Just for fun...What is everyone reading??

Just another vote for "The Kite Runner," undoubtedly the best book I've read in many years.

Rarely do I get so agitated as I did when the main character didn't stand up for his friend (those who have read it know the scene I'm refering to), so much so that I wanted to throw the book across the room! It takes powerful writing to evoke those emotions.

I realized how little I know about Afghanistan and have since read "The Bookseller from Kabul," and "The Sewing Circles of Herat." Both were good (the former more than the latter) and are non-fiction, whereas "The Kite Runner" is fiction.

Afghanistan is getting messy again; the Warlords are once again dividing the country and some of the prohibitions they put on the people (particularly women) are rasing their ugly heads again. I don't think we've heard the last of this.

On a much lighter side, anything by David Sedaris, Carl Hiaasen and Alexander McColl.

Amy Tan, Gabriel Garcia Marquez - the list goes on.

I read a lot while going through chemo; unfortunately I don't remember many of them! Good opportunity to reread, I guess.

Sometimes I only have 'feelings' about books I've read or movies I've watched. I know that it was either good or bad, but damned if I remember what it was about.

Sigh.

Hi, if you like Koontz, make sure you read the first 2 of the 3(3rd one is due this summer)of the Frankenstein novels. A real twist on the old story taken to today. I'll read anything but really prefer the King, Straub, Koontz stuff. Just like the action. Jenene

Here is my list of what has been tops for me.

Gap Creek by Robert Morgan - a great story of young marriage in Appalachia
Back Roads by Tawn O"Dell - an Ophrah selection - a great rwde of a brother trying to raise 3 sisters after parents deaths. Unusual plot
The SEa of Grass by Conrad Richter - excellent read. short, great literature, wonderful descriptors, good story.
Cure for Death by Lightening - Gail Anderson-DargatzYoung girls coming of age - haunting and well wrtiiten
Indecent Obsession by Colleeen MxCullough - a re-read for me but a good read. Well written and good plot.
Salvation on Sand MOuntain by Dennis Covington - about snake handlers in the South and Appalachia. Well written and different .
The Way the Crow Flies - by Anne Marie Macdonald - well-written, but eerie. Is a Canadian best seller. Don't know about its availability in the States.
Also; Fall on you knees by the same author (Anne Marie Macdonald.) A good but dark book. Unusual plot - I really enjoyed it. Excellent prose - worth the read for how well it is written.
Enough for now. I have been gobbling books - mostly looking for good literature. Will report further on a couple I have just started.
Jeannette

Deb & Lauren - I think you'll enjoy them
He also has a book called SuperStud. It's not as good as Kick Me but if you can find it at a library...

Erica

Twingle99,

I think Burrough's others that go with Running with Scissors are Magical Thinking and Dry.

Since my mind can't absorb anything new, I recently RE-read the Earth's Children series by Jean Auel. (Clan of the Cave Bear, etc...)

After that, moved on to every "Sweet Potato Queen" book by Jill Conner Browne to keep me laughing.

I have a nice pile of books I am saving for post-op, though, hoping that my mind will start working again soon.

Ah, the Sweet Potato Queen books!!!!!!!!!!! YES
Laugh out loud is right, dh thought I'd gone around the bend!!!!
Loved those books and bet you all will too

Yes!! It was "Dry". I read both of them!!

I love reading--Nora Roberts, Janet Daily. I am really into series (and anything "smutty"-LOL)
Karla

The one about Venice sounds interesting ~ do you remember the author?

Holli-

I love Kellerman & Patterson...have not read anything by Sanford...first name please? I'll check him/her out of the library!

Another author I recently ran across and I really like is Harlan Coben.

Peggy

Thanks...I'm going to our library website and look him up!

Peggy