Whatcha Reading April '08
 

I saw the thread for March and thought it would be great to make one each month. So, what is everyone reading starting in April?

I just picked up My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult. It's a pretty big book, but I'm looking forward to it.

I just read Hokus Pokus by Fern Michaels. I try to read 2 books a month.

I just started reading The Master Butcher's Singing Club by Louise Erdrich, and I also read a few pages every night of Super Foods Health Style by Steven Pratt and/or Finding Serenity in the Age of Anxiety by Robert Gerzon.

Everything Is Illuminated By Jonathan Safran Foer.... it is a great book! I am also finishing up Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.... AMAZING book, I seriously could not put it down!!

@witm: oooh, I loved both of those!

Just finished reading "Better" by Atul Gawande and "How Doctors Think" by Jerome Groopman. Currently reading "Moral Disorder" by Margaret Atwood and "Grace (Eventually)" by Anne Lamott.

I just finished "Are You Ready!" by Bob Harper....not just another diet book! He actually deals with the mental part first!

My problem is that I often read more than one book at a time. :)

Current list:
New Rules of Lifting For Woman (read thru it once, now rereading parts and using it as a reference
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Obsession by Jonathan Kellerman

Waiting to be read still:
S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
Now & Then by Robert Parker
Stranger in Paradise by Robert Parker

I also have a stack of photography related magazines to read, plus the latest issue of Cooking Light! :) But I'll catch up on those later.

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witm, those are two really wonderful books! Margaret Atwood is my all-time favorite, and I thought Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated was astonishingly good.

I've got You On A Diet - interesting reading.

Well, aside from my textbooks from school, I am reading the Aeneid. But if I end up getting too bored, I'll just put it down and pick up another book (I ended up doing that with The Iliad).

Here's (a small portion) of my "To Read" Pile:

-The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (random, I know)
-Something Happened by Joseph Heller
-Paradise Lost
-Paradise Revisted

And then the rest of the books on my list are books that I've already read but thoroughly enjoyed and wish to re-read. :)

As mentioned in the March thread, I'm still on Capital Crimes by Lawrence Sanders (it's the one where the Rasputin scenario plays out in more or less present-day Washington: it's more than 20 years old and probably out of print but if you can get it from the library or Half-Price Books GET IT, I love it)

After that, The Lucifer Gospel by Paul Christopher

I was wondering if you guys wanted to start a group at goodreads.com? We could call it Chick Lit :)

It's a pretty fun site, here's my profile (still a work in progress):

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1035707

would we just talk about books that we ourselves are reading, or try and get one were the group would read together?

Oh, both I guess :)

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.

I read mysteries all the time.

Sue Grafton
Marcia Muller
Kathy Reichs
JD Robb (who is Nora Roberts)
Patricia Cornwall (although I don't really like her most recent books)
John Sandford
Jonathan Kellerman
Faye Kellerman
Robert B. Parker (the Spencer novels, the Jesse Stone novels, the Sunny Randall novels)
Kathy Hogan Trochek

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I have dozens of them, just can't think of the names right now.

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Oh, now and then I like me some mystery / thriller / crime / potboiler. My faves are Dennis Lehane, Nicci French, Walter Mosley... but my hardboiled heart belongs to Raymond Chandler, no contest at all ;).

I LOVE Sue Grafton. Too bad her books take forever to come out.

Some of my favorite authors CLive Cussler, Tom Clancy, Jonathan Kellerman. I am currently reading Sahara by Clive Cussler. What next i do not know whatever jumps off the shelf at me.

Ooh .. I forgot about Denis Lehane. Love his stuff.

I used to like Clive Cussler, but his books lately hve become very formulaic, IMO.

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Thanks Another...I will try and catch it tonight!

I've started reading a series by JOanne Fluke, the Hannah Swenson series. They are cute murder mysteries, but with receipes, the main character owns a cookie shop. And I love Nora Roberts.
I tried to read the Historian, whoever said they were reading that, and it seemed really good, but it was scaring me!! I am such a dork, and I was living alone (my DH was in Egypt playing Army) and I was having to sleep with the bathroom light on!! I think I'll get it back from my mom now that he's home!!

Maggie

Ooh, be prepared to cry! It's worth the read though, I really enjoyed it.

If anyone's a science nerd like me, check out A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. I'm about 100 pages in and it's fascinating and also pretty funny. :)

In terms of mysteries, I'm gonna have to go with Agatha Christie. The Mysterious Mr. Quin is my all-time favorite book.

I sooooooooo wanted to read those!!!! I always thinking about picking one up at the bookstore but I never do, lol. What is the first one called?