What Are You Reading Now?

[Catamorandi]

I just joined and am reading The Face of a Stranger and The Cater Street Hangman, both by Anne Perry. They are both great. They are mysteries set in Victorian England.

[Kara]

Jennifer, I'm definitely going to get the movie. I think I will actually like it much better than the book.

[Arthur]

I just finished Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides; but have few thoughts about that book. I am reading separately different things. But what's taking my notice just now is a book I will begin to read, An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks

[Larry]

I read next to no Sci-fi, excepting for Kurt Vonnegut's old stuff, and more recently his end-of-life essays, observations and insights in book form.

Right now I'm reading, for my book club, The Memory Keeper's daughter by Kim Edwards. It's not my sort of read. In fact, midway, it's gotten almost silly - at least to me. It is very popular, however, so some people do like this type of compemporary domestic tale of deciet. Of course, this difference in taste is also what makes belonging to a book group so much fun!

Larry

[Larry]

While I'm at it, for my same book group, we read Middlesex maybe six months ago. I liked it. While finding some stretches a bit hard to believe, I did feel introduced to something I knew existed, yet knew next to nothing of.
This is one of the wonderful things about fiction. We do learn more about our world, for I gained great sympathy for the protagonist.

Larry

[Taffy]

I am reading "Phineas Finn" right now. I started "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" but I just finished reading two other China books and the oppresion of women there was oppresive to me so I had to put it down. "Wild Swans" was intresting book about three generations of Chinese Women.

[Karen]

I just joined too. I am reading "Rattlesnake Lawyer" by Jonathan Miller. He writes New Mexico-based thrillers and I enjoy them since I am from NM and his descriptions of the area are authentic.

[Karen]

I am reading "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien.

[Larry]

Good luck with that, karen.
I tried twice, once while in college years and years ago, and again several years later. I love to read, but could never get a good foothold on fantasy. Hope you like it!

Larry

[Jennie]

I just finished His Dark Materials and The Road. Neither of which were my favorites. Sadly, I have to read a couple of text books before I start classes, so thats where my reading is right now.

Oh, and Karen, I loved Tolkien. Although the LOTR trilogy I enjoyed more than the Hobbit. I hope you like it!

[Taffy]

I really enjoyed all of Tolkien. He has an AMAZING imagination!
I just finished reading "Peace Like a River". Our city is doing a city wide reading of this book so you know it's gotta be clean. It's uplifting as well. And a good read.
I am starting "Three Cups of Tea" and "Soul Mountain".

[Heidi]

Hello I'm new to the group. I am just coming to the end of Luke Rhinehart's The Dice Man, which has had me hooked all the way - quirky and funny and entertaining all at once. I am struggling to think how I'm going to top that with whatever I read next - maybe I should try something "light"...

[Karen]

I really enjoyed The Hobbit. I wish I had read it when I was 8 or 10 but I'm glad I did read it. I do have the LOTR books (I have three but it's just one book right?) and will read those sometime too.

I just finished "A Lion Among Men" by Gregory Maguire and started "The Book of Lies" by Brad Meltzer. A Lion Among Men was pretty good. It filled in alot of questions from the previous two books in the series and left me wanting more.

[Jennie]

I just read Reading Lolita in Tehran which was a nice break from all the forced reading I'm doing for my graduate classes. I am at a loss as to what to start next.

[Nan]

I am reading Brisinger, not impressed, looking for something else to occupy my mind while i get thru it, looking for an addition book now, maybe a Dan Brown book.

[Nan]

Well, I just am stuck on Brisinger so i picked up Dception Point by Dan Brown and I am happier reading that, but will strugele thru Brisinger, because i try to make a committment to finish every book i pickup not matter what.

[Razoemichin]

I am searching for novels centering around childhood. I like to read books wherein the world is perceived through childrens eyes. Who knows any? Thanks!

[Judy]

Hello! I have just recently read two books. THE MAYTREES by Annie Dillard. YUCK! THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATOE PEEL PIE SOCIETY, I loved this little book and have bought five copies for friends for Christmas. I am on to Edgar Sawtelle, next.

[Judy]

Wouter wrote: "I am searching for novels centering around childhood. I like to read books wherein the world is perceived through childrens eyes. Who knows any? Thanks!" How about THE WHISTLING SEASON by Ivan Doig? Loved this book ! Hope you do too...

[Razoemichin]

Thanks, Judy, I will try that!

[Judy]

Judy wrote: "Wouter wrote: "I am searching for novels centering around childhood. I like to read books wherein the world is perceived through childrens eyes. Who knows any? Thanks!" How about THE WHISTLING SEAS..."Let me know what you think...Judy

[Nan]

Maureen wrote: "Well, I just am stuck on Brisinger so i picked up Dception Point by Dan Brown and I am happier reading that, but will strugele thru Brisinger, because i try to make a committment to finish every bo..."

Can you keep a secret on my to read books

[Judy]

MAUREEN, NOT SURE WHAT YOU MEAN BY KEEPING A SECRET, BUT GO FOR IT...JUDY

[Donna]

I am just about finished with Peony in Love by Lisa See and I have mixed feeling about it. Did anyone else read this?

I am thinking of reading The Alchemist's Daughter: A Novel by Katherine McMahon next. Any comments on this one?

[Jennifer]

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. It's larger than life already, and I'm only on chapter 3!

[Nan]

Judy wrote: " MAUREEN, NOT SURE WHAT YOU MEAN BY KEEPING A SECRET, BUT GO FOR IT...JUDY"

Someone was asking about a children's book from the child's point of view. The name of the book is Can You Keep a Secret, a series of short stories from a child's point of view. Really delightful, i had forgotten how large the issues seems when you are 10, 11 and 12. When you are older, they seem so silly looking back.

[Nan]

I am now reading P.G. County, its got me hooked....I will get back to Brisinger, soon. I promise. Also I peek now and then at the Personal Finance for Dummies when i can.

[Judy]

Maureen wrote: "Judy wrote: " MAUREEN, NOT SURE WHAT YOU MEAN BY KEEPING A SECRET, BUT GO FOR IT...JUDY"

Someone was asking about a children's book from the child's point of view. The name of the book is Can You..."Maureen, Hello! Thanks for clearing up the mystery, I am sitting here writing this reply and laughing at my inability to realize that you were talking about a book title! I am usually not that dense...I promise. I think I would enjoy reading that book. Thanks...Best, Judy

[Nan]

Judy wrote: "Maureen wrote: "Judy wrote: " MAUREEN, NOT SURE WHAT YOU MEAN BY KEEPING A SECRET, BUT GO FOR IT...JUDY"

Someone was asking about a children's book from the child's point of view. The name of the..."

Please, let me know if its what you were look for.

[Renee]

I am currently reading Thunderstruck by Erik Larson. I don't know what to read next. I need to start on reading some of my classics.

[Larry]

I'm reading FINN, a recent popular thing/Pap's point of view to Twain's classic for a regional book club in Philly. I'm enjoying it. For another book group, I just reread THE GOOD EARTH. You're on the right track. Once in while the classics are nice.

Larry

[Rich]

On the recommendation of a good friend, I started reading Gravity's Rainbow. I've been reading daily on a fairly consistent basis for about 2 weeks now and have not proceeded too far - maybe 200 pgs or so. It's a very difficult and slow going read. But, much to my surprise (as i've read many negative reviews on it) i'm enjoying it a great deal.

[Ali]

Renee wrote: "I am currently reading Thunderstruck by Erik Larson. I don't know what to read next. I need to start on reading some of my classics." Read the Secret Garden or Little Women. Maybe try Gone With the Wind (giant book! Around 1000 pages long, so make sure your up to it!) or maybe To Kill a Mockingbird.

[Natalia]

Jane Eyre, I love it! I've wanted to try something different, something contemporary, but I always end up with classics :D

What should I read next?
-Dangerous Liaisons?
-Mansfield Park?
-Pride and Prejudice? (I still remember the film so I'm not sure if it's not too early)

[Ariana]

Natalia, you should read "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde, since you love Jane Eyre.

I'm currently reading Wuthering Heights, but since I have about 6 books from the library right now, I'm not stuck for a 'what's up next' moment. :)

[Natalia]

Thanks Ariana :) I'll check it out!

I absolutely adore Wuthering Heights <3

[Ariana]

I'm liking it the way that I like gossip; I'm not a fan of the people, but I want to know what happens!

[Mary]

Just finished The Art of Devotion by Samantha Bruce-Benjamin. Beautifully written story of 4 women on an island in the Mediterranean Sea in the 1920s and 30s. Memorable and captivating. One of those you end up thinking about for weeks afterward.

[Nancy]

I'm reading Eat Pray Love and enjoying it way more than I expected!

[Nikki]

Just started Dragonworld by Byron Preiss and Michael Reaves. So far it far it's really good, but I'm not sure who the main character is!

[stormhawk]

A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr.

I'm rereading this for a book club. I think my last read was probably 20 or so years ago, so there's a lot of the book (especially the last two sections) that I don't remember, so it's almost like reading a new book.

[Nancy]

Currently reading Infinite Jest. At this point it will take me the rest of the year! Keep going back to dig out the meanings of all the words and references I don't know. But I want to get all I can out of this book now. Even though I'm enjoying the humor and wordplay, I can't see myself retaking the same time and effort to read this again in the near future.

[Onni]

Has anyone read any good WWII novels/biographies lately? I need some suggestions.

[Arthur]

Onnie wrote: "Has anyone read any good WWII novels/biographies lately? I need some suggestions."

The Wild Rose by Doris_Mortman and The Safe House by Jon_Cleary both are good fictionals. These cover the area of war. I'm not sure if this is what you meant in your question.

Also The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane_Yolen is totally interesting with its understanding of character, a point-of-view which centers on the main charcter who inadvertently goes back in time in this YA Fiction. It contains less than 180 pages and is really entertaining in a maturing nature of course which may make reading about the war time easier to enjoy and stuff.

[stormhawk]

Onnie wrote: "Has anyone read any good WWII novels/biographies lately? I need some suggestions."

Light post-war novel: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

I tend to prefer thrillers, and enjoyed Ken Follet's Eye of the Needle and Jack Higgins' The Eagle Has Landed, as well as several of their other works.

I also am fascinated by the Manhattan Project, and think that The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes is one of the most awesome accounts of that piece of history. There are a couple of novels that focus on that story as well, including Los Alamos, and there are some good biographies of Robert Oppenheimer.

[Asha]

'A Thousand Splendid Suns'- is amazingly written. Cant stop to finish it.

[Carol]

I just finished read The Love Goddess' Cooking School Very enjoyable. Wish it were a series.

Reading The Fashion Police

These are both nook ebooks.

[Elizabeth]

The Help- SO good! Can't put it down but I'm a slow reader. Would that go under 'historical fiction'? If so I believe it's my new favorite genre (or I just realized this!)

[Renee]

Currently reading Coming Of Age In Mississippi by Anne Moody. A very interesting book.

[Elizabeth]

Sobbed on the subway finishing The Help- haha. Pathetic?