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What are you reading?
What book are you reading right now? How are you liking it?
Re: What are you reading?
I just finished reading Fortune is a Woman, by Elizabeth Adler. My SIL recommended it. It is a historical fiction that primarily takes place in San Francisco. It was pretty good actually. I enjoyed it.
I'm not sure what I'm going to read next.
I'm still working on Focault's Pendulum and The Lost Symbol on audio. They are both taking forever and are just okay.
I am such a book rut this year
Escape by Carolyn Jessop.
Pretty good so far, I'm about 100 pages in.
just finished The Book Thief last week. And now I am starting The Thirteenth Tale.
While I think THe Book Thief was a good, maybe great, book I just don't think it lives up to all the hype and awards it is getting.
I've read five or six of her books in that series and I love them. The Queen's Fool was actually my favorite though. Glad to hear you're enjoying it!
Are those books "Young Adult" fiction or regular adult fiction? It seems like every time I hear a recommendation for historical fiction, it turns out to be YA. Not that YA is bad all the time, but I'd like something with a bit more "meat" sometimes and I think I would like to read more historical fiction.
Definitely adult fiction. There is far too much sex (it's Henry VIII afterall) in that series for it to be YA.
Historical fiction is my favorite genre. If you'd like some recommendations, I could give you a list.
Really? I thought TBT was completely amazing. It got five stars from me and I would rate it as one of the top 3 books I read last year and maybe in my top 10 (definitely in my top 25) of all time. I found it so well written and different from many other books I've read.
Yeah I know I am the odd man out on this. While I truly like (maybe even loved) the story, I had an issue with the "gimmicks" in the book. I know he tried to be different with the writing style, but for me it didn't work.
I'd love to have your input. I already bought Molokai at a used book sale, so that's in my TBR stack.
I love Phillipa Gregory. So far I've read The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance and the Queen's Fool. I think the Queen's Fool was actually my least favorite, but I still enjoyed it. I recently finished The Hunger Games and it was so good! I didn't realize it was a series though so now I'm impatiently waiting for the second book from the library.
I love it when people have a book they read every year. I think that is so cool.
I have only read Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck, but the fact that you read Travels with Charley every year makes me want to check it out.
I just finished The Thirteenth Tale a couple books ago. I really enjoyed it.
The only Steinbeck that I've read is Grapes of Wrath, and I read that for an assignment in high school. I really enjoyed it though, and I've thought about re-reading it. Perhaps I should check out some of Steinbeck's other works too.
Since Grsweetpea mentioned Travels with Charley I have put it on my To read list.
But Kasa, you should also look into East of Eden. I think you may enjoy it.
I'll check it out. Thanks!
Mira, I just looked up East of Eden and it is described as having "many biblical references and parallels."
Would I still enjoy it without catching the biblical symbolism? My familiarity with the Bible is a bit lacking.
Yup I think so. I would say my familiarity with the bible was also lacking and I still throughly enjoyed the book.
I agree. It's a great book. The Biblical references are pretty easy to pick out, too. At least the obvious ones. My Bible knowledge is very low and I still got a lot out of it.
Hehehe! I tried to read that and I didn't like it. I figured I knew that I should pick my newborn up when she cried
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