Doesn't anyone in San Diego County read anymore?

I moved from San Diego 6 years ago. Doesn't anyone there read anymore? Why is this group inactive?

I miss San Diego very much. So I want this group to get going.

I'll start: I'm reading The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry. It's boring me. I have so many other books to read, I might not finish this one.

Next up is Erik Larson's book that will be coming out in May, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin. I'll be reading and reviewing the ARC.

I am in North County, but I sure do read. I have several going currently. The one I'm really stuggling through is Broken Promises by Hoffman. It's mostly set in England during the Civil War. Though it's probably historically accurate, it has a few storylines going, and has yet to grab me. The Erik Larson looks good. Enjoy!

Sararush:

My mother-in-law and two sisters-in-law live in Escondido. She also reads a lot.

My husdand's cousin was and I think still is the mayor of Escondido.

My father-in-law lived in Oceanside before he died.

I blame myself.

I had a very boring job that allowed me to sit at my desk and scan & scan all day loooong. So, being a fan of this site, I noticed that there were not any groups set in San Diego. I instantly started the group. And, my gosh, I was not expecting so many members!

Anyway, I transfered away from the boring job and I am now into something much more exciting and unpredictable, thus I am only here on occasions when I am home or something.

As to your question, yes, I am still reading. Just not as much as last year. But, I am trying to get into it and make free time for myself outside work, girlfriend, photography...and that damned Netflix is very distracting ;-)

I live in Central San Diego and I'm always reading something. I haven't been on the site much lately, though.

I just finished Fathers and Sons by Turgenev and then Crime and Punishment for a class I'm taking at UCSD Extension. I love that class!

Now we're reading Anna Karenina. I just started it so I'm not even to page 100 yet.

I'm finding that reading with a class is the best way to get through the Greats, because I have deadlines and discussion partners. Otherwise, there is NO WAY that I'd ever finish Crime and Punishment.

I just moved to East County, and you bet I'm reading every chance I get! With a new place, new child, husband's crazy work hours, and just life in general it can be hard to find spare time to read, much less come online and talk about it, but I do try! Right now I'm reading Art Linkletter's Kids Say The Darndest Things. I found it packed away in a box when I went home to visit recently, and asked where it came from. Aparently it belonged to my late grandfather. It was an exciting (and hilarious!) find.

I live in Carlsbad, and know a bunch of readers in the surrounding areas. Currently I'm reading:

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
The Long Goodbye by Meghan O'Rourke

Next up: The Litte Princes

I'm a quarter of the way through Anna Karenina now, and frankly I don't see what the big deal is. Tolstoy is overrated!

I spent all morning selling books for the friends of the poway library bookstore!!!! At 1 and 2 dollars and lots of 50 cent kids books we made about eighty dollars--that is a good number of books. There are still readers! I just finished the tower the zoo and the tortoise, not my favorite. Starting some short stories by Sherman Alexie...

I get kidded because I read so much. The Carlsbad and San Maarcos libraries can attest to that. Try Paris Wife and When the Killing Stops The latter, especially interesting to us California natives.

wordmaven said "I'm a quarter of the way through Anna Karenina now, and frankly I don't see what the big deal is. Tolstoy is overrated!"

That's what I thought when I read it. I thought it was soap operaish.

I'm less than 100 pages from the end. I'm glad I'm reading it, but I can't say I'll read it again.

Tolstoy was a master of artistic control and his characters definitely come to life, but overall I think the book could do with some serious editing. But I think in the day it was published, serialized books were one of the few forms of entertainment that people had, so you wanted the books to be long. I'm sure there was quite a space of time between releases.

I prefer Turgenev.

Well, my Big Fat Summer of Reading continues. After we read Anna Karenina in my Russian Masters class, we read Austen's Pride and Prejudice, which I enjoyed. I don't know that I'd read it again from front to back, but I would re-read parts of it.

I re-read Catcher in the Rye after that. Still funny as ever, but this time around I noticed that sadness a lot more. That's gotta suck: 17 YO and already in an inpatient psych hospital. I hope Holden Caufield turned out OK.

So far my #1 favorite has been WIDE SARGASSO SEA, which I absolutely loved and did not want to end. What a great book! I will never think of Jane Eyre in the same way again!

Missed this thread back in April. I hang out in the 75 book challenge group mostly, and just finished my 77th book yesterday. We are doing an Austenathon this year, have already read Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park, and are just starting Emma. All rereads for me, but I am enjoying them greatly. I'm in east San Diego.

Hooray for east San Diego! At least that's where our house is -- wife works in Poway, son goes to school downtown, and I teach in Paradise Hills. So while traveling the SD freeways, I read a lot...

I just moved to La Mesa and I read a lot, but I am hunting for a good book store besides Barnes and Noble, which is too corp for me.

Oh, good grief, and you a sff reader? Mysterious Galaxy on Clairemont Boulevard in Kearny Mesa is WONDERFUL! Here's the website--

http://www.mystgalaxy.com/

Mysterious Galaxy is great.

This summer I'm signing up for a UCSD extension class where we'll read Milton's Paradise Lost. I'm excited! I've wanted to read this for so long and I discovered last year that the best way to read the classics is with a group of committed readers. I hope we get enough people for the class.

If you sign up before June 5th, you get $25 off. Any takers?

Sorry, I'm already committed to group reads of Trollope's The Warden and 1Q84 by Murakami here on LT this summer. Hope you have a good read, though.

That 1Q84 has been on my radar, let us know how it goes.

Mysterious Galaxy has been around for a while, hasn't it? I seem to remember it being one of my teenage haunts waaaaaay back when. It's over by the Soup Exchange now?

I will--have heard some very good things about it.

MG started out in the Clairemont shopping center at Clairemont and Clairemont Mesa Blvd. Then it moved across from the Original Pancake House on Convoy, before moving back to Clairemont Mesa Blvd. just east of 805, yes, near the Soup Exchange and across from the Kaiser Permanente building.

Thank you, I will check them out, yummy!

Soup Exchange? Never heard of it.

WordMaven, how can you live in San Diego and not have heard of Soup Exchange? There used to be one in Kearny Mesa when I lived in San Diego. That was one of my favorites when I lived there. Look them up and find the one closest to you and go there. It's a huge salad bar, with loads of salad fixings, different kinds of salads, muffins, soups, and ice cream. You walk around with a tray and help yourself. There's no Soup Exchange or Soup Plantation (same thing) around where I live now, and I miss it.

I think S Exchange was the one with the bigger muffins, but basically the same.

It was a beautiful day to read outside, did a little down at Liberty Station and home in El Cajon.

I didn't read outside, lovely as the day was, but did work in a trip to Mysterious Galaxy to pick up the latest by Terry Pratchett and John Scalzi.

I went to lake murray with my book and my sun screen and relaxed:)

I'm reading! Just finished "The American Way of Eating" byTracie McMillan and am working on "The Tiger's Wife" for bookclub. I'm not a fantasy fan, so will see how it goes.

Loved "The Paris Wife"!

It's Soup Plantation.

I'm an avid reader living in North County. I enjoy mostly mysteries and thrillers.

just went to the used book store and bought 4 books, love it!!!