for the summer i'm taking a break from the heavy sci-fi and fantasy tomes i am usually carting around for some good old fashioned mystery murder trashy novels! I'm really into Lisa Gardner books right now, finished one, half way thru another one, and i have a third one waiting. sometimes it's good to read for entertainment- well i guess i always read for entertainment... but... it's nice to read and not have to really think about anything.

Hello everyone!!! How are you all enjoying your summer?
As far as my reading list, here it is:

South of Broad by Pat Conroy (love his prose and beatiful writing style)

The Girl Who Played with Fire- Stieg Larsson (read the 1st one of the trilogy and loved it!!!) It seems that everybody is reading these books!!

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson (very charming novel about the British class system, family obligations and love across people from very different cultural backgrounds)

Cheers,


Caribbean Girl

Hmmm, I hadn't heard that, but the guy is died before #3 was published. I wonder if someone else has taken it on....

I'm still on the first for various reasons, but I'm finally into it. :)

I read Eat, Pray, Love when it first came out. I enjoyed the first two sections much more than the third. I'll probably see the movie though, if just for the scenery. :)

Mostly I've been reading British mysteries set in WWI and earlier. Just finished a series of 3 by Charles Finch, and have C S Harris one next. I also recently finished The Help and thought it was great. I'm listening to an older Jodi Picoult Song of the Humpback Whales which just came out in audio last year. On my MP3 player I'm listening to Alexander McCall Smith's book that he published online on the London Telegraph website. It's called Corduroy Mansions. I downloaded all the podcasts which are a chapter long - about 7 minutes each.

Yes, he died right after handing in the first three manuscripts. Apparently he had most of the 4th done at the time and it was on his laptop. His live-in girlfriend of many, many years first said she had the laptop, but now is not saying. All of his estate went to his father and brother because he had no will and he wasn't married. I guess she worked with him in doing editing and proof reading so she's very familiar with the work so it is possible that either she finished it or is working with someone to finish it (or I suppose they could publish it unfinished). There's been some write-up about it on several news sources so you could Google it.

I just joined paperbackswap.com and have been receiving so many books in the mail (while clearing out my old ones) that I'm in the middle of a bunch right now...

The ones I've been reading in the last couple of days are:
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (I really love her style of writing - I think I'll get into this one)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (I'm only on pg 10 or something, but it's good so far)
The Hot Zone...it's the discovery of Ebola and started out really good, but I'm getting a little bored with it now.

Just finished reading Mayday by Nelson DeMille. Got a Kindle for Christmas and I'm reading way too much (if that is possible). Going back...reading author's first books.

Last few reads for this month are...

T is for Trespass...Sue Grafton
Vanishing Act...Fern Michaels
Chill Factor...Sandra Brown
The Marriage Game...Fern Michaels
On the Banks of Plum Creek...Laura Ingalls Wilder

And currently reading Women, Food and God...Geneen Roth

I just finished Jane Green's newest book, Promises to Keep, along with one called The Late, Lamented Molly Marx by Sally Koslow. Both were excellent and had me sobbing at the end.

I had gotten to the third book in the Vampire Chronicles series, 'Queen of the Damned' and felt like my brain cells were evaporating :o so I put it down and moved on to 'Practical Magic' by Alice Hoffman. I am also still reading 'True Evil' by Greg Iles.

I'm so excited! STARZ is doing a mini-series of Pillars of the Earth starting July 23rd! It has Ian McShane and Donald Sutherland in it. I loved this book and hope they do it justice.

Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin

I have Pillars of the Earth set to record.

I just finished reading Nothing to Envy, stories about defectors from North Korea. I knew things were bad in North Korea but it was a real eye-opener.

Just started Girl with Dragon Tatoo! Where was I when these books started coming out? Very happy to read something different and know more about Sweden. Had to get online to look at Stockholm and read about weather etc. Warmer than I thought and less snow than I thought but 34 hours of sunlight in December, really? That would be hard.

I finished up "Practical Magic' and I loved it! Next book = "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown

Just finished 'Secret Daughter' by Gowda - soooo good. Haven't read a book so enlightening in a long time!

Reading one of my favorite books as a kid Summer of my german soldier :)

The Weight Loss Diaries by Courtney Rubin

I just read that book too, and really enjoyed it. I had no idea of some of conditions in India being that bad. It had a really good storyline too.

I don't think we get Starz here in Canada. :( I would love to see this! I loved that book!

Just finishing up Green For Life - Victoria Boutenko :)

Just finished "Heart of the Matter" by Emily Giffin, and finished rereading "The Notebook" by Nicholas Sparks - one of my all time favorites!!

I'm currently reading "Names My Sisters Call Me" by Megan Crane, and "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Berlin

I'm almost always reading two or three books at a time, lol! I've read a lot this month, I forgot about this thread, but I'll remember next month, I love seeing what other people are reading... :)