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message 1051: by Quincy (new)

Quincy I am reading The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater. I'm not sure how I feel about it so far but I saw it got good reviews, so I am going to keep reading.


message 1052: by Kirsten (new)

Kirsten  (kmcripn) I finished Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1) by Louise Penny and Thankless in Death (In Death, #37) by J.D. Robb and started Taken in Death (in Death, #37.5) by J.D. Robb and Cold Granite (Logan McRae, #1) by Stuart MacBride yesterday.


message 1053: by Kirsten (new)

Kirsten  (kmcripn) Oh, you have to read NAKED IN DEATH! I just LOVE the In Death series. So addictive. STILL LIFE was wonderful too. Can't wait to read Book #2.


message 1054: by Kirsten (new)

Kirsten  (kmcripn) Hattie wrote: "Ok, I'll grab my Still Life. Is Naked in Death the first one or does it matter?"

Naked in Death is the first one. And it does matter. The characters grow with every book.


message 1055: by Kirsten (new)

Kirsten  (kmcripn) Started listening to The Shining by Stephen King (in the dentist's chair), started reading The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) by Robert Galbraith on my Kindle, and continued reading The Next Time You See Me by Holly Goddard Jones from the library yesterday.


message 1056: by Natalie (new)

Natalie Shipman I am reading Family of Lies by Mary Monroe


message 1057: by Kirsten (new)

Kirsten  (kmcripn) Started listening to Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2) by Jim Butcher and continued reading The Next Time You See Me by Holly Goddard Jones from the library yesterday.


message 1058: by C.A. (new)

C.A. McGroarty (camcgroarty) | 3 comments I began reading The Exorcist for a second time. I especially love the opening of that book.

Fantastik by C.A. McGroarty .


message 1059: by Sandra (new)

Sandra (sanlema) | 90 comments Just finished Americanah. I found this book interesting specially because of the perspective from where the topics were addressed. Though I felt it lacks of a plot. I never really liked Ifemelu, the main character, but that didn't prevent me to empathize her story.

I started yesterday Lord of the Flies.


message 1060: by Jennifer (new)

Jennifer | 109 comments I'm reading All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr


message 1061: by Sarah (new)

Sarah | 662 comments Jennifer, I have started it, onlyv13%, but haven't been able to get back to it due to other book reads and reading challenges, hopefully next month.


message 1062: by Jennifer (new)

Jennifer | 109 comments Sarah wrote: "Jennifer, I have started it, onlyv13%, but haven't been able to get back to it due to other book reads and reading challenges, hopefully next month."

It's pretty good so far. I hope to finish it before it's due back to the library.
I recently finished We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler and thought it was lacking something as well.


message 1063: by Rhonda (new)

Rhonda Lee Wunder | 143 comments I have decided to read the three books that am part way through. School for Murder-Robert Barnard, An Uncommon Murder and Alls Well that Ends by Gillian Roberts. Once I am finished with those I will start a new book.


message 1064: by Kirsten (new)

Kirsten  (kmcripn) I continued listening to The Witness by Nora Roberts (Audible.com) - set in the Ozarks, Arkansas - and reading English Country House Murders Classic Crime Fiction of Britain's Upper Crust by Thomas Godfrey (my bookshelf) - set, of course, in England - yesterday.


message 1065: by Salim (new)

Salim | 1 comments Currently I'm reading The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck


message 1066: by Sarah (new)

Sarah | 662 comments Hattie wrote: "I'm reading What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey."

I just put the audio on hold on my Overdrive library.


message 1067: by Kirsten (new)

Kirsten  (kmcripn) Continued listening to Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Overdrive) and reading Divided in Death (In Death, #18) by J.D. Robb (library) yesterday.


message 1068: by Rhonda (new)

Rhonda Lee Wunder | 143 comments I am reading Tailing the Tabby and am enjoying it.


message 1069: by Sandra (new)

Sandra (sanlema) | 90 comments Just finished Lord of the Flies. So disturbing...

Starting now Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.


message 1070: by Barbara (new)

Barbara Adde | 8 comments Cold Mountain is excellent.


message 1071: by Sandra (new)

Sandra (sanlema) | 90 comments Barbara wrote: "Cold Mountain is excellent."

I'm really liking Frazier's writing, Barbara, but I'm not into the story yet since I have read only a few pages.


message 1072: by Barbara (new)

Barbara Adde | 8 comments It takes awhile to build. His writing style fits perfectly with the story he is telling of his journey. Very moving.


message 1073: by Rhonda (new)

Rhonda Lee Wunder | 143 comments Finished Tailing a Tabby by Laurie Cass and really enjoyed it. Now am reading Paw Enforcement by Diane Kelly and it is making me laugh.


message 1074: by Kirsten (new)

Kirsten  (kmcripn) Finished reading Divided in Death by J.D. Robb late last night and continued listening to Great Expectations by Charles Dickens yesterday.


message 1075: by Danielle (new)

Danielle (daniellecobbaertbe) | 68 comments Reading Embers by Sándor Márai


message 1076: by Sarah (last edited Sep 27, 2014 11:14AM) (new)

Sarah | 662 comments Kirsten, I have started another classic - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson . I have to say that I highly recommend The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - I liked it way more than Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy . Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens were good friends


message 1077: by Kirsten (new)

Kirsten  (kmcripn) Yes, I really want to read some Wilkie Collins. I have a copy of THE MOONSTONE here at home.

I finished Martian Summer Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission by Andrew Kessler (Tucson/Arizona/USA) and Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) by Dan Brown (Rome/Italy/Europe) yesterday.


message 1078: by Sarah (new)

Sarah | 662 comments Oh I want to read The Moonstone too.


message 1079: by Ann (new)

Ann Addley (annkaddley) | 1 comments I'm reading Carsick - John Waters hitchhikes across america. It's pretty hilarious so far. Anyone else read this book?


message 1080: by Mmars (new)

Mmars | 77 comments I've read Carsick. I think you have to like and be familiar with Waters to Really like the book, which wasn't the case for me. After reading it I caught an interview, which I did I enjoy, of Waters on NPR's "Fresh Air" program. It's likely available somewhere online.


message 1081: by Rhonda (new)

Rhonda Lee Wunder | 143 comments I just finished reading Binary by John Lange aka Michael Crichton. It had me on the edge of my seat.


message 1082: by Camille (new)

Camille Dent (thecamillion) | 12 comments Just finished The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee and Growing Minds On Becoming a Teacher by Herbert R. Kohl .
Currently working on The Freedom Writers Diary (10th Anniversary Edition) by Erin Gruwell and the essays in the back of Plato's Symposium by Plato


message 1083: by Kirsten (new)

Kirsten  (kmcripn) Just started Nature's God The Heretical Origins of the American Republic by Matthew Stewart


message 1084: by Rhonda (new)

Rhonda Lee Wunder | 143 comments I have just started reading Sutton for my book group.


message 1085: by Sarah (new)

Sarah | 662 comments Started listening to Life Drawing by Robin Black Now gonna get back to reading We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas - so far I am liking this one.


message 1086: by Ronald (new)

Ronald  (ron410) | 5 comments I am currently reading Chesapeake by James Michener


message 1087: by Sandra (new)

Sandra (sanlema) | 90 comments I just finished Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. I found some stories funny, but the whole book was a little tiresome.

I'm still working on Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, and is being a great reading.


message 1088: by [deleted user] (new)

I'm reading for review Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories, Middlemarch, Fall of Giants and Final Argument: An Inquiry Into the Murders of Mac and Muff Graham on Palmyra Island by Buck Walker and Stephanie Stearns, also a review book. I read a fiction and non-fiction review book together, plus what ever selections by group if I own the title. Keeps me busy.


message 1089: by Natalie (new)

Natalie Shipman Goodbye Janette by Harold Robbins


message 1090: by Nabse (new)

Nabse Bamato (wwwgoodreadscomnabse_bamato) | 16 comments Currently reading Thieves in the Night (a complete departure from my normal style but a fast-moving story with some really great writing) as well as The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York and The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (I think I need a good run at this one to get started - once I do I think it will be great).

Here are the covers:

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah , Thieves in the Night by Brendan Ball The Poisoner's Handbook Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum


message 1091: by Sandra (new)

Sandra (sanlema) | 90 comments Just finished Cold Mountain that was such an excellent reading! I absolutely loved it.

Started yesterday All the Light We Cannot See.


message 1092: by Jennifer (new)

Jennifer | 109 comments Sandra wrote: "Just finished Cold Mountain that was such an excellent reading! I absolutely loved it.

Started yesterday All the Light We Cannot See."


I really enjoyed All the Light we Cannot See


message 1093: by Jennifer (new)

Jennifer | 109 comments Reading Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi


message 1094: by Rhonda (new)

Rhonda Lee Wunder | 143 comments Just started Where She Went which is a sequel of If I Stay


message 1095: by Sandra (new)

Sandra (sanlema) | 90 comments Jennifer wrote: "Sandra wrote: "Just finished Cold Mountain that was such an excellent reading! I absolutely loved it.

Started yesterday All the Light We Cannot See."

I really enjoye..."


I'm 27% into it and it's being a enjoyable reading, Jennifer.


message 1096: by Camille (new)

Camille Dent (thecamillion) | 12 comments The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, #1) by Guillermo del Toro and The Metamorphoses by Ovid


message 1097: by Rhonda (new)

Rhonda Lee Wunder | 143 comments I am reading Hot Six by Janet Evanovich


message 1098: by C.A. (new)

C.A. McGroarty (camcgroarty) | 3 comments Started Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty last night.

Started out very disjointed, but it's beginning to come together nicely, starting to flow.


message 1099: by Sandra (new)

Sandra (sanlema) | 90 comments C.A. wrote: "Started Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty last night.

Started out very disjointed, but it's beginning to come together nicely, starting to flow."


Curious to know how do you like it. I read The Husband's Secret by the same author and it had many things I liked and many I hated, so I plan to read something else by her.


message 1100: by Rhonda (new)

Rhonda Lee Wunder | 143 comments I am reading The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion


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