Chicks On Lit discussion

What are you reading right now? So far so good? I'm currently reading Worlds Without End and Thousand Splendid Suns.
I loved both of their previous books and was so eager to read these I couldn't pick one to read before the other. So one is my "upstairs book" and one is my "downstairs book" So far I am loving both.

On the Intro board I said I was reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, so I'll say it again here!

I am also reading "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn"

I think I have three running right now: Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones (kid lit), The Quest by Wilbur Smith, and Jamestown: The Buried Truth by William M. Kelso (nonfiction).

Read "Thousand splendid suns". Really thought it was a good read. I read "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" about a million years ago. I should read it again.

My daughter just finished studying Jamestown, so I think I will pick that one up.

Right now, I am rereading Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.

Well on my way to work today I had to stop and pick up a new book and on the advice of another member of the other group I'm part of I picked up The Thirteenth Tale by Dianne Setterfield.

Let's put it this way....I can't put it down!!!! And I wish people would stop checking in so I could just read!!!

And Tera...how is WWE? I just ordered that today and will be starting it with my other book group next week....I'm not a huge Follet fan and I haven't read Pillars yet...I'm a tad nervous about this book.

I'm trying to read Shopaholic And Baby, but I'm really not caring for it that much. I usually love the shopaholic series of books.

I just started Harvesting The Heart by Jodi Piccoult today.

So far I really like WWE. I LOVED Pillars of the Earth. I had never read one of his books before. From what I hear it is not like any of his other books but trust me it is great! It has like 900 pages in it but I simply couldnt stay away from it. I went to bed at 2 am woke up at 5 am just to read it. I was of no use to my family for the 4 days it took me to read it.

Right now I'm reading Pretty Little Mistakes by Heather McElhatton. It's a choose your own ending book for adults.I was so excited when I bought it since I loved these type of books as a kid but I'm not really liking it too much. Oh well.

Yesterday, I finished Deadly Gamble by Linda Lael Miller (an author I never read before) and loved it! I can't wait until the second book in the series comes out in March. :)

Currently reading Duma Key. So far so good! Stephen King may have redeemed himself from his last few books. While his last few that I read (Cell, Lisey's Story) weren't bad, they weren't what I had hoped for.

I am currently listening to the Kite Runner (already finished A Thousand Splendid Suns), reading Pride and Prejudice for the 3rd time, and a fast read called Rules, Britannia (about the social/language differences between the UK and the US). Along with 2 Tudor history books for class, a Tudor/Stuart history text book, and a research methods class for my education masters class.

Bill Bryon's Shakespeare book is next on my line up for books-on-CD (I always have 1 CD going and one real book going, for I am in my car a lot and/or walking across campus, and iPods are great to listen to books on!).

Update on The Thirteenth Tale....you guys...read this book! It is soooooo good!!!! I'm already 250 pages into this 410 page book...I'm going to be disappointed when it's over!

Kenzielu...it took me a few chapters to really get into it. Cause in the beginning Margaret is really rather just boring and blah...but once it hooks you -- It HOOKS you.

I stayed up till 3am to finish this book and it's been a long long time since I've done that.

It's an amazing story and even more fantastic is the storytellers style...you truly feel like you're sitting in a room with a good friend listening to her life story.

So, pick it up and try it again! I don't think you'll be disappointed once you get into it.

Right now I'm reading The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood. Atwood is one of those authors that I have to save up my energy to read. She's so smart and insightful, and I feel like I get a workout the whole time I'm reading her. She is peace...

Sara and Tera, Pillars is on my shelf at home just waiting for me. I've also never read any of his work, but I guess I'd better pick that one up sooner than later. :)

Ohhh Amanda, Margaret Atwood is one of my all time favorite authors!! You should try her short fiction...they're much easier to get into and out of...haha

I just started Love in the time of Cholera.

Dh is reading World without End. We both loved Pillars so I can't wait to read it when he is done. But he is a slow reader, so next up for me will be Water for Elephants

I agree with the comment about Follett. Pillars is unlike his other books. I loved it when I read it and bought World the day it came out because I heard it was like Pillar, as opposed to his other works.

Water for Elephants was the last book that I finished. I really enjoyed it. I think I am appreciating it even more a week or so after I read it. The ending was my favorite part. All through the book I kept imagining it as a movie. Do you ever do that? Some books just seem made to become a movie. For some reason I saw Matt Damon as the lead character.

ok, I am so loving this place.

I'm obsessed with adding books read to my bookshelves. And I'm going through everyone else's lists as well.

so many books, so little time.

I think I'm going to sign off and go read!

Well as everyone knows, cause I keep shouting it's many splendors I started, read, and finished The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield yesterday (I've already been able to get 3 of my coworkers excited about reading it too!).

But on my way to work today I picked up Water for Elephants and didn't get a chance to start it cause I was working with my best friend and we sorta chit chat about other things...including books, but you know it goes.

I'm also going to be reading World Without End soon, as well as 5Quarters with this group!

Phew.

I'm going to be a busy busy girl!

I am currently reading The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. It is hilarious and I am loving it. What an awesome mom that lady was. It is 346 pages and I just started it last night but will probably finish it today it is sooooo good.

OK, I jusr finished A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Great book! I highly recommend it to all.

Kenzielu....read Water for Elephants if you haven't already!

I'm reading Labyrinth by Kate Mosse - anyone else read or reading this book.

Deb, it's on my "to read" shelf. I stareted it once but it was a borrowed copy and had to give it back before I got more than a few pages in. I'm really looking forward to picking it up again soon, though!

W4E is about a vet who travels with a circus. I don't want to get too far into details cause I never know what might ruin a book for someone else!

Hey all-

I love browsing everyone's lists! I am about to finish up The Kept Man by Jami Attenberg

I've got I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angleou) on my nightstand, and Memory Keepers Daughter on the mp3 player.....up next is The Jane Austen Book Club (mp3)and Snowflower and the Secret Fan (nightstand)

I am trying to start The Memory Keeper's Daughter....What are your thoughts on that one?

Ohhh The Memory Keeper's Daughter is one of my FAVORITE books! It starts off a little slow, but hang on it gets better!

Jane Austen Book Club is SO good Kenzielu...you won't be disappointed. Karen Joy Fowler is an amazing author...you'll want to snap up all of her books!

I'm obsessed too! I cannot stop this place! I LOVE BOOOKS! I want to scream it from the mountaintops!! I FEEL THE NEED.......to go to the library today.

Carrie, you are very silly and I like you! :)

I read the Memory Keeper's Daughter. I liked it but I was so wishing the author would explore some of the other characters more. I felt there were other stories there that I wanted to know about and I didnt get that. It was a good story though and I'd recommend it. I almost picked up Jane Austen Book Club but thought if i add another book to my list right now my family will forget what I look like with my face burried in a book.

I've got Water for Elephants on my toreadlist; I read Memories Keepers Daughter, The Thirteenth Tale and loved them both; Did anyone read the Garden Spells?

I just received Five Quarters of an Orange, so I'll be starting it tonight. BUT, I just couldn't resist diving into Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. It begins as an examination of the murders of a woman and her toddler daughter by two of her brothers-in-law and segues into an examination of the origins of the Mormon religion to explain the men's rationale behind the killings. (The murderers were Mormon fundamentalists who believed that God had ordered them to kill their sister-in-law.) Really interesting so far!

I'm reading "Queen Bees and Wannabees" so that I'm not completely in the dark when my daughter begins middle school next year. I'm also reading "The Letters of Noel Coward." It's lovely.

I liked "Jane Austen Book Club" and "The Memory Keeper's Daughter."

I just finished The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella. Fantastic light read that I would highly recommend! I'm poking through Do You Think What You Think You Think and about to start The Quest by Wilbur Smith. Wilbur Smith is my favorite author and The Quest is the fourth book in my favorite series, so I'm super excited to start that one!

Hi Rebecca! ;)

I bought The Quest last week, not realizing it was part of a series. Do you think it will make sense without the precursors, or should I pick up the first three novels and read them first?

I'm reading Jungle Lipstick...(I cant watch the show because I'm in school at that time)
so far I love the book...

Ive*

I'm reading Geek Love for a book club I am in. I really don't like it and if I was reading it on my own I would have returned it to the library after the first three pages. Just not my idea of reading for enjoyment.

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn??? That's an amazing book...one of my favorites....

What about it don't you like?

Has anyone read Alice Hoffman? I was browsing local bookstores and she is supposed to be similar to Jodi Piccoult who I really enjoy. I just picked up her book Skylight Confessions over the weekend, and was interested if anyone has checked it out yet...

Kristen, Alice Hoffman--didn't she write Practical Magic? Waaaaay loved the movie. Didn't read the book yet, but I have another of hers on my shelf at home just waiting to be read. Have you started Skylight Confessions yet???

Have not yet started Skylight Confessions, I am still on Life of Pi, though I seem to be breezing through...I think that one is next on my list, either that or Omnivores Dilemma. So many books, so little time!

I love Alice Hoffman, I've read all of her books. Great writer. I discovered her when one of her books made the Oprah Book Club a few years back. I just finished reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and loved it, great book. I've started Persuasion while waiting for my 5 Quarters book to come in.

I am reading the most funny book! The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy, by Robert Leleux. I am laughing out loud reading this. I am about half way thru, but wondered if anyone else has read this.

i just got valerie bertinelli's autobio ("losing it") and "a new earth" yesterday. not like i don't have a pile of books from the library sitting next to my side of the bed!

I just finished "The Year of Living Biblically" - it was really great, I totally recommend it!

I'm reading the White Darkness which won the Michael Printz award for YA and I just started The Other Mother for my book club. I'm really enjoying both so far.