So what are you reading now?

I started this new thread because the other "what are you reading?" thread is in the Sci-Fi sub-category, which was ignored by some of us and confusing to others of us.

So what are you reading now (in any genre)?  I just finished In the Woods by Tana French, which is a murder mystery/psychological thriller set in Ireland.  Very interesting (albeit unreliable) first person narrative, wonderful descriptions of friends, great characters.  Real page-turner.  It was my Book Club's selection this month, and very popular with most of us.

I also just finished listening to (audio books for commute) The Know-It-All by AJ Jacobs.  He read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica, annoying his friends and loved ones in the meanwhile.  He's also the author of The Year of Living Biblically (in which he tries to live by the Old Testament laws), which I hear is also very entertaining.

It must be my age but I am rereading a favorite of mine --Hawaii by James Mirtchener, his books are long, well worth the trouble. I have been reading alot of Non-Fiction lately and felt I needed alittle break from the Oh-So Serious stuff. In general I read anything that interests me from Historical fiction, Biographies, fiction, etc. If you have never read Mitchener, try him--especially if you like long books.

I just finished The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway.  Currently I'm reading Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman, and on my bedside table I have The Collaborator of Bethlehem by Matt Rees.  I love it when I get on a good book roll.

Swann's way by Proust.The most beautiful book I've ever laid my eyes upon.

I'm reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett.  I'm about halfway through and love it.  Set in Jackson, Mississippi, the story begins in 1962, and the first line on the inside flap of the book jacket reads, "Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step...." 

I am also reading Style Statement, Live By Your Own Design, by Carrie McCarthy & Danielle LaPorte.  I'm halfway through this book, as well, and wish I owned it so that I could scribble in the margins!

I just finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, and with that title I never would have picked it up, but I found it recommended as one of the top 100 reads.   It's a series of letters written between a writer in London and a group of  people living on Guernsey during the German occupation of the Channel Islands.  I didn't want it to end....

Next up is James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge - Run for Your Life.

Original Post by lithelady:

I'm reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett.  I'm about halfway through and love it.  Set in Jackson, Mississippi, the story begins in 1962, and the first line on the inside flap of the book jacket reads, "Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step...." 

     Update:  I've finished the book and overall loved it, but the ending not so much.  Has anyone else read this book?

 

I'm reading Suit Francaise by Irene Nemrovsky.  I'm sure you have all heard of it.  I was a little disappointed at first, but I'm falling into it's poetic and descriptive sense of the war and a people coming under occupation.  The juxtaposition of the normal next to the extreme is breath taking. 

I'm also in the middle of the Fables grafic novel series.  It's good, but I feel like the stories are getting away from the writter some.  On the other hand, it's sexy and fun and a neat read in between heavier stuff.

Next is Middlemarch!

Reading is my number one relaxation pastime so I am so glad to share some of the recent books I have read and I am looking forward to reading some of your recommendations.  Right now, I am reading The Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery by Joanne Fluke. 

Now, I know what you're thinking........she's trying to lose weight and here she is reading about FOOD!  But I'm actually loving this book and the murder mystery that involves this young woman who owns her own bakery in a small town.  I'm half way through the book and I am definitely buying the rest of her series.  So far, she has 10 books in this series.

I'm also a huge fan of Debbie Macomber.  I've liked every book of hers that I've read but my last one was "8 Sandpiper Way" from her Cedar Cove Series.

I'm also a huge fan of James Patterson.  I'm looking forward to reading his series The Women's Murder Club.  There are 8 books in the series (1st To Die, 2nd Chance, 3rd Degree, 4th of July, 5th Horseman, The 6th Target, 7th Heaven, & The 8th Confession.

Now, if I only had time to just sit and read, read, read.  I have a whole drawer of books just waiting for me!

Enjoy!    

I just finished reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Saffron Foer...Very good book , it held by attention the entire time ...

At the present I am reading Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens. It is so exciting but so hard to read! I am about 500 pages through and still going strong- only 300 pages to go!

I'm currently reading Trainspotting by Irving Welsh, and have Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson in queue. Been trying to read the books of the movies I've seen, not all, but the ones I love. *_*
Like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and A Clockwork Orange and such.

It's funny because I once saw Fear and Loathing and A Clockwork Orange on a table in the bookstore with the sign, "Eclectic Classics." Wish that table was still there, I'd stock up. *_*

Im about to start reading the twilight books but not sure if worth it?..Any one read them yet?...

Euuugh, I haven't read them but people I know have tried and said they're the worst things ever. I've heard what it's about so I agree. Maybe if you're 12-years-old it's good. xD

i knew they were for young readers but thought it may be like how Harry Potter books are also read by adults...

Well I think the Twilight books are also read by older people, but no one with any intelligence, as far as I know. I just think of them as trashy teen novels/trashy romance stories. You know, the "Oh, Joh, I love you! *swept off feet in romantic flowery field scene*"

I mean by all means, if the Twilight books are your thing, go for it. But by my opinion I'd say, uh, no.

I read the first Twilight book.  It's the kind of book that you put down and forget to pick up again.  Really boring, though the author does get the whole teenage girl thing.  There are better YA novels out there.

Oh man I don't even remember being a teenager (what, what, what? I'm 20, I should remember this). But maybe that's because I don't think I was ever some love-struck whiny weeaboo.

People have said they're really well written, but it's under my opinion that it doesn't matter how well written it is if the story blows.