Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner.

I love that book!!

I finished More Than It Hurts You and it was okay. It was definitely hard to understand the mother's motivation, but I guess any mom that hurts her own kid is insane and by default, should be hard to understand.

Can I mention a movie based on a book? I finally got around to seeing Notes on a Scandal last night - I had read the book when it was first published and really liked it. I thought the movie was fabulous - very well cast. I thought Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench were amazing - the characters are at heart very unlikeable, but I still felt a lot of sympathy for both of them.

Next up, probably The Condition since it's my next book due back to the library. I really liked Jennifer Haigh's Mrs. Kimble so hopefully this one will be a winner too.

I have a looooming stack of library books - which is both good and bad!

Right now, I'm reading a quick book 'Slow Fat Triathlete'. Its a fun book :)

Glory, I LOVED Notes on a Scandal -- I read the book when it first came out and I thought the movie was great. Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett were wonderful in those roles, especially Dench. Oh, and I liked Mrs. Kimble too.

In addition to The Pillars of the Earth, I've also started reading Jennifer Weiner's The Guy Not Taken, which is a collection of short stories. I'm actually reading them to the baby! :lol: He doesn't know the difference -- he just knows I'm talking to him!

Just finished The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve and started Full House by Janet Evanovich...need something light and fun.

I'm in the middle of Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett (the audiobook version), and the next hard copy I'm reading is Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire and probably either Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe or The Spies That Never Were by Hervie Haufler, and if I have time before the month ends, Catholicism for Dummies.

I'm debating between my next book. It's either gonna be Eat, Pray, Love, or Bright Lights, Big ***

I am in the borntofly- iddle of Twilight right now too and really like it. I just finidhed Eat, Pray, Love and thought it was just OK but I know lots of people really liked it.

Needful things Stephen King.

Decided on Big Love by Sara Dunn. Been sitting on my shelf for some time.

I just finished American Wife and I thought it was...interesting. It is loosely based on the life of Laura Bush - but I found it a little uncomfortable. It was too closely based to be loosely based, if that makes any sense. I felt a little bad for Laura Bush - she was responsible for a terrible car crash in high school that took the life of a schoolmate and the author just...spun that true tragedy into a really uncomfortable area.

I guess, I think that a lot of people will think the whole book is based on truth because there are a few nuggets of truth scattered about - and that seems WRONG.

The writing was good - the character based on George Bush was very well done. Ending kind of limped along, but overall I liked it.

Not sure what's next.

I just started reading...The Shunning by Beverly Lewis

I love these threads. Everyone's entries give me many more books to add to my "to read" list.

Ollie: I absolutely love Shakespeare's plays. King Lear and Hamlet are my two favorites out of his tragedies. The discussions between King Lear and the fool :joker: really make a person think. Cordelia was even a name on our list when we named the girls, lol.

GatorgalstuckinGa: I love that book! Douglas Adams' books always make me laugh out loud.

I am on the last chapter of Haruki Murakami's After Dark.:book2: So far I am loving it. He has an intense way of looking at personal identity I find thought provoking.

I just started Friday a book I've been meaning to read for awhile. The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison. The novel is supposed to be a classic of the fantasy genre and I love fantasy :wizard: so I figured I would give it a spin.

If I manage to finish it this month then I plan to change genres to something more modern and read William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.

Meg Cabot is my current author of choice...lol

Just read: Every Boy's Got One
Currently reading: Size 12 is Not Fat
Next: Size 14 is Not Fat Either
After that: Queen of Babble in the Big City