I am currently reading Maybe a Miracle by Brian Strause but the next 3 on my list are:

1. Heiress of Water by Sandra Rodriguez Barron

2. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

3. The Girls by Lori Lansens

Any other suggestions? What are you anxious to read next?

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Count to Ten by Karen Rose

Next up for me are two I've requested from the library; we'll see which one comes available first:

1. Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

2. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

I just finished Inheritance of Loss a few weeks ago and I loved it!

Either A Girl Becomes A Comma Like That by Lisa Glatt or Little Children by Tom Perrotta.

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Michael Pollan's The Omnivores Dilemma, and I'm still enjoying a slow cruise through "Against the Day" Thomas Pynchon's latest Novel.

My upcoming reading list is veeery tentative, but as long as I don't get distracted I hope to get to:

Shopaholic & Sister by Sophie Kinsella
Fables: The Mean Seasons by Bill Willingham et al.
Minion by L.A. Banks
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
The Eagle and the Raven by Pauline Gedge

I'll probably become distracted, though. So many books, so little time...

Next on my list are:

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The Boleyn Inheritance
Girls of a Tender Age
Stone Gap series by Adriana Trigiani

As I am only on page 200 of The Stand I don't want to think about the next book yet... :-) Might take me a while.

The Secret Life of Bee's by Sue Monk Kidd

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5: Little Children is a great read.

I'll probably read Pride of Baghdad next, but I'm not sure.

Next up is A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro. I'm looking forward to it since I've only read one other of this author's books.

Just finished The Book Thief and am not sure I can start anything else so soon after reading that brilliant, powerful novel. I think I just want to contemplate it for awhile.

#9 Thalia ~ Loved The Stand and just pulled out my paperback version of it to reread sometime this year.

Currently reading:
Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher

Next Three:
1. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
2. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
3. The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum

hmm, touchstones acting crazy this morning..

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>13: It's my first Stephen King book in ten years. I used to read everything by him that I could get my hands on and then all of a sudden my obsession stopped. Now thanks to the raving reviews on LT, I decided to read The Stand which is one of the few books I hadn't already read. I can already tell that I like it a lot and realized why I loved Stephen King so much. I'll probably read some more by him after I'm finished. But, as I said, I still have a long way to go because I have the uncut edition with over 1400 pages.

Huh. Yours is bigger than my uncut paperback which has only 1100 or so pages. :)

I stopped reading King after Misery. I just could not get into that, and haven't been interested in any of his stuff since. But I love some of his earlier stuff, esp. The Stand, Salem's Lot, The Green Mile, and Shawshank Redemption.

Half of a Yellow Sun is next according to the plan, but that was the plan when I reached for Zoli instead. And who knows, I might need a literary palate cleanser between the two!

After Ill Wind my next planned books are:

Sorcery and cecelia for the YA lit group.

The Demon's Daughter

The Dragon's Heart

Senses working overtime

Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone. It will be the first non-fiction I've read in a really long time!

However, other than Sorcery and Cecelia the order might change if I really love Ill Wind and want to keep going with that series. I received the full set (out so far) of the Weather Warden books for Christmas so I can move on to the rest of the series if I get really into it.

I don't always stick closely to my "To Read" list, so these may change. But for now the ones I plan on reading next are:

Jamestown, the buried truth by William M. Kelso (in honor of the 400th anniversery of Jamestown this year)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith
Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly
The Lost King by Margaret Weis

The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
BlackGirl/White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates

>7

Xicanti, are you of Roman or Celtic ancestry? I ask because The Eagle and the Raven is a novel that makes me, half-Celtic and half-English, entirely insane about the Romans of late BC/early AD times, I want to destroy them all! That novel was really quite a depressing read, I found, for purely historical reasons.

The Stand is my favourite King book - who couldn't love a big novel that starts with wiping out the vast majority of the human race {g}? I liked the uncut version but do agree with critics that it was originally cut for a reason; King suffers from diarrhea of the keyboard and while the results are entertaining, they can also be exhausting in their lengths!

I rarely make a TBR list, because I always find something else to distract me from what I'd earlier planned to read. I'm still looking forward to starting The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke, which has graced my TBR bookshelf for more than two weeks now; I meant to pick it up right after finishing The Water's Lovely by Ruth Rendell but got sidetracked by Old Bones by Ron Chudley (probably unknown outside of Canada) and now I'm in the midst of a monthly necessity to keep up with magazines, reading EQMM now and with Asimov's required reading next.

Oh well, Susanna Clarke's book will still be here in 3 days!

"Fried Eggs With Chopsticks" by Polly Evans
"Toast" by Nigel Slater.

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Already sitting on the shelf to be read are

Hotel California by Barney Hoskyns
London in the Nineteenth century by Jerry White
The Faber Book of Exploration edited by Benedict Allen

Next to be read are:

Mariana - Monica Dickens,
Little Boy Lost - Marghanita Lanski -

both Persephone books that I had for Christmas.

My next three are:

Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
The Eagle and the Raven by Pauline Gedge

Unless I get distracted, which is entirely likely...

C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia (I got the box set for Christmas) is next up for me.

I've always loved The Stand as a novel and have read it many times. It's so well written and completely absorbing. I also think his short story The Body is outstanding.

This month I have been buying more than I could possibly read in a whole month. But next week I will be reading Amsterdam by Ian McEwan, Fighting in Spain by George Orwell and finishing Lanark, which I've been enjoying despite my brief hiatus. Definitely one to mull over.

#29 - Amsterdam is wonderful - hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

next up is Ines of my Soul by Isabel Allende or
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield or
One Big Damn Puzzler by John Harding.
Decisions, decisions, decisions ...

Probably Gradisil,Shield of Thunder and Sherlock Holmes' War of the Worlds

Next couple should be:

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
The Elvenbane by Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey
An Overdose of Death by Agatha Christie

About 20% of my catalog is TBR. The problem is it never gets smaller in percentage terms. The number changes, but seldom downward.

The frustrations of biblioholism....

Next--tonight--is A Year of Magical Thinking. Can't wait!

I have about 10 books in transit from the library because I caved on my resolution to read my TBR pile before requesting more library books. I went kind of crazy.

If those aren't in by the time I finish the book I'm presently reading, I'm going to read either The Dragon's Heart or The China Garden.

#15-
Thalia,
The Stand is a great apocalyptic book, one of the best I've read. I also had never read it when it first came out, and only read the uncut edition. I think it's the only edition now sold in bookstores. Anyways, it is a big book but it goes by fast.=)

Just finished Wuthering Heights and now currently reading Emma.

Not sure what'll be next for me to read. I started 1984 and Atlas Shrugged a while back but never finished either book so those will be on my TBR list for the future, also on my list are:

Green Mars
Blue Mars
Footfall
Pandora's Star
Revelation Space
War and Peace

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Currently reading The Dalai Lama at MIT. Next up: The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford and Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley

I hope you enjoy Mariana- Monica Dickens is a favourite author of mine - her biographical account of nursing is the one that hooked me many years ago I think it is called One pair of feet

I'm trying to read The Morning News' Tournament of Books books as the tournament takes place. I'm finishing Arthur & George by Julian Barnes which I'm loving. Unfortunately it lost its match.

Next up is The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

Hi raisincain
I've just finished Arthur & George - loved it too! Just started The Book of Dave by Will Self
What's the Tournament of Books?

I have just begun Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey today. My next few are:

~All Girls: Single-Sex Education and Why It Matters by Karin Stabiner
~Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
~The Serpent in the Garden: A Novel Janet Gleeson (had to add that stupid "a novel" or else it wouldn't recognize it...)

And yes, #39 raisincain, what is this Tournament of Books? Sounds interesting...

Just finished The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman yesterday. Going to start the third book in the author's His Dark Materials series, which is The Amber Spyglass

Next up (now that it's finally come through for me after a long library queue) would be: A three dog life by Abigail Thomas.

My TBR list consists of all the fantasy books that my friend has loaned me:

First Knight by Peter David
Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
The Ruins of Ambrai by Melanie Rawn

Not sure what order I'll read them in. Of course I've got 30+ books of my own waiting for me to read as well, so I'll be starting on those next.

Consider the oyster by M. F. K. Fisher
Relative Danger by Charles Benoit
Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain

Waiting in the wings:

Quantum Success: The Astounding Science of Wealth and Happiness by Sandra Anne Taylor

The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) from the Inside Out by Dr. Joe Vitale

Financial Peace Revisited by Dave Ramsey

The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984 by Ronald Lawson

Yeah a bunch of non-fiction.

I'm making the attempt as well. On Prince Caspian at the moment. I'm reading them in the order they were written in rather than the order that my set lists them in so I've got a ways to go still.

Well since I have been on a Harry Potter kick, the rest of the Harry Potter books are on my list as well as

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
and
Lasher by Anne Rice

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Well, darn it all. My next book, Half of a Yellow Sun, is sitting in my local library, just awaiting my pickup. After a nasty ice storm last night I set out to the library. And I found it CLOSED! Was it the ice, I wondered? The roads were fine, really ...

Then a woman emerged to empty the book return bin. No, it wasn't the ice. Alas, all of their computers were down. I seem to remember libraries functioning perfectly well without computers once upon a time. With those little cards in long drawers. And an ink stamp with wheels you turned to set the due date. And a card in a pocket with the due date stamped on it, along with the due dates of everyone who had read that book before you.

I am an IT person by trade,so by no means am I anti-technology. But how sad to deprive a town of books and reading for a day because of computer problems! Maybe I should quit my job and devote my life to achieving 100% uptime of the library's computers!

Or not. But I'll go back on Monday to pick up my book ...

My TBR list was completely disrupted last weekend when I found some paperbacks I wanted at the library. (My library doesn't catalogue paperbacks, so you can't request them; whether or not they'll have what you want is pretty much a matter of luck. I always prefer to borrow paperbacks when I'm not in a huge hurry to read things, as I find hardcovers way too cumbersome to carry around with me). As it stands now, and hopefully in this order:

The Elvenbane by Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey
Time of the Twins by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
An Overdose of Death by Agatha Christie
War of the Twins by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Wolfsong, edited by Richard Pini et al.
Test of the Twins by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr
Primavera by Francesca Lia Block

#50 xicanti.

I appreciate you are not in charge of the Library but - forgive me. I have to ask. Why doesn't your library catalogue paperbacks?

I've never been in a Library which failed to catalogue all the items available. Why not just give them away? Or give the readers the money to go and buy what they want.

I'm intrigued.

They're still entered into the library system, but just by the genre and branch. For example, I've currently borrowed one item called "ADULT SCIENCE FICTION PAPERBACK - MILL - 06" and three called "ADULT SCIENCE FICTION PAPERBACK - PEMB - 01." There's still a record of the item having been borrowed, but they're impossible to request as they're not entered into the system by title.

I have no idea why they do things this way. I mean, there's the odd paperback catalogued like a hardcover, (most of these are trade paperbacks, though there are a few exceptions), and sometimes they rebind paperbacks so they've got stiff covers, but most of them are just stuck in the paperback racks without any cataloguing. I think it's probably because there's such a high turn-over rate for paperbacks. The library keeps most hardcovers for years and years before they relegate them to the library sale, but paperbacks come and go much more frequently.

A countless number of books, but immediately Papa Hemingway, Last Town on Earth and A Man without a Country.
I have hundreds on my list though.

#51
My library doesn't catalogue paperbacks either. There's a barcode and it's identified as adult or juvenile paperback but that's it. The head librarian at my local branch told me it's because they periodically give each branch cash for purchasing paperbacks and encourage them to do it at the local independent bookseller so it's not worth the manpower to catalogue them, especially since pocket paperbacks tend to fall to pieces. The ones that are catalogued were generally ordered like hardcover and trade paperbacks and thus get catalogued like them. I know that I've made patron requests for a couple of titles that have ultimately been purchased as pockets (and are catalogued).

It is frustrating to not have the titles catalogued though.

#52 -
Would not like to be dismissive of a Library practice without knowing the policy behind it but I am just fascinated by the notion of a non-catalogued library. On the one hand, it would appear to be giving people what they "want", whilst on the other, it is being rather unconcerned about ensuring people can find said items.
I wonder what Dewey would do.....

Our library has several racks of uncatalogued paperbacks, we still check them out, but there is no return date. They are books which have been donated, and the impression I got was, if you decided to keep one, replace it with an equally popular author/title in good condition.

There are a couple uncatalogued paperback racks at my library. Although they do stamp the books with a due date, you do not get a fine if you have the book out past the due date and they do not keep track of these books on the computer.

I don't really have a list, as such. I more or less grab whatever I feel like at the moment. (I have about 300 books which I haven't read sitting right on my bookshelf at home, so it isn't difficult.) I've tried making lists, but I never seem to follow them.

I'm not sure but it'll probably be The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time or the Dharma Bums.

tallahasse, you'll either love or hate The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time - I loved it! Enjoy!

I'm participating in a reading challenge based on the New York Times' Notable Books for 2006.

Having just finished Half of a Yellow Sun (mentioned in my post #49), next up for me is Old Filth by Jane Gardam.

ii've read almost all of stephen king's books and the stand is by far the best

#58:

I don't have that many books waiting to be read (yet), but you're right about never following lists. I've also tried lining up my reading, but by the time I finish something, I end up wanting to read something else that's not on my list!

I currently have about 60 books sitting on my shelf, unread and waiting, so it's difficult to choose which one to read next! I think I'll be moving onto Black Beauty by Anna Sewell fairly quickly though, as it's the reading circle book for April.

#60 BookBowery

I agree with you on "Curious Incident ...." Most people, it seems, loved it; I hated it.

#65 Seajack! Interesting. What were your reasons?

I never decide what I'm going to read next until I'm ready to start reading whatever it is I feel like reading next. Right now, there are 30 unread books in my catalog and about another 150 or so sitting on my shelves that I haven't gotten around to cataloging yet.

#66 Bowery

I felt Christopher was truly dangerous - all that talk of desire to stab and punch, etc. The part about him jumping onto the train tracks, brandishing a knife, and then walking away was totally unbelievable: the police would've had him locked up for observation - pronto!

Next up for me in April are:

1. Beasts of no Nation
2. A Long Way Gone, and
3. Fall on Your Knees

Oh bother, what's up with the touchstones today?!

I'll be borrowing Atonement by Ian McEwan from my mate, Suzie, at some point this month, as it's the group read for The Posh Club for April. Other than that, I have no hard and fast plans for specific books this month - it all depends on what I feel like reading when I finish The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly (which I'm about 2/3rds of the way through).

The only other one I was "scheduled" to read this month was Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (the Book Club Forum reading circle choice for April) and I've already finished that one, so it'll all be mood-dependent from here on in...

Next on the list is Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris after which it will be North Face of Soho by Clive James.

I'm going to try to tackle The Hero with a Thousand Faces, but it may take me awhile -- I'll be reading it as part of a personal project, so I plan to go slow and take notes. I've got a sizable stack of fiction to read concurrently, probably starting with Empress of the World, Such a Pretty Girl, and Doomsday Book.

hazelk, Then We Came to the End is one of my favorites this year, a great new book.

I've got a couple of things lined up, the first being Arthur Phillips' new novel Angelica, after that it's Jack Butler's huge 1993 novel Living in Little Rock With Miss Little Rock, then Trollope's 3rd Barsetshire novel Doctor Thorne, then Mischa Berlinski's Fieldwork: A Novel, and at some point I'm going to take on Thomas Mann's 1,500-page opus Joseph and his Brothers.

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I'm hoping to get to the following over the next couple of weeks:

Test of the Twins by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The Troll King by John Vornholt
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
House of Dreams by Pauline Gedge

Ok, currently loving The Book Thief, and after that will hopfully commit to the following:

The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch

And this site is really inspiring me to revisit some old favourites - something I've (wierdly!) never done...

After just finishing For Whom The Bell Tolls, I was ready for a light and easy read; so I picked up The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg. I love Berg's easy writing style and her connection with the characters. Her books are always wonderful.

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I have been slogging through three very slow and sad books over the past two weeks (The Jungle, The Last Town on Earth and All over but the shoutin' and now that I have finished all but one of them I'm ready for something light and easy to read to cleanse my palate. I'm going to read shaopoholic & baby and middlesex.

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Here are the 6 books I am taking on an upcoming trip:

Route 66 A.D. : on the trail of ancient Roman tourists by Tony Perrottet.

Dearest Dorothy, Merry Everything! by Charlene Baumbich.

Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain by Chris Stewart.

Air Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones.

Ice Tea & Elvis by Nick Middleton.

Anybody Can Do Anything by Betty MacDonald.

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I'm about 150 pages into Ahab's Wife, which, if you've read this book before, you know I have about 600 more pages to go.

I'll take advice from my fellow LibraryThing-a-files on what I should read next. My TBR pile:

1) Suite Francoise by Irene Nemirovsky
2) Digging to America by Anne Tyler
3) Traveller by Richard Adams
4) Finn: A Novel by Jon Clinch

I'm open to suggestions!

I am currently reading: Middlesex.

Just finished: Shantaram. A+

Will start: A Suitable Boy.

Love novels about India!

After I finish Danse Macabre by Stephen King, I'm probably going to be looking more into classic literature...I don't read many classics, and since I hope to study English next year in college, I figure I need as much of a background in literature as I can get.

Besides looking into the classics, I also hope to start State of Fear and Next, by Michael Crichton as well as The Stand, and Needful Things by Stephen King sometime in the near future.

After I finish The Thirteenth Tale, which won't take long (it's fantastic!), I'll have to read Purple Hibiscus for class.

For me, I've got Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore, and To Visit the Queen and Wizards at War, both by Diane Duane. After I return those to the library, who knows.

Next on my book pile are the following
Stella Tillyard A Royal Affair George 111 and his troublesome siblings -touchstone got it wrong
Sarah Dunant In the Company of the Courtesan
Gary Shteyngart Absurdistan and
Ami McKay The Birth House

82# - wish I'd had to read something like Purple Hibiscus at school.

It was given to me for Christmas last year. I'd never heard of it before, but it's a very good read. Let us know what you think.

I just put in for "Yugoslavia and its Historians" and "Through Mobility We Conquer" on interlibrary loan. I also have a small stack of SF novels that I took out from the library in the last week.

84> I'm taking an African Lit class at school from one of my favorite teachers, Mark Behr. I love the books he throws at us.

hi all- my next few books include the first harry potter, marley and me and the book thief

#87 - I'm loving the book thief. It nearly made me cry yesterday. just beautiful in parts. Hmmmmmm...

# 88- im hearing really wonderful things about the book thief- hopefully i can start it soon- thanks ladyn

I'm going back and re-reading the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. It's been about 10 or 15 years since I read the first one. I also want to read It. I've never read the book or seen the movie.

You're braver than me codiebelle78. Just the thought of It scares me! I'm a big wuss...

Well, I've just *just* finished my big research paper, so now I'll have time to read! My friend lent me Storm Front, the first of the Dresden Files. I also have The Last Unicorn, as well as rereading the entire Harry Potter series before July 21.

Among others:

D. Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The year of the death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago

Books that I didn´t finishided but I want to give them a second chance:

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

I tried reading American Psycho a while ago, and I had to put it down about 3/4 of the way through because it was so incredibly graphic and disturbing...and coming from someone like me, that's saying something. I love horror fiction and horror movies, but I couldn't bring myself to finish American Psycho. If you do decide to reread it, let me know what you thought of it.

And codiebelle78, I HIGHLY recommend It...it's one of my favorites! It's really long, but it all comes together extremely well, and what's great is that there's so much more to it than just horror.

It is definitely next! I have a few more pages in my current book and then I'm starting on it. Also picked up a book called The Prey by Allison Brennan. I had never heard of her but her books were all the rave at the local book store.. Anyone read any of her books before?????

#90, #91--When I skimmed this thread this morning in a state of essay-induced sleeplessness, I somehow missed things like short sentences and capitalization. I couldn't figure out why just the thought of the Outlander series scared LadyN!

# 93 virose_pt - I've read both American Psycho and Vernon God Little. I preferred AP, but both were pretty decent. Strangely, in direct opposition to many other readers, I didn't find AP to be all that graphic or disturbing in comparison to some of the other books I've read over the years. Maybe I've built up a bit of immunity to it...

I'll probably be starting Robert Westall's Rachel and the Angel over the weekend, and for a trip to the beach next weekend, I'm planning to bring Haruki Murakami's South of the Border, West of the Sun and Jasper Fforde's Something Rotten. I hope these will be good reads for the beach!

#96 - Ha ha ha ha ha!!! Perhaps I should have re-touchstoned It ...!!

I am reading Ghostwritten by David Mitchell right now along with The Great War for Civilisation:The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk. I generally have 3 or 4 books going at a time.

Next up on my list:

Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography by Janet Browne
The Secret of Lost Things: A Novel by Sheridan Hay
The Double by Jose Saramago
Bioarchaeology: The Contextual Analysis of Human Remains by Jane E. Buikstra and Lane A. Beck

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#82 (Bazling) - Purple Hibiscus is WONDERFUL. If you like it, I also recommend Adiche's newest novel: Half Of A Yellow Sun...one of the best books of the year.

#100 (HMOKeefe) how are you liking Ghostwritten? I have read Black Swan Green and am currently reading Cloud Atlas by this same author...both are wonderful books.

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#101- I just finished it. I didn't have to have it done for class tomorrow, but I just couldn't put it down. It was so good!

I'm 3 stories into Rachel and the Angel and other stories, and I think I'm bringing Murakami's Dance Dance Dance to the beach this coming weekend instead of South of the Border.

Got to finish Hell to Pay and get to Carnival and Glasshouse, then some pulp probably.

#37-emarz-
haviing noticed you were reading the dali lama at mit and then brwsing through your library list i thought you might enjoy reading The Jew in the Lotus-it is a fantastic true journey.

Next on my reading list is The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

I'm just now beginning Good Morning, Young Lady by Ardyth Kennelly. I've heard a lot of really complimentary things about it from the few people who have read it.

-Oh The Glory Of It All by Sean Wilsey
-Me talk Pretty One day by David Sedaris
-Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim by David Sedaris
-Che by Jon Lee Anderson
-Blindness by Jose Saramago

I just finished Melissa Bank's newer book, The Wonder Spot, and loved it even more than The Girls Guide.....
lola

I think next is The Raw Shark Texts and then The Woods by Harlan Coben.

Probably....

A Long Way Gone just arrived in the mail, as did The Border Guide--the latter for Americans and Canadians with residence or property in the other's country.

The tome War and Human Civilization beckons, but has not quite yet been invited into my library.

After I finish The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar I will be reading Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult

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111: mdochoda, A Long Way Gone is next on my list also, after I finish Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees.

112: writestuff, let me know what you think of The Space Between Us; I picked this up in a Borders 3 for 2 recently.

lindsacl - Of COURSE you picked this up because I did ;) LOL! I'm enjoying this book quite a bit. It is going quickly for me - I'm about 50 pages to the end and should finish it today, then I'll review it on my blog. I like Umrigar's style of writing. I think you'd like it.

To writestuff & lindsacl,

I loved The Space Between Us--was one of my favorites from last year. Hope you both enjoy it.

I will quite happily be reading Helen of Troy by Margaret George, after I finish London by Edward Rutherfurd. After that, I think I'll go back to fantasy with either The Bone Doll's Twin or The Daughter of the Forest.

Have sat for a bit and touchstones still not cooperating. =/

I'm planning on getting to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte pretty shortly, as I'm desperate to read The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, so I can see me getting to them pretty early on next month. In the meantime, I'm waiting for Daughters of the Doge by Edward Charles to arrive, as I have to read and review that one by 5th May...

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My TBR pile is pretty big. I tend to stockpile if I have friends visiting from the US who can bring me books or I see things from my wishlist at my used bookshop. I've currently got:

Red Azalea - Anchee Min's memoir of living through the Cultural Revolution. I think it's next.

After that, with no planned order, I have:

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found - nonfiction

Midnight's Children - been languishing on my shelf forever

Scribbling the Cat - Alexandra Fuller travels through Africa with a scary ex-soldier

Terra Incognita - travels in Antarctica

One Man's Bible - Cultural Revolution again, fiction this time

The Shadow of the Wind

#118 Midnight's children is outstanding - one of my best reads ever - the writing in there is exceptional

Books I hope to read this month, in no particular order:

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr
In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches
The Sorcerers of Majipoor by Robert Silverberg
Edison's Eve by Gaby Wood
A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin
Future War edited by Jack Dann

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Next up for me will be Bookseller of Kabul.
I have started listing my prev. month's reads and current month planned reads on my profile.

Starting a romance called Never Too Much today and up after that is Elantris by Brandon Sanderson.

Still trying to finish the last half of Vanity Fair ~ Thackarey
But next up is likely to be some kind of social commentary, something on Records Management, or Pickwick Papers ~ Dickens :)

So let's see if I can get all this straight...

I've finished Dracula and Rosemary's Baby, I am currently reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and The Stepford Wives, and I plan on reading A Tale of Two Cities next. I also have The Regulators, Prey (Michael Crichton), and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince to get through as well! *phew*

I'm a bit stuck with Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' at the moment (I think it's the chunkiest book I've ever read). But once I'm done I'll start with either one of the following (hopefully to complete all three listed):-

1) Catch-22
2) The unbearable lightness of being
3) The Blind Assasain

=)

The five people you meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Curious incident of the dog in the night-time by
Mark Haddon
My Wicked, Wicked Ways by Errol Flynn
Plain truth by Jodi Picoult
Mockingbird by Charles Shields

Next up are Iron From the Deep and Storm Front.

I have two more chapters of The State and Revolution by V. I. Lenin. Next up for me is Language and Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu, then two books that haven't been selected yet, both for LT reading/discussion groups. We'll be picking them this weekend.

I have a large stack of books on my dresser from the library, and I hope to get through them all without having pay too many fines!
They are as follows:
1. Searching for Mary Poppins: women write about the intense relationships between mothers and nannies. By Susan Davis and Gina Hyams
2. Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich
3. Confessions of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon by Cap Lesesne
4. London is the Best City in America by Laura Dave
5. The City is a Rising Tide by Rebecca Lee
6. Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D by Lizzie Simon
7. Inside the Postal Bus: My ride with Lance Armstrong and the U.S. Postal Cycling Team by Michael Barry
8. Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner by Donald A. Cabana
9. 8 Men and a Duck: An improbable voyage by reed boat to Easter Island by Nick Thorpe
10. No Horizon So Far: Two women and their extraordinary journey across Antarctica by Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft

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I'll probably get distracted, (I almost always do), but here's what I'm hoping to read over the next little bit:

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay
House of Dreams by Pauline Gedge
Silverthorn by Raymond E. Feist

Hi, I'm a new member and I'm from Philippines.
My current read today is Conversations with the Fat Girl by Liza Palmer.

But the next ones on the list are:
1. Crime Files: Four-Minute Forensic Myseteries: Body of Evidence by Jeremy Brown
2. While You Were Out by J. Irvin Kuns

I almost had my TBR pile under control, but then I started browsing bookmooch...

Now I've got The Sun Also rises by Ernest Hemingway and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima waiting for me, plus 5 other books on their way.

After I finish reading The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean I plan to read the following:

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

and several others!

I'm working on InkHeart, But after that I'm going to read

InkSpell, then Kissing Coffins(sorry about spelling mistakes. I can't spell to save my life!)

Hey midnight,soon I'll go to Barnes and Nobles and get Kissing Coffins.Right now I'm reading Land of Silver Rain.( it's a magma)

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After I finish Elantris I have two book group books to read, Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas and The Smoke Thief by Shana Abe. I don't want to get any further ahead of myself than that because things always seem to change.

I am currently reading The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax. Next on my list is The Road which is a library loan and then I think possibly Blackberry Wine but it depends on how The Road goes - if it is a heavy read I might need to interject a lighter mystery type read - perhaps an Agatha Christie or another Mrs. Pollifax book.

Thats funny EDWARDROCKS?

Next up A Tree Grows in Brooklyn-a classic for our book club.

midnightrose, whats funny?

I'm not sure but probably Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury or Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

Message edited by its author, May 15, 2007, 9:43pm.

Fahrenheit 451 is FANTASTIC! That was my summer reading assignment before junior year and I definitely want to reread it before too long!

Two books are on my next to be read list - and I'm not sure which one I'll read first. They are: The Road and Eat the Document.

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I'm thinking of going back to Jane Yolen's Gray Heroes for my lunch-break reading. =)

I couldn't wait to start my new book, Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale by Holly Black. I made the mistake of flipping it open and reading the first couple pages. It never even made it into my TBR pile!

After this I'll probably read the third Midnighters book by Scott Westerfeld which is waiting at the library for me, then a paranormal romance called Flesh and Stone by Vickie Taylor, which is also a library book that I have to return soon, and then The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove for the Go Review that Book! Group.

On second thought, I'm picking up Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin for my lunch-break reading instead.

I have been on extended holiday for about two months and reading has been difficult. I managed to read Dick Turpin in two sittings this week and liked it immensely, despite the dreadful typos in the copy I have. I'm still immersed in Loeb's The Greek Anthology and absolutely love it.

Aside from that, I'm so distracted by 'life' (i.e. I finally have one) that I can't sit still long enough to get into a book. I've got about ten new books that don't look appetising right now. The only upside to this is that so much has happened I'm writing poetry again - hoorah!

Hera,

Here in the U.S. way back in the days of silent movies there was a star named Ben Turpin who often played totally hapless cowboy bad guys, a la Jesse James, the quintessential American Highwayman.

Ole Ben was so cross eyed I don't believe he could see a thing. He had a big, black, bushy handlebar moustache and was skinny as a rail. He was part of the Sennett gang and played both good guys and bad guys.

I am sooooo jealous. I wish I had the time to brush up on my Greek. I minored in Greek in school, but the exigencies of work stalled any further development and over the years I've forgotten most of my vocabulary. If you don't read it regularly it's gone.

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris is my next buy.

my next book is the boyfriend list.

I'm reading Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake next for my take-out book.

Just finished My Sister's Keeper.. Finished in less than two evenings.. Unbelievable book and I love the style of the book - written from multiple characters point of views and different styles

Started reading the Nanny Diaries.

I plan to work my way through Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander, House of Illusions by Pauline Gedge and A Song For Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay over the next little bit.

I've built up another pile of library books for myself to read. Sometimes I just go on a rampage of requesting books and they all seem to come in at once.

I think this is the order I'm going to go in, but it could change:

Wide Awake by David Levithan
Dark Defender by Alexis Morgan
Daughters of Darkness and Spellbinder by L.J. Smith
Jamie by Lori Foster
Where Dreams Begin by Lisa Kleypas
One Good Knight by Mercedes Lackey
The Untamed One by Rhonda Thompson
and
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

A Thousand Splendid Suns, as soon as it comes into the library; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a year of food life, ditto.

Devil in the Details is one in my pile I'm looking forward to. as is The Good Rain : across time and terrain in the Pacific Northwest by Timothy Egan - he wrote The Worst Hard Time about the dust bowl, which was fantastic.

I'm going to re-read some of Bill Brysons books. I am going to finish The Road and read The Glass Palace: a memoir then I'm going to start on a trilogy by Isabelle Allende starting with Daughter of Fortune. That will probably take me right into July!

Either Paul Auster's New York Trilogy or Catacombs of Terror! by Stanley Donwood.

I'm reading A Suitable Boy and finishing up Lucky. A Suitable Boy will take me most of the summer as I'm reading it in sections along with a book group.

Up next (and concurrently with Vikram Seth's massive tome):

The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak, then
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

I'm currently reading Magic Time by Marc Scott Zicree. It's not that easy to really get into. The action keeps cutting back and forth to various characters so quickly it gets confusing.

Next up on the list:
Against the Tide of Years by S. M. Stirling
On the Oceans of Eternity also by Stirling
The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams
Haunted by Tamara Thorne

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and Lisa See's new book Peony in Love which I just got today as an Advanced Reader's Edition as part of the LT Early Reviewer's Program.

As soon as I finish The White Tiger by Robert Stuart Nathan, I'm going to read A Woman's Book of Meditation by Hari Kaur Khalsa, and then
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See.

I am currently reading Red River by Lalida Tamedy.

I just finished Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.

I have A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and David Baldacci's Camel Club to read next.

I'll be finishing A Thousand Splendid Suns tonight; next up: The Lizard Cage and The Assault on Reason. And still have Sense and Sensibility to finish.

If I finish up all my work today, I'll be completing Seize The Night. Then I'm having a mini-comic fest:

Transmetropolitan: Dirge
Transmetropolitan: The Cure
Transmetropolitan: One More Time
Transmetropolitan: Tales Of Human Waste
Preacher: Gone To Texas

I'm currently reading Deadly Appearances by Gail Bowen and then next up is A Necessary End by Peter Robinson and Artistic License by Katie Fforde.

Im looking forward to reading my latest purchase Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky. Im oddly fascinated with WWII.

>166: Trinity, Suite Francaise is a great book. I hope you enjoy it!

The next book I am going to read will be The curious incident of the dog in night time. I've seen this book around for a long time but I initially never even picked it up to read the back cover because the title and the cover put me off. I've since heard what it's actually about and completely changed my mind.

Another book that has made me feel this way - I still feel this way: Life of Pi. I can't bring myself to read it. Something about the plot... I should give it a go.

I'm currently reading The Never War by D.J. MacHale

My next three are:
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
Protector of the Flight by Robin D. Owens
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

I just finished Cameron Dokey's Beauty Sleep, and I've lined up The Wood Wife by Terri Windling for my next takeout reading.

#168 kiwiflowa- life of pi is really worth it- a little strange at times but worth the read

as for me once i finish the harry potters i have middlesex an a thousand splendid suns up next

#168 The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night Time is one of my favorite books of the past few years. I was pleasantly surprised, and ended up loving it. It made me laugh and cry (to use a cliche) and I'm happy it did so well.

Well, it looks like it's going to be an insane/busy week, but my reading list is as follows:

* Finish Odd Thomas
* A Thousand Splendid Suns
* Anansi Boys
* Every other book in my freaking collection

I usually have 3 books going at once (currently The Devil's Mode, Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, and Paradise Lost. Next in line: The Drawing of the Three, Fanny Hill, and Paradise Regained, of course.

I started to list everything in my TBR pile, and I nearly had an anxiety attack. I simply have TOO MANY books to read. In a perfect world, I could just randomly have a week or so where time froze and the only technology that worked was LT. What a lovely week that would be.

Anyway. Up next (probably not in this order):
* Dermaphoria
* Neuromancer
* A Passage To India
* Don Quixote

And all the books I started and didn't finish. I need to give up my life for about a week, like I said. Or maybe a month? Anyone else feel DAUNTED by their TBR pile?

>175: ellevee, I am continually daunted by my TBR. Not too long ago I realized the TBR represents 9 months of reading at my normal pace. And I KNOW that in the next 9 months there will be other books I want to read, that haven't yet made it on the pile! I would be sad if I had no TBRs, but I have to be careful not to let it stress me out. Reading is supposed to be a pleasure, after all.

Yes, folks. I am daunted by the TBR pile. I figure I have about 12-14 months piled up. And tons more on my wish list. That doesn't include the "basic classics" that I want to read but haven't. Moby Dick, War and Peace are among them. Then there are the books that deserve a re-read such as To Kill a Mockingbird, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and on and on and on....

Now this is depressing. If I'm only averaging 5 books a month I calculate it will take me three years to get through my TBR pile unless I quit my job. Oh dear.

I think we should start a support group for people with terrifying TBR piles. My problem is I have a very strict rule: if I can't remember the ending of a book (or several important facts, for non-fiction), I consider it unread.

Also, I have a terrible habit of stopping midway through a book, no matter how much I love it, and getting distracted by another book.

Plus, my boss keeps giving me literally PILES of children/young adult books to read. It's a double-edged sword. Support group?

#175- ellevee- a supprt group sounds like a really great idea- my tbr pile is scattered right now but when im able to put it together again it will be quite overwhelming

As intimidating as my TBR pile always is I've got a glass half full view of the situation for everyone.
What if we ran out of books to read. What if no one ever wrote another book and all we had what whatever books we haven't read yet.
It's a comfort sometimes to know that I won't be out of new reading material for a long time.

...wow...even my glass half full view is pretty pessimistic.

Right now I'm reading War and The Iliad by Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff, and Herman Broch. Next up is Crazy Horse by larry mcmurtry. after that its Seven types of ambiguity by william empson.

Ellevee, I think I need your support group. Hi my name is momom248 and I have a terrifyingly huge TBR! There I feel much better. But my TBR pile is still huge. The scary part for me the slow reader that I am, my TBR pile represents years worth of reading.

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I'm seriously thinking of starting such a group, if only for my own well-being. My boss just gave me three more books to read, and a manuscript. So let's add to the TBR pile!

* Sure Fire
* Mossflower
* Shock Point

*assumes fetal position* I just want to be left alone with my books!

i hear you ellevee- right now heaven to me would be sitting on a porch with a nice cool breeze from sunup to sundown with an unending supply of iced tea and my beloved books

I'd like to join the support group, too, please.

I have two bookshelves double-stacked of books TBR and it seems I usually only take books from there twice a year when I go on holidays.

On the plus side, I've pretty much stopped buying books to read (most of the time) so there hasn't been any significant additions recently.

Hi folks,
Why don't we take our TBR support group to another thread? We can all use some ideas on managing/organizing/enjoying the piles. I'd do it but I'm not sure I know how....
Any help or volunteers out there?

Immediate future:
Jane Austen and the Barque of Fraility by Stephanie Barron
The Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir

Next up:
1984
The Grapes of Wrath
Bird Brains : the intelligence of crows, ravens, magpies and jays

Still reading The Assault on Reason and Grave Matters.

Next up for me:

Harry Potter Book Seven
My Life in France by Julia Child
Armadale by Wilkie Collins
The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry
Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser

Message 181: bookworm12

I understand what you mean about the comfort of knowing you won't be out of new reading material for a long time! When I was a kid with a more limited scope of interest in books, I was always afraid I'd one day run out of books to read! However, now I'm afraid I'm going to run out of time to read everything in my TBR pile!

Message 187: CEP

A separate thread sounds like a good idea!

Anyway, I'm near finishing Legends II, edited by Robert Silverberg (bedtime reading), and I'm considering A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons next. That is, if I feel like reading something in that genre by the time I finish Legends II.

Next two are:

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka

and

A Passage to India by E M Forster

Nothing like variety is there.

TBR Support Group --- I figured out how to start the new thread (duh, click on box!).

It's called Coming to Terms With Your TBR Pile.

Haha! Best Thread title EVER.

Louisiana Power and Light by John Dufresne
From Where you dream by robert olen butler
Beside the Ocean of Time by George Macvoy Brown
Libraries by Matthew Battles

>194 CEP - can't find the thread. Is it still in this group?

Driving to Detroit : an automotive odyssey by Lesley Hazleton

>197 teelgee
Coming to terms with your TBR pile is in Book Talk (oops!) and TBR Support Group is in this thread. I didn't realize the latter thread had been started.

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Gotcha, thanks.

I'm not sure. If I have enough time I'll go with What is the What by Dave Eggers if I don't I'll probrably read something shorter, Brave New World maybe.

Light

In no particular order, here are the next five books I plan to read:

Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
March by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Woven Path by Robin Jarvis
Demon of the Waters by Gregory Gibson
Shadow Man by Cody McFadyen

I thought I'd given up on planning reading lists, (I so rarely stick to them), but it turns out I can't resist. Over the next little bit, I want to get to:

Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
Blood Price by Tanya Huff
Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
An Earthly Knight by Janet McNaughton
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
The Cradle Robbers by Ayelet Waldman

Hopefully in that order.

My next book to read will be Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice and Spanish Lessons by Derek Lambert

Two library books: Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Jeff Gerth and The Stations of Solitude by Alice Koller.

When I finish The Assault on Reason by Al Gore, the next nonfiction will probably be The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson. Next up for fiction after The Grapes of Wrath will be either The Lizard Cage or 1984.

#205: raggedtig:

You'll have to let me know what you think of Memnoch––personally, I think it's the best of the Vampire Chronicles, but there are some who hate it. I'd be interested to know where you stand. :) (BTW, I'm not going to flip on you if you fall into the latter group––I'm just curious.)

I'm currently reading Night Life by Elizabeth Guest, but next on my list is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (yes, I'm that far behind) by J.K. Rowling, followed by Blood Price and Blood Trail by Tanya Huff, and then Sebastian by Anne Bishop. I'll probably reread Memnoch after that. Somewhere in there, I'll probably read the other two Harry Potter books.

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Up next on my list is Uphill All the Way by Sue Moorcroft, which I am reading for review. I also want to start Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott, but am not sure if I will get to it just yet. I am still reading The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy and should really finish it first.

Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs
Possible Side Effects
Water For Elephants
Yiddish Policeman's Union

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Books on the horizon include Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Emily's Quest by L.M. Montgomery and possibly Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain. A bit of a hodge-podge, I know.

Message 12 SqueakyChu; was the other The remains of the Day? I liked that novel very much, and it was one of those rare occasions when the movie is quite good as well. Hopkins was great.

I am currently reading James Patterson's latest, The Quickie. Next up I plan on reading A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Next up is Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, which I should already be reading, but then I purchased Crooked Little Vein, and that plan pretty much imploded.

#204 - Swordspoint is amazing. I hope you enjoy it.

Next for me is Brightly Burning by Mercedes Lackey, and either Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince or Sense and Sensibility.

I just finished Dan Simmons' A Winter Haunting, and I'm thinking of reading Joyce Carol Oates' High Lonesome next. I'll decide tonight if it's what I feel like reading.

The Art of Mathematics by Jerry P. King
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman (I'm scared of this one)
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
The Life of the Drama by Eric Bentley
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems by Fritjof Capra

It gets worse. I actually had to make myself a calendar of what chapters to read on what days. If I didn't do that I'd never get anything read!

After the book I'm reading now (Vanquished), I'll be reading Dairy Queen and Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone A Primal guide to Animal Magic. Three completely different books :-) I'm in the mood for variety.

I'm currently reading Sunshine by Robin McKinley

The next 3 on my list are:
She Went All the Way by Meg Cabot
Burning Up by Caroline B. Cooney
The Reality Bug by D. J. Machale

Lilbrattyteen said in Post #217: It gets worse. I actually had to make myself a calendar of what chapters to read on what days. If I didn't do that I'd never get anything read!

Ummm ... I confess that I'm kind of in the same boat, deliberately juggling "pieces" of several books.

I'm partway through Congo Journey and We Passed This Way, but ... I also want to get through Stations of Solitude and The Great Failure soon as well.

Lies:A Novel by Enrique de Heriz
A World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Yiddish Policeman's Union
The Golden Compass (A reread)
Chuck Klosterman IV
The Year Of Magical Thinking
The Last Novel

(Oh, touchstones, WHY must you be so very wonky?!)

Seajack, I'm actually behind on my schedule. I spend too much time on the computer! It's addicting!

I have way too many books on the TBR shelf, so will try and work my way through them before I buy more, but my husband doesn't believe me...

Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray
Snow by Calvin Miller
Until They Bring the Streetcars Back by Stanley Gordon West
The Edge of the Crazies by Jamie Harrison
Blue Deer Thaw by Jamie Harrison
An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence by Jamie Harrison
Going Local by Jamie Harrison
Riptide by Douglas Preston
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
The Lights of Tenth Street by Shaunti Feldhahn

I've just begun what I hope will be a big Robin Hobb binge, with the occasional other novel slipped in:

Mad Ship
Ship of Destiny
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Sula by Toni Morrison
Fool's Errand
The Golden Fool
Fool's Fate

Do I detect a theme going on here, xicanti?

Next up for me is American Gods by Neil Gaiman and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

I loved American Gods!!! I thought it was a great book!

I have a bunch of unfinished series in my TBR... That's what I'm going to be working on these next few months.

"A Series of Unfortunate Events" books 2-12 Lemony Snicket
The Reptile Room
The Wide Window
The Miserable Mill
The Austere Academy
The Ersatz Elevator
The Vile Village
The Hostile Hospital
The Carnivorous Carnival
The Slippery Slope
The Grim Grotto
The Penultimate Peril

"Death on Demand" Series By Carolyn G. Hart
Deadly Valentine
Yankee Doodle Dead
White Elephant Dead
Sugarplum Dead
April Fool Dead
Engaged to Die
Murder Walks the Plank
Death of the Party
Dead Days of Summer

#208 I absolutely loved Memnoch The Devil and thought her whole views of creation were well done. I was really not expecting the book to take such a religious tone, but loved it all the same.
Currently reading Lovers and Players by Jackie Collins with Border Fire by Amanda Scott and The Architect by Keith Ablow to follow.

When I go to the library I will be getting:

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Specials by Scott Westerfeld

>228 magst ~ A Series of Unfortunate Events is fun! Hope you enjoy it.

I've managed to knockover a few of my TBRs this week, i.e. Bleak House, Mister Pip and The Sea.

Still to be tackled are:

A Fine Balance
Little Women
The Unconsoled
Arthur and George
The God of Small Things
Memoirs of a Geisha
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Way We Live Now
The Story of Lucy Gault
Suite Francaise
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography
Wives and Daughters
Middlemarch

and a few others! Fortunately, there's no rush :D

Over the next little bit, I expect to get through:

The Hippopotamus Marsh by Pauline Gedge
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Second Nature by Alice Hoffman
Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones
Master & Commander by Patrick O'Brian
A True and Faithful Narrative by Katherine Sturtevant
The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory
and all three volumes of The Josephine B. Trilogy by Sandra Gulland

With possible distractions, should I find things on my wishlist or should materials I have on hold come in at the library.

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Next up for me will be:

The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
The Liar by Stephen Fry
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
The Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind
Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore
Lewis Carroll: Looking-Glass Letters by Lewis Carroll
Nightmares in the Sky by Stephen King

I am reading Right now:

"Lovely bones" By: Alice Sebold

But when I finish I want to read:
"El demonio y la señorita Prinn"
"Memoir of a Geisha"
And i will like to start reading ALL the collection of Harry potter, Because i didn't want to start reading until I have all the collection

Kivy,

I just finished The Lovely Bones and it was a re-read. I enjoyed it so much more this time than the first time. I hope you like it. Memoirs of a Geisha is wonderful too. Enjoy that one.

I won't bore you with an entire list of my TBR shelves, but I'm planning on hitting the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde and Food and Loathing by Betsy Lerner in the next few weeks.

major book purge, email me for details

I'm reading four currently, but as I finish each I'll choose from the following:

Wild Swans
Things Fall Apart
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Sounds of the River
Life and Death in Shanghai
Middlesex
Thirteen Moons
Team of Rivals

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I would like to read The Island it was in Richard and Judy's Summer Reads last year, but I still have not got round to reading it yet.
Maybe one day I will!

I just read "Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree". It is written by a new author and the book is quite charming and ideal for the 5th to 7th grade age group.

hmmm what will I read next?

I have 2 books out from the library: Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates and On Beauty by Zadie Smith.

I have some new books I have bought from Borders and not yet read: Life of Pi by Yann Martel and Playing for Pizza: a novel by John Grisham and Northern Lights by Philip Pullman.

I have books that people have lent to me and I need to read to give them back: A Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly, The memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, An Absolute Scandal by Penny Vincenzi and The Island by Victoria Hislop.

And despite this I am on to the 3rd book in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, Voyager and want to read the next 3: The Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross and A Breath of Snow and Ashes and I am feeling an urge to re-read the Into the Wilderness series by Sara Donati too...

*sigh*

>237 canaan: I suggest you read the terms of use for LT:

"Do not use LibraryThing as an advertising medium. Egregious commercial solicitation is forbidden."

Your email and profile page sound like solicitation to me.

I'm about to start a new book, but I can't decide between The Accidental by Ali Smith or I Think of You by Ahdaf Soueif.

Starting Border fire tonight by Amanda Scott with The Architect by Keith Ablow and Mystic River by Dennis Lehane to follow. I heard the movie for Mystic River was good, but never saw it. Figured I would read the book first. I like to read the book before I see the movie, but it doesn't always happen that way.

You are in for a treat with a few of these, but the Ishiguro The Unconsoled particularly is well worth a visit. This is one of my all-time favourite books, and one of the very few books I have read several times.

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Paradise Lost by John Milton
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
The Terror by Dan Simmons
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels

You'll have to let me know what you thought of The Italian Girl, I read it about 7 or 8 years ago and I didn't get the ending, I'm either thick...

I have way too many TBRs to be well organized enough to have a list of what I plan to read next. When I finish The Accidental, I'll just take a look at th stacks and choose one. It might be The Voyage Out, but I'm not sure.

What I read next depends on (a) what's next on the list for school, and (b) what comes in for me at the library. If I don't have a book from either of those, then I pick something from my own shelves.

Started Mystic River and am loving it so far. On my list of TBR after Mystic River are...Psychopath by Keith Ablow, Everything She Ever Wanted by Anne Rule, and Christ the Lord: Out Of Egypt by Anne Rice

Planning to read desire and its shadow so I can get my review out. Enjoying Yukio Mishima's Spring SNow right now.

Also am going to read memoirs of a woman of pleasure when that comes in the mail.

and probably in between those the tao te ching or the bhagavad gita.

I'll be picking up Diana Abu Jaber's new novel Origin from the library this week and reading it on my beach trip. I've been looking forward to it, though it sounds very different from her other books. Here's hoping the writing is as stunning as her others.

Also on deck: The Master and Margarita, The Old Man and the Sea, Elmer Gantry, The Blind Assassin.

> 252 teelgee

Master and Margarita is a tough read. There are a LOT of literary allusions and symbols that don't make sense unless you look them up. I suggest reading it in front of a computer and using http://www.masterandmargarita.eu/en/. :-)

Thanks, librattyteen. I'll be reading it with a group too, so that should help. It seems to be a well loved book. I'll let you know how it goes.

Next on my list is The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde.

You know what? I started to write them all down, and realized that the list was insane and pretty much just everything I've purchased in the past two months. So just everything. But especially harry Potter.

You all are so organized! (Yes, I did just read this entire thread.) I usually don't know what's next on my reading list. I'm currently reading Tomlinson's The Sea and the Jungle, totally randomly. I saw it on my shelf the other night and picked it up on a whim.

I might be reading The Shadow of the Wind yet, having just finished (and loved) The Thirteenth Tale. Of course, that could change as soon as I approach my bookshelves...

After reading four novels in a row, I can't quite decide what I want to read next. I feel that I should go on to a short story collection next, maybe horror to take a different route, but at the same time I feel like picking up another literary novel!

Like many of you I don't usually plan ahead, mostly because I'm very likely to change my mind at the time I actually start the new book, but I have to read Slaughterhouse-five for book club at the 26th and I took Dear Miss Breed from the library this morning (on the recommendation of another Bookcrosser) so need to start that soon, too. Also, have Dispatches from the Edge sitting on my "next" shelf because it looks so good. We'll see whether any or all of them are read before December 1.

wisewoman, I hear great things about the Shadow of the Wind from LTer (and bff) tapestry100--I can't wait to read that one, but my TBR mob is so out of hand I don't dare borrow it for fear it will be eaten by the rest of the throng.

Currently stacked hapahazardly on the video cupboard (otherwise known as the spot where I keep the books most likely to be read next):

The Nymphos of Rocky Flats
DragonHaven
Cultural Amnesia
Fork in the Road
Jane Austen in the Classroom, though technically I've been picking at that one for a while
The Possibility of Being, because I only read the first half of the volume (Letters to a Young Poet)
some Batman comic books

Of course, this stack tends to change from day to day, so tomorrow there could be some other brave volume standing atop the pile. :)

LOL. I'm loving your TBR's beserene! The Nymphos of Rocky Flats sounds like a good one, and the Batman comics are fantastic. My fave super hero in fact. I think as far as capturing the true essence of Batman on the big screen, Christian Bale and Val Kilmer did the best jobs! Have a great day.

Over the next little bit, I want to get through:

Deer Park by Osamu Tezuka
Ananda by Osamu Tezuka
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel
Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

I've also got an Amazon order that includes Eclipse and Serenity: The Official Visual Companion on the way, so I'll probably be tackling those soon, too.

#261: ragged, I'm delighted to meet a fellow bat-fan (heehee--couldn't help it). I love Batman because he doesn't need any radioactive spider bite or alien heritage to be a superhero. Education, training, and money are all that is necessary--that's the American dream right there. :) I absolutely agree with your assessment of Christian Bale as Batman--my only complaint with his interpretation is that slightly annoying growl he does when speaking as the Dark Knight. Otherwise, spot on. Kilmer, on the other hand, I'm not so sure about. There were good points and bad. Of course, that could be said of that entire film. But I am geeked for the next Batman film--I keep looking for new trailers.

#262: Oh my gosh I LOVE Thomas the Rhymer!

(Okay, so I really do love it, but the reason for the exclamation is this: one happy day I was in a bookstore with the bff and I saw Kushner's Thomas the Rhymer with the K Y Craft cover. I ran up to it and gasped and SHOUTED the exclamation above, also declaring that I HAD TO HAVE the book immediately. The bff was laughing his head off, of course, but he almost choked shortly afterwards, when I called him to confess that, having gone to place the book on its appropriate shelf at home, I had discovered that I already owned it. Subsequently, every time we saw that book, the bff would exclaim his love for it as loudly as possible--I couldn't live it down. Flash forward a couple of years and picture me working for a sff writers' workshop. In an email to Ellen Kushner, I shared the LOVE story; she encouraged me, and the bff, to continue shouting that message at every opportunity. So there you have it.) :)

I think The Dark Knight will be an excellent film and cannot wait for it to come out. I've seen some behind the scenes stuff and it looks amazing. Fab stuff. My close friend and I constantly get into arguments about who the better superhero is. She swears to Superman because he doesn't need a "utility belt" to defeat his enemies. But I love to tell her that he has such cool toys and gadgets that life with The Bat would always be a thrill a minute...LOL

#236 beserene: Hahaha! - great story about the Kushner book! You've started my day off with a good laugh. I can very much relate to your reaction, since I'm constantly embarrassing my slightly shy husband when we're in bookstores by exclaiming in a similar way when I've found something I like or want - I've even been known to do a little dance when I find something particularly exciting. And, I've added the book to my TBR list, so you're mission continues to be successful :)

#263 beserene - great story! I'm chaffing at the bit to read the book; I greedily devoured all her others this past summer, but I had trouble getting my hands on a copy of this one. My new bookstore didn't have it in stock and I couldn't find it used. I eventually ordered it from Amazon, but the order was delayed for ages. Finally, just last week, I found a copy at the library's book sale. I snatched it up and cancelled the ill-fated Amazon order as soon as I got home.

So Thomas the Rhymer is good? I picked it up at a booksale on a whim and when I flipped through it at home I wasn't too impressed.

#265> Kushner will be delighted.

#267> It is good, IMHO. If you are familiar with the original story, Kushner's setting takes some getting used to, but it's a great fit with the original Fairy Tale series that Datlow and Windling started--that series took strong sff authors and asked them to reimagine a fairy tale for a new, grown-up generation. Stephen Brust's The Sun, the Moon and the Stars was the first in that series. The books are sometimes hard to find (though Pamela Dean's Tam Lin was recently rereleased) but well worth it if you enjoy fairy tale retellings.

Thanks beserene. I do enjoy fairy tale retellings as long as they are well-written. I also try to avoid... er... risqué scenes, and that's precisely what I flipped open to when I was glancing through the book at home, so I set it aside. LOL. Perhaps I will give it another chance. "Grown-up" doesn't have to mean "sexed up," does it?

I recently read a YA fairy tale retelling that was simply excellent: Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard. I loved it — but then, I enjoy lots of YA books.

Next on my to-read list is Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind, enthusiastically recommended here on LT.

wisewoman, I'll be honest--there's a good bit of sex in the book. One of the ideas behind these "grown up" retellings is that, originally, lust and jealousy and the sex and violence that went with them were part of the driving force of the plots, so several of the texts have taken those themes to heart. Not all, though.

I, too, love YA. I've got McKinley's Dragonhaven next on my list (I just started Sick Puppy because I had never before read Hiaasen, but I'll be back to my old favorite authors shortly I'm sure). Have you read East? It's a retelling of "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" and I think Pattou did a nice job with it.

I'm sorry about changing the subject but all through summer there wasn't many messages in this topic, and now..... Does anyone read during the summer!!!!!?

Thanks beserene. I'll keep that in mind if I'm ever inspired to read Thomas the Rhymer. And no, I've never read East. I will have to check that out.

I enjoy most of McKinley's books (The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown are among my all-time favorites!) but LOL, I can't seem to avoid the sexy scenes there either. Have you read Sunshine? I enjoyed it thoroughly except for those parts *sigh*. I read a couple of reviews on Dragonhaven and I'm skeptical... it sounds abysmally unoriginal. I mean, a young person finding and raising a dragon? Makes me think of Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher or Eragon or any of McCaffrey's Dragonrider books or... yeah, you get my point. Maybe McKinley can do something new with it though.

midnightrose, I would suggest that indeed many people are reading during the summer — probably more than usual, because they aren't posting here! :-P

Dragonhaven is different, but that is true about anything by Robin Mckinley.

I think she made it work - it has a genuine sense of the other. Some people seem to have found the headlong narrative style a little much, but that's part of what makes it work for me.

The other reason I loved it is because it is not another book in some series that the writer has complete control over. I would rather have authors doing different things and staying fresh.

But it isn't like the standard "raise a dragon" book. (Don't get me wrong, I love some of those). The particular tone is more like a lot of C J Cherryh and the sense of the somewhat overwhelmed protagonist struggling with the powerful and the alien.

Oh, and in that vein, it strikes me as totally SF not fantasy on some level - it had real feeoing biology in a fantasy premise.

#271 midnightrose: I read through the summer because I homeschool my kids and that's when we take a break from it. I just don't remember to post as much on LT! (too busy with the books don't you know?)

im going to read...

- norwegian wood by haruki murakami

- socrates in love by kyoichi katayama

- the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides

- memoirs of a geisha by arthur golden

Just completed The Last Lover by Laura Van Wormer and The Delilah Complex by M.J. Rose... I'm planning to start The Historian next... It's kinda hard choosing from so many since like a lot of the LT community I have quite a few to choose from (292 to be exact with 6 more on the way - got caught at the bargain bin at Chapters online and had a $5 coupon, so...) Fortunately, it's a choice I don't mind having!!

Oops... I read during my commute and during the day at work (i work at an order desk so i read while i'm waiting for customers to call in with orders) and found out the The Historian doesn`t fit in my purse: I grabbed the first thing i could when i left this morning... The House by Danielle Steel (not what i was in the mood for but...)

Just started The Eyre Affair and then will go on to The Gathering, The History of Love and The Red Shoe because they are all library books.

Reading Everything She Ever Wanted now and my next few books will be:

Christ the Lord Out of Egypt
Fault Lines and
The Short Forever

Part Two of this thread is here. This one was getting big and unwieldy!

Hi! I did a tribute page to Chris Stewart, maybe it could interest you :-)

http://www.myspace.com/chrisstewarttribu...

#280 teelgee, the link is to a dormant thread. You want us to post there?

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

After I finish Mort,

* Sourcery
* The Thirteenth Tale
* A Short History Of Nearly Everything
* Swann's Way

So many more....

I just finished Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

and next is.......
Bloodline
Bloobline: Reckoning

I'm still pondering on what to read next. I want a book equal as good as my current read which is Dune by Frank Herbert and The book of five rings ny Miyamoto Musashi.

Since I also want to be surprised by the story, I can't be too inquisitive or picky about my next read. I think I will either go with Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, but then the Dutch version of it, named Het Bernini Mysterie. Or I will go with a reality book I've ordered, What the bleep do we know?!. Or, yet I will go with The farseer trilogy, starting with Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb.

Or yet again, I will go with The Lord of the Rings from you know who.

What to read next: The Stand or Twilight? Help me, I can't make up my mind.

Let's see: Lover Eternal, Speaks the Nightbird Volume II, Dracula, Lord Ryburn's Apprentice, Garden of Dreams by Valerie King

Definately up next: Cell by Stephen King. Then either Hope's Boy by Andrew Bridge, or the Jane-a-thon I've been wanting to do, reading all Austen's books straight through in chronologically order.

#290: thekoolaidmom: Isn't Cell, also that movie with J. Lopez? I'd love to read that book one day.

#291 ironmonkey6: I don't think they're the same story. The back of the book says:

Graphic artist Clay Riddell was in the heart of Boston on that brilliant autumn afternoon when hell was unleashed before his eyes. Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people fell victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction.

And the apocalypse began with the ring of a cell phone...

The J-lo movie was about a serial killer/torturer who had a girl hidden in an underground location, and Lopez's character enters the dude's dreams to find where he was keeping his victim.

I read Suite Francaise back in January after receiving it as a Christmas present from my son. It vividly brought to life the sufferings of ordinary folk during World War 2. I have recently read 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith which was an interesting story about a mixed group of people living in the same block in Edinburgh. Next:
Zoology by Ben Dolnick.
Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki.
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.

#288 - Miu-Miu: I recommend either, assuming you're referring to the Twilight series and the Stephen King novel. Go for Twilight if you're looking for an incredibly entertaining and fast read, or go for The Stand if you're looking for something that's a bit more dense, yet still very entertaining.

Up next on my reading list:
State of Fear by Michael Crichton
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Chicago Stories: Tales of the City
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
I am Legend by Richard Matheson

I've given up on having a list, because my tastes are so mercurial these days, and having all my books in boxes around me is kind of blowing my mind.

Swann's Way is the only definite one. After that, it's whatever pretty cover draws me in.

Next is The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.

Next five I have are:

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
The Colour by Rose Tremain
Thursbitch by Alan Garner

The Stand with a decent editor would have been either one volume, half as thick as the current one, or a trilogy, but it rambles waaaaaaaaaaay too much as it is.

#299 - I think it just comes down to a matter of preference - I often find King's longer novels to be more enjoyable than his shorter ones. It, for example, is my favorite novel of his, by far.

Three more books added to my list:

The Dead Zone - Stephen King
Disclosure - Michael Crichton
Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer

#298, 299 I consider The Stand to be the best thing King ever wrote. Ever. I liked the rambling, actually. It all seemed to have a purpose.

It is my second favorite, although it's the reason I still panic whenever I see a clown. But the end kind of bothered me, which is why it's number two.

I just read Needful Things, and was terribly disappointed. Thumbs way down from me.

#300 - Yeah, I blame It for my fear of clowns as well. My friends can't believe how much I've read that book! What I liked about The Stand was that it was 1100 pages of STORY, which I don't always find to be the case with his newer books. His newer novels seem to focus more on the abstract, and are therefore a little more complex than his earlier novels.

I read Needful Things a while ago, so I'd need to reread it before passing judgement. I think I remember it being decent - not horrible, but not stunning either.

Her Majesty's Dog Vol. 5 and Her Majesty's Dog Vol. 6
Of Mice and Men for Go Review that Book!
After those, something from the library...thankfully, nothing is due until July, so I have plenty of time to decide for once.

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I swear I used touchstones, but they're not loading at all.

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My next read is David Copperfield and I plan to read Growth of the soil by Knut Hamsun.

By the way:
I've just started a new LT-group named "The Hamsun Group". See

http://www.librarything.com/groups/hamsu...

Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux. I'm hoping its better than the film.

I discovered a new series and some stuff came in for me at the library, so I've had to revise my short term TBR:

The Virtu by Sarah Monette
The Mirador by Sarah Monette
The Battle For Skandia by John Flanagan
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice

I still have tentative plans to stick some Francesca Lia Block in there, too. I'd particularly like to reread Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop, which are my favourite Weetzie Bat books.

I also discovered a new series called the "Uglies" my friends say it's a great series but im a picky person. lol

#306 - My sister read that series, and she absolutely loved it. And that's saying a lot coming from her, because she usually avoids books like the plague. I didn't read the series because I was mostly past my Young Adult phase by that time, but I have heard good things about it.

#305 - I don't know if you've read Interview with the Vampire before, but it is absolutely FANTASTIC!!! Allow yourself a fair amount of time to get through it, because it is a very dense read, but it is absolutely worth the effort! One of my favorite books!

Currently working through:
Cavedweller
Mysteries of Udolpho
Loverboy

Next up:
7th Heaven
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Twilight

This is what I'm planning on reading. Whether or not something else jumps out between now and then is a different story.

I've just started my Jane-a-thon yesterday, so that means my weeks reading list is this:

Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Predjudice I've read these two before, and am now rereading them.
Mansfield Park
Emma
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey

all Janes in chronological order, straight through.

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#308 - this will be my eighth time. :) It's kind of silly, I know, but Interview With the Vampire absolutely changed my life, so far as my book tastes are concerned. It's very special to me.

koolaidmom - thanks for the heads up. I have never read the Jane series before and have recently had the urge to do so. Now that you put them all in order for me, I just need to get to the bookstore and start buying:)

I have three that I'm bouncing around on now;

The Blood of the Covenant: A Novel of the Vampiric by Brent Monahan
it's his sequal to The Book of Common Dread/a Novel of the Infernal . I like his twist on the standard vampire tale.
The Teahouse of the August Moon by Vern Sneider
Valiant (The Lost Fleet, Book 4 of 6) by Jack Campbell

I think the Quagmire triplets bring Happiness to the young Baudelaires life. Since the fire horrible things happened to them and in the book it said that they were happy as they were in the Auditorium.

I like reding it because I relize how much have not take things for granted like I usually do and thank God that you have something because you can lose it all.

Saturday by Ian McEwan, I like the books I read McEwan a lot
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott, a re-read of a book I love
Memoirs of a geisha by Arthur Golden

My next 3 books that I will be reading are:-

Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres
Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (finishing this one)
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Although now I feel like I should read another Jonathan book instead of TVS. Except I've read my only other Jonathan books (The Bartimaeus Trilogy).

Someone else choose for me! (Although I'm still slogging through EiI so I don't think I'll get to a third book to begin with.)

Up next:
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
A Feast of Crows by George R.R. Martin

A few of the books coming up on my list are:

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

Up next is The Truth by Al Franken, because I've been on a huge political kick lately. But after that I think I'll dive back into a novel and probably start Memoirs of a Geisha. But honestly by the time I finish my current book and then the Franken book, I'm sure that will change. Happens every time.

Just finishing up The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler and A Parchment of Leavesby Silas House. Most likely, I'll start Coal Tattoo by Silas House next.
What's on my bed stand right now? Dracula by Bram Stoker.

I'm a third through Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia Dunlop and I've lined up And Only To Deceive by Tasha Alexander, Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald and The Last Pope by Luis Miguel Rocha on my bed stand.

I'm reading Mud City by Deborah Ellis. It is a sequel to Parvana's Journey and The Breadwinner. Deborah Ellis seems like a itense and good writer. She doesn't just talk about funny things like mst authors do but this time it is really serious. She is an excellent writer.
I'm also starting to read Chat Room so far it talks about agirl that is not so popular and that's it.

I'm reading Mud City by Deborah Ellis. It is a sequel to Parvana's Journey and The Breadwinner. Deborah Ellis seems like a itense and good writer. She doesn't just talk about funny things like mst authors do but this time it is really serious. She is an excellent writer.
I'm also starting to read Chat Room so far it talks about agirl that is not so popular and that's it.

The Governor General's Literary Award finalists were announced today in Canada. I will be reading the five fiction finalists which I've blogged about here:
http://freshinkbooks.blogspot.com/2008/1...

I think my next book is going to be Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje - I haven't read him before but I'm looking forward to it.

After I've finished my current book13 Months at Grey Gardens by Lois Wright, I will probably read:

The Shipping News - Annie Proulx (I've actually just about 70 pages of this left to read)
Shame the Devil - George Pelecanos
The Secret History - Donna Tartt

That should be a good variety.

I have Vintage: A Ghost Story by Steve Berman out from the library and had planned to start it yesterday, but it wouldn't fit in my pull-over pouch to take to my son's football game so I wound up taking and starting Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey. I will certainly start Vintage after that. Then I have A Wallflower Christmas by Lisa Kleypas waiting for me at the library and my Go Review That Book! group pick, Fire by Sebastian Junger from my tbr pile.

When I finish my current book a week of this, a novel in seven days by Nathan Whitlock, I have the following books at the top of my TBR pile:

more than it hurts you by Darin Strauss
The Montefeltro Conspiracy by Marcello Simonetta
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

This month I hope to be reading:-

The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Rabbit Factory - Larry Brown
The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

Hopefully a few more as well.

Next up: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and then The Things They Carried for book club, which is a re-read for me.

One of these:

Born Digital
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
Flora's Dare
The Shape of Mercy
Graceling

Probably Flora's Dare, as it's due at the library first with holds on it, and Born Digital for something entirely different.

I have about 100 pages left of Anna Karenina (which I am loving). After that I'm thinking something lighter. Maybe Gentlemen Prefer Blondes or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Also toward the top of my TBR list are: The Maltese Falcon, Little Women, Candide, The Bell Jar, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

At least as it stands now, of course.

Revolutionary Road is up next, though I was naughty and started reading it this lunch and I told one of volunteers who work with me I liked Nevil Shute and he's brought me Most Secret and The Chequer Board to read on the tube home rather than the free newspapers.

I had been tossing around a few possibilities, but I think with the news today, I'll read something by Michael Crichton again. Not sure which one, though.

The next few on my list are
Light of Day buy Graham Swift
William Walker's First Year of Marriage by Matt Rudd which is an advance manuscript for market research from Harpers.
Shame the Devil by George Pelecanos (I've read earlier 3 in the series)
The Scheme for Full Employment by Magnus Mills whose book I love for a bit of light reading.

My next book will be Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham :)

I'm currently reading Anna Karenin, I wish I hadn't left it so long to read as I'm loving it. After that it's back to travel with As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee and Among the Russians by Colin Thubron. If no-one else is going to buy the travel in the shop I guess it's down to me!

Next on my list is Eyeless In Gaza by Aldous Huxley, and I'm currently reading The Enchantress of Florence and The Quantum Brain.

I have just joined this list and thought what a great idea to share current reading.

I am presently reading a novel by a first time Australian author Karen Viggers 'The Stranding'. This was a pick for my face to face bookgroup and we were able to hear the author speak at our local bookshop where she autographed our copies. Described as a story of loss and recovery, exile and belonging and the redemptive power of the natural world. The stranding of a whale on a remote Australian beach brings together the townsfolk who then become involved which threatens to challenge their attitudes and beliefs.

I have just finished reading The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen and really enjoyed it.

I'm currently reading Faithless by Karin Slaughter and it has started off well as is her usual stuff.

My next read will probably be Second Glance by Jodi Picoult unless after my current read I still feel the need for more Karin Slaughter !

I have to pick up The Turnaround by George Pelecanos from the library.

I then have to read Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson for a book discussion.

I then think I will choose something to get me in the Christmas spirit. I have several books in mind.

Aside from the other six or so books I have checked out from the library, next on my To Be Read list are The Farthest Shore, Ogre, Ogre, and The Three Musketeers, though that may change.

Over the course of the weekend I read the four books I'd listed in my last post. I won't have so much reading time for a while so I think this next batch will take longer:

The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Comedians - Graham Greene
Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

I am currently reading Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene to be followed soon by
The Secret of Lost Things by Sarah Hay and then The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer.

I have just made a start on What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn. The next few on my list:-

The Rabbit Factory - Marshall Karp
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
The Christmas Train - David Baldacci

Just started reading The Trial (Norwegian edition: 'Prosessen') by Franz Kafka. Group read with the LT group "Group Reads - Literature".

I'm currently reading two books and when those are done the next two on my list are:

Catch of the Day by Kristan Higgins which is the book of the month on the Romance group and The Book of Names by D. Barkley Briggs that I received for review through Bostick Communications.

I have finished (or in the case of more than it hurts you, discarded) the books listed in my previous post. I finished The Necklace by Cheryl Jarvis last night.

The current reading list comprises the following books:
The Size of the World by Joan Silber
The Gaudi Key by Esteban Martin
The Island of Eternal Love by Diana Chaviano
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

My next two will be Bleeding Kansas for my book club and Rubyfruit Jungle because it's due back at the library soon.

My next book is Jane Eyer.

*Edited to fix touchstone

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A few that are coming up are:

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Next, for my December bookclub meeting, is Independent People by Halldor Laxness.

Stuff waiting on deck:

I had started (just a page or two) The Ten Thousand:  A Novel of Ancient Greece and had to quit because of more pressing reads at the time.  It looks promising and your may want to consider if your an "Ancient History Historical Novel kind of person". 

I also have The Golden Compass on the stack that looks like lots of fun and has a very big fan base.  I watch the movie after (or should I watch it first? ;-).

Enjoy your page turning...