What book are you currently reading?

[MyssAnne]

Petey, I read Wicked!!! Yes, it's different...but it is worth it!!!! Try it again!! Or heck, do what I do, just skip chapters, read ahead!!!

I'm a very adventurous reader. I may read a book straight through. OR I may start at the back THEN go to the front and read it through.

Or I may start in the beginning then skip to the middle then to the end, then back again, or not.  The way I look at it, books are there
for ME, not for THEM!!  They're MY tools. I will use them as I please!!!! 

[glitter]

Right now I am reading 'America Alone' by Mark Steyn   --a look at how Islam and demographics are shaping the world we live in.

[Deanne]

I just fiinished "Me and Emma" by Elizabeth Frock.

[kitkatz]

My sister and I have a theory that there are many writers doing Dean Koontz books.  Because some of them are so good, others are mediocre.  You probably will not like Darkest Evening by Koontz.  I read half and skipped to the end chapters. Read From the Corner of his Eye.

[AlohaBeth]

I am reading Under the Tuscan Sun -- it's Frances Mayes true story on her adventures in buying a home in Cortona, Italy -- Their is a great (but not quite accurate) movie based on it - the book is fascinating.

I just finished PS I love you, which I had read once before but didn't realize it until the end of the book - definitely good if you want to cry...

Give Wicked a chance -- it's dark, like all Gregory McGuire books - but his charecters, settings and descriptions are amazing - really in depth!  Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is great too (the true story of Cinderella)

But I have some staples that I read everyonce in a while -- things like Pride and Prejudice and The Diary of Anne Frank are two of those...

I would recommend Veil of Roses for a light, but meaningful read about a woman from Iran who comes to live with her sister in America and knows during her six week visit she must marry to stay in the country -- really really wonderful and written by a woman who housed women in the same situations.

--Can you tell mom and I are readers?

[kidney4traci]

I read Poisonwood Bible too, it was interesting, I liked it.  I am reading the Appeal by Grisham.  Last week it was Dark of the Moon by John Sandford and before that it was Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child.  That is a Jack Racher series, I like those. 

[MyssAnne]

Lee Child is a good author. I like how he writes. 

[kidney4traci]

I like Lee Childs too.  Think I misspelled Reacher.  Anyway, I like that series.  The Appeal one I am reading now is a bit slow. 

[kitkatz]

I fished my T-2 Terminator 2 book. It continued the story after the second movie of Sarah Connor and her son John.

Today I am reading How to Talk to Kids.

[isurvived]

I am reading an orchid book, Classic Cattleyas by Chadwick & Chadwick  

[jbeany]

Just finished "Under the Tuscan Sun".  I've seen the movie, and this is the  book it was very loosely based on.  The book itself is a memoir, not a romantic comedy, and the movie only used some of the basic setting and a few bits and pieces of what happened to the writer.  I had to make Italian for dinner though - the book is full of recipes and incredible descriptions of Tuscan cuisine.

[kidney4traci]

JBeany = I thought of reading it too, as it has been mentioned here before.  Do you give it a thumbs up?

[Katonsdad]

I am restarting "Father Knows Less" .  I got side tracked by a local book called
Haunted Richmond about the local Haunts here in Richmond VA.

Katonsdad

[Falkenbach]

a friend just gave me a large bag full of books that she didn't want - I don't even know where to start with them! 

[jbeany]

JBeany = I thought of reading it too, as it has been mentioned here before.  Do you give it a thumbs up?

I thought it was fabulous - better than the movie by far!   

[Falkenbach]

Oh, another fantastic book - easy to find in Australia, but I don't know if it's as commong overseas - is He Died With a Falafel in His Hand. The author is  John Birmingham. The movie wasn't bad either, but the book was much better as usual!

It is about the time he spent in share housing when he was younger, and some of the crazy stuff that happened. Anyone who has ever been in share housing in their youth (i.e. most of us! lol) will probably relate.

[kitkatz]

Good Friends by Peter Jenkins

[meadowlandsnj]

Good Friends by Peter Jenkins

I've read in the last few weeks:
I, Claudius
Claudius the King
I, Elizabeth
The Boleyn Inheritance
The Other Boleyn Girl
Biography of Henry VIII by Will Sommmers his Fool
The Pillars of the Earth (the best book I ever read so far)
Reading now World Without End Ken Follett the sequel to POTE
I'm into hisrorical fiction.

Donna 

[Falkenbach]

Donna - you are quite a bookworm!

[meadowlandsnj]

Donna - you are quite a bookworm!

I get into times in life where I need something to distract me, to take my mind off things, ya know?  TV becomes boring and monotonous, it's cold and damp out.  I need something to take me someplace else, to escape life, I guess for a while.  I was always in the gifted reader programs in school, I knew how to read when I was 5 for some reason.  My mother always bought me books and read to me when I was little, she taught me letters and phonics and words.
They were the best times, my mom and me on the couch with her reading me a story and her having me read along with her. 

Donna

[skyedogrocks]

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult - Excellent book, but also a bit disturbing at times.  This is a huge book, lots to read.

[rimbo74]

Doubled Cross - James Patterson

[fluffy]

last week Children of dune by Frank Herbert na d something by David Eddings. This week Blaze by Stephen King

[kitkatz]

Obsession by Jonathan Kellerman

Just finished The Sword of Shanarra by Terry Brooks for the 2nd time.

[fluffy]

the shanarra books were awesome