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

[steph08]

Oct 9, 2015 9:21:01 GMT -5 oped said:

I listen to audiobooks when I clean The Martian was a really good audio too. Some aren't.

I listened to the audio as well. I really enjoyed the narrator.

[Chocolate Lover]

I have Joe Hill's Locke and Key on audio. You might still be able to get it free from Audible if you like his stuff. I have not yet started listening because I keep forgetting I have it. :/

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

I reserved Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave in June or July. It is finally my turn! I just started it today. Great exposition.  

[Artemis Windsong]

I have quite the list now from reading this thread.

Kindly put the author's name in case there are several books with the same/similar title.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

I am finishing up The Memory Painter.   I think it's really good.

It's a book about reincarnation and souls connecting thru time all the way back to Ancient Egypt.   

[Artemis Windsong]

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[Artemis Windsong]

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan.  Honeymoon jitters of a virgin couple.  Descriptive emotions.

[beergut]

Just finished Rick Riordan's "Magnus Chase and The Sword of Summer", first book in his new Gods of Asgard series. 

After doing Greek and Egyptian mythology, he is now taking on Norse mythology. Good stuff. 

Also read "Buck: A Memoir" by MK Asante.

Bought it because 15 yr old was reading it for a class, and then read it so we could talk about it. 

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

I am about to finish Beach Town. I DO NOT recommend. The writing is crappy. 

[Artemis Windsong]

I finished Eight Hundred Grapes.  I really enjoyed the surprises!

[Artemis Windsong]

Suspense book The Girl on the Train.  I just finished it.

[msventoux]

I need to read this thread for suggestions.  I used to love to read but haven't done so for pleasure for a long time.  My early new year's resolution is to try to read a book a week...3 down so far, a bunch more to go!

[Apple]

I read three books in three days, haven't done that for a long time.  It was the "A Child Called It" trilogy, and... wow.  There really are not words (horrible doesn't even come close, that poor, poor child).  I couldn't put it down.

I think the next book I'll be reading is The Shining.  I have no idea how I haven't read it earlier, I love Stephen King books.

[Happy prose]

Nov 19, 2015 21:11:13 GMT -5 Artemis Windsong said:

Suspense book The Girl on the Train.  I just finished it.

There now making a movie. I plan to see it.

[Happy prose]

Currently reading The Summer I Dared by Barbara Delinski. So far I like it.

[Chocolate Lover]

Nov 20, 2015 2:54:25 GMT -5 Apple said:

I read three books in three days, haven't done that for a long time.  It was the "A Child Called It" trilogy, and... wow.  There really are not words (horrible doesn't even come close, that poor, poor child).  I couldn't put it down.

I think the next book I'll be reading is The Shining.  I have no idea how I haven't read it earlier, I love Stephen King books.

I've read the first one, and I think I also read the other two, but the first one is still on my bookshelf....giving me the eye. It'll haunt you for sure. I'm not sure there's a word in any language for what the poor kid went through. 


WTF You haven't read The Shining!?! Get on it!  And then Dr. Sleep right after. 

[Apple]

Nov 20, 2015 15:48:00 GMT -5 Chocolate Lover said:

Nov 20, 2015 2:54:25 GMT -5 Apple said:

I read three books in three days, haven't done that for a long time.  It was the "A Child Called It" trilogy, and... wow.  There really are not words (horrible doesn't even come close, that poor, poor child).  I couldn't put it down.

I think the next book I'll be reading is The Shining.  I have no idea how I haven't read it earlier, I love Stephen King books.

I've read the first one, and I think I also read the other two, but the first one is still on my bookshelf....giving me the eye. It'll haunt you for sure. I'm not sure there's a word in any language for what the poor kid went through. 


WTF You haven't read The Shining!?! Get on it!  And then Dr. Sleep right after. 

Lol, I have Dr. Sleep on the bookshelf!  I got it not realizing it was a sequel, and it made me realize I'd never read The Shining (although I've seen the movie many times).

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The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto: Mitch Albom

[Artemis Windsong]

DH has been reading Daniel Silva.  He was surprisingly on about recent events in Paris and other places.  It was written in 2009.  Was it a foreshadowing or a how to manual?

He read Lee Child's Make Me in 2 days.

[steph08]

Me Before You was the last book I read. I enjoyed it for what it was.

Now I'm on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Interesting story but I think the writing is lacking.

[cktc]

I just finished Ready Player One and Room. I think it was you all who recommended those. Now I'm back to trolling the library for more Brandon Sanderson Cosmere books.

[Tennesseer]

A Strangeness In My Mind by Orhan Pamuk.

[shopaholic814]

I get tons of free ebooks (at least 2-5/week) from BookBug. I download them onto my iPad & read them through my Nook app when I get time. I also borrow books from my library & read them on my iPad through an app called OverDrive that is in conjunction with my library branch. I have eye issues & reading paper is difficult, so I read on my large iPad, make the words large print & change the setting so the background is black & the words are white. There is so much less eye-strain & I have less issues. It's wonderful & affordable, compared to buying books I will read once or twice. If it's a book I love, I can borrow again or buy it on my iPad when it goes on sale. 

I'm getting some great ideas for new books from you guys, thanks so much! 

[Deleted]

I am re- reading Beach Music by Pat Conroy.

I rarely read a book twice but came across it while cleaning out the bookcase and remembered really loving it. I'm loving it again.

[Apple]

Oh, I'm also almost done with Forbidden Strawberries, about a woman who survived multiple concentration camps during WWII.  One of the very few children from her area to survive the war.

[Chocolate Lover]

Nov 20, 2015 17:54:17 GMT -5 steph08 said:

Me Before You was the last book I read. I enjoyed it for what it was.

Now I'm on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Interesting story but I think the writing is lacking.

I read the Henrietta Lacks book, I think they were trying to keep it as simple and understandable as possible. Still a very interesting read. ?

[Robert not Bobby]

Brooklyn

by Colm Tóibín...absolutely brilliant...it is about an Irish girl in the 50s who crossed the water to come to NY, and then love happens and sadness and inner conflict. Just a beautiful movie.

[beergut]

Nov 20, 2015 17:52:39 GMT -5 Artemis Windsong said:

DH has been reading Daniel Silva.  He was surprisingly on about recent events in Paris and other places.  It was written in 2009.  Was it a foreshadowing or a how to manual?

He read Lee Child's Make Me in 2 days.

 I think Silva's intelligence sources for his writing are legit. 

 He (and his source) has been incredibly accurate about the growth of extremism in Europe. 

[steph08]

Nov 21, 2015 17:04:12 GMT -5 Chocolate Lover said:

Nov 20, 2015 17:54:17 GMT -5 steph08 said:

Me Before You was the last book I read. I enjoyed it for what it was.

Now I'm on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Interesting story but I think the writing is lacking.

I read the Henrietta Lacks book, I think they were trying to keep it as simple and understandable as possible. Still a very interesting read. ?

Definitely interesting, I just have a hard time with books that jump back and forth in time. First we are in the 50s with the cells being taken and then back in the present with the family refusing to cooperate, then back to henrietta as a girl, etc.

[Artemis Windsong]

I read about Henrietta Lacks.  That is scary that the cells  take over everything. 

I feel some cancers are catchy.