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Do you like to read?

If so, what books/authors/subjects do you like?  I love to read and just started a series by J.R. Ward, the Black Dagger Brotherhood series (vampire romance, lol).  Someone recommended it from my work and I'm zipping through the 3rd one now.  

Maybe we can talk books and authors and suggest what books to pick up? 

Re: Do you like to read?

  • Right now, I'm currently on book 6 of the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris while watching season 2 of True Blood.  It's interesting to see the changes that they've made between the two.  I think I'm starting to irritate Adam because every time we watch an episode, I'm like "that's not how it happened in the book", or I'll accidentally blurt out something that's about to happen without realizing it.  I suck.
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  • Some people become librarians even though they're not huge readers, but I'm not one of them. :) I read a lot, though not as much as I used to.

    Right now I'm working on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I've gotten a lot of good book ideas from hanging out on the Nest Book Club board. I'm half-heartedly doing their Summer Book Challenge.

  • Kelly, how is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo so far?  My cousin was reading it over this past weekend and I briefly read the summary on the back and it seemed pretty interesting.
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  • I love love reading, but I get SO into it I don't want to do anything else! It's dangerous. The sookie stackhouse books took up a whole week and a half of my life.I downloaded PDFs of them so I could read them at work.  Reading is dangerous.
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    I love love reading, but I get SO into it I don't want to do anything else! It's dangerous. The sookie stackhouse books took up a whole week and a half of my life.I downloaded PDFs of them so I could read them at work.  Reading is dangerous.

    Where did you download them????  You mean to tell me that I could have been finishing up book 6 here at my desk instead of just sitting here trying not to fall asleep??

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  • I'm going to ignore the whole copyright-infringement issue up there... Ow.

    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is really good so far. I'm sad because I have to return it to the public library on Thursday, and I'm not going to be done with it by then. I have a feeling that somebody has a hold on it, so I won't be able to renew, and I'm too broke to buy my own copy right now!

  • I mainly read inspirational romances or historical romances. My favorite authors are Beverly Lewis and Lori Wick. I love the Twilight series though. I'm a hopeless romantic so anything about love I'll like lol. Currently I'm reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond for probably the 4th or 5th time.
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  • imageKelly5110:

    I'm going to ignore the whole copyright-infringement issue up there... Ow.

    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is really good so far. I'm sad because I have to return it to the public library on Thursday, and I'm not going to be done with it by then. I have a feeling that somebody has a hold on it, so I won't be able to renew, and I'm too broke to buy my own copy right now!

    I mean, if you PAY to download the pdf then it's not copyright infringement. 

    That sucks about the book.  I can't stand to have to stop reading a book midway through. 

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  • I'm a huge James Patterson fan and I recently read a bunch of the Emily Griffith books (Something Borrowed, Something Blue) there were really good!
  • I LOVE to read.  Anything by Jennifer Weiner, Whitney Lyles, Whitney Gaskell and a few others that I can't remember right now.  I'm reading In Her Shoes again by Jennifer Weiner.
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  • I am a voracious reader.  My siblings and I were all VERY early readers (I was reading chapter books before starting kindergarten, and reading at a junior high school level when I was 5) and now my nieces and nephews are the exact same way.  I loooooooooooove to read, probably one of the reasons that I became a teacher.  I could honestly just sit and read books to my class all day long, if only I didn't have to teach the other pesky subjects like math and science, haha! 

    Right now I am not reading ANYTHING because I didn't get a library card here yet (keep meaning to do that...) and I have been trying to scrapbook and write thank you notes whenever I can force myself to sit down long enough to focus on anything. 

    I am definitely, 100% getting a library card before the HM though.  While I don't plan on spending my HM reading, I will definitely need a few books for the plane, and for any time spent lying by a pool getting sun. 

    Call me a nerd, but I looooove the Harry Potter series.  I have read the entire thing a few times over now, and I still cry every time. 

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  • 4shared.com is where I downloaded from . I did the same thing when I read twilight haha. Is it any better than I actually already HAD the books? It isn't like it was losing anyone revenue! :)
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  • Love love love to read but don't like sci-fi n sorry not a vampire lover her although my daughters love all things sci-fi and vampire!
  • Stu, someone else told me about the Sooke Stackhouse series.  Are they the book version on True Blood? 

    I like anything mystery and since Twilight I am addicted to vampire books.  I also like historic mystery/romance like Philippa Gregory.  Lately I think I can read just about anything.  I love that feeling when you're totally into a book and you forget everything around you - it's like you're in the book.  Then someone says something or the phone rings and -bam- you're back to reality.

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    Stu, someone else told me about the Sooke Stackhouse series.  Are they the book version on True Blood? 

    Yep, they're the series that the show was based on!!  They're AWESOME!!

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  • imagealilfish:

    Stu, someone else told me about the Sooke Stackhouse series.  Are they the book version on True Blood? 

    I like anything mystery and since Twilight I am addicted to vampire books.  I also like historic mystery/romance like Philippa Gregory.  Lately I think I can read just about anything.  I love that feeling when you're totally into a book and you forget everything around you - it's like you're in the book.  Then someone says something or the phone rings and -bam- you're back to reality.

    This!!  I did that on the honeymoon.  I think it was the last day or next to the last day on the cruise, and all I did was sit on the balcony and read.  Adam would come out and read for a bit and then go back inside.  I could not put the book down.  I hate the feeling that when you read a series, and you're on the last book, and you're like, that's it??  What happens next??  I want more! LOL or maybe I'm just crazy.

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  • imagejehawley:

    Call me a nerd, but I looooove the Harry Potter series.  I have read the entire thing a few times over now, and I still cry every time. 

    I got this for DH for Christmas... I figured you might like it : )

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  • imagestu31105:
    I mean, if you PAY to download the pdf then it's not copyright infringement.

    Probably. Most legal e-books aren't in pdf format unless the work is in the public domain, though. I will not turn you in to the copyright police... but just you go think about what you've done!!! Angry Haha.

  • Hey, I didn't say that I downloaded anything yet Devil!!  haha.  I can't even get on sharing sites at work!!  The only pdf format book I've read has been the 5th Twilight draft that was on what's her name's website. 
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  • actually my old library had PDF books you could download and they'd expire after like 3 days. But yeah, these are not legal, and they are free.
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  • I loooove to read.  Some of my favorites that I've read in the past few years are: Time Traveler's Wife (absolutely amazing love story and so much better than the movie), Harry Potter series, Twilight series, Marley & Me, The Art of Racing in the Rain, anything by Nicholas Sparks, Jodi Piccoult, or Emily Giffin, Shopaholic series (just finished it and it was hilarious and I couldn't stop reading them), Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and The Book Thief (so amazing).  WHEW! 
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    I loooove to read.  Some of my favorites that I've read in the past few years are: Time Traveler's Wife (absolutely amazing love story and so much better than the movie), Harry Potter series, Twilight series, Marley & Me, The Art of Racing in the Rain, anything by Nicholas Sparks, Jodi Piccoult, or Emily Giffin, Shopaholic series (just finished it and it was hilarious and I couldn't stop reading them), Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and The Book Thief (so amazing).  WHEW! 

    Ditto these as well!! :)

  • I love reading.  I read while doing cardio at the gym, before I go to bed, and on my lunch break.  So I read a good 20+ hours a week.  I go through so many books I can't really be picky, so I just pick out books with pretty covers.  Whoever said you can't judge a book by it's cover totally lied.  Some of my favorite authors are Janet Evanovich, Mary Higgins Clark, Mary Jane Clark, Emily Giffin, Sophie Kinsella/Madeline Wickham, and Jen Lancaster.
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  • imageBuckeye_43:
    I read while doing cardio at the gym, before I go to bed, and on my lunch break.  So I read a good 20+ hours a week.  I go through so many books I can't really be picky, so I just pick out books with pretty covers.  Whoever said you can't judge a book by it's cover totally lied. .

    I tried to read while walking on the treadmill on my lunch breaks, but it aggravated my carpal tunnel/tendonitis/whatever because I had to hold the book up on the book rest! How lame is that? :(

    I agree. You can totally judge books by their covers. 

  • imagemeganjane86:
    imagejehawley:

    Call me a nerd, but I looooove the Harry Potter series.  I have read the entire thing a few times over now, and I still cry every time. 

    I got this for DH for Christmas... I figured you might like it : ) 

     

    Megan, I love that, I would totally wear it if only it were a bit smaller ;)  And also, I hope this doesn't freak you out but I think your hubby is SO hot!  He's totally my other type.  Rawr.

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  • imageKelly5110:

    imageBuckeye_43:
    I read while doing cardio at the gym, before I go to bed, and on my lunch break.  So I read a good 20+ hours a week.  I go through so many books I can't really be picky, so I just pick out books with pretty covers.  Whoever said you can't judge a book by it's cover totally lied. .

    I tried to read while walking on the treadmill on my lunch breaks, but it aggravated my carpal tunnel/tendonitis/whatever because I had to hold the book up on the book rest! How lame is that? :(

    I agree. You can totally judge books by their covers. 

    It definitely is annoying having to hold the book and I'm sure its even worse with carpal tunnel/tendonitis.  I have to be careful about the size and thickness so that they're easier to hold.   

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  • Reading is the best!! This is why I am an English major (almost graduated tho!!). Homework=Reading Novels. So out of my guilt for having not read ALL of the classics, my summer reading list includes War and Peace, Jane Eyre, The Last of the Mohicans, and some Shakespeare. But--surprise!--some of these classics are actually REALLY good!!!
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    Reading is the best!! This is why I am an English major (almost graduated tho!!). Homework=Reading Novels. So out of my guilt for having not read ALL of the classics, my summer reading list includes War and Peace, Jane Eyre, The Last of the Mohicans, and some Shakespeare. But--surprise!--some of these classics are actually REALLY good!!!

    I did exactly the same thing! I figured being an English major was the only way I was going to be able to read good books and get credit for it. And I, too, try to fill in my missed classics now and then.

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