What are YOU reading? (Formerly Summer of Books...)

[steph08]

Right now I'm reading Angela's Ashes and listening to Something Wicked This Way Comes.

I like AA, took me a little while to get into the writing.

Something Wicked - eh.

Love HP! Re-reading them is what I will be doing after finishing AA.

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Tripp... did you read World War Z? We loved that, listened to it.

I just didn't list my 'juvenile' stuff ... eta by this I mean crappy reading like romances. I don't consider YA or HP to be juvenile

[Chocolate Lover]

Jun 8, 2015 16:25:35 GMT -5 southernsusana said:

I bought Dark Places for my Kindle a while back but never got to it.  Let me know what you think when you finish it.

Anybody else have Amazon Prime and a Kindle? They give you a free book from 3 choices as part of the monthly Kindle First program.  I chose A Dark Lure this month. I like suspense, and this one seems really well-written so far.     It won't be available to the general public until next month, though.

I read that one last week. Did you finish it?  I liked it but that kind of stuff is right up my alley.

I'm loving the Kindle First thing. Except when the book ends on a cliff hanger. That sucks a lot with brand new books. It's not even released properly and you already can't wait on the next one. Oh well, if I survived waiting out The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, I can survive any wait.

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If you liked A Dark Lure, you should try the Willow Rose series. (She's the author.) They often come up free on Bookbub. She's a Scandinavian author, which makes her settings interesting. I did like A Dark Lure.

Has anyone else preordered Harper Lee's new book?  I did, and Amazon says it has shipped.  Supposedly, Atticus is a racist.  I'm not surprised.  I heard that criticism when I was in graduate school twenty years ago.  It was more like a paternalistic form of racism in TKM, though.

I'll be interested in the reading the book although the first chapter was rather bad.

[snapdragon]

Jul 12, 2015 13:32:37 GMT -5 trippypea said:

Everyone is reading such grownup books! Me, I've been on a zombie/post apocalyptic/disaster fiction kick. I get most of my books for the Kindle because I read fast and go through them quickly, so it's cheapest.

I just got into John Ringo. He has a excellent zombie series the first book is "under a graveyard sky". I am just adoring the series and characters. 

[Chocolate Lover]

Jul 13, 2015 16:01:54 GMT -5 southernsusana said:

If you liked A Dark Lure, you should try the Willow Rose series. (She's the author.) They often come up free on Bookbub. She's a Scandinavian author, which makes her settings interesting. I did like A Dark Lure.

Has anyone else preordered Harper Lee's new book?  I did, and Amazon says it has shipped.  Supposedly, Atticus is a racist.  I'm not surprised.  I heard that criticism when I was in graduate school twenty years ago.  It was more like a paternalistic form of racism in TKM, though.

I'll be interested in the reading the book although the first chapter was rather bad.

Guess what I just started reading at lunch and where I got it?

I haven't preordered it, but will read it at some point. I might reread TKM first though. 

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Jul 13, 2015 16:11:19 GMT -5 Chocolate Lover said:

Jul 13, 2015 16:01:54 GMT -5 southernsusana said:

If you liked A Dark Lure, you should try the Willow Rose series. (She's the author.) They often come up free on Bookbub. She's a Scandinavian author, which makes her settings interesting. I did like A Dark Lure.

Has anyone else preordered Harper Lee's new book?  I did, and Amazon says it has shipped.  Supposedly, Atticus is a racist.  I'm not surprised.  I heard that criticism when I was in graduate school twenty years ago.  It was more like a paternalistic form of racism in TKM, though.

I'll be interested in the reading the book although the first chapter was rather bad.

Guess what I just started reading at lunch and where I got it?

I haven't preordered it, but will read it at some point. I might reread TKM first though. 

The Willow Rose series?  You will like it. 

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Okay, I just went through the Oprah Book Club List. This is what I've checked out based on being available. 

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (I haven't read him since college)
Until the Real Thing Came Along by Elizabeth Berg (This wasn't actually on Oprah's list; the one that was wasn't currently available. I've read another of her books, Open House I think it was called. It was decent.)
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell


I forgot I had also started Olive Twist last year and, since I find Dickens' writing to be a bit dense, thick not dumb, it's taken me a long while to get through. I need to go back to that. 

This is what I already had on hold: 
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Beach Town by Mary Kay Andrews
The Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear (This is the newest book in the Maise Dobbs series.)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

[Chocolate Lover]

Jul 13, 2015 16:48:54 GMT -5 southernsusana said:

Jul 13, 2015 16:11:19 GMT -5 Chocolate Lover said:

Guess what I just started reading at lunch and where I got it?

I haven't preordered it, but will read it at some point. I might reread TKM first though. 

The Willow Rose series?  You will like it. 

Yep. I think it's book 7 but I'm not opposed to reading out of order. I'm liking it so far. 

[lexxy703]

I just finished The Girl on the Train.  It was good.

I am getting ready to start Redeployment.

[Chocolate Lover]

Dang it!!!!

I think you caught me in time.

ETA: The series I'm on has 2 more books according to Amazon, so it must be the other one that'd be ruined.

[wvugurl26]

Jul 12, 2015 14:17:03 GMT -5 oped said:

Tripp... did you read World War Z? We loved that, listened to it.

I just didn't list my 'juvenile' stuff ... eta by this I mean crappy reading like romances. I don't consider YA or HP to be juvenile

Sometimes I only have brain power left for crappy romances. I have piles of other stuff both real books and on my kindle. Work is just sucking all my brain power lately. That and not enough sleep.

This thread did help me figure out the kindle lending thing.

[jeep108]

Jul 13, 2015 21:11:45 GMT -5 Knee Deep in Water Chloe said:

Okay, I just went through the Oprah Book Club List. This is what I've checked out based on being available. 

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (I haven't read him since college)
Until the Real Thing Came Along by Elizabeth Berg (This wasn't actually on Oprah's list; the one that was wasn't currently available. I've read another of her books, Open House I think it was called. It was decent.)
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell


I forgot I had also started Olive Twist last year and, since I find Dickens' writing to be a bit dense, thick not dumb, it's taken me a long while to get through. I need to go back to that. 

This is what I already had on hold: 
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Beach Town by Mary Kay Andrews
The Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear (This is the newest book in the Maise Dobbs series.)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

 I read Eight Hundred Grapes it was a quick easy read.   I thought the main character acted more like a little girl than an adult.

I'm starting on the Second Grave On The Left,  by Darynda Jones. There are 8 books in this series.  So I should be good for the rest of the summer.

[vonna]

I love to read. But sometimes I need a "little nudge" to read actual books, instead of just randomly hitting links on the web.

I think this thread has encouraged me to re-look up my local library's book club -- I have found that when I keep up with the book club, I often read books I would have never picked out on my own.  Sometimes I still need the structure of a "deadline" to encourage me to read.  But I really have enjoyed the discussions, even for books I didn't like!

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Back Roads is violent, graphic, and intense. It is well-written and engaging if you can handle the violence, but it is not a pleasant read. It is a "questioning humanity" type of book. Just a heads up. 

[Artemis Windsong]

Just started Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger.

[Anne_in_VA]

I just finished The Girl On The Train.  I found the first 1/3 sort of dull and difficult to read, but then really got into it and finished it in one day.  I'm looking at everyone's lists to try and decide what to read next.  

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Jul 19, 2015 19:16:06 GMT -5 Artemis Windsong said:

Just started Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger.

Did you like it?

I just finished it and I did.

[Artemis Windsong]

I finished it.  Yes, I liked it.  My book group will be discussing it on Friday.

[Artemis Windsong]

I am reading Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult. The book has a lot of information from a psychic on the veil between the living and the dead. The story is a mystery surrounding an elephant sanctuary, how elephants grieve, and the teenager looking for her mother who vanished. The teenager hired the psychic and a PI. 

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I'm reading The Mathematician's Shiva. 

Ive been doing very very little good reading lately  

[Deleted]

OMG I am LOooooooving Wool! Thanks whoever

Can I change this title to What are you reading? Current... SO we can keep an ongoing book thread....

[weltschmerz]

I just started Room, by Emma Donaghue. So far, it's excellent.

www.emmadonoghue.com/books/novels/room-the-novel.html

It's told from the perspective of five year old Jack, who has been held captive in an 11 x 11 room his entire life, along with his mother. He has no concept of a world outside the room.

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Finished Wool! Downloading Shift  

[gs11rmb]

I'm about 200 pages into The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen.  Excellent!!!  I love the Department Q series.

Last week, for my bookclub, I read "How to Build a Girl" by Caitlin Moran.  It was a quick read and very funny in places but overall, I found it to be quite sad.

[The Captain]

Just finished "Ready Player One".  (sings) It Was AWESOME!!!

Plowed through it in six hours.  Stuck in bed for a few days so the timing of it coming from the Library was perfect.

I have "The Martian" on reserve, that's next.

[Chocolate Lover]

Oct 4, 2015 11:48:09 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

I just started Room, by Emma Donaghue. So far, it's excellent.

www.emmadonoghue.com/books/novels/room-the-novel.html

It's told from the perspective of five year old Jack, who has been held captive in an 11 x 11 room his entire life, along with his mother. He has no concept of a world outside the room.

I read that, it was great and horrible at the same time. 

[Chocolate Lover]

Oct 4, 2015 20:35:10 GMT -5 oped said:

Finished Wool! Downloading Shift  

I'm right behind you! Close to the end of Wool....

[weltschmerz]

Room won a list of awards as long as your arm. Yes, great and horrible.

[lexxy703]

I just finished All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.  I enjoyed it.

I just started Yonhlossee Riding Camp for Girls.  It is a first book for the author.  Anton something.  It is very good so far.  Not my usual type of read but my Aunt gave it to me to read.  She is an avid reader & since she has been visiting I have broadened my reading horizons (and saved a fortune on books).