Starting Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber today.

I started reading Jen Lancaster's first book....she is laugh out loud funny!

Ok, I finished Bitter is the New Black and began Bright Lights Big A$s. She is just too funny!!!

Her blog is funny too - you can get Jen Lancaster giggles everyday:

jennsylvania.com

I finished Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain. It was a sequel to Heartsick that I read last year. Eh, it was okay. Kind of a twist on the guy serialkiller/girl FBI agent from Silence of the Lambs except with a female serial killer/guy cop.

*bump*

I am reading "the Other Queen" about Mary Queen of Scots. I love it when I get a book from the library and I'm the first one to read it.

Originally Posted by spinky:
I am reading "the Other Queen" about Mary Queen of Scots. I love it when I get a book from the library and I'm the first one to read it.

That sounds interesting!!!

I have The Other Queen on my nightstand, but am currently on Jen Lancaster's Bright Lights Big A$s (which is good, but not as good as Bitter is the New Black. After I finish this, I'll read her 3rd bookSuch a Pretty Fat and then I want to read The Story of Edgar Sawtell before I go back to the Phillipa Gregory books.

I'm about 3/4 of the way through The Pillars of the Earth now and I've really enjoyed it. I could do without some of the architectural descriptions of cathedrals, but I really enjoy the characters. It's a great story.

Lisa~I was talking to my Mom on Sunday and she mentioned that she had nothing to read and since she's in a wheel chair (or sometimes a walker) it is difficult for her to go to the library and get around and all. So I sent her a box of books that I'd read. Pillars of the Earth and World Without End were among those I sent her. I'm sure she'll enjoy them (I sure did!) and they'll keep her busy for a long time!!!

BTW, my son is on the third Twilight book and my mother-in-law is on the second. My father-in-law read the first and now my husband is reading it. We have to be prepared for the movie!!!

Allison - You recommend World Without End too? I don't know much about it -- is it a sequel with some of the same characters? I'll have to get it from Bookswim next. And yes, I'm excited about the Twilight movie myself -- I'm sure it will be geared toward teenyboppers, but I still might have to get a babysitter and go out and see it!

Originally Posted by alinnell:
I have The Other Queen on my nightstand, but am currently on Jen Lancaster's Bright Lights Big A$s (which is good, but not as good as Bitter is the New Black. After I finish this, I'll read her 3rd bookSuch a Pretty Fat and then I want to read The Story of Edgar Sawtell before I go back to the Phillipa Gregory books.

How funny, I liked the first and third books better than the second too and I also have The Other Queen on the nightstand :)

I personally LOATHED the end of Edgar Sawtelle, so I'll be very interested to get your take on it!!! The writing was very good though, the author is very good at evocative descriptions.

Lisa~I liked both books equally. They don't have the same characters as they take place about 400 years apart, but it does follow the same families and areas, so there is a sense of familiarity.

Glory~I'll let you know how I like Sawtell. We seem to have some pretty similar tastes in what we like to read. I never did pick The Host back up to finish it!

I hope the Twilight movie doesnt suck. Whenever I watch the previews, I just pick out everything wrong with it, lol.

Originally Posted by Shopaholic1204:
I hope the Twilight movie doesnt suck. Whenever I watch the previews, I just pick out everything wrong with it, lol.

It's probably going to appeal to the teeny-boppers more than the general public, but if it is anything like the Harry Potter movies, who cares? They are geared more toward the younger crowd, but I love those movies.

I still watch teeny bopper movies. I was a teeny bopper, lol.

Originally Posted by LisaMarie71:
Allison - You recommend World Without End too? I don't know much about it -- is it a sequel with some of the same characters? I'll have to get it from Bookswim next.

I did like World Without End - but it was annoyingly similar to Pillars of the Earth (which I love). It felt like a cheap re-tread, all the main character types were trotted out again (except it was oddly lacking a Prior Phillip who I had loved in the first book) and I felt like I had read it before. Which isn't 100% a bad thing, I liked the original, so the copy was okay, it just really felt like a copy.

I just finished Leather Maidens by Joe Lansdale, two books on the colony collapse of the honey bees and just starting Sydney Poitier's Life Beyond Measure before I go back to the Library to return them and get some more.

I'm actually trying to catch up on my back issues of the literary journal The First Line. If you like good short stories on a variety of topics (but they all start with the same sentence), I recommend everyone getting a subscription.

That said, the last book I read was Jennifer Weiner's Certain Girls, which paled in comparison to Good in Bed.

Just started reading The Next Thing on my List. I love it so far. and I'm only about 13 pages in.

I'm reading Shining City and it's a total vocabulary workout. I thought I knew a lot of words, but I've already had to look up 3! Bespoke - meaning "custom made" (it was used to modify the word ""suit so I had to look it up) and anodyne "pain reliever". The book is just kind of okay (some funny bits) but now I'm looking at it as a new source for new words!

"Rules of Survival" by Nancy Werlin
It's really depressing, though. But I really like it! It's just so... intense.
It's one of those books that'll make you cry when you need to cry.

Originally Posted by BornToFly:
Just started reading The Next Thing on my List. I love it so far. and I'm only about 13 pages in.

I just bought this one last week!! It sounded really good for the back cover...so I am looking forward to starting it soon.

Hey, has anybody here read 'Are you there, vodka? It's me Chelsea' by Chelsea Handler? I've heard it is funny and I'm curious to see if anyone's read it.

Finished The Collectors last night and tonight I start The Race by Richard North Patterson: it's about a presidential candidate who sounds like McCain, only younger (Gulf War vet/ex-POW) and sexier

I'm reading the little Bit of Midnight Sun. I LOVE Stephanie Meyer and her Twilight series. :)

I'm reading Midnight Sun too!!!! It's really good!!!

I have finished 3 books since I last posted:

Cheer: Inside the Secret World of College Cheerleaders - pretty good, but it wasn't so "secret." College cheerleaders are athletic and sometimes struggle to be small enough, no new ground here for me.

Other Queen - I was very disappointed in this one, it was surprisingly repetitive. I almost put the book down because I couldn't get through the first 2-3 Mary sections (im a sacred queen, I must be free, blah de blah blah). I stuck with it because of Bess Hardwick who was a fascinating lady, this character wasn't nearly as interesting as her real world counterpart. Also, needed more QE1.

Shining City - very funny at times, almost preciously so. Most advanced vocabulary in any book I've read lately, maybe he got a new Thesarus app for his iPhone or something.

Just started 'Song Of The Humpback Whale' by Jodi Picoult. So far so good.

I love the Twilight series. I still need to pick up 'Breaking Dawn'. Hopefully soon. Just haven't had the money and I got on the list at the library too late. Still waiting for a copy from them.

I'm going to read all the Twilight books for the gazzilionth time, lol

I'm about halfway through Breaking Dawn while also rereading Certain Girls. As for nonfiction, I'm plowing through Born In the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed To Put Women and Children First. It's amazingly insightful and a real eye-opener.

Ooooh, This is a dangerous thread!! I always end up seeing so many things here I want to add to my reading list. I just finished Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews (Don't bother is my review). I started Fearless Fourteen last night by Janet Evanovich. I'm also reading The Shack by William Young, but I keep putting it down and forgetting about it.

My daughter has read and re-read and re-read the Twilight series, but I just can't get far enough in them to be hooked. Plus I think she's told me so much about it that I know too much of the plot.

I've got a Jen Lancaster book requested. I'm looking forward to reading it.

I love every book written by Cecelia Ahern. She wrote P.S. I love you, that was her first book. Her newer ones are even better though!

i just finished Ender in Exile- and while I know a lot of people didn't like it and i must say it started off a bit... rocky - i enjoyed it and the second to last chapter is really intense.

i am now starting on the Kite Runner which I haven't read yet so far so good.