what are you reading these days?

[blue]

ya, well, i'm reading - are you ?

let's see, currently i'm reading, i lock my door upon myself &
because it is bitter, and because it is my heart by joyce carol oates...

i also picked up on writing today by stephen king.

on the must - read - soon list is the following :

the awakening by kate chopin
moments of being by virginia woolf
me talk pretty one day by david sedaris
tales of mystery & imagination by edgar allen poe
surfacing by margaret atwood
the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky

and so on, and so forth.

:flower:

 

[blue]

i must also add my recommendations ::

a fine balance by rohinton mistry (one of the best i've ever read)
what the body remembers by shauna singh baldwin (beautiful)
by the river piedra i sat down and wept by paulo coehlo (gorgeous)
a heartbreaking work of staggering genius by dave eggers (fabulous, heartbreaking, laugh out loud funny, witty)
fall on your knees by ann-marie macdonald
written on the body by jeanette winterson

that's all for now...

 

[kiwideus]

i recommend 'A girl named zippy' by Haven Kimmel, its great.
Im reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Its very good also.

 

[bundylee]

I just finished reading the 4th book in the "Dark Tower" series by Steven King and am now reading "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents" By Terry Pratchett (My favourite Author) It's about a cat called Maurice, a street wise tomcat who has the perfect money making scam! Maurice has a stupid looking kid with a pipe, and his very own plague of strangly educated rats!!! Very good and very funny!

 

[katl8e]

I'm reading The Real-Life X-Files, by Joe Nickell. He's an investigator for the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. He's as good a debunker, as the Amazing Randi.

 

[auburn412]

I am reading "A Painted House" by John Grisham. One of the latest in the Left Behind series is sitting by my bed waiting to be read.

I will have to print out this thread. I love to read and am always looking for good suggestions.

 

[myste]

I'm listening to Anne McCaffrey's Pern books in audiobook most of the time, and occasionally reading some Xanth books. I have a lot of e-books and audiobooks. I bought an MP3 CD player so I can listen to audiobooks wherever I go, and I read e-books on my Palm Pilot. I'm NEVER without something to read!

 

[luv those paws]

I am currently reading 'Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About' by Mil Millington. There is a website by the same name and person, but that is truth and the novel is fiction derived from truth

. It is great so far.

 

[debby]

I have been really into Dean Koontz's books lately, and am starting another one!

 

[blue]

i'm also reading Lucky by Alice Sebold, i haven't read The Lovely Bones yet though.

i heard she wrote the two books at the same time, which is interesting...

 

[purringpanther]

I'm currently reading the 4th Crown Of Stars book by Kate Elliott called Child of Flame.
After that I have stacks of new books that Lee has bought for me waiting in line, most of which are Stephen King and Dean Koontz, my favourites

 

[lucia]

I like murder mysteries. Right now, I'm reading one by Linda Fairstein called 'The Bone Vault'. (The writer was the lead prosecuter in the NYC Sex Crimes Unit for 15 years or so.)

Im also working my way through a novel called 'The Children's War',
written by someone named J. N. Stroyer. It's very long (abt 1,200 pages); in the story, Nazi Germany was never vanquished and has now
controlled all of Europe for more than 50 years. The story focuses on one man (a young Brit) who escapes from the German family where he is a slave, and falls in with a group of resistance fighters, who are trying to get the 'North American Union' to take action against the Nazis. It's a very disturbing book and I can only read small amounts of it at a time.

 

[adymarie]

I just picked up the sci-fi/fantasy American Gods by Neil Gaiman. He is brilliant! Bundy - have you read Good Omens by Prachett and Gaimen?

 

[jenk]

...Toxic Parents by Dr. Susan Forward. I highly recommend it for anyone who's undergone *any* form of abuse from their parents, including verbal.

Take care,

Jenk

 

[vasha]

when i have TIME to read i'm reading . . .

Fast Food Nation
Che Guevara

I've heard VERY good things about Rohinton Mistry and will start on his books when i'm FINALLY done with the ones i've already begun

vasha

 

[blue]

Originally posted by vasha
when i have TIME to read i'm reading . . .

Fast Food Nation

that's another one on my list, i've heard good things

 

[vasha]

it only took me the first nine pages to decide NOT to eat fast food any longer!

vasha

 

[tonim68]

Upon recommendation from a friend I'm reading "One for the Money" - it's great! I highly recommend it.

 

[blue]

has anyone here read The Hours by Michael Cunningham (obviously the basis for the film) ?

i've heard such amazing things about it, and i'm pretty sure it won the Pulitzer.

if so, what did you think?

i think i'll pick it up next week

 

[sandra]

Originally posted by blue
ya, well, i'm reading - are you ?

let's see, currently i'm reading, i lock my door upon myself &
because it is bitter, and because it is my heart by joyce carol oates...

i also picked up on writing today by stephen king.

on the must - read - soon list is the following :

the awakening by kate chopin
moments of being by virginia woolf
me talk pretty one day by david sedaris
tales of mystery & imagination by edgar allen poe
surfacing by margaret atwood
the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky

and so on, and so forth.

Right now I am reading one of the Joe Grey Mystery series by Shirley Rosseau Murphy. It is called Cat on the Edge. It is about a cat and his girlfriend Dulcie, who are Private Eyes. Who solve mysteries in their small CA town.