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What are you reading?
Post whoring again to hopefully get things moving. Book club seems to be ebbing and flowing lately. I'm STILL waitlisted for And the Mountains Echoed and I'm too cheap to buy the book!
I just finished Where'd You Go Bernadette? and The Fault in Our Stars, both of which were fantastic.
I'm currently turning my brain to mush with a Nora Roberts cheesy romance trilogy while I wait for more of my holds to become available from the library.
Re: What are you reading?
I finished "And the Mountains Echoed" last week and enjoyed it (although not as much as "The Kite Runner" or "A Thousand Splendid Suns, both of which stayed with me for a very long time after I read them). Looking forward to discussing it when everyone else finishes.
I seem to be on a mystery/historical fiction kick. I recently finished "Inferno" by Dan Brown and "The King's Deception" by Steve Berry. Both are fun summer reads.
Not sure what to read next. A few people have recommended "The Engagements" by J. Courtney Sullivan.
Based on suggestions from here, I just finished Divergent and I started Insurgent the other day. I am really enjoying the series so far!
Im all over the place. Between recent book clubs and recommendations heres a few I either just finished, am reading, or are next on my list:
A Light Between the Oceans; Flight Behavior; The Aviator's Wife; Unbroken; The Handmaid's Tale
From these books I have learned thus far that: I have questionable ethics, WWII was even more harrowing than I previously understood, natural ecosystems are mind-boggling amazing, and Charles Lindbergh was a deceitful, womanizing a*shat.
I just read three books by Lisa See, that focus on the struggles faced by Chinese women during different periods in the past. Um, foot binding? Terrible stuff. In fact, most of the stuff these women accepted as part of their daily lives is incomprehensible to me.
And I also embraced my inner kid, and re-read the Giver. I didn't know there were 3 other books in the series so I read them too. Considering that they are for kids, I blew through them each in a day. I wasn't too crazy about the other ones, but the Giver is such a great book, and was well worth the re-read.
I got this as a free download ages ago and just read it for the first time. I thought it was a really interesting book, kiddie book or not
Hmmm. I wonder if I would like The Giver as an adult. I absolutely hated it as a kid.
If you have a kindle I'm happy to lend it
I finished Gone Girl and was kind of torn on it. I figured out the twist pretty much immediately and hated the ending. That said, it still kept me hooked.
I just started Cold Rock River, it was recommended and lent to me by a neighbor. Next on my list is The Paris Wife, which has been recommended by several people
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I was reading The Honest Truth by Jessica Alba, but I had to stop because I was getting so grossed out by the amount of chemicals we come into contact every day (....and I am sooooo not one of those hippy-dippy-only-eat-organics type).
I am waiting patiently for Where'd You Go Bernedette to be returned to the library so I can snag it. Until then I am passing the time with some Sophie Kinsella book I snagged at a yard sale for a buck.