What Did You Finish Reading/What Are You Currently Reading? Showing 1,901-1,950 of 3,838

[Kallie]

Mary wrote:...and now I am looking forward to reading An Abundance of Katherines for some lit. junk food. "

Ooh I want to read that now just because my real name is Katherine!

[Kelly]

Just finished The Vanishing of Katharina Linden. It was so good. I Highly recommend it. It contains a lot of German words, so prepare to flip to the back to look them up, but still a great story!

I think I'm going to start The History of Love, but I haven't decided yet.

[Ashley]

I just finished "Hush,Hush" by Becca Fitzpatrick. I am going to continue with "Glass" by Ellen Hopkins and start reading "On Mystic Lake" by Kristin Hannah

[Lori]

I've been reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in my spare time. I'm really enjoying it so far. I love the main character. In many ways, she reminds me of myself at 11.

[Anna]

Just started Blindness. I'm really liking it so far. At first I thought the writing style would get annoying but it's not as bad as I thought.

[Kallie]

Just finished The Bell Jar and I can't believe it took me this long to get to it. I loved it!

[Kelly]

Finished Thirteen Reasons Why. Loved it, such a powerful/scary book. Really leaves you to think afterwards. The audio version is done very well too!

[Anna]

Anna, I've been wanting to read American Wife, now I think I may bump it up on my list

[Jean Valjean (OG 2010)]

I keep meaning to read Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper but I have sooo many unread books on my ereader right now, I just can't justify purchasing it. That being said, I'm still reading the Sookie Stackhouse series.

[Jean Valjean (OG 2010)]

Annashu wrote: "Anna, I've been wanting to read American Wife, now I think I may bump it up on my list"

You won't be disappointed. I really enjoyed it.

[Tami]

Anna, I am glad you are enjoying it. Annashu, I would recommend bumping it up.

I don't however recommend reading the books it was loosely based on. Especially Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady by Ronald Kessler.

Those are the books I read for the Fall/Winter challenge for the fiction/non fiction. I really enjoyed the fiction so I thought I would enjoy the other. Nope. Maybe it is because parts of it seemed much more fiction than the actual fiction, but mostly because the author was very prejudicial against opponents and tried to say it was how Laura was. Slight rant, sorry.

Back on topic. I finished Swan Theives by Elizabeth Kostova and started Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

[Alicia]

Just began In the Woods. I read the first chapter, and I'm worried that the book is going to be too wordy. Hopefully, I'll be proved wrong.

Tami, how did you like Tess of the D'Urbervilles? Thomas Hardy is one of my favorite classic authors, but nobody I have ever seen really likes him that much.

[Anna]

Consider it bumped. I am not allowing myself another Kindle book until May but it is now at the top of the list, thanks.

[Jess]

Currently reading Diana Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava: A Memoir and re-reading Steve Kluger's Almost Like Being in Love.

[Lori]

I'm still working on A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. It just keeps getting better and better! I'm definitely going to keep this one to reread. I wish I had a night I could just sit and plow through the last 200 pages. Eh, maybe I'll do that on Sunday. After that, I think I might reread Where the Heart Is or maybe actually finish one of those books that I started earlier in the semester but set aside for some reason.

[Tami]

Alicia, I have just started. So I am still in the 20's or 30's but I will let you know.

Has anyone read any of the James Potter stories? I read the first one on my ereader and it was fun. Nothing like JK Rowling writing, but still fun.

[Tami]

Alicia, I am about half through now and I am enjoying it. I don't feel as frustrated with the main characters as much as I usually am with books set in this time period. I will keep you updated.

[Kimberly]

I just finished Inside Out. It was sooo good! Completely took me by surprise.

[Kellie]

Jess wrote: "Currently reading Diana Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava: A Memoir and re-reading Steve Kluger's Almost Like Being in Love."

Jess, I read Almost Like Being in Love a while ago after you had suggested it on another thread. I really enjoyed it, so thanks for the suggestion!

[Destiny]

I just got The Hunger Games in the mail today. Can wait to crack it open tonight!

[Jess]

Kellie wrote: "Jess wrote: "Currently reading Diana Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava: A Memoir and re-reading Steve Kluger's Almost Like Being in Love."

Jess, I read [book:Almost Li..."

Yay, I'm so happy you liked it, Kellie! It's one of my favorite books to read when I'm either burnt out from heavier or more serious books, or if I'm feeling a bit down. It never fails to entertain me and make me laugh.

[Kellie]

Destiny wrote: "I just got The Hunger Games in the mail today. Can wait to crack it open tonight!"

Plan on it keeping it open until you finish! :P

[Paula]

Kellie wrote: "Destiny wrote: "I just got The Hunger Games in the mail today. Can wait to crack it open tonight!"

Plan on it keeping it open until you finish! :P"

Haha I was going to say that, I read that book in one sitting! soo good!

I just started Soulless, it's pretty cute so far.

[Jules]

Just finished Northanger Abbey as part of my Austen re-reading. Next up is Flowers in the Attic - I'm curious to see how creepy it'll turn out to be!

[Kimberly]

Jules- It's pretty freaky. You'll have to tell us what you thought of it.

[Jules]

Kimberly wrote: "Jules- It's pretty freaky. You'll have to tell us what you thought of it."

Oh, I certainly will! Now I'm looking forward to it even more :)

[Kellie]

Just finished What He Took, which was written by one of my professors. About to start Have a Little Faith: The Story of a Last Request.

[Ashley]

I finish reading "On Mystic Lake" by Kristin Hannah last night. It was great. I am now going to read "Between Sisters" by Kristin Hannah.

[Anna]

Just started American Wife and am loving it so far, thanks gals

[Tami]

I finsihed Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
and started and finished Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger this weekend. Alicia, I really enjoyed Tess. I can't believe I have taken so long to read some of these classics. I really enjoyed Catcher too, even with the strange ending. :)


Started Marked by PC Cast and Kristen Cast.

[Daisy]

I finished The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms this weekend, I loved it! Very promising new series :)
Am currently reading Anna Karenina, I like it so far, but I'm only 100 pages in, so I've got a long way to go..

[Kimberly]

I just finished The Help, by Kathryn Stockett. Really good book, but I'm ready for a lighter read now.

[Leanna]

Finals start this weekend, so I will FINALLY get some time to read after next Tuesday. Although, I hope to get a bunch of reading done on Reading Day (haha, clever, right?), the day between when classes end and finals begin when you're supposed to study but most people go out and party. A group of friends and I are going to a state park for the day, about two hours away, so I hope to get a bunch done.

I'm so close to finishing Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult and I'm about halfway finished with 13 Little Blue Envelopes, so I hope to finish those.

Once I'm home, though, it's going to be a read-a-thon. I actually met a friend on campus who loves reading as much as I do and we're swapping book lists this summer of our favorite books. It's good to have friends who are just as big geeks as you are. :D

[Steph]

I'm reading Runaway Devil: How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family and it is getting me so angry. It's almost embarrassing how riled up I am about this story. True crime, it's about the 12 year old Albertan girl and her 23 year old boyfriend who killed her family in 2006. The book is.. not so great, it's written kind of strangely, to be honest. There's random factoids spread around like the origin of punk rock or whatever, it's kinda like "and this fits into the story how..?" And the excerpts from the murderer's social networking sites have me rolling my eyes. This was a very typical 12 year old in every respect but the killing her family part, let me tell you that. "I think deep thoughts" uh huh. And the boyfriend claimed to be a 300 year old werewolf. I can't imagine why her parents disapproved!

BUT DAMN, it makes me so angry. That they would be so stupid and selfish and ungrateful. Her parents sounded like really great people, they provided for her and they looked out for her. And she betrayed them in such an incredible way, it's absolutely disgusting. To boot, the Canadian system is giving her 10 years. Her boyfriend at least is facing 3 life sentences. Awful, awful, awful.

[Tami]

Steph, that is the main reason I tend to stear away from memoirs, I hate that this stuff really happens. Now if someone wrote about it in a fiction type book, I can pretend it isn't real. :)

I finished Marked and just started The Carrie Diaries. Has anyone else read it yet?

[Ana]

fast food nation

[Ashley]

I finished reading "Glass" by Ellen Hopkins. I cant wait until the final book "Fallout" comes out. It comes out this September. I am going to continue with "Between Sisters" by Kristin Hannah. I am going to start reading "Bliss" by Lauren Myracle and the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage.

[Jen]

Yesterday I finished The Girl Who Played with Fire. It was just as good as the first book. Today I started one of this month's group reads, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories.

[Lori]

I've finished 3 books this week--A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, For Whom the Bell Tolls (which I started in January and finished this morning), and Where the Heart Is (which I started and finished this afternoon/evening). All three were pretty good in their own ways. I've read Where the Heart Is a few times before and I was itching to reread it. But now I have no idea what I'll bring to read during graduation tomorrow. I'm thinking Out of Africa, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream or maybe One Hundred Years of Solitude. I'll have to make a quick decision tomorrow morning.

[Leanna]

Lori, Fear and Loathing is phenomenal. The movie follows the book pretty closely, too, from what I recall.

I'm on the last leg of 13 Little Blue Envelopes, but finals start for me tomorrow, so no more reading for fun until Tuesday night. :(

[Lori]

I might grab Fear and Loathing. I really enjoyed The Rum Diaries last summer. I was kind of hesitant to read a book about being stoned while sitting through my graduation ceremony, but the first few pages I read were interesting and I need something that will hold me. It will fit the best in the little purse I'm bringing (although I tried it with One Hundred Years of Solitude just to make sure). I've got the sequel, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72. Is it very good?

[Alicia]

Tami- I want to read The Carrie Diaries, but I'm on a long waiting list at the library for it.

I recently began Gone With the Wind. It has been on my tbr list for years, and I have owned the book since last August; I have just been slightly intimidated by it's length. I'm hoping, though, once I get into the plot, it'll be a quick page-turner.

[Kelly A.]

I started Confessions of a Shopaholic, which I had no idea was a book. I loved the movie though.

[Kelly]

Starting The Book Thief. I've heard so many good things about it!!

[Kimberly]

I loved The Book Thief, Kelly! You'll have to tell us what you thought of it!

[Jess]

Kelly, I also loved The Book Thief! It was hard to put down. I hope you enjoy it!

[Jacqueline]

I am reading Irish Fairy Tales...

[Kelly A.]

I started and finished Tuesdays with Morrie this afternoon. I have read three books since Friday morning! I love summer! :)

I may go to the library tomorrow, but I think I will start The Historian anyways.

[Steph]

Reading A Nurse's Story now. I love it. I love reading about nurses.

[Tami]

Kelly, let me know how you like The Historian. I finished Swan Theives awhile back and enjoyed it, but a lot of the reviews said it wasn't near as good as The Historian. Hopefully that doesn't bias me to dislike it. :)