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Definitely the first book that made me cry in the first 3%.

loving it so far

My daughter is reading this to me. I tried to give her one with more pictures, but she wants this one. It's slow going, since she just turned 7 yesterday.

This book made my wife cry. Apparently it's the first time this has ever happened while reading a book. Needless to say, she's now forcing me to read it. (Don't tell anyone I'm reading a period romance.)

Maybe it's because I love video games, but this book has me by the throat. Love it so far. Thanks for the recommend, Rachel!

Enjoying it so far. (Although as it takes on a more romantic feel, my interest wanes.) I'm going to take a break since the library keeps making me return it. (With everything else I've got going on, I can't read a book in three weeks.) I guess I'll have to wait until it's less popular then I can check it out without having people harass me to return it.

Not usually my genre, but I'm surprised how much I like the author's voice. Maybe this open my eyes to the wonders of historical fiction.

So far the amount of adverbs and adjectives is astounding. The prose is so bad, I had to double check that this was actually published by Scholastic. The meat of the plot better be knock me over awesome.

I love how this book picks up right where the last one left off. So far it's just as good.

Reading to examine Jo's writing style is fun . She gets away with a lot that most debut authors wouldn't be able to. Mostly telling adverbs, but the great plot and humor more than make up for the tiny imperfections.

This was one of the free books I downloaded onto my ipod touch. So far I'm like, "ENOUGH WITH SETTING THE MOOD! BITE SOMEONE'S NECK ALREADY!"

The concept hooked me, but so far Shusterman isn't doing it justice. And I'm having a really hard time with the narrator. Horrible horrible reader. Should've found it in print. But I suppose if I end up hating the book simply because of the actor reading it, it's Shusterman's fault for not getting a better reader.

This is the second time around (waiting for it on hold at the library) and I'm so bummed that I've got to turn it in soon. This book continues to surprise me. I think I'm enjoying it just as much as the Harry Potter series. (Which is really saying something.) I think I'm going to just buy it, instead of waiting on the library.

Oh my gosh this book is AWESOME so far! I hope I can finish it before it's due a the library. (Can they honestly expect one to read 700 pages in three weeks?)
Okay it's doable, but I also have a full time job, three kids, and a budding writing career. Give a guy a break.

Really love the premise so far. My only qualm is the over-use of adverbs. She used "eagerly" five times on one page.

I've only picked up one other zombie book (P&P&Z) and I couldn't finish it.
Bad Taste in Boys, however is completely different. Rather than relying on shock factor and ridiculous violence to convey humor, Harris uses wit and clever dialogue. I'm in love with Kate! So far this book has made me laugh out loud several times. (People were looking at me on the bus.) Unless this has an uber-crappy ending it's getting 5!

Slow going because I only read it to my wife on Sundays. So far I'm surprised at how good it is.

I'm still enjoying this book, but I'm starting to realize I'm just not that into hard core science fiction.

yet another book that didn't advertise it's sequel-tude. It's irritating to have all the references to the first story thrown in when I obviously missed it all. I would've been very happy to get the first book, HAD I KNOWN!

So far it's more interesting than I thought it would be. It flushes out the characters we know from the movie and makes them more real. I especially appreciate that Zahn has captured the sarcasm between Han and Leia that made the first movies so great.

I'm through 1 1/2 CDs so far I think I've laughed more at this than anything I've listened to. I think it's mostly the actor reading it; she has the dry wit down pat. I'm hoping it continues like this. The plot is slow and feels a lot like the book I just read (When You Reach Me) but the sarcasm is keeping me interested.

So far this is amazing. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes OSC.

So far it feels like Savy and Speak. But I'm enjoying how the female character isn't so caustic and bitter as the genre usually inspires

I'm loving it so far. The only problem is carrying it around work. I've already got coworkers calling me "Princess." (Oh the shame of it all.)

Pretty good so far. I have to say, the whole hippo thing really bothered me. It was like he was slapping the reader in the face and saying, "Man, you'll believe anything!"

two books left!

So far Voyage of the Dawntreader is way different than the movie.

Even though I just read Prince Caspian not too long ago, I thought I'd read a little until it became too tedious. So far I'm enjoying it.

Horse and His Boy is getting really good. Incidentally, I never realized how the title is turned around. (We'd expect the boy to have a horse not the other way around.) Silly me.

Almost done. I already borrowed the other two books in the series from Kristy. (Thanks.)