Currently Reading (Take 2)- Page 19

[StockardFan]

Posted: 6/9/11 at 9:54pm

The book I mentioned earlier was by SUSAN Elizabeth Phillips, not Sarah. Oops. Anyway, I just finished it and it was adorable. Very sweet love story but more too it than just that. Also about family reconciliation and redemption.

[wexy]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 9:44am

"Life", the Keith Richards autobio. Was alwaus a Stones vs Beatles person.
And when I was eleven, I bought the "Flowers" album and when I was listening to "Let's Spend The Night Together" my mother came into my room and said "An eleven year old boy shouldn't be listening to this."

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 10:14am

I hope you accused her of putting you under her thumb.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 10:41am

Like JG2, I am in the middle of the "Game of Thrones" series. I just started book 3.

One fascinating book I can recommend is "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." It is a true story about a poor black woman who while getting treated at Johns Hopkins, had her sample cells taken (without her consent), and they ended up being a cornerstone in many of the current vaccines we take for granted. It is an amazing story that intersects race, class and science. I still think and talk about that book a year after reading it.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 1:16pm

I'm currently reading "The Joke" by Milan Kundera, one of my favourite authors :)

[Roscoe]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 1:26pm

Just finished CATCH-22, as astounding and brilliant on a third reading as it was on the first.

Moving on to GAME OF THRONES, like a lot of folks round here. I've been enjoying the HBO series a good deal.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 2:19pm

Roscoe, if you are interested in buying the first 4 books at one time, Amazon had them bundled for about 20 bucks. I also found the same deal on Ebay with free shipping.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 2:41pm

Thanks, YWIW. I've already got the first one, though. I've gotten leery of buying too many books in a series at one time, it is better for my wallet and my full-to-overflowing bookcases if I buy them one at a time!

Enjoying the book so far, though. It'll be a great beach read.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 6/27/11 at 5:08pm

Josh Ritter - Bright's Passage

Okay, so I haven't read it yet but it comes out tomorrow - he'll be reading and signing at Barnes&Noble Union Sq. tomorrow. Can't wait to get my copy!

Updated On: 6/27/11 at 05:08 PM

[Dollypop]

Posted: 6/27/11 at 5:27pm

Mitch Albom's "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". It's tripe.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 6/27/11 at 5:56pm

Dollypop, could you please save me the effort and just tell me now who the five people are? Is Carol Channing one of them?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/27/11 at 6:09pm

Just started the daunting task that is The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb.

[AC126748]

Posted: 6/27/11 at 6:32pm

Finally broke down and started The Help. What can I say? I'm a white lady.

[sally1112]

Posted: 6/29/11 at 9:49am

It's been on my list for years, and now I am finally tackling Stephen King's It. Only on page 39 and I am loving it! Can't believe I waited so long.

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 7/1/11 at 8:11am

Sure of You by Armistead Maupin.

I'd read the first three Tales of the City books years ago but am now getting back to the final five (Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You, Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn).
Updated On: 7/1/11 at 08:11 AM

[StockardFan]

Posted: 7/1/11 at 11:33pm

I just finished a really good book by Lisa Jewell called A Friend of the Family.

[Plum]

Posted: 7/3/11 at 4:34pm

1602 - Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, and Richard Isanove

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/3/11 at 4:57pm

Just finished The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry. LOOVED it. Told from the perspective of an undiagnosed Asperger's adult. Her parents have just passes away and she's fighing for her independance.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/3/11 at 11:56pm

"Role Models" by Mr. John Waters. He and I have startlingly similar sensibilities if not wardrobes.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/18/11 at 8:51pm

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 7/18/11 at 8:55pm

I just bought Unbroken. It is the next book I read after "A Dance With Dragons".

[AC126748]

Posted: 7/19/11 at 8:24am

Columbine by Dave Cullen

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 7/19/11 at 11:55am

Just started "Michael Tolliver Lives."

[MotorTink]

Posted: 7/19/11 at 12:38pm

In the past two month's I read:

"Dead in the Family" & "Dead Reckoning" so I am all caught up on Sookie.

"Nine Dragons" Michael Connelly

"Father of the Rain" Lily Kane

"Little Bee" Chris Cleave

and then this weekend "The Fifth Witness" by Michael Connelly (excellent!)

Now I finally started "The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest."

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 7/19/11 at 1:10pm

I need to preface this by saying I NEVER read sci-fi, but a friend sent me Connie Willis's BLACKOUT, about time travel to WWII-era England, and I can't recall the last time I loved a book so much. It's funny, scary, moving, and challenging. For long stretches it just reads as an incredibly well researched historical novel.

A word of warning, though: It ends on a huge cliff hanger. Apparently what was meant to be one book became two still rather large ones. The story concludes with ALL CLEAR.

And I finished reading with tears literally streaming down my face. The ending was so touching and funny and sweet.