Books, Books, Books - What are you reading??

LadyGhostDuchess
LadyGhostDuchess Posts: 894 Member
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I wanted to share with you all the books I am currently reading (these are in no order):

Killer Crullers by Jessica Beck (94/276 done)
The Dirty Parts of the Bible by Sam Torode (18% done)
The Frozen Trail by Lisa Dayley (30% done)
A Perfect Stranger by Alice Duncan (32% done)
Do Over by Lisa Scott (0% done)
She's Gotta Be Mine by Jasmine Haynes and Jennifer Skully (0% done)
Splitsville.com by Tonya Kappes (0% done)
Lucidity: A Ghost of a Love Story by CJ Lyons (0% done)
Shadowbloom by The Sullivan Brothers (0% done)
The Gauntlet Assassin by LJ Sellers (0% done)

You can follow me on Goodreads for more updates!
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/20457571-alyssa

I would love to know what everyone else is reading! :drinker:
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  • vanillacoffee
    vanillacoffee Posts: 1,024 Member
    Just finished- A Year In the Merde- Stephen Clarke :)
  • LadyGhostDuchess
    LadyGhostDuchess Posts: 894 Member
    Just finished- A Year In the Merde- Stephen Clarke :)

    Oh is it good?
  • Nix143
    Nix143 Posts: 522 Member
    Highly recommend right now the 'Wool' triliogy - more dystopian themes akin to The Hunger Games.
  • onedayatatime12
    onedayatatime12 Posts: 577 Member
    Wuthering Heights is on my to-read list. Hopefully I can check it out of the local library tomorrow! I heard there are so many plot twists, and that it's very interesting. Yay!
  • LadyGhostDuchess
    LadyGhostDuchess Posts: 894 Member
    Highly recommend right now the 'Wool' triliogy - more dystopian themes akin to The Hunger Games.

    Nix! That is so crazy! I literally just downloaded the first book on my kindle because it was free and my friend recommended it to me! Great minds must think a like! Thank you for the recommendation!
    Wuthering Heights is on my to-read list.

    I have this on my "to read" list too, I got it for free on my kindle :)
  • vanillacoffee
    vanillacoffee Posts: 1,024 Member
    Just finished- A Year In the Merde- Stephen Clarke :)

    Oh is it good?

    Yes, i loved it!
  • vanillacoffee
    vanillacoffee Posts: 1,024 Member
    Wuthering Heights is on my to-read list. Hopefully I can check it out of the local library tomorrow! I heard there are so many plot twists, and that it's very interesting. Yay!

    Didnt expect to, but I really liked this book too!
  • StripedSmoker
    StripedSmoker Posts: 104 Member
    Metro 2034, the first book (Metro 2033) was the one I read just before... also I am struggling with The Physician for no real reason, but I am determined to finish it... eventually.
  • LaserOctopus
    LaserOctopus Posts: 121 Member
    Highly recommend right now the 'Wool' triliogy - more dystopian themes akin to The Hunger Games.

    I thought I was the only person who had ever read this :)
    As you suggest, it's definitely not introducing any new ideas or surprises or anything (and I suspect the author read a *lot* of the same authors I did growing up, lol), but it's a fun, easy read nonetheless.
    It is somewhat tame for Dystopian, but not in a bad way.
    Wuthering Heights is on my to-read list.

    You could definitely call that twisty and turny... <evil grin>


    Other than that, I'm just here for the recommendations. I have such a terrible habit, I've now limited myself to a book every five pounds lost... and I'm trying *not* to spend all of my money in the used bookstores or pre-ordering every book by my favorite authors off of Amazon so I have them on day one (except for one that I will get tomorrow, for one of those five-pound rewards).

    One day, I might even learn to put them down once in a while, instead of reading each one in one sitting (unlikely, I know, but *theoretically* possible).
  • Elicur
    Elicur Posts: 78 Member
    Currently reading Under the Net by Iris Murdoch.
    I'll add you on Goodreads!! :D

    I'm me : http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5871159-liz
  • MissJanet55
    MissJanet55 Posts: 457 Member
    Just finished May We Be Forgiven by A M Homes, loved it. It is a big, weird, humane book, very funny and sad at the same time.

    Also just enjoyed Cooked by Michael Pollan (cooking your own food is a radical act) and Sugar Salt Fat by Michael Moss. Both excellent.
  • LadyGhostDuchess
    LadyGhostDuchess Posts: 894 Member
    I have such a terrible habit, I've now limited myself to a book every five pounds lost... and I'm trying *not* to spend all of my money in the used bookstores or pre-ordering every book by my favorite authors off of Amazon so I have them on day one (except for one that I will get tomorrow, for one of those five-pound rewards).

    I use to do this!

    But I am so addicted I can't do it anymore. It was:
    5 pounds: One book
    +5 pounds: Two books
    +5 pounds: Four books
    +5 pounds: Eight books

    Then I moved onto: I could not buy any new books until I read five "paper" books. That lasted until I got addicted to a series. Oopsy! I have not bought any books other than two, since I finished that series (minus E-Books, they don't count if they are 1$ or less lol).
  • 257_Lag
    257_Lag Posts: 1,249 Member
    Reading 600 hours of Edward and loving it!
  • LaserOctopus
    LaserOctopus Posts: 121 Member
    I have such a terrible habit, I've now limited myself to a book every five pounds lost... and I'm trying *not* to spend all of my money in the used bookstores or pre-ordering every book by my favorite authors off of Amazon so I have them on day one (except for one that I will get tomorrow, for one of those five-pound rewards).

    I use to do this!

    But I am so addicted I can't do it anymore. It was:
    5 pounds: One book
    +5 pounds: Two books
    +5 pounds: Four books
    +5 pounds: Eight books

    Then I moved onto: I could not buy any new books until I read five "paper" books. That lasted until I got addicted to a series. Oopsy! I have not bought any books other than two, since I finished that series (minus E-Books, they don't count if they are 1$ or less lol).

    Haha! The only reason I can do it right now is that my life is super-busy these days, barely any time for reading for fun... Otherwise, yes, I am one of those people who will bring home a bag of books from the local new/used or the nearest multi-story independent bookstore (not that we have those here, where we often come out on top of the list of Most Illiterate US Cities - I wonder if those things are related), and then read them all in two days and become traumatized that I'm out of books.

    I do not yet have a reader, though I bought Mom a Kindle a year and a half ago. I both covet and fear it. I love the used bookstore thing too much, and I'm a highly tactile person, and I *love* the smell and feel of books... not to mention going to the author talks and waiting in line for signatures and all of that. But I'm sure I will give in eventually, it's too easy and too cheap and too convenient not to.
  • CherylP67
    CherylP67 Posts: 772 Member
    Reading Gone Girl. It's stressful but I can't put it down.

    One of my favorite books of the past few years was 11/22/63 by Stephen King. It's not his normal nightmare fuel story. It is excellent.
  • RN514
    RN514 Posts: 1,107 Member
    Reading Gone Girl. It's stressful but I can't put it down.

    One of my favorite books of the past few years was 11/22/63 by Stephen King. It's not his normal nightmare fuel story. It is excellent.

    Easy by Tammara Webber
    ...typical cliche chick book.

    Gone Girl is next on my list, hoping to start it today!
  • karl39x
    karl39x Posts: 586 Member
    Finished World War Z a while back, thinking of starting Johnny Got His Gun.
  • ostrichagain
    ostrichagain Posts: 271 Member
    Farmers of Forty Centuries by F.H. King
    Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
  • SadFaerie
    SadFaerie Posts: 243 Member
    "How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It" James Wesley Rawles

    I like knowing why I keep in shape.
  • ichoose2believe
    ichoose2believe Posts: 108 Member
    Just finished:
    As Sure as the Sun by Anna McPartlin
    Dr Who Books (David Tennant ones)
    Bleakdoor

    Reading:
    Fallen Book 3
    Gateway for Farie
  • LadyGhostDuchess
    LadyGhostDuchess Posts: 894 Member
    I love the used bookstore thing too much, and I'm a highly tactile person, and I *love* the smell and feel of books...

    Used Books scare me sometimes lol because I am so OCD. I have recently started to get them. Started with the Harlequin books
  • LaserOctopus
    LaserOctopus Posts: 121 Member
    I love the used bookstore thing too much, and I'm a highly tactile person, and I *love* the smell and feel of books...

    Used Books scare me sometimes lol because I am so OCD. I have recently started to get them. Started with the Harlequin books

    I love used books. They have an extra story. Are they a lost favorite (we *all* have those books we read once or twice or even thrice a year)? A mismatched book and reader, separated? An idea outgrown? Or worse, an idea abandoned? A gift, discarded? Or spurned? Is there a reader somewhere, having passed on, leaving his books to carry on without him?

    Sometimes you find a note in the margin, or a receipt used as a bookmark. Where has this book visited? Was it merely a tool to ease the tedium of a commute by train? Or a grand adventure in a favorite chair by the window? A welcome escape from a terrible life? A life-changing idea for a mind ready to be opened? They could have been anything. Can be everything.

    That being said, I do get a case of squick if they're sticky or dirty or otherwise gross. What sort of person would do that to a book?
  • itsjustdawn
    itsjustdawn Posts: 1,073 Member
    The Gunslinger by Stephen King. Again. Probably the 7th or 8th time in less than 20 years.
  • ohheyitsfelicity
    ohheyitsfelicity Posts: 80
    I just finished Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (and Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling. Such a nice, simple read but absolutely hilarious at once. I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to read next, but I have a few Candace Bushenll books so I may start one of them :)
  • Mother_Superior
    Mother_Superior Posts: 1,624 Member
    Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics - Max Planck
    CCENT/CCNA ICND1 Official Cert. Gude - Wendell Odom
    The Cyphernomicon - Timothy May
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
  • lucystacy71
    lucystacy71 Posts: 290 Member
    I'm a bit of an oddball. I'm currently reading Zombies, a collection of zombie short stories, and rereading Jane Eyre. I like a bit of variety I suppose.
  • mag131
    mag131 Posts: 542 Member
    Highly recommend right now the 'Wool' triliogy - more dystopian themes akin to The Hunger Games.

    Nix! That is so crazy! I literally just downloaded the first book on my kindle because it was free and my friend recommended it to me! Great minds must think a like! Thank you for the recommendation!

    Where did you get it for free?? Amazon is currently selling the kindle edition for 5.99. :/
  • tbonethemighty
    tbonethemighty Posts: 100 Member
    I keep putting this info on my website in hopes my students will care...so far no luck there, but hey, maybe someone here will.

    Currently reading: Yaman Tilki by Road Dahl (translated by Gönül Çapan -- that's Fantastic Mr. Fox in English, by the way, and my favorite Dahl book, possibly next to the The BFG)

    The Last Three Books/Series I Read: Half-Sick of Shadows by David Logan (can't recommend that one, I don't get this current mania for plots that don't make sense and involve rape and incest and whatever...thus re-reading Fantastic Mr. Fox to get the taste out of my brain)

    The Parasol Protectorate Series (Soulless, Changeless, Blameless, Heartless, Timeless) by Gail Carriger (AWESOME. Okay, maybe not going to win any prizes for literature, but fun, great reads, and smart enough to still be not boring by the fifth book)

    Artemis Fowl and Artemis Fowl: the Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer (two of my students are writing term papers on these books this semester, so I felt like I should read them...I know there's a lot of hype and they're quite popular, but really? Aeh. And I love YA/Fantasy/Science Fiction, so I'm not sure why I didn't like these more.)
  • mag131
    mag131 Posts: 542 Member
    ooh! Nevermind..that's for all five parts of 'Wool'. Awesome!
  • jacobhyatt91
    jacobhyatt91 Posts: 120 Member
    Doctor Who- Shada

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