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[uncageg]

Posted: 1/5/12 at 2:53pm

Enjoyed Bossypants. Not as laugh out loud funny as I expected but it was a fun read. The SNL stuff was good.

Am now re-reading "Silver Shoes".

[CJR]

Posted: 1/5/12 at 3:01pm

I LOVED The Hunger Games trilogy and can't wait for the movie in March

I just finished a strange book I had in storage (and never read) called Kissing in Manhattan. It was good, but the ending was very unfinished for all the stories that wind together throughout the book.

I loved The Help and I really liked Room - even though it was VERY dark

[StockardFan]

Posted: 1/5/12 at 7:52pm

I am so proud of myself. I figured out how to check out an e-book from the public library on my Kindle today. I have no clue how I did it though. I don't even know the name of the book, but it was by Susan Elizabeth Phillips who I like. I had to get on the waiting list for a few other books. Better than spending money on them though.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 8:06pm

I am currently re-reading the Harry Potter series for the third time. When I am done with that, I have Dracula downloaded on my Kindle. I have never reader it before, so I am pretty excited

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 9:04pm

I would highly recommend the book The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am by Kjerski A. Skomsvold - a short and quirky little book about death that will leave a big impression.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 10:11pm

I just finished The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst (amazing but not quite the experience I had with his best book The Folding Star).

Am now reading London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp... Do far so good (similar themes though)

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/8/12 at 1:29pm

[sally1112]

Posted: 1/11/12 at 7:50pm

My bff bought a copy of Peter Straub's Ghost Story for me for Christmas. Odd Christmas gift, I know, but I wanted to read it around Halloween but could not find a copy of it.I'm on about page 80 and really digging it so far.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 1/11/12 at 8:38pm

Is that the one they made into a movie? That movie scared the bejeebus out of me. I'm reading some cheesy Linda Howard book because I checked it out of the library on e-books and have to finish it by a week from Friday. Then I have a book called Still Alice that I downloaded from Amazon that I have to read for book club.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/18/12 at 9:24pm

Almost finished with:





And then going to start:

Updated On: 1/18/12 at 09:24 PM

[MotorTink]

Posted: 1/19/12 at 8:58am

I read 2 of The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Journals companion books. Don't hate. They are a guilty pleasure.

Just finsihed "Sarah's Key". Wow. Quite an emotional book but enjoyed it greatly.

Now I am in the middle of Lee Child's "Nothing to Lose".

Still waiting for 11/22/63 to come in at the library. I have been on the waiting list since October.

[sally1112]

Posted: 1/19/12 at 8:22pm

@StockardFan, yes this Ghost Story is the one they made into a movie. Everyone tells me the book is way better. I kinda remember seeing the movie on cable when I was a kid and it being creepy.
I am going to rent it when I am done.
I love the book, it is a great winter scary read!

Updated On: 1/24/12 at 08:22 PM

[StockardFan]

Posted: 1/22/12 at 9:02pm

Sally I'll look for it. The movie scared the bejeebus out of me too.

Right now I'm reading a novel called "Still Alice" by Lisa Genova. It's about a 50 year old Harvard professor who develops early onset Altzheimers. It's told from her point of view and it's heartbreaking. I have to put it down every now and then because my eyes get teary and I can't read the words.

[javero]

Posted: 1/23/12 at 4:59pm

Comedy Writing Step By Step by Gene Perret.

Carol Burnett provided the foreword.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/23/12 at 8:28pm

Finished the Carol Burnett book. Now onto:

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 1/24/12 at 12:37am

I've red Isherwood's Berlin Stories ever since I became hooked on Cabaret as a young teen--probably read them a couple of times since, and read A Single Man (which whether you liked the movie or not--I did a lot with some big problems--is simply one of the most stunning short novels I've ever read), but somehow never got around to reading more Isherwood--aside from Christopher and His Kind his sorta "real" memoir take on the Berlin Stories with what actually happened in more frankness.

An online friend said I had to read Down There on a Visit, which he wrote in the 60s immediately before Single Man, but continues the stoires of some of the characters from Berlin Stories and was originally intended to be combined with those as well as some unfinished works as his never finalized big epic work The Lost. It's divided into four parts--I'm onto the second and really loving it.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 1/25/12 at 7:59pm

I'm reading "Sing You Home" by Jodi Piccoult. It's about a woman who loses a baby at 28 weeks and her marriage falls apart. She ends up falling in love with another woman, and remembers that she has frozen embryos from when she was married. She asks her ex for permission for her and her partner to try and have one of the babies and raise it, but he's now and Evalengelical (sp?) Christian. And all the stuff that happens after that. It's good so far.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 1/25/12 at 11:00pm

^ I LOVE Jodi Picoult's books.

[picturetaker9211]

Posted: 1/25/12 at 11:10pm

I loved Bossypants & highly recommend listening to the audiobook as opposed to reading the actual hard copy. I am a huge fan of Tina Fey & found it laugh out loud funny. Apparently she is nominated for a Grammy for her reading of that book.

I just finished reading The Hunger Games Trilogy. I absolutely loved it!! I have heard from many friends & found this true for myself, that the last book was definitely not as good as the other two. It was an amazing series nonetheless. I'm ridiculously excited for the movie to come out; 50-something days is too far away!

Up next is: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Don't know if anybody has mentioned Goodreads.com, but it's a great site for bookworms! Read reviews, get recommendations, & keep track of your read & to read books

[MotorTink]

Posted: 1/26/12 at 8:08am

Yesterday I read "Best Part of Me" by Nicholas Sparks. I was in the line at the library and it was sitting there.

Seriously, that man is a sadist. Why in the hell do people enjoy reading these stories?? lol

[MotorTink]

Posted: 2/2/12 at 9:44am

This week i read two books that were randomly on my book shelf -

"Finger Lickin' Fifteen" by Janet Evanovich - not knowing that this was the series that new Heigl movie was based on, and the 15th in the series, but it was actually enjoyable. I have an issue with female lead characters, but Plum didn't annoy me as much as I would expect. Simple fluff reading but had me laugh a few times. I'll start at the beginning of the series now.

"The Sugar Queen" by Sarah Addison Allen. Once again, fluff reading but a cute story. I will now pick up her first book "Garden Spells" at the library.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/2/12 at 9:58am

"Rules of Civility" by Amor Towles.

LOVE!

Incredible debut novel. I can't put it down.

Description:
Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year- old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of New York society in search of a brighter future.

The story opens on New Year's Eve in a Greenwich Village jazz bar, where Katey and her boardinghouse roommate Eve happen to meet Tinker Grey, a handsome banker with royal blue eyes and a ready smile. This chance encounter and its startling consequences cast Katey off her current course, but end up providing her unexpected access to the rarified offices of Conde Nast and a glittering new social circle. Befriended in turn by a shy, principled multimillionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow who is ahead of her times, Katey has the chance to experience first hand the poise secured by wealth and station, but also the aspirations, envy, disloyalty, and desires that reside just below the surface. Even as she waits for circumstances to bring Tinker back into her orbit, she will learn how individual choices become the means by which life crystallizes loss.

Elegant and captivating, Rules of Civility turns a Jamesian eye on how spur of the moment decisions define life for decades to come. A love letter to a great American city at the end of the Depression, readers will quickly fall under its spell of crisp writing, sparkling atmosphere and breathtaking revelations, as Towles evokes the ghosts of Fitzgerald, Capote, and McCarthy.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 2/2/12 at 10:07am

I just added it to my list, Addy, sound good. And I totally want to meet a guy named Tinker Grey.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/2/12 at 10:17am

It's been out for a few months, Tink. I know others have mentioned it in this thread. I think you'll enjoy it!

I have a large stack of books next to my bed. I haven't had as much time to read as I like, so I'm enjoying catching up.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 2/19/12 at 9:14am

I read the first three Plum books by Janet Evanovich which were fun fluffy pieces.

Then I just finished "Rules of Civility" after Addy's suggestion. Very good. Coming of age story in 1939, fun atmosphere, fun characters.

I'm still working on 11/22/63, and also have a week before i have to return "Kill Alex Cross" by James Patterson.