What book are you reading?

Have been on vacation the last week. Managed to read "Seeds of Deception" and "Eating in the Dark", masterpieces about the genetically modified food industry.

Have also finished "Havoc", "FireWall", "Exposure", and "Predator", so will be lugging all these back to the library first thing tomorrow morning.

My idea of a perfect afternoon is having be raining outside, gently, a good book in my hot little hands and two or three kitties piled onto my chair with me. Just perfect.

Is anyone reading King's "Lisey's Story" right now?? I'm about 1/3 of the way into it, and can't really decide if I like it or not. Granted, its keeping me very interested...but its very different from King's normal (if you can call it that) stuff. For those of you who are reading it..."smucked" is starting to wear on my nerves!

Oh yeah, I also just finished Nicholas Spark's "At First Sight" and I LOVED it. If you like romance, I definately reccomend that one.

I just read a bunch of books - I'm not sure what the connection is, but:

The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A group of students at a college in...(New Hampshire?) who major in Greek - starts out with the death of one - and then you go back to the beginning and work it out. Very well-written, without being obvious about being well-written!

"The Hole", and "Sophie" - Guy Burt
The Hole is about a group of college students (ok, there may be a theme here) who enter into a "prank" where they are to be locked in a cellar with no escape - for three days. Of course, after three days their captor/rescuer doesn't show up. Fairly good book, until the ending, and then it just BLOWS your mind. Sophie is similar

Red Leaves - Paulina Simmons
This time it's a college in Vermont. 4 friends, and one dies over Thanksgiving weekend. Nothing is as it seems.

The Lake of Dead Languages - Carol Goodman
Very good so far - about halfway through. Same sort of plot where the present seems to be mirroring the past.

I've just started THE RULE OF FOUR.

Originally Posted by CATTYBIRD

I've just started THE RULE OF FOUR.

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Oh I just finished that one! Excellent!

Originally Posted by maddensmom

Oh yeah, I also just finished Nicholas Spark's "At First Sight" and I LOVED it. If you like romance, I definately reccomend that one.

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I've read all Nicholas Sparks books too. I swear I'm going to stop because he makes me every time and I can just see him thinking up ways to get the tears flowing. But I have requested that book from the library.

I am reading Vanish by Tess Gerritsen, it's a real page turner!

I agree about the word smucked in Liseys Story. Haven't finished it yet, but need to get it back to the library.

The ending of the Dark Tower series, I didn't have a problem with that so much as the way the whole last half of the book dragged. And the ending of the main bad guys was more then a little wimpy. Plus the one person who got a 'good' ending was the one person I couldn't stand.

But I will say this, I cried more during that seventh book then any other book I have ever read. I don't think I could ever pick it up and read it again. Oy!

I finished Lisey's Story...and I like it....a lot!! Once you get into it, its really good. Especially if you liked Rose Madder. It bears a lot of resemblance.

I'm reading Comfort and Joy by Kristin Hannah. I enjoy reading a Christmas book this time of year.

Originally Posted by lisalee

I'm reading Comfort and Joy by Kristin Hannah. I enjoy reading a Christmas book this time of year.

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Is that a new one? I thought I read all her books, but that doesn't sound familiar. Have to check the library! Thanks.

Oops! I did already read it. Let me know what you think of it. It was a little unusual for Kristin Hannah I think.

I'm about to start White Hot by Sandra Brown, anyone lese read that one? It's from last year

Well, I just found an unusual book. It's fantasy I guess, it's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and it's about magicians in 19th century England - I think. I've only read a few pages. It's well-written, though, I'm enjoying it already. I think they are going to use magic to change the way one of Napoleon's battles went...

Oh, and it has 782 pages!!!

I don't usually read these kind of books, but right now I'm reading a romance called SMITTEN. It's all right, I just got it because it had a dog on the cover! (GGGGGGG).

I am not reading anything right now. I misplaced the book I bought. "It was Heat of Darkness." I decided that I want to read A Picture of Dorian Gray, but I keep forgetting to go to the library. lol. There are so many books and so little time.

I'm reading TEA WITH JANE AUSTIN right now. It's one of my Christmas books. It's about the popularity that tea had in Jane Austin's day and some quotes from her characters about tea and some interesting looking recipes for cakes and stuff.

I'm about a third of the way through Jung Chang's and Jon Halliday's "MAO, The Unknown Story", which I find I can only digest in small portions. How horrifying. It should have been subtitled "Portrait of an Utter Sociopath". I loved her "Wild Swans", which was a masterpiece, and "Mao" is extremely impressive, too. I find I keep checking the index and skipping ahead, so who knows when I'll finish it?

I am reading the Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood.
I used to live in Berlin and met some 'grifters' that were not as colorful as the ones Isherwood writes about--but the place is still extremely colorful, a place where you can live by your wits.