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[Emily]

I'm reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest right now, and it's actually pretty cool. I'm enjoying it quite a bit, and I'd be reading it a lot faster if my boyfriend wasn't here visiting.
I'm also reading The Age of Grief, which is a collection of short stories and a novella which have also been very enjoyable.
I've had to drop the other books I was reading because I'm going to be leaving on Tuesday and they are all library books. I had to prioritize.

[Jess]

I'm about 50 pages in to John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. It's so nice to return to something reliably fantastic!

[Michelle]

I finished Exile and now I'm on War of the Ember by Kathryn Lasky. It's the 15 and final book in the series.

[Anna]

Janine, I read most of Philippa Gregory's books this past year and loved the majority of them. I read them all mixed up though so I would get confused about who was who, it might help to read them kind of chronologically. They are all really intertwined though so there might not be any actual order, but just something to think about I guess.

ess, glad you are enjoying Travels with Charley, I read it a little bit ago and loved it.

[Jessika]

I just picked up The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, which I'm very excited to read. I'm also reading People of the Wolf. It's turning out better than I thought it would, and it satisfies my fixation with learning about Native American cultures.

[Jess]

I finished Travels with Charley, which was fantastic and beats every other travelogue I've ever read (and I have read many - perhaps I should add them to my "read" pile).

I began reading Bruce Feiler's Walking the Bible. This summer I rediscovered fiction, which bores me a little bit during the academic year, when my mind is primed for searching for arguments, not character development. So I imagine that Feiler's book while take me a while, since I'm not in a nonfiction mode at all. So I may begin reading Tahar Ben Jelloun's Leaving Tangier.

[Kimberly]

Bri wrote: "I just finished Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder and am about to begin Magic Study (the second) and I'm so excited! These books are so good! I'm listening to them as audiobooks."

I LOVE those books! One of my favorite series!

[Tahleen]

Jess, let me know how Deliverance Dane is, I'm intrigued by it but then again it also seems like a hit-or-miss type of book to me.

[Jessika]

Tahleen wrote: "Jess, let me know how Deliverance Dane is, I'm intrigued by it but then again it also seems like a hit-or-miss type of book to me."

I will definitely let you know! I'm not far enough into it yet to say too much about it, but it seems intriguing, so I've been excited to start it!

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

let me know too! I've been hearing alot about it and I want to hear some good reviews about it before i buy it!

[S]

I just finished reading 1984, and was disappointed by it. It started off great, but by the middle of the book it started going downhill from there. Anyone else feel the same?

[Lianne]

I finished reading Ariana Franklin's City Of Shadows (a good read, it kept me intrigued throughout) and re-reading Coelho's The Alchemist.

I've slowly started reading David Anthony Durham's Acacia Book One The War with the Mein and I'm debating whether to start Gaskell's Wives and Daughters or Zafon's The Angel Game. Hmmm....

[Jessika]

Jamie wrote: "let me know too! I've been hearing alot about it and I want to hear some good reviews about it before i buy it!"

Will do, Jamie! :)

[Tami]

Over the weekend, I finished The Secret Life of Bees, good book, started and finished Of Mice and Men, another good book, and started To Kill a Mockingbird, so far a really good book!(I remember reading it before, but don't seem to really remember the story)

It is nice to have good, good, good..... hope it keeps going that way. Decided I needed to get through the library books before they are due back so I shelved The Count of Monte Cristo for the time being. Hopefully can pick it up in a week or so.

[Tahleen]

Sarah wrote: "I just finished reading 1984, and was disappointed by it. It started off great, but by the middle of the book it started going downhill from there. Anyone else feel the same?"

I felt the same way, Sarah. I wasn't a huge fan, but I was glad I had read it.

[Heather]

I just finished Someone Like You. I was in need of some very light reading.

I'm currently reading The Red Tent and about to start Saturday. I'm having a difficult time getting into The Red Tent. It's been recommended to me quite a few times, but I'm just finding the story boring. For anyone who has read it, did you find that it started out slow and eventually picked up? Maybe it's just not my kind of book.

[Lori]

I finished The Time Traveler's Wife last night. It was amazing. So amazing that I'm shipping it off to a friend because she needs to read it.

[Anna]

Heather, I tried reading the Red Tent sometime last year and gave up about half way through. I kept thinking it would pick up but it never did and after a month or two of trying to get into it I gave it away. There are a lot of people who really enjoy it though and I might have if I was more interested in that time period.

[Tami]

Finished To Kill a Mockingbird, and started Steinbeck: the Grapes of Wrath and other Writings 1936-1941. This book wasn't in Goodreads that I could see so I listed each story separate. Now I look like a multitasker reading 4 books at once! :)

[Lori]

I picked up Julie and Julia 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen the other day, since it was a new buy also. I really like it overall, but I'm not really into the flashbacks to Julia's life. The disrupt the story for me. Anyway...it's pretty interesting. I don't feel as moved as I was when I read Eat, Pray, Love One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia a couple of years ago, but I guess the two books are quite a bit different in their aims.

[Jess]

Tami, I'm also reading The Grapes of Wrath! I'm taking a break from summer challenge books, so I'm re-reading this fantastic book. I read it five years ago in high school, and I'm really enjoying it. Steinbeck's writing never fails :)

[Justine]

I just started The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and it's not at all what I expected. I'm so close to finally finishing Sense and Sensibility - it's been almost four months.

[Ashley]

Justine wrote: "I just started The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and it's not at all what I expected. I'm so close to finally finishing Sense and Sensibility - it's been al..."

It's not what you expected... in a good way, or a bad way?? I was thinking about reading that one.


I just started

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Not what I expected either, but so far, I like it :)

[Justine]

Ashley: Not in a bad way. I didn't really know what it was about and I think I was getting it confused a little with The Art of Racing in the Rain.

[Tami]

Jess, I totally agree. I haven't read a lot of Steinbeck, but that will change very soon. So far, it has been great.

[Janet]

I finished The Gatecrasher. It was ok, just something simple to read. Now I am reading another Torey Hayden, who I love. Just Another Kid, it's pretty good so far, always gets you interested and hooked.

[Nuri]

Ashley, keep us updated on Oscar Wao. I've been meaning to read that one for a while now.

[Justine]

I finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time this morning and started The Book of Illusions A Novel, which has been on my shelf for months and months.

[Tami]

Finished The Long Valley, the first "book" in the Steinbeck collection I am reading. It was good. Now starting Grapes of Wrath.

I feel wierd about not getting the July read (Count) actually read in July. :) After I finish my library books, I will attack it.

[Tahleen]

Finally finished The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley... not my fave. But I left it on the plane today in hopes that someone who wants something to read will find it despite the fact that it is literally falling apart. I've started Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere and am really liking it so far!

[Silvia]

I finished reading The Secret Life of Bees and now I am reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

[Anna]

I'm reading a collection of stories by Neil Gaiman and am really looking forward to reading some of his novels.

[Lianne]

I recently finished Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Angel's Game. I highly enjoyed it; it was different from SOTW in terms of atmosphere but I enjoyed the dialogue =)

I'm still reading David Anthony Durham's Acacia Book One The War with the Mein but I've also been re-reading Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Am also re-reading segments of Federico Garcia Lorca's Selected Verse Revised Edition =)

[Michelle]

I randomly bought a copy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, so far I am enjoying it. It took off a little slow but now I'm hooked.

[Jess]

I'm taking a break from The Grapes of Wrath, which I'm bringing with me on my trip this weekend. I read the new Suzanne Brockmann book that came out Tuesday, and I just finished Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously.

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I finally finished Expect Resistance A Crimethink Field Manual! I've been reading it for months and its amazing! Oh, and I read Prep A Novel there recently. It's pretty good!

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

I just started reading Those Who Save Us. It's really good so far!

[Tahleen]

Pippi Longstocking is my current book, though I also started The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek at about the same time. It's a little heavy so I figure I'll knock one more off before I jump into that one.

[Liz]

I've just finsihed Only In Your Dreams and am starting Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

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

ooh such a good book Liz!! Let me know what you think! I am a huge pusher of everyone to read EL&IC!

[Lianne]

I finished reading C.J. Sansom's Winter in Madrid, which was a fantastic read. I think I'll be re-reading Ian McEwan's Atonement (for more dosages of novels set in the 1930s/1940s) and start reading Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters (which has been on my shelf for some time now) =)

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

Li..have you seen the movie Atonement? I loved it! I really wish I had read the book before seeing it though!

[Anna]

Just finished The Sweet Far Thing and am so sad it is over! I also read the end interview with Libba Bray and it is hilarious.

[Justine]

I am giving up on The Book of Illusions A Novel and I started Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

[Lori]

I have so many books that are "languishing" right now. Lady Chatterley's Lover was very high on my list of books I really wanted to read this summer, so I think I'm going to finish it before anything else. Except Vanity Fair, which I'm supposed to be reading with a group of friends.

[Tami]

Put my Steinbeck aside last night. The other book I have still to read from the library is A Great and Terrible Beauty and they are both due back tomorrow. So I started that last night and am about half way through.

It seems about half the books, movies, tv shows, etc I have been exposed to lately have some sort of magic/super powers/abilities in them. Does anyone else start to think if only I could do that? :)

[Edina]

I'm reading A Little Princess because it was one of my favorite movies as a child and I've been meaning to read it for a long time.

[Lee]

I finished Forest Mage by Robin Hobb and have started His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik.

I'm glad to be starting something new because Forest Mage was starting to get on my nerves and I was a little hesitant to start the next book in the series, But I'm pretty sure once I finish His Majesty's Dragon I'll be more enthusiastic about Renegade's Magic.

[Tahleen]

Finished Pippi Longstocking (super quick) and I think I'm going to concentrate on The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek for the next week or so. Hopefully it won't take forever to read.

[Edina]

I love that spunky little girl!