What are you reading?

hcswingfield

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The best book I've read lately - and I read a LOT! - is "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen. It's just terrific - well-plotted, articulate, and fascinating. It begins with a murder, but almost every assumption the reader makes about that murder will turn out to be wrong. The book even has a happy ending!

I bought that book last weekend. It's the next one on my stack to read. I'm glad to read your good review!
 

elizs77

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I finished the Eric Clapton book last week. I thought it would be good, but it was really better than I thought it would be! If you like him, you'll like the book. I'm glad I read it, because it definitely cleared up a few things, like the whole stealing George Harrison's wife thing.

I'm on to that Antonia Fraser book. I'm liking it so far, but it does remind me of why I don't like French history as much as other countries.
 

Shere_Khan

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I just finished "Menfreya in the Morning" by Victoria Holt. It is a gothic romance/mystery. (More mystery then romance) I absolutely love her books.

Now I am reading "Anne of Green Gables." The same book also has "Anne of Avonlea" and "Anne's House of Dreams." I have read Green Gables before but have never read the other two so I am starting from the beginning. I have the movies and have always loved them. The book is wonderful.
 

Fantasmic!329

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Working on To Kill a Mockingbird for Eng class.
Then, for my Book Review for the school paper, I'll be reading Bob Newhart's I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!
And for Book Club, Spring's Awakening.
 

SeaBreeze

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That Alison Weir book is wonderful! I read that about six years ago or so, and it is so chocked full of details, it's crazy. I tried reading one of hers on Elizabeth I, and maybe I was just being lazy, but I got too bogged down in the political details and I lost interest.

I'm definitely a Tudor England fan! Actually, I love British history in general, but that period just captures my imagination.

I'm a Tudor England fan as well :wave: I've read all the Gregory books for fun, light reads but I'd like to get into some of the more, um, accurate books haha.

On a different note... I just finished reading all of Jane Austen's books. I really want to read a book about The Beatles but I can't figure out the best one.
 

disney21

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Working on To Kill a Mockingbird for Eng class.
Then, for my Book Review for the school paper, I'll be reading Bob Newhart's I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!
And for Book Club, Spring's Awakening.
I read this two years ago, i enjoyed it!.
I just finished reading- Around the World in Eighty Days, - i thought it was good but boring in parts~
 

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The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx. I'm a huge Motley Crue fan.

My usual books are historical romance. Catherine Coulter and Johanna Lindsey are my favorites.


Pam
 

firedog31

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The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx. I'm a huge Motley Crue fan.

My usual books are historical romance. Catherine Coulter and Johanna Lindsey are my favorites.


Pam
I just finished the book, crazy story but glad he got his life turned around and can't wait to see them on tour this summer. Anyways I am reading I know my first name is Rabbit Great Book.

I started another thead about books without really looking for one made already, not sure who can do it but please delete it if possible.
 

Erika

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I just finished Reading Lolita in Tehran earlier today. I see a couple of other favorites already mentioned here, as well as a few I have not read yet... I should make notes for my next read.
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Erika

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Anyone read Antonia Fraser's book on Marie Antoinette? I think that might be my next one. I'm on a historical kick.

I have that, but never got beyond the first couple of chapters. I'll have to pick it back up again. I got busy and pregnant and stuff and sort of forgot all about it :eek:
 

Kingdom Konsultant

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I just finished the book, crazy story but glad he got his life turned around and can't wait to see them on tour this summer. Anyways I am reading I know my first name is Rabbit Great Book.

I started another thead about books without really looking for one made already, not sure who can do it but please delete it if possible.

I don't know if you listed to it but his CD called Heroin Diaries is just amazing. It's a bit on the dark side but I think it's excellent. It really brings out his feelings of what he went through. His group name on this is Sixx AM.

Pam
 

popsicletrees

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I'm on to that Antonia Fraser book. I'm liking it so far, but it does remind me of why I don't like French history as much as other countries.

I know that you said that you don't like French history as much as that of other countries, but Fatal Purity by Ruth Scurr is a really good book. It is a biography of Robespierre, who I consider to be one of the most interesting people in modern history.

I'm reading Haunted by Chuck Pahalnuik. For the next year and a half I will have the freedom to read whatever I want, and I am so excited about it!
 

Number_6

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Wow, has it really been over a year since anyone mentioned a book they are reading in here?

Well, the one I just finished today is "The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lover's and a Woman's Search for the Meaning of Wife" by Janna Cawrse Esarey. Absolutely fantastic and enjoyable. One of my favorite things that I have ever read and a true life adventure to boot. Here's a link to the Amazon.com page: http://www.amazon.com/Motion-Ocean-...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250967038&sr=8-1

And let me say, if looking at the title it sounds like a book that only women would be interested in, please don't think like that. I absolutely love this book and didn't want it to end. I'm trying to get as many people to read it as I can.
 

Pumbas Nakasak

Heading for the great escape.
Well in that time Ive finished all the Rebus books and started on books by Chrisopher Brookmyer another Scottsih author, though one who is style is quite political, very satirical and very very funny in both a humorous and twisted way. Hes won several awards for his work.


Chistopher Brookmyre


I started of by reading Angelique De Xavier series, a set of tales about a Scottish detective, all very well written and very funny.
1. A Big Boy Did it and Ran Away (2001)
2. The Sacred Art of Stealing (2002)
3. A Snowball in Hell (2008)

Then I moved onto the Jack Parlabane series (which were written first) and am now on the final book.

1. Quite Ugly One Morning (1996)
2. Country of the Blind (1997)
3. Boiling A Frog (2000)
4. Be My Enemy (2004)
5. Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks (2007)


His writing really appeals to my twisted side. :drevil:
 

Tiggerfanatic

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I just finished with the "Hot Flash CLub" series by Nancy Thayer. A must read for 50-something women - you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll say, "Hey, that could be me!"
 

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