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QOTD
What book are you currently reading or what was the last book you read? Can you give us a short review?
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Re: QOTD
Right now I'm reading Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King. Good so far.
Since Christmas I've read:
Room by Emma Donoghue. It was good. Have to get used to the style of writing since it's from a child's perspective. Overall I liked it.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Excellent. At first I was feeling disappointed. Heard great things about it, but I really had a hard time getting into it until around 75 pages or so. After that I really loved it.
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks. Another good one. If you like his books this one is along the same lines.
Just finished reading Tim Gunn's new book, Gunn's Golden Rules. Quick, easy read mostly on etiquette mixed in with fashion world gossip. I'd say it's entertaining.
Other recent reads are King's Full Dark, No Stars (four good stories, pretty powerful because King just pushes the storytelling to the extreme--but he's Stephen King, so he can do that) and Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman (nice look at a closed community and the challenges that members face during the late 70s).
Now I'm just waiting for my Amazon order so I can start my book club read, Empress Orchid by Anchee Min. Though I might begin Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste while I wait.
Right now I am reading Pride and Prejudiced on my lovely Christmas Kindle.
Before that, I read Odd Thomas, which Mandee sent me in my Secret Santa package. I don't usually read Dean Koontz, but this book was just sweet and sad. I feel in love with the characters so much, that it didn't see the ending coming - a rarity for me. My sister says there are two more books in this series, so I'll be looking to add them to the Kindle soon.
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Cycle 12, IUI #1 - 33m post wash 10/15/10 = BFN
Cycle 13, IUI #2 - 15m post wash 11/16/10 = BFP, missed m/c, D&C 1/3/11
Cycle 15 - 18, IUI #3-6 = BFN
Cycle 20, IUI #7 = BFP!, missed m/c 9/14, D&C
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Last book I read was A Time to Kill, last July on vacation. I don't have too much time for recreational reading. It's mostly journals and such.
However, I'm starting World War Z next week. It's about a zombie apocalypse and I can't wait!
I'm currently reading Desperation by Stephen King. It's interesting, in a very Stephen King kinda way. I think I'm through the wost of the gross, gory stuff, so that's good.
I've been slacking on the audio books, but I'm about halfway though Brave New World, which is really weird, but interesting. We're sort of working our way through the top 100 must-hear audio books on Audible.
I'm also reading The Omnivore's Dilemma, but am having a hard time staying focused to read it for long bouts, so that's just sort of slowly happening.
We'll just not tell H about this little fact, m'kay?
So very good! I loved it and reread it last year. I can't wait for the movie.
I'm halfway through The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. I agree that Dragon Tattoo was really hard to get into, but it picks up and finishes strong. So I had to finish the trilogy.
Before this series I read the Hunger Games trilogy. Very good - I recommend it to everyone. My daughter is reading it now.
I'm currently reading Unbroken by Laura Hillebrand for my book club. It's a true WWII survival story and really interesting so far.
I had also started The Year of Living Biblically before I had to move to the book club book. It's looking to be pretty amusing so far.
Before that, I read Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese which I really liked, which was about twins growing up in Ethiopia after their birth mother died and their father abandoned them. And then a betrayal that comes between them.
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I'm reading Cue for Treason - a 14 year old boy in Elizabethan England uncovers treason while working as an actor for Shakespeare - to try and decide if it's too difficult for my grade 7s to read.
I'm also reading Going Bovine by Libba Bray - stoner teenager realizes he's dying and sees things. It's pretty funny.
I'm also re-reading the Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater. I wish I could write like him!
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I'm currently reading Heat: an amateurs adventures as kitchen slave, line cook, pasta maker and butcher. It's a writer who befriended Mario Batali and decides to undertake all the above from the title. I really like it so far. It goes from a bio about Batali to his challenges in the kitchen
I just finished the Devil in the Kitchen, Marco Pierre White's bio. another chef. and before that A cook's tour, Anthony Bourdain's first book based on his travels.
I also read Tim Gunn's Golden rules and enjoyed it.
I think I'm cooking obsessed. I am reading so many chef biographies and cooking so much.
I also reread all the Harry Potter books. I'm a very fast reader so I'm taking what you guys are reading and adding them to my kindle wishlist. I need some different stuff.
I just finished reading "guns will keep us together" on my kindle. It was a freebie, and apparently is the 2nd in a series. Oops! It was super funny and about a guy who's part of a family of assassins. I thought it was well written and kept me entertained.
I'm still trying to get through The Lovely Bones. I saw the movie, and I wasn't too impressed. Thankfully, the book seems to fill in a lot that the movie left out, which I was expecting. I just haven't felt well enough to read lately.
Current: The Book Whisperer--I don't remember the author. It is a nonfiction book about reading workshop in schools and getting students to read. It is actually really good.
Last: Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult--About a man who is wrongly accused of rape of a minor. He gets out of jail and tries to reinvent himself, but is then accused by another group of girls.
BFP 5/2/11, missed m/c, D&C 6/13/11
BFP 12/8/11--Little Girl E Born 8/22/12
The Hollow by Nora Roberts.
It's a triology by her called the Sign of Seven Trilogy.
Basically a town is haunted by demons and all hell breaks loose for seven days every seven years. 3 boys unleashed the demon, who were all born 7/7/77. It's a crazy good book, I've read them once before and I totally recommend them
I just finished 2 books. First, Into the Wild - it was a really quick read I finished on a 6 hour bus ride. It's the one the movie was based on about the young college grad who decided to go to Alaska and live off the land. I kind of hated it, I think it was supposed to be really inspiring but I couldn't shake the feeling that he was a selfish arrogant kid who thought he could survive anything and ditched his family without even a goodbye.
The other one was called First They Killed My Father. E got it for some background reading for work, it's a true account from a girl that was around 5 or 6 years old in Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge took over. It was amazing and I highly recommend it.
I'm now starting on She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb, I had a copy sitting on my bookshelf for years back home but never read it, and I was browsing a used bookstore here and saw it so I thought I'd give it a go!
Now jumping domestically.
Well that was a crazy couple of years.