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I absolutely LOVE to read, and my FMIL got me a Nook for christmas...something I really didn't want/have use for, but I'm really enjoying reading on it.  It gives me an opportunity to read books that I'm lukewarm about actually OWNING, instead of buying them from a store and cluttering up my pristine bookshelves (I'm weird and shelve my books with a heirarchy of their quality of writing, literary significance, etc...haha I know, so weird). 

After I kept seeing people reading "Til There Was You" by Jennifer Wiener, I decided to give it a shot.  I'd never read any of her books, but I read "TTWY" in less than 48 hours.  Since then, I've been reading some of her other books and enjoying them.  Much more character driven than plot driven, and sometimes I feel like they are more "beach reads" than emotionally deep, but they are really entertaining reads.  I'm about 60 pages into "Goodnight Nobody" right now and am enjoying it. 

Next, I think I'm going to re-read "The Great Gatsby" and then Diane Keaton's new book (can't remember if it's an autobiography or biography)

What are you bees reading right now?/

I'm reading The Hunger Games; I'm halfway through Catching Fire. I started the first book a few months ago but life got crazy and I couldn't devote time to reading. Now I'm pissed when I have to stop.

@sweetpea87: FI just finished up the Hunger Games series and is starting on The Game of Thrones!

  @Gemstone: Oh, I LOVED "American Wife"!! Such a good book, have lent it to many people!  I've also got Mindy Kaling's book in my radar!! Have you ever read anything by Sloane Crosley?  Really funny collections of short stories from her personal life.  She's so witty and her collections are really entertaining.  My favorite was "I Was Told There'd Be Cake"

@PitBulLover: Oh, I LOVED "The Art of Racing in the Rain".  Loved it.  I am a total sucker for all of those dog books.  I've had "Cowboy and Wills" recommended to me, which is on my list, and I've thumbed through "Inside of a Dog" which delves into everything from what it is like for a dog to live depending on their nose for most things, to how they guage/interpret the passage of time. 
I also recommend "A Dog's Purpose" if you're into books like that!

@twodoghouse: Ooh, I've been interested in "The Marriage Plot" after reading Eugenides' "The Virgin Suicides".  I've also heard great things about "Middlesex". 

@MrsAu: downloaded a sample of "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" on my Nook and read the first 75-ish pages.  It is really good, probably the next thing I'll read.  The reviews are stellar, so I'm excited for that. 

@MrsWrangler: Such a great book!!

I LOOOOVE discussions like these...it's the best way to get recs for new great books to read.

Has anyone read "The Devil in the White City"?? it's been on my bedside table for a while but I haven't started it yet.  I've heard it's fantastic though

Right now I am reading The Game of Thrones and have books 2 and 3 waiting on my Kindle. 

My most recent reads - The Hunger Games triology, A Reliable Wife, The 19th Wife, Pillars of the Earth

Next up - Cutting for Stone, The Paris Wife, The Tiger's Wife (what is up with all the "wife" books???), The Scarlet Pimpernel, Little Bee

While I'm thinking about it, in addition to "The Devil in the White City", has anyone read "Room"?? I bought it in a bookshop in London to read on a train, but got a few pages into it before I got distracted with the people I was with.  I heard excellent reviews about this but, albeit that it was a disturbing read.  I'm kind of apprehensive about it, but am curious about others' opinions!

@bookworm88: Those books--just like The Hunger Games trilogy--are HUGE.  My FI is loving them, and he is totally not a reader (before he picked up "the hunger games" the last book I saw him read voracioiusly was "Rapid Interpretation of EKGs"...yeah, SO nerdy ;).  I am hearing such great stuff about them, I might have to check them out...but I'm not usually in to medeival-themed books or sci-fi/fantasy stuff.  Do you think those books would appeal to people like me?

@bRooklynRocks: Honestly, books are probably at the top of my list of "things I spend way too much money on far too frequently".  I can't help myself.  I've only had my nook since christmas and before, I would unabashedly buy stacks of books at a time from bookstores because, honestly, I really REALLY love collecting books for my own personal library.  At upwards of $15 apeice for bookstore books, the $6-$12 range of the ebooks I've purchased seems more reasonable in my head, especially for books that I don't necessarily want to keep on a bookshelf.  Either way, I really spend too much, truth be told.

@bRooklynRocks: I get most of my books from the library.  I am also in a big city and the wait times are absurd, but the lines actually move really fast!  I just sign up for books (usually 10-12 at a time) way in advance and wait it out.  For Cutting for Stone I was #102 on the wait list, but I got it within 10 days.

@septcabride: I really need to look into checking out books from the library down here...I'm sure wait times for raleigh don't compare to NYC...maybe it would save me money!!

I'm reading a few books right now, I'm reading Quantum Wellness by Kathy Freston and I have Veganist by the same author lined up to read when I'm done with that.. And then I jump around and read Becoming Vegan from time to time but it's a bit dry and scientific so it puts me to sleep faster than I learn anything. lol

@CoffeeCup: I loved "The Paris Wife".  I acutally read "A Moveable Feast" and "The Paris Wife" back-to-back, so it was really cool to read Hemingway's real account of their years in Paris followed by the fictional account written from Hadley's perspective.  If you haven't read "A Moveable Feast", I recommend it as well!

A couple of weeks ago "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" came from amazon.com.  Haven't started it yet...anyone here read it?