Someone talk books with me, please!

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  • shirerose
    shirerose Posts: 116 Member
    i'm replying just so i can come back to this later!
    i'm on the third book of the hunger games series... (i know sooo many people are reading them right now so i'm not very original haha) but they are awesome!
  • cgrout78
    cgrout78 Posts: 1,628 Member


    Not yet... Just getting ready to read Pride & Predjudice & Zombies, once I finish my current read.


    Enjoyed Vampire Hunter, but could not get through P&P&Z. Maybe it was the reader of the audiobook...

    I just got Queen Victoria...demon hunter, it's not so bad so far
  • oOoMicheleoOo
    oOoMicheleoOo Posts: 139 Member
    For something light that will make you laugh out loud, I loved *kitten* My Dad Says by Justin Halpern.

    Is that the same as the tv programme ?
  • chauncyrenayCHANGED
    chauncyrenayCHANGED Posts: 788 Member
    Someone just let me borrow a copy of The Hunger Games. I'll be starting that tonight.

    HUNGER GAMES!!!!

    Also, Bossypants by Tina Fey had me laughing (hard) on every single page. She's brilliant!!
  • cgrout78
    cgrout78 Posts: 1,628 Member
    Ooh, and if you like cozy mysteryies... I love the Cleo Coyle Coffeehouse Mystery Series.


    Love those books, I have all of them. The Hannah Swenson books by Joanne Fluke are cute too, but the love triangle gets tiring after a while.
  • Netzie
    Netzie Posts: 107 Member
    bump
  • DenimDiva
    DenimDiva Posts: 13
    I am reading and in many cases rereading the classics. I got a NOOK for Christmas and was thrilled to see The Scarlet Letter and Oliver Twist were freebies! I also read a lot of inspirational fiction books.
  • KeriA
    KeriA Posts: 3,338 Member
    I'm on book #6 of the Saxon Tales by Bernard Cornwell. Great series if you like historical fiction. He has a million other books I'd like to read!
    I will have to check these out
  • BrettPGH
    BrettPGH Posts: 4,716 Member
    Love those books, I have all of them. The Hannah Swenson books by Joanne Fluke are cute too, but the love triangle gets tiring after a while.

    Someone tell me why every book has to have a love triangle and it's always a girl choosing between two dudes!? Any guy who strings two girls along is a jerk but when it's a woman doing it all you ladies think it's terribly romantic...
  • Lindy901
    Lindy901 Posts: 71 Member
    I just got Kindle Fire for Christmas. I've mostly been looking for free books. I'm a little behind on book authors because I usually pick up cheap books at garage sales. I just finished Water for Elephants and one by Lalita Tademy (I forgot the name; it's fiction/truth about her past ancestors who were slaves).
  • KeriA
    KeriA Posts: 3,338 Member
    Current Fiction: I also highly recommend The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.

    I aso read the Hunger Games (young adult) Book 1 was ok but I wasn't thrilled, are Books 2 and 3 any better, I might read them...Book 1 wasn't bad just a bit dragged out in parts I thought

    Light and fun I would recommend anything by David Sedaris, very funny essays (Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroys, Hollidays on Ice, Barrel Fever, etc.)

    Classic mystery: The Moonstone or The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

    Other recommended fiction: She's Come Undone or This Much I Know is True both by Wally Lamb.

    Memoirs: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls or Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs.

    Fantasy/Sci-i: His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman (Golden Compass, Subtle Knife and the Amber Spyglass

    Favorite young adult: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (great for all ages)

    My all-time favorite and a very funny read: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
    Love this list. I read this thread from last page to first. There are some good book recommended later on. Yes I love Wilke Collins too. I love to read and need a good book now.
  • cgrout78
    cgrout78 Posts: 1,628 Member
    Love those books, I have all of them. The Hannah Swenson books by Joanne Fluke are cute too, but the love triangle gets tiring after a while.

    Someone tell me why every book has to have a love triangle and it's always a girl choosing between two dudes!? Any guy who strings two girls along is a jerk but when it's a woman doing it all you ladies think it's terribly romantic...

    I did say it was getting old and tiring. I'm personally not a fan of that part of the book. I think she should just pick one already..

    2 guys and a girl are always better than a 2 girls and a guy anyway ;)
  • TripleJ3
    TripleJ3 Posts: 945 Member
    For something light that will make you laugh out loud, I loved *kitten* My Dad Says by Justin Halpern.

    Is that the same as the tv programme ?

    I haven't seen anything on the TV program, but I believe its based on this book and Justin's Twitter.
  • Helenatrandom
    Helenatrandom Posts: 1,166 Member
    Ooh, and if you like cozy mysteryies... I love the Cleo Coyle Coffeehouse Mystery Series.


    Love those books, I have all of them. The Hannah Swenson books by Joanne Fluke are cute too, but the love triangle gets tiring after a while.


    I love the Hannah Swenson books! I was disappointed that she didn't choose yet, though. Of course now that MY preference for her is now working with his ex fiance, I'm wondering if Hannah will become a suspect again soon. That hasn't happened in a long time...
  • Runs4Wine
    Runs4Wine Posts: 416 Member
    Some of my favorite books over the past year include:

    Someone Knows My Name
    My Antonia
    Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet
    Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Slow start, good ending)
    Water for Elephants
    The Book Thief
    A Reliable Wife
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    The Art of Racing in the Rain
    Room
    Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    The Shadow in the Wind
    The Wednesday Sisters
    A Stolen Life
    Still Alice
    The Wednesday Letters
    Girl in Translation
    Unbroken
    Molokai
    The Paris Wife
    Eat Pray Love
    Heaven is For Real
    Before I Go to Sleep
    In the Garden of Beasts
    What Alice Forgot
    Sister
    The Language of Flowers
    When Darkness Falls
    The Memory Keepers Daughter
    Caleb's Crossing
    The Kitchen House

    The Steve Berry Cotton Malone Series
  • jerber160
    jerber160 Posts: 2,607 Member
    I am a total book geek...i love nearly all of them.

    I thought the Game of Thrones series was amazing!

    Yes, i've read virgin suicides, i saw the film first though.

    Cecelia Ahern - P.S. I love you. Sobbed my heart out through this book, i have no idea what the film has to do with it as they changed everything, lol.

    Richard Montanari, Dean Koontz, Karen Rose, Harlan Coben, Patricia Cornwell, Karin Slaughter, Richard Laymon...love them all.

    Has anyone read Dorothy Koomson? Her books are incredible....female books though, i think. The Woman He Loved Before was brilliant.

    I recently read the old Stephen King - Dark Tower series and i couldn't put them down. The first book was a little harder going but i flew through the rest.

    Stephanie Meyer - The host was great

    I couldn't put down The Help...really want to see the film now.

    I've also just bought a kindle and i've downloaded all the classics, but i'm trying to get through my christmas books first. I have a massive wish list now after reading this thread, haha.
    [HATED the first game of thrones book many many years ago and I'm shocked to find it sooo popular now....on an xmas note, have you read the one about the nun and the tree at rockefeller center? always a favorite but i didn't read any xmas books or stories this year.../quote]
  • Jennyisbusy
    Jennyisbusy Posts: 1,294 Member
    I just finished Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and really loved it. Yes, it did start off slow, but I really liked the characters and learning more bout the ajapanese interment. Although I live in Canada and it was before my Tim, we experienced it here as well.

    I belong to goodreads.com which is similar to Mfp except for book lovers. I'm challenging myself to read 100 books this year. If you decide to join, you can "friend me" Ceanne.

    any books? or do you have to meet a list?
  • shanna0413
    shanna0413 Posts: 600 Member
    I enjoyed the Sookie stackhouse books. another fav of mine is the Eragon series

    i love all the Sookie books and I also love the Anita Blake books and the brotherhood series by JR Ward. I'm a vamp fan...LOL

    Anita Blake by LKH is awesome!! Kim Harrison is another good author with witches, vampires etc.
  • shanna0413
    shanna0413 Posts: 600 Member
    has anyone read pride and prejudice and zombies? or alice in zombieland?
  • macpatti
    macpatti Posts: 4,280 Member
    I just finished reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Still taking me a while to form a review because it was a little bizarre.
  • Bahet
    Bahet Posts: 1,254 Member

    Animal Farm and 1984 are 2 books I think everyone should read. they are very interesting and easy to read but make poignant statements about the politics.

    I really liked the Twilight series too but again, that's pure fluff.

    I read the part about Animal Farm and 1984 and thought "OMG!! I love those books!" Saw Twilight and I was let down by humanity...

    Entertainment doesn't need to be intellectually stimulating to be enjoyable. Sometimes you need some fluff to get your mind off of things. I'm pretty sure the original poster wasn't suggesting them for Pulitzer Prize nominations. :)
    Yup. If I spend al day reading numbers sometimes I just like to curl up with something that requires absolutely no brain stimulation at all. :laugh:
  • Jennyisbusy
    Jennyisbusy Posts: 1,294 Member
    This thread has been a lot of fun so far! I wrote down everything that sounded good but could only get some at the library (yay for free books)

    Here is my smokin' hot library list:

    World War Z : an oral history of the zombie war / Max Brooks.

    A game of thrones / George R.R. Martin.

    Extremely loud & incredibly close / Jonathan Safran Foer.

    House of leaves / Mark Z. Danielewski ; by Zampano ; with introduction and notes by Johnny Truant.

    Midwives : a novel / by Chris Bohjalian.

    Snow flower and the secret fan / Lisa See.
  • tmarie2715
    tmarie2715 Posts: 1,111 Member
    The latest TV Guide is a "MUST read".

    I think he was joking, because this list of books (at least first few posts) are kind of drivel.
  • tikanique
    tikanique Posts: 54 Member
    Read Pride and Prejudice. Loved it. some of my other favs.
    Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.
    Kill the Messenger by Tami Hoag was outstanding!!!
    Silk and Scandal Series (written by a group of women for Harlequin - Regency England setting)
    Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia and Charlie Bone series are great for kids and adults
    I also like Rachel Gibson books.
  • ruby_red_rose
    ruby_red_rose Posts: 321 Member
    bump
  • BritFitB
    BritFitB Posts: 106 Member
    Always have liked Dean Koontz and James Patterson! However, lately most of my reading has been based on food--clean eating, Food Rules By Michael Pollan, and Fast Food Nation.
  • XshinyrockX7
    XshinyrockX7 Posts: 14
    The books I love the most are by Lisa Gardner! She does some wonderful suspense novels I have read every single one. Once she gets a new one released again hopefully soon I will buy that cause I like to walk on the treadmill and read a book almost straight through. It's great because I get so involved with the book I didn't even realize I walked like 6 miles one time!
    Otherwise Stephanie Myer is also good as you have probably heard the Twilight Saga books are way better than the movies and you can imagine the characters as you please you really get into it. As for an all time favorite movie series I love True Blood, and the vampire diaries! You can watch those shows and exercise to them too! Hope this helps you some.
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  • chezmama
    chezmama Posts: 396 Member
    Great thread! My recommendations are:

    The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Drown by Junot Diaz
    Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
    Pretty much anything by Sherman Alexie or Louise Erdrich
    Say You're one of them by Uwem Akpan
    How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
    The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
    The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
    It's All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
    The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
    She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

    That's all I can think of for now, but with all of the suggestions you all have given me in this thread, I am sure my list will grow!
  • godricshollow
    godricshollow Posts: 274 Member
    I'm currently reading the A Song of Ice and Fire series. So. Much. Love.
  • Pete1471
    Pete1471 Posts: 126 Member
    I'm probably going to get hate mail for this, but I really didn't like the Millenium Trilogy. I tried to stick with it, I really did. It's a matter of taste I suppose.

    I have five teens in the house, two of them 'proper' readers. They get books for birthdays and Christmas and they love it. I tend to read them when they're done. They're aimed at late teens, but they're actually rather good, lol. So far we've got through:

    Percy Jackson & the Olympians Series by Rick Riordan (5 books)
    Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero (book 1) by Rick Riordan
    The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid (book 1) by Rick Riordan
    A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (13 books)
    The Demonata by Darren Shan (10 books)
    The Saga of Darren Shan by Darren Shan (12 books)

    Book series' of my own that I'm wading through are:

    Dark Hunter by Sherrilyn Kenyon (21 books to date)
    The Cassandra Palmer series by Karen Chance (5 books to date)
    The Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaughn (9 books to date)
    Women of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong (12 books to date)
    The Darkest Powers Trilogy by Kelley Armstrong
    The Darkness Rising Trilogy: The Gathering (book 1) by Kelley Armstrong
    The Dark series by Christine Feehan (22 books to date)
    Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter by Laurell K. Hamilton (20 books to date)

    As you can see from the list, they're mostly supernatural based. I've not yet read all of them. I still have about 15 left and of course more are being published all the time. I may never catch up!

    I've not read any Darren Shan or Rick Riorden books but they are on the list of books I want to read.

    I've been surprised by the amount of books that are supposedly kids/young adults books that have been named. Forgetting all the hype around Harry Potter those books really opened up people's eyes as to how good the fiction for young adults and kids is now. In the last few years I've read more in those genre than adult novels.
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