What book are you currently reading?

[MIbarra]

I am just about to start Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.

[Rerun]

I am just about to start Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.

I remember my coworkers raving about this book.  Let me know what you think and maybe I'll check it out.

[monrein]

I really enjoyed Water for Elephants.  It felt like a trip back and forth in time and I couldn't put it down.

[MandaMe1986]

K I am out I need a book that is easy reading.  Any one have any ideas?

[Falkenbach]

Currently reading To Live is to Die, the Cliff Burton biography.

[jbeany]

Manda, try something by Lauri Notaro.  I just finished her "We thought you would be prettier" and laughed all the way through it.

[MandaMe1986]

thanks jbeany I will do that

[paris]

Water for Elephants was a good book.   

I finished Patchwork yesterday (about the cotton mills in the Carolinas) and today have started Three Cups of Tea. 

[kitkatz]

DragonBones

[marti824]

razor sharp by Fern Michels, the continuation of the sisterhood series

and
The Bridegroom by Linda leal Miller

both pretty good books.

[willowtreewren]

Oh, geeze. You guys make me jealous. I wish I had time for fiction! When I retire.....

So I'm working on a little tome by a Montessori parent: Montessori Madness!

[kitkatz]

I lost my current Mercedes Lackey book. No idea where it is!

[Jill D.]

I just finished "The Memory Keepers Daughter" -very good!
Also read last week while on vacation "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham

[pelagia]

I am so happy to read that so many are reading/have recently read Water for Elephants.  It's one of my favorites.  It gave me a good perspective on growing old.

Monrein - did you ever finish listening to the David Sedaris book on tape?  I want to know if the part about taking French class made you laugh.

A few months ago I read Daughter of the Queen Sheba by Jackie Lyden. Made me feel completely sane!

This one helped too -- After reading a piece about Nora Ephron (director of Julie and Julia) I learned that she wrote a book during the 1980s called Heartburn.  It's about her divorce from Carl Bernstein (of Woodward and Bernstein, Watergate fame).  I knew it would be funny and then there I was in a dusty old book store, checking under the Es in fiction just for the heck of it, and suddenly there was the book 7 feet up in the air calling to me.  It is very funny and sad and ascerbic -- and perfectly appropriate for my state of mind this summer.

Now I am reading Zorro by Isabel Allende.

Aleta - here's what a friend told me.  "Put a book on the table next to your bed.  Even if all you can read is just a couple of pages every night it's worth it."  Some nights I don't even get through two pages, but at least now I am reading for enjoyment.

[cariad]

I am reading Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God by Jack Miles, the author of God: A Biography.

His angle is to look at the central figures in the Bible (God in the first book, Jesus in the second) as characters in a story, and, as he explains in the first book, analyze them the way a person might analyze the actions of Hamlet. He is more than qualified to analyze the Bible (familiar, possibly even fluent in the original languages of the Bible, a Jesuit Seminarian for 10 years, a prof of theology currently). I would recommend the first book. This second one does not resonate as much, but I still like it, though I'm getting lost in many of the details.

He throws all sorts of interesting trivia in between the more profound sections, like apparently we should technically be calling Jesus 'Joshua', but his name was mistranslated from the original Greek long ago. Who knew?

[tyefly]

Sounds interesting Cariad......   I am readiing about our National Parks here in the US and how they were formed.  I like Geology and the development of mountains like the Cascades is very interesting.  Anyway  I think the tread is great and Iam glad I found it.... I will be reading alot more now that I am starting D.....

[YLGuy]

I am borrowing a copy of The Shack tomorrow.  A bunch of people said it is pretty good.

[kitkatz]

Phoenix Transformed by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory.   The third book in a trilogy of science fiction fantasy.

[pelagia]

I just finished Into Thin Air by John Krakauer, which was perfect because I feel like I climbed Mt. Everest this summer!

Now I'm reading Into the Wild by the same author.  I can hardly put his books down.

I'm planning to his book read Under the Banner of Heaven and read Eiger Dreams, last winter, so I think I'll have read everything he's written soon.

[looneytunes]

I just finished Sarah Morgan's Civil War Diary.  Thought it was going to be tough to get through (is pretty lengthy) but flew through it.  Quaint period language and very interesting perceptions of a young confederate girl.

[lizabee]

I just finished Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark, Excellent!
I am going to start The Husband by Dean Koontz now.

[Darthvadar]

I'm reading 'Enslaved'... True stories of modern day slavery....

Very disturbing... Talk about Man's inhumanity to Man....

[boogreenwood]

Just finished Heartsick, Sweetheart, and Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain. Very entertaining serial killer stuff. I am eagerly awating Under the Dome by Stephen King.

[rookiegirl]

The Shack by William P. Young

[okarol]

I am going to start The Husband by Dean Koontz now.

That was sooo good!
Did you read Odd Thomas by Koontz? There were 4 in a series, best character EVER!