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[Liz]

I've recently finished a re-read of Great Expectations and have started The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray.

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Just finished Speak and now I'm moving on to The Poisonwood Bible

[Irene]

just finished Succubus Heat just started Interview With the Vampire

[Jess]

Currently reading Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty.

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

I want to start that series!

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

How was The Hunger Games? I've heard good things.

[Jess]

Jamie, since you're on a YA kick, I would definitely recommend it! The only one I didn't love was Fourth Comings. This one is good so far.

[Emily]

Jamie wrote: "Just finished Speak and now I'm moving on to The Poisonwood Bible"

I just read Poisonwood bible recently! I really l liked it. Let me know what you think :)

[Emily]

Jess wrote: "Currently reading Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty."

What!? there are more? When did that happen...and yeah i didn't like the 4th one too much either...

[Jess]

I think it came out recently! The format of the fifth one is different. It's not a journal-style (at least so far) and it's written in the third-person. So far I like it, though.

[Michelle]

I'm currently reading "Eat Pray Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert, I tried to read it awhile ago and didn't like her voice at all but now I really do.
Also "Bloodhound" by Tamora Pierce, I just eat up all her books for the most part, but the long wait between them is getting to me.
Started "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" too because I want to see the movie but always prefer to read the book first.

[Yusra Zainab Laghari]

Just finished The Catcher in the Rye and now I am reading To Cut a Long Story Short by Jeffrey Archer which is a collection of 14 short stories. Some of them are based on true incidents.

[Michelle]

I finished So Long, and Thanks for All the Fishand I just started My Thomas: The Story of Martha Jefferson by Roberta Grimes. Thomas Jefferson is probably my favorite president so this book is a real treat so far.

[Tahleen]

So I was sitting in the break room at work the other day when a woman I worked with asked me what I was reading. I told her (it was a book I won on here and don't really like) and she was like "you should read this instead" and let me borrow a book called Candy Girl A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. It's pretty hilarious, it's by the woman who wrote the screenplay for Juno.

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

I've been wanting to read that book Tahleen! I'm glad you say it's good!

[Emily]

Hunger Games was good, though very predictable. It did move along at a nice pace though. It's a good summer YA read. I'll probably read the sequel eventually.

I finished reading one of those The Year's Best Sci-fi Short Stories anthologies. They're very good and I would recommend them to anyone who likes short stories.

I'm currently reading Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson and Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Next up is A Clockwork Orange (maybe) and Ballistics by Billy Collins. Collins was Poet Laureate of the U.S. for two terms. His poems are sometimes beautiful and sometimes funny, but always good. He did a reading at my college last semester and I really enjoyed it, so I'm looking forward to this one. I'm waiting on the library to transfer it to our branch for me.

[Tami]

I agree with Amanda, The Hunger Games was a hard to put down book. The main character Katniss, has to be one of the strongest female characters I have read about it a long time, especially being in a YA book and a teenager.

[Lee]

I finished "The Reincarnationist" by M.J. Rose earlier tonight, and I am about to start "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova.

[Melissa]

I loved the Historian I tried reading it and couldn't get into in, then I tried listening to it and was hooked.

[Anna]

I finished The Glass Castle A Memoir and Slumdog Millionaire. Glass Castle was really good but kinda scary cause that could have been my life if my mom was different. Slumdog was really good too but for some reason I thought it was about sled-dog racing...so I was surprised to say the least. I've started Little Bee and Bread Alone A Novel.

[Lynnie]

I was also scared by the Glass Castle... b/c I think I'm too immature to raise children, so I'm afraid I would be like the mom in that.

[Anna]

My dad is very similar to Rex (even down to the name because my dad is Randall Rex). Luckily though my mom pulled us together. There were times though when Rex was making up an excuse about having to move or not having money and I swear I had heard the same thing from my dad.

[Liz]

I've just finished The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray and am about to start A Gathering Light (known in the states as A Northern Light) by Jennifer Donnelly.

[Justine]

I've been in such a reading slump. I did zero reading on my whole train trip (a total of about 22 hours) thanks to season 2 of Gossip Girl I loaded on my ipod. I thought it was just the book I'm reading - To Kill a Mockingbird - so I started The Forest of Hands and Teeth last night and that's not really doing it for me right now either. I think I over-read myself in the last couple of months.

[Melissa]

I am listening to Pirates!by Celia ReesIt isn't as good and I thought it was going to be. Strong female characters but the story didn't hook me till about half way through. I am also reading Mudbound by Hillary Jordan I am still unsure, but I am not that far into it yet.

I just finished listening to The Helpby Kathryn Stockett a fantastic book!

[Emily]

Well, ballistics didn't come in, so I'm currently reading Four Ways to Forgivness by Le Guin, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, and Before I Die by Cashore. I'll pick up A Clockwork Orange later.

Powers was good. It was interesting to see how people from other loosely related books came together and influenced this one. Neither Here Nor There was definitely amusing, but it was one of his first books, so it wasn't quite his best.

I've been putting off reading Ender's Game for so long now that I figured I should probably just get it over with. I've been reading YA stuff all summer anyway. The whole reason I haven't read it yet was because everyone keeps recommending it to me, and because the first person to do so was someone who my boyfriend had just broken up with me for. But those are stupid reasons, so I figured I'd give it a try.
I'm reading Four Ways to Forgiveness because I like Le Guin, and Before I Die because it was highly recommended here. I'll tell you how that goes.

[Lynnie]

For all who read Bryson: What do you consider his best? I've been wanting to read him, but don't know where to start!

[Jess]

I'm about halfway through Sarah Dunant's Sacred Hearts, a GoodReads giveaway. It's pretty good so far! I'm also nearing the 600 page mark in The Count of Monte Cristo, and I'm about to start Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge.

[Jacqueline]

Jess wrote: "I'm about halfway through Sarah Dunant's Sacred Hearts, a GoodReads giveaway. It's pretty good so far! I'm also nearing the 600 page mark in The Count of Monte Cristo, and I'm about to start Elizab..."

How are you liking the Count of Monte Cristo? I'm trying to use my summer time away from school (even though I am working almost full time) to read lots of things I just don't have the time for when school is in session. I'm determined to tackle one very large classical piece but havent decided which one yet (I've been hopping between Dumas, maybe Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, or Hugo...then my mind drifts off into other possibilities haha).

I just hit page 499 out of 607 of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami which, although long, isn't too difficult a read even if the tripped out metaphors are rather far out. Really enjoying it :)

[Angie]

I am reading Stealing Buddha's Dinner and I honestly think it's going to make me gain ten pounds before I finish it.

[Tahleen]

Lynn wrote: "For all who read Bryson: What do you consider his best? I've been wanting to read him, but don't know where to start!"

Definitely A Walk in the Woods Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, I'm a Stranger Here Myself Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid A Memoir. Those are my favorites by him.

[Janet]

I just finished Confessions of a Shopaholic and just started The Secret Life of Bees for our July read. I am very excited about it!

[Jess]

Jacqueline wrote: "Jess wrote: "I'm about halfway through Sarah Dunant's Sacred Hearts, a GoodReads giveaway. It's pretty good so far! I'm also nearing the 600 page mark in The Count of Monte Cristo, and I'm about to..."

I would definitely, definitely recommend reading The Count of Monte Cristo. I love it so far! If you can, and you have time, get an unabridged copy. Honestly, it goes by quite quickly; I'm often stuck with only a half hour here and there if I'm lucky, during the day time, and that's when I read The Count of Monte Cristo. Plus, it's our next group read :)

I'm glad you're enjoying the Murakami book! I'm not a big fan of his, but I'm always happy - though bewildered - when I hear of someone liking his books. I find his plots interesting, but I suppose too strangely dark at the same time.

[Ashley]

I was getting bored with the 2nd installment of the 100 cupboards series so I stopped reading it. I am now reading "Tweak" by Nic Sheff. It is a memoir.

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I just finished Portrait In Sepia which was not as good as Daughter of Fortune. I'm reading The Secret Life of Bees (after starting and stopping several other books).

[Lianne]

I finished reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which was very amusing. I'm still reading Tremlett's Ghosts of Spain Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past but also figuring out which fiction novel to read next =)

[Kellie]

I just finished Revolutionary Road and started The Beautiful and Damned.

[Angie]

I just finished The Complete Persepolis. I couldn't get into it the first time I read it but man, I started reading and three hours passed and I honestly didn't even notice it. Amazing. I would recommend it.

[Jess]

Kellie wrote: "I just finished Revolutionary Road and started The Beautiful and Damned."

Kellie, what did you think of Revolutionary Road? I saw the movie but have not yet read the book.

[Emily]

Lynn wrote: "For all who read Bryson: What do you consider his best? I've been wanting to read him, but don't know where to start!"

Definitely and without question In a Sunburned Country, though honestly I would read anything of his.

[Emily]

And as for me:

Before I Die was mediocre. The main character was annoying and not very realistic. It tried to hard to be meaningful and just failed. I'd call it an easy summer read and leave it at that. And I wouldn't recommend it to people older than me. It's very YA.

Ender's Game was actually pretty good. It was a little YA, yes, but unlike Before I Die it was a good YA book, and that makes all the difference. If I can't find anything else to read I will probably continue with the series.

Four Ways to Forgiveness is gong along quite nicely. I accidentally put it in my read shelf already, but that's ok, I'll finish it today anyway. The stories are easy to read and well written, with good meaning in them. They deal a lot with slavery, women, and spirituality. The last of those sometimes makes it hard for me to relate, but the difference of the religions from anything found here and the quality of the rest of the story makes that easy to overlook. Most of Le Guin's work is either partially or very spiritual in nature, so just the fact that I can appreciate and continue to read her work is praise in itself.

I haven't made any new progress on A Clockwork Orange. I may or may not start reading a collection of work by the lady who wrote The Yearling, not because I've read anything else of hers, but because my mom lent it to me and I'm fresh out of anything else to read. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. I'm mildly desperate.

[Jess]

I'm about halfway through Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. It's much different than I thought it would be, but it's a good book so far.

[Nuri]

Reading Rainer Maria Rilke's Letter to A Young Poet, Sonnets to Orpheus, and Stories About God. I would really, really like to have met him.

[Michelle]

I finished My Thomas yesterday, and started River Of Wind by Kathryn Lasky.

[Lianne]

I recently finished Giles Tremlett's Ghosts of Spain Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past (very informative book) and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (which was amusing) so now I'm on to Robert Harris's Archangel (which sounds great because I love and study Russian history) and Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, New Edition (a bit of necessary reading for my field of study =))

[Kimberly]

I'm reading Troy. Its pretty interesting, I'm having a hard time getting into it though. I've just been too busy.
I loved Secret Life of Bees, I read it when I was in high school, one of my teachers recommended it to me and let me borrow her copy. I'm so glad she introduced me to it. I'm excited that we're going to read it as a group.
I'm excited to read The Count of Monte Cristo, a guy I went on a date with this week recommended it to me.

[Anna]

I just finished Little Bee and was disappointed that it took place in present day. The back of the book provided very little information except to say it didn't want to give anything way and something about an African beach scene. I suppose I might read too much historical fiction but I just assumed it had to do with slavery. The book itself wasn't that bad but was not as good as everyone makes it out to be.

[Jess]

I finished Olive Kitteridge, which was an interesting book. Check out my review (slight spoiler alert) if you're interested.

I'm starting Alaa al-Aswany's The Yacoubian Building, in dear old Cairo. I actually lived close by to the Yacoubian Building for a period when I was abroad. I'm also still, as always, working on The Count of Monte Cristo.

[April]

I'm currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged) as well. I'm about 100 pages into it, and I definately enjoy the build-up, especially because I kept hoping Villefort won't put Edmond in jail, but obviously he did, otherwise, why would Edmond want revenge?

[Jess]

April, just wait! It gets better...

Also, I found The Count of Monte Cristo to be surprisingly easy to get into and not all that difficult to read, like some hefty tomes.