What are you reading now?

Stephanie0523

Stephanie0523

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... And what's your favorite book of all-time?
Pippa's post inspired me to ask this... I'm very interested in finding out what people are reading...
I'm finishing up Almost a Crime, by Penny Vincenzi and about to start The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.
Favorite book of all time: East of Eden by Steinbeck
 
I love these threads!!:)

Right now: The Architecture of Happiness--Alain de Botton


I've been in the middle of The Thirteenth Tale since Christmas. I've got to finish it one of these days.

ETA: I forgot favorite of all time. That would be tough. Contemporary: The Shallow Man--Coerte Felske or The Epicure's Lament--Kate Christensen or Before--Irini Spanidou. I knew that would be tough!:)

Older: Anything by Hemingway
 
>It's that good, huh?
><-- rethinking The Thirteenth Tale...

It starts out pretty good. It just gets a little slow(to me) in the middle. I would say this: I had a lot going on when I started it and when I finally had the time to read again I went on to something new. But that's just me, of course.:)
 
I'm rereading the Harry Potter series, but I'm going out to buy Gravity's Rainbow this weekend to read with TeTe:)

Fave book of all time? Oh man... ummmmmm... I don't think I can pick. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood would be right up there. Anything by Robertson Davies. Franny & Zooey by Salinger. Nope, can't pick. Sorry.
 
<--frantically jotting down Shelley's list to read about them on Doubleday Web site. We should start a book-swap, people.
 
I just finished reading Edie-An American Girl, a bio on Edie Sedgwick. Right now I am "reading" The Vogue fall fashion issue. I got it in the mail yesterday and DH said I seemed as excited as getting a new Cathe in the mail! Well, maybe not as much but I do love to get it every year.
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I'm between books now, but have about five in tow for my vacation next week, including "Gravity's Rainbow." Think that may take up the whole trip and I want to be able to "talk" to Shelley about it!!!!

I love Margaret Atwood, too, Shelley. I've read, and loved "Cat's Eye," "Alias Grace," and "The Handmaid's Tale." I liked "The Robber Bride," but I wasn't able to get into "The Blind Assassin." I tried reading that book twice, and it just didn't do it for me. Her "Penelopiad" is on my list, but I need to read the "Iliad" first.

There are too many "all-time" favorites: "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Love in the Time of Cholera," "One Hundred Years of Solitude," "The Great Gatsby," "The Confederacy of Dunces" (okay, that's the FUNNIEST book I've ever read!!!).I just can't decide. They're all so different!

I keep hoping that I haven't read my all-time favorite yet, and that I'll read something new that just blows me away!
 
TeTe - have you read Fall on Your Knees or The Way The Crow Flies by Ann-Marie McDonald? Also, A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews was one I read recently that I loved.
 
Nope, but am copying and pasting them to my "TO READ" list.

First shoes, now books...jeez, you're KILLIN' me here!!!!
 
I'm re-reading the Thursday Next novel series by Jasper Fforde. My favorites of all time are To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Once and Future King by T.H. White, or anything by Jane Austen.

I was an English major in college, so this thread is right up my alley! I have a blog devoted to books and their smells: http://booksniffer.blogspot.com/ which reminds me I haven't added to that in a long time.


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These threads are great. I'm going to print it out and add some of these to my reminder list at paperbackswap.com

I'm reading The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory right now. I read The Other Boleyn Girl by the same author so figured I'd read the next one. It is really good.

Favorites? That's a tough one. In no particular order:

I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
The Hobbit (and LOTR trilogies) - Tolkien
 
I'm currently reading Midnight at the Dragon Cafe by Judy Fong Bates. It's about a family from Communist China that immigrates to Canada in the 1950's.

Shelley - I read The Way The Crow Flies a couple of months ago and LOVED IT!!

I read so many books that I couldn't even begin to pick a favorite. They are all my favorites when I read them for the first time.
 
I am reading Kill Me by Stephen White. It's a psychological thriller and it's really good. I have about 100 books in my bookshelf and it is growing consistently. So many good books and so little time. (sigh).

I am loving the idea of book swapping. How would we go about it?

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Oh boy. I'm in a zone where I'm reading a bunch of things at once.

BFFM
How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life - Mameve Medwed
A book on natural religion by a UU minister
current issue of Cooking Light

Favorite of all time? Couldn't rightly say. I do have decade favorites though - a couple come to mind.

Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Time Travelers Wife - Audrey (?) Nifenegger (close but not perfect sp)
Feast of Love - Charles Baxter

I also love Anne Lamott's series on faith - she is so real and so incredibly funny.
 
Yay I love these threads! I am reading "The Great Gatsby" (starting). I also have 3 holistic type books a neighbor gave me and they don't look too interesting, but I'll take a looksy. Finished "Of Mice and Men" and didn't like it-although I've liked his other works. STILL waiting for "Overdosed America" at the library. Also want to read the Harry Potter series.

All time favorites: "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Poisonwood Bible".:)
 
I have been reading all of Julia Spencer Fleming's mysteries recently, but earlier this summer I read one of the funniest books I've read in a long time: Slummy Mummy by Fiona Neill. The heroine is like Bridget Jones, only a SAHM, who gets into one embarrassing situation after another. I also read In the Woods, another mystery, and really liked that one, too. By Tana French

Tete, I teach Margaret Atwood. Love her too. You might enjoy her story collection, Moral Disorder. Her usual droll self. I had a hard time getting into Blind Assassin too.

All-time favorite classic: Middlemarch by George Eliot

All-time favorite more recent book: Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley

Also love Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter series
 
I have the Mist of Avalon at the top of my "to read" list, now I can't wait to start it. Currently I'm reading High Fidelity, which is very funny. Next on the list is Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, followed by The God of Small Things.

Favorite all time books are: The Other Boleyn Girl, Gone With the Wind, The Kite Runner, A Clockwork Orange, Night, Tuesdays with Morrie and The Red Tent. I'm sure I could add more, but these are the one's that left me thinking about them long after they were finished.

I'm actually a bit OCD on my book lists. Looks like I'll have to update it now! :)
 
I have the Mist of Avalon at the top of my "to read" list, now I can't wait to start it. Currently I'm reading High Fidelity, which is very funny. Next on the list is Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, followed by The God of Small Things.

Favorite all time books are: The Other Boleyn Girl, Gone With the Wind, The Kite Runner, A Clockwork Orange, Night, Tuesdays with Morrie and The Red Tent. I'm sure I could add more, but these are the one's that left me thinking about them long after they were finished.

I'm actually a bit OCD on my book lists. Looks like I'll have to update it now! :)
 
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