What’s your current read? Start anything new this weekend?
What’s your current read? Start anything new this weekend?
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What’s your current read? Start anything new this weekend?
Just started My Absolute Darling.
there is something in ur hand btw
Reading Since We Fell by Dennis LaHane
An Irish Country Wedding by Patrick Taylor. Something like comfort food-this is a comfort read.
Vampire chronicles collection by Anne rice
Everything I Never Told You. Just finished.
The Laughing Place.
Reading The Sevej Husband’s of Evelyn Hugo! Really like it-reminds me of The Thirteenth Tale.
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Had a good beginning. I’m reserving judgment for how I’m enjoying the ride further in.
my 8th grade students’ short (3 page) stories
Oh, I remember those days! Retired now and I kinda miss them…and I kinda don’t! ?
@Barbara I think I will feel the same. A stack of 95 stories came home with me this weekend; only a dent so far. Lots of work. On the other hand, what lovely writing! (at times). Also, I remember how much my teachers’ comments meant to me. Touching to think I am having that same effect on someone.
Exactly! I taught middle school English. Every weekend I brought home the stack of essays also, a.k.a. Mt. Dunham. My colleagues would wonder why I wrote all those comments in their journals or papers. Like you, to show my students that I actually took the time to read what they had to say. They were always eager to read my comments.
@Adam those comments make a huge difference.
@Christy Great to hear 🙂
stiletto by Daniel O’Malley
Reading The Right Side by Spencer Quinn.
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
I just started reading “The Prague Sonata” by Bradford Morrow (which will be released in early October).
Are you enjoying it?
@Carole, I’m just at the very beginning, but so far, it is beautifully written…
I have just started IQ84 by Haruki Murakami. Just finished Birds without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
I have Birds Without Wings on my TBR list. Did you like it?
It was one of the best books I have read . I learnt so much about Turkish history. An incredible reading journey. 2 books in one, a novel with diverse characters melded to the history of the time
I read Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and loved it. I think I will move Birds Without Wings up on my list.
@Pamela thanks for mentioning this. I loved Corelli’s Mandolin and have been to small towns in Anatolia. This book sounds like it’s right up my alley! Just downloaded a sample.
I hope you enjoy the book as much as I have . I need to read Captain Corelli now.
Almost finished with A Trick of Light, the 7th book in Louise Penny’s Three Pines mysteries. Then will read the next book in the series. I plan to reread the whole 16 book series before I treat myself to her new book “Glass Houses.”
Love her series.
Reading Glass Houses right now…one of her best!
The keeper of lost things
I haven’t read horror in 20 years, but I got Horrorstör from the library because it looked funny. I skip over the gory bits and have enjoyed the first 70%. I need to finish it tonight though.
Sex Lives of the Roman Emperors
I just started Delicious by Ruth Reichl. Really enjoying it so far.
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton and am “turning” pages on my Kindle at warp speed.
Pickwick Papers… Catching up with Dickens
I’m re-reading “Body Surfing,” by Anita Shreve.
Rabbit is Rich. I’m reading all the Pulitzer Prize winners.
Just finished American Gods….starting Women of Will.
Just finished The Goldfinch by Donna Tarte. Not what I expected but really enjoyed it.
Loved it
I loved it too. Thinking about rereading it
Ansansi boys by Gaiman – and lots of book reviews on good reads!
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kaddish. 1/3 of the way through and really enjoying it.
Listening to The Weight of Ink, enjoying it so far…
The Illumination- Kevin Brockmeier
going to start Ken Follet’s latest,Column oif fire
Next on my list
Can’t wait to start it
almost done. then going to reread all 3 over thanksgiving or christmas
Glass Houses, newest Inspector Gamache story.
Listening to Hillary’s new book. Reading A Change of Heart by Sonali Devi, good so far!
The Light of the World. (memoir)
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
Antifa by Mark Bray
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Finished Sue Grafton’ s I is for Innocent this morning and now I am reading J is for Judgment. Sue Grafton ABC series is wonderful.
The Address by Fiona Davis. Oh and I started an audiobook Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
just read the address. i liked it.
Infinite by Jeremy Robinson.
“Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand”~Helen Simonson. Also “This ‘N That”~Bette Davis
Iris and Lily by Angela and Julie Sciponi
Re-reading The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry for book club.
In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen
I am reading Hillary Clinton’s “What Happened”, “My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry” by Fredrik Backman, and am listening to “All Things Cease to Appear” by Elizabeth Brundage….not all at the same time!
I’m reading Game of Thrones and listening to Water for Elephants on audio (not at the same time, lol)
Both are excellent reads.
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Finally getting around to “The Handmaid’s Tale”…just started.
Scariest book I’ve ever read!
On my top ten list.
Want to read but torn between the good & bad reviews of it! So many great books to read that I don’t want to waste time on a bad one cuz I usually don’t give up on a book. I should be grateful that’s my only problem today in this crazy world!?
eye opening read
After all the great recommendations for mother/daughter book club, I’m in the middle of both Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands and Beauty Queens
I loved Close Your Eyes! But then I love anything by Bohjalian!?❤️
Wonder Woman…Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
Garden spells
the skull mantra by Eliott Pattison
News of the World which has come to me highly recommended
Our Souls At Night. What a nice book & such a quick read! Next up Little Fires Everywhere.
Glad you liked it because it’s next up after The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman.
@Kathy Sad, but I didn’t care too much for The Light. I couldn’t empathize with the main characters, but that doesn’t mean I think you won’t like it. I definitely think I’m in the minority on that
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Very long but I highly recommend it.
The Marsh King’s Daughter.
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. I’m 25% into it and it’s so good.
Snowbound, Blake Crouch and The Walls, Hollie Overton .
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Fix by David Baldacci.
Magpie Murders and The Children of Hurin. Also listening to A Gentleman in Moscow.
Just finished magpie murders starting proof of life
Kingkeeper’s Daughter
I’m reading Dark Places by Gillian Flynn and listening to The Fisherman by John Langan
A Piece of the World!
Very good!!
After just finishing Alone in Berlin, I needed something light and trashy to clear my mind. So have started a Janet Evanovich.
Reading 11/22/63
Same here!
Just starting Kitchen Confidential — looks like it will be a rollicking ride!
Nothing new … buried in The Far Pavilions
One of the best books I’ve ever, ever read.
loved it
Juggling “What Happened,” and “The Master and Margarita.”
Just finished up Handmaid’s again, started White Rage, for the fiction/non-fiction (wait, why am I having trouble telling the difference) experience.
“Glass Houses” Louise Penny
Just about to start “Everything I Never Told You” by Celeste Ng.
I really liked that Book!
It’s great. Looking forward to the new one.
Started Lincoln at the Bardo by George Saunders. I’m quite enjoying it
My Life with Bob by Pamela Paul!!! A book about books – can’t get any better!!
Just finished The Last Tudor (loved it), halfway through Katy Tur’s book Unbelievable about covering the Trump campaign and trying hard to get into a book about horrible president Andrew Jackson.
Reading The People We Hate at the Wedding
I read that, pretty much hated all the characters, but the ending made it all worthwhile for me.
@Mona I’m halfway through and praying for a payoff! Thanks!
Muslim Girl
I slogged through and felt the same way. Wanted to love it but never quite got there
Just finished My Life With Bob by Pamela Paul. I really enjoyed her book & wish she could be my friend. I have just started Celine by Peter Heller and I am blown away by his writing!
Marsh King’s Daughter. Really like it so far.
Sulphur Springs by William Kent Krueger. <3
Before We Were Yours. Started it yesterday from a recommendation on this site!
I tried to like it but finally admitted I didn’t like it & didn’t like the movie version either
The Lying Game. Just opened the cover. Hope it’s good
Rough Riders by Mark Twain
Pleased to say that this side of the weekend sees me into What a Carve Up… I was having problems… I think down to the print size … the weekend has put paid a d I am now well on my way….
I read sophie’s world by jostein gaarder and i will finish it this night and then start 100 hundred years of solitude
Both of these are great, in completely different ways.
Caucasia and American Gods
Harry Bingham mysteries!
The Goldfinch. Might take a while!
The Mountain Between Us… ?
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. It’s very good so far, reads like fiction.
Close to Home by Robert Dugoni
The monk who sold his ferrari
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Autobiography of Henry III by Margaret George
I loved the premise of this book but felt it fizzled before the end.
I have felt that way about several books; hope I can get through it. Then, of course, Henry also fizzled at the end. 🙂
Just finished Superstorm Sandy (NF) and Gone with the Wind, now starting on Little Women, though I have a feeling I will break and read Karin Slaughter’s last book instead.
Two very appropriate books to read at same time. LOL
@Judy I like to mix it up! ??
Finished Frederik Backman’s My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry. Beautiful. ?
Bear Town is great!
Loved, loved that book and every one of his others.
The Novice’s Tale, first in the Dame Frevisse medieval mystery series. Pretty good.
Finished the astounding and frightening Oryx and Crake, first in the MaddAddam dystopian trilogy by Atwood. Wow!
Is that Margaret Atwood of handmaids tale?
@Bill Yes it is. It’s a great book, although not a happy one.
May give oryx and crake a go thanks
That one didn’t work for me, although I wanted it to.
I’m reading Simon vs. the Homo Sapians Agenda.
And it’s sooooo good!!
Oooh, that’s on my shelf! Glad to hear it!!
@Jen I’m glad it’s good! I’m definitely putting it on my TBR
@Shelly, I started it yesterday and finished it today. I loved it!
Just finished Hidden Figures, so I’m thinking my next book is going to be Radium Girls. Kind of staying in the STEM range of books! Haha!
Just finished Spoonbenders…thoroughly enjoyed it. Going to start The Women in the Castle tonight.
My book group loved Women in the Castle.
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. I’m only 25 pages in and it’s already super intense.
Loved this one!!
The Secret
Just finished Glass Houses and Y is for Yesterday…starting Hillbilly Elegy.
Just finished Glass Houses by Louise Penny, starting My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
The Glass Castle and Terranauts.
It! ????
The Arrangement
‘Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk’ by Kathleen Rooney
My book group just discussed this one last night. Terrific!
The Red Bandana, by Tom Rinaldi about 9/11. It’s about one young mans life and death at the Twin Towers. It’s a Book Club book for September and I hope the last one like this. It’s wonderful but so sad I cry a lot now that I’m getting to the end. No more like this!
The Leavers by Ko…
The miniaturist. Really engaging
8 flavors that changed the world…
That’s a fun sounding title!
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The keeper of lost things
Lethally Blond
The World below by Sue Miller
In the middle of Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody. Next on my list is Warcross by Marie Lu.
Small great things
The Lilac Girls…..a good read so far
Villa America by Liza Klaussmann. I love it!
Books for Living by Will Scwalbe.
Secrets in death
Columns of Fire, Ken Follett, the third in the Pillars of the Earth trilogy. So far, Pillars was the best.
I just read another post about Follett, I’m curious now…
i am reading 3rd one. i have 100 pages left put off finishing it. probably will read them all again. i like message of tolerance. it is timely in its own way
The Kid by Sapphire (sequel to Precious)
Into The Water by Paula Hawkins. 7 day express loan from the library so I’ve been trying to dig in! (Just don’t get as much time as I would like to read. Which would be ALL the time, lol.)
How is it?
@Melissa so far so good! Lots of characters and voices – for me, probably good to dig in or I’d get lost! Lol
Started “Keeping Kyler” last night.
Clockwork Angel
Into the Water
Big Little Lies
Loved that one!
Me too!
The last Tudor-phillipa Gregory’s newest and last novel ever to be written by her on the Tudor family court ??
Just finished Fried Green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop cafe.
That is such a wonderful book!
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Now rereading The Prince of Tides by Pat Conway
Buried – Twisted Cedars Mystery #1, by CJ Carmichael
The Nazi Officer’s Wife by Edith Hahn Beer
@Erin glad I got it free in my neighborhood little free library
the nightingale
Great book! ??
@Stephanie so far its been good. i seem to really like the historical fiction regarding this era.
Me too! Have you read alas, Babylon? It’s about survival during nuclear wartime but it was written in the 60s so segregation is still a thing. It’s really good
I have not, i will add it to the list. i just read Sarah’s Key and reread the 6th lamentation. Those were really good as well.
I haven’t heard of those, thanks for the recommendation!
Shadows, by Robin McKinley. She’s been one of my favorite authors since I fell in love with The Blue Sword when I was a girl. ?
Since We Fell D. Lehane
Almost done with “Wool” – so good!
The Girl Who Escaped ISIS.
Just got Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perotta
Carnegie’s Maid (coming in Jan or Feb) and now reading The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda, as I am interviewing her at the Morristown Festival of Books in October.
Love that event! Have been attending every year. ?
Me too! And I have moderated panels the last two years. And am looking forward to moderating two panels again this year!
Britt-Marie was here by Fredrick Backman
That’s next in my queue!
It’s very slow but good so very good. I’ve been told by two people to stick with it cause it’s worth it so we will see!
Just started Still Life
Has anyone read Mr. Milton’s Wife? I started it recently but in French. I’m still too much at the beginning to have an idea and I’m having too little time to read to advance and figure out if I like it or not.
I’ve been reading mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
I started Closed for Winter by Jorn Lier Horst last night. 🙂
Just started Wired by Julie Garwood and liking it so far. If you like light romantic suspense, I recommend this author -have read everything by her.
Just finished The Nightingale…..excellent!
Here and gone by haylen beck
Truckers by Terry Pratchett
prince of dogs by kate elliot…slow going so far :/
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin.
Every book on this site seems amazing! I don’t know where to start!!?
re-read Cat’s Cradle today. it’s still fantastic.
Alligator Candy by David Kushner. Sad but facsinating.
Reading “The view from Penthouse B” by Elinor Lipman.
“A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea” by Eunsun Kim
Just finished One Tuesday Morning, by Karen Kingsbury. Starting The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes.?
Finishing Hand Maidens Tale, How to Get Filthy Rich in Raising Asia, started Waking up in Heaven.
Just finished Flight of Dreams. Excellent!!
The Photograph
Started The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene. Finished The Cutthroat, Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
Didn’t know you were part of this group!
@Mary Just joined, a friend sent me a link. I scope out books for my Mom and my Sister as well.
@Michael I recently joined also. Now I have more suggestions than I can read in a lifetime. lol
Started The Girl in Cabin 10 this weekend for book club.
Just finished The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato. It is an unforgettable psychological novel about obsessive love. It is viewed as “an existential classic”. Highly recommend!!
Finished a light read, One for the Money by Evanovich and started the Henrietta Lacks story.
The Lacks story is excellent.
You just brought back great memories 🙂 I read one for the money and its many sequels right outside Trenton. She’s right we do put on extra mascara for bravery
One Second After – Trilogy series. Soooo good!
The Undead Pool ~ Kim Harrison started last night
Wrestling with His Angels: 1849-1856. Second volumne in Sidney Blumenthal’s biography of Abraham Lincoln.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33574211-emma-in-the-night
I started Beforelife by Randall Graham. I’m hearing him speak this weekend at Word on the Street in Toronto!
Reading “The Girl with all the Gifts” and I’m just not feeling it. I’m not a fan of sci fi at all, so maybe that’s the problem??
I liked the premise, as reflected in the ending. It does bog down in the middle a bit.
I love Sci-fi!
I guess what I’m saying is that it’s the book, not the genre, in this case. Skim the middle if you have to.
I always have more than one book going. On my Kindle: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, Truman (biography by David McCullough), just started an Inspector Montalbano mystery The Voice of the Violin, and am re-reading War and Peace. On audio I’m listening to The Raven in the Foregate (a Brother Cadfael mystery).
How do you keep the stories in order? Tried that once and failed, lol.
I don’t find it any more difficult than keeping up with more than one tv show storyline at a time. Editing to say I can watch Game of Thrones and Big Bang Theory and The Walking Dead and I don’t get the characters or stories confused. To me, reading different books concurrently is no different. But I’m weird anyway. I actually love War and Peace lol.
‘The People of the River’, by Michael and Kathleen Gear.
Getting ready to start Column of Fire by Ken Follett
Don’t Try To Find Me by Holly Brown
So I finished Wool and I think I’m actually going to read Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo next since she’s making an appearance at a local bookstore soon and I was thinking about going. :p
And I finished that. So good!!!
Native Son–Richard Wright
I started Astrophysics for People In a Hurry!
Ooooh… Let me know how that is!! It’s on my list 🙂
I’m about to start that too!
@Jodi It’s pretty good! I feel a little stupid reading it, but I’m also learning a lot and who knows––some of it might just stick.
On my list, glad to hear it’s good.
I am still knee deep in my bowl of books (the idea for which I stole from someone in this group, so thank you for that!)
I pulled Maggie Steifvater’s Shiver series, and I started book 3 last night. I’ll probably pick something else up, too, since these seem to be moving quickly!
Landscape with Invisible Hand by M.T. Anderson
Started this one today. Finished Between, Georgia last night. Pretty good book. Also finished A Vintage Affair and a fluffy romance called Belle of the Ball. I had a wonderfully FULL last few days of reading
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died under Nazi Occupation.
no but this book is good.. I love you more is the name
Madame Bovary
Kafka on the shore
Oh I hated that book! Made me vow to never pick up a Murakami book again! ?
Oh why? Can’t really judge this book right now as I am still on its starting chapters. Don’t know how far will my curiosity about the story can take me. Hahaha
I’ve read two of his books now (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles) and they both seemed to be inhabited by self-centered, navel-gazing adolescent boys who are more interested in their masturbation techniques than really connecting with anyone (but then I wasn’t a fan of Holden Caulfield either). And I really didn’t like what he did with the talking cats (which was the main reason I picked up the book). 🙁
Just started Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. I’m already enticed by the first excerpt
That book is incredible and fascinating! You won’t want to put it down. I didn’t put it down until I was done. And then I couldn’t do anything for a good hour after I read the last page because I had to digest the information and think through it in my head. Really great read!
Started Louise Penny’s Glass Houses. I’ve got high expectations. I’ve read all her others and reread the first seven. I discovered reading them one after the other is too repetitious.
About half way through listening to Glass Houses. Love it, of course. Louise Penny’s Gamache series is a treasure.