I loved the beginning of the Memory Keeper's Daughter, I was completely hooked, could barely put the book down but the ending really petered out for me. I really didn't like ANY of the main characters (the wife, the husband, the nurse, the son) and didn't understand their motivations.

I also have How to be Cool at home - I like that author a lot. I have a few of her books!

I just finished Olive Kittridge which was a collection of vignettes with recurring characters, set in a small town in Maine at various points in their lives. A few of the stories were very powerful and moving but I found a couple of the stories pretty weak. I would give it 4 stars though, the stories I did like were very very good!

Jen Lancaster is great!

Such a pretty fat is a good book--all about her losing weight.

Finally finished Lipstick Jungle... now starting Dean Koontz- False Memory

I finished with A Sister's Secret around 5am..and later today, I'm going to start The Confession by Beverly Lewis. And I'm still reading..The Historian too.

I've just finished reading "The Devil Rides Out" by Dennis Wheatley. It was ok, my stepdad recommended it as a really scary book (I like a bit of horror) but it turned out to be extremely tame so I'm off to the bookshop in a bit to find something more to my liking.

In the meantime, I'm re-reading "Rack, Rope and Red-Hot Pincers - A history of torture and it's instruments". :devil: It sounds a bit morbid but it's extremely interesting. Some bits can make you feel queasy enough to put you off your boyfriends leftover pizza :jeno:

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.

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!!!