What are u reading now?

I am reading Lovely Bones by Alice Seobold. Its got me hooked. What about u guys? Reading anything interesting.

The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison.

I'm reading the fourth book in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I'm so hooked that I'll definitely be getting the rest of the 12-book series (I've obviously read the first three as well).

For the Oenophiles out there, I'm reading "The Billionare's Vinegar" by Benjamin Wallace, just started, but it seems like an easy read.

I just finished "The Monster of Florence" by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi...good book, scary that it's a non-fiction!

Original Post by alibsam:

I am reading Lovely Bones by Alice Seobold.

I recently finished that. I thought it was hugely overrated.

I'm reading "Love in the Time of Cholera" right now. It's not drawing me in. I'm saving "Middlesex" and "I Am America (And So Can You)" for my 30 hours of travel headed back States-side in two weeks.

I thought it was overrated too. I liked her book, Lucky more.

I have Cholera on my bookcase, but haven't gotten to it, and Middlesex hasn't drawn me in yet, though I've read about a quarter of it.

Currently, I'm reading The Pillars of the Earth

Next is The Road

Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris **** very funny, witty

Gum Theif - Douglas Coupland ****  amazing, modern, funny, intelligent

Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon ***** - won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001 - best book I have read in years

Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst ***** - took the Man Booker Prize - a modern day Bride'shead Revisited, a dense, beautiful, book, sharp as knives

Must go to bookstore...

~k

are u doing the Oprah Book club? the next one i want to read is James Frey's latest :)

I personally don't like seeing the Oprah sticker on a book.

I can find my own books to read.

Also, I hate stickers.

~K

Im waiting for Breaking Dawn which comes out tomorrow...but i've been wrapped in the twilight saga for about a week now and that is the last book...recommend to anyone who likes vampires and classic litature...its by stephenie meyer.

OOOh! I don't think I have ever read a Terry Brooks book I didn't like. I am reading Lies my Teacher Told Me, and the Book 12 of the Middle Earth Histories.

Whirlwind by James Clavell

I read all his other books a couple years ago.  I could NOT put down Shogun.  Read all night and was useless the next day.

Original Post by sharz96:

Whirlwind by James Clavell

I read all his other books a couple years ago.  I could NOT put down Shogun.  Read all night and was useless the next day.

 Whirlwind is GREAT as was Shogun.

He's a fantastic action writer.

~k

I'm reading The Almost Moon by Alice Seobold.  I thought I would really like it because I enjoyed (using the term loosely) Lovely Bones and Lucky, but this one is just... odd. 

Original Post by alibsam:

I am reading Lovely Bones by Alice Seobold.

I recently finished that. I thought it was hugely overrated.

I'm reading "Love in the Time of Cholera" right now. It's not drawing me in. I'm saving "Middlesex" and "I Am America (And So Can You)" for my 30 hours of travel headed back States-side in two weeks.

Can you even get into "Love in the Time of Cholera"?  I tried so hard, but boy was it rough.  I gave up about 30% of the way through.

I really liked Middlesex - I think I read it in a few sittings.

I have read a lot of Jodi Picoult's books and some of my favorite include: "harvesting the heart," "19 minutes" and "my sister's keeper"

but I am currently reading "the time traveler's wife" by Audrey Niffenegger which is really good  so far!

I love Jodi Picoult books.. :)

I love Jodi Picoult too!  Except I always end up feeling depressed for about a week after ;)  The Pact was brutal.

"Catherine the Great" by Virgina Rounding. Pretty good so far. Something I can read in chunks.

The Septembers of Shiraz; got a rave from NPR and is out in paperback; displaced Jews at the end of the shah's rule in Iran. hard to put down.

I never read Sebold after Lovely Bones.  I lost a child to violence, so I am always interested in other takes on where we go, what we see, what remains to the living.  It stretches my atheism almost to the border of agnosticism.

Enjoy Middlesex;  a great read.  

I'm taking The Lazarus Project  and some A.M. Homes on vacation, along with Pale Rider as I am embarassed to say I have never read Nabokov.

I'm reading "Monster" by Jonathan Kellerman.  I'm a library nut, I LOVE going to the library and picking out books.  But I've never read this one (read most of his other stuff.  Never cared for his wife's books though).

Safiyah

Right now I'm reading two books.

Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz

and

The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brook