What are you currently reading?

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  • talmudicshrug
    talmudicshrug Posts: 9
    The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I LOVE IT!! (I'm on Good Reads, Courtney Wachob)

    I'm a ninth grade English teacher and I teach this book. I cry every time we read the ending together...in front of my 30 fourteen year olds :)
    This is one of the most memorable books I've read in recent years - for another perspective on WWII, I also recommend Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford.
  • talmudicshrug
    talmudicshrug Posts: 9
    Just finished The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney, just started Bloodline by Mark Billingham, couple of favourites are Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, Run by the same Author, and anything by Kate Atkinson or Michael Connolly/Connelly (can never remember how to spell it.
    Traps for Library users - getting settled on the train for the normal hourly commute, opening the book and starting to read, only to discover with horror after the first two pages that ... I've already read it! Very long trip.

    I've had that problem too - my memory is so bad though that it often takes 100 pages for me to realize it seems familiar. Coincidentally, I started reading Bloodline too but mine is by James Rollins. And I've enjoyed books by Michael Connelly and John Connolly :).
  • pdworkman
    pdworkman Posts: 1,342 Member
    Currently reading:
    - The Count of Monte Cristo;
    - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince; and
    - Notes to Self
  • firesoforion
    firesoforion Posts: 1,017 Member
    I'm reading Scapegoats of the Empire (the memoir on which the movie Breaker Morant is based), but I'm having what seems to be my eternal crisis when it comes to books, I'm 4 chapters in and already want to start another one...I just bought Horse's Neck by Pete Townshend, should be a lot of fun to read. Usually I'll just put down the first and start the next (terrible! I know), but this time I'm really going to try to stick with it.
  • Luvmesumkenny
    Luvmesumkenny Posts: 779 Member
    I cannot tell a lie.. I'm reading the last book of the FIFTY SHADES SERIES :heart:
    Really not that bad
  • Vince_1964
    Vince_1964 Posts: 359 Member
    John Adams -
  • rbn_held
    rbn_held Posts: 691 Member
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • RiverMelSong
    RiverMelSong Posts: 456 Member
    Feed by Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire)
  • Fit_Vixen
    Fit_Vixen Posts: 201
    Sempre by JM Darhower
  • talmudicshrug
    talmudicshrug Posts: 9
    Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending.

    Next up, something lighter..

    This was one of my favorites. I've also recently enjoyed novels by Jonathan Coe & Mark Haddon. I guess I'm on a middle-aged British guy kick.
  • SimpleThingsInLife
    SimpleThingsInLife Posts: 92
    The Strain (The Strain Trilogy #1)
    by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan...Great so far!!
  • sjcook23
    sjcook23 Posts: 87 Member
    I'm in the middle of reading Insurgent. It is going so fast. Read it while I'm on the elliptical, carpooling, at night. It will be done before I want it to be.
  • wiggywompus
    wiggywompus Posts: 65 Member
    I am reading the Coral Thief by Rebecca Stott - 1815 France a Scots student there to learn whilst working in the museum, his meeting with a French woman and the theft of a coral. Can highly recommend it.
  • sarahmoo12
    sarahmoo12 Posts: 756 Member
    1st book of Game of Thrones :)
  • SurfinBird1981
    SurfinBird1981 Posts: 517 Member
    Sophie Kinsella - "The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic".
  • katie81smith
    katie81smith Posts: 40 Member
    50 Shades of Grey
  • Onederchic
    Onederchic Posts: 128 Member
    Eden's Root by Rachel Fisher
  • LeeM86
    LeeM86 Posts: 124 Member
    The Land of Stories - Chris Colfer (yes, I'm reading a book directed to kids, I regret nothing. I love the author)
    Song of Ice and Fire saga.
  • gmukris
    gmukris Posts: 539
    I am now reading Gone Girl--thanks to this thread for the recommendation!
  • giggles7706
    giggles7706 Posts: 1,491 Member
    Emma by Jane Austen. :)
  • BriaMc
    BriaMc Posts: 177 Member
    I have FINALLY been sucked into the fifty shades of grey. ha ha. Not my usual type of book at all ;)
  • stephc0711
    stephc0711 Posts: 1,022 Member
    This is a thread for all of us bookworms out there....

    I'm reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich...

    What about you guys?!?! What are you currently reading and are you enjoying it so far?

    Also, do any of you have goodreads accounts?

    I have that book somewhere (I still haven't unpacked all my books from moving!) I am reading the Mackenzies boxed set by Liliana Hart. It's smut, but sometimes I like books I don't have to think much about. I haven't decided what to read next, but I think I'm in the mood for something more intellectual or historical. I do have a Goodreads account, message me and I'll give you my info! :)
  • nbhobbes
    nbhobbes Posts: 284
    I just started reading the Illad after which I'll read teh Odyssey. Haven't read them since highschool and I'm enjoying them a lot. They seem to be one of those books you draw more out of if you revisit it later on when you are older.
  • helyg
    helyg Posts: 675 Member
    I have just started On Beauty by Zadie Smith.
  • Williamj
    Williamj Posts: 199 Member
    I recently discovered Daniel Suarez. His latest book, Kill Decision, is the best book I've read this year by far. It's of the suspense/action genre that nails the tech side of it.
    If you've ever rolled your eyes at 'magical technology' and lines like "We had to brute force his firewall!", than this book will come as welcome relief.

    Also just finished Sandman Slim, which I also highly recommend.
  • PapaDunx
    PapaDunx Posts: 243
    Im supposed to be reading CISCO manuals for my degree :yawn: , but I have finished two Lee Child books in the last 48 hours.:happy:

    Jack Reacher is currently my favourite hero, and it galls me to know that the guy that is supposed to be playing him in the movies is Tom Cruise. :huh:

    Reacher is 6'5" 250lbs
    Cruise is 5'8" and I have boots heavier than him! :grumble:

    But the books are well written and there is some nice sarcastic humour in them (Fits in with the Brit in me) :tongue:
  • jothekid
    jothekid Posts: 230 Member
    'Healthy at 100' - John Robbins :)
    Highly suggest it to all :)
  • Tickateeboo
    Tickateeboo Posts: 132 Member
    Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    Not sure if I already commented on this thread (may have been a different one). I am reading, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo".
  • macattack99
    macattack99 Posts: 26
    Wheel of Time, book 6

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