What are you reading?

I just finished Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah. What a good book! Now, I get to start the Book of the Month!!

 

Anyone read Wicked the life and times of the wicked witch of the west? A friend of mine and I are going to see the musical and I want to know if it is something I should read before I see the musical.

 

I never read it (but I think it was our BOTM at one point). I did see the musical and I LOVED it.

 

I have read it twice. It is very good.

 

I read Wicked on the plane flying back from America last time I was over, brilliant book, well worth a read.

 

Thanks! I'm going to check it out tomorrow, hopefully the library will have it in.

 

Loved The Help and The Last Song. I am a big Jennifer Weiner fan, but like Emily Giffin and Jodi Piccoult better! I just finished an old one that I just got my hands on - The Patron Saint of Liars, and really enjoyed it. Also just finished The Virgin Blue and The House at Riverton(which I am ashamed to admit were just sitting around my house because I couldn't get interested and now I am trying to save the few pennies I have so I finally read them) and thoroughly enjoyed both!

 

I thought it was terrible. Really and truly terrible. It is NOT the musical or based on it in any way (except the title). I did the same thing as you when I was going to Chicago. I purchased it in the airport bookstore and read it on the plane. I was terribly disturbed by the book and actually canceled our plans to see the musical because of the book. It was only after I got back home that I learned the book and the musical were not the same.

 

Terrible? Really? Funny that I loved it. But I have never seen the musical, only read the book twice. I had no expectations of a musical when I read it either time so maybe that is the difference? I loved it so much I bought the sequels but have yet to read them. Here is an older thread about the series: Wicked

 

I tried to listed to the girl with the dragon tattoo and just couldn't get into it. I'm reading born to be Wild by Christine Warren right now

 

I am currently reading 2 books. Burned which is book 7 seven in the house of night series and Life as we Know it. Life as we Know it is about what happens in a small PA town after an asteroid hits the moon and pushes its orbit closer to earth. I am so glad this outlet is here I love to read and feel incomplete unless I have a book to read.

 

I just started Between Here and April. It is really good so far.

 

I've started reading While My Sister Sleeps. Good so far.

 

I just finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Excellent book...it was a quick read and it made me think a lot about patient rights and medical research in this country.
I just started John Lennon: The Life

 

currently re-reading the fall of hyperion. any other sci-fi geeks around here? :blush:

 

Most of the books I read are YA (since it's what I am currently writing myself).

Just finished reading Going Too Far by Echols. YA contemporary. Great book, quick read. She's great at showing romantic/sexual tension.

Reading now, Some Girls Are. Also YA Contemp. Very good. Pretty intense. Kind of sad.

Next book on my list is SPEAK which I have heard is really good and Some Girls Are has been compared to.

Then I will re-read Eclipse because I can't remember so much of it and I want to ready myself for the movie. After that, I will begin reading Percy Jackson's Lightening Thief series.

 

Just finished heratic queen by michelle moran which was really good and have started shadow queen by anne bishop

 

Burned is the book I am ready for...waiting for a friend to get finished so I can read it. That's a pretty good series.

I am now reading The Hobit for like the 3rd time (one of my all time favs). I just finished Wicked, Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the East and I really did not enjoy it. I am fixing to start on Eclipse and read it through for the second time before the movie comes out, and I also want to re-read the last Harry Potter before that movie comes out. I hate going in to a movie and not being able to remember how the book went.

 

Wicked seems to be one you either love or hate. I loved it and have read it twice.

I am reading: The Best of Friends: Martha and Me and enjoying it.

 

I am currently reading House Rules by Jodi Picoult. Next up is The Horse Boy by Rupert Isaacson.

 

I'm currently reading "The Golden Compass" and next up is "Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen." Mmmmm...

 

i am currently reading Amazon queen by Lori Devoti

 

Right now, I am reading House Rules by Jodi Picoult. It's good so far.

 

I just finished that book. I enjoyed it once I got into it. I almost gave up on the book (took me over a hundred pages to get into it).

I'm reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett

 

I read The Help not too long ago and really liked it. Right now I'm just finishing up The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory. I really like it. It's the third one of hers that I've read.

 

I'm picking up darkest passion by gena showalter, Stealing fire by Jo Graham and the last child

 

Jodi Picoult's house rules

 

Marion Keyes Last Chance Saloon and Deepak Chopra's Buddha.

 

I'm reading Little White Lies by Gemma Townley. Cute, quick read.

Nancy, I love most of Marian Keyes' books!

 

I just started Villette by Charlotte Bronte..loving it so far. I want to pick up The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo next.

 

I am reading the Lonley Polygamist by Bradley Udall... funniest and most enjoyable book I have read in a while.

 

I am dying to read this book, I have it on my queue in the library!
Maureen-I really do enjoy Marion Keyes, my SIL introduced me to her stories!

I started a Wrinkle in Time two nights ago.

 

I just finished Favorite Wife by Susan Ray Schmidt. TBH, this was a book chosen by the local book club I joined and I didn't think I would like it. Boy was I wrong! I finished it in 3 days, I couldn't put it down. It was such a good book!

 

I'm now reading Barefoot by Elin Hildebrand.

Aimee, I think I'm going to put that on my hold list at the library.

 

Kristin Hannah's Distant Shores - just finished her book Between Sisters and Elin Hildebrand's Blue Bistro.