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What Did You Finish Reading/What Are You Currently Reading?


On the plus side, I picked up Life of Pi and The Paris Wife at my indie bookstore today and talked to them about the possibility of working there!











Also reading "Conspirata" by Robert Harris about Cicero and the Cataline conspiracy, but it is a novel and moves really quickly and captures a lot of interest. I highly recommend both!

I'm also reading Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler, which is taking me forever. I like it well enough, but crime novels have never really been my thing. I'm just determined to get through a Raymond Chandler novel, just to say I've read him.
And I'm finishing up The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, another good but slow read.
What I really need after all these slow books is a light, fluffy read that I can get through in a couple days.

I have a few on my TBR list, I'm not sure which I will be reading next :)




Hopeless

Ahhhh! I read The Forgotten Garden last year and absolutely adored it. You're going to love it!
I'm about to finish The Gospel According to Harry Potter, which relates a lot of the plot points and details of the Harry Potter series to biblical stories and teachings. It's pretty cool to see how everything connects!

...and I'm just starting A Hope in the Unseen, a nonfiction book about a boy from an inner-city high school in D.C. that ends up at Brown. My boss gave it to me to read, and she told me it mostly documents his first year at Brown, which I can definitely relate to since I'm in my first year at my school!


I really enjoy it so far. I just have no time to read it during school.

I just finished Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. Such a thriller. Very twisted, but was so well written that I couldn't put it down. Two thumbs up!


Now I'm starting The House at Midnight by Lucie Whitehouse.

It was a really good read. I definitely recommend it. It's one of those books you could read a second time and even MORE things will make sense!
Today at the library I picked up:
-Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
-Bittersweet by Sarah Ockler
-Easy by Tammara Webber

I just finished The Time Machine and have too many books on my currently reading list to name though Wonder is the newest addition.

Solaris, City of Thieves, and Unwind.
Currently reading:
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Now I'm reading Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare which I'm sure like all her other books I've read I will enjoy.





This is obviously late (I just discovered this group and I'm browsing the posts), but I loved A Separate Peace. I read it as a freshman in high school as part of my required reading and actually enjoyed it which I wasn't expecting. Then again, unlike a lot of other people, I tend to love the quieter stories where nothing extraordinary really occurs.




Gotta love Ace and the Seventh Doctor!
Aliyah wrote: "recently finished The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes but found it to be quite boring. Started on Blood Alone Volume 1 a manga (Japanese comic)"
Sad that you didn't enjoy Sherlock Holmes! I've read all of them and love them.

Meanwhile, I couldn't quite figure out what to read next so I'm currently reading 5 different books xP
- Philip H Pfatteicher's Journey Into the Heart of God: Living the Liturgical Year (slowly getting through this ARC)
- Katharine Britton's Little Island (this novel's moving pretty slowly IMO but I'm determined to finish this ARC)
- Matt Fraction's Hawkeye, Vol. 2: Little Hits (loving this! I love the art and how he writes Hawkeye)
- Ian Thornton's The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms: How One Man Scorched the Twentieth Century But Didn't Mean To (just started this ARC)
- David Whitaker's Doctor Who And The Crusaders



I think i am going to make a random friend request to Lianne since I really love everything they have listed and I can't walk away from someone who reads Doctor Who.
Back to my list now. For the second time, I am trying to read The Round House and am really enjoying it. It is reminding me of The Cider House Rules though that is probably due to the fact that they both seem to be books about young characters growing up through something.
I am also reading the manga Princess Jellyfish, Tome 1 for the second time. This time around I am reading it in Japanese. Another book is unlisted on GR since it isn't a novel or anything like that. It's also for Japanese studies though.
Kimberly wrote: " Eddie wrote: "Eddie (OswinsSouffle) | 75 comments I am actually reading a Doctor Who book about a mission that took place with a companion named Ace and the Seventh Doctor. "
Gotta love Ace and t..."
This book may not have been a good time to familiarize myself with a new (to me, at least) companion since I ended up dreading the book. It's such a short thing but I found myself trying not to finish it until I refused to not drop a DW book.
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Not laughing. I actually just finished it myself. I've added some classics into my book rotation, but now I'm reading The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton.