What are you currently reading?

Just started Fifty Shades of Gray

Book 2 of the Hunger Games series..Catching Fire

Some books by Geneen Roth on emotional eating

In the Garden of Breast

And listening to Where ever you go there you are by Jon Kabot Zen....does listening to an audio book count?

And I agree with others I still have Wicked at home but just can't seem to get through it

Spartan Gold by Clive Cussler pretty damn good very intriguing and adventurous.

Black Dagger Brotherhood Series
Book #5-Love Unbound
J.R Ward

I'm reading Hide Me Among the Graves by Tim Powers, The Difference Engine by William Gibson and The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco (still . . . library has a great Kindle section but it really sucks when all the books you've put on hold become available at once and they can only be checked out for 14 days . . .).

In the past 1-2 weeks I've finished:
* Embassytown by China Mievelle: Sort of a hot mess but I still enjoyed huge parts
* Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo: A reviewer on Amazon who had not actually read the book rightly tagged "poverty porn." I thought it was OK but I have problems with it.
* The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes: liked quite a bit
* History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason: knew nothing about this one going into it but really liked it.
* A Song of Fire and Ice, Pt 1: I have problems with Martin as a writer but he does weave a pretty good tale. Who knows when I'll be reading the second volume, though, because my library has approximately six copies and a thousand people on the waiting list.
* Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood: I love Margaret Atwood so much. This was a great book. It was nice to get the world in Oryx and Crake from an entirely different perspective.
* Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn: This easily one of the WORST books I have read in the past decade and would probably make my top ten worst books of all time. It wasn't even the ending. It wasn't the . . . SPOILER, MAYBE . . . plot "twist" (does no one watch film noir anymore because when the writer erects a flag with FILM NOIR painted all over it multiple times in the book before her "twist" I kind of expect her readers to know that she is thinking of duplicitous women since that is a critical part of film noir ergo the "revelation" re Amy shouldn't have been one at all. Granted, Amy's diary was some of the worst writing I've seen in a long time so it's not like any of it would have rang true IMO even if Flynn didn't keep trying to announce how clever she was . . .). Sigh. I needed to get that out of my system. Before I die I really need to learn how to stop reading books I dislike. Life is too short and there are too many books to read.

Just finished Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. This is a MUST read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also recently finished 11/22/63 by Stephen King, which was wonderful!

I just read a review for this book...it sounds awesome...it is on my list of next reads.

The Bible

50 shades darker

I always have several books going at one time but right now I am working on 3 different John Grisham books - The Street Lawyer is upstairs, The Last Juror is downstairs and The Pelican Brief is in the car for during luch breaks!

Flipping between Deadline by Mira Grant (2nd in series politcal thriller set in zombie environment - not as good as first book but plodding on) and Ulitmate Leadership by Russell Palmer (very good considering it was a free kindle book and is textbooky read).

When those are finished I will move onto On the Beach by Neville Shute.

Recommendations for good dystopian fiction will be gratefully recieved.

Now, I haven't read this yet - it's still on my giant list of books to read - Divergent by Veronica Roth has gotten fantastic reviews if you haven't read it yet. Veronica has also released a sequel 'Insurgent' too.

I've read, but didn't like this one but it has won all sorts of awards. Genesis by Bernard Beckett

If you're not on Goodreads.com you should think about having a look. It's a great reading site :bigsmile:

This is me on GR: http://www.goodreads.com/Lynxie

Thanks for the recommendation. I was a bit non plussed with Deadline but there was a great twist at the end and made book 3 in the series a great read despite the distinct lack of zombies in a zombie themed book.

Yesterday I read I, Zombie by Hugh Howie (who wrote the excellent Wool series) which was written from the perspective of the zombies. Disturbing but compelling. Now I am in the middle of Orxy and Crake by Margaret Atwood which is another dystopia themed book that I would rate as disturbing but compelling. A kindle can be a dangerous thing for a compulsive reader - instant access to a bookstore day or night.

Yesterday I read I, Zombie by Hugh Howie (who wrote the excellent Wool series) which was written from the perspective of the zombies. Disturbing but compelling. Now I am in the middle of Orxy and Crake by Margaret Atwood which is another dystopia themed book that I would rate as disturbing but compelling. A kindle can be a dangerous thing for a compulsive reader - instant access to a bookstore day or night.

Oryx and Crake was a good one. I really like Margaret Atwood.

I've definitely been on a zombie kick lately. I'm currently reading Monster Nation by David Wellington and Rise Again by Ben Tripp.

Paradise lost: John Milton
Old French Fairy Tales: Sophie Ségur
Japanese fairy tales: Yei Theodora Ozaki

Just started The Fall of the Giants...
Just finished Rush Home Road by Lari Lansens - really enjoyed

Currently reading "One Second After." About halfway through it and really enjoying it. It is kind of surreal knowing that what the book is about could happen at anytime.

I listened to that on a road trip a couple months ago. I really liked it. Definitely makes you think.

Ender's Shadow. For like, the 1000th time. OSC never fails to enthrall me.