The Next Best Book Club discussion

After I read The Glass Castle, I will read Kite Runner.

Thank you, Fiona, I'm really looking forward to it.

I have the same to say to Popularandi. I haven't read The Glass Castle (yet) but I absolutely adored The Kite Runner

Once I finish John Adams and Fathers and Sons, I have The Last Lecture and The Spellman Files waiting for my attention. I'm really looking forward to The Spellman Files in particular, so that's great motivation to keep me working on my current two.

Cristy wrote: "Next up will either be:
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larson or
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

I haven't decided yet, any suggestions on which to choose first?"


Totally the Moore book! One of his best!

Tara wrote: "I am currently reading Sailing Alone Around Room. Next I think is going to be The Count of Monte Cristo."

I envy anyone who is about to embark on the Monte Cristo ride. I really enjoyed that book. It became such a part of my life as I was reading it.

Tara, Thanks for the heads up on the Kite Runner.

I am really looking forward to it. I am working on my overwhelming TBR pile. I really do have 3000+ books in the TBR file. I am reading the books that are on the first page of the list (first ones I added to my TBR. The one I'm reading now, Cocktails for Three, the next two are The Glass Castle and Kite Runner are all on the first page of my list. I have all of those books accounted for. I will read them one at a time, but will get through them quicker than I may think. I can't wait to read all of these books that I thought great enough to put in my TBR to begin with.

I am really looking forward to Monte Cristo now! I'd better speed-read through my other book... who needs sleep? It's optional, isn't it?

I am going to start with the oldest publication of my tbr list. It is llPrincipe by Machavelli. then I want to read The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

Lori wrote: "Cristy wrote: "Next up will either be:
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larson or
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

I haven't decided yet, any suggestions on which to choose first?"

Tough pick! I loved Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but Moore is HILARIOUS! So...Moore!

..."

I'm going to be starting Beauty is Therapy Memories of the Traverse City State Hospital by Earle E. Steele next. It's about the time when a mental institution near where I live was still going strong before the shutdown of a bunch of them during the Reagan administration. This building fascinates me. It's beautifully designed but uber-creepy looking as well. It is currently being turned into stores and an apartment complex. Fortunately they aren't changing any of the building design so it still looks the same on the outside down to the color. The place is huge. It had it's own farm, water tower and a factory (for carpet or sewing, I can't remember which).

Tara wrote: "I am really looking forward to Monte Cristo now! I'd better speed-read through my other book... who needs sleep? It's optional, isn't it?"

Is it weird that I really wish sleep was optional?

My next book will be either Outlander or The First Man in Rome. I can't decide.

Grace, i wouldnt want to live there, knowing all the weird shit that goes on in a mental institution... Eek!

Felina wrote: "Tara wrote: "I am really looking forward to Monte Cristo now! I'd better speed-read through my other book... who needs sleep? It's optional, isn't it?"

Is it weird that I really wish sleep was o..."


I wish that allllll the time!!!! I always imagine science will come up with something that will shorten how much sleep the human body needs...that's what I wish for on my birthdays...oh wait, does telling my wish to my cyberfriends going to reverse my wish??? :\

Nearly done with Fahrenheit 451, so up next is Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and then either Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell or Dubliners or The Island of Dr. Moreau. . . I haven't decided yet :D

Jessica wrote: "Felina wrote: "Tara wrote: "I am really looking forward to Monte Cristo now! I'd better speed-read through my other book... who needs sleep? It's optional, isn't it?"

Is it weird that I really w..."

Ha ha. I hope it doesn't reverse your wish. I always say that if I ever find a genie who can grant wishes the first one will be that I don't have to sleep, that my body doesn't need it but I can if I want. People think I'm crazy but I think its sounds awesome. You could have a full time job, go to school full time, watch movies and maybe finish Cynthia's Challenge. Hey wait, maybe Rosanne and the others who have finished the challenge have already found the genie.

Good Grief! All my library books came in at once. I now have three weeks to read the following:
- The Other Queen (Philippa Gregory) which i've started
- Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
- Fallen Skies by (Philippa Gregory)
- The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (David Wroblewski)
- What is the What (Valentino Ackak Deng) autob
- Wicked (Gregory Maguire)
- A Woman in Berlin (Frau in Berlin)

Not sure how many i'll get through...but i'll try to read them all!

:)

I have decided that I will read I Am America and So Can You before Kite Runner.

Kate wrote: "Good Grief! All my library books came in at once. I now have three weeks to read the following:
- The Other Queen (Philippa Gregory) which i've started
- Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
- Fa..."

The Pillars of the Earth is LOOOOOOOOONG. Good luck!

lol, thanks. I usually soak up Philippa Gregory but i'm having trouble getting into 'The Other Queen'. That doesn't bode well....

I finished A Prayer For Owen Meaney and Blindness. I am going to start Prozac Nation and Siddartha next.

The next books on my list are Amagansett and The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder.

I think I will be starting You Know Where To Find Me by Rachel Cohn.
Then it will be Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes.

I'll be starting Into the Night by Suzanne Brockmann as soon as I log off of GoodReads. So far, I haven't come across a bad book in this series.

Right now the following books are on my TBR next list (in no particular order):

- Pride and Prejudice
- The Thirteenth Tale
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- North and South

Dunno if I'll get through all of them as I also have a bunch of non-fiction books to get through before my classes start but yeah =)

Felina wrote: "Jessica wrote: "Felina wrote: "Tara wrote: "I am really looking forward to Monte Cristo now! I'd better speed-read through my other book... who needs sleep? It's optional, isn't it?"

Is it weird..."

I've totally tried planning out my day and night if I didn't have to sleep and let me tell ya...I have realized there still isn't enough time! lol.

Bhumi, I agree with you. Pillars was a great book but soooo long. I felt there was some material that could have been left out...but it was very good anyways.

It didn't get much better. I think I was comparing it too much with Antonia Fraser's Mary Queen of Scot. I forgot that Gregory's was fiction.

The Other Queen was kind of a let down for me. I thought the relationships amongst everyone involved were very high school jealousy, puppy love stuff.

Rachel wrote: "The Other Queen was kind of a let down for me. I thought the relationships amongst everyone involved were very high school jealousy, puppy love stuff."

My problem is that it's soo repetitive. Plus, I'm not really bonding with the characters...I don't know if i CARE about their story. I'll keeping plugging...

I will be starting Time Travelers Wife as soon as I am done with Thirteenth Tale

I'm currently reading The Time Traveler's Wife. Next on my list in no particular order:

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
1984 by George Orwell
Perfect by Judith McNaught

I also want to start Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris and Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty.

Yay for the group read girls :)
Its a great book. I loved it....

Next up in line is Relentless by Dean Kootz

Finishing up Rose of No Man's Land. Next up... I, Coriander!

I am 1/4 way through A Suitable Boy. I am enjoying it very much.Thought I would surface and let you know I am still reading . It is well worth the read if anyone feels like tackling it. For those who don't know it is over 1400 pages, and about the East Indian culture in the 1950,s

Next is THE HISTORIAN.

Next on my list is Stand by your Hitman.

I'm reading The Time Traveler's Wife but next up is Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.

Kate wrote: "lol, thanks. I usually soak up Philippa Gregory but i'm having trouble getting into 'The Other Queen'. That doesn't bode well...."

hmmm. Too bad. I also had trouble with The Constant Princess ... bor-ring. never got past about page 20. Like you, I've liked her others; sorry to hear The Other Queen might not be up to par either!

After I finish The Hour I First Believed A Novel I will read A Mercyby Toni Morrison.

There's been a shift in my TBR list since I bought a couple of books since my last post. So aside from the remainder of LOTR on my list, The Time Traveler's Wife is next =D

I'm currently reading Fat Land How Americans Became the Fattest People in the Land and have Memoirs of a Geisha next on my list.

Now I came back to the group a couple of days ago and saw that The Time Traveler's Wife ist the months group read.... hm, maybe I'll buy that one and put it up as the next in line...

I'm only 150 pages into Dan Abnett's The Saint, but I am positively twitching, waiting to pick up...
Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver
Alyson Noel's Evermore
Kelley Armstrong's The Summoning
Rachel Vincent's Pride
among many others.

Manday wrote: "I need to finish up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and then I need to start my book club book that is due next week, Away.. but I am not very excited about it :-( "

I read that for my book club and wasn't a big fan.

Amy wrote: "I'm only 150 pages into Dan Abnett's The Saint, but I am positively twitching, waiting to pick up...
Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver
Alyson Noel's Evermore
Kelley Armstrong's The Summoning
Rachel Vincen..."

I really enjoy Rachel Vincent!! I love the werecat series!!

The Summoning was good too... one of my favorite authors!

Still have the remainder of LOTR on my list of books to read but Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale is up there on my list of books to read =)

Glad to hear more good things about these books!

And Li, I really liked The Thirteenth Tale. I went so far as to call it my favorite book read this year.

Amy wrote: "Glad to hear more good things about these books!

And Li, I really liked The Thirteenth Tale. I went so far as to call it my favorite book read this year."

Glad to hear you enjoyed the novel! I started reading it today and it's pretty interesting, can't stop reading it xD

Just started Valley of the Dolls! Up next... maybe A Tale of Two Cities?? Not sure yet!

I have The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on hold at the library. I am hoping that it will be as good as The Shadow of the Wind. That book will be a hard book to beat!

Lauren wrote: "Just started Valley of the Dolls! Up next... maybe A Tale of Two Cities?? Not sure yet!"

I loved Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens at his best