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!

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.

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.

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.

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