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

Jorf, I just finished reading "A Good Dog" as well. I agree, it jumped around quite a bit, repeating the same things over again. Almost seems as though it was a compilation of stories from other books made into one. I did enjoy it; however.

I am now reading "The Poe Shadow" by Matthew Pearl. So far, so good. Historical mystery concering the death of Edgar Allen Poe.

Raye

I just finished The Kite Runner too - it was really excellent. It was sad and beautiful all at the same time. I'm looking forward to 1000 Splendid Suns now.

Jorf:
I'm reading A Thousand Splendid Suns now too and I agree - it is really another beautiful story by this author!!! I saw at the movies yesterday that there is a movie coming out in the Fall on The Kite Runner - I can hardly wait!!!

*Kitchen Table Wisdom* by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

Wonderful stories. They make you laugh and cry but are so healing. Something for everyone. A dear friend gave it to me after my husbands passing and all I was going through grieving and breast cancer at the same time. We can all find pieces of ourselves in this book.

Moogie, I love your kitty in the hot pink ribbons avatar.

So I was at the library with no goal in mind and I remembered way back to AlaskaDeb's original post where she said she liked the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. So I went over and got the first 2 books and I just finished Two for the Dough--Cute and funny detective stories and they really do have moments in them that make you laugh out loud. Thanks, Deb, I needed this. NancyLee

I LOVED Marley and Me. Just finished For One More Day by Mitch Albom.

Donna

I love the Alex Cross series by James Patterson. They are such quick reads for me because I can't put them down! Haven't read any of the Women's Murder Mystery Club yet, but it's on my list.

Dreams Of My Father - Barack Obama (excellent)

Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey (an old mystery writer, easy read)

One Man's Bible - Gao Xingjian (Pulitzer prize winning author..a slow read, but an interesting story).

Hi Newter,

I just finished The Quickie, and I like it very much! I think this summer has been a James Patterson summer for me, as my neighbor has EVERY ONE of his books, and she has been loaning them to me.

I like his books because they are a quick read, and interesting, to see how everything turns out.

When she gets back from vacation, in early September, she is going to give me the latest James Patterson in his Women's Murder Mystery Club series. It's number 6!!

HARLEY

Hey Ter,

I don’t mean to brag but if you have the Chicken Soup for the BC Survivors soul, I have a very short story in the book….pages 116-117. I’ve always loved the books too and it was a wonderful experience.

When I was first dx my then 23y/o son didn’t say a word and I thought maybe he didn’t care much. One day I was home alone recovering from surgery and he stopped in, he handed me the book Chicken Soup for the Cancer Survivors Soul, gave me a hug and left. That’s all I needed.

~Pam

I'M READING THE BOOK LISTED BELOW, RECOMMENDED TO ME. I GUESS IT'S SOMETHING WE HAVE ALL THOUGHT ABOUT OR SUSPECTED AT ONE TIME. I BELEIVE IT..IT'S A HUGE INDUSTRY, CANCER AND ALL THE TX., WHY WOULD THEY WANT TO FIND A CURE, WHAT'S THE INCENTIVE? IT'S MAKING SO MANY PEOPLE RICH! WE HAVE A "SICK CARE SYSTEM" NOT A "HEALTH CARE SYSTEM" IT IS MOST INFORMATIVE AND I RECOMMEND IT TO EVERYONE.


Read the book 'Cancer, step outside the box' by Ty Bollinger and you will see why they don't want cancer cures to be know. Cancer is an industry and they make BILLIONS on harmful radiation and chemo. Sadly they don't WANT a cancer cure to be known. That book shows MANY true cancer cures, its a great book to have on hand in case you or a loved one needs it.

hi dotti, ok to disagree, that's what it's all about. i got this book info from DR. WEIL TEAM MEMBER. when i inquired about alternative healing.. i don't believe everything i read, but go on gut instict and common sense. i do think most herbal / alternatives remedies /books, have disclaimers, they have to to protect themselves, liability issues.
my opinion regardind the health care industry, as it is today, remains firm.. i don't trust the FDA OR THE USDA.
hell, now they allow our raw almonds to be fumigated with poison that has been banned in several countries, because a couple of growers didn't maintain the processing standards they should have maintained. so , no more raw almonds. my favorite. big sigh..

my greatgrandma lived to be almost 100, two aunts well into their 90's, well, and kicking it, (one goes boating by herself) my mom,almost 90, my grandma 98. and.. none of them had a mamo or paps in their life.. rarely if ever saw doctors, my mom gave birth to me, at home, on our dining room table, refused hospital for my brothers too. hey, i have to ask myself, what the hell is going on here

Wow - I haven't checked recently and what a variety of reading has been going on! Layne, just yesterday I had someone recommend the Jasper Fforde Thursday Next series and here you are, too. I had never heard of them!

Marin and Cherryl, I agree that Pat Conroy's are super 'beach books' - or anytime.You care about his people.

After I finished 'We Were the Mulvaneys', (well written, bittersweet family tale) I read the incredibly moving 'The Year of Magical Thinking' by Joan Didion (winner of the National Book Award). I have had this one sitting by for a while and had read the first chapter, but put it down, thinking I didn't want to read about grief. But it is such TRUE writing from the heart; it is about a marriage, about honesty, about bravery, about keeping on. It gives me goosebumps just to write about it. Highly recommended. A short book. Then I got into 'How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life', A light novel of adventure, of a young woman finding love and fortune in odd places. I was given Paul Coelho's 'The Devil and Miss Prym’, which I understand is widely read but didn't do a whole lot for me, seemed rather predictable.
The China of late Mao years into the post-Mao Cultural Revolution as experienced by two step brothers unknown to each other is the setting of 'Brothers' by Dao Chen. The characters' determination, resiliency, jealousies, similarites and differences make for an intriguing story against the upheavals of recent decades in China. An easy read.
Next was Jessica Mitford's 'Hons and Rebels'. A memoir of growing up as part of an aristocratic English family, a very unconventional upbringing as one of six wayward, headstrong children, eloping with Churchill's nephew to go fight the Spanish Civil War, surviving the scandal (but only just) - this is a delightful, engrossing, funny book, that reads like fiction, but was just the first half of her fabulous life.
A total departure, into the cruelty, corruption, and unspeakable despair that is India - Rhinton Mistry's 'A Fine Balance'. Another engrossing novel. His ability to build complex characterizations is unparalleled. The reality is intense. It is not a pleasant book at many points. I remember thinking at one point "Could there possibly be more tragedy?" What a blessing to have been born an American.
I then turned to 'A Map of the World' by Jane Hamilton,given to my daughter by her English teacher back in 1995. I only recently learned that it was re-released as an Oprah selection. Anyway, a story of a strong and loving dairy-farming family sorely tried by tragedy and false accusation. Well crafted and a good read. May be painful for moms of young children.
A pure joy and probably a pretty obscure book, given to me by my brother, Eugene Walter's 'Milking the Moon' - A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet. This one ranks up there with 'A Confederacy of Dunces' as the best southern-influenced book out there. And only a portion of it takes place in the South. It traces Mr. Walter's life from his childhood in Mobile (including the most wonderful overview of 'porch manners' - how one's position would comunicate whether or not a visitor would or would not be welcomed), through his WWII duty as a cryptographer in the Aleutian Islands, thence to Paris, then to Rome, and back to Mobile. His life was art, he always had an excuse for a party, and he loved every day. A truly memorable book.

Well, now that I've nearly written a book of my own, to get caught up, I'll tell you that my next report should be rather shorter because my current read is 900+ pages. I began chemo with Churchill's 6 vol. memoir of WWII, so now I am reading Tony Judt's 'POST WAR' A history of Europe Since 1945. I'm only on pg.236 so it'll be a while. May do as I did with Churchill and take some time out enroute for a novel or something.
Cheers!
Lisa

I just finished the Circle Trilogy by Nora Robets. I am not necessarily a romance reader, but these are more in the fantasy romance category and even my "never reads romance" daughter loved them. We passed them around work and friends, even my Dad (who I have never seen read a romance in his 72 years) totally enjoyed them and is recommending them. He read them out of desperation and frustration having received them from his bookclub while on vacation out of town and having them too long to return to the club. Not one to waste money or books he read the first one expecting to hate it, then breezed through the other two because he "had to know" how the characters did.

I am currently making my way through Steven King's Cell...so far very disturbing.