What are you reading right now?
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queenmaynie
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Just finished reading "The Nanny Diaries" saturday ( very easy read and pretty good.) Recently I read "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" ( absolutely wonderful) and also "The Glass Castle" ( also excellent and not easy to put down.) I enjoyed them all.
Next is a book I just started called " Love Walked In". I had a hard time getting into it after the first chapter... not a good sign. Hopefully it gets better. After that, I am dying to read " Fast Food Nation" which my friend is just finishing up so I will borrow it. She also said it's "unputdownable"!
Happy reading everyone!
Next is a book I just started called " Love Walked In". I had a hard time getting into it after the first chapter... not a good sign. Hopefully it gets better. After that, I am dying to read " Fast Food Nation" which my friend is just finishing up so I will borrow it. She also said it's "unputdownable"!
Happy reading everyone!
RunnerGirl
Cathlete
How is THE SECRET? I was thinking of reading that next. R ight now I am reading Happy Yoga: Seven reason to be happy. By Steve Ross.
I also love Jennifer Weiner's books. If you like her books check out Candace Bushnell.
LD
I also love Jennifer Weiner's books. If you like her books check out Candace Bushnell.
LD
Miss Lee
Cathlete
Nothing, and I have a huge stack of books sitting here that I haven't read and I'm not interested in any of them right now. I want something that will make me smile and feel optimistic and happy. I can't take any more sadness right now...maybe I'll dig out my copy of Ray Bradbury's "Dandelion Wine" and give that another read.
GreenEyedLefty
Cathlete
I did a paper on "Their Eyes Were Watching God." Great book.
I'm an English major and never got around to reading "To Kill a Mockingbird," not even in high school. So, that's what I'm reading right now.
I'm an English major and never got around to reading "To Kill a Mockingbird," not even in high school. So, that's what I'm reading right now.
gettingstrong
Cathlete
John's Story by Tim LaHaye.
I can relate about the sadness. I love these threads and make my reading list from them, but I wish if it is a rather sad or upsetting book , the posters would include that. I can get sad enough just looking around or turning on the news - don't need to include anymore!
Marnie
I can relate about the sadness. I love these threads and make my reading list from them, but I wish if it is a rather sad or upsetting book , the posters would include that. I can get sad enough just looking around or turning on the news - don't need to include anymore!
Marnie
I'm reading The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George. She tells the story from Henry's POV. I just finished some Philippa Gregory books on the same time period. I really enjoyed them all. We also saw The Queen last night from Netflix. I seem to have a theme going here! Keep the suggestions going!
I also read In Cold Blood and loved it.
It's great to reread a book and enjoy it!
Ellen
I also read In Cold Blood and loved it.
It's great to reread a book and enjoy it!
Ellen
I love historical non-fiction. Right now I'm reading Eric Larsen's new book "Thunderstruck". He parallels two stories from the same period, one about Marconi's experimentation with wireless communication, the other about a man who tries to commit the perfect murder. I loved his other books "Isaac's Storm", and "Devil in the White City". If you're a history lover, I highly recommend these books!
workoutaddict
New Member
Just finished TEAM OF RIVALS, a really good biography about Abraham Lincoln and the men who made up his cabinet in his first and (brief) second term.
and a lot of cooking magazines....
and a lot of cooking magazines....
Amy Steppe
Cathlete
OK, here is where I publically what a vapid and vacuous person I am. I read different books for different classes in school, so what's the difference between then and now? A rhetorical question, I know.
So....
I am currently reading the Shopalcoholic Series. I am now reading "Shopalcolic Takes Manhattan."
I am finishing up "Notes on a Scandal" and hope to begin a biography soon. I just read a biography of Marie Antoinette that was fascinating.
I just got through reading Gilda Radner's "It's Always Something" for the third time. I keep reading the book, hoping for a better ending.....her book is so sad and makes me so angry at the medical system that failed her.
I also like practical books like "Household Hints for Dummies"
I am reading as much as possible about Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Electroshock Therapy for the treatment of drug resistant depression.
I am going to have to make a big decision soon about how to treat my depression. I have drug resistant major depression and I am sick of being put on cocktail after cocktail of meds that make little or no difference in how I feel. Even the ones that help at first stop working.
Right now I feel strong (hence my participation here) to advocate for my own health.
But I know I am not cured, so I am using this time to get as much information as possible about alternative treatments for major depression.
I also read dictionaries -- no kidding -- I always have!
I do draw the line at telephone books though. They are intellectual overkill for the likes of me.
So....
I am currently reading the Shopalcoholic Series. I am now reading "Shopalcolic Takes Manhattan."
I am finishing up "Notes on a Scandal" and hope to begin a biography soon. I just read a biography of Marie Antoinette that was fascinating.
I just got through reading Gilda Radner's "It's Always Something" for the third time. I keep reading the book, hoping for a better ending.....her book is so sad and makes me so angry at the medical system that failed her.
I also like practical books like "Household Hints for Dummies"
I am reading as much as possible about Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Electroshock Therapy for the treatment of drug resistant depression.
I am going to have to make a big decision soon about how to treat my depression. I have drug resistant major depression and I am sick of being put on cocktail after cocktail of meds that make little or no difference in how I feel. Even the ones that help at first stop working.
Right now I feel strong (hence my participation here) to advocate for my own health.
But I know I am not cured, so I am using this time to get as much information as possible about alternative treatments for major depression.
I also read dictionaries -- no kidding -- I always have!
I do draw the line at telephone books though. They are intellectual overkill for the likes of me.
Amy Steppe
Cathlete
Oh, that one is a good one!
A similar book but about overspending is called, "The Overspent American: Why We Buy What We Don't Need"
I also read "Affluenza" -- which is a real eye opener!
I do buy Cathe Videos -- because they are a necessity and make me a better person.
Other things are entirely optional, including my passion for fashion.
A similar book but about overspending is called, "The Overspent American: Why We Buy What We Don't Need"
I also read "Affluenza" -- which is a real eye opener!
I do buy Cathe Videos -- because they are a necessity and make me a better person.
Other things are entirely optional, including my passion for fashion.
Amy Steppe
Cathlete
Hey! Perhaps I will do that with "Drill Max". While I don't like it, a year from now I may love it!
Amy Steppe
Cathlete
Sorry for all the edits; I really should preview my messages before posting them....but.....
I love Truman Capote's work. "In Cold Blood" is so different from his other works becase it is non-fiction, but he does stay true to the detached writing of an observer. In that respect, the style is quite like his fiction "Breakfast at Tiffanys." The man writing the book is an observer of Holly Golightly.
The original "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is a short, fast read and is not like the film at all. It is NOT a romance and it does not end on a particularly happy note.
I appreciate Truman Capote's writing ability, although in reality he was not a very nice person.
He called Jacqueline Susann a "Truck Driver in Drag" and then he apologized -- too all the truck drivers.
When Jacqueline was publishing all those best selling "trash" novels (which I happen to love), she was secretly battling terminal breast cancer. This makes Capote's remarks particularly disturbing to me, but taught me a lesson that I try to live by.
Don't prematurely judge people on the basis of their looks or what they may appear to be on the outside because you never know what demons they are fighting -- be it cancer or another serious, life altering problem.
By the way a good book is "Lovely Me" -- the biography of Jacqueline Susann. I had no idea she had only one child -- a son with autism or that she was coping with breast cancer during the zenith of her writing career. It is a good biography if you like biographies.
Sadly, she was only 56 when she died. She appeared to have it all, but in reality, she had a very tragic life.
I love Truman Capote's work. "In Cold Blood" is so different from his other works becase it is non-fiction, but he does stay true to the detached writing of an observer. In that respect, the style is quite like his fiction "Breakfast at Tiffanys." The man writing the book is an observer of Holly Golightly.
The original "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is a short, fast read and is not like the film at all. It is NOT a romance and it does not end on a particularly happy note.
I appreciate Truman Capote's writing ability, although in reality he was not a very nice person.
He called Jacqueline Susann a "Truck Driver in Drag" and then he apologized -- too all the truck drivers.
When Jacqueline was publishing all those best selling "trash" novels (which I happen to love), she was secretly battling terminal breast cancer. This makes Capote's remarks particularly disturbing to me, but taught me a lesson that I try to live by.
Don't prematurely judge people on the basis of their looks or what they may appear to be on the outside because you never know what demons they are fighting -- be it cancer or another serious, life altering problem.
By the way a good book is "Lovely Me" -- the biography of Jacqueline Susann. I had no idea she had only one child -- a son with autism or that she was coping with breast cancer during the zenith of her writing career. It is a good biography if you like biographies.
Sadly, she was only 56 when she died. She appeared to have it all, but in reality, she had a very tragic life.
