Every one's Choice discussion

Nadia, I totally agree I won it also. It's def chick fluff but it wasn't as annoying as most.

As for THG I'm already behind so I hafta read my list then push it forward.

I'm reading Memoirs of a Geisha and Atonement. Really into MOG at the moment so elegant and charming my socks off.
Just finished The Handmaids tale, Art of racing in the rain and The historian so far January is becoming a productive reading month!

Hi Guys, I hope everyone is enjoying their books!

Lately, I've gotten in the habit of juggling multiple series. At the moment I'm reading the Percy Jackson & The Olympian series, The Belgariad, and The Legend of Drizzt. Just finished The Lightning Thief and I'm in love with the concept. That being said, the writing is painstakingly childish! I felt like there should have been pictures in some of the chapters. I have to say tho, I'm still a fan. I was curious though if anybody has read further into the series and could tell me if the writing level increases as the books progress or if all the books are written for children. I only ask because I know that Harry Potter was written such that each book progressed in writing complexity and tone; each book was darker then the previous one.
If this isn't the case with the PJ&TO then I must admit that I will quickly lose interest in it.

Karla - if you enjoy Memoirs of a Geisha, I highly recommend reading Geisha: A Life. This is a book by the person who MOG was supposed to be based on, and it's historically accurate. While I admit that I did enjoy reading Memoirs of a Geisha, it has a lot of inaccuracies in it, and the Geisha are not protrayed correctly. If you're ever looking for a book to read, please do read Geisha: A Life - it's a wonderful and well written book. Plus, there are a lot of nice pictures in it! :)

I too have only read the first book, The Lightning Theif. I too very much loved the concept but it was such an easy read! I'm gonna try the series further and see if it progresses

Christian,

I'm currently listening to the audio books, so my experience is different, but I do think that they increase in complexity. The narrator does a really great job, and I do sometimes forget that it's a series written for 4-6 graders. I imagine that reading the book would be a much different experience since it is written for such a young audience. I'm 2/3 of the way through book 4 of PJ&TO right now. I'm really looking forward to finding out how this one ends, and diving into book 5. Let us know if you continue on! I'm curious!

Thank you Jenni for the Geisha book recommendation its a very interesting subject and I almost feel I can hear the narrators voice in Memoirs love the way she explains things in the story. I'll have to check that one out as well to see the differences she dose say in this book she would have been lucky to end up as nothing more than a bad geisha and an unhappy one. I think her eyes were her salvation she was rare.

Finished Her Fearful Symmetry a couple days ago. Still not sure what I think about it, but worth the read. Some of the characters I just loved!

I've been trying to fit in a Jane Austen book every once in a while until I read them all. Now reading
Sense and Sensibility

I started Her Fearful Symmetry and so far I am loving it! I've also started to read To Kill A Mockingbird and am already hooked on it.

Jenni and Donna I have been pushing The Help to everyone I know I just loved the characters and wish I could sit have coffee and talk to them.

The Help is such a great book! I loved reading that one. I can't wait for the author to write a new book to see what she comes up with next. I kind of hope she writes another books about the characters - it would be nice to see where they are.

I could see The Help turning into a movie I have some of the actresses picked out in my head...LOL!

Oh wow!! I really gotta get on that. I am hoping for a swap here on GR for The Help. If it is that good I would like to own it rather than the library so I could recommend it to friends...it's the librarian in me!

Karla, they are turning it into a movie. How great is that? I can't wait to see who they pick out for the cast. I have some ideas of who would be great for the cast, too! :)

They are? I had no idea! I can't wait to see who they have for the rolls. Oh wow do you know if a release date is set yet?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454029/

Thats all the info they have on The Help: The Movie!

I'm checking that out. Thanks for the link Donna :D

It doesn't really say much but that would be a great place to find out more info when it comes out.

I'm planning on buying the ebook, and hopefully reading it either this weekend, or sometime VERY VERY soon! (As in the next couple of weeks.) I'm on the downhill slope of The Woman in White right now!

I searched around a bit more found out its in production starting this spring. This Tate Taylor is writing the script also grew up with Stockett, that seemed interesting. Also directed 2008 feature Pretty Ugly People (haven't seen so I have no idea on that) I'm picking Queen Latifah as Abileen in my head and maybe Blake Lively as Skeeter for me.
No actors are attached to the project yet I'm being hypothetical here.
Now who to play Minny??!! I could only picture Oprah in her best roll like in The color purple! How am I to get past that?

OK I am going to buy the book!

Donna wrote: "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454029/

Thats all the info they have on The Help: The Movie!"


Donna, that's great that it's going to be a movie. I thought it would be. Now I can start visualizing who I want to see in the different characters' roles.

You won't regret it I own books that arn't near as good. I want to reread it just talking about it this morning! Of course its loaned out to my third friend reading it. I should have never loaned it out but it was ment to be shared.

I can't wait!

I am reading A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore, which I received through a goodreads' swap, and As God Commands by Niccolò Ammaniti, a Strega Prize winner. Originally a library book, but I ended up purchasing a copy because another patron had a reserve for it.

I'm obsessing over the GR swaps! It's so easy and inexpensive

I finished up with The Road to Wellville. I liked it but - Meh.

I'll be on to Blindness by Saramego after I finish up a shorty-but-so-far-a-goody group read We Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.

I loved Blindness in a sick and twisted kinda way! I attempted to read Seeing but lost intersted after page 50. Acutally I never gave interest I just tried it out and it is not a sequel.

I've heard or seen that comment about Seeing a few times. At least almost everyone I know did like Blindness.

The movie was OK. It did follow the book a lot and of course it left things out but I guess they weren't as important as the rest. But it looks exactly like you think it would.

As for Saramago, all of his books don't have chapters. My husband likes to say that it looks like one giant, neverending paragraph

thank you jenni and donna! i definitely plan on continuing the series and ill let you all know how it goes!

I'm starting Extras as we speak

Christian,

I hope you enjoy! I'm almost done with book 4, and I just got a notice from the public library that the audio version of book 5 of PJ&TO is in! YAY!

I'm still waiting for book 2

Started Extras first because it's a library book and it's a quick read.

OK. FInished Extras now I am going back into The Angel's Game

I'm still reading To Kill a Mockingbird.

I'm reading The 13th Hour: A Thriller.

I hit a bump in the road with A Gate at the Stairs. Loving Eternal on the Water, and As God Commands.

I should have said, I tripped on a step with A Gate at the Stairs....wrong metaphor!!

I am reading the Vampire Diaries and so far it is WAY better than the stupid channel 11 tv show!

I wouldn't doubt it!

it actually makes the lead vampire seem hot. Unlike the show where, as someone else put it, he has a german shephard face - lol

I started the audio of The Last Olympian, and am loving it! I'm already on the second of nine cd's. Seriously, this series makes me want to drive my car just so that I can listen!

I'm closing in on the end of The Woman in White, and I'm hoping to miraculously finish it by the end of the weekend. It really is a good book, I promise!

I'm just over 25% of the way through The Three Musketeers... it'll be awhile before this one's done as I'm reading it via dailylit.com in installments. :)

I am still waiting for The Sea of Monsters at the library. It seems like forever! But that's OK, I have plenty of books ahead of it.

Let me know when you get it! I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to read these books... I can't wait to buy them for her!

I can't wait until me and my gils can read together too. it should be great! It wold be something that we share without Dad!

I hope our kids realize how lucky they are - having parents who love to read! I shudder to imagine how full of books our house will be... it already is full of them! :)

I wish my family was like that. I am the only one who likes to read! They all make fun of me (in a "nice" way)

my husband keeps telling me that I read too much and I am loosing brain cells .... but all the time I play video games is ok.

LOL! I tell my husband that video games rot his brain, and that reading helps you get them back. Except for Little Big Planet... that's one video game that builds brain cells!