What are you reading Oct 2012??
 

A new month, new books to share. Please share with us what you are currently reading. :)


I'm a couple chapters in the 3rd book of 50 shades.

I am reading "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini who also wrote "The Kite Runner" I have just started it but so far I am enjoying reading of a culture very different of ours.

I've read the full 50 Shades trilogy and I liked the first two books the best. The third was good, my mother blasted through them and made me read them :lol:

Anyways I just finished up the 5 Love Languages and am about to pick out a Frank Peretti book my mother in law gave me. Can't remember the name though, I'll double check.

I'm reading the newest Dexter novel (Dexter is Delicious), and also Scarlet Feather.

Pyramids, by Terry Pratchett.

He is always good for what ails you!

I am reading "Revolutionary Road" by Richard Yates. I saw the movie a few years back and loved it and have wanted to read the book ever since. It's dark, I know, but I'm glad I'm finally reading it.

The Kindness of Strangers = Mike Mc Intyre restores my faith in humans

Zoo by James Patterson. I LOVE James Patterson! :)

Just finished The Chaperone which I loved. Starting My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story.

The Skinny Rules (Bob Harper)
and I'm thinking about re-reading one of the books on my bookshelf. Not sure which one yet.

Love him! I am reading The Great Husband Hunt by Laurie Graham. Which is nice and easy, and which I sort of enjoy, without ever quite loving it. There are some really funny bits and the narrative is... a unique narrative voice.

And The City and the City by China Mieville. I've read him before: Perdido Street Station and maybe one other, which I wanted to love but couldn't. Language and invention seemed to get in the way of the story, or perhaps the story just felt like a skeleton over which to lay all this weird invention. I'm not sure. I wanted to love it, but couldn't.

Oh, but The City and the City, I am loving. Particularly now that I am used to the made-up names language affectations and acclimatized. I want to go live in Besz (or Ul Qoma) and wander around unseeing everyone else. It is great, really well constructed, a nice noir voice that still feels contemporary and such a great, intricate invention. I love the way it plays on the intersection between eastern Europe and the west, too. And nationalism, myth, loads of other things. Really great.

I am reading a book called Pigeon English by Stephan Kelman, which is amazing, I am really loving it.

I am also re-reading Northern Lights by Philip Pullman for probably the 100th time.

And I am dipping into Food: The Good Girl's Drug and The God Delusion too. I like to have lots of books on the go!

I'm behind in the games...

I'm on the third book of the Hunger games..

Ahhh, I really loved those books! Actually they're what made me start running a few months ago, so that I would survive a bit longer if I ever had to participate :D

How are you liking them?

I *loved* the Hunger Games I just finished all three last month...I really didn't think I'd even LIKE them, but my daughter bought the movie and I was hooked.

Right now I'm reading Divurgent (fiction) and The Swing (by Tracy Reifkind, kettlebell workout/diet program although I'm not on that diet). I think I'll read The Cloud Atlas next for fiction.

ETA: How do you like Food: The Good Girl's Drug? I've had the first part on the Kindle forever it seems.

Hello!

I thought about reading JK Rowling's Casual Vacancy but got scared off by the reviews. If it turns out I agree with the critics then it would taint her other books for me. (I had this happen with another beloved author and am not going to take the chance - weird but there it is.)

Am reading Mad River by John Sandford.

Finished An Idiot's Guide to World War 1 - research for my project of transcribing all my Grandfather's letters home from WW1. Stunning and to think they did it all again in about 20 years. Making them into a booklet for the great grandchildren.

Next up - How Children Succeed by Paul Tough

Love them! read the first 2 books in a couple days.. (before I started school.. LOL) The third is taking a bit longer because of school.. But yeah I'm loving the books! I watched the movie first because my mom wanted too and I was hooked!

Saw Zoo in the library a week ago; read a few chapters and put it down. Not for me.

Just saw it in the library again today; read a few more chapters; can't put it down. Oh Well - there goes my weekend, LOL.

(I got it immediately in person even though there are 234 holds on the 114 available copies.)

After my first Patterson, I refuse to read more. I don't remember the title, but it was about a girl who had an "immaculate conception." Really?

Currenty reading Bald in the Land of Big Hair-- a memoir of someone fighting lymphoma.

Previous to that I read Don't let Me Go by the author that gave us Pay It Forward. A book that brings people together despite their differences.

I am reading A History of the Scottish People by TC Smout. I am working on my family history, and my family comes from Scotland.

I am also re-reading all my diet books. I guess you would call it inspirational reading. LOL.

I am listening to Trickster's Point, by William Kent Kruger and performed by David Chandler. This is a mystery series with a native American slant to it. I am listening to it while I walk. I have to discipline myself to leave it alone except for walking.

SerenityDiva: I am enjoying it so far!! Not read too much of it yet, but it seems to really tap into my eating habits. I'll keep you updated!

Froggydawgy: I am avoiding the Casual Vacancy for the same reasons!! I'm so nervous that it will be rubbish!!

imnotperfect24: Cool!! I prefer the books to the film, as I actually found the film to be quite slow paced in places, which works fine in the books, but less so in the film! That's probably just me though!! I LOVE Jennifer Lawrence so that helps!

[QUOTE=nina cloudstar;4487964]SerenityDiva: I am enjoying it so far!! Not read too much of it yet, but it seems to really tap into my eating habits. I'll keep you updated!

Thanks! I have a lot on my Kindle, but I'm finding if something doesn't grab me I just move to the next LOL. I did like the part I downloaded, but honestly I think I'm too chicken to do the work.

You lucked out at the library! This was a good read, but not one of my favorites of his. Interesting premise though. :)

I just picked up Crime and Punishment. :lol:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower!

Just finished The Chaperone, I also loved it!

I am currently reading All Roads Lead to Austen: A Year Long Journey with Jane.

Also lined up is The Search by Nora Roberts and The Next Always by Nora Roberts.

I am currently reading Doc by Mary Doria Russell, Crimes by Moonlight by assorted authors and getting ready to start The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan. My husband gets mad because I can read 5 books at a time and keep all the stories straight, lol.

I LOVE Frank Peretti - did you read "The Oath" ? Long but good!

Dean Koontz's Odd Apocalypse ... read all the others and his interludes. Awesome series.

I so wish Anne Rice would come back to the dark side .. I miss her stuff!

1493 by Charles C. Mann. Good read so far!

Bout to start reading James and the Giant Peach, a classic!

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Showdown by Tilly Bagshawe

I just start reading Lord of the Ring, first book.

I read Food: The Good Girl's Drug and liked it. Parts of it rang very true for me and has been helpful.

I'm currently reading a Vince Flynn book. I totally forgot the name. :lol: I've been reading more on Pinterest lately instead of my book. Does that count? :rofl: