Reader's Paradise discussion

Priya wrote: "Currently reading The Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien). I started reading it a year ago, as i had read The Hobbit and loved it...but i didn't get to finish it, so i'm taking it up again now...refre..."
Hello Priya! I am reading Silmarillion and find it so much better than the lord of Rings. If you've read it, I d be glad to share experiences. It really is, as a friend of mine once described it, like a hundred "Lords of the Rings" together. ;)

I am currently reading Sidney Sheldon's Chasing Tomorrow by Tilly Bagshawe.. Finding it very interesting will share my reviews once i have finished.

Niki wrote: "Priya wrote: "Currently reading The Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien). I started reading it a year ago, as i had read The Hobbit and loved it...but i didn't get to finish it, so i'm taking it up aga..."

Hello Niki :) I haven't gotten round to reading LOTR yet. Exams are approaching, and i didn't want to dive into a series at this point (Tolkien especially deserves some time) The Silmarillion, eh? Does it take place before the LOTR? Should I be reading it first?
I'm going for stand-alones right now. Just finished The curious incident of the dog in the night time, and moved on to Peter Pan.

Silmarillion starts from the creation of the world, part of which is middle earth, it is something like a genesis and tales of legends, great elves and later men. I find the stories more fascinating because I saw the lotr movies first so I was a bit bored when i read the lotr trilogy.It is not many pages and has many chapters so it can be easily read. Wish you success in your exams!

Thank you Niki :) I'll see if I can squeeze it in my schedule :P sounds really good! maybe it'll help me understand later events better. I haven't seen the movies yet, so no problem there.

Abhilash wrote: "Shantaram by Gregory Robert"

Loved it. But needs a lots of patience. How much you've read? And how do you find it so far?

I am currently reading No Place Like Home by Mary higgins clark . This is the first time i am reading her books . Anyone read her books before !!!

Requiem, پنج داستان، بازى آتش and Lord of the Flies.

Oh and also Ghosts of Heaven

I'm currently reading The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt.

I am currently reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, suddenly I am having this crazy obsession with classics.
Loving reading it!!!

One Indian Girl-Chetan Bhagat

I am currently reading Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl.

currently reading 1) Dune 2) Jonathan Strange and Norell 3) The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook (that one I started today).

American Gods (almost finished it, and really enjoing it!), [House of Thieves] (really interesting, well-written)

I'm currently reading archived by Victoria Schwab

I'm busy reading Melody's Key by Dallas Coryell. : )

I'm currently reading The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. Andsurprise: it's a diary. I like diaries and since it's a thriller, it will increase suspense and my feelings.

Oh, I have read this one, The Girl on the Train. It was good. Temme if you like it.

I am now reading an ARC of 'Brake Failure' by Alison Brodie. : )

Cress by Marissa Myers!

I wish to know members interested in the novels of Anthony Trollope. Trollope was a 19th century writer and his novels, mostly romance, are similar to those of Jane Austen. However, though Jane Austen wrote only some six or seven books, Trollope has written over a hundred.
Of his novels, I have just completed re-listening to “Framley Parsonage” and I am now re-listening “Doctor Thorne”.
Trollope is famous for his series of six “Barsetshire” novels, of which “Framley Parsonage” and “Doctor Thorne” form part, and for his series of six “Palliser” novels. I have the print, eBook and audio versions of all twelve books as well as those of some of his other books. They are all in the public domain. https://www.amazon.com/author/terrenc...

The Girl with all the Gifts and it's a total surprise!

I've added a book to my currently reading list, it's one that I've got to do a review for this Saturday: 'Energize Your Life' by Del Millers.

I've been reading Trail of Broken Wings

I am reading .

Sushil please use the appropriate thread for promoting your book.
(https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...)

I see you're spamming with the same message twice - here and on the Intro thread.
Sorry, I'll be removing your messages.

I am reading
The Last Librarian: An AOI Thriller

Currently reading "Veronica Decides to die by Paulo Coelho". Though I have read it twice before but even today it is a page turner for me..:)

" If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be mad again..." ...Excerpt

The SunPedal Ride: India: 79 Days, 7424 kilometres, a Solar Awareness Mission



A Guinness world record solar cycle ride experience

I am currently reading the autobiography of a yogi.
Mystic and yet a wonderful book to read

Reading ' The Waves' by Virginia Woolf... Its a masterpiece!!!

I am currently reading 'Caged' by Alaska Jones. Just started so will let you know when I finish it!

I am currently re-listening to Anthony Trollope's "Phineas Finn" and have finished re-listening to his book, "Can You Forgive Her?". Both books are in his "Palliser" series.

I am reading "The Doomsday Conspiracy" by Sidney Sheldon. Finding it more interesting.. :)

I'm currently reading 'Grace' by Max Lucado and 'Deep Water' by Deborah Coonts.

I am going to start 'Brave New World' in next 2-3 days.

Palash wrote: "I am going to start 'Brave New World' in next 2-3 days."

In my tbr since the begining of time, ugh! Had there not been 5-6 books in my currently-reading shelf, I would be joining you for this book.

I am currently relistening toTrollope's Pineas Redux and I will be soon starting on The Prime Minister.

This is the Shakespeare month for me... MACBETH, OTHELLO and now HAMLET. Tragedies by the bard have won me over.

I have started the Detective Series by Lesley Thomson.
Currently reading The Detective's Daughter

I just finished The Kite Runner and gave it a 5 star rating. A.M.A.Z.I.N.G! Now I want read another book by Khaled Hosseini... any suggestions?
A Thousand Splendid Suns or And the Mountains Echoed.... thoughts...?
Im leaning towards one but I want to pick the best one to read over the Easter Holiday (next week). Any help appreciated.

Well, you already picked his best ;)
I loved Mountains echoed much more than 1000 splendid. Connected with me in more than a way and the way of narration was also very different. But that's just me.

You should read both of them. No matter what sequence you decide :)

Going by the chronology of published works, if I were you, would have picked 1000 splendid suns (2007) over mountains echoed (2013).

And glad you liked Kite Runner so much :)

Gorab wrote: "Well, you already picked his best ;)
I loved Mountains echoed much more than 1000 splendid. Connected with me in more than a way and the way of narration was also very different. But that's just me..."

..." Yes, Kite runner was a great book! Thanks for your recommendation...At the moment I am leaning towards And the Mountains Echoed.... we'll see how I feel tomorrow :)

Currently reading The Help :)

I'm reading The Siren by Kiera Cass

HI all. I am currently reading The Help
Keen for a buddy to join me if there is any interest.

Here is a short description of the book:

(view spoiler)[Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women--mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends--view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't (hide spoiler)].

Happy reading

I'm reading Specials from the Uglies series; so far so good!

Currently reading And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.
One of the best mystery novels I have ever read....