What book are you currently reading?

[hubbyhatesdialysis]

I don't know if there is another post like this but I thought it would be neat to post about books we liked reading and a quick little info. on what they are about in case others want to read a good book 


I am finishing up a really good book right now called Heaven is for real by Todd Burpo. It is a really good book about a little boy who has a near death experience and visits heaven for a little while, the book is written by his dad and it talks about all the things the little boy sees and experiences while he is there. I believe whole heartedly that this is a true story and this book really gave me peace knowing that there is so much waiting for us in heaven.

[Riki]

There actually is one in the Off Topic section

[billybags]

I am having  fun at the moment, my husband has bought me a Kindle for my birthday next week and I am so busy down loading books I haven't had time to read them . It is weird not having to turn pages.

[galvo]

I've just finished John le Carre's latest- "Our Kind of Traitor". Simply marvellous! He's 80 now, but, boy, he's still writing magnificent stories about the murky world of 'intelligence'.

[ToddB0130]

I just started a true crime book called "Amy'.   I'm fascinated by what people think they can get away with (and in this case,  sometimes do ..... the case is still unsolved).  It is written by a guy who was the same age as the young girl at the time she was killed and how he tries to solve the case.

[Riki]

Rsudock gave me Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings for Christmas.  I'm trying to get into it, but not having a whole lot of luck

[chook]

Riki, sometimes books grab you from the first page and then others just can't get a hook in at all!
I'm reading a fanasty trilogy, almost through the first book The Last Stormlord by Glenda Larke. Loving it.

[willowtreewren]

I'm reading "Firstborn", the third in a trilogy by Arthur C. Clarke.

I enjoy Sci Fi for a change of pace. I recently finished "The Help" and "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." Both were quite good.

Aleta

[Rerun]

I finally finished "Steve Jobs" .  Please don't go back to see when I started it.  It is sad that I read so slow.

Anyway, it was interesting and a real eye opener plus a good walk down memory lane when it comes to computers.  I was a senior in high school when this all started so I've watched it grow.  My first computer was a 286.  Remember those?  A week later a 386 came out then a 486 and I'm not sure after that.  I never bought any of the Apple products like the "Mac" but I do want an iPad.  Steve Jobs may have been a Genius, but not a very nice or good person.  I guess he probably knows that by now.   

[Poppylicious]

I'm having a go at Jasper Fforde's 'Shades of Grey'.  It's not bad, but I'm not very far in ... it's about a future earth where much that we know today has been lost and people are given a place in society based on their perception of colour.  I find fantastical books difficult to grasp, but I will get through this one!

Rsudock gave me Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings for Christmas.  I'm trying to get into it, but not having a whole lot of luck

Sometimes you have to put it down, walk away and come back a few months later.  I always have to be in the right frame of mind to read books.  I started reading my mum's copy of Ken Follet's 'Pillar's of the Earth' back in November, and couldn't bring it home because she was only half way through it.  When I finally got it out of the library a couple of weeks ago I just couldn't get back into it, even though I'd been enjoying it previously.  Odd.  I expect I'll be ready to read it again in the summer. 

[MooseMom]

I've just finished "Storm of Swords", which is George RR Martin's third book of his "Song of Ice and Fire" trilogy.  It took over 700 pages to finally get to the point where so many surprising things happened, so now I am in a quandry.  I'm dying to know what happens next, but I suspect that in book 4, he's going to take another 700 pages before he tells us anything of any substance.  So, I may have to take a break.  I might start "American Nations" next.  It is about how the historical formation of the different parts of the US have shaped political and social thinking in these desparate regions.  When our politiciians start talking about "American values" and "taking our country back" and "American culture", there really is no such thing.

[galvo]

Just finished David Lebedoff's 'The Same Man', a biography comparing two of the greatest 20th-century English writers, George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh. Absolutly fascinating.

[Riki]

I'd like to start the Hunger Games books.  A friend of mine is really into them, and I have a feeling she'll be asking me to see the movies when they come out.

As for the book I'm currently reading, I think that when Rsudock got it for me, she forgot that I have visual issues.  The test is a little on the small side, which makes it harder to read.  I think that's partly what's slowing me down

[Rain]

I am currently reading Widow for one year by John Irving. 

I suggest anyone who enjoys John Irving to pick it up, it's a great read.

[bansix]

"When things fall apart" - Pema chodron

[jbeany]

Tanya Huff's "Blood" books.  Campy vampire mysteries. 

[Poppylicious]

I'd like to start the Hunger Games books.

I know my step-niece got these for Christmas because she went wild about it on FB ... however, I know nothing about them.  Will I like them? (I do like a bit of teenage fiction [Twilight, LJ Smith, etc] and I'm guessing these are aimed at teens, but I may be wrong?)

[galvo]

You're still in your teens, aren't you Pops?

[Poppylicious]

Yes galvo ... not long out of nappies, me.

 

I like teen fiction; it reminds me of being young and carefree.  It also reminds me of how intense everything is at that age and I am so pleased that (kind of) intensiveness is behind me now.

[Rain]

I'm starting the hunger games in the next couple days so I will let you know how it goes.

[Rerun]

I'm starting "Killing Lincoln" by Bill O'Riely    I've heard good things.

[hubbyhatesdialysis]

I want to go buy the Hunger Games books and start reading them soooo bad, but I have been too lazy lately and haven't went to the book store - LOL Please tell me if you like them!!

[cariad]

The Cleanest Race by B.R. Myers on my NookColor, an analysis of North Korean culture through their myths, arts and literature. Cannot get enough of it.

[monrein]

Just finished "The Hare with Amber Eyes" by Edmund de Waal.  Fabulous read, beautifully written, fascinatingly historical in a broad way but made personal by the people at the heart of it. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/books/review/Buskey-t.html

[Poppylicious]

Finshed Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey.  It was fabulous!  Desperate to read the next one now, but not even sure if it's been published yet.  Moving on to an easy-reader (twelve year old boy style fiction), The Fear by Charlie Higson.  It's the third in a series, and I thoroughly enjoyed the previous two.  It's all about the end of the world and ferocious adults and how children cope with that.  A bit Lord of the Flies-y, but more fun!

Once I've finished that I'll find a Hunger Games book to keep me occupied (but only if Fforde has been slack on the sequel writing front).