Another book thread- what are you reading right now?
 

I'm reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera. It is lovely so far.

Everyone else?

i'm reading Sex with the Queen

Ballerina by Edward Stewart: I read it when it first came out in 1978 (it's long out of print), then happened to find a copy the other day. After that I'm going to read The High-Impact Infidelity Diet, which sounds cute and I'll report on it when I start

Just finished Lifeguard by James Patterson...good! And now starting Gone by Lisa Gardner. This month alone I have read...Eat, Pray, Love (bored me but I did finish it) Into the Wild (good), Wife For Hire (silly, but liked it) and True Believer(also decent). I love to read! Oh geez, I forgot the best one...The Diving Bell & The Butterfly...excellent, and very inspirational for me. I must see the movie now even though I know it won't be as good as the book.

I just finished "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See - I devoured it in just a few days, it was so fascinating.

Another recent favorite - "The Book of Joe" by Jonathan Tropper. So fascinating.

I am in the middle of "The Glass Castle" by Jeanette Walls. What an amazing memoir. I'm hooked.

I'm listening to a book right now. I love getting these things at the library and have someone read a story to me while I commute to work.

When Day Breaks by Mary Jane Clark. I've never read anything by her before, I think I'll look into more books she has written.

I'm almost done with it and I have Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery At Sea by mother/daughter team Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark ready to go. I know the holidays are over and reading a mystery that takes place on a cruise ship may be the wrong thing to do before our cruise, but I'm doing it anyway.

The Art, Science, and Technology of Pharmaceutical Compounding and Ansel's Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Drug Delivery Systems at the moment.

But when it comes to the weekend, I'm currently in the first book of Jacqueline Carey's 2nd D'Angeline Trilogy Kushiel's Scion.

It's either textbooks or trashy novels. I have no time for anything else ;>

I'm reading The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs. It's about Jacobs' quest to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. It's a great story, weird little facts that Jacobs learns interweaved with issues he addresses in his life (problems with self worth, conception, etc).

I'm about 500 pages into Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. It is a very interesting and entertaining book. I can't wait each night to pick it up and read. Up next are the autobiography of Eric Clapton, the new one by Sue Grafton and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.

Its always fantasy or sci-fi for me :) Bedlam's Bard by Mercedes Lackey and Ellen Guon

Ah, books, one of my favorite topics. :)

Mare - I love love love audiobooks. I have one on in the car all the time (just finished Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith) and one on my MP3 player (just finished Starburst by Robin Pilcher). I highly recommend both of these books.

Our library participates in a downloadable books program - you can download a book to your home PC and listen there for 2 weeks, or burn it to CDs or onto an MP3 player and have it indefinitely. I also buy books from audible.com.

Allison, I loved Pillars of the Earth and I can't wait to read the new one.

I'm a big mystery reader, and right now I'm caught up with all my favorite authors. Why can't they right as fast as I read? :lol:

I need a new book right now. I picked up a Catherine Coulter paperback the other day, but I'm nearly done. And I started reading a book my DH got for his men's book club Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler, which is about China, but it's non-fiction and a little slow-going. I'll probably finish it, but I need something lighter to fill in. :) I also have my name down for Michael Pollen's new book about food (title escapes me).

I just finished the first 4 books of the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency books a couple days ago.

Last night I started reading The Inheritance of Loss, and so far it's very well written!

I just finished up Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood, and am now reading Andrea Camilleri's "The Terra-Cotta Dog." (It's Italian detective fiction and pretty fantastic :p)

My two off-and-on books I'm reading are the Collected Correspondence of Alexander Pope and Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence.

Woohoooo, so many books! This was a dangerous thread to start! i'm a used book sale-aholic. I have more books than will ever fit on my shelves and probably more than I can read in my entire lifetime- and I'm young! Now I'm furiously amazon-ing the titles everyone has written, and now i'm going crazy. In a good way. Yay!
Allison, Pillars is on my list (in the next five or so to read) but I've been hesitant because I'm intimidated by the sheer size of it! Everyone who has read it has given glowing recommendations though, so I might just bite the bullet!
Amanda, someone gave me the Glass Castle last year for Christmas and it's been on my perpetual "I'll read this in the next five" list, I think it'll have to move up now.

Pat, if you're into mystery, have you ever read Laura Lippman? She was one of my college professors and her books are wonderful.

Zen, I hear you! I can't make myself read for fun during the semester, and mine starts on Monday, so I'm trying to get in as much as I can in the next week.

Now if only I could train myself to read without falling off the elliptical :dizzy: I'll have to look into audiobooks.

Originally Posted by djs06:
Allison, Pillars is on my list (in the next five or so to read) but I've been hesitant because I'm intimidated by the sheer size of it! Everyone who has read it has given glowing recommendations though, so I might just bite the bullet!

Don't be intimidated! It was easy for me to get into and it is very interesting, despite the sheer size. I think my only problem is it's weight--my wrists get tired so I prop it up on my belly and rest it against my legs while I recline. Every once in a while a new character pops up and I have to go back a few pages to remember who he is, but for the most part there are references to help you remember who someone is. You really need to read it.

I got a signed copy of the new Sue Grafton for Christmas...and apparently, she had little "T is for Trespass" Tea Bags at the book signing, so the giver gave me a few of those as well...I want to drink them, but I can't bring myself to! That's on my list coming up also.

Amanda, back when "M" came out, my friend had her copy signed--Sue signed it "M is for Michelle" as my friend's name is Michelle. So cute.

My partner got an "S is for Sarah" as well when S is for Silence came out. Wish I'd known about her back in the beginning (think she'd sign an "A" for me?)

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Woohoooo, so many books! This was a dangerous thread to start! i'm a used book sale-aholic. I have more books than will ever fit on my shelves and probably more than I can read in my entire lifetime- and I'm young!

Dana - you have to do what I did - work in a library! And I get to buy the books, even! We always have the books I'm interested in. :) I have read some of Laura Lippmans, and they are good. I especially like British mysteries, but frankly I'm a print-aholic; I'll read almost anything, except westerns and sci-fi unless I'm stuck somewhere....

I finished "Pillars of the Earth" earlier this month. I loved it too. Very engaging story line; really end up caring about the characters.

Also loved "The Glass Castle"!

Currently plodding through "Eat, Pray, Love". Just not really into it. Can't seem to read very much at one time.

Next up, possibly "Water For Elephants" or I may pick up Follet's new book.

Originally Posted by WaterRat:
Dana - you have to do what I did - work in a library! And I get to buy the books, even! We always have the books I'm interested in. :) I have read some of Laura Lippmans, and they are good. I especially like British mysteries, but frankly I'm a print-aholic; I'll read almost anything, except westerns and sci-fi unless I'm stuck somewhere....

Believe me, I've considered it! :lol: There are also tons of indie/used bookstores in my town and I'm dying to get a part time job there, but that would be dangerous! Do you still work in a library?

Angeline, I've heard very mixed reviews of Eat, Pray, Love. I bought it for my grandma for Christmas and it seems like people have either really liked it or been extremely bored by it. Hmm. Glad I didn't buy it for myself! Water for Elephants is on my to-read list too.

I'm in the middle of reading "The Freedom Writers' Diary." Saw the movie last year.

Amanda~you'll have to look for a first edition of "A is for Alibi" and take it to her next signing! That would be some great gift (hint, hint for Sarah!!).

I loved Water for Elephants--a very good story.

I loved some of the books you guys have already mentioned: Love in the Time of Cholera, Oryx and Crake, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan...

I'm interested in all things pregnancy lately, so I'm just finishing a memoir called "Knocked Up." It's ok, a little funny, but I really hate the writer's personality so that makes it less than enjoyable! She's depressed when her weight climbs up to 114, after all, so it's kind of hard for me to relate...

Next is probably Water for Elephants, which I've been meaning to read forever. I may pick up Pillars. It's hard to read as much as I want to during the school year because I'm usually rereading the novels that I have to teach. I can't wait for the summer when my big pregnant self can prop up on the couch and read all day!

Water for Elephants is very good. (Where did my copy go?? Hmmmmm....)

I'm part of the way into the Historian and then it fell behind by bed and I wasn't that motivated to get it out so that says a lot I guess.

I picked up a couple of mysteries at a book exchange last night. I'm also reading a book about Native American healing and wellness rituals/herbs, etc. Fun pregnancy lore in there!

Wanted to add I love #1 Ladies Detective Agency!! I've read 4 or 5 of them. "Traditionally built" cracks me up.

Yes, Dana, I do still work in a library. I'm the director here in our small city library (we serve about 25,000 people). I love to see what everyone is reading.

Water for Elephants is waiting to be loaded on my MP3 player as soon as I get to it....

Midwife, I love all of Alexander McCall Smith's books, though I usually listen to them. It does take away the need to figure out how to pronounce those Botswanian names! :lol: But he has 2 series set in Scotland too, and the readers on those are great.

Eat, Pray, Love - eh. I read it. Enjoyed the eating in Italy (yummy) and the praying section was interesting, but totally was not into the last section. Ended up feeling she was a little too self-involved for me.

BIG Beth Moore fan here, so I have been reading Believing God, and also by Stormie Omartian the Hidden Power of Praising God

Addicted to audio books - commute AND when working out. For some strange reason, I can barely remember titles or authors of audios. kooky.:dizzy:

Picked up "Blaze" at a drugstore on my way to jury duty this morning - Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman - was hard to put down when the trial was called off!

I just finished "19 minutes" Jodi Picoult, WOW! It was intense, I feel like I need to read some *fluff*. I liked "10th circle" as well.

Maybe I'll look for something Christopher Moore, I love his humor, "you suck, a love story" was a fun read (the suck part has to do with vampires :D)

Just finished Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict. I really liked it.

I love Dennis Lehane--what's ironic is he's best known for Mystic River which I had a hard time getting through. Shutter Island is much better and his detective series with Patrick and Angela is really great--I hated it when I was done with the last one.

The Memory Keepers Daughter

Stephen King's Everything Eventual... Love HIM!

I finished Ballerina the other night and started The High-Impact Infidelity Diet yesterday: it's about three wives who want their husbands (all of whom weigh >300#) to start reducing, so one of them says, I went to college with this gal who's now a high-priced call girl, and the three wives all tell their husbands if you slim down to 210# I'll let you sleep with her for one night: of course there isn't any such hooker ...