read just because I've been distracted lately.

Next is Belle in the Big Apple: A Novel with Recipes.

[Pam]

I am reading "Confessions of a Contractor" by Richard Murphy.

[Mandy]

Great to hear, Erin, I have heard from many that it's a fabulous book and have to say I'm hooked so far, just wish there were more hours in the day so I could read more!

[ScottK]

Currently I am still Reading Bridge of Sighs by richard Russo , its getting better. Also started Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld which I am loving so far b4ecause it reminds me of The Alienist by Caleb Carr which I think is in my top 5 of all time .