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I just finished with The Hunger Games trilogy and am now reading The Girl Who Played with Fire
Since I finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo so quickly I've been reading A Visit from the Goon Squad. I think I'll finish it pretty quickly, too, so then I'll probably try to make some more progress with I Know This Much Is True. It's so long!
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Did you read She's Come Undone? I just loooove it, even if most people prefer I Know This Much Is True. I read it back during my main Oprah phase and it makes me debate my blogging of YA stuff. I want to be like Oprah and suggest awesome stuff that Oprah would like.
Also, everyone should read my second fave book ever
Stones from the River because it's so frickin amazing.
Megan (Book Brats) wrote: "Did you read She's Come Undone?"Yes! That is one of my all time favorite books and it's always one of my staff-selections at work. I randomly picked it up from the library one day and read it almost straight through. I'm really liking this book, too, but not quite as much. I feel like it's starting to really wind down about 600 pages in. I've still really enjoyed it and definitely want to read The Hour I First Believed soon, too.
Lyndie wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "Oh, and I just read The Handmaid's Tale and Thirteen Reasons Why."Did you like Thirteen Reasons? I hated it."
I really liked it, lol.
I'm ~technically~ reading Breaking Up with God: A Love Story, but I've been reading other things so haven't gotten very far. As soon as I finish this month's book, though, I am determined to finish it! It is very relevant to me right now, so I am very interested in it.
And of course I just reread Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in time for DH2. :)
I'm reading The Book Thief currently, and I can't believe I've waited this long to read it. I'm enjoying it so much I've had to make myself slow down as to get to enjoy it for longer.
I just finished Mockingjay and I'm quite disappointed. I've just started Uglies, but so far it's feeling more pre-teen than teen/YA. I've also started Fahrenheit 451, but I'm finding it pretty boring, right now.
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I think most Hunger Games fans agreed that Mockingjay was the weakest book, but the movie studio optioned FOUR Hunger Games movies. Looks like Mockingjay most likely will be two movies. Totally unnecessary.
Megan (Book Brats) wrote: "I think most Hunger Games fans agreed that Mockingjay was the weakest book, but the movie studio optioned FOUR Hunger Games movies. Looks like Mockingjay most likely will be two movies. Totally unnecessary."What?! 4?! Yikes. They're going to have to seriously improvise on all those battle scenes Katniss was unconscious for.
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The movie studio just wants to cash in. Why else would they buy the rights to just about ANY YA dystopian series coming out this year? They want to find the next big thing and get it for cheap, and the more movies, the more money they get. So what if they're bad? People will still see them!
But yes, I stand by my belief that The Hunger Games movie will either be epic or an epic hot mess.
Megan (Book Brats) wrote: "Tayls wrote: "Megan (Book Brats) wrote: "I think most Hunger Games fans agreed that Mockingjay was the weakest book, but the movie studio optioned FOUR Hunger Games movies. Looks like Mockingjay mo..."I loved The Hunger Games and I'm still voting hot mess, sadly.
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The sets so far just look like 1920s (or present day) North Carolina. Why do they have beat up cars? Why do the peacekeepers look like jockeys?! And the people cast for tributes make it look more like "The Hunger Games: The College Years."
Jennifer Lawrence looks OLDER than she really is. It's like Katniss is now a 24 year old softball player with a love of 40s fashion.
Yeah, I'm thinking hot mess.
And while I'm here, Hollywood needs to jump off the YA movie bandwagon. Each movie is now worse than the last with the exception of HP of course.
Megan (Book Brats) wrote: "It's like Katniss is now a 24 year old softball player with a love of 40s fashion."This is the best description I have ever heard. The casting is a mess.
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This is the best description I have ever heard. The casting is a mess."
EXCEPT for Stanley Tucci. Stanley Tucci can do no wrong, and I have had a creepy love of him since I was like...11. I think I have problems.
Just finished the first book in the Matthew Shardlake series! I do enjoy historical fiction AND mystery, so this was right up my alley.
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I'm reading The Selection by Kiera Cass, and dear lord, this book is... Meh. Totally 100% meh.
Pigeon English and A World Without BeesI'm enjoying neither as I'm not in the right mood for them, but I have to finish them this week to return them to the library on time.
A Clash of Kings, and shit is getting real all over the place. I'm a lot a bit in love with it.Also, 1Q84, which is so effing weird but I think I'm digging it.
And this month's joke selection, 50 Shades of Grey. It's so bad.
Emma wrote: "Pigeon English and A World Without BeesI'm enjoying neither as I'm not in the right mood for them, but I have to finish them this week to return them to the library o..."
I didn't enjoy Pigeon English. It's just not good. I cna't believe it was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Reading World War Z. It's... not what I expected. I tried reading 50 shades of gray but the file I downloaded is making my ebook reader crash, and there's no way I'm paying for this so...
I'm reading The Marriage Plot. It's so fantastic!
Michelle wrote: "I didn't enjoy Pigeon English. It's just not good. I cna't believe it was longlisted for the Booker Prize. "I'm with you on that one. I've barely made it to a hundred pages and it just. Drags. On. I also really don't care for the style it's written in. We get it, he's a kid.
Currently reading, Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath. I don't really know how I feel about it at this point. I almost feel like she made the whole thing up. It strikes me as odd that she had an ongoing relationship, yet never referred to him by his given name - calling him only Mr. President. Also, it annoyed me that she never even so much as mentioned the death of Marilyn Monroe. Her death was a pretty big story at the time, and since her "lover" was supposed to have had or was having an affair with MM - you think it'd be worth mentioning...at the very least.
Also, it's worth mentioning that a good portion of the book it dedicated to either justifying either A.) the authors actions or B.)Reasons that no one knew or ever found out about the affair.
Chances are if you feel the need to justify things like this, there isn't much truth to what you're trying to say.
Also, it's worth mentioning that a good portion of the book it dedicated to either justifying either A.) the authors actions or B.)Reasons that no one knew or ever found out about the affair.
Chances are if you feel the need to justify things like this, there isn't much truth to what you're trying to say.
How to Survive the Titanic. I feel like I'm constantly fact checking. So many things she has here are wrong.
I'm reading The Runaway Jury, and I am America. Runaway Jury is good, since I am a legal thriller fanatic. I am America is funny, but I downloaded the e-book for my Kindle and the formatting is all over the place, so it's super difficult to read.
Michelle wrote: "Emma wrote: "[I didn't enjoy Pigeon English. It's just not good. I cna't believe it was longlisted for the Booker Prize."I finished it. (my review:http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...)
I'm now focusing on finishing Fifty Shades of Grey.
After seeing the trailer, I decided to read - Savages. The writing is different from what I normally enjoy, but I'm really enjoying it. The movie looks good as well, despite the fact that Blake Lively has a key role.
I'm reading Anna and the French Kiss and City of Ashes. I'm thoroughly enjoying "Anna" so far and trudging through "City of Ashes." I just wish I had more time to read!
Hudlie wrote: "I just finished The Bell Jar so I'm about to start Atlas Shrugged"Holy crap good luck with Atlas Shrugged lol
Just finished The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. Lot more spy business bullshit than I expected. Now on to The Sisters Brothers, which is proving to be a much easier read.
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The Immortal Rules so far is a knockoff of Daybreakers, but Wonder has been so touching so far. Really enjoying it.
Just finished the Hunger Games trilogy and Mockingjay really messed me up. Three days later, I'm still trying to shake the uneasy and sad feelings it has left me with. So I think I'll dive into A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali next, which looks like it's going to be quite upsetting.
I'm about to start Tender Is the Night; hopefully, it won't leave me feeling as ambivalent as The Great Gatsby did.
Danielle wrote: "Just finished Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood and am deciding which of her novels to read next."How did you like it? What's the best Margaret Atwood to start with? I've never read anything of hers, but I want to.
I'm trying to chug through Middlesex but it's so... boring... I've had to renew it through the library twice already because I just can't force myself to pick it up often enough to get through it. So many people recommended it to me... what am I missing?
I tried reading Tender Is the Night but it bored me to tears, so I moved on to Who Fears Death, a magical realism book set in post-apocalyptic Africa. I'm liking it so far but it's mostly back story on the lead character where I left off.
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Wonder
The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips. It's a pretty quick read, I love the setting (time period and place).
I just finished reading (seriously, just five minutes ago) Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller and holy punch to the heart Batman.
Nicola wrote: "I thought it was amazing! I'd say stick with it. Have you gotten past the history of the family? That's where the story picks up."I think I'm just about finishing up there... I've set it aside for now, but I do really want to finish it sometime.
Cut & Run and some Charles Baudelaire poems
Currently reading 1Q84 BY Haruki Murakami (though I'm taking my time with it) and The Broken Kingdom by N.K. Jemisin
The Kissing List by Stephanie Reents- just a couple pages in but it seems pretty interesting
I am currently reading 3 books. A Storm of Swords and Season of Migration to the North. I'm about halfway through ASOS and a quarter of a way into 'Seasons' while barely scratching the surface of Master. I'm enjoying the books most of the time. Although I will say that RW is keeping me from finishing ASOS. Also 'Season of Migration to the North' isn't really written how I expected it to be written. For me, the prose is gorgeous and lush but sometimes the story stagnates for me a bit sometimes. I need to get further into 'Master and Margarita' before I form any real opinions on it but I've liked what I've read so far.
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LOL, I just gave that to my mother to read since I loved the series. Surprisingly, a 52 year old with questionable taste can love chick lit, and I normally read half chick lit and half YA or urban fantasy. And half Oprah's Book Club.
Yes, there are three halves there. Deal with it.