What Are You Reading JAN 2013

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  • Happy 2013 Everyone! Please share what you are reading so we can grow our ever growing lists. I am aiming for 2 books read a month this year. And lots of maintaining weight loss!

    But, at the moment I am reading Safe Haven from Nicolas Sparks. Been good so far.

    Safe Haven
  • Starting The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig today. My cousin lent it to me, not my usual choice, but I need a fun read.
  • I have a whole pile of books that I have let get out of control. I need to finish the Hunger Games Trilogy.
  • I plan on reading more this year. I have a huge pile of books to get through.

    I'm reading Bill Bryson "I'm A Stranger Here Myself".

    Then I will read Tony LaRussa's book "Last Strike". Hopefully I will get him to autograph it at Winter Warm Up. It's a baseball thing.
  • I am finishing The Hobbit. I'm not sure what will come after, I've got one too many books to choose from and I was just given a B&N gift card so now I want to go shopping!
  • Reading Alice in Wonderland, in German. when I say reading, I mean struggling with ... my grasp of German is that of a six year old, right now!
  • Quote: I am finishing The Hobbit. I'm not sure what will come after, I've got one too many books to choose from and I was just given a B&N gift card so now I want to go shopping!
    That's one of those books that I started and will never finish. Really boring for me.
  • Reading Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore. It's something totally different than what I usually read.
  • I'm Down by Mishna Wolff. Laugh out loud funny, literally.
  • I have such a pile to get through, nevermind about 100 on my kobo!

    I'm working my way through a 1200 page biography of Spencer Tracy right now. After that I hope to tackle the gigantic history of the mob I got for Christmas and catch up on my Christopher Moore.
  • Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
  • City of Bohane by Kevin Barry. I'm really enjoying it. Unique(ly) familiar and utterly stylized world, with an argot that is perhaps 10% Irish and 90% invented, but feels substantive, real, and lived in, particularly 1/2 through when I finally figured out who "Sweet Baba" is. Ha! Clever, Mr. Barry.

    Though I find the female characters to be much more thinly drawn than the male characters, and there is an underlying, essential and unquestioned chauvanism in the narrative that bothers me when I slip back out of the world.
  • The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot
  • Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  • Ammonite by Nicola Griffith