What are you reading?

if you haven't picked it up yet, i'd be happy to loan you mine!

also, i've almost finished Room by Emma Donoghue. so, so, so good!

 

Just picked up Witch & Wizard by James Patterson. Book #1 out of 2 in a series. Just read the prologue and it already has me wanting to hurry up and read it. Going to try to read both that and the Girl with the Dragon Tatoo simultaneously!

 

Almost finished with Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and about to start Deadly Spin by Wendell Potter. Outliers (or any of Gladwell's other books) is really good. Very interesting and easy to read.

 

I just read Heart on a Chain really good mind candy sort of book...it is a little violent (it deals with bullying and abuse) but it is a very happy ending!

 

I'm halfway through The Emperor of All Maladies. Very interesting.

 

I'm just starting As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto. Very good so far!!!

 

I started My Fair Lazy by Jen Lancaster this weekend. So far she has me laughing, as usual.

 

I love Jen Lancaster. She is a riot!

 

Finally finished Girl With a Dragon Tatoo...after about 6 months. It ended up being really good, but the first part was so hard to get into that I probably will not read the rest of the series...on to James Patterson.

 

I actually thought the second two books were better than the first. The first just left me intrigued at how the story would play out.

 

I just read a couple of books I loved. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvatter (YA contemporary Fantasy-holy awesomeness), Handcuffs by Bethany Griffin (YA Contemporary--holy hotness!) and now I'm reading Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (contemporary), which is INCREDIBLE.

 

I just finished Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle...one of the most touching and inspiring books I've read in a long time. He's Jesuit priest who works in the Hispanic gang community and is the founder of Homeboy Industries, where they give ex-gang members jobs and try to get them out of the gang life.

 

I'm reading The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. Fascinating story with compelling female characters.

 

I just finished The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar by Terry Cheney. Very vivid storytelling. It better than her first book, Manic, which was pretty good too.

 

I'm now reading The True Story of Hansel and Gretel. Really good so far!!

 

Just finished Finding Noel by Richard Paul Evans, and Witch and Wizard by James Patterson, have no clue what to start next....need to make a run to the library...friend of mine says I need to start Sookie Stackhouse, but I can never find book one at the library. If the second book of Patterson's is at the library, I'll start that, if not, I'll probably read something that I've seen on ya'lls comments.

 

I am currently reading the first hunger games book, but put it on hold to read the new Jodi Picoult book sing you home. I love her books but this one frustrates me, I just want to skip one characters sections as his views annoy me, but then I would miss to much detail

 

I finished a A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore. And thanks to recommendations on here, I am almost done a Jen Lancaster book: Bright Lights, Big A$$. She is pretty funny.

 

I am reading Sammy Hagar's book, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock. ¡Mas tequila!

 

Reading another Kate Morton. These are fabulous. I'm a fast reader, but I can really dig into these for a week. Just great books. The one I'm reading now is the House at Riverton about an old woman recalling a tragic event when she was a house maid in 1920s England.

 

I'm reading Emily Giffin's The Heart of the Matter. It's okay but I am not loving it like I did her other books.

 

I just read that. I thought it was an interesting discussion of the whole SAHM/WOHM dicotomy, but I wasn't really happy with it overall.

 

Just picked up Lost and Found by Marilyn Harris. It's about a little girl who is adopted by a woman, and then gets put on the wrong train by her brother and gets separated for 30 years and both mother and child spend this time trying to find each other. From the description the girl has a pretty rough time during those years. So far, so good.

 

Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver, a collection of her essays. Very good so far!

 

Reading the last Kate Morton--The Distant Hours. Best so far!

 

I just finished the book on Saturday and I was not impressed with it either. I did find how she portrayed the WOHM/SAHM issue very well done. I'd like to imagine that Tessa went back to work at least part time.

I am reading Voodoo Science by Robert Park Very interesting book. I have the Hunger Games on order at the library.

 

Just finished "Heaven is for Real"

Reading "The Lincoln Lawyer" and "Water for Elephants" now

 

Just finished Bossypants by Tiny Fey (laugh out loud funny, very quick read- if you like her humor).

Now reading Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.

 

Rachael, are the Kate Morton books a series? or can you read them in any order?

Kim, love your avatar. Great picture of him!!

 

Not a series or connected in any way. She wrote them House at Riverton, Forgotten Garden, then Distant Hours. I read Forgotten Garden first then House at Riverton now Distant Hours.

 

I am reading Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron, by Jasper Fforde. It's an Orwellian/post apocalyptic tale about a world where there's a colour hierarchy. It's pretty entertaining so far. He also wrote a series called Thursday Next that I hear is quite good and I might check out after this book is over.

 

Yes, it is, isn't it? :wub:

I started that one based on a recommendation from Kendra. Never finished (which is quite unlike me). Must try again!

I just started An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin. I haven't got a real feel for it yet but it has sucked me in right from the start. I'm only three chapters in though.

 

I've recently read several of the Thursday Next books and they are quite entertaining. It takes a little while to figure out what is going on since the world she lives in is a little unusual....

 

I picked up The House at Riverton at the library yesterday.

I am probably at about the same place. Started reading it this week and am liking it.

 

House Rules by Jodi Picoult. Excellent so far. I'm finding it extra interesting and near and dear to my heart due to my brother and the class that I teach. I'm anxious to see how it plays out, I am just a few chapters in right now.