What are you currently reading??

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  • Flamenquero
    Flamenquero Posts: 132
    Just started Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence, Choice, and Unlocking Your Mind by Kirby Surprise....have high hopes but will see :)

    I read the one by Carl Jung. Interesting stuff.
  • christyjoyjr
    christyjoyjr Posts: 91
    Christopher Moore-Lamb The Gospel according to Biff Christs childhood friend

    Christopher Moore-The Stupidest Angel

    He is hilarious. My SO has every book he's writen and calls his friend Biff.
  • brandalini
    brandalini Posts: 237 Member
    I just finished the newest Anita Blake book. Reading the Fire, part of the witch and wizard books by James Patterson. Next I plan on reading the Strain. I'm looking forward to a good horror book!

    I love the Anita Blake series!!
  • d0gma
    d0gma Posts: 3,966 Member
    A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin. Third book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series (Game of Thrones is based on it).
  • kzivic
    kzivic Posts: 326 Member
    How the States Got Their Shape, by Mark Stein. I'm a history nerd...
  • missmorninglory
    missmorninglory Posts: 303
    I'm currently reading the textbook for my logic class. Also reading: Western Civ textbook, and The Letters of Abelard and Heloise.

    Hooray for college.

    Ditto

    I'm currently reading Paradise Lost and Quality and Performance Improvement in Healthcare.....fun times.
  • Tinkerbell1010
    Tinkerbell1010 Posts: 134 Member
    I just started reading Before I go to Sleep, S J Watson.
  • ProTFitness
    ProTFitness Posts: 1,379 Member
    80/10/10 By Dr Robert Graham almost done


    The Awakening
  • Lizajane42
    Lizajane42 Posts: 133 Member
    This thread has gotten super long and who knows who is reading the posts way back here at the end of the line! However, I will put out there the list of things I read in case I manage to touch on something no one else did.

    I read a lot, ranging from Young Adult to Romance

    Here are a few of my recommendations by Author



    Charlaine Harris
    -Sookie Stackhouse series
    -Aurora Teagarden series
    -Lily Bard series
    -Harper Connelly series

    Cassandra Clare
    -Mortal Instruments series
    -Infernal Devices series

    Richelle Mead
    -Vampire Academy series
    -Bloodlines series (follows after the above)

    Lauren Kate
    -Fallen series

    P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast
    -House of Night series

    Janet Evanovich
    -Stephanie Plum series (hysterical!)
    -Diesel and Lizzy series

    Sherrilyn Kenyon (LOVE all of this!)
    - Dark Hunter series (including Dream Hunter books- has about 28 books I think)
    -Chronicles of Nick series (young adult series that follows a character from the above adult series)
    -Belador series (written with Dianna Love)
    -She also writes the BAD Agency Series and The League series that I haven't gotten to yet

    George R. R. Martin
    -Song of Fire and Ice series (better known as Game of Thrones- these are super long, but excellent)

    Christopher Paolini
    -Inheritance series (starts with Eragon)

    Rick Riordan
    -Percy Jackson series
    -The Kane Chronicles series
    -The Heroes of Olympus series

    Emily Giffin
    -Something Borrowed
    -Something Blue

    Pittacus Lore
    -Lorien Legacies series

    Stieg Larsson
    -Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series

    Cinda Williams Chima
    -The Warrior Heir series


    L.M. Montgomery
    -Anne of Green Gables series

    Suzanne Collins
    -Hunger Games series
    -Gregor series (really for younger kids, but are really cute little books)

    Kristen Heitzmann
    -I am not going to list them all- but she writes Christian fiction and I adore all of her books. She ranges from historical fiction to present day and some of those tie to each other which I really dig.

    Kathryn Stockett
    -The Help

    Gregory Maguire
    -Wicked series (First two are the best, second two are only okay)
    -Mirror, Mirror
    -Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

    Kate Jacobs
    -Knitting Club series

    Becca Fitzpatrick
    -Hush, Hush series

    Melissa de la Cruz
    -Blue Bloods series

    Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
    -Beautiful Creatures series

    I was also an English major and would recommend a lot of "classics," I just haven't read any of them in awhile myself - all time love is Jane Eyre and actually really liked Moby ****. Tons of others could go in this list too! :love:

    Then there is my to read list, which I will bypass since this is already ridiculously long, but the list includes a lot of biographies and non-series books! I am also reading the Shades of Grey series right now, but am not sure if I would really recommend it!
  • barwwd
    barwwd Posts: 63 Member
    I borrowed The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks from a friend. Been so long since I managed to get nearly half-way through a book, haha. I'm also trying to read Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris, part of The Southern Vampire Mysteries/True Blood series. I was reading 50 Shades of Grey until I dropped it. Totally awful book.

    SERIOUSLY, how are you the only other person I've seen so far that has not liked 50 shades of grey?!?!?!? I tried. I REALLY tried. I waited and waited as number 150 something in line to get it at the library and when I finally started it, I overlooked the simplistic plot, pathetic characters and blatent typos, but for heaven sake I had to return it to the library without finishing it. All those other people waiting for their turn to read deserve to be put out of their misery. Sigh.
  • Lizajane42
    Lizajane42 Posts: 133 Member
    Terry Pratchett's Discworld series! If you're looking for clever, funny writing set on a flat planet that sits on the backs of four elephants who stand on a giant turtle that swims through space, I'd say Discworld is your cup of tea. :)

    Seriously, though, it's really REALLY good.


    Discworld is fantastic!! Love the humor in that series :)

    I read one of these in college- loved it!! Need to add these to my to-read list!
  • amersmanders
    amersmanders Posts: 118 Member
    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. So far it's really interesting. He doesn't usually have female lead characters.
  • Phoenix59
    Phoenix59 Posts: 364 Member
    I borrowed The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks from a friend. Been so long since I managed to get nearly half-way through a book, haha. I'm also trying to read Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris, part of The Southern Vampire Mysteries/True Blood series. I was reading 50 Shades of Grey until I dropped it. Totally awful book.

    SERIOUSLY, how are you the only other person I've seen so far that has not liked 50 shades of grey?!?!?!? I tried. I REALLY tried. I waited and waited as number 150 something in line to get it at the library and when I finally started it, I overlooked the simplistic plot, pathetic characters and blatent typos, but for heaven sake I had to return it to the library without finishing it. All those other people waiting for their turn to read deserve to be put out of their misery. Sigh.

    I didn't even bother opening that silly book. Sounded too much like a Harlequin romance on Viagra and I hate romance novels. So cheesy!
  • fionarama
    fionarama Posts: 788 Member
    Trying to read 50 Shades of Grey but so far finding it puerile, boring and silly. Also quite a put down to women. The girl seems to be taken advantage of, I don't think its very good at all
    Note to self, must write some equally dubious dribble and earn big bucks.
  • Lizajane42
    Lizajane42 Posts: 133 Member

    Note to self, must write some equally dubious dribble and earn big bucks.

    HA!
  • Tsukigomori
    Tsukigomori Posts: 6 Member
    I just finished "And then there were none". I'm usually not into crime, but this was awesome.

    "Murder on the Orient Express" will be next.
  • LoneR113
    LoneR113 Posts: 27
    Currently re-reading the Discworld series. On book 3, Equal Rites.
  • JulesAtkinson1
    JulesAtkinson1 Posts: 219 Member
    Trying to read 50 Shades of Grey but so far finding it puerile, boring and silly. Also quite a put down to women. The girl seems to be taken advantage of, I don't think its very good at all
    Note to self, must write some equally dubious dribble and earn big bucks.

    So, so glad to know I am not the only woman on the planet who thinks that series is pure drivel. "Mommy porn" is what a friend of mine called it, and she is dead on....

    I am a huge fan of the Kindle because I like to read more than one book at a time. My current list is:

    One for the Money by Janet Evanovich (recommended by a friend)

    Made to Crave by Lysa TerKeurst (recommended in a MFP forum)

    Les Miserable (I'd forgotten how much French history I've forgotten, lol)

    Bleak House by Charles ****ens

    Emma by Jane Austen

    Gotham Writer's Workshop series

    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

    Also, for literary enthusiasts, there are a couple of books written by a former librarian ( I think they call them "media specialists now) called "Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason by Nancy Pearl. Great books on great books.

    I edited this because I am laughing at the fact that the author Charles ****ens has the "****" censored out of his name. :laugh: Considering the time period he wrote in, I find it quite on point! :bigsmile:
  • mrau719
    mrau719 Posts: 288 Member
    James Patterson-3rd Degree
    Janet Evanovich series--I think I'm like 15 maybe
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    Promise Me by Harlan Coben
  • bluefox9er
    bluefox9er Posts: 2,917 Member
    "The Black Banners: Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda", by Ali Soufan.

    It's incredible.
  • atsteele
    atsteele Posts: 1,358 Member
    Fatherless by Brian J. Gail
  • mrgphillips
    mrgphillips Posts: 10
    Agent X by Noah Boyd, great book you should read The Bricklayer first to really enjoy the story.
  • WifeNMama
    WifeNMama Posts: 2,876 Member
    Not a darn thing. I feel so deprived. Need to get some books from the library, I think.
  • lgalloway1940
    lgalloway1940 Posts: 23 Member
    I'm reading Now You See Her by James Patterson.
  • LilLolo22
    LilLolo22 Posts: 229 Member
    I just finished the Hunger Games trilogy and am starting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
  • wintersnowman
    wintersnowman Posts: 1
    The last Harry Potter book- the Deathly Hollows... after reading the series for the first time beginning to end.
  • d0gma
    d0gma Posts: 3,966 Member
    Janet Evanovich series--I think I'm like 15 maybe

    I've read the Stephanie Plum series, but only read them back-to-back-to-back once. It gets trying. She doesn't seem to get much better at all, and even though there are some differences in names and stuff, the plot is always the same. I still buy them as soon as they come out, though.
  • JulesAtkinson1
    JulesAtkinson1 Posts: 219 Member
    Janet Evanovich series--I think I'm like 15 maybe

    I've read the Stephanie Plum series, but only read them back-to-back-to-back once. It gets trying. She doesn't seem to get much better at all, and even though there are some differences in names and stuff, the plot is always the same. I still buy them as soon as they come out, though.

    This is me with the Patricia Cornwell "Kay Scarpetta" series. Loved the first 10, but the last few have been very trying to read. It's almost a chore to finish. I wish she could find her way back to the way her books used to be. But, like you with Evanovich, I still buy the Cornwell books as soon as they hit the store. :smile:
  • kelsbel12
    kelsbel12 Posts: 19 Member
    The 3 Fifty Shades books are a must! I just finished the Pact and The Last Song. Any Nancy Pickard book is good too

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