Whatcha Reading Jan 2009?
 

Happy New Year Everyone!! It's that time again. Tell us all what you are reading.


I am reading The Secret Life of Bees.

Hey, yay for the new thread for this year!

I did a lot of travel and got a lot of reading done. Recently, I have read:

Bodies Left Behind by Jeffrey Deaver - a thriller I borrowed from my mom. Not my usual fare, but it was okay. I really liked the twisty ending.

The Day I Ate Whatever I wanted by Elizabeth Berg. I'm a big Elizabeth Berg fan and really enjoyed this collection of short stories. Appropriate for this board, there were several stories about weight/weight loss. There were also good stories about love, aging, relationships. I really liked it!

Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb. Wow, this was a thick, meaty TOME of a book. It is kind of hard to describe, the author talked about Columbine, trauma recovery, prisons, slavery, addiction - it ended up spanning several hundred years (due to some recovered letters). I found it very very readable, could hardly put it down.

Book of Dahlia. An extremely unlikeable character gets cancer and the author peels back layer after layer until I felt sympathy and like I really knew her. Also, the author could really be hilarious.

Black Flies - medics in Harlem. Very gritty - like The Wire for medics.

I am currently reading Toss of a Lemon. I liked the first half, but it's dragging a bit. Not sure how long I'm going to keep fighting through it - plenty of other stuff waiting on the shelf!

Right now I'm just finishing up "Such a Pretty Fat" by Jen Lancaster. Funny stuff!

I just finished The Heir to Sevenwaters by Juliette Marrilier this morning. Good stuff. I'm on to Orson Scott Card's newest in the Ender series.

I just got "Tis" to listen to while I'm walking. It's read by the author, and I enjoyed his reading of "Angel's Ashes."

I'm also reading "Toxic Parents" and "The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom."

Im reading the second twilight book: New moon :)

i'm reading the new Stephen King collection, "Just After Sunset."

if you go here, you can see all the books i read in 2008!

I'm not reading at the moment...I'm writing. I started a novel a few years back and decided to put it on the shelf for a while until my son went to kindergarden. So, now that he's in second grade, I decided to restart it. So far, I like it. I love writing.

I think New Moon was my favorite of the series. I like a book with conflict. It keeps the pages turning. I have to say, though, that the triangle she started with Edward, Jacob and Bella left me feeling weird. You'll see what I mean when you get to books 3 and especially 4...very weird. But worth the read.

Can't open that link, prompts for a login name :(

Here is my book list (I started adding books read by date last spring):

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1035707?shelf=read

I'm reading "Pledged" by Alexandra Robbins. Not too far into it yet, but I'm enjoying it.

re reading Poppy Z. Brite's books 11 years later after I got done with the Twilight Books these Grown Up vamp stories are giving me nightmares lol

I am reading Life of Pi right now. So far, I like it. So many people have told me that it is a must read.

I just recently finished my first Jen Lancaster book - Bitter is the new Black. I really dislike the author (or at least her tone) but I couldn't quit reading it and want to read the next one. Also read a Christmas novel called O Little Town last week. It was sweet and simple. Currently reading a couple of nonfictions Five Conversations you must have with your Daughter, and Barack Obama's Dreams from my Father.

Where did all the fat go? By Dr. Rob Huizenga aka physician to The BiIggest Loser Cast.

It's on my library hold list. Can't wait for it to show up.

Reading - The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama.

I just finished reading, "Marley and Me" - true, it's not a really deep read or anything, but I loved the book - I recommend it to any animal lovers out there. :)

A friend of mine and I were talking about starting a book club - so many good books, so little time.

poo, i thought that link would work. well, here's my list, then! EDIT: That Dorothy Allison book is called "B-a-s-t-a-r-d Out of Carolina." silly censorship.

"Through the Looking-glass, and What Alice Found There" Lewis Carroll
"Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed Our World" Mark Pendergrast
"******* Out of Carolina" Dorothy Allison
"Gil's All Fright Diner" A Lee Martinez
"A Long Way Down" Nick Hornby
"Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town" Cory Doctorow
"The Pillars of the Earth" Ken Follett
"St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" Karen Russell
"A Spot of Bother" Mark Haddon
"Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician" Daniel Wallace
"Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto" Chuck Klosterman
"The Complete Stories of Truman Capote" Truman Capote
"Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture" Taylor Clark
"Strangers on a Train" Patricia Highsmith
"The Learners" Chip Kidd
"Monster Island: A Zombie Novel" David Wellington
"The Long Walk" Richard Bachman
"The Ghost in the Third Row" Bruce Coville
"Of Love and Shadows" Isabel Allende
"Lost in a Good Book" Jasper Fforde
"The Well of Lost Plots" Jasper Fforde
"Something Rotten" Jasper Fforde
"In the Company of Ogres" A. Lee Martinez
"A Simple Plan" Scott Smith
"The Dead Fathers Club" Matt Haig
"Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters" ed. Michelle Slung
"Psycho" Robert Bloch
"Thursday Next: First Among Sequels" Jasper Fforde
"Deep Water" Patricia Highsmith
"The Lottery and Other Stories" Shirley Jackson
"An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England" Brock Clarke
"Wild Nights!: Stories of the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway" Joyce Carol Oates
"Sundays with Vlad: From Pennsylvania to Transylvania, One Man's Quest to Live in the World of the Undead" Paul Bibeau
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories by Richard Matheson" Richard Matheson
"Duma Key" Stephen King
"American Pulp" ed. Edward Gorman, Bill Pronzini, and Martin Harry Greenberg
"Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith" Jon Krakauer
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" Junot Diaz
"Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" Patrick Suskind
"Speaking with the Angel" ed. Nick Hornby
"Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex" Mary Roach
"The Shroud of the Thwacker" Chris Elliott
"The Handmaid's Tale" Margaret Atwood
"A Dirty Job" Christopher Buckley
"The Witches of Eastwick" John Updike
"The Lost Continent" Bill Bryson
"Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe" Bill Bryson
"Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural" ed. Ellen Datlow
"The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible" A.J. Jacobs
"Monkeewrench" P.J. Tracy
"Live Bait" P.J. Tracy
"One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd" Jim Fergus
"Dead Run" P.J. Tracy
"Mirror Mirror" Gregory Maguire
"Snow Blind" P.J. Tracy
"Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America" Stephen G. Bloom
"Little Green Men" Christopher Buckley
"Dearly Devoted Dexter" Jeff Lindsay
"Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable" Mark Dunn
"Coraline" Neil Gaiman
"The Automatic Detective" A. Lee Martinez
"Dolores Claiborne" Stephen King
"Library: An Unquiet History" Matthew Battles
"Rose Madder" Stephen King
"The Name of the Rose" Umberto Eco
"Red Dragon" Thomas Harris
"The Cheese and the Worms: the Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller" Carlo Ginzburg
"How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents" Julia Alvarez
"Cujo" Stephen King
"The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History" Robert Darnton
"Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age" David M. Levy
"BookMarks: Reading in Black and White" Karla M. Holloway
"On Writing" Stephen King
"The Living Dead" ed. John Joseph Adams
"Jurassic Park" Michael Crichton
"The Colorado Kid" Stephen King
"A Streetcar Named Desire" Tennessee Williams
"'Salem's Lot" Stephen King

I just re-read the Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemmingway and now I'm going fully into my "Africa" set.
I started Dark Star Safari: Overland from Capetown to Cairo by Paul Theroux, the travel writer. Then I will read Green Hills of Africa by Hemmingway and finish with Uhuru by Robert Raurk.
That's my plan for January.

Wow painted lady, you got eclectic tastes. I finished An Irish Country Christmas on 12.31 and started On Thin Ice by Susan Andersen on 01.01. I also have Avenger by Frederick Forsyth, and plan to be reading State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy on inauguration day

yeah i'm a horror/fantasy/sci-fi/crime reader and i'm a library science grad student. two worlds meld!

I got bored with World Without End around page 575, so I've put that to the side recently. I read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, which is a great little memoir about distance running by one of my favorite authors, Haruki Murakami. Loved loved loved it. Now I'm reading the first Sookie Stackhouse book and enjoying it so far.

right now i'm reading ::

siddhartha by hermann hesse
woman warrior by maxine hong kingston
and i just started the joy luck club by amy tan

:)

I'll Fly away edited by Wally Lamb. Really great collection of stories from incarcerated women.

Ditto. I asked for (and recieved) it for Christmas and I am just finishing it up. I love her books - she can make me laugh out loud so hard!! :lol:
Then I will be back to the books.... :(

Not too far into it yet, as my cousin gave it to me last night... but that is my book at the moment. :)

I just started The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. So far I like it, each chapter is from a different character's point of view.

i LOVE The Poisonwood Bible. i've read it probably six times. Barbara Kingsolver is one of those weird authors who i only like in certain books... Prodigal Summer was pretty so-so, in my opinion.

Once i'm done with Just After Sunset (probably today or tomorrow), i think i might start reading books for the Young Adult Literature class i'm taking next semester... starting with my old nemesis, Huckleberry Finn. blech. dialect.

For bookclub, I'm reading The Princess Bride. :D
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For my French skillz, I'm trying to read the next Harry Potter in French. It's not going so well--this is the third time I've taken this book from the library. Mon Dieu!

I'm reading Club Dead by Charlaine Harris

Thank you for starting this thread!!

I just finished Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg. Good book, but nothing like what I had imagined.

I just started The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. I love this book! A very easy read from the point of view of a dog. The dog's owner races cars, as my DH did for a while, and it's interesting that the book visits some of the raceways that we are familiar with.

After that, I'll start Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates because I'm sure we won't make it to see the movie.

This Present Darkness, by Frank Peretti

It is a Christian thriller - basically focusing on the behind-the-scenes working of angles based on our prayer. Good book.

Is Revolutionary Road a good book??

I love seeing what everyone is reading. Personally, I am STRUGGLING to get through my first Jodi Pichault - a Christmas gift. It's Change of Heart, and what I really dislike about it is the way she is blatant in making the connections she wants you to make instead of giving the reader an ounce of credit for being able to make the connections herself. It's just not good writing, but now that I'm over halfway, I feel committed to finishing it.

I'm currently reading Twilight. I've been pleasantly suprised by how good it is! I hope I don't get addicted to the series, since it is a little embarassing to be 26 and reading a book aimed at teenagers. Next I'm probably going to read a book called 90 Minutes in Heaven. Either that, or some kind of classic literature to counteract all the popular stuff I've been reading lately.

Revolutionary Road is a reallllly good book. i read it for a class on fiction and the suburbs.

Read a real quick book this afternoon. Smitten by Janet Evanovich.

If you a fan of hers, it's a cute, quick read. Got it done in a couple hrs.

The Kite Runner and the Twilight series- love it!

I am reading so many right now lol. I am reading The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban by Sarah Chayes, Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan by Ann Jones, and Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child.

I love reading books about Afghanistan or anything around that region, since it is my focus in uni :D And I like a good romance every now and then lol like Twilight :-P

If y'all like Twilight, read her other book called The Host. It was awesome and I actually prefer it over the Twilight series.