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

I will be finished with my book Monday so need to find some new up beat books to read.

Thank you so much for the idea.

Just finished "We Are All Welcome Here" by Elizabeth Berg. One of my favorite authors, NOT her best book, in my oh so very humble opinion!

Next up? "As Hot as it was, You ought to thank me" by Nanci Kincaid. A new author for me, but a recovery gift from a dear friend.

I'm really into this author Jodi Picoult.
I recently read The Pact, and now I'm reading another of her books called My Sisters Keeper.
I turned off my cable about 4 months ago, and I read 11 books.
I used to say I have no time to read, except for 30 minutes before bedtime, and at that I would fall asleep and have to reread things again... but if you take away one hour from sitting on the couch in front of the tube (prob eating bad food too) and just read, it does wonders for the mind and body.

Wow.

I'm so glad to have found this thread. I love, love, love books!!!!!!

Jodi Picoult is one of the few authors that I specifically look for in a book store. I highly recommend all of her books.

I've recently read some great books including THE KNOWN WORLD. It is about a black slave holder in a fictional Virginia county in the early 1800s and the gradual disintegration of the plantation. Very thought provoking.

I also recommend all books by Marie Doria Russell. Her first two books are called THE SPARROW and CHILDREN OF GOD and although they are 'science fiction' they are really about god, faith, anthropology, humanity and wonder. The title of her latest book eludes me but it is about Italians who hide jews during the latter part of WW II. I like a book that makes you think, don't want it to end and maybe shed a tear or two.

And, lastly, I'll stop my book rant after I say an absolute must read is THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE. She meets him for the first time when she is a girl and he is in his 30s. He meets her for the first time when he is in his mid twenties and she is in her early twenties. He helps her become the woman she is so that she can help him become the man that he is. It is the best love story ever.

Happy reading ladies!

Just finished Savannah Breeze, by Mary Kay Andrews. Dotti, didn't you just love it? That woman has a real gift for characterization. The grandfather reminded me so much of Grandma Mazur in the Stephanie Plum novels. Boy, I'd love to see the two of them get together! They'd probably end up in jail or something, though.

While we were on vacation, I read the new Stuart Woods novel, Dark Harbor. It's a Stone Barrington book. Nothing heavy, just light fun stuff. I love to read about people who have more money than they know what to do with.

Books, cookies, and lemonade. . .who needs anything else? (Well, okay, some chocolate, too )

Kendra

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I am devouring "The Secret Life of Bees" very slowly even though it's a quick read. It is just so delectable.

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Hi Cheryl,
I loved that book--in fact maybe I'll re-read it now that I remember how good it was! Thanks.

Candie, "We are all Welcome Here" was fiction based on a true story. It was about a little girl who was born to a mother in an iron lung because of polio, and how she grew up in the '60's.

My most recent was "Cold Moon" by Jeffery Deaver. I LOVE a good Lincoln Rhyme novel.

I have received TONS of Border's gift cards as recovery gifts, so I have been shopping on the weekends, when they have coupons. My next read is "The Fourth Hand," a John Irving that I have somehow never read...

mostly sci fi most of the time:
Asimov's sci fi mag (comes out once a month, devoured too fast)
Startide Rising - David Brin (highly recommended)
Brightness Reef - David Brin
Ringworld - Larry Niven (highly recommended, read it years ago but good on reread too)

Non sci fi:
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot (i really like george eliot, have also read Mill on the Floss and of course Middlemarch, both of which were good)

The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck
Wyoming stories By Annie Proulx
And several John Irving novels....................
Moogie

At Risk by Patricia Cornwell

I tried to start reading it at my last chemo but just couldn't focus on it. I've only read the first chapter so far. I love her books but this isn't one of her Scarpetta novels which are the best.

Interestingly enough...I was a voracious reader ALL my life before dx...not so much after...have trouble concentrating.

P

I am reading "Little Bitty Lies" by Mary Kay Andrews. Just finished "Savannah Blues" and "Hissy Fit." by the same author. Love her flawed heroines. Good fun reads. Oh, and I also read "The Dog Whisper" by Cesar Milan. I need all the help I can get dealing with my pack!

Debby J

Secret Life of Bees is an excellent read.