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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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What are you reading?
Read anything good lately? Please share.
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Re: What are you reading?
Loved The Butcher and the Vegetarian. I just finished Bossypants by Tina Fey and loved that too. I'll pick up some trashy plane lit at the airport tomorrow.
I'm on the waiting list for the new Janet Evanovich and Heaven is for Real.
Big Stone Gap - really good
Sea Glass - pretty good
Just re-read the DaVinci Code - addictive, even on a 2nd read
I'm finally finishing Atlas Shrugged. I started it last year, and then life got in the way. So, I recently picked it back up (I have about a third left to go).
Someone else was recently really pushing "The Hunger Games" on me. So, I downloaded a sample to my Kindle, but haven't read it yet. Has anyone here read it (or the series)? Any thoughts?
Omg, yes, yes, yes! You MUST read this series! It's so good!
Just finished 'House Rules' by Jodi Picoult. Good, easy read.
Barely started 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' Can't get into it!
The Kitchen Daughter was SO GOOD.
Unfamiliar fishes (and then i listened to The Partly Cloudy Patriot and The Wordy Shipmates - all Sarah Vowell.)
I'm about to read Talking to Girls About Duran Duran and then the new janet evanovitch
That's b/c the beginning suuuuuuuuuucks! You can seriously skip that whole part w/him talking to the guy on the boat about all that financial shenanigans stuff. You can pick up the gist later in the book and it has so little to do w/the main story you won't believe so much time was wasted on it. Once you get into it it's a pretty good book. And the 2nd book is sooooo freaking good it's worth the boring parts in the 1st.
I am on book three of the Game of Thrones series. I love it.
I also loved Hunger Games and Cutting for Stone.
About a week or so ago I finished "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot. Such a good book if rather sad.
After that I needed an easy read so I read the 2nd book in the Sookie Stackhouse series. "Dead Until Dallas" I think it's called? "Dallas Dead?" "Debbie Does the Undead Dallas?" Something like that.
I just started "Game of Thrones" this a.m. on the BART. Well, I started reading it on my Kindle and thought, "Dang, they skip/gloss over a lot of stuff from the show! And it just starts w/Ned arriving at King's Fell??? That is so weird! What's left??" So I brought that up to DH who has read the books before and wanted to re-read before starting the latest (which just came out/is coming out this week). Turns out he had started reading it on his kindle and when I opened mine it just automatically skipped to the part he was at! Weird, huh? So... I guess I need to actually start the darn thing later! lol Good thing I've already watched the first season on the TV or else I would have been even more confused than I already was! Man, I'm kind of a dork, huh?
MIL has tons of books on CD so I borrowed a few to copy. Currently on my Ipod is "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Seybold, just finished listening to chapter 12.
Next will be The Help or two other books that I can't think of what they are titled.
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The only thing I disliked about HG is that there are only three books!!!! It is sooo freaking good.
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Too me three times to get through the first 100 pages. Definitely picks up after that. I really loved all three books once I got through that first slow drag. Hang in there.
Shmoopie...You crack my shizz up....Seriously!
Oh, Sookie, Sookie....I LOVE my Sookie books.
The same author wrote another series with Grave in all the titles (only four so far), they are pretty entertaining...definitely more mystery type books.
I have GoT on deck next...I'm loving the HBO series and I can't wait to dive in.
Right now I'm reading Suzanne Collins' (HG) first series Gregor the Overlander (YA). Entertaining, but not nearly as gripping or polished as HG. Definitely easy tween reading.
I want to get Jaycee Duggard's memoir, but I read the first chapter on Amazon and the writing style is hard to get past for me....don't know if I'm as gung ho now...might wait for a bit.
I've been reading through the books by Cathy Lamb:
Julia's Chocolates
The Last Time I Was Me (Excellent, I had a hard time putting it down)
Almost Home
There are 3-4 more to get through.
Thanks for the thoughts, ladies! I'll be sure to read it before the movie comes out too!
That drives me crazy about the Sookie books! I don't where I am in them. Somewhere around #5 or #6. I can't which ones I've read and which ones I haven't, even though I own them!
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