What are you reading-Jan 2010
 

Happy New Year Ladies! As always, please share with us what you are currently reading.


I am about to start Eating The Moment.

http://www.amazon.com/Eating-Moment-...2380604&sr=8-1

re-reading a favorite E. Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News" great movie, even better book.

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Heard really good things about it.

I used my Christmas money to order the complete set of TinTin from amazon. Yup, I'm a dork.

I am in the middle of My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. ALready with the box of tissues.

I'm reading the Elm Creek Quilts series by Jennifer Chiaverini. I also started reading Hungry by Chrystal Renn.

After that, it will be re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Finished Hogfather last night. Now that the holidays (and holiday reading) are over, starting Bel Canto by Ann Patchett.

After that, winter Olympic reading, including a third go-round of Dreams of Gold by Maynard Thomson, the best figure-skating novel ever

I just started, Lemon Meringue Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke. (I really shouldnt read books with food titles, or with recipes for yummy desserts in them..but the books are really good, lol!!)

I've also been reading The Flat Belly Diet.

I have been reading, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. It started a little slow, but it is getting better!

I am reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. Very good book. Love to read while I am on the treadmill or stationary bike. Makes the workout feel like it took half the time and I tend to work out longer if I am reading a really good book.

I'm reading "A New Earth, awakening to your life's purpose" by Eckhart Tolle.
It's tough reading because you have to stop and think so much ...

Originally Posted by ShootingStar:
I'm reading the Elm Creek Quilts series by Jennifer Chiaverini. I also started reading Hungry by Chrystal Renn.

After that, it will be re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

The Elm Creek Quilts are the best. Which book are you up to? I haven't read any of the Harry Potters after Order of The Phoenix.

Originally Posted by Shopaholic1204:
I just started, Lemon Meringue Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke. (I really shouldnt read books with food titles, or with recipes for yummy desserts in them..but the books are really good, lol!!)

I've also been reading The Flat Belly Diet.

If you like Joanne Fluke, you might also like Diane Mott Davidson. Her heroine is a caterer who gets into all kinds of trouble. She is very funny. Joanne's Candy Cane Murder was pretty good, too.

I'm working my way through the Undead series by Mary Janice Davidson. They're light, entertaining reads.

I'm also reading To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee.

Originally Posted by peachykeen62:
I used my Christmas money to order the complete set of TinTin from amazon. Yup, I'm a dork.

MY dh loves TinTin, I am a Calvin and Hobbes girl myself:carrot:.
Right now I am reading Fluke by James Herbert. The movie was pure crap, but the book is really wonderful.

Originally Posted by Katheryne:
I'm working my way through the Undead series by Mary Janice Davidson. They're light, entertaining reads.

Yay!! I've read all those books!! They're pretty funny.

I just started **** Is Other Parents And Other Tales Of Maternal Combustion. Not to far into it to form an opinion yet.

[QUOTE=Katheryne;3075437]I'm working my way through the Undead series by Mary Janice Davidson. They're light, entertaining reads.

I loved those books. I'm a couple behind, but I need to go get them. They are great for books you don't want to have to think about to read.

At the moment, I am reading Dune Road by Jane Green.

I just read "90 Minutes in Heaven" by Don Piper....his account on dying and going to heaven. An awesome book! :D

"The Shack" by William Young - Christian Fiction

I'm going to re-read Dear John. I really want to see the movie when it comes out..and the book was really good, but sad..

I'm reading Don DeLillo's Underworld.

Just finished "American On Purpose", Craig Ferguson's autobiograpy.

He's my favourite late night guy. Good reading.

I am re-reading several augusten buroughs & david sedaris memoirs. so far I've plowed through Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Courderoy and denim, and Possible Side Effects. Next up is Magical Thinking. i <3 them both so much. Sometimes, I wish I was a gay man, so that my memoir could be so entertaining. JK.

I'm trying to read Narcissus In Chains by Laurell K. Hamilton again. I started it sometime last summer..and couldn't continue because it had such a slow start. I'm only on chapter 4 right now..it's very slow, and it makes me doze off, lol. I hope it picks up soon.

I'm almost finished with The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weight Loss. I'm also reading the Song of the Lioness books from Tamora Pierce (adolescent swords and sorcery fantasy about a girl who is training to be a knight) and Mary Called Magdalene from Margaret George. I'm about to start Nutrition for Dummies.

I'm re-reading Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie...flat out the funniest book I've ever read! Then I will probably re-read Lonsome Dove...my favorite book...its so much better than the movie. Gus's thoughts are hysterical!

this year i would like to read the Vampire Chronicles and the stories of the Mayfair Witches which is a total of 13 books

Originally Posted by medinazarley:
I am re-reading several augusten buroughs & david sedaris memoirs. so far I've plowed through Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Courderoy and denim, and Possible Side Effects. Next up is Magical Thinking. i <3 them both so much. Sometimes, I wish I was a gay man, so that my memoir could be so entertaining. JK.

Love them both as well. My favorite Burroughs books were Running with Scissors (the movie was so disappointing) and Dry (even though it gets kinda depressing). I read all of their books my Freshman year of college.

Currently reading The End of Overeating by Dr David Kessler, after seeing it reccommended on here a million times. Just got through the first section (out of 6) it's interesting but a little redundant.

Next I'll be reading another of Chuck Pallahnuik's books. He's my favorite author ever! Twisted mind, crazy random facts, and amazing voice. I love how he incorporates his descriptions in with the plot instead of just listing a description of the surroundings like some authors do. There is not a boring sentence in his books. While he is a "if you love one, you'll love them all" author, he's certainly not a "if you've read one, you've read them all" author. This man's mind just amazes me! Okay, I'll stop gushing now.

Originally Posted by blkbarbie25:
this year i would like to read the Vampire Chronicles and the stories of the Mayfair Witches which is a total of 13 books

I read The Witching Hour, which, in my opinion, is an awesome book except for the stupid end. Then I read the next two books - don't recall what they are called but they are sequels to The Witching Hour and I thought they were 100% crap. JMHO of course.

Last night, I finished reading While I Am Falling by Laura Moriarty - about a girl in college who is affected by her parents' divorce. A really good book, I could not put it down. There are two other books by the same author so I am planning to get them from the library today.

Drenched In Light by Lisa Wingate

Originally Posted by Aclai4067:
Next I'll be reading another of Chuck Pallahnuik's books. He's my favorite author ever! Twisted mind, crazy random facts, and amazing voice. I love how he incorporates his descriptions in with the plot instead of just listing a description of the surroundings like some authors do. There is not a boring sentence in his books. While he is a "if you love one, you'll love them all" author, he's certainly not a "if you've read one, you've read them all" author. This man's mind just amazes me! Okay, I'll stop gushing now.

My husband LOVES all of his books! I haven't read any of them but he keeps saying I need to.

Right now I am on book two in a very long series by Christine Feehan called the Dark Series. Very racy in some parts.. haha.

Reading "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides. It was recommended by a few people, and it's quite strange. I'm about a quarter through.

Originally Posted by Aclai4067:
Next I'll be reading another of Chuck Pallahnuik's books.

Which have you read? I've read all the older, and most of the newer, maybe I could recommend one? Also I love Hunter S. Thompson, and Irvine Welsch, authors of fear and Loathing in Las vegas and Trainspotting, respectively. You might like these, same type of "smut" and some of my more prudish friends have called david, augusten, and chuck

Ooh books yay! I am reading Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. Has anyone read Percy Jackson and The Olympians? I would love to give those a look-see.

Originally Posted by honeybjones:
Has anyone read Percy Jackson and The Olympians? I would love to give those a look-see.

I really want to read these books. I really want to see the movie too.

Gone With the Wind

I've made it a goal to read more this year and wanted to start with this :)

recently rejoined a Book Club, since I doubt I could begin Jan book I decided to start up on next months book.....The five people you meet in heaven. So far its good.

Done with Bel Canto: I know it's a more literary novel focusing on the bonds that form between the terrorists (most of whom are teenagers and have never been exposed to stuff like opera and the lifestyle the people they take hostage lead, so getting to know them is an eye-opener for them) and their captives, but I wish there'd been a little more "action", i.e., a little more about what plans may have been taken to negotiate for the hostages' freedom (I'm spoiled by the political thrillers I like to read).

Now starting in on a block of winter-Olympic-themed reading: last night I started A Medal of Honor by John Morton (about biathletes); after that it's gonna be pretty much solid figure-skating books (there's not a whole lot of fiction about other winter-O sports, unless it's kids' or young-adult stuff; or else I'm just gonna have to read more non-fiction) until the end of February

"A Gesture Life", by Chang-rae Lee is a book I am working on for fun, because my friend was sent an extra copy and told me I'd really like it. Other than that I'm reading about 5-6 other collections of short stories for my college class.