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[Anna]

I just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and loved it. I am already almost finished with And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks and really enjoying it as well.

[Ashley]

I just finished reading "Burned" by Ellen Hopkins and I am now reading "Crank" by Ellen Hopkins.

[Julia]

I finished Atlas Shrugged and am now starting on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I'm trying to work my way through some of the big guns of 20th century literature.

[Sarah]

And it sounds like you're doing a good job, Julia. Atlas Shrugged is a toughie :)

[Jess]

I finished reading a number of trashy romance novels, but I'm back to reading The Grapes of Wrath, and I started Alia Malek's A Country Called Amreeka.

[Heather]

I just finished Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and was quite disappointed. I'm now reading In Cold Blood and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.

[Lori]

Julia, How did you like Atlas Shrugged? I've heard it was better than The Fountainhead.

[Kimberly]

Heather, you'll have to let me know what you think of In Cold Blood. It was required reading for my Intro to Fiction class.

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

Just finished Remarkable Creatures & now on to The Kite Runner.

[Matthew]

Just starting City of Thieves

[Jessie]

Yesterday I finished The Alchemist which I loved and today I finished The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories which I thought was okay.

Now I'm going to start Brave New World.

[Matthew]

Jessie wrote: "Now I'm going to start Brave New World. "

I don't know why, but winter seems to scream out for something distopian.

[Tahleen]

I just started Soulless, which is so far pretty enjoyable.

[Jessie]

Matthew wrote: "Jessie wrote: "Now I'm going to start Brave New World. "

I don't know why, but winter seems to scream out for something distopian."

Ha ha! I totally agree. I do tend go for darker books in the wintertime.

[Anna]

Jamie: what did you think of Remarkable Creatures, I have really liked most of her other books

[Ciara]

Just finished Midnight's Children ....while i appreciated the writing, it wasnt my style at all. I felt obliged to finish it cause a good friend gave it to me as a birthday present and it was a rather painful and arduous task, although i did find myself enjoying it for brief moments. I had a hard time identifying with or getting interested in any of the many (i think too numerous) characters. This book seemed really dense to me, i didnt like how the author was present in the book and insisted on foreshadowing every other page. Anyone have any thoughts on this book? I'd love to hear some other opinions.

[Lori]

I'm going to read from Sylvia Plath's journals again because it's been a while. I'm starting Middlemarch this weekend, which I'm reading with a few friends.

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

Annashu wrote: "Jamie: what did you think of Remarkable Creatures, I have really liked most of her other books"

I really liked it! However, I've never read any of her other books but I own them and can't wait to read them. I've heard they are better!

[Jessika]

Matthew wrote: "Just starting City of Thieves"

I'd love to hear what you think of this. It looks great!

I finished with Angels & Demons last night, which was thoroughly entertaining for me, and now I'm working my way through Under the Dome.

[Alicia]

Jess wrote: "Matthew wrote: "Just starting City of Thieves"

I'd love to hear what you think of this. It looks great!

I finished with Angels & Demons last night, which was thoroughly entertaini..."


I really loved Under the Dome! It reminded me a lot of Stephen King's older works. You'll have to let me know what you thought of it.

[Jen]

I started Those Who Save Us this afternoon while waiting for my car to get an oil change.

[Jessika]

alicia wrote: "Jess wrote: "Matthew wrote: "Just starting City of Thieves"

I'd love to hear what you think of this. It looks great!

I finished with Angels & Demons last night, which was thor..."

I'm not very far into it yet, but for me, it's been like sinking into a favorite comfy chair. I have a feeling I'm going to love this.

[Kelly A.]

I am just about to start The Pillars of the Earth. It looks very daunting, to say the least!

[BurgendyA]

The book that I finished today was Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho. The story was excellent, and intoxicating of sexuality. The book is marvalously written. You would not forget this journey so soon. =)~

[Lori]

This should be interesting...I'm starting Middlemarch and The French Lieutenant's Woman today, both for my own pleasure, and I'll be finishing Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple and Daughter of Time this weekend for class.

[Anna]

I finished And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks and thought it was great. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the beat generation. It seemed like just a look into their every day lives, also it was written early so it isn't quite as full of drugged up rambling as later works. I wasn't sure how the two author thing would work out but they were both separate narrators switching between chapters and it worked really well.

Currently reading Juliet, Naked and it is pretty good, not too deep but almost thought provoking. I guess I don't read a lot of current novels though because a character will mention something current (like Obama) and I have to remind myself that the book was written recently and that Hornby can't predict the future.

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I finally finished Already Dead by Charlie Huston. I got it as a free ebook for my kindle2. I've read a couple books by him before that I enjoyed. The book is a fast paced detective type story mixed with a lot of violence, "vampyres" and zombies. It's the first in a series and I probably will continue it.

I have tons of books waiting to be read- but I haven't had time to decide what comes next!
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[Jess]

I'm currently reading Molly Wizenberg's A Homemade Life. It reads like a novel, and the recipes are mouth-watering!

[Steven]

"The Hunger Games"..it was fantastic!

[Adriana]

Im am currently readingBeloved and I just finished reading City of Bones it was a good book, hopefully the other ones are as good or better.

[Bárbara]

I started Dracula :)

[Kallie]

I just finished The Poisonwood Bible and now I'm reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Musicophilia

[Natanya]

I just finished The History of Love and before that I read The Year of the Flood. The History of Love was so beautiful; I just want to cry. But now I can finally get to Catch-22 and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I may not get through both of them by the end of the month, but hopefully within the first week of February! Good thing I have a 6 hour plane ride then 4 hours on a bus to get back to school later this week...

[Annie]

The Glass Castle
Do it up ;)

[Kimberly]

I'm reading Pretties. It's pretty good, but I found it harder to get into than the first book.

[Bárbara]

So I kinda put Dracula aside. I'm reading Mary by Vladimir Nabokov.

[Sarah]

Annie wrote: "The Glass Castle
Do it up ;)"

I loved the Glass Castle. :)

[Daisy]

I just finished Elantris, I loved the book, but the ending was a bit weird to me, I felt it left a lot unfinished and a lot of questions unanswered, so I'm disappointed it doesn't have a sequel for me to read and get closure from...
I'm not sure what to read next, I think I'm not ready to let the characters in Elantris go yet.

[Kellie]

Though I usually don't read much YA, I have to read more because of my new internship, and it's fun. Recently I've finished The Hunger Games and The Summer I Turned Pretty. The Summer I Turned Pretty was a really adorable teen romance.

I just started Coyotes: Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens for a class, as well as Catching Fire.

[Melody]

The Screwtape letters by CS Lewis. Very scary read to be honest. But weird in that the the senior Demon in this book speaks with a posh english accent, makes me wonder if their is a Devil HQ right 'under' London lol

[Daisy]

I started Daughter of the Blood yesterday, I'm not really sure what to think of it yet, have any of you read it?

[Emily]

Currently reading The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God. Sagan is such a boss.

[Annie]

Sarah wrote: "Annie wrote: "The Glass Castle
Do it up ;)"

I loved the Glass Castle. :)"

I really liked it too. Thus the comment lol

[Tahleen]

Just started Annie on My Mind.

[Bárbara]

Bonjour Tristesse now!

[Jacqueline]

Just finished Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes which was a quick and cute semi-scientific read. I would have liked it better if it had been formatted around an actual point or thesis rather than as a question answer browse book, but the author was upfront with what the book was so I suppose I can't hold that against her (not to mention that he other book seems to be some sort of self-help book so I would be wrong to expect a great scientific work on neuroscience). Also could have done without the, as one reviewer put it, "cosmo-esque" interventions after certain questions on how to manipulate concepts she talked about in your own love life. Three stars.

I was in the middle of Dracula when I started Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes but felt stalled half way. I'm going to give that book a rest for now since I'm really not "feeling it" and am moving on to Free Fall by William Golding which has been sitting on my shelf forever.

[Monica]

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel and I'm quite enjoying it.

I loved The Glass Castle but the same author.

[Silvia]

I just finished 84, Charing Cross Roadand I was really bored by it. It has great ratings and reviews...I guess I could just not appreciate the subtlety of it and why they referred to it as a great love affair (when the woman was correspoinding with the whole family in England)...okay done ranting

I also finished Iris and Rubywhich was an alright quick and light read.

I am curretly reading Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories

[Kristine]

I just finished Sworn to Silence and now I am starting 19th Wife. I am also reading The Shack. I have to say thank you because alot of what I read I get from reviews or what other people are currently reading and it peaks my interest, so I want to get a glimpse of a particular book and then can't put it down. Thank you and hope everyone enjoys their week and the books they are reading.

[Annie]

Tahleen wrote: "Just started Annie on My Mind."

Aww glad Im on your mind! haha

Just got done Slaughterhouse-Five tonight.. it was weird. Good.. but strange.