Whatcha Reading July 2009?
 

New Month means new thread! Please share with us what you are currently reading.


I am reading Something Borrowed by Emily Griffen. I really enjoy it so far.

currently: how i live now, by Meg Rosoff. YA dystopic lit about (possibly) the end of the world. it's fantastic so far.

next up: What Happened to Cass McBride?, by Gail Giles. Also YA lit, about a girl who gets kidnapped. (i'm in library school and i'm taking a YA lit class.)

Currently, The Rapture of Canan then I have, I Know This Much is True, three stories from Corrie Ten Boom and a few other things I got from my Grandma.

I'm still reading Middlemarch by George Eliot.

Just finished Life of Pi - I can see why other people would really dig it, but I thought it was overly precious. I did enjoy the ending in a Sixth Sense sort of way. I liked the second half of the book (after the shipwreck) much more than the first half of the book (which I almost abandoned several times).

I just started reading the time travellers wife....its really good so far

On the trip to DC I read Crazy for the Storm which I enjoyed. It was an easy read and quite interesting. I then downloaded April and Oliver which I am also enjoying. I'm sure I'll either have to download a new book to the Kindle for the trip home or read one of the classics I already have on it.

The Samurai and the Sacred by Stephen Turnbull. It's about the various religious influences on Japan and the Samurai. Love it!

I just finished Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich. Fun book!

I read the bestseller "Lost and Found" (forgot author) last week in one day. It was one of those feel good kind of stories that are easy reading. Next up will be James Patterson's latest in the Women's Murder Club series--#8. I wonder, why is it that summer seems such a perfect time for reading?

I'm really enjoying seeing what everyone else has underway! I'm currently reading Strip Tease, by Carl Hiassen, for the second time. It's the book that the movie was based on, but the book is a lot more complex. It's a great read!

"the Demon in the Freezer" by Richard Preston. It's about smallpox. I want to go to grad school for epidemiology. It's SCARY and I'm now afraid of the Russians and their bioweapons. It's fantastic though, and I highly recommend it.

I am reading the "Dead..." series by Charlaine Harris. I actually just started and am on the second book in the series so I'm not even sure what they are calling the series itself...lol. I'm really into vampire books and I've read all of the vampire chronicles by anne rice (read those when I was in 8th grade) and i've also read the Anita Blake vampire hunter series as well. But I'm rambling again....So yeah...um...I'm reading "Living Dead In Dallas" right now. :)

I just started "Harvesting the Heart" by Jodi Picoult. I generally enjoy her books but I'm having trouble getting into this one.

I kind of have that problem with some of her books. I either love them or can't get through them.

I am reading Look Me in the Eyes by John Elder Robinson. It is about his life journey with Aspergers. My next book is called Little Bee and I am excited to start it.

Currently reading Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster.

great book!!!

Hi! I'm reading the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. So fun, in a morbid sort of way.

I'm a series junkie and my latest addiction is Ian Rankin's John Rebus series.

Inspector Rebus is so dark, flawed, cynical ... I really like him.

I am reading "I heard that song before" by Mary Higgins Clark. I have never read anything by her before and it was given to me by a friend to read...so far it's ok. I guess I am more in to the gruesome suspense. It reads very much like a soap-opera.

I know it's meant for children but has any one read any of the Artemis Fowl books?

with summer here i tend to reread books. i am currently rereading Valhalla Rising by Clive Cussler. then hopefully around oct. i want to tackle Wicked again. i got about half way through that one last time then got busy and did not finish it. so i took a break from it and will go at it again when summer is over.

i do enjoy reading this thread for other authors and suggestions.

I just finished Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind and I can't recommend it highly enough. Best start to an epic fantasy I've ever read. I would go so far to say I may love his main character more then I love Orson Scott Cards Ender and Bean put together (and this is saying very much from me!).

I am re-reading a favorite, book two in the Sevenwaters Trilogy by Juliette Marillier A Son of Shadows. It's a summertime tradition for me to read it. I love it more every time I read it.

I'm almost finished, "The Wedding" by Nicholas Sparks... love it!

Ooooo I loved The Wedding too!

I am reading The BOok of Negroes. AWESOME!!

I finished April and Oliver and have moved on to LA Requiem by Robert Crais.

Finally read "The Secret Life of Bees"....loved it!!!

I just finished Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth, and now I'm reading Teaching a Stone to Talk, a collection of essays by novelist Annie Dillard, and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown.

Currently listening to Roadside Crosses by Jeffrey Deaver, with Janet Evanovich's Finger Lickin' Fifteen lined up to listen to next. I just started reading THe Wildwater Walking Club by Claire Cook (she also wrote Must Like Dogs). Too many books, too little time. :)

Allison, do you like your Kindle? I think it would be great for travel but the cost and the fact that it's very slow to connect here have kept me from getting one.

Miss Manners' Guide to Excrutiatingly Correct Behavior (hilarious and helpful)

A Tale of Two Cities

A People's History of the United States

I caught part of the Lonesome Dove miniseries on TV, so I'm re-reading Lonesome Dove. It such an amazing book, I sure wish Streets of Laredo and Commanche Moon had captured the same spark.

I read the book and saw the movie. They totally changed the ending and I was crying throughout the entire movie becaue I thought I knew what was going to happen. I thought the movie was good though. Cameron Diaz did an excellent job playing the mom. The movie is rarely as good as the book.

hi all,
I'm somewhat new to 3FC but want to join in! I am currently reading "Player Piano", Kurt Vonnegut.

So far so good...!

Have a great day all! Rach

I've been sucked into the "Twilight" series...on the third book now. I went to the library and everything I'd been WANTING to check out was already out. A lady I work with was obsessed with "Twilight" and had been talking about it...so I thought, "What the heck? I'll see what the fuss is about."

Can't put 'em down.

Concertina, a book about a Dominatrix, not for the faint hearted ;)

I just finished The Shack by William P. Young. Very good!

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. And then the 2 other books in the series. City of Ashes and City of Glass.

skinny B. It's very interesting thus far. I'm about half way through it

Finished my re-read of Lonesome Dove - blown away again by the dialogue, descriptions, characters, plotting. I love the first 2 sections, the last section is just a one-knuckle roller coaster of sobbing for me. Love love love!

It's tough for any book to follow LD, but I just finished Girls in Trucks. It was okay - started out like a novel, but became more fragmented and "vignette-like." Which was kind of weird.