What's the next book on your list?

[Ashley]

What's the next book you are going to read?

I'm gonna read a lesbian romance novel called "The Cottage" by Gerri Hill.

[Lori]

I have the Dexter books on my to read list next. I try not to get too far ahead of myself, as i can easily become confused and irritated, and have readers anxiety....

:)

[Tara]

My book club is going to read A Sunburned Country (I think I got that title wrong) this month for our meeting. I apologize if the title is wrong, I'm at work, listening to testimony and I'm about to fall asleep. :)

[pop]

Number 13 in Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. I just read book 12. a good one, one scene in that book is so hilarious, I could hardly read it, every line cracked me, laugh outloud funny. Evanovich had Granny, Lula, and the tall drag queen guy in one scene... side splitting funny, the main case of the book was intriguing too.

[Jessica (thebluestocking)]

I'm going to read Saturday by Ian McEwan.

[Stephanie]

As soon as I finish The Emperor's Children, it's on to How To Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young...I seem to be on a NYC-setting kick right now.

[Clayton]

Amazon just sent me my copy of 1001 Books to Read Before You Die (yeah, I am a member of that group too). Will spend tonight going through it to see if I already own some of the titles and start reading them. Anyone have suggestions of titles they enjoyed that are on that list?

[Diane]

I will next be reading a book of short stories "The Collected Stories" by Grace Palsey with my book club.
Question to Jessica - I've been interested in reading Saturday, and would love to see your review on it when you are finished.

[Julie]

i have two i'm about to start: lonesome dove by larry mcmurtry and one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez.

[Lori]

Jessica, watch out with Saturday. I read that one, but it took me forever. I ended up picking it up and putting it down like 4 different times, reading other books in between, before I finally finished it. It had really long,boring sections that just seemed pointless and drawn out. Tho the last 50 pages really picked up and kept my attention.

This book works well for those hard-to-get-to-sleep moments. It knocked me out constantly.

Hope you have better luck with it. :)

[Llama]

The next books on my list (as I never read just one) are The Shining Face by Harold Myra, The Corelian Trilogy by Roger Macbride Allen, Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis and Clouds, Woodlands and Wildflower by Robin Jones Gunn as soon as they arrive here.

[Diane]

Lori, I like that description and am thinking of adding a shelf called "Hard-to-get-to-sleep" books. LOL

[R.J.]

I'm reading Oregon authors...
so second of the Tom Martindale mysteries by Ron Lovell, as well as upcoming release AVALON by Al Lohner.

[Ashley]

I change my mind. The next book I will read is "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult, then I will finish reading "Ophelia Speaks" by Sara Shandler, and then "The Cottage" by Gerri Hill.

[Meredith]

I started The Sweet Potato Queen's 1st Big Ass Novel and put it down after only one chapter because I bought Water for Elephants and couldnt wait to start that one. I never read more than one at a time so I'll pick up the Queens when I'm done with Water.

[Ashley]

Meredith,

what is "Water for Elephants" about? It seems to be a popular book.

[Sarah]

I'm reading Peter Pan right now, and next is Peter and the Star Catchers. I'm also reading the complete Sherlock Holmes in between. I just finished A Study in Scarlet and I think the next one is The Sign of Four.

[DA]

only one?

[Meredith]

Ashley,
Water for Elephants is a story told my an elderly man living in a nursing home about his young adulthood working with a traveling circus. While I did enjoy it, I didnt feel it lived up to all the hype.

[Reza]

I'm going to start the Lover by Marguerite Duras before I read Lolita by Nabokov.

[Elizabeth]

I'm currently in My Name Is Red and the next book on my list is The Boleyn Inheritance.

[Mont'ster]

Seriously, only one? I always have *at least* two books going.

But the one that I most recently started is Growing Small Groups by Floyd Schawnz

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Middlesex is next for me.

[Jordan]

I just started Bury Me Standing, though since it's a history type book, I'll likely pick up Bergdorf Blondes and read that super quick as a lighter read to break up the heavier read. I'm also browsing through baby name books (in hopes that I'll soon have use for them).

[Art]

I've just started Rosemary Poole-Carter's newly released historical, "Women of Magdalene", and it had me engrossed from the first page. I'll definitely be writing a review of this one in a few days.

[Helen Tanaka]

Hi! I just joined this group and I have to say that One Hundred Years of Solitude is amazing! Anything my Marquez is amazing! Enjoy the read.

[J.R.]

Next on my list is the memoir, Left To Tell:Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by, Immaculee Ilibagiza

[Sheri]

I am going to start 4th of July by James Patterson.....this Woman's Murder Club series is fast paced reading - that is good because the series starts on TV this Friday and I need to read before I watch.

[J.R.]

Thank you Sheri for reminding me... I will need to Dvr because I'm in the middle of two books now. I do need to catch up the Women's Murder Club. Hopefully, the tv series compares well with the books and offers a solid storyline.

[Lighthouselover203]

I am reading the following books-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (1/3 of the way-Audio in Car) The Christmas Thief by Mary Higgins Clark (just started- Daytime Reading in house audio )Tidings of Comfort and Joy by T Davis Bunn (3 chapters into it) A Perfect Life by Mike Stewart (1/4 of the Way-bedtime reading)Finally Work Book is American Fairy Tales by L Frank Baum

[Llama]

ok, i already posted on this but i have to add that recently i was rearranging a bookshelf in my room, it is mainly for unread books, and counted 91!!!! so i have a lot of catching up to do ... thank goodness i always read more than one at a time ... and i just finished three more yesterday, so a good start

[Rachael]

I will read Eat, Pray, Love next.

[Renee]

Hi Jordan

I read Bury Me Standing about 10 years ago and found it to be a fascinating read about the history of the Roma (or as they are commonly known as Gypsies). I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on the book.

[Lori]

Got side tracked and read Weathercock by Glen Duncan before I read the Dexter books. I was on a Glen Duncan kick for awhile, and finally got my hands on that book. It turned out to be a really interesting read. (In case anyone cares!)

Today I started the first of the Dexter books. So far I like it. Does anyone watch the show? I was wondering if it follows the books at all or if watching wont interfer with my reading.... I havent started watching it yet, but I want to...

[Laura]

I'm an English major, so I have plenty on my "to-read" list but very few of those titles are ones I actually want to read! I can't wait for the semester to be over, though, because I recently got hooked on H.G. Wells and found a first edition of one of his lesser known novels, Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island.

Any Wells fans out there? I'd be curious to know if anyone else has read this (or any other Wells novels) and what they think!

[Kellie]

I have GOT to either finish The Historian or just give up on it.

And then I'd like to dive into The Subtle Knife, the second in His Dark Materials trilogy (Phillip Pullman).

But right now I need to finish Harry Potter.

[Jordan]

I couldn't resist. I set aside Bury Me Standing and did not pick up Bergdorf Blondes like I thought, I went straight for The Golden Compass. Since I'm flying through it, I should get back to Bury Me Standing in no time....

[Tara]

I finished In A Sunburned Country and then flew through The Way Life Should Be and now just started The Other Mother. So far it's good but I do find my mind wandering during some of the chapters.

Jordan, I am interested in reading The Golden Compass. What did you think of it?

[Melissa]

Lori, I watch the Dexter series on Showtime, and I like it a lot. It's certainly not for the sqeamish, with a lot of gore and all, but it has a really twisty plot and a dry and droll sense of humor.

I haven't read the books.

[Lynn]

Probably Divine by Choice by PC Cast

But maybe Beowulf: The Script Book by Neil Gaiman & Roger Avary

[Ashley]

I'm gonna finished reading "Between Us" edited by Kay Turner. Then I will continue with "Out of Love" by KG MacGregor. Finally I will read Mercy by Jodi Picoult

[Kim]

I am just starting Memoirs of a Geisha

[ScottK]

As soon as I get through The Meaning of Night I am going back to the 20th century for a bit and read The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly.

[Lori]

Im chipping away at The Double by Jose Saramago, and the next two books I purchased are Book of Samson by David Maine and Samedi the Deafness... I am not sure which will go first, but I am looking forward to both (and a break from Saramago....)

[Michelle]

My next book is Halo Parade by Bill James. Not my usual fare, but it was accidentally sent to me instead of a novel for school last year, so I got to keep it.

I'm just starting Catch-22.

[Vidya]

Its classics time for me, so at present i have already started reading or rather re reading Emma by Jane Austen and i am also starting Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Quirk of mine, need to read two books at one time, maybe more but never less!!!

[Tara]

Now my book club is reading The Hours by Michael Cunningham, which I've already read, so I'm currently reading The Boleyn Inheritance (at home) and Marie Antoinette (during my work day commute).

[Fenixbird]

(1) The Giver by Lois Lowry {i have this on cassette so I have started "listening" to it in idle moments...perhaps a few tonight (after I line up rides for tomorrow's Buddhist brunch potluck!! (Guess I'll have good book conversation!!) LOL

(2) The Book of Earth (a dragon "quartet" series of 4 I guess?) by Marjorie B. Kellogg (set in Medieval times...) This one is to cheer up my son (we lost an extremely close friend last week!!)

& (3) the Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict by Mitchell Bard, Ph.D....so that Egypt does not "scare" me too bad when i get there!!

[J.R.]

I've completed Left To Tell, Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust...excellent and inspiring!

Four more next on my list: Ring Around the Moon, by Mary Burnett Smith, Peony In Love by Lisa See, Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow by Dedra Johnson and An Ice Cold Grave by, Charlaine Harris