What are you reading in September?

Since Espy made a (less than 100% successful) attempt to close the August thread, I thought I'd go ahead and start September's. We must have an outlet!

I've been rereading poorly written inspirational chick-lit. Why? I don't know. I'm on the third book in a trilogy right now, so by this afternoon I'll probably start something more substantial. I have a stack of TBRs from the library. Maybe Notes from the Midnight Driver. We'll see what I'm in the mood for.

I reading Night Watch and the Fellowship of the Ring

I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised by The Ranger's Apprentice. I found one chapter that was eerily familiar. I could have sworn I've read it somewhere else. I was thinking that maybe it was an excerpt in the back of another book, but it was a chapter in the middle of this book. They normally don't pick out chapters in the middle of a book to preview in another book, do they?

#3 Occasionally they do, but the reason I stopped reading The Ranger's Apprentice series was that it just felt like I'd read it before. He reuses a lot of the same old cliches that are used in the genre too much for my tastes. It's almost as bad as the inheritance trilogy... only the writing is better.

I still don't know what I'm reading next. When I figure it out I'll let y'all know.

*Falls over in shock* You didn't like the Inheritance Trilogy? *reaches for smelling salts* I thought it was surprisingly good for such a young author. I'm anxiously anticipating Brisingr, as well as the new Charlie Bone book (both coming out this month).
But then again, I do teach 2nd grade. Maybe my standards for YA books are a little lower.

That's my problem with the book, though. He's a young author and it really shows. A normal publisher would have made him revise the book over and over again before it was printed. The youth that shows through in the book could have been removed if someone had simply said to him, "This is a good start, but we need to work on ____." I don't think his books were ready to be published yet, but since Harry Potter turned YA fantasy into a gold mine the fact that his parents got him published through their company just reeks for writers who work hard to get published and are ignored by the same publishers who printed Eragon.

I did think that the first book was good, just too rough, and the second book I would never have gotten through if I hadn't been listening to the audiobook. I won't even talk about the movie that was just WRONG! If you like the books I don't hold it against you. I have a friend who loves the series ad I don't hold it against him. I'm just not a fan.

Yes, the books were very predictable. What I thought was going to happen, well... happened. And I agree. It was rough sitting through that movie. *shudders from the memory*

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Murakami, The Two Towers (read aloud with hubby) and V for Vendetta as my toilet reading.

um, i dunno yet cause my school library opens this week, but i'm crossing my fingers for a copy of I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You

lg, tell me what you thought of Hard-boiled when you're done. It's the only Murakami i've read, and i'm still undecided about reading any more.

I've finished New Moon and have started on Eclipse.

I'm still in the beginning of the second House of Night book, Betrayed. On Thursday, I'm going to pick up The Fellowship of the Ring.

I'm most of the way through Ptolemy's Gate and loving it - totally made up for the struggle I had with The Golem's Eye.

I'm starting my book club read of Lolita this week, and will have read half of Emma by Thursday for class. I think I'll also read Caddie Woodlawn followed by the rest (books 2-9) of the Little House books, now that I've completed the set. Those will be my "light reads" when I'm done with Stroud.

I used to love the Little House books! I had the toughest time reading as a kid. In elementary school whenever my classes had to have quiet reading time, I would pick up one of those books and just look at the illustrations. The books always looked really interesting to me, but I just couldn't read. I saw some of them in a bookstore this weekend and was just thinking about getting them sometime so I could finally read what the stories are.

I'm so glad you're enjoying Ptolemy, laia! It's my favorite of the series. :D

oh K you will love them, they are very sweet and calming!

It's excellent, lefty! So glad I kept at it :)

K, my grandmother got me the complete set when I was 8 or so; over the years, I'd lost them and only recently started putting a new set together. Polly's right, the stories are very sweet, and you'll find them to be easy reads now, for sure!

MrA, 100 pages in to Hard Boiled Wonderland, and I'm loving it. I recently read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and thought it genius.

Even though I often find po-mo stuff self-indulgent juvenile twaddle, Murakami comes across as winsome, playful and truly evocative. But maybe that's just me.

I really dig him.

MrA and LG I would be curious to hear about The Hard Boiled Wonderland I read Wind up Bird a few years ago and only recently finished Sputnik Sweetheart which I enjoyed though not as much as Wind Up Bird and Steppenwolf Theatre is doing an adaptation of Kafka on the Shore so I have considered reading it but was told it is more disturbing that some of his other work.

I think you are right LG he has a better balance that doesn't come off as egotistical or self-indulgent

I will finish The Buccaneers today on the train can I just say again how brilliant Wharton is.

I now have the difficult task of deciding which book to take to the UK (Yes only one so I have room to buy more while I am there.. . )

This is why I want to get a Kindle!

I'm reading Mansfield Park, Jane Austen book club, in the woods, and America (the book)

13-14 That is weird, because I just went through all my books from my old classroom yesterday and realized I no longer have a complete set of Little House books. I browses a bit and bookmarked some stuff. I can't decide if I want the old yellow set like I read in school or the cute gingham set.

compski, I usually prefer to get the ones I had before, but I do love the full-color collector's edition of the Little House books; identical to the ones I read, but the illustrations (still by Garth Williams) are done in soft colors, maybe colored pencil? and the paper is low gloss.

Oh yeah, and I'm listening to Persuasion on the iPod.

I'm about 2/3 through The Fire by Katharine Neville - July ER book and enjoying it although there are some draggy parts.

I'm listening to City of Masks: A Cree Black Novel by Daniel Hecht to and from work.

23: I thought about that one, too, Aglaia. That may be the way to go. I am really happy with the full color Chronicles of Narnia that I got. I actually have my original set of those, but I discovered they didn't have all the illustrations.

I'm about half way through Septimus Heap: Magyk series book thingy. It's actually really good, just the way I like books, with lots of magyk and stuff... and I still have to get The fellowship of the ring for the group discussion.

I just finished Sweet Mandarin by Helen Tse which was a really good multi-generational biography/autobiography (I highly recommend it to anyone who likes Amy Tan or other similar writers).

Now I'm starting The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly.

#1 - foggi, I loved Notes From the Midnight Driver. If you do start that one, let me know what you think!

The Fellowship of the Ring. Strange start to a book on the history of the Olympics, i must say.

Mar/LG, i read hard-Boiled wonderland a while back. As i recall there were two story streams, i liked one but disliked another. Or at least disliked the protagonist. And i felt i didn't quite get the connection between the two. Anyway, i'm willing to give it another shot. I'll add Wind-Up Bird to the wishlist.

>#28 el: BoLT is on my TBR. Let me know what you think.

I've started Keturah and Lord Death because of conversations on LT. It is so great! I can't believe I haven't heard of it before. Such a beautiful story.

Elba and MrA, I LOVE Book of Lost Things! It is high on my list of favorites. :D

has anyone read Dragon Rider?
i think i'mgonna start it...........

So far this month I have already finished Me, The Missing and the Dead and The Otherworldlies and started and finished Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature, The Magic Thief, The Adoration of Jenna Fox and Dingo. Now I'm reading Alfred Kropp: The Thirteenth Skull and The City in the Lake.

Just finished Breaking Cover by J.D. Rhoades and I'm about to begin The Darkening by Chandler McGrew.

I finally managed to finish Wuthering Heights, on Friday I had to stop with only one and a half chapters left, but then was the weekend and the last two days were really busy, so today was my first opportunity to get back to it. I've thought I might take a break from all the Bronte and try some Dickens, anyone have any suggestions as to where to start? Somehow I managed to get through high school and college without reading any. Do I start with one of the "classics" like Great Expectations or Tale of Two Cities or should I do something I little less "High School English" and go with Bleak House or Martin Chuzzlewit. I'm open to any suggestions!

Edited for touchstones

I would go with Great Expectations, but I can't believe you've never even read A Christmas Carol. (Watching one of the movies doesn't count) I would definitely read it if you haven't.

What do you mean watching one of the movies doesn't count?!?!?!

"A Muppet Christmas Carol" is straight from the book; verbatim!!

;)

I was planning to be super cheesy and wait for December to read A Christmas Carol. I have of course seen many different versions and my dad once tried to read it out loud to us...I was probably 11 or 12 at the time and just couldn't get into it. He also tried to read us The Hobbit. Now I feel bad....should I ask him to read something out loud to me now, or would that just be weird in a Love You Forever way?

If he's up to it, I think you're never too old to be read to. I got to hear A Christmas Carol read aloud by Patrick Stewart in his one man show. That really made me take another look at it. I read it because of him.

#35 Bib I actually really disliked Great Expectations when I read it (if you liked Vanity Fair you might like it I think its cast of characters are much more shallow and dispicable than some Dickens) but I loved Hard Times which pokes fun at certain educational systems and is short and has, to my mind more interesting women. A Christmas Carol is great but I find it different than other Dickens- it is good for the holiday, and it is different than the many adaptations.

Bib, Hard Times is a bit more fun to read than Great Expectations or Tale of Two Cities. Those two can be so wordy sometimes, it might turn you off to Dickens, much as I love Great Expectations. Christmas Carol is great too, but I totally understand waiting until Christmas to read it!

Smiley, you mean Cornelia Funke's Dragon Rider? It's a lovely, sweet story. Far less intesnse, more fun-like compared to Inkheart. It's a great adventure in a simplistic presentation. Not bad simple, just written for a younger group. I hope you like it!

#33 Letta:
I hope Dingo is good! It's on my wishlist.

#35 bib:
I hate when that happens and so many days pass before you can read again, especially when you're so close to the end of a book! Glad you finished it.
I didn't read anything by Dickens in high school, either. It was more Shakespeare than anything else.

#37 Mandy:
KIK! :)

#38 bib:
I read that book in December.

I finally have a day off work so I'm going to finish Betrayed and start reading The Fellowship of the Ring today. I'm afraid I can't take any reading notes as I read or I won't get any reading done so I'll have to just write notes after reading each chapter. I'm a very intense note taker and even have tiny handwriting. Sometimes I try to just mark some pages with a small size sticky note paper, but pretty soon most of the pages are filled with them. Hopeless. ;)

Edited to fix touchstones.

I think I appreciate Great Expectations better lately, now that I can think of Miss Havisham as a fast car enthusiast when she's offstage. :o)

I'll have to try Hard Times. I never read that when I was in school. I wonder why?

#39 - I know what I want for Christmas now. MR A TAKE NOTE OF POST #39

I liked Tale of Two Cities. But I couldn't even finish Nicholas Nickleby. Lots of Tolkein on this thread today.

I'm reading an older story called The Witch Door. And I'm almost done listening to The Nonesuch. Finished Colonel Chabert last night, first Balzac book I've read. Rather sad, but well done.

#44 you want Patrick Stewart for Christmas?

I'm going to read either Notes from the Midnight Driver or Wicked next. I have both sitting here to be read, I just have to decide what I want to read. . .

Bib, I read Hard Times in college, but all I remember is I didn't hate it. I remember feeling a little more negative towards Great Expectations that was read for a high school class.

#35 -- I think the first Dickens I read (aside from A Christmas Carol) was Oliver Twist. I also remember really liking David Copperfield. Hmmm . . . this is making me want to read Dickens.

Which would be a considerable shift, since I've been reading Meg Cabot and Sophie Kinsella until I think brain rot has set in. Chick Lit overdose!

Maybe you need a Dickens book, foggi! It'd be like a complete opposite -- there are usually hardly any female characters at all.

I wonder what the male equivalent of chick lit is?

I am not posting my first thought jp. Nope. Not going to do it. It's too embarrasing and just plain wrong.

I can't even believe I posted this. *blushes at the thought*

#51 -- If you're thinking what I'm thinking, the term does exist. I've heard it used. But I still don't have a good idea what it means, and I'm not sure I want to!

#51&52- *curiosity piqued* I'm sorry! It was innocent question, really!

#50&53 — Don't you know that men don't read? The opposite of chick lit is video games. Halo if you want to kill things or Madden if you want to prove your supremacy. :p

#54 lol, all evidence to the contrary in your case?

I finished Keturah and Lord Death and I promtly added it to my "to buy" list. Now I've started reading A Curse Dark as Gold, which I think is supposed to be a retelling of the Rumplestiltskin fairy tale like Beauty is a Beauty and the Beast retelling. I'm almost done with my ER book from August. I tried to finish it last night but I kept staring at the same word for minutes on end, so I just went to bed. Not the book's fault -- I was just really, really tired.

I finished reading Betrayed yesterday, am reading The Fellowship of the Rings today, and am finally going to start reading Eragon tomorrow (unless I haven't finished reading the chapters for FotR yet).

ETA:

Oh! I have to see click the link, lefty (#55). That sounds like it might be very interesting. :)

I finished Notes From the Midnight Driver. It was good. Really sad and happy at the same time. Next I'll probably be moving on to Wicked. That is, unless Foggi finds something else for me to read.

47-48 *conks hand on head V8 style* I am not sure how I forgot that I read Oliver Twist on my own and really liked it! Read that one Bib if you are still thinking about Dickens.

I am reading Dragon Heir.

I am finishing reading all of the Patricia Cornwell Scarpetta Series... and thouroughly enjoying it.... I cant spell today

So instead of starting Wicked, I went to the library and icked up two Xanth books I hadn't read yet. Swell Foop and Pet Peeve. I started Swell Foop.

Finished The Resurrectionist yesterday, started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo today.

I finished My Most Excellent Year earlier this week. It was wonderful! Since then I have been reading my chapters for The Fellowship of the Ring. Now I am going to start Austenland, which I think elbakerone recommended.

I just finished Hurt Go Happy, which was excellent (but sad). And I forgot to say that I read Notes from the Midnight Driver a few days ago, which was also very good -- it makes me want to read Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, which is on my TBR shelf at the moment.

Right now I should be reading my FotR chapters. But I also should be cleaning my study, so we'll see which wins. And Espy has the old animated version of The Hobbit on TV, which would make for interesting reading of FotR.

#64 foggi:
I agree about Hurt Go Happy.

I'm still reading my chapters for FotR and will finish them today.

I am starting The Burning Bridge tonight.

I finished Eclipse last night and plan to start on Breaking Dawn soon. I'll finally be able to open some of those threads that mention Twilight.

Not really reading, but listening to the unabridged audio versions of Harry Potter. On my iTunes, I just finished Half-Blood Prince, Order of the Phoenix, and Goblet of Fire. Now, I'm listening to Prisoner of Azkaban, followed by Chamber of secrets and Sorcerer's Stone. At night when I'm in bed reading and studying, I'm listening to my burnt copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

I finished my FotR chapters this morning. (I feel asleep reading last night!) The plan has been to read Eragon next, but I'm afraid I might just sneak another book in before that. That's what I get for bookshopping twice in one week.

67: Donna: I think I just had a Deja Vu. I would have sworn I had read that post before, but it is blue.

;)

This month i'm listening to the Twilight series adain on my ipod. i'm also just finished a book called Vampire Academy.

Hi guys - Waaaaay too busy to catch up on all the threads but I'm trying to keep current on this one. So glad to see that my recommendations mean something around here. :) It's nice to have reading buddies!!

And since many of you asked, I wholeheartedly agree with everyone who said The Book of Lost Things was fabulous! Sort of a creative and eclectic coming-of-age stories-within-stories fairy tale... Not quite an adequate description but it was a really good book! Let's just say I can't remember the last time I tagged something "historical fiction" and "urban fantasy"...

And Mr.A you totally threw me when you called it BoLT mostly because I was at the movies last weekend and saw a trailer for a new animated movie about a dog called Bolt. A few posts later I felt kinda stupid, but hey, it's a Monday (except it's likely Tuesday in Oz....)

70: is this gang up on Donna day?

#73- I thought I was ganging up on everyone today...unless that was just a rumor. :o)

I finished Throne of Jade in record time thanks to my cold and I'm now going to start Something Rotten before my husband and daughter start giving away large chunks of the plot.

#72 --> Hi, el! :)

Did I miss ganging up on Donna today? Maybe I should head over to the rumor mill! ;)

#74 jp:
I hope you read it without spoils! :)

I stayed strong and didn't slip another book in before starting Eragon. I'm on page fifty.

Yay! I'm glad you loved Book of Lost Things, elba! :D

I finished Something Rotten, and am now considering starting Pride and Prescience (Apparently someone wrote a bunch of mysteries where Elizabeth and Mr Darcy solve crimes. It piqued my interest.).

74- *gasp* We're not giving away large chunks of the plot! We're selling them (for quite a profit I might add).
*blink blink* Did I say that out loud?

#77 = Hey cat!!! Big love to you missy!!

I just finished J A Jance's " Dead Wrong " One of her best I think

I'm reading Twilight, but not the one by Stephenie Meyer. This one is the 6th book of Meg Cabot's Mediator series.

I think I'm going to start a stephanie plum mystery next

I picked up Mansfield Park for a reread, but I don't know if I'll stick with it or not.

#82 foggi:
That's in my TBR pile. :)

I'm still reading Eragon. It's very good so far!

I've just finished reading Breaking Dawn so I think I'll finish reading Lamb.

I'm so glad you've read the books, Donna! If you would like to read or add to our discussion thread for Breaking Dawn, you may find it here. :)

I'm getting a little irritated for reading my book so slowly. I just lent my Golden Compass dvd to a friend at work who's wanted to see it but never had. Today I discovered she's never seen Eragon, either, so I want to loan it but I also really want to re-watch the movie soon. I just don't know how long she'll take to watch the movie or how long till I finish the book. (Yes, I know the book is better. ;)

Great. Kitten on the mouse pad. Tail on the keyboard. Tipi!!

78- Love to you too, Lady! *blows kisses*

84- Glad to hear you finished the series, MsD! Now you can read the many twilight threads! ;)

so, i heard that in Midnight Sun...

oh, did i forget to say "spoiler"? my bad.

like a donkey and ends with _ ss

86-86 - I'll be checking out the threads tonight. Looking forward to seeing what other people think.

oh no you won't be. We're off to see the mummy (the wonderful mummy of china, if ever a wonderful mummy there was, the mummy of china is one because, because because because BECAUSE...)

I'm going to start Pretty Little Mistakes by Heather McElhatton today. It's for our October bookclub meeting.

I just finished Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin which is an excellent book on paleontology.

I haven't finished anything since last time I posted. Oh wait! Not true! I finished my ER book Guilty by Reason of Stupidity. I need to update my profile and book count.

Still reading Curse as Dark as Gold. It is absolutely wonderful -- I love it -- but it's taking me a while to finish because I'm TOO BUSY! :(

And I'm reading Fellowship of the Ring whenever I get a free moment, which also slows my progress in Curse.

I just finished The Other Side of the Island which was all about a post-apocalyptic Utopian society under the rule of Earth Mother, a sinister old lady. Seriously, everyone in this book was a sinister old lady. No, not really.

I also finished re-reading Elipse and if I can put the Warrior Heir down for a few minutes, I'll start my re-read of Breaking Dawn, which I have been looking forward to since I finished it the first time.

The Warrior Heir made me late to work today.

#93 suge:
I loved The Warrior Heir! I'm going to read book two of the series next after Eragon. :)

I have a crazy weekend schedule so I'm going to start reading the chapters for Fellowship of the Ring tonight.

I just finished The Willoughbys this morning - lots of fun. And I'm listening to Cards on the Table. I got The Snow Queen from the library and I haven't decided if I want to read it now or read the others in the series first. I've only read The Fairy Godmother. Anyone else familiar with this series? Do I have to read them in order?

84: MsD, The Twilight series was good, but Lamb is excellent. I can't believe you were able to put it aside!

I finished Austenland this week and really enjoyed it. Now, after reading my three chapters for Fellowship, I am going to do a reread of Fluke.

Tonight, I'm going to start Equus in order to prepare for an oral interpretation of it (even though I won't be doing that until mid- to late- October). I'm currently working on my oral interpretation of To Kill a Mockingbird this Tuesday. In my English literature class, we're preparing to read J.R.R. Tolkien's translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I'm still reading- or rather listening to- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows while I read and study.

Compski - I didn't actually put Lamb aside on purpose - I kind of lost it or it was taken by a person unknown... I think it has been found, but before I could find it I came across The Book Thief first so I've started on that instead.

So many good book; so little time...

So I gave up on Swell Foop because I'm just not in a Xanth mood recently. I went to the library today and picked up Ender's Game, The Book of Lost Things, and Storm Front. I also still have Wicked. I keep trying to pick it up and my hand drifts away for it as I am in the act of extending it. I don't know what's going on there.

I also have 7 movies checked out from the library and Battalion Wars II for the Wii. So reading isn't one of my top priorities right now. So now I need to watch movies like a fiend so that I can return them and avoid accruing late fees.

98 MsD, I can easily forgive you for TBT! Lamb and The Book Thief are in my top 10 favorite books. I hope you like them!

Yay! More people reading The Book Thief and The Book of Lost Things!!

Foggi has currently poached The Book of Lost Things, so I won't be reading that for a bit yet.

Just finished The Book of Lost Things -- creepy! Coraline for grown-ups. I enjoyed it.

I finished A Curse as Dark as Gold and I loved it! It's a Rumpelstiltskin retelling.

Finishing a book means starting another, so I just started Icefire, which I got off of Paperbackswap.com. :)

Oh I loved The Book Thief! good choice MsDonna!

While I had a very enjoyable Staurday morning to do nothing but read, Sunday found me stranded away from home without a book the full day. I have more reading to do before I can join the second discussion of the FotR thread. Since I was merely pages away from finishing Eragon, I did manage to finish that this morning. What a difference from the movie! I intend to re-watch it tonight. I loved the book and can't wait to read book two.

Oooh, Espy, have you read Ender's Game before? It's one of my all-time favorites, if not the absolute top of the heap.

I'm thinking about have Ender's Game be the book for my bookclub when it's my turn to pick. I think I need to introduce some Scifi into these ladies lives.

I'll second that, and MsD will third it.

I've never read Ender's Game before, but that will soon change.

How can that be? Are you living in a hole in Afghanistan?

I loved The Book Thief!

I'm reading The Wizard Heir. I so hooked to this series!

How do you join a local book club? I don't know anyone who reads. I suspect most of my friends are iliterate.

#113 -- There have to be book clubs a-plenty in New York, suge! Look for advertisements. Ask at your bookstore and your library and see if they know of any -- then see what the group usually reads and whether it's stuff you'd be interested in. Good luck!

Ahhhh... that sounds like un-line dating. Shiver me timbers. I would have a nervous collapse if I were to walk into a crow of strangers....

I've never read Ender's Game either. I don't know how I missed it!

Suge, glad you loved Book Thief and are loving the Heir series!

Thank you... what can I say? HEG's and HAG's with swords, POWER long lashes, trying to hack each other to pieces? YEAH! But that's not all, everything about these books is wonderful. The writting is so intense, I found my self gritting my teeth. I love the reference to the War of the Roses. And the tension between many of the characters. I love it.

I'm very close to finishing The Burning Bridge.

#113 suge:
Do you mean other than Harry Potter books? Push a few books on them! I'm sure your friends that I met would read and enjoy some of the same books you do.

Yesterday while waiting for my family to finish telling gross jokes so we could watch Eragon, I slipped in the first book in the *whispers*Spider*resumes normal voice*wick Chronicles. I found myself puzzled over Holly Black's letter at the beginning and shivering while looking for little creatures around the house after my reading. The creepy little things got to me. It's the only book I own in the series save for what came with some cereal boxes. I'm not sure if I'll read the rest in a hurry, or if years will go by before I do so. Does anyone know if all five books take place during the movie?

Question about the movie Eragon:
Does anyone know where they filmed it? My mother wants to know. She thought it looked absolutely beautiful.

I just called my work, and yey! I have today off. That means I can go read! I'm going to read more of The Fellowship of the Ring, post about it on LT, and then start reading The Wizard Heir.

Oh, I forgot about that. If you are talking about the gal I gave Philosopher's Stone to, I'm sure she hasn't read it.

Oh, and hey, The Other Side of the Island has a few references and mild spoilers for a few books, like The Wizard of Oz... ummm....and a HUGE spoiler for Bridge to Terabithia. Sorry, I can't remember anymore, so I would be cautious, but it was a great book!

edited: I need to be banned from this group and possibly flagged for misspelling Philosopher. I am so ashamed. I hope no one saw that.

#119 -- Yes, the movie combines all 5 books. I watched the movie after reading only the first two (and haven't read the rest). From that, it appears that they stuck pretty closely to the events of the books. Were you planning on watching the movie soon?

K, http://imdb.com is a great resource for questions about any film; here's the page for Eragon: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449010/

If you scroll down to the "additional details" below the cast listing, you'll see an entry for "location" - this one was filmed in the US and the UK. :)

You know, I liked Eragon. I don't see why it was so hated. And don't watch it just to watch Ed Speleers.

#121 foggi:
Thanks! I'm not sure when I'll watch it, but I had wanted to. I don't have a copy yet and am not even sure what the status is on it being out on dvd or not. If it is on dvd, I'll get it if I find a good price. :)

#122 laia:
Thank you. :)

#123 suge:
I liked the movie the first time I watched it, but watching it last night after reading the book, I found that I was disappointed just because more could have been done with it. As for Ed Speleers...I thought of reviving the HEG thread last night to say you are such a craddle robber! ;)

Hmmmm...K I know another thread that could go into......

I just received a school assignment to read a book on journalism and analyze it from a journalist prospective. I'm thinking about some sports journalism- related book, since I'm a sports guru.
I chose Bradley Schultz's Sports Broadcasting (stupid touchstones).

Can't give you any direction there. Thankfully I never had to read anything that focused on sports journalism. If you want something general that is also a good read I'd recommend The Elements of Journalism. It's an excellent survey of the principles of journalism and uses plenty of stories and interviews to prove its points.

#123 I agree, suge! I liked the movie for what it was. It was fun entertainment if you don't think of it as having come from the book.

I finished: Wicked Lovely, Twilight, and Airhead

Now I'm reading: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, and stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine from the 70s and 80s

Next up I want to read: The Lightning Thief

I'm reading The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, and I love it! I loved the first book in the series, too.

I have finally started Wicked, but so far I'm not a fan. I keep telling meself I ain't given is a fair shot yet, but I might have ta put 'er down if I ain't got inta it soonish.

Espy needs to go to bed -- he's losing his grasp of the English language!

Espy, I don't mean to discourage you, but I desperately wanted to love Wicked. AND Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. AND Lost. I gave the guy more than his due in tries, I really did. I just could not actively enjoy a single one of them, and I struggled my way all the way through the first two. I gave Lost a couple of pages and then gave up. His stuff requires too much dedication to get to the end and decide you wished you'd spent the time reading just about anything else. Fashion mags, comic books, the backs of cereal boxes... ANYTHING.

I agree 100% with laia about Gregory Maguire. (Why have author touchstones not been working for me lately?)

Foggi, I love the Penderwicks! Such lovely stories!

Tieg, Lightening Thief was lots of fun. I'm glad to hear you're reading it!

I just started The Sterkarm Handshake. I got it at the most recent library book sale (though the friend I was there with actually found it). The story centers around a people who are all left-handed (the Sterkarms), so of course I had to buy it and couldn't wait to read it. ;)

See to me Maguire is hit and miss. I love Wicked, it makes the list of top ten faves and I liked Mirror Mirror okay. Lost however would make the top ten list of the worst books I ever read. I haven't been able to bring myself to read Son of a Witch yet because of this, though I've had it since the day it came out. I guess I should read it, since there's a third one soon.

I have a rule that I gave a book 100 pages or half, whichever is less. I haven't quite gotten far enough in Wicked to give it u yet, but it's looking more and more like I may be doing so.

The first book I read by Maguire was Confessions at the bookseller's advice. Lost was my least favorite of Maguire's books. I read Wicked too many times to dare read it again. I think I made myself tired of it. I may skip rereading that one, reread Son of a Witch since I only read it once right after it's release, and then read book three, A Lion Among Men. Not for a while yet, of course.

132+134 I am not a fan of Wicked either. It boggles the mind that they made a musical out of it.

133 I thought it maybe was Espy's Kentucky accent seeping throught, eh?

Funny thing, I've lived in KY for four years now and I still haven't picked up the accent.

Am I one of the few who LOVED Wicked?

#140 compski:
I haven't seen the musical, but it sounds like they are almost two separate works, shall we say. They're vastly different. Polly has seen the musical. :)

#142 wingert:
I loved Wicked. It's why I read it so many times. :)

I'm very, very much enjoying listeniing to A Certain Slant of Light, The woman that reads it is fabulous. Her voice is amazing, sometimes she whispers to you, sometimes her voice rushes at you, and sometimes she giggles! I really love this book. It is the first time I listen to a book I've never read before and it has proved to be one of the best books I've read all year.

i'm reading The Book Thief and The Mind of Egypt.

Has anyone read the Host? If you did what did you think of it?

I've had it since it came out, and am only in the first little bit. For some reason I just haven't been in the mood for it. Someone (can't remember who) said that it gets really good after the 8th chapter.

Thanks Kirby - I'll see if I can find it on Bookmooch.

I liked The Host, MsD. It was perhaps a bit longer than it needed to be, but that's kind of Meyer's style. The story was good.

I liked it MsDonna. I read it before Breaking Dawn and liked it better than the first three in the series. For me I think it is tied with BD.

i'm reading a fantasy romance named "The Wizards's daughter"
But I have my ER book here "Any Given Doosday" that I will start today

#146 Donna:
It was very enjoyable! A good book. :)

I finished reading The Wizard Heir yesterday and am reading Fellowship of the Rings and Chosen over the weekend.

I picked up Brisingr tonight. I'm debating on whether to begin it tonight or not.

I almost forgot that came out today! Husband might be sad if I buy it though.. I'll probably have to wait for Christmas.

I just finished reread Fluke by Christopher Moore. His books are always so fun and funny! If you have never read any of his novels, be warned: about half way through you will have a "what the heck just happened?" moment.

I am going to start reading Run by Ann Patchett unless the library calls tomorrow with Brisingr or Three Cups of Tea. Has anyone read that last one?

I finally gave up on Wicked. I have a tough choice now between Storm Front, The Book of Lost Things, or Ender's Game. It's incredibly tough because I've never read any of them, but all three have been highly recommended to me by different people. I may just end up rolling a die and taking whatever book it says to.

I just finished Any Given Doomsday.

Hopefully in the next couple days I'll be able to finish The Golem's Eye and Magyk. School has cut back my reading a bit =/

#153 kirby:
I had to talk myself out of not buying that book early today. (I still haven't read Eldest.)

#155 compski:
My mom and grandmother have read Three Cups of Tea. My mother says to tell you it's very, very good.

Reading is going slow. This weekend is considered an annual holiday where I live.

I finished my ER book, Murder on the Eiffel Tower and To Kill a Mockingbird. And I read The Princess and the Hound - really good, I totally recommend that one. Mockingbird is for my town's Big Read. They're having some fun discussion and a movie screening at the library and ending with a concert. It should be a lot of fun. I forgot how funny the book is, I just remembered all the heavy stuff. But Scout is hilarious is some parts.

Mrs Donna I loved the Host! It is so beautifully written and I grew to love the characters. The story is very engaging, so, I liked it from the beginning.

I finished the Dragon Heir, (which was great) last night and YAY! I finally picked up I Capture the Castle, which I've been looking forward to picking up forever since I ordered the movie from Powels or someplace. I'm also reading The Ptolemy Gate which has been sitting on my sock chest next to my bed so long it has a water mark on it from all the times I've used it as a coaster. The effect is very arresting.

I forgot about Brisingr! Am I an idiot? (don't answer that it was a rhetorical question :P````)

What if I want to answer that question, suge? ;) Kidding, of course!

I got almost zero sleep last night so I finished Chosen. I needed an easier read over the crazy weekend than FotR. I did, however, tell my cousin he has hairless hobbit feet. (Still eww!) I have tomorrow off so I have FotR reading to do then. Starting Wednesday, Eldest, and hopefully by the weekend because I can't wait to read it, The Dragon Heir. (My computer's having trouble so I'm posting about a few books.)

*cracks her knuckles*

....

eww k. why are you looking at your cousins feet? That's just gross.

He walks around barefoot. That's just gross. (Such dirty feet! So nasty.)

* cracks her knuckles K style, which only a few of you have heard. ;) *

Finished Pretty Little Mistakes although finishing it is an overstatement. Blech. Pure drivel.

I read my August Bonus ER book, Any Given Doomsday by Lori Handeland and didn't particularly like it either.

I'm reading Midwife of the Blue Ridge, an ARC and think I'll really enjoy it.

The Quiet American and The Watercooler Effect are probably next - the first is for bookclub and the second is an over-due ARC.

#158 K- You do need to read Eldest first. I haven't started Brisingr yet, but if it's anything like Eldest you'll need that background information.

I am so behind in reading. I just got into a non-reading mode for about a week. Let's see... I'm still reading Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox, The Burning Bridge, and some others that I don't remember right now.

I also picked up The Alchemyst when I went to B&N. Several of you said you enjoyed it, so I'm going to try it.

*plays knuckles*

Turns out that i was hallucinating and i don't have a copy of The Book of Lost Things. I've started reading Jingo instead, because it's easy and i want to get rid of it.

*jumping up & down {slobbed out on couch scratching hives truthfully}* Mr A see post 146 - it would make a nice present for someone (not your sister).

Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella - first book I've actually dug into since I finished Twilight, isn't that horrible?

what am i, your Meyer dealer? Remember kids, just say no.

I need it man - come on.

Don't worry MrA, no vampires and the male leads aren't as perfect as Edward. Of course, there are two of them and they do sound dreamy! Maybe you shouldn't buy it.

Well lately I've been able to read in SRP (which is pretty much just 90 minutes of free time for studying, homework, etc.).

I haven't been able to read Twilight yet because I did not have the book itself but my friend is letting me borrow her copy. I cannot wait to start it tomorrow!
I'm gonna try and finish The Golem's Eye though, because Missy will probably be coming home saying "I told you you wouldn't finish it yet."
Oh but I will... you just wait =P

I just read Forever Rose, last of the Casson family series by Hilary McKay. I love, love loved it! For some reason, I had low expectations going in to this book (since she wrote one about Rose earlier, I was confused), but it was fantastic.

Anyone who has not read the Casson series should start with Saffy's Angel and go on from there; they are excellent.

Now I have to decide what to read next. I am strangely unenthusiastic about my stack of library books. Maybe I will just muck around on LT until bedtime, and then read a little more of Mansfield Park before calling it a night.

*pst* hey you... you looking for the stuff? *pulls open a long trench coat lined with pockets on the inside* You want a copy of The Host? I got The Host. I got Goomy bears, I got pixie sticks... You name it, I got it or I know someone who can get it.

I picked up Brisgr after work today. I fell asleep in the train reading, so when I woke up I started reading it. So now I have three books on my bed, (and one dog on my window ledge, which of course has nothing to do with anything).

#165 kirby:
Oh, I'm definitely planning on it! I'm already afraid the bookstore gave me a spoiler to Eldest yesterday.

#167-170 --> KIK. Get her the book, MrA!

#174 suge:
Lots of green gummy bears, I bet. ;)

My co-worker who borrowed Prisoner of Azkaban on January first of this year finally finished reading the book last week. I just got it back today. I lent her GoF on Friday, so that means I should see it by...summer 2010? ;)

That is one amazing trench coat suge!

Lolita and Fellowship for group reads, Jane Eyre for school, as well as a zillion essays, articles, and short pieces for both classes. I just got bits and pieces of a few series by Mercedes Lackey that I've not read; they're dangling carrots for when I catch up on required/group reading.

MsD, since you and I share a mad, mad love for Ender's Game, will you let me know what you think of The Host? I've had it for a while and just haven't had a minute to crack it open.

* are other people having touchstone issues?

#166 MrA- Did you lose your Book of Lost Things?

JP, that's not the only stuff in there *wink*

I bought UNTAMED!!!!!

I'm waiting till Saturday to buy Untamed. I think those books are my second favorite vampire series that I've read.

Umm there are actually several vamp lit series that I follow. I can't figure which would be after THE SERIES, tho.

House of Night by PC Cast. I think you read the Vampire diary series (perhaps by L.J. Smith?). Then there's the Blood Blood series by Melissa de la Cruz. I've no idea what else. There are always stand-alones. I guess I haven't read that many vampire series. I should correct myself and say while I liked the Blood Blood series, I didn't enjoy it as much as the House of Night series. It's been too long since I read L.J. Smith's books and other YA vampire books for me to say about them. (I read a lot of vampire books as a teen.)

My friend just gave me her copy of Twilight.

I'll probably spend the rest of my day reading =)

>#178: ha. i guess so.

I've started reading The Host and I'm already loving it.

She is POSSESSED! Possessed, i tell ye!

That's so mean considering I looked like that yesterday.

I just got Brisinger, but my friend Mildred is reading it this week. So.......maybe next week or so I will get it back. In the meantime I am reading A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly and listening to Home: My Early Years by Julie Andrews during my commute.

I love, love, love, love, LOVE! I Capture the Castle! I'm not sure if it is considered a classic, but it's such a fabulous book, so well written, the characters are adorable... Cassandra is a little of all my favorite female characters, she is a little Scout, a little Lizzie Bennett, a little Georgia Nicholson, a little Anne Shirley... And Stephen is right up there with Edward Cullen (*swoons*) and Mr. Darcy... *stars in eyes*

Did I mention that I am loving this book? It's filling one of #1 spots. only you guys can understand the thrill of descovery, the devotion one feels. I want all my friends and the world to read it, yet I want to keep it a secret... I had to hide my face in the train yesterday so I wouldn't scare the guy sitting next to me (you can never tell what form of dementia the person sitting next to you has until they start talking to thin air, or something). I can't wait to finish the book, SO THAT I CAN WATCH THE MOVIE!!!!!! Ok I'll shut up about the book already.

#183 mindy:
I wonder if you finished it by now. :)

#189 suge:
My B&N store put it on their classics table. KIK. I had to hide my face while reading on the bus recently.

I'm incredibly bad about reading on days I have off work, thus yesterday there wasn't any reading save for reading the booklet that came with The Writer's Toolbox before writing yesterday. That's such a weird way to right, but it's fun.

I have so many books to read right now! There's Cupid(a retelling of Cupid and Psyche) , Princess Ben, Suspense and Sensibility, and A Walk Through the Cloisters. Ah, it's good to have a wide range of choices. :)

I just started Ever by Gail Carson Levine. I love her books and I hear this one is really good. I just finished Emma Watson. Strangely enough, this is not about the Emma Watson who plays Hermione Granger, which would make it strangely appropriate around here, but an unfinished work by Jane Austen. Just thought I'd clear that up, as my teenager was quite confused. She hadn't heard that the other Emma Watson had written a book.

190
Unfortunately, no. I ended up cleaning my room and doing homework (for some reason I felt motivated to do that). I'm still trying to finish The Golem's Eye. Whenever I start reading it something distracts me. grr. Hopefully I can spend tomorrow night reading because I have physics and AP Comp homework. I really hope it doesn't take too long.

I'm reading Fourth World.

I'm not reading anything because I left my book at home. I guess I could read our new Act :-(.

No, it's not the Riot Act. That's for home.

I've almost finished Jingo, and even though i'm over Pratchett, this was pretty good. It was nice to stumble across the quote that i've seen quite a few times now:

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

Now, problem: i'll need a book to take on our weekend away. I'm up for suggestions, if anyone cares to peruse my TBR:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/MrAndrew&tag=TBR

Be aware that i will inevitably choose something other than what is recommended - i'm perverse down to my bones.

Forget 144. Definately don't read A Certain Slant of Light.

LOL! I was wondering if MsDonna was reading the riot act! Thanks for clarifying MrA!

I'm in the middle of The Lightning Thief. I hope to finish it over the weekend.

Ooh! Tell me what you think of it when you finish, JP!

I read The Maze of Bones, first in the 39 Clues series, last night. It was a good, fluffy, suspend-your-disbelief action/adventure story -- not as good as Riordan's Percy Jackson series, but a decent fun read.

I finally started and finished Ender's Game and I believe that it deserves all the praise that anyone who has ever recommended it to me gave it. Is the rest of the Ender series just as good?

Next up I'm going to read The Book of Lost Things, which is not MrA's copy unless the library found his book and decided to shelve it.

After that I'm reading Storm Front. I'm finally caught up on movies taken from the library so I can focus on books. I only hope I have enough time to finish them.

Espy, I just got Ender's Game from the library! But I haven't gotten to start it yet. This weekend for sure!

Foggi, I read Lightning Thief not too long ago and I liked it quite a bit (enough to put the series on my "to buy" list).

I just finished reading Donavan's Word Jar to the kids. I'm going to read The Legend of Spud Murphy to them next. As for me, still on the ones in the last post I posted.

I just finished The Golem's Eye.
Now I'm on to Twilight and hopefully finish Magyk soon.

I recommend The Lightning Thief to lots of different people (having read it and loved it myself) and I always like to get reactions and opinions on it.

Right now, I'm reading Pirate Curse. So far I'm enjoying it, but I would definitely NOT recommend it to LadyN, as her least-favorite creepy-crawlies make an appearance early in the story.

I just finished The Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell and i now have to wait for Scarpetta To come out. So I started 1st to Die by James Patterson and I am thinking of trying to read two books at once and start The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

I am loving Twilight. I started it yesterday and I'm only a couple hundred pages away. It's amazing =D

I'm reading Smoke and Shadows.

Yep. Twilight is amazing. The end.

Do it, MsD! Read two books at once! :D

Mindy, glad you liked Twilight. I knew you would. ;)

I'm waiting for "Breaking Dawn" By S. Meyer..and meanwhile
I'm reading "Asleep" by Banana Yoshimoto. =)

I finished The Book of Lost Things and I thought it was excellent. The end made me both happy and sad at the same time.

You already know what is next so I won't even repeat myself repeat myself.

I am about half-way through 1st to die and i am enjoying it, I have yet to start The Fountain Head because I spent my entire day on LT trying to catch up on everything... lol.

I got maybe a quarter of the way through Ender's Game this weekend and it is great! I can't believe I hadn't heard of it before. Now I need to speed read my FOTR chapters for this week..

#211 Hooray! Another one sold on Book of Lost Things! I'm so glad you all like the book. The two RL people I've shared the book with didn't like it half as much as I do.

I read Coroner's Pidgin last night. Sort of a yucky day in bed. And then my book on tape got left in my husband's car, so I couldn't listen to that today. Phooey.

I finished Sports Broadcasting for a journalism project. In English, we're reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canturbury Tales, after finishing J.R.R. Tolkien's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and La Morte D'Arthur.

Hmm I recently finished

All Passion Spent - i know sounds like a romance novel but it is about an 80 year old woman- brilliant book, A woman of independent means, which was an epistorlary imagining of a the life of a woman between the turn of the century and the 1960s, and Banana Yoshimoto's magical realist short stories in the volume Lizard. I have just started Broadway's Bravest Woman as research for a play on which I am the dramaturg.

Wingert that is just Tolkien's translation/introduction of the Middle English tale by an unknown author. . . great story though.

I just finished New Moon!
It was really good. In the beginning I didn't like it as much as the first book, but by the end I was anxious to finish it. I ended up reading in school whenever possibble.

I found a copy of an perry book I haven't read at half price books so I am currently reading "Cardington Cresent"

I don't remember that Ann Perry book. What's it about?

I just finished The Serpent Tide and I enjoyed it. It looks like there are 2 more in the series, so I will put them on hold too.

This when Emily's first Hubby was murdered

::sigh:: I've been trying to read Magyk for awhile but it hasn't been able to hold my attention. I'm debating on whether or not to just stop trying and return it to the library. It's taking a long time for something exciting to happen. grr.

#216- that's what I meant to say. sorry if it didn't come out the way I wanted it to.

#204 foggi:
I think I remember you recommending it to LG as well. :)

Today was my only day off work this week so I spent it reading Eldest. I'm all ready for book three but am not going to get it until I go bookshopping with LG. Something I like about this series is that I'm no longer anti-dragon books. I simply hadn't been interested in them much before. This will do horrible things to my wishlist and TBR pile. ;)

I've been wanting to read Untamed for a week now and am going to start reading it tonight.

By the way, I just want to say that it's thanks to some of you talking about this book on threads that I purchased The Neverending Story over the weekend, a book whose movie gave me the most horrible of nightmares as a kid. Maybe I can enjoy it all these years later.

#223: Yes, that movie was a nightmare. It took the title of the book and then wandered off in a completely different direction. :o)

I finished The Lightning Thief, which was wonderful. We all love Greek myths and this was very enjoyable. The updates to various monsters and Gods were so appropriate, especially Medusa, Ares and Procrustes. I would love to see this turned into a movie.

I've now started Thursday Next: First Among Sequels.

The Percy Jackson series stays good too. My two youngest kids are now hooked on that series.

#224 -- Then you'll be happy to learn that 20th Century Fox is already shooting the movie and it is set to release sometime in 2009. At least if the Internets are to be believed.

ETA the link: http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=41501

*crosses fingers that they stay true to the book*

I don't know. Chris Columbus is the genius that brought us the movie Shark Boy and Lava Girl.

Here's October's Thread:
http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=46669#

216 I figured . . .