Happy Friday! What are you reading?

dmlk413 · April 2014

I am reading The Tao of Martha by Jen Lancaster (so funny!!) and The Boleyn Reckoning by Laura Andersen. They are #20 and #21 for the year.

sassypants527 · April 2014

Jliongrrrl said:

I'm reading The Magicians by Lev Grossman and it's decent. It's not an adult version of Harry Potter as I had hoped. I liked the beginning part better but I'm hoping for a good ending.
I finished The Peculiar by Stefan Bauchmann on audio during my commute home this morning. I think I would have liked this book so much more if I would have read it on paper. The narrators voice was like nails on a chalkboard every time he did a fairy or woman's voice.
I'm going to start Dark Places on audio this weekend. Hopefully its good on audio!

They got me to read it by telling me it was an adult HP type book. It's really not, but frankly I loved it anyhow. The second book (The Magician King) is even better, and I'm looking forward to the third book...I think it's due out this summer.

I'm reading The Book of Lost Things by John Connoly. I like it a lot so far, but I'm only on page 35. I just finished Citadel by Kate Mosse, and I love it.

j*&p* · April 2014

I guess I'm in re-read mode right now. I'm doing a Days of Blood and St? arlight reread before Dreams of Gods and Monsters comes out and I'm listening to Name of the Wind again.

@jkfranklin, did you know that Tahereh Mari and Ransom Riggs are married?

mrsvedo · April 2014

I'm reading A Lost Witch. It's the last one in the A Modern Witch series which makes me sad but I know she's written other series in the same universe and with some of the same characters so I'm looking forward to starting those.

RevJen · April 2014

sassypants527 said:

Jliongrrrl said:

I'm reading The Magicians by Lev Grossman and it's decent. It's not an adult version of Harry Potter as I had hoped. I liked the beginning part better but I'm hoping for a good ending.
I finished The Peculiar by Stefan Bauchmann on audio during my commute home this morning. I think I would have liked this book so much more if I would have read it on paper. The narrators voice was like nails on a chalkboard every time he did a fairy or woman's voice.
I'm going to start Dark Places on audio this weekend. Hopefully its good on audio!

They got me to read it by telling me it was an adult HP type book. It's really not, but frankly I loved it anyhow. The second book (The Magician King) is even better, and I'm looking forward to the third book...I think it's due out this summer.

I'm reading The Book of Lost Things by John Connoly. I like it a lot so far, but I'm only on page 35. I just finished Citadel by Kate Mosse, and I love it.

Me too. I read it quite a while ago and I remember really liking it but I never picked up the second one. I should.

84Lauren · April 2014

The King by J.R. Ward. I'm only about 100 pages in, but I'm planning on blasting through the rest this weekend.

It's only #9 out of 52 for the year. I'm crazy behind.

sneetches · April 2014

I am still listening to Voyager. I have about 10 hours left. Then I am going to take a break from the series. I'm reading the new Nora Roberts on my phone, and I have a library copy of Ruins at home. I hope to finish both this weekend.

SusieBW · April 2014

I'm still listening to Doctor Sleep. I'm about 3/4 of the way through, and really enjoying it. It took me a bit to get into it, but now that they story has picked up, I like it a lot. It seems - I don't know, simpler? - than other Stephen King books I've read. Like there's not as much going on in the background or on the sidelines as I feel like there usually is in his books. There are fewer characters or something. I like it, though.

I'm reading This is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl. I just got to the Nirvana period a day or two ago, and now I can't put it down. Everything for him and for the band happened so fast, and I feel like the writing is keeping pace, and I'm really enjoying it now. Conversely, the first third of the book was more about the "times" than the "life" of Dave Grohl as a teenager, and I got a really nice overview of the development of punk rock and hardcore throughout the 80s, and how that lead up to the alt rock thing in the early 90s, but meh. Like I said the other day, I was biased against this one from the start, because there's something about a biography of someone who's still young and doing awesome stuff that doesn't sit right with me.

These are numbers 16 and 17 for the year.

krispy83 · April 2014

I'm reading Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink and This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper. They are both really good. They are 15 and 16 of 52 for the year and are both for SBC.

SRodi811 · April 2014

I'm reading One Tiny Lie by K.A. Tucker. This is the second in the series... I'm about 75 pages in so far and liking it. Book 10 of the year, and book 3 of the week. I'm on a roll!

sassypants527 · April 2014

RevJen said:

sassypants527 said:

Jliongrrrl said:

I'm reading The Magicians by Lev Grossman and it's decent. It's not an adult version of Harry Potter as I had hoped. I liked the beginning part better but I'm hoping for a good ending.
I finished The Peculiar by Stefan Bauchmann on audio during my commute home this morning. I think I would have liked this book so much more if I would have read it on paper. The narrators voice was like nails on a chalkboard every time he did a fairy or woman's voice.
I'm going to start Dark Places on audio this weekend. Hopefully its good on audio!

They got me to read it by telling me it was an adult HP type book. It's really not, but frankly I loved it anyhow. The second book (The Magician King) is even better, and I'm looking forward to the third book...I think it's due out this summer.

I'm reading The Book of Lost Things by John Connoly. I like it a lot so far, but I'm only on page 35. I just finished Citadel by Kate Mosse, and I love it.

Me too. I read it quite a while ago and I remember really liking it but I never picked up the second one. I should.

Do it! The second book was fabulous!

amaryann210 · April 2014

Gone with the Wind ( Margaret Mitchell) is my lunchtime at work book- not very far in, but I love the writing!

A Casual Vacancy (J.K. Rowling) is my audiobook on my commute- almost done, and it's heavy. I wonder if listening to it, hearing someone say some of the awful things that happen, makes it heavier for me than if I were reading it.

A Heart So While (Javier Marias) is my 1001 Books You Must Read book of the moment- it'll go fast, but I'm not sure I like it.

Passanie · April 2014

Slogging through 61 Hours by Lee Child. I'm at hour 43 and I think something is about to happen.

sonore32 · April 2014

Mrs.GinTN said:

I finished Monuments Men last night. I really enjoyed it. I'm not sure what I'll start next.

OO I plan on reading that soon for the SBC, glad to hear you enjoyed it.

I'm currently working on:

Funny Cide (audio) - almost done with it...I was bawling at one point in the car today (happy tears) due to the book

Eleanor and Park (finally!) I'm hoping to make a significant dent in it this weekend

Washington: A Life...slow but good going

These are 16, 17, and 18 for the year and two of them will be for SBC

jlc1979 · April 2014

I am reading A Feast for Crows and Rebecca which is for my IRL book club.

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