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What are you reading?
I've been reading mainly blogs for a while now and I'm getting totally bored with that.
What books are you reading now?
i just put 102 minutes on hold @ my library so hopefully I'll be able to pick it up tomorrow since it's just at another branch (that i'm to lazy to drive to).
Re: What are you reading?
I am actually about to read The Help, so I can see the movie.
I also have, Dear John sitting on my bookshelf. I bought it after seeing the movie (not realizing it was another Nicholas Sparks book)
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I'm currently reading Rebecca. My mom was named after it, so I figured I should read it eventually. Next on my list are Into the Wild, One Day, Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and bunches of others. Oh, I do want to read Mini-Shopaholic, since I've read all the other Shopaholic books.
my read shelf:
I have The Help on hold... i'm # 96 out of 324, lol. I think it's going to be awhile.
I've been trying to find books that I can d/l through my libraries d/l book program, but they don't have a very big selection.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. It was half off on amazon the other day and I've been dying to read it. With good reason - I haven't put it down (during my free time) since I started on Saturday and I'm half way through. http://rebeccaskloot.com/the-immortal-life/ Warning - this book is more than 100 pages. I know a lot of people here don't like long books.
Next up is Use Me.
I just finished Tina Fey's book (Bossypants). I really liked it - quick, fun, easy read.
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Harry Potter 5. Yes, I know I'm about 10 years late.
My silly Lily is almost 4.
Psh. You're 10 years ahead of me. I haven't read any.
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This is on my to-read list. I've heard it's great. I like non-fiction and I loved Anna Karenina so I think I can handle the length.
Kim, I loved Rebecca. I'd be interested to know what you think once you're done. It's like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf had a baby in book form. The intrigue and mystery with the colorful depiction of custom and social convention.
I'll defy much of the Harry Potter love out there and say that I didn't really love the first, and the second was good, but not something I'd rave about. Those really are written for older kids/younger teens, in everything from dialog to plot. Slow for me. BBB, if you can ever get past those, the later ones are very, very worth putting in the handful of hours it takes to read the first couple :-) Nothing is for everyone, though.
The only thing Harry Potter and Twilight have in common is that they're both extremely popular. I suspect that one will stand the test of time, and the other, well, most people will deny they ever read it.
My silly Lily is almost 4.
Right now I'm reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. I've been loving the series, but I'm at a bit of slow point. Hopefully it will pass soon!
Next up for my book club is The Glass Castle. It's about a dysfunctional family.
I liked The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's nest but I was pretty confused through out the entire book.
The similarity of all the names had me wondering if they were talking about a "good guy" or a "bad guy." I spent much of the book trying to figure out who was who. They had WAY to many characters in the 3rd book, IMO.
I read the Glass Castle. It was a good read, but quite a dysfunctional family. I had a hard time reading parts of it, because it's just too much to take in. I know there are people like this out there, but it's just hard to stomach some of it.
I LOVED the Help. The book was so much better than I was expecting. I would list it as one of my favorites. I thought the movie was good too.
My book club is currently reading Shanghai Girls by Lisa See. I finished it about a week ago. I ended up liking it, but it was tough for me to get into it during the first couple of chapters.
I loved the Help, Loved the Dragon Tattoo series.....need some intelligent books to read.
I have been reading random vampire/werewolf series' that border on supernatural softcore porn. Mindless chicklit, yes. But I think I'm getting dumber.
Ok, my "intelligent" recommendations, if you haven't read them:
Biography: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Fiction: Anna Karenina. If you haven't read it, it's one of my faves (as I mentioned above) and you have to read it before they ruin it by doing the movie with Keira Knightly and Jude Law. I hope I'm wrong about that, but there's just too much to the book that I think it'd be hard for a movie to do it justice- especially when acted with British accents.
Non-Fiction: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Just a fascinating read hypothesizing why some civilizations developed and were able to consolidate global resources while others seemed to founder.
Non-Fiction with a sense of humor: Anything by Bill Bryson.
Thanks:) This should help regrow some braincells.