Last night I started reading a book that a friend loaned me..."How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, a Cautionary Tale"...it is the autobiography of adult film star Jenna Jameson.

Although I have never seen her films and just vaguely know who she is, the book is quite an interesting read. She had a very strange, sad, mixed up life. It is a wonder that this woman is still alive after all her awful relationships, the loss of loved ones, a friend being murderd and descent into drug addiction -geeze, and that's only in the first half of the book!

I wonder who you've just devastated, Mauvais.
I remember once I was helping to sort books in a church basement for a book sale. I held up a Danielle Steele and said, "Who READS this crap!?" And caught the eye of a church member, and knew I'd put my foot in my mouth.

Well, I've been known to read Danielle Steele as has my sister. We consider them airplane books - good for a read while you travel and then you just leave it on the plane. Once we travelled together with only one book - I started it and ripped out the pages for her as I finished them. Folks thought we were insane.

I'm halfway through "Beautiful Losers" and think I'll put it aside. Cohen is a nutcase! It reads like James Joyce in places.

Now THAT'S depressing!

Mauvais, it was Ruth. We've devastated Ruth.

Ugh. I was on Woman's Day website on their forum, and they had a books thread asking who everyone's favorite authors were. It was all Nora Roberts, Danielle Steele, an occasional Ann Rice just to spice things up. It was really depressing to get this sort of feeling that the average woman reads non-challenging entertainment novels that the authors put out as fast as you can read them.
Now I do like the occasional entertainment only book, but there does need to be balance.
Needless to say, I stick to posts on this forum about what's good and what's not.

Oh, and I am so excited because today I got a Library card. Finally. Now I can read as fast as I really read, and still always be reading a book. Yay.

Yeah, I had a good book conversation while having dinner with some girlfriends and they have convinced me to renew my library card. I am hoping my local library has improved their selection a bit over the past couple of years.

Hey, I didn't say there was anything wrong with Danielle Steele, I just said I wasn't a fan


I am so proud of myself......I was going to try to read 1 book a month and I have managed to read 4 instead! (this also means I have been taking some time out for myself )

I'm rereading (for about the 10th time) Garrison Keiller's, "Leaving Home". The stories in it are funny and lovely.

I am halfway through "The Love Artist" by Jane Allison. It is set in Roman times and it has a storyline about the poet Ovid. Quite good so far

Right now I am reading "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams". It's about Newfoundland and is based on Joey Smallwood - sort of fiction/biography.

My first book club starts today, its online at barnes & noble. We're reading Jane Austen's Emma. I loved Pride & Prejudice, but that's the only Austen book I've read. Also, (sorry, a little off topic), did anyone see Their Eyes Were Watching God? I read the book junior year in HS, and I loved it! I TiVo'd the movie, but haven't seen it yet.

Kellibee, Their Eyes Were Watching God is probably my favourite book. I'm so glad that someone else here has read it! What a revolutionary piece of work... and so beautifully written. Janie becomes the type of woman many of us yearn to be.
I'm very reluctant to see the movie. I probably won't. It'll just annoy me.
Let me know if you enjoy it!

I am currently reading Stephen King's first book in the Dark Tower series "Gunslinger" only because I promised my dad I'd watch it. I'm really not a fan of Stephen King's writing style, and this is no different, but the story is interesting and lucky for me it's a short book. We'll see if I decide to continue on that one.

I know what you mean, ellis, when I was reading the book, she writes in a way that you can see a movie in your head. Everything is so vivid, like in the book where she becomes a woman under the tree (that sounds pervy, but its a realization). I really don't want to ruin how wonderful the book is by someone's depiction. I think its a must read for any woman.

I am reading A.S. Byatt's "A whistling Woman." I love her books and this one seems quite remarkable.

I'm currently reading "The ***** in the House" it's a collection of essays by women. and next i'm going to read "hardcore zen"