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[nygrl232]

Posted: 2/19/12 at 1:49pm

"Suicide Mine" by Callas Hillier

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 2/19/12 at 6:03pm

I'm back to reading ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER. I started reading it last year but stopped for some reason. A couple of days ago, I saw the movie trailer......got interested in it again.....picked the book back up.....and I am REALLY enjoying it.

[wexy]

Posted: 2/19/12 at 10:49pm

Just started "Ten Thousand Saints" by Eleanor Henderson.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 2/20/12 at 8:59am

Desperately trying to read the Tiger's Wife. I can not get into it at all, and we have book club on Thursday night. *sigh*

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 3/1/12 at 6:33pm

Hope - A Tragedy, by Shalom Auslander, about a guy who finds an 83 year old Anne Frank living in his attic. Enjoyable enough with some guilty laughs.

I've been meaning to read The Tiger's Wife for a while now too, but I can't seem to summon up the enthusiasm.

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 3/1/12 at 6:48pm

just finished the hunger games trilogy... am going to take a break from reading (have a big exam coming up) and will then read The Hobbi

[MotorTink]

Posted: 3/2/12 at 7:56am

Last sat I read "Kill Alex Cross" by James Patterson, so i can put that series to bed for another year. He's slowly getting back to his roots after the horrible last 2 - 3 books.

I have 4 days to finish 11/22/63, oy. And then Death at Pemberly finally came it, can't wait to read it!

[sally1112]

Posted: 3/3/12 at 1:30pm

I have just under 300 pages of the 1,074 pages of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. I have been wanting to read this for years, but man, I started in early Feb and really wanted to be done by now. I hate spending a whole month on a book.

[yodamarie78]

Posted: 3/3/12 at 1:39pm

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer

[Plum]

Posted: 3/6/12 at 4:46pm

Cloud Computing Bible, by Barrie Sosinsky.

[tazber]

Posted: 3/6/12 at 5:01pm

The Ritual by Adam Nevill.

Has anyone else read this?

[StockardFan]

Posted: 3/6/12 at 5:44pm

Jay, I ended up never finishing the Tiger's Wife. Only 2 girls in my book club actually liked it. I may try to pick it up again at some point.

Right now I'm reading some cheesy book by Heather Graham. Somethingorother Evil. I can't remember the title because it's on my Kindle, so it just comes up where I stopped. And there are 2 books by her on there with Evil in the title. I wanted something easy after trying to read The Tiger's Wife.

This month we are supposed to be reading Beyond the Beautiful Forevers, which is like a real life Slum Dog I think. I haven't even downloaded it yet.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/6/12 at 7:17pm

*Resists commenting on Atlas Shrugged* :P

I'm reading The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov: A Novel by Paul Russell who is one of my fave, for lack of a better term (he's probably hate this) gay lit authors. Based on the true life of Vladimir Naboikov's gay brother who was largely estranged from him, had a fairly successful life interacting with various artists and writers like Gloria Stein in Europe, and ended up in the Nazi concentration camps (that's not a spoiler really for anyone who's heard about his life). Just 50 pages in, but really enjoying it right now.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 3/6/12 at 10:02pm

I haven't finished Hope, A Tragedy yet but it hasn't held my interest and I picked up Roberto Bolano's 2666 which likely will take me a loooooong time to read.

Do you mean Gertrude Stein, Eric? (Thinking of Gloria Steinem? ) That book does sound quite interesting, though I'd probably be more inclined to read it if it were straight fact, rather than a novelisation.

And I've decided to follow your lead Stockard, and abandon The Tiger's Wife. Life's too short to follow the crowd!

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/6/12 at 10:28pm

I think there's too little known about his actual life to go with straight fact sadly (Vladimir Nabokov, for all his well known tolerance, was so upset that his brother was gay--he read his diary when they were young--that he even refused to mention him in his memoirs unbtil one final revision shortly before he died). And yes, I meant Gertrude Stein--LOL it's been a long day with no sleep... :P

Good to know that now I shouldn't feel guilty for not bothering with The Tiger's Wife

[MotorTink]

Posted: 3/30/12 at 11:46am

I read "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes last night. A small book which does having some interesting insights on memory through the years, but also felt a little forced.

[tazber]

Posted: 3/30/12 at 12:01pm

Just finished "Untouchable" by Scott O'connor.

A wonderful, deeply felt novel.

Almost every reviewer has used the terms "depressing", "bleak", or "difficult" in their reviews.

I must say that I found the empathy with which O'connor draws his characters tremendously moving. And personally I found the book inspiring and hopeful. Clearly I'm of a different mind than most, but I recommend this novel heartily.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 4/18/12 at 2:33pm

Just finished "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. I was ashamed when I saw a list of "Top Read books" and realized that I have read so few. So I am trying to get one in every book or so.

There is so much that can be said about this book, I don't even know where to begin. Just VERY interesting (not planned) timing with all the "50 Shades of Grey" talk going on and the "women being submissive" debates.

Updated On: 4/18/12 at 02:33 PM

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 4/18/12 at 2:42pm

Read the Handmaids Tale years ago, and loved it.

BTW Tink, the mail went out today.

[californiasnow]

Posted: 4/18/12 at 4:05pm

I just finished Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith. Over 500 pages, but a very enjoyable read about Elizabeth II and the challenges she has faced since taking the throne, as well as some insights into her private life. Highly recommended.

I'm currently making my way through Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. I'm not in love with it so far (about 100 pages in), but I like it enough to keep going.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 4/18/12 at 4:28pm

Anyone here on Goodreads? It's my miracle app.

Anyway, just finished Tipping the Velvet. At first I enjoyed it but then I thought the main character became far less sympathetic. Currently working on David Stenn's biography of Clara Bow and The Adults by Alison Espach.

[yodamarie78]

Posted: 4/18/12 at 8:42pm

I'm zipping my way through Dennis Lehane's Kenzie and Gennaro books. I started Sacred yesterday.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/18/12 at 9:54pm

Handmaid's Tale was required reading in high school, though I've heard in the US it's often on banned books for school lists. I loved it at the time--but admit I've had a hard time trying to get through a lot of Atwood's other fiction, with the exception of Alias Grace which I also loved (I do have an easier time with her short stories).

Right now I'm reading Surprising Myself, the first novel from Christopher Bram who is probably most famous for his novel Father of Frankenstein (which became the movie Gods and Monsters and I think is now sold under that title). It's in some ways a typical gay coming of age in the 70s story with a meandering plot set in the midwest, Switzerland and New York, but the writing and especially charaterization are extremely strong so am zipping through it.

[Salene]

Posted: 4/19/12 at 3:57am

The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens

Seeing the stage version in 2 weeks.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 4/19/12 at 8:05am

Yeah, I kinda agree with banning it from HS reading lists. I wouldn't mind checking out some of her other works, but I have a long list of books already waiting for me.

Today I start "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern which was highly recommended by my cousin. I'm also in the middle of "Sunset Park" by Paul Auster. I read "Invisible" a year or so ago and was not exactly fond of it, so I did not have high hopes for his new one, but so far not so bad.

Thanks, YWIW! :)