I'm game...already have a profile there as well. It's a GREAT site for sure!

I'm currently reading..."Sleeping with the Fishes" by MaryJanice Davidson

Theres already several groups on there for chick lit. But I will glady join another one. :D Maybe there can be one for 3FC girlies?

I just finished the four Megan McCaferty books - yeah I live under a rock and hadnt heard of them. Next up is The Alchemist and Money management for Canadians for dummies. ha ha

Just curious here, but doesn't anyone read mysteries? I always thought thrillers (particularly the "cozy" type) were so popular with women (my mom, 86, doesn't read the cozies, she likes John Sandford and writers like him [her all-time favorites were The Day of the Jackal and Man on Fire that was a Denzel Washington movie a few years ago]: I enjoy both the cozies and the grittier stuff. Maybe it's an age-thing: I'm 50; I'll read chick-lit or quasi-literary or mainstream fiction if the book has a thematic element that I find interesting, like if it's about classical music, but I'm not the target market for chick-lit and I'm not a member of any book club)

I highly recommend that everyone read a book that was released just this week, it is called Mistaken Identity.

It is a true story, it happened about 2 years ago, right in my area-actually the accident happened at the highway exit that I take to visit my mother.

Basically, there was an accident involving a truck driver that hit a van of college students and staff, and many were killed. However, there was an mistake in identifying two of the victims-one who lived, and the other deceased, that wasn't discovered until 5 weeks later. The parents who thought they lost their daughter found out she was alive, and the parents who thought that their daughter had lived, realized that the girl in the hospital bed wasn't theirs.

The girls were the same size, same hair color/length, both had dimples, similar facial features, skin tones, etc. and it wasn't until the girl who lived started improving and healing that the mistake was realized.

I read some mysteries. Mostly like the Stephanie Plum books and anything by Mary Higgins Clark. Every now & then I'll read something different. I try not to read too much though because then I start to get paranoid, lol.

I totally thought about getting that book the other day. I saw the story on Dateline..I totally cried, its so sad.

I'm reading "Dies the Fire" by S.M. Stirling. Its an alternate-present type of story. In the story, "something" happens that renders all things electric un-usable (like an EMP, but it happens all over the world at the same time). Also, gunpowder and other explosives aren't effective either. I'm only about 50 pages in, but its pretty interesting. I wonder if there is going to be an explanation at some point about what caused the whole thing. Its a trilogy, so I hope so!

shopaholic-

The mother of the young lady who lived in the book, Mistaken Identity, was my junior high school P.E. teacher.

Aphil~No way really????????

Yep, really. :)

I'm in the midst of reading ' The Power of Now' by Ekhart Tolle. It's really good for my mental health! lol

I saw the families of the girls on the Today show last week. They talked about it a couple of days and I think it was Dateline last Friday evening did a show on them...that I missed.

And YES! I love mysteries/thrillers, murder mysteries especially. Fav authors are: J.D Robb, James Patterson, Ken Follett, Janet Evanovich, Mary Higgins Clark, Lisa Gardener, Kathy Reichs, Michael Crichton and Patricia Cornwell.

Currently reading...Where or When by Anita Shreve

MSNBC is going to rerun the Dateline show tonight, I think @ midnight/11 pm CT

I like your list of writers. Whew, I was beginning to think I was an alien from Planet Square :)

I read mysteries. I love several Italian mystery series: Donna Leon's Inspector Brunetti (Venice), Andrea Camilieri's Inspector Montalbano (Sicily) and Michael Dibdin's Inspector (forget his name) (different cities in italy). These are addictive. Also fond of M. C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin Series and __ Atherton's Aunt Dimity series. These are cozies. I've read a couple of Cara Black's Amy Leduc Paris mysteries but they're a little too violent for me. Just bought a couple of books by Madelyn Alt, which take place in a magic shop.