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So I have sick with a head cold since my birthday on Tuesday and haven't really done anything. Though I have been switching off my time from reading the book fii git me and surfing the internet. I am reading Water for Elephants. So far I am really liking it, :)
What are you reading these days?
I dont have a book right now but I just ordered Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler & cant wait to get it in the mail!
@artwyopie: Oooh I loved Water for Elephants, they were filming the movie not too long ago. I just started reading "The Help" which has been on my list for a long time.
@artwyopie: I read Water for Elephants. wow, that's a good one! Right now I'm reading The Island by Elin Hildebrand.
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
Possession, A.S. Byatt. I can't get into Possession, but I rarely stop reading a book once I've started.
I just finished reading 1022 Evergreen Place by Debbie Macomber and am now reading By My Side by Nora Roberts. Trying to finish up reading my paperbacks before I get my Kindle for Christmas!!
hmmm some other books that I just finished, Scandal of a Season by Sophie Gee and Polly by John Gay. Both were for my 18th century lit class.
I do like the Other Boleyn Girl as well.
I have read trough alot of books lately, I can't remember them all due to this wonderful head cold./ lol
i liked water for elephants, though i was pretty sad for the elephants.
i'm reading the lotus eaters by tatjana soli right now. it's about photographers during the vietnam war. it makes me sad.
i did just read let the great world spin, which was good, but also sad.
jeez, i need to read something happy.
@cbee: i read poisonwood bible a few months ago. you're right--very good, but sad. seriously, i need to read something fluffy and happy.
@artwyopie: hope you feel better soon!
@artwyopie: I just got water for elephants in the mail today. i am glad you are liking it.
Am I ever reading just one book? I'm awful at sticking to just one, and the result is that I don't finish reading any of them. Well, right now I'm between Wuthering Heights and World War Z. It's quite the contrast between the two!
I've been reading The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia but I think I need to move on to something more uplifting for the duration of the holiday season because it's depressing me.
I really enjoyed the second half of Wuthering Heights. I read The Poisonwood Bible probably 10 years ago, but remember thinking it was a really good book.
I didn't get the fuss over Water for Elephants. Maybe I missed something, but I thought it was pretty average.
I love marget atwood I need to check that book out. Did you ever read The Handmaid's tale? It's a great book I read for a class.
@LGenz: Loved, loved, loved The Help! Enjoy!
My book club is reading Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls this month. I thought it was great. I had never read her memoir, The Glass Castle, which came out a few years ago, so I quickly devoured that as well. These are enthralling books and quick reads. Highly recommend them both!
Now I'm reading House Rules by Jodi Picoult for something totally different. :)
Giuliana & Bill Rancic's "I Do, Now What?"
Love them, love the book!
Just finished The Help. I really liked it. Really liked the different vantage points.
I just couldn't get into The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo! I tried but it just dragged on for me.
Next on the list is One Day by David Nicholls
I'm into short stories right now! They're fun to read and I love the variety. Neil Gaiman.
I've got a couple started but the one I'm moving through is Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell. I love her books!
@Gerbera: LOVE the Help.
I finish Water for Elephants in about 2 days. I kept on starting and stopping it. I thought it was pretty good.
I need a new book to read!
Are you there vodka, it's me Chelsea. Love Chelsea Handler and it's an easy, mindless read!
Count me as another one who loved The Help.
Right now I'm reading Marriage, A History, by Stephanie Coontz. It's a scholarly look at the history of marriage. I thought it'd be interesting to read as a newlywed.
I'll admit I'm totally reading some good old fashion 'chicklit' lol. I'm reading "mini-shopaholic" by Sophie Kinsella--of the Shopaholic Series haha. BUT, I read "The Help" and it was REALLY good, so I allowed myself to a single trashy read =)
I finished Kane and Able by Jeffrey Archer couple weeks ago and having that feeling where you're sad you finished a great book, you miss the characters, you wish there were 500 more pages of it...I'll probably try another another book by the same author soon and hope it will live up to this. For now, I'm reading an old reliable favorite that won't let me down: Reading the Hobbit for the third time.
I loved Water for Elephants! Currently I am reading Room by Emma Donoghue. It is super good and keeps you engaged. I recommend it!
I'm trying to find something new too, but I've already read most of this list!
I loved The Help so much that I started a DonorsChoose project to get books for my high school students to read!
I agree about Water For Elephants and Girl With a Dragon Tatoo...entertaining, but not the amazing reads that some people say.
I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I teach Kite Runner and love it, but hadn't read this one. I cried my eyes out and even had a nightmare, but it was an excellent read about women in Afghanistan.
I also just read Matterhorn about the Vietnam War. It wasn't "fun" but I learned so much. We never got to Vietnam in my history classes.
So I'm still not sure what to read next...maybe I'll do get The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest...
In Cold Blood - truman Capote
How To Stay Alive In The Woods - Bradford Angier
The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
After I finish these I'll be reading an auto-biography on Trudeau.
I'm reading Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard; it's her story about how she moved to Paris to be with the man she eventually married, interspersed with recipes. I thought it would just be a super fluffy enjoyable read (not that there's anything wrong with that) but she's also pretty frank about her issues about being in an international/intercultural relationship, and with marriage.
I've also got the Franzen's Freedom on my desk at work (snagged from the office book swap) but am somewhat daunted by the prospect of actually lugging it home and reading it.
I just finished The Widow Killer by Kohout ( Czech author) I tend to grab books from the International authors shelf at my library, pretty good book , the ending was so so
Tender is the Night by Fitzgerald is waiting for me. I remember how much I loved The Great Gatsby in highschool
I just finished reading Water for Elephants - I loved it!
Right now I am reading Still Alice - By Lisa Genova but I am not far into it yet.
Before water for elephants I read The girl with the dragon tattoo and I quite enjoyed it but I am not sure if I want to read the rest of the series.
I am just going to be starting The girl that kicked the Hornets Nest. I have read the first two book and really enjoyed it.
I have also started The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picolut but I just can't seem to get into it.
Im currently reading Kitchen Confidential By Anthony Bourdain :D And also following the books with the seasons of No Reservations...also by Bourdain
Both are hilarious!
Im also thinking about getting into James Patterson's Alex Cross novel series. Anyone read that?
I tried "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" but I couldn't get past the first few pages.
Just finished Stephen Hawking's "A Briefer History of Time," didn't even attempt the original! Just started reading J.R. Ward's series!
For anyone reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the movie is spectacular... subtitles and all! I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to the American version or not :/
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