What are you reading?

[Angela]

Enjoy! Its such a great read.

[Vikas]

reading The Firm by John Grisham.

[Mayra]

Kenneth wrote: "Yes. I read the first 4 several years ago and stopped. I do not even remember why I stopped. Just got caught up reading other stuff I guess. A couple months ago I bought the whole series in ebook f..."

That is so awsome reading them through all back to back, ive re read sevral of them over, but never all 7 back to back. that would be great to do one of these days :) enjoy.

[Naomi]

im reading paradise lost at the moment :) and the first book in the tyrants and kings series by john marco xx

[Ken]

Thanks Mayra, yes it has been a very enjoyable read. One of those lo g series that it will be both great and sad to finish. Great because they are such good books and sad because ill be done reading them! Lol.... After these I wil be on to a few of the shorter books on our list... Most likely The Wind in the Willows and then The Great Gatsby. Unless I change my mind before then lol......

[Sam]

Just finished "Lamb" by Christopher Moore excellent book and am about to read "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton for the 1st time

[Mayra]

Kenneth wrote: "Thanks Mayra, yes it has been a very enjoyable read. One of those lo g series that it will be both great and sad to finish. Great because they are such good books and sad because ill be done readin..."

Kenneth wrote: "Thanks Mayra, yes it has been a very enjoyable read. One of those lo g series that it will be both great and sad to finish. Great because they are such good books and sad because ill be done readin..."

i know its sad. when deathly hallows came out i wasnted to read it to know how it was gonna end and i didnt want to accidently read something or have someone spoil it for me, so i read it in 3 days. then i was sad there was no more harry. i re-read it before the movie and now i want to read them all again lol.

[Lisa]

I'm on a Hemingway kick. Currently reading Men without Women and For Whom the Bell Tolls.
(Plus War and Peace, Middlemarch and Doctor Zhivago.)

[Buck]

Lisa wrote: "I'm on a Hemingway kick. Currently reading Men without Women and For Whom the Bell Tolls.
(Plus War and Peace, Middlemarch and Doctor Zhivago.)"

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a favorite of mine. I've had The Old Man and the Sea checked out of the library for while but haven't gotten to it yet. They sent me a reminder this morning that I must return it soon.

Aside from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky many years ago, I haven't read any of the great Russian novels

[Lisa]

Buck, we are reading For Whom the Bell Tolls in the Hemingway group in November. Please join us.
This is my second Tolstoy. Loving it. Read some limited Russian novels. Not Crime and Punishment yet.

[Alexandra]

I'm reading Anna Karenina :D

[Lisa]

It's a fantastic book Alexandra!

[Andrea]

I'm reading The Hobbit for the second time. I read it as a child and I've always wanted to read it again as an adult.

[Aisha]

Reading 'more than this' by Patrick ness.
Brilliant book. Impossible to put down.

[Misha]

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

[Austin]

I am reading the Harry Potter series again :)

[Misha]

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

[Lisa]

The fifth wave- Rick yancey
The woman in white- Wilkie Collins
Jock of the bushveld

[Mayra]

Have any of you read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak?

[Lisa]

It's lovely Mayra

[Trevor]

Mayra wrote: "Have any of you read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak?"

It's a great book, read it before the film is released so that you have your own ideas of what it should look and feel like

[Buck]

Mayra wrote: "Have any of you read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak?"

The Book Thief is definitely a book to read, long before you die - certainly better than many on our list of 50.

We saw the movie last week. It's very good - Oscar stuff. The book is a great book.

[Steve]

AAAAAAAAnd if you liked the book thief, the messenger is really good as well, zusak is a great writer.

[Buck]

Steve wrote: "AAAAAAAAnd if you liked the book thief, the messenger is really good as well, zusak is a great writer."

I concur with Steve. I Am the Messenger is quite different from The Book Thief and is excellent.

[Steve]

Buck wrote: "Steve wrote: "AAAAAAAAnd if you liked the book thief, the messenger is really good as well, zusak is a great writer."

I concur with Steve. I Am the Messenger is quite different from ..."

I knew I didnt have it quite right thanks Buck! One of my sons had to read it for a class and he is a slooooooooooow reader and I helped get him into the story, but yes I finished it on my own and it was excellent! Should be on the list!!!

[Mayra]

Trevor wrote: "Mayra wrote: "Have any of you read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak?"

It's a great book, read it before the film is released so that you have your own ideas of what it should look and feel like"

oh i have already read it and loved it, in fact i was in the middle of it when i discovered it was turned into a movie, i forget what i went to go see and they showed the preview and i started thinking it sounded familiar and then it clicked.

[Mayra]

Buck wrote: "Steve wrote: "AAAAAAAAnd if you liked the book thief, the messenger is really good as well, zusak is a great writer."

I concur with Steve. I Am the Messenger is quite different from ..."

i will definitely look into it then :) thanx.

[Vlad]

I'm finishing Norwegian Wood by Murakami. Probably I'll go for Baudolino by Umberto Eco.

[Misha]

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

[Saitej]

Dune

[Kristin]

I'm trying to get through "Huckleberry Finn" and it's taking me awhile. I thought that Tom Sawyer was much easier to read for some reason. I just re-read "Catching Fire" and hope to re-read The Hunger Games and Mockingjay too over the Christmas holiday.

[Lisa]

I wasn't impressed with Huck Finn

[Austin]

The lovely bones :)

[Saitej]

Dune

[Laura Anne]

I'm reading Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

[Lisa]

Wilkie Collins- The Woman in White
John Steinbeck- the grapes of wrath

[Ken]

50 Best Loved Christmas Stories and Poems
Don Quixote

[Vikas]

The Rainmaker by John Grisham....

[Nicholas]

"The Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac, "This Side of Paradise" by Fitzgerald, and "I, Robot" by Asimov.

[Tyler]

"Lone Survivor" - Marcus Luttrell, "David and Goliath" - Malcolm Gladwell, "The Eye of The World" - Robert Jordan

[Jan]

David Mitchell "Cloud Atlas". Next one one the target Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart".

[Lisa]

Jan Gal, what's Cloud Atlas like? Are you attempting the top 100 list?

[Jan]

Lisa wrote: "Jan Gal, what's Cloud Atlas like? Are you attempting the top 100 list?"

I quite like it so far, Lisa. The stories are written in an unusual way. They are different and they also intertwine! I think each can find a fav character in the book (each character bears different way of speaking, sense of humour). Were you thinking to read Cloud Atlas? :)

So far I'm not going strictly for top 100. You think I should? :D Could be though that I read books from the list while I'm picking them intuitively. ;)

Have a nice evening everyone!

[Buck]

Lisa wrote: "Jan Gal, what's Cloud Atlas like? Are you attempting the top 100 list?"

Here's my review of Cloud Atlas, which I read earlier this month:

I was was disappointed, considering the hype this book, and especially its movie, has gotten. About three quarters through I was ready to abandon it, but I stayed with it and it managed to redeem itself somewhat. It is a collection of novellas of different prose styles and timeframes, each interrupted by the next, and then resumed later. There is a pretext of the stories being interrelated, but there is no substance to the interrelation. It was simply an invented literary device that worked poorly. Two of the stories are pretty good: The intrigue adventure of Luisa Ray, and the comedic escape of Timothy Cavendish from a home for the senile. The others are not bad, but are seriously degraded by having to be read on the unexpected installment plan.

Cloud Atlas just barely gets three Goodreads stars.

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I'm working my way through the Harry Potter series and also reading 'The Life of Charlotte Bronte' by Elizabeth Gaskell. It's beautifully written, more like a novel than an autobiography.

[Radia]

I'm reading Emma

[Eeshan]

I'm halfway through the Lord of the Rings.

[Misha]

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

[Buck]

Misha wrote: "The Book Thief by Markus Zusak"

Excellent book. Very good movie.

[Aisha]

An abundance of Katherines by John green

What do you guys think of it?