When I'm not on MFP I'm Reading!

Join

What are you reading currently?

24567…66

Replies

  • cpegasus01
    cpegasus01 Posts: 400 Member
    I am reading The Help. I am thoroughly enjoying it too.
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    11/22/63. King's new book. It's pretty awesome. I'm savoring it as slowly as I can.
  • rblair_22
    rblair_22 Posts: 202 Member
    I decided to go for an easy read this week since I have family coming in for the holiday. An easy read for me is something that I can finish within a 48 hour period. So right now I am reading Envy by J.R. Ward. It's the 3rd book in a romantic thriller series with some angels and demons and saving the world thrown.
  • Serenitytoo
    Serenitytoo Posts: 449 Member
    I decided to go for an easy read this week since I have family coming in for the holiday. An easy read for me is something that I can finish within a 48 hour period. So right now I am reading Envy by J.R. Ward. It's the 3rd book in a romantic thriller series with some angels and demons and saving the world thrown.

    I saw those the other day in the bookstore and wondered if they were any good. What do you think of them?
  • lc504
    lc504 Posts: 130 Member
    I also read The Hunger Games series recently! Wasn't expecting to like it since Twilight makes my stomach churn (and for whatever reason I associated Hunger Games w/ Twilight), but it was a very gripping story. Ended up finishing them all in a matter of a few days!

    Other than that, I've been reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. So far it's great, but I've neglected it due to my crazed HG reading!
  • sarah_ep
    sarah_ep Posts: 580 Member
    I also read The Hunger Games series recently! Wasn't expecting to like it since Twilight makes my stomach churn (and for whatever reason I associated Hunger Games w/ Twilight), but it was a very gripping story. Ended up finishing them all in a matter of a few days!

    I see this happening a lot. I think it is because there are a few similarities:

    Young Adult Genre
    Trilogies
    Love Triangle
    Female Main Character

    This is where they end though. I think there will be extensive comparison between the two when the movies come out as well.

    Has anyone seen or read Battle Royale?
  • Leanna109
    Leanna109 Posts: 49 Member
    I just finished The Fire Eternal (book 4 in Chris D'Lacey's Dragon series) last night and am now in the process of figuring out which book to read next. Water for Elephants, The Book Thief, or The Witch's Boy. I'll read them all eventually, but don't like reading more than one book at a time.

    Water for Elephants was a great book and movie! One of the few that I actually liked the movie as well as the book :smile:

    I have that on my bookshelf waiting to be read and in my DVD player waiting to be watched :-)

    I liked the book alot better than the movie. But they were both good. I lent out my Water for Elephants but I would love to read it again.
  • HeelsAndBoxingGloves
    HeelsAndBoxingGloves Posts: 916 Member
    I also read The Hunger Games series recently! Wasn't expecting to like it since Twilight makes my stomach churn (and for whatever reason I associated Hunger Games w/ Twilight), but it was a very gripping story. Ended up finishing them all in a matter of a few days!

    Other than that, I've been reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. So far it's great, but I've neglected it due to my crazed HG reading!

    I did enjoy reading the Twilight books but I was also suprised at how different the Hunger Games were! All the people that told me to read it are Twilight fanatics so I ASSumed it was along the same lines lol I'm glad it wasn't!
  • Leanna109
    Leanna109 Posts: 49 Member
    I am currently reading the House of Night series ( Im on Hunted) and love it. I cant put them down. P.C. Cast is an amazing author.
    I have Prince of Theives, Red Ridding Hood, and lots other at home waiting for me to finish this series.

    For anyone that lives in Denver, CO there is an AMAZING used/ new book store in Littleton that I visit on a weekly basis. They have book from .25 cents and up!!! https://www.facebook.com/nookBN?ref=ts&sk=app_154158274650754#!/TheTradesmart

    :love: :love: :love:
  • HeelsAndBoxingGloves
    HeelsAndBoxingGloves Posts: 916 Member
    11/22/63. King's new book. It's pretty awesome. I'm savoring it as slowly as I can.

    That is next on my reading list whenever I FINALLY get through the Games of Thrones series.... the books are soo long it's taking me forever to read!
  • Madiann
    Madiann Posts: 177
    Am I the only one that didn't think Water for Elephants was a great as everyone thought. My mother in-law agreed with me too. But she did read The Help, which is my own book that I haven't read...she said that was good.
  • navynurse1611
    navynurse1611 Posts: 25 Member
    I am also a fan of the Hunger games.!!

    I am currently reading Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo. My friend recommended it. I Just finished The Tehran initiative by Joel Rosenburg and Explosive 18 by Janet Evanovich. I have very ecclectic reading tastes:)

    I am also on goodreads. I am Navynurse there
  • anna_b1
    anna_b1 Posts: 588 Member
    I'm reading two books at the moment: "Tell it to the Trees" by Anita Rau Badami and I just began "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom. Both books are very accessible and hard to put down.
  • nina4w
    nina4w Posts: 126 Member
    I am still trudging my way through Jane Eyre but now I'm also reading "Turpentine" by Spring Warren.

    :)
  • sarah_ep
    sarah_ep Posts: 580 Member
    I am still trudging my way through Jane Eyre but now I'm also reading "Turpentine" by Spring Warren.

    :)

    Jane Eyre is on my list.
  • ajbeans
    ajbeans Posts: 2,857 Member
    I decided to start "Anna Karenina" because I have it on my Nook. I'm about 60 pages in. Looked at the bottom and realized it's over 1000 pages long. I'm not thinking I'll be finishing this one.
  • rationalist
    rationalist Posts: 4
    Aw, I adored Jane Eyre! Charlotte Brontë became an instant favourite of mine with that book.

    Right now I'm reading book 2 of A Song of Ice and Fire (A Clash of Kings) by George R. R. Martin. Fantasy isn't my usual genre, but I loved the HBO series, so I read the first book this past summer. I had a ton of other things on my reading list before I could get around to the second one though, unfortunately. I'm only a handful of chapters into it (just started it this morning), but it's really fantastic / engrossing so far.
  • SeattleLove
    SeattleLove Posts: 59
    I just got "Indian Killer" by Sherman Alexie today and I will probably star reading it after school. I'm really excited for it :)
  • travelgirl77
    travelgirl77 Posts: 99 Member
    Yes, Jane Eyre quickly became one of my all-time favorite books when I read it this year!
    Yes, love Hunger Games and truly hope that the movie does the first book justice. But, if not, it is okay, because the book is just wonderful.

    I am currently reading Harry Potter:Half Blood Prince.
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    I decided to start "Anna Karenina" because I have it on my Nook. I'm about 60 pages in. Looked at the bottom and realized it's over 1000 pages long. I'm not thinking I'll be finishing this one.

    I also abandoned Anna Karenina. I tried, but I just don't like it.
  • ajbeans
    ajbeans Posts: 2,857 Member
    I decided to start "Anna Karenina" because I have it on my Nook. I'm about 60 pages in. Looked at the bottom and realized it's over 1000 pages long. I'm not thinking I'll be finishing this one.

    I also abandoned Anna Karenina. I tried, but I just don't like it.

    Yeah, I was hoping that SOMETHING would happen, but it never did. I gave up.

    I decided to switch to Steven Saylor's "Empire." I read the first one in that series and it was good, and this second one seems pretty good too.
  • woou
    woou Posts: 668 Member
    Legend by Marie Lu.
  • sillygoose1977
    sillygoose1977 Posts: 2,151 Member
    I'm reading Storm of Swords. I think I am growing to hate George RR Martin. I think it is awfully pompous to think that each one of your books has to be 1000+ pages in order to spew your long winded back stories that, so far, seem totally meaningless. That said, this is my favorite book in the series...but I might quit reading them anyway.
  • CalJur
    CalJur Posts: 627 Member
    Steve Jobs Autobiography
  • IAM125lbs
    IAM125lbs Posts: 235 Member
    I just sorta finished Freedom by Jonathan Franzen and I must admit for the first time ever I skipped the middle chapters to read the last one. It just went on and on and on but I wanted to know what happened with characters so decided to "cheat" :blushing:
  • maura5880
    maura5880 Posts: 346 Member
    I read so much more now that I have a Kindle & I bring it to the gym!
    I read the Hunger Games series in a few days, loved it & cannot wait for the movie!
    Just finished Ape House, by Sara Gruen (author of Water for Elephants)..loved it!! Highly recommend it. And just started This is Where We Live by Janelle Brown. Next on the list is Nancy Thayer's Heat Wave.
  • SMarie10
    SMarie10 Posts: 956 Member
    Currently reading Rob Lowes Autobiography. He's not the best writer, but it is entertaining.
  • Dory_42
    Dory_42 Posts: 3,578 Member
    I am reading:

    Game of Thrones series - I think I am on book 3 or 4 - Andriod app e-reader
    One of the Kathy Reichs books, Monday Mourning - the series Bones is based on the character from the books - real book
    Collapse by Jared Diamond - Course reading list

    Loving all of them. Collapse is thinking reading so it goes slowly but it is super interesting!!
  • mcdebbie
    mcdebbie Posts: 940 Member
    Just finished Savannah Breeze by Mary Kay Andrews, kind of a chick lit book #2 in a series. I like her other books too, something nice and light. Finally got The Paris Wife from the library ebooks, was on that waiting list for a long time. And I got DH Steve Job's book for Christmas so I will be starting on that one as soon as he is done with it. :blushing:
  • KimmyEB
    KimmyEB Posts: 1,208 Member
    About to finish Memoirs of a Geisha. I read it several years ago, but I love it, so re-reading it. :smile:

    Next up: re-reading "Changes" by Jim Butcher, part of the Dresden Files series.:happy:

Categories