what are you reading these days?

sue.. I *love* WOT.. I have always loved fantasy stuff, the first real book I ever read was the Hobbit back when I was like 7 or something.. In fact when I was in hs we had to write our the name of our favorite book on these things that were hung on the wall, and everyone laughed at me for writing The Lord of the Rings series.. no one knew what it was!! (i bet they do now..).. Who's your favorite wot character?? Out of the guys I love Mat and the women I love probably aviendah or elayne.. I musta read the series like 20 times since I started reading them in 96.. and you KNOW that's a big series to read through lol.. They should make a movie but I don't think it would be able to do the books justice.. (sorry to ramble, it's not common to find wot lovers outside of wot messageboards)

Another Robert Jordan fan here! Mat is my favorite male character, too. Faile is my favorite female, one of my cats is named for her.
I have kind of stalled midway through book 8, but it was so I could reread LOTR.

I love mysteries, especially historical mysteries. I just picked up Anne Perry's most recent Monk novel, Death of a Stranger.

currently reading... what am i reading? ... (i have a few on the go...)

gut symmetries by jeanette winterson

just finished written on the body by the same author and i'm reading a lot of Mary Gaitskill as well.

i imagine a lot of you are reading/have already read the new Harry Potter, i've been meaning to read those books. i read the first one a long time ago, and i was impressed with the writing. i hear she has an incredible way of tying in plots & characters from book to book, a very talented storyteller.

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Just started Dean Koontz's new one By The Light of the Moon- science fiction fans this one is a must! I am just two chapters into it and it is is gooooood...About alien dna injected into two humans...

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oohh, I am going to have to get that one.

I havent read anything for a long time and I love to read. I mainly like sci-fi, horror, thriller, romance, and stuff with vampires. I like Laurell K. Hamilton. she created Anita Blake, vampire hunter. just call her the Executioner. she is a necromancer by trade, raising the dead for various family disputes or even court decisions. its told in first person and she does it very well. I also read her first Faery book and need to get the next one.

I have to get Mystic River for the TCS book club, still!

Right Now I'm reading a book called "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides, it is ABSOLUTELY the most enthralling book I have read in years! I highly reccommend this to anyone interested in going on a happy, sad, slightly twisted journey through the life of a crazy family!

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Right Now I'm reading a book called "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides, it is ABSOLUTELY the most enthralling book I have read in years! I highly reccommend this to anyone interested in going on a happy, sad, slightly twisted journey through the life of a crazy family!

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that one is next on my list ! can't wait to read it.

I just finished The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger about 15 minutes ago - OMG did I love it! Right before that I read Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

I picked up Mystic River last night for the TCS book club, so I will probably read that one next.

At present i'm reading The #1 Ladies Detective Agaency by Alexander McCall Smith. Then i'll be finishing off The Songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb.

I just finished "Plague Dogs" by Richard Adams and I highly recommend that one, and am now reading "The Apprentice" by Tess Gerritson.

I'm reading anything I can get my hands on.

I'm reading several books, as usual. I am almost finished with Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Fiction--juvenile science fiction, but I like it. I like to read kids books to keep up with what they like, important in my job, and because they are usually very well written.

I am also reading a book called Restevac, by Jean-Robert Cadet. It's about child slavery in Haiti. The sad thing is, the events in the book happened in the 1960s and 70s. It is a memoir, and quite appalling. The amazing thing is Jean-Robert was able to overcome a horrific childhood and grow up to be a writer and professor. It's a very eye-opening book.

The other book I am reading is Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlen. I really like it, it's odd to read sci-fi from the 60s and earlier. The technology in the book is so advanced, but the social structure isn't.

I am reading Diana Gabaldon's series. WOW! They are soo good! I'm on the fourth book. You know what's even more cool about that? SHE'S COMING TO MY TOWN!! To do a book reading and signing! AND I HAVE TO WORK!!!!! it's just not fair

I just took a trip to the used bookstore since sadly I had NOTHING to read. So I picked up Airframe by Michael Crichton and a historical romance novel by Beatrice Small. I'm really hoping Airframe is good!

I think I've read Airframe... It sounds really familiar. I know Micheal Crichton did The Lost World - I have that book.

I hope it's a good book for you!

Yeah. I just read Timeline and loved it. Crossing my fingers that the movie does the book justice!!!

My brother got me into Michael Crichton. I plan to read more of his stuff.

Under the Banner of Heaven, by John Krakauer (Into the Wild, Into Thin Air). It's a nonfiction work about renegade Mormon fundamentalists in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and how their practice of polygamy involves child abuse, inbreeding, and often incest. It's a "true crime account", in that it treats a 1984 Utah double murder committed by two zealots, and a look at the history of the Mormon faith. It doesn't bash average LDS, but explores religious fanaticism in general.

How is that, jcat? I've read Into the Wild, and Into Thin Air is one of my favorites. I've been waiting for Under the Banner of Heaven to get off the waiting list at the library.

I just finished Mystic River, and hope to get to the library today to pick out some new books. Most of the ones that I want to read right now are new releases and have a pretty long wait. I'm hoping The Lovely Bones will be available.

The book is fascinating and hard to put down - definitely one I'll hold onto to read again later. I liked The Lovely Bones, though the subject matter was a bit strange.

I just re-read the first 3 books of Stephen Kings Dark tower
series since I'm finally buying the 4th book next week.

I also re-read the Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
(one of my favorite books, I've probably read it 10+ times,
have 2 copies of it since my paperback started falling apart
from being read so much lol) I have all 5 of the books
for the Earth Children series but the first if my Favorite.


Now I'm reading Dean Koontz From the corner of his eye,
so far it's already made my cry, laugh and really think.
His books are usually really good so I'm pretty sure
i'll like the rest of this one as much as I already do.