The last post was getting a bit unwieldy at 274 messages. Clean slate ---

On my immediate list:

Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

I have The Blind Assassin TBR too, I added it to my library Sep 30, 2007...

I'm now reading In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar

Next on my TBR are
As Nature Made Him - John Colapinto
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
What Goes Around Comes Around - Con Lehane

All my TBR are Bookcrossing bookrays/rings.

i'm still searching for a book that will keep me interested any suggestions

After The Yacoubian Building I'm planning to get into The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and then get my hands on Three Cups of Tea and Luminous Cities, both presently in-progress reads on a faraway nightstand!

I'm going to read The Boy at the Hogarth Press by John Kennedy for my bookclub's December meeting. I've brought The Charlotte Armstrong Festival to work to start The Balloon Man at lunch after re-reading The Gift Shop and remembering how good Armstrong is. I've started Baltimore; Or the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden and want to pick it back up again this weekend.

After The Children's War the next 2 I intend to read are:-
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire

Every Last Cuckoo from Early Reviewers, then Pillars of the Earth latest Oprah pick, and then finally The Red Tent. That should take me til Spring!!

Next 3 books in my TBR are:
Everything She Ever Wanted by Ann Rule
Christ The Lord Out of Egypt by Anne Rice
and Fault Lines by Anna Salter

I felt the need for Anne's. LOL

I've got my next few reads mapped out pretty precisely, but after that I'm not sure:

Ananda by Osamu Tezuka
Robin Hobb's short novel from Legends II
Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

After that, I'll either read the entire Josephine B. Trilogy by Sandra Gulland or the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer... unless anything comes in for me at the library. Then I'll read that post haste.

Studs Terkel's new book, Touch and Go: A Memoir, is next up, as it has to be returned to the library soon!

Also soon to be read is Forrest Church's So help me God : the founding fathers and the first great battle over church and state

A History of Rome by Theodor Mommsen He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1902. The only historian to do so, with the possible exception of Winston Churchill. Like Aquanis he abandoned his masterpiece before it was complete but the remains are judged to be magnificent.

The Relunctant Queen by Jean Plaidy

#12 Smiley: Wow. Good for you. I *had* to read Mommsen for my general exams, and though I know the work is seminal, it did nothing for me but cure my insomnia. I hope you have a better experience with it than I did!

PS: Don't tell any Classicists you know that I said so ;)

#4 goofynerd- have you read i know this much is true by wally lamb? this book is fantastic

Just picked up Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig so that will be up next...am looking forward to see how it compares to Scarlett, Gone with the Wind and my own imagination.

The next few books I plan to read are, in no particular order:

Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos De Laclos
The Chocolate Lover's Club by Carole Matthews
Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Out by Natsuo Kirino

Of course, when it comes to it, I might not feel like one of them at the time, but right now, that's what I see myself picking up very shortly. It's a bit of an odd mix of classic, cult, chick-lit, fantasy/horror and a foreign author - I like to mix things up a little to keep things interesting. :)

#14 Sciafea:

Now your scaring me.

#16 kfl1227:

I'd be interested to know what you think of Rhett's People. The only McCraig I read was the nonfiction Eminent Dogs & Dangerous Men. That was great.

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I just finished reading Out. I'd like to know what you think of it when you're done.

I don't usually read books like that (murder/gruesome stuff), but read it because it was a prize-winning novel translated from Japanese into English. I thought it was kind of a fun read and probably will be looking for Grotesque, another novel by the same author.

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Hang on, I'm supposed to have them planned out in advance??

</sarcasm>

Sorry 'bout that.

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What an impossible question to answer. My "TBR shelf" (which is actually one full shelf which has long since spilled over onto the shelf below it) at last count had a full 40 unread books on it - and it seems to grow instead of shrink.

I really really want to read both Robert Nozick's The Examined Life and Isaiah Berlin's The Crooked Timber of Humanity sooner rather than later - they are not books I can read at the same time as one another, though. My neurotic nature will probably make me read the Nozick first, based on the simple principle of "I bought it first."

Fiction-wise, I've still got a ton of Vladimir Nabokov sitting on that shelf, from when I sort of fell into a collection of his works over this past summer. Other works that I'd like to get to sooner rather than later include John Scalzi's Old Man's War, Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel series (I've only bought the first one so far), the latest two editions to Steven Erikson's Malazan series, which I desperately want to get to, but have been putting off because I know I need to re-read the first 6 books in the series to really get the most out of them.... jeebus I could go on. I shall spare everyone....

I am almost finished All the Pretty Horses and after that will have to read the Gathering, The History of Love or The Eyre Affair as they are from the library; but I have also borrowed four or five others from friends and family, so they have to be read soon too . . . . .

I'd like to have the following done by the end of December.

Star Wars: Republic Commando: True Colors by Karen Traviss
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End by Lawrence E. Joseph
Matriarch by Karen Traviss
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
Paradise Lost by John Milton

Quite a bit. Here's hoping I get them all finished.

I will be reading:

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
The Art Thief by Noah Charney
Knight's Fee by Rosemary Sutcliff

And maybe a Grisham novel or two. Hard to predict.

I've given up on TBR loooooong ago. Now I just tell people that I don't buy books to read them, I just like to collect.

However, I do have separate piles of loaned books to read. "TBR" for me is a lifelong (possibly eternal) concept.

Just wanted to let you all know I've scanned and pilaged everyone's list in order to compile my TBR list. So thank you!!

#18, Smiley, I'll keep you posted re: Rhett Butler's People if I get to read it before my mother steals it from me.

*TSNW

Planning on reading: The Historian by Kostova, Then YA lit Taken the new Edward Bloor book then The Boleyn Inheritance (because it was on sale). After these.. I will need a new list and another trip to the bookstore ...darn LOL>

well the plan as of now is to read a thousand splendid suns after i finish love in the time of cholera but..... i should be getting the latest oprah selection from amazon in a few days so this plan is subject to change

I just finished Ghost Stories and Mysteries by J. Sheridan LeFanu (edited by E. F. Bleiler), and I'm considering reading The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection (edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling) next. That is, if I don't suddenly change my mind. Hehe.

Hmm...I get a headache thinking about this question.

Writing out all 1100 would be quite troublesome.

Basically in immediate line are:

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Youth by J.M. Coetzee
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

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Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky .

Next up is Nickel and Dimed.

Bit of a change in my TBRN line-up. Had a co-worker lend me a copy of The Da Vinci Code so that will be next after I finish up Everything She Ever Wanted.

I know I have heard a lot of negative reviews about Dan Brown, but I just want to experience it for myself. I'm thouroughly enjoying the Ann Rule book tho.

I enjoyed Nickel and Dimed a bunch - it was an interesting approach to investigative journalism and she got some good stories and societal problems out of it. It's a difficult thing to try to walk in other people's shoes to try to understand their experiences.

The Master and Margarita by Mikail Bulgakov
Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the rise of the new imperialism by Greg Grandin
The Sea, the Sea and Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

Edited to say: Hmmm, instead of the last two touchstones working, they show up in red along the side of the text entry field. More trouble than they are worth, these touchstones. I do believe I will stop using them. Indeed.

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I finished Everything She Ever Wanted and started The Da Vinci Code and I'm enjoying it so far. My next few reads are:
1. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
2. Fault Lines
3. The Short Forever and
4. Blood Red roses

I'm hoping to get #1 & #2 done before New Years.

Next up is Nine Parts of Desire. I found it for sale at our local book store & am hoping it's a good one.

Next up is The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama

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I changed my mind. I need some fiction. I'm going to be re-reading The God of Small Things & then read History of the Wife.

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>39 ejd0626

I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated Nine Parts of Desire. It's insightful as well as engaging. I found myself understanding the pull to fundamentalism--something that surprised me.

Kafka on the Shore (audiobook)
The Bridge of Birds
The Body Artist
Scream for Jeeves
House of Leaves

Dear me... #43, your last two titles rhyme *giggles*

I am reading Danse Macabre by Laurell K Hamilton. I have an unhealthy obsession with vampires.

The next fiction book will beThe Bronze Horseman, I think. Not sure yet about Non-Fiction.

#43 & 44: Hee hee - I immediately started sing-songing 'scream for Jeeves, house of leaves' too! From what I've heard people say about House of Leaves on other threads, I think it might cause one to scream for Jeeves!

Just started Pillars of the Earth after finishing Tent of Miracles. Quite a contrast since Jorge Amado is a far better writer than Ken Follet. Next on my list are:

The Ghost Map
A Wild Sheep Chase
Memories of War: Micronesians in the Pacific War.

I usually have several books going at a time.

Next up is The Story of Forgetting for Early Reviewers. I'm currently reading The God of Small Things, but as I am in the middle of finals week, it's going very, very slow!

I don't know if I'd say they're "next" as I have to wait for my turn at the library to come up, but I want to read Atonement and The Time Traveller's Wife so that I can get the "real deal" before seeing the movies.

Miss Marple's Final Cases by Agatha Christie
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by.... um, whoever wrote it. (His name escapes me right now and the touchstone won't pop up and tell me).
Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
The Bhagavad-Gita
Murder in Three Acts by Agatha Christie

As long as I don't get distracted.

I read slowly so I'll be reading Shock Doctrine for the next couple of weeks, but I've been eyeing up my next couple of books.

Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart
and
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart - Lydia Millet are all likely. I'd like to see the movie version of Namesake so I'll likely start with that.

I'm also tempted by Tree of Smoke by am reluctant to start another big book.

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#51 xicanti That author you are looking for would be Mark Haddon. Let me know how you like it. I've heard mixed reviews and I want to read it. Thanks.

*That's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

I just finished Harry Potter #6, so I guess H P and the Deathly Hallows naturally follows.

I'm thinking about my 50-book challenge for 2008, would it be 'cheating' to focus on the thinner books on my TBR pile:

Emil and the Detectives,
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
Snakes and earrings- Hitomi Kanehara

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I don't really have a TBR list or pile. I probably have at least 300 to 500 books in various places in the house that I am going to read someday. I also get a lot of books from the library. I get books as I see them in the section that has the new or newer books. I also request books from the library if I have wanted to read them or am just in the mood for a particular book. Other than that, I look through all of the books that are in the house and decide what I am in the mood to read. Right now, I am reading Heart Shaped Box which I am absolutely loving. After that I have to read Lean, Mean Thirteen which is due back at the library soon. Total brain candy but I enjoy the series for that fact. I have a few other selections from the library but I can't remember what they are - I also have to read my Early Reviewer soon.

I go to a library book sale twice a year and always grab whatever I have always wanted to read, something that was recommended to me to read, classics that I would like to read and anything else that catches my eye. I am a bit of a compulsive buyer when it comes to books.

#53 raggedtig - I finished it yesterday. I found it very readable, and would certainly recommend it. I didn't feel that it affected me enough to warrant a place in my library, but I'm glad I read it.

I felt it read like a YA, though, not the adult novel it's currently marketed as. This wasn't entirely a surprise, since I knew Haddon's UK publishers had originally released it as a YA novel.

I am going to read The Muse Asylum next followed by In God We Trust: All Others Pay in Cash by Jean Shepherd. The Shepherd book is what the great movie, The Christmas Movie, is based upon. "You'll shoot your eye out!"

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Oh, I loved The Muse Asylum! I hope you like it as much as I did. I'm just sorry more people either haven't heard of it or haven't read it.

My next-up book is What Goes Around Comes Around by local author Con Lehane. This is an autographed copy from the author. I'll be sending it around as a bookray to any BookCrosser who is interested. All I need is a PM (private message) through BookCrossing with mailing preferences. I'd started it before at the same time I was reading five other books. Way too many! I want to go back and start from the beginning, all the while giving this book the time it deserves. It'll be a while before I get to it because I'm now reading Suite Francaise which is kind of long.

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After The Story of Forgetting, I am going to be reading The Undomestic Goddess. I want something a little fluffy, but not mindless, which Kinsella is amazing at.

#59 - SqueakyChu - I have to confess that I got the idea to read The Muse Asylum from your top 5 list of 2007! You had The Road and The Book Thief, which are two of my favorite reads of 2007, so I checked out your other favorites - and ended up with The Muse Asylum from the library today. I will let you know what I think!

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I'm so glad I influenced someone to read The Muse Asylum. Do let me know how you like it. It's almost guaranteed you will.

I've just started The Book Thief and I'm also reading Blink. On the pile is Atonement before the movie comes out, The Master, A Thousand Splendid Suns and How Proust Can Change Your Life. I'm also reading Silas Marner aloud to my partner.

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I think this is what I’m looking at for the next books on my list, but depending on what I have sitting under the Christmas tree it might have to change.

The Invisible Ring by Anne Bishop
Dreams Made Flesh by Anne Bishop
Dhampir by Barb Hendee
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke

Next up this weekend: The Story of Forgetting - an Early Reviewers book that has gotten rave reviews so far, so I'm very much looking forward to it.

2008 will find me reading a few doorstoppers: Anna Karenina, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell and the new translation of War and Peace (actually a first read for me, so what do I know of new translation???). Also on deck, more Jane Austen, a couple of mysteries, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and more Steinbeck. That's just for starters! 2008 will be another good reading year, I'm sure. Especially since I'm retiring in October and will be able to read a lot more.

#65 teelgee - Congratulations on retirement! Hopefully, we can look forward to more of your incisive comments and reviews after October.

Next up on my reading list are a couple I learned about on LibraryThing: The Book Thief and How to Read Literature Like a Professor.

My TBR list has shifted a bit because people find the need to lend me books when I have plenty already. This is what's in store for January 2008:

Fault Lines by Anna Salter
Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
and possibly squeeze in The Short Forever by Stuart Woods

Over the next little bit:

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
Orsinian Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin
At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
What Was Always Hers by Uma Parameswaran

Apparently Scott Westerfield's Extras has just come in for me at the library, too, so I'll squeeze that in somewhere.

xicanti - I read Siddhartha recently and loved it. Enjoy!

Coming up on my TBR list (in order, sort of):

The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
Mr. Parker Pyne: Detective by Agatha Christie
Nightmares in the Sky by Stephen King
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
Paperweight by Stephen Fry

I'm pretty much incapable of planning my reading unless its a book club choice or a bookring from a BookCrossing member. In January I have one of each so I know I'll be reading The Turn of the Screw and In the Country of Men. Otherwise, it could be any of the 450+ books on my shelves, but will probably be non-fiction to balance all that fiction I'll be reading.

Probably read Acts of Worship by Yukio Mishima next...

after that either Confederacy of Dunces or The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty. I am waiting for the latter in the mail. I just ordered the complete Sleeping Beauty Trilogy using a gift card I received for Christmas.

Next on my list " The Darkest Evening...." Dean K.

I'm going away for a week & a half & am bringing quite a few books w/ me.

The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
Lucky by Alice Sebold
Sex with Kings by Eleanor Herman
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
Secrets of the Tomb by Alexandra Robbins
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

I've just started Teacher Man by Frank McCourt and will then read Atonement by Ian McEwan.

I just finished The Pilot's Wife and am about to start The Waste Lands, book 3 of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and then The Kite Runner.

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next 5:
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway
Schultz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis
Rose Madder by Stephen King
Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Tempest by Troy Denning
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Matriarch by Karen Traviss
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
Paradise Lost by John Milton

Coming up for me in the next couple of weeks: Run by Ann Patchett, which was recommended here on LT, Loud and Clear by Anna Quindlen, A Ship of the Line by C.S. Forester, Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter and Traveling with the Dead by Barbara Hambly.

#79 I just finished Run and I wouldn't say I was disappointed, it was a good story but I had such high expectations. It was no Bel Canto.

#76 The Dark Tower series was great. I read them as they came out, anxiously waiting for the next installment.

I am now just starting Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. I loved Into Thin Air and can't wait to get into this one. I have The god Delusion waiting in the wings.

A Singular Lady, The Cater Street Hangman, The Black Dagger Brotherhood Book 1

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The Gathering by Anne Enright
The View From Castle Rock by Alice Munro
Exit Music By Ian Rankin

Dark Lover by J. R. Ward
Speaks the Nightbird Volume II: Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon

Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
7th Heaven by James Patterson
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson

I have Little Women next TBR because it is in the 1,001 books you must read before you die... however I also have Death in a strange country, which I really want to read as it's set in Venice where I recently went on holiday and as it's part of a detective series when I finish it I can add it to my Bookmooch inventory and hopefully someone else will want to snap it up...

My next few have to be
Dolphins Under My Bed
The Devil's Highway
and then probably The Spirit of the Place
All depending on when my latest ER book arrives.

With theme reads, book club, and books to review I've gotten to the point where I actually made a google calendar to track what needed to be read when.
TBR Calendar

Most immediately, I have; Children of Dune, Darkness at Noon, and Pride and Prejudice ( re-read). There are about a hundred or more underneath those.

My short TBR list (I read one book from this list every third book I read) is:

Little Beauties by Kim Addonizio
My Dreams Out in the Street by Kim Addonizio
Strat-O-Matic Fanatics: the Unlikely Success Story of a Game that Became an American Passion by Glenn Guzzo
British Baseball and the West Ham Club: History of a 1930s Professional Team in East London by Josh Chetwynd
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Hungry Hearts by Anzia Yezierska
John Paul Jones: Father of the American Navy by Evan Thomas

I'm almost done with my current book and am looking at likely next books. I may end up choosing something wildly different, but some possibilities are:

* The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
* Don Quixote
* Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
* The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
* Tess of the d'Urbervilles
* The Trial of Joan of Arc
* Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels

And that's only the books by authors whose last names begin with the letters A through L.

When I've finished the two I'm reading now I think I'll start Feast of Fools by Rachel Caine. The Dead Girls Dance ended with a cliffhanger and I'm curious to see how it works out.

Next up for me:

Mudbound first, hopefully starting this weekend.

After that, my summer reading is Don Quixote, the translation by Edith Grossman, since my husband gave me that for Christmas.

The next few for me are

A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Thirteenth Tale
Sunrise on the Mediterranean

along with a few highland romances interspersed between them.

I went to see a play of The Thirty-nine Steps last night.

I have read the book before, and enjoyed it, but seeing the play made me want to re-read it to refresh my memory for all the ways in which they were the same and different :)

The next book I choose out of my TBR list is usually extremely practical -- which book is due back to the library soonest? However, I have Friday off so a long weekend for me! and only five library books that I will zoom through. The books I'm choosing between are:

13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire by Derek Landy
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Since I'll have time to read them all over the weekend, I guess the next of that four isn't as important as the question...what am I going to read when I've finished them? (Maybe some of the books I own and haven't read???)

I figure I'll go with:

The Beggar Queen by Lloyd Alexander
Eclipse One, ed. by Jonathan Strahan
Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey
In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice

With the occasional bit of Francesca Lia Block thrown in.

Currently about 3/4 done with Bayou Farewell and have started Mayflower as well. Next up are:
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Blood Diamonds
The Gulag Archipelago

... And at some point getting around to finishing
Alexander Hamilton
Mao: The Unknown Story
The Adventure of English
The world without us
A Peace to end all peace
The role of scientific revolutions

My latest short TBR list (I read one book from this list every third book I read) is:

My Dreams Out in the Street by Kim Addonizio
Strat-O-Matic Fanatics: the Unlikely Success Story of a Game that Became an American Passion by Glenn Guzzo
British Baseball and the West Ham Club: History of a 1930s Professional Team in East London by Josh Chetwynd
Hungry Hearts by Anzia Yezierska
John Paul Jones: Father of the American Navy by Evan Thomas
The Black Flower: a Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr
Bonk: the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

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Seeing as of the last time I posted, I've read two of the books, here are the next 5 I'm looking at reading:

7th Heaven (haven't had a chance yet)
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse

I'm finishing up The Jane Austen Book Club and Mysteries of Udolpho currently so once one is finished I will start with another one.

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Coming up for me:

Temper of Our Time - I've heard a lot about Eric Hoffer so it's time to give him a shot.
The Kite Runner - All my in-laws have read it and it comes up a bit. Got to fit in.
Vixen 03 - My guilty pleasure Clive Cussler novel of the month.

I found these ones at a great bookstore I visited in Ojai, CA last weekend.

After I finish Insomnia and The Shadow Catcher, I'm planning on reading:

Airframe by Michael Crichton - Another Crichton novel that I've never read
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser - Something I've been meaning to read for a while
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice - I've read Interview with the Vampire enough to remember what happens, and I really want to move on to Queen of the Damned.
Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer - I know this doesn't come out for another few weeks, but I'm pre-ordering it, so I know I"ll be reading it at some point.

I have never read the Jane Austen} books, so that is on my list.

Also on the list:

A Thousand Splendid Suns
Kite Runner
A Soldier's Promise
Rhett Butlers People
A Bend in the Road
A Walk to Remember
Jane Eyre

Going to a cottage in Boothbay Harbor, Maine for vacation and plan to take a "stack" of books to enjoy. Reading by the beach, doesn't get any better than that!

>101 I just finished The Kite Runner. I loved it. I'd suggest putting it at the top of your list. It's a fast read, but still hits pretty hard.

I'm leaning heavily towards The Beautiful Cigar Girl, Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the invention of murder. Sounds very promising.

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can anyone tell me on how to read these recommendations online?? puhlease????

>101 & 102 I just finished the Kite Runner as well. It was amazing.

next on my Reading List???

you name it, it's probably there

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Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. I love his work. It just got a scathing review from Michiko Kakutani at the NY Times, but she's notorious for scathing reviews.

#104 I think what you're asking is how to follow the link. If you click on any book in blue it will take you to a page with that book showing (probably) a picture, information about the publication of it, and review(s). You can follow more links there (on the left side or at the bottom of the page, in order to get extra information you might need.

If you're asking how to make the book name blue, you type it between left and right brackets (i.e, square brackets, not round ones).

Welcome to our friendly, fun group.

Message edited by its author, Nov 18, 2008, 6:53pm.

Out from the library, hence next on my list:

Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey
I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block
Fool's Errand by Louis Bayard
Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite

I also need to do some more reading of Fire by Sebastian Junger but I'm having a hard time sticking with it.

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

...and Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer, even though I seriously loathe the Twilight series. I think I enjoy hating it :(

#101 - *Loved* A Thousand Splendid Suns, much more than The Kite Runner. Enjoy!

#109: Jenson_AKA_DL

Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls is a favorite of mine, and I loved Francesca Lia Block's I Was a Teenage Fairy. I hope you enjoy them both!

Are you talking about my To Be Read Pile ? It's huge (14 books) :

1. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Henry Fielding
2. Vanity Fair - Thackeray
3. Selected Stories - Katherine Mansfield
4. The Tempest - Shakespeare
5. Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain - Judith Flanders
6. The Children Who Lived in a Barn - Eleanor Graham
7. Greenery Street - Denis Mackail
8. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding - Julia Strachey
9. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire - Amanda Foreman
10. Our Spoons Came from Woolworths - Barbara Comyns
11. Devoted Ladies - Molly Keane
12. The Fountain Overflows - Rebecca West
13. Good Behaviour - Molly Keane
14. Provincial Daughter - R.M. Dashwood

And since I'm waiting for it to only have 2 books before buying again I'm nowhere near any shopping spree.

#113 -- how cute that you think 14 book in TBR is huge. I have about 500.

#114, I don't know how you do it. Whenever I have more than two books unread at home I freak out, so 14 is a big thing for me. I'm concentrating on these before buying anything else, though, so I should be good by the end of February. Helps with the bank account too !

I don't know what in the world to read next. I'm staring at my TBR shelves, my eyes are glazing over and I may be drooling a bit.

>112 They were both very enjoyable...a bit disturbing (particularly Lost Souls)... but enjoyable nonetheless.

I've finished (read and reviewed) everything from my last post except for Fool's Errand which I've had to renew from the library so that's coming up very soon!

I've got a couple of books to finish before I even think about looking at my massive 300 bookish TBR pile: Wyrd Sisters, Ender's Game, Legend, Morgawr, and Dragon Doom

But I'm really looking forward to these ten:

1. Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
2. Dune by Frank Herbert
3. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
4. Through Wolf's Eyes by Jane Lindskold
5. Turning Point by Lisanne Norman
6. The Ultimate Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
7. Stardoc by S.L. Viehl
8. Priestess of the White by Trudi Canavan
9. Dragon Wing by Margaret Weis
10. Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

Right now I'm reading Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne.

Next up will be Hungry Ghosts by Susan Johnson.

# 117: Jenson_AKA_DL

Glad you found both enjoyable. Lost Souls is dark and disturbing, but quite a lush read.

A new bookstore just opened in my neighborhood and they have a cart outside with paperbacks $1 and hardcovers $2. I must pass several times a week--what a temptation. Just finished a non-fiction book and Morrison's Song of Solomon, but bought off the cart Emerson as Priest of Pam: A study in the metaphysics of Sex as well as Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Critical Essays and Documentary Materials which includes his Nobel Prize Lecture, and Frieda Lawrence: The Memoirs and Correspondence the memoir of D.H. Lawrence's wife. Still I have about 40 books to be read. The last bought always seem the most tempting to read first!

#1 Teelgee and #2 Wonderlake: I loved The Blind Assassin. Hope you enjoy it!

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I've just started The Anatomists by Hal McDonald

It's between Stiff, Cat and Mouse, The Year of Yes, and The Secret.

Hopefully I'll get to all of these by the end of the year.

I'll probably get both The Vertigo Years and MOAB is my washpot

I'm really looking forward to reading Stephen Fry's auto-biography :-)

blondierocket: The only one I've read is Stiff and I hightly recommend it.

I posted a review in August, if you're interested.

http://www.librarything.com/work/8304/re...

Please let me (us) know how you like the audiobook of Kafka on the Shore. I saw the play in Chicago (a Steppenwolf production) and was knocked out by it, and bought the book immediately. I listen to audiobooks on my 20 minute walk to and from the train during the week. Does it "work" as an audiobook . . . in 20 minute installments?

I may be able to help you cut your TBR list down to 13. As an actor, I highly recommend that you read no plays by Shakespeare until you've seen them. They weren't written to be read. I'm a reader, but I fell asleep reading Twelfth Night, for Pete's sake, and I'd been cast in it! That was some years ago and I've now seen almost all of the plays (just saw Ian McKellan in L.A. in Lear (my 17th Lear!))

#22, Judylou, So did you get a chance to read The History of Love yet? Great book, GREAT character!

Currently reading American Pie.

Next up: Hungry Ghosts.

I just finished Darkness at Noon. I am reading Brave New World and 1984 is next.
I then have Gates of Fire and The Ten Thousand on my list.
I also just bought This Republic of Suffering and it is on the list.
I am also working my way through the Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke. I have Dixie City Jam and A Morning for Flamingos next in line.
I completed my 50 book challenge and am finishing up the year with some interesting fiction.

I'm starting Sharkman Six by Owen West tomorrow.

From there I'm hoping to read:
-Spares
-Shadowmoor
-More Poul Anderson

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Next will be The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde for an online book club, then A Thousand Splendid Suns which a colleague has loaned to me, so it would be polite to read it soon. After that, I have a few crime novels that have been sitting around for a while.

Up next:

Saints of Augustine by P.E. Ryan
Hot Property by Carly Phillips
The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults by Stephen Mitchell

Next up for me will be Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow.

The list grows, I've just started on 2001, then it's either The Lord of the Rings, or The Farseer Trilogy. Of which I prefer the lateral.
But in between I could have some other books.

First, I will finish Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris. I'm off today to pick up a copy of New Moon, which is being held for me at the library. So that will be next. Then, it'll either be The Godmother by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough or The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, both of which my mother has lent me and wants back.

>135
I've finished Assassin's Apprentice and loved it. I'm currently reading Royal Assassin, and next on my tbr is of course Assassin's Quest.

My IMMEDIATE TBR Pile includes:
Soul Music
Interesting Times
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Long Way Gone
Salt
Mayflower

After that, it goes out of control.

I have a ton of books to read, but some of the include,
Taggerung
The Hundred dresses
Invincible Louisa

The next few on my list to read:-

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Touching the Void - Joe Simpson
Moonfleet - John Meade Falkner
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

#137:

I think I will love that series too. I've heard a lot of recommendations of Robin Hobb. So I think you untied my knot into picking which one to go first with. And instead of Lord of the Rings, I will read Assassin's Apprentice.

Thanks

#139 - ooo I love The Hundred Dresses!

I have way too many books waiting for me right now, but next up will probably include:

• Dear Neighbor, Drop Dead
• Size 12 Is Not Fat
• Interpreter of Maladies
• Three Junes

Next up will be Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss.

Hi Teelgee,

Did you get through these?

I ask because I've just finished Mister Pip and wanted to get someone else's take on it and am also thinking of picking up Master and Margarita and wondered how you got on?

For the record, I didn't enjoy Miser Pip as much as I thought I would. Be lightweight in the end, I thought, although it could just have been my mood this month....

Interpreter of Maladies is fantastic - much better than Namesake

Whymaggie- I am the same! I have about 400 unread items and I have imposed a ban on myself from buying anymore until I have made a significant dent in this number

I can't imagine only having 14 books unread but I have to say, I quite like the thought...

Next up for me is The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany.

I'm currently reading The Rain Before It Falls by Jonathan Coe. Then my reading over the Christmas holiday will be:

Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
Right as Rain by George Pelecanos
Fat Man in History by Peter Carey (I've read the title story already but not the rest of the collection)
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm just finishing up A Pirate of Exquisite Mind. I think next I'll read Flying Changes. My book club is going to read Brave New World next, but I'm not starting it until January so I can also use it as part of the Well Seasoned Reader Challenge I'm doing.

I have a few books lined up to read first thing in 2009 for my 999 Challenges:

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead which I need to read and get back to the library by January 8th.

Wuthering Heights which is also my most recent Go Review That Book! group selection.

PsyCop which was my only work bonus buy from Amazon as I had to use the rest of my bonus for Christmas gifts and bills (mostly bills).

I'm almost finished Somebody Else's Kids by Torey Hayden.

Next up: Sharing Jesus Effectively by Jerry Savelle.

Merry Christmas!

I'm driving myself crazy wanting to read so many books at once when I can really only read one at a time!

I have to decide whether I want to start Sexy by Joyce Carol Oates which is my Go Review That Book! assignment, Secrets Unveiled by Sheshena Pledger which is a review book I received from the author about two weeks ago or The Virtu by Sarah Monette which is the sequel to Melusine that I just finished and am quite anxious to read.

Erlack!!

My next book club read is Snow Flower and the Secret Fan--I've heard good things about this novel so I am looking forward to reading it. I don't have to read it until the end of March, however, so I'm determined to finish Nixonland and plunge into another doorstopper, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. For yet another April book club I will be reading The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.

I just finished The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Mr. Pip. Both are great books!!!