NOW what are you reading????

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Cathlete
Where's your bookmark, folks? Last week we got a GREAT response to my question of What are you reading?. And I'm curious what you're on now.

After last week's responses, I hit the library to pick up Mary about Mary Todd Lincoln. We didn't have it so I requested it thru inter-library loan. HOWEVER, I was too impatient to wait, so I picked up Love is Eternal: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln by Irving Stone. Plus 2 biographies on Abe to get an idea of the times and some details. I'm about 60 pages from the end and LOVED reading it. I learned so much from it (I'm not big on history, but LOVE reading about it when it's a Historical Fiction book).

What's next?
Either The Boleyn Inheritance or a medical mystery my friend gave me called The Fifth Vial".

Gayle
 
Numbers.

And on the way to/from work, I'm listening to Gilbert Morris' Appomattox series (about the US Civil War).

April
 
Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier by Terry Laughlin & John Delves.
 
I am reading "Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir" which has not been released yet. I'm reading it for the review I will be writing for Library Journal.

I'm also reading "Flying close to the sun : my life and times as a weatherman" by Cathy Wilkerson. And no, she wasn't predicting forecasts.... she was with the Weather Underground (an entirely different matter!) ;-)
 
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry. It is for a book club and was another member's suggestion and is considered a classic. I don't know if anyone else is a member of a book club but I love it. Have read books I never would have chosen and have been intoduced to authors I probably would not have discovered on my own.
 
Welll.. since the last thread, I finished WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (LOVED!! it!!) and now am back reading EAT,PRAY & LOVE..I'm really liking it too.

I'm very intrigued by MARY too! I might have to put that on my request list too...

~Chris
 
I just finished Richard Russo's The Bridge of Sighs last week. I really loved it.

I just started reading Jim Shepard's short story collection, Like You'd Understand Anyway.

And then, I'm teaching Books 1, 9, and 12 from Milton's Paradise Lost next week and selections from Sylvia Plath's Journals and the first half of The Bell Jar.
 
The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears

and I'm still reading The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
 
tneah, if you can hang in there with Running with Scissors I think you might really like it. He isn't for everyone but there is such clear brilliance among all that insanity.

I just this minute finished The View from Mount Joy by Lorna Landvik. Loved it.

I'm also still reading ChiRunning.
 
Persausion...I have just recently gotten back into reading on a daily basis for relaxation and I am just loving these threads. Thanks Gayle!
 
Great books!

Phyllis-I actually started a book club about 5 years ago and we're still going strong! SOOOO many of my favorite books on my top list have come from that book club!

And, just as I'm finishing this Mary Todd Lincoln book, the library calls to tell me that I'm FINALLY next in line for Sue Grafton's T is for Trespass. I've been on that waiting list for 2.5 MONTHS! LOL

Gayle
 
Oh I have read Marley and me!!:) It is sooo good, it made me cry! You will love, love, love it!
 
I am reading the Senator's Wife by Sue Miller. So far so good. I finished off Whiteout by Ken Folliet last weekend in the Bahamas. Good thriller type novel.
Tneah- Running with Scissors is worth the time, I agree with the above poster.
 
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