Okay, it is officially 2009 - what are you reading now? I am reading a book I received for Christmas An Irish Country Christmas by {Patrick Taylor}.

I first must say that I didn’t even realize that it was past midnight! lol.

Currently I am reading InkDeath by Cornelia Funke. It is the 3rd book in the InkHeart series. The books are decent, but not fabulous. I was actually able to set InkDeath down, not pick it up for at least a week, and I wasn’t dieing to pick it up again. However, for Christmas I received The Tower of Ravens and Witches of Eileanan by Kate Forsyth. She's a new author for me, but the books look awesome. So I'm trying to rush to the end of InkDeath just so I can get to my new books.

HAPPY 2009!

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It's not yet midnight here but I'll still be reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I didn't really know what it was about before I picked it but I'm pleasantly suprised with it. The only thing I don't really care for is the style of writing like the sentence structure. I like the character styling though.

I still have about ten minutes, but I'm pretty sure I'll still be reading Whiskey Rebels by David Liss. Unfortunately, I didn't get to the sixteen other books I had hoped to read over my holiday break.

I'm reading Memories Can be Murder by Connie Shelton.

Best wishes, everybody !

As planned, I started Sabriel by Garth Nix a few minutes after I woke up.

Happy new year everyone! It's the end of Jan 1 here. I would be reading The Untouchable by John Banville if I weren't marking exam scripts at 9.00 in the office...

Halfway through Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell.

heliophobe

I read Down and Out last year and considered it one of my top reads. I hope you enjoy it!

Tonight (after midnight) I started Doomsday Book by Connie Willis--a 999 challenge book for me.

Will also read Soldier's Heart by Elizabeth Samet--an ER book I hope to review before the end of the weekend and will also fit into my 999.

I'm reading No Country for Old Men as my first book of 2009. Happy new year! =)

Secret Son is sitting next to me waiting for me to sign out of the Thing.

eta

Irish Country Christmas has two other books in the series I think.. pleasant reads...

Loved Doomsday Book!!!

T-stones still sleeping

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I'm enjoying The Coffee Trader by David Liss for the Highly-Rated Book Group. I can't wait to discuss! Happy New Year!

I'm only a few pages in but I started Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead last night.

I'll probably also attack a few of my manga (Vassalord and Wild Adapter) I got for Christmas that I held off on reading since they were on my 999 Challenge list.

>2 Tower of Ravens is also on my 999 Challenge List!

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I just started A Conspiracy of Paper. David Liss has been very popular on these threads lately! Happy New Year everyone!

I just started a really good YA book called Gone by Michael Grant. So far it is excellent. It kinda has a lord of the flies theme but with a paranormal twist. Happy read to all in 2009!

I'm on the last 1/4 of 2666.

About halfway through A Supremely Bad Idea by Luke Dempsey after having heard him on NPR. He was very funny, and the book is also.

I'm almost finished with House of the Spirits, I have about 50 pages left, I find it's gripping, yet depressing at this point.

I'm still working on Mansfield Park and I've just started French Women Don't Get Fat. Yeah, it's that kind of New Year.

The Maniac in the Cellar: sensation novels of the 1860s, by Winifred Hughes.

Last book of 2008 was Fritz Leiber's The dealings of Daniel Kesserich: a study of the mass-insanity at Smithville.

I hope this is not a portent of the coming year.

I slept through the New Year, just couldn't stay awake.

I am now staring the 3rd book in the Felix Gomez series: The Undead Kama Sutra.

The series is about a soldier in Iraq who is turned into a vampire. He comes home and becomes a PI. The books are set in the modern day, and silly, with a big helping of sex. They are what someone on Goodreads called dude-lit (as opposed to chick-lit). This book looks like has to do with aviation.

After finishing Dreams from My Father on the last day of 2008, I still am not sure which of the many books calling out to me I'm going to start off the year with.

I barely started Oscar and Lucinda last night, so I'll be reading that through the weekend. Then it's on to a January filled with Orange Prize winners and runners-up, starting with The Road Home - Rose Tremain

Am still reading The Island at the Center of the World. It's history (Dutch NYC) with a focus on the individuals involved so fascinating. About 2/3 done so hope to finish before the end of my vacation.

>1: I just read An Irish Country Doctor at the end of December. I think you'll enjoy a few of the characters!

I was out until almost 3, and woke up just past noon, but I've already got Pompeii by Robert Harris right by my side.

Happy new year everyone!

Still choosing..........back soon!

I finished the first volume of the L. M. Montgomery journals around 2am, contemplated starting on the second, and decided to pick up The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham instead. A palate-cleanser in between doses of increasingly prevalent Montgomery clinical depression.

Happy New Year!

I have four days off work so I plan to start 2009 curled up with books. First up is Waiter Rant, which has received quite the range of ratings on LT, so I am curious to check it out for myself.

Happy New Year everyone! I'm in the middle of two: The Secret History by Procopius (about Justinian and Theodora's Byzantium) and Salvation in Death by J.D. Robb (on audio), plus last night I started A Pirate of Exquisite Mind. Quite a start to 2009.

#18 ktleyed ~ Yes, I remember reading that part of House of the Spirits and hating it, but the ending was worth the pain of getting there.

#29 Storeetllr - I just finished House of the Spirits which was a good book, and I'm glad I read it, yet I feel like I wasn't moved by it as much as I should have been. I found the narrative detached, so that I did not feel immersed in the emotions and feelings of this story, although the last 50 pages were the most intense, and ironically, my favorite part of the book although it was upsetting to read about.

I am reading The Friday Night Knitting Club. I am also read an ARC for BN. A Fortunate Age by Joanna Smith Rakoff.

Happy New Year everyone=)

Still reading my ER Honeymoon in Tehran Azadeh Moaveni. Now that holidays are over i can find the time to finish it.
Happy New Year ! everyone :-)

Happy New Year!

This evening i started reading a book by Maria Housden called Hannah's Gift
It is a really touching, and emotional read. I haven't been able to put it down so i am already over half way through

So far this year I've read Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and now that I'm in the second morning of the year, I'm a hundred pages into Atonement by Ian McEwan

Happy New Year everyone!

I'm currently reading Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer and Ending an Ending by Danny Birt. I am listening to The Night Caller by John Lutz.

Carrying over The Cellist of Sarajevo and Best Food Writing 2001. Not sure what'll be next. Happy 2009!

I am going to start A Pale View of the Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro. I chose it because it will count in 1001 reads, a Reading Globally theme read for the month, and my 999 Challenge. Yeehah!

I finished Sabriel by Garth Nix (very good, will review it on my blog) and I'll start Round About a Pound a Week by Maud Pember Reeves as soon as possible.

I finished The Undead Kama Sutra by Mario Acevedo.

It was not as loopy as the first, and tighter than the second. So while the whimsy is gone, it is meatier, and yet tightly organized, so better than the first 2.

The aliens are back and abducting earth women, and the government is in cahoots. Didn't finish the plot, so obviously it will crop up again.

I am now reading Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell for my mystery book group. So far seems good.

I'm in the middle of Dear Neighbor, Drop Dead by Saralee Rosenberg. It's hilarious and heart-breaking -- I love it! In fact, I don't want it to end. I'm glad it's my first read of 2009!

I have just started Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

Happy New Year everyone and tons of great reading to all!!!

Am reading The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer - started it last week but with all the festivities and the crazy workload leading up to Dec 31st I wasn't able to make much progress. Will make up for it in the next few days...

I've now moved on to Nox Dormienda by Kelli Stanley; sort of contrived so far as mysteries go (in my experience) but the reviews aren't that bad, so it might pick up.

I started reading Alexandre Dumas : Three Novels (Library of Essential Writers Series) in the Library of Essential Writers published by Barnes & Noble. It's 1406 pages and contains three novels: The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Man in the Iron Mask.

Dumas is one of the two writers whose works I plan to read for 2009 for my reading project. I haven't decide as to the other writer from the Library of Essential Writers series yet.

Finished An Irish Country Christmas by Patrick
Taylor. A laid back novel with interesting characters. I now would like to read the other 2 books in the triology.

I have quite a few Christmas books to choose from and am trying to decide which one next. I may start A Walk in the Woods by {Bill Bryson} or Grace by {Richard Paul Evans}.

I am reading Atonement by Ian McEwan, saw movie first then decided to read book, I never do that, but made an exception. Very good so far, I will probably watch movie again after finishing book.

I'm 400 pages in Darkmans and moving relatively quickly. It's an excellent start to a new year of reading.

Ship of the Line of the Horatio Hornblower Saga, by C.S. Forester. I love all the naval detail...wonderful action.

Eva

Reading For Whom the Bell Tolls for one of my book clubs and will read Huck Finn after that for my other book club.

It's definitely classics month for me.

Just finished the Secret History by Donna Tartt. I am now reading The Charlemagne Pursuit by Steve Berry.

I am reading Mr. Timothy by Louis Bayard... still! I am nearly done, though, and I love it. mckait, sorry you had to wait so long for my opinion -- I have been insanely busy. It is very dark, atmospheric, thrilling, and very Dickens. A great read after recently re-reading A Christmas Carol, and a great read for winter break.

I'm reading from the 1001 books list. Just finished Saturday and now reading Fugitive Pieces.

My first book of the year was Lost in a Good Book. In all fairness, though, I only had 30 pages left when I went to bed on New Year's Eve.

I finished Faceless Killers the first book in the Kurt Wallander series. It is a mystery set in Sweden in Ystad, and Kurt is a police officer.

The story is about an elderly couple killed on a remote farm. Very messy murder, and their one neighbor, another farm family, didn't see or hear anything in the night. There are tensions in the country about immigrants and some suspect the killers are foreigners so there are hate crimes popping up too. The book is set in 1990 I think, around the time that a lot of Eastern Europeans were fleeing their poor countries.

It was very good and I enjoyed it. The book was translated from Swedish. At some point I will continue with the rest, but don't have them now.

I am reading the last of the Rex books about dinosaurs who live among us in latex suits. The book is Hot and Sweaty Rex by Eric Garcia. The main character Vincent Rubio is a Raptor and a PI. The first 2 books he was in LA, this book he is in Miami, and involved with the dinosaur Mafia. Not sure what the mystery is yet.

Totally confused by the threads, do we have too many going?...just posted this elsewhere

Just finished To Dream of the Dead by Phil Rickman and will now go back to Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck before beginning Pere Goriot for one of the group reads and, perhaps The Coffee Trader for another group read, if I can manage to make it to a bookstore today.

FicusFan and Snash--I keep hearing good things about both Faceless Killers and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. May have to try them soon.

#47: Let us know what you think of Darkmans after you finish!

I'm READING The Pleasure of Reading by Antonia Fraser, in little dribs and drabs, and I'm "READING" On Reading but that won't take long once I put my mind to it since it's a photography collection!

I really want to start New Moon and the rest of the Stephenie Meyer books, having finished Twilight and just seen the movie - but I just know that I'll get hooked and then my mum will want me to do lots of stuff with her now that the festive season is over... things can get nasty when people try to come between me and a good book!

theaelizabet -- They'd make a pair since their both mysteries set in Sweden.

I'm a year behind, but finally started The Bridal Wreath. Also started A short history of tractors in ukrainian.

Just finished London fields by Martin Amis. Now it's first time for some light-reads. So I started with Addition by Toni Jordan, about a woman who has an obsession with '10' and counts everything. Nice chicklit, long time since I read something like it.

Finished The Cellist of Sarajevo: beautiful, stunning, highly recommended.

Am now enjoying Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, and am looking forward to spring and the start of the farmer's market. I might even plant a small garden myself this year!

Woke up early this morning ( 5 a.m.) couldn't go back to sleep. Piked up Dewey The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Vicki Myron. I finished about 10:00. I needed that book to get my reading juices flowing again. It made me smile, laugh and cry.

I finished A Pale View of the Hills and will be starting The Casualty by Heinrich Boll this evening.

I finished Death on the Nile this morning, and swung by the library to pick up From a Buick 8 and Lisey's Story. I started Lisey's Story, and I've got InkDeath by Cornelia Funke and Salem's Lot by Stephen King on hold.

finishing up The Society of S

Finished The Untouchable by John Banville this morning - loved it.

Now I'm reading South of the Border, West of the Sun for the Reading Globally Japan read. My husband's a huge fan of Murakami's and thought this'd be his most accessible novel. So far I'm enjoying it but the main character feels very distant.

I finished Pompeii and sat here wondering what I should do for about ten minutes... it was so good I didn't want to be finished.

Now I'm on to The Jungle Book just for something a little different.

#67 I really liked Pompeii too jfslone, and Enigma and Fatherland, also by Robert Harris. I think Fatherland was my favourite of the three.

#62 cindysprocket

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on Dewey the Small-hown Library Cat Who Touched The World I was going to get this book but was hesitant. From your comments, it sounds as if it would be the perfect book to kick off the year.

This is my first book challenge and I'm really looking forward to it!

# 56 will do. I'm almost at p. 600 and think it's all kind of fabulous (if weird). I'm hoping it holds.

#66 - Murakami's characters tend to be distant, but the main character in that novel is particularly distant (if I remember correctly). But it's a really lovely book, so you have a treat. For a less distant main character you should try his Kafka on the Shore.

Reading Louis Bayard's The Black Tower. Enjoying it so far. It pulled me in from page one.

In keeping with my 2009 resolution I had to take nine books from my unread pile and give them away or take them to the used bookstore because I got nine books for Christmas. For every new book on the unread pile an old one must leave.

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I'm reading March by Geraldine Brooks which I received for Christmas from my son.

My long book that I read bits and pieces of everyday is War and Peace. I'm also currently reading The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell.

I am reading revolutionary road... haven't seen the movie.

Just finished Grace by Richard Paul Evans. Deciding between Little Chapel on the River or The Lost Continent.

I finished Hot and Sweaty Rex by Eric Garcia
It is the series about dinosaurs who live among us in latex people suits. This is the last book. It seems like the author ran out if ideas. The other books had actual mysteries, this book was about the POV Vincent juggling two mob families, each of whom think Vincent belongs to them. If they find out about his relationship with the other, its curtains for Vincent. So the mystery was to see how he was going to do it, and if he would stay alive. Then it became find the 'other' snitch. A good bit of the book had to do with backstory, and memories, so it seemed to be looking back, and not forward. It was OK, but one of those you are glad when it ends.

I am now starting The Mosaic of Shadows by Tom Harper
It is set in 1096 in the Byzantine empire in Constantinople. Someone is trying to assassinate the Emperor Alexios and the POV character Demetrios Askiates is told to find the would-be-killer. There are lots of enemies inside the walls of the city, and the first crusade has arrived outside the walls, and no one knows if they are there to help against the Turkish army , or to sack the city themselves.

> 74: pwshif- I just finished it and loved it! Let me know what you think!

Just started New Moon alongside The Pleasure of Reading - I just couldn't wait any more, and I was up early, and Mum was out shopping all day with my sister, and it just FELL into my room with my morning coffee and - that was that. I'm 100 pages in with the evening still beckoning...

I just finished "Breaking dawn" by Stephenie Meyer, and i just loved it..i wasn't ready to let these books go so i'm reading Twilight again:P

Are there any other books i can read that is similar to the Twilight saga?

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Twilight became my guilty pleasure for a day or two - chocolates and Edward Cullen through the night under the duvet, then off to the cinema a few hours later to see it! Definitely the new Heathcliff or Rochester, that one - about time a swoonworthy hero came along to bring us up to date!

Idyll Banter good read~

#74/#77 - I just finished Revolutionary Road after having it on my wishlist for ages. I really enjoyed it and as it was my first book of the year it's got my 50 Book Challenge List off to a great start.

I've now started The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson and am loving this one too.

I am just about to begin Splendid Solution

It's 2009 and I'm sorta thinking of starting a new series of books, so far I'm into a horror book named Perfect Nightmare. I'm really looking forward to the new year!

Happy 2009 everyone!

I just finished The Devil of Nanking by Mo Hayder and have started the Prey series by John Sandford. I've picked up some interesting titles to add to my list from everyones posts. Tks!

I'm reading Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb, it's a big book, I have a feeling it's going to take me a few weeks to finish it.

Kindle: Kim Harrison's "Rachel Morgan" (The Hollows) series, now into the second book, The Good, the Bad, and the Undead.

Dead-Tree: Currently reading Carolyn Chute's Letourneau's Used Auto Parts. Merry Men just arrived today from Amazon, I'm awaiting Snow Man, and at year's end I bought The School on Heart's Content Road retail at Borders.

I continue listening to Ivanhoe and I am just about to start Therese Raquin by Emile Zola. I finished The Casualty by Heinrich Boll this morning, and it was brilliant.

Case Histories and Mayflower.

Hiya,

I am about to start 'The diary of Anne frank'. I got it today.

Jen
xx

I have finally finished The Mosaic of Shadows and get to leave 1095 Constantinople. It wasn't a bad book, it just didn't grab me and was too long and too slow.

I am now going to 1912 Brooklyn with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn .

#90 AustrianPrincess - My husband went to Holland on a business trip recently and toured the Anne Fran home while he was there. He bought her book also at the museum there, that is in my TRB pile. Another great book along that line is The Zookeepers Wife.

I have finished Laura Lippman's Hardly Knew Her ... Loved the stories and will definitely pick up another Laura Lippman book. Next up is The Discovery of Dawn by Walter Veltroni.

I'm currently reading The End of the Story by Lydia Davis. Gorgeous prose. I'm loving how this author writes.

I'm reading The time traveler's wife by Audrey Niffenegger and the kite runner by Khaled Hosseini.

#95 thanju2409. I enjoyed the Kite Runner and my husband bought me The Time Traveler's Wife for Christmas so that is in my trb pile. Let me know what you think of that book when you are finished with it.

I finished Walter Veltroni's The Discovery of Dawn last night.... What an exquisite, well crafted, beautifully written story. This will definitely get listed as one of my favorite books for 2009, even this early into the year.

Next up I thought I would play it safe and read The Bordeaux Betrayal: A Wine Country Mystery by Ellen Crosby for a change of pace.

I'm reading Bloodstream by Tess Gerritsen. Liking it so far !

Finished The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. It was absolutely fantastic, I don't think I ever laughed out loud that many times because of a book. I think I'm going to read Eragon next, it's been on my shelves for about a year or so, figure it's about time to read it!

although you didn't as me... Time Travelers Wife is wonderful.. I loved it!
It lives on my re read shelves.

i put down seven types of ambiguity by elliot perlman to read half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, which i received for christmas and have been dying to read. this year, i plan on reading all of the books that are on the top of my wishlist and putting the others aside. next up: away by Amy Bloom, home by marilynne robinson, and the emperor's children by claire messud.

I just finished The Time travelers wife and Sweep: book of shadows. Now i'm reading The kite runner.

thanuj2409 you will enjoy the Time Traveler's Wife. The audio version is excellent as well. If you get a chance pick it up!

My current books I am reading are: The Courtier and the Herectic and The Master of Verona. So far both are great!

I think I'm going to be on a Gene Wolfe diet for a little while

i just finished reading John Harts, Down River which was awesome!! highly recommend it! I fell in love with this author, and i love how he writes! His next book is coming out in May, its called The Last Child. Has been getting really great reviews. So im pretty stoaked for that one.

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Still reading Team of Rivals.. along with other reads. Just finished
Kindred by Octavia Butler. I will start a new read later today, but for now I have a few hundred books that I have to move around today........

McKait, me too !

I have one more window to put plastic over and it is behind my computer and stacks ond stacks of books,

I managed to clean out 2 big blobs of books on the floor due to this project. I had stacked them, but then they all fell over. I found a place to put them, my entertainment center piers so I got them all packed away. Now I just have to work on the piles by the last window.

Also still reading Nightrunners of Bengal by John Masters. Find it a bit slow going, though its probably me. I also have been spending too much time on the computer and with my window covering project.

Hi mckait!! ***waving***

You've been quiet lately....glad to see your post.

ficus, how did your project go?

I had to move all of the furniture out of the guest room to put down a new rug .
( bonus.. earned 85$ in gift cards to Lowe's for reviewing products sent to me, used it to buy a rug, found a .. remnant?... for .. 35$! It was 9.5 x 12.5 so made it wall to wall . Used the gift card = free :) kinda)

So I moved the bookshelves and all the books, nightstand, chest of drawers, computer and printer and all of the 8 bazillion wires. Dan moved the bed..
Got the floor washed, rug down.. put it all back again, purged a few books and
made some space pn my shelves. yippee!!

whew

Hi porchy... I am here.. but not too posty lately, you'r right.. don't give up on me..

McKait, {cough} Project {cough} ? I got side tracked.

My city makes you put all your trash in a big blue plastic bin. My bin has been frozen to the ground since the first big ice storm. Can't break it free. So I had all these big green trash bags full of trash and no way to get rid of them.

Today I had enough and took them to the city dump. Had to buy a new permit. I have a small car so I only got 3 in. There were 2 in the bin that I wanted to also move, so I could store the new trash in the bin, and take it to the dump on Saturday. The dump closes at 1:00 pm. So I got one trip in and when I went back with the 2nd, they were closed. So then I drove to work to put them in the dumpster there (the owners said I could do that). Along the way I stopped at the grocery store and got a bunch of the flavored sparkling water I drink, so I wouldn't have to schlep them in on Monday.

Then while there, in the nice big empty parking lot I filled up my windshield washer reservoir, and then I added radiator fluid to my radiator (I have a leak).

Just now got home, and having Scottish breakfast tea and hot cinnamon buns from the oven, and contemplating my plan for the rest of the weekend.

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ouch! I hate it when that happens.
But your day wasn't wasted, you dd get things done, just not
what you had planned.

I ran over to my sister's house to see my niece and her new baby ( Oliver ).

Now I am going to relax for a while and try again to find something to read.

Cinnamon buns sound good ... I love cinnamon .

Tomorrow I am going to do nothing! ( I hope)

Ha! I read fiv ebooks at once ;)

I started with John Updike's Terrorist, then followed Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road and Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. in the meantime I got my hands on Margaret Atwood Good Bones and something more academic Shamans and Elders by Caroline Humphrey.
I'm a bit surprised myself that I don't mix them all up in my head ;)

I just finishes the The mortal instruments: City of bones..Liked it very much, so i'm going to buy the next book=)

Just started DROOD by Dan Simmons. I really enjoyed The Terror especially the audio version. I am skeptical about this book but more than willing to give Dan a chance. I have the audio for the book as well. I actually like to listen and read off and on.

To thanuj2409

I see you liked City of Bones but rating would you give it?

rarelibri--I just bought Drood myself--it looked like such and interesting story. Have a couple others ahead of it in the TBR pile. Let me know what you thought of it when you finish.

I am reading Kisscut by Karin Slaughter...this is the second book in the Sara Linton series. I am 50+ pages into the story and already there are two dead bodies...I think this is going to be another good one in this series.

momom248 - Will do!

I think i would give it 4/5.

I am reading Tamora Pierce's Trickster's Choice. I really enjoyed her books when I was a children's/ya librarian in a public library, but got away from them when I went to elementary school. There's a gap between it and the last one the Alanna series, so I need to check those out. I did read Terrier last year and am ready for the new one in that series.

I just started reading Roma: A novel of Ancient Rome by Steven Saylor. So far it is really good but I am not into the second chapter yet. So hoping that it says good. **fingers crossed**

I just finished reading Engaging Father Christmas and Grace. Both were really light reads and I'm trying to decide what to tackle next.

im reading the girl who could fly by victoria forester.
its pretty good.
stephenie meyer had it on her site as one of her favorite books!
;D
kcc1994

I started Love and Other Natural Disasters last night. This past week I finished Land of Marvels, Tuesdays With Morrie and Family Plots: Love, Death & Tax Evasion by Mary Patrick Kavanaugh. (touchstone isn't working for Family Plots)

I am just finishing Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. It's a wonderful book full of magic, imagery, and history. I loved it.

I just finished the kite runner by Khaled Hosseini. Evernight by Claudia Gray is the next on the list!

I finished The Book Thief and still can hardly catch a full breath. It was astounding!

I've now started An Unsuitable Job for a Woman my first P. D. James. So far, I love the writing.

Currently reading Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.

BeeHoney,

I've read a lot of P. D. James and she's great. I'm reading Power by Linda Hogan, a Native American writer.

Currently reading The Only Son by Stephane Audeguy.

Am about halfway through Sway by Zachary Lazar, a three-stories-in-one novel about the wild and swinging and crazy 60s. Included are the Rolling Stones, Keith Anger, and Bobby Beausoleil of Manson Family fame. Very strange stuff, but I have trouble putting it down.

Splitting my reading time between The Wind Up Bird Chronicle and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. In the car, my audio book is The Blind Assassin.

Currently on the second book in the 3 part series by James Duffy ~ The Fight for Rome. I am a fan of histoical fiction as it relates to the Roman Empire from 50 BC to 212 AD. Anyone interested in this topic drop me a line! Be more than happy to suggest some great and interesting titles.

Rare Libri

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finally reading the twilight series and love it!

Just started on New Moon...have only finished up to chapter 2 so far but it's going good as of now.

I'm reading city of ashes by Cassandra Clare.

I'm reading Palace Circle and am pleasantly surprised! Also still working my way through The Brothers Karamazov.

I am 2/3 through The Alchemist .

I'm on Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore. Not as good as Lamb, which I get the feeling was his best, but still pretty funny. Some of the looks I got when I was reading it on the bus yesterday, though ... but with a title like that, could it be anything but a parody? >.

"Roger Fry" - Virginia Woolf. Half way through yet will have to re-read as Woolfs literary twists and turns is difficult to sometimes follow . Fry was an interesting person and a great art historian. After I'm finished my second read I'm going to have to find the book that interpret's Virginia Woolf's "Roger Fry" .. any one know of a " What Virginia Woolf said when she wrote Roger Fry"??

I'm reading A Fine Family by Gurcharan Das, an author unknown to me until now. Very well written and worth taking your time to read.

I am reading The Iliad and March by Geraldine Brooks. I think the former will be a huge time consumer for me.

I'm reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Almost done. Then will read Good Omens afterwards.

Ohh, Good Omens! Good choice!

Later today I'll be reading Longitude by Dava Sobel .

I'm reading Stone's Fall by Iain Pears. Less than 50 pages in and I'm hooked!

I've read city of ashes by Cassandra Clare. I've looked for "City of glass", but it still hasn't come to Norway yet:( So, next week i'm going to read another book: the lies of Locke Lamora by Scott lynch.

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Hi all,

Ive just finished 8th Heaven by James Patterson & am picking up Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult.

Just started When We Were Young by Paul Arden

I read The Iliad a couple summers ago, and it was time consuming, but worth it. When you get used to reading the poetry it just flows. I haven't read March, but I recently read People of the Book by Brooks and I really liked it.

I'm reading (off and on) Henry VIII: The King and His Court. Weir gives rather interesting background info about the Tudor period.

After I read the latest Liberty Fund catalog last night, I turned to The Money Dragon by Pam Chun. I had read a few pages already and had thought that I would dump it despite that it's for a book group. I read about half of it though, and so I will likely now finish it.

It's not very good.

Robert

Just touched on At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon last night. A friend who hardly ever reads had the book. She lend it out to me. The first few pages don't seem that bad.

I am reading With Music and Justice for All by Frye Gaillard. I hope to finish the book this weekend. Happy reading everyone...

I'm currently enjoying The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel pie Society .

I am curently reading Drawn from Memory by Ernest H. Shepard

This afternoon I read I Can Has Cheezburger? There's no such thing as a just-a-cat.

Robert

I have been reading The Testament by John Grisham for a few days now.

Still working on In the Woods by Tana French--I haven't had time to finish it, in spite of my best efforts.

hello everyone!
Currently i m juggling two books Break no bones by Kathy Reich's and Dance upon the air by Nora Roberts!

Hi I am reading "Death Loves a Messy Desk" by Mary Jane Maffini.
I have already read her first 2 books in this series.

I am currently reading The Outlander by Gil Adamson

I'm reading Persona Non Grata by Ruth Downie, the third in her series about a doctor in the Roman army. Very engaging character.

And I'm working my way through The Cloisters, soothing bedtime reading.

Well, I'm reading The Shadow Lines(by Amitav Ghosh).It's very interesting one.

Hey guys! I've just started reading city og glass by Cassandra Clare. Amazing trio!

I've just started The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie .

I've just finished "City of Glass". The next book on the list is "Guilty pleasures", An Anita Blake, vimpire hunter novel.

Well I just finished reading Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. I think my next book is going to be either by Charlaine Harris or I don't know yet. I do want something easy to read.

I recently finished reading The Secret by Kat Martin and just picked up Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michael and got from the library today The Illustrated Lark rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson

An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon. Wow.

Well tonight I fell off the Owen Meany track and spent the evening inhaling Still Alice. Back to Owen.

Well I started reading The Secret by Rhonda Byrne and I am also reading Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris.

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I've just finished "City of Glass". The next book on the list is "Guilty pleasures", An Anita Blake, vimpire hunter novel.

How did you like City of Glass? I have put it off because it is to be the last in the trilogy :(

I'm nearing the end of The Picture of Dorian Gray. It's the dark side of the Drones Club. Next up: An Echo in the Bone--can't wait!

#175 Sebago...City of Glass is not the end! She is writing a fourth book for the series. The book will follow Simon as he gets used to his new life!

#176 jennieg....be ready for another heart wrenching book! I loved An Echo in the Bone!

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#177 I wasn't even sure there would be a sequel to A Breath of Snow and Ashes. The ending worked for me. But I'm delighted to read more about Claire & Jamie!

Then you'll be happy to know that Diana is writing another book for the series!

:)

I know I am!

I had no idea! Thanks for clueing me in.

Yay for another in the Outlander series! MDLady, thank you for the info on a book about Simon! :)

I am reading a book I got when I was twleve,called who killed Mr.Chippandale by {mel glenn} ;}

#179 I just finished An Echo in the Bone - I loved it too, but not the best in the series, but it still assuaged by Outlander thirst. Now, the big question is, how long will be have to wait for the next book in the series??? So many loose threads and cliffhangers!

i am reading cost by roxana robinson. next up is say you're one of them by ukem akpan and the next thing on my list by jill smolinski.

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I agree... did not care for the way it ended. I know there is another in the series but..... soooo long to wait and see what happens..

I loved it!!! Don't put it off;) You'll like it. I'm sure you'll =) The book had a perfect ending^^

wow! I didn't know that. I'm looking forward to it:D