What are you reading?

jodiodi · Nov 13, 2009

I'm out of books to read. I should be writing, but all my waking ideas are lame and all my killer ideas come just as I drift off to sleep.

My sweetie is taking me to Books-A-Million and Borders tomorrow so I can look for something to read. Hopefully, I can get enough to carry me through Thanksgiving week at the Inlaws'.

Enzo · Nov 16, 2009

Just began 'Watermind' by MM Buckner. Reads like a good action thriller, even though it's listed as science fiction.

charlotte49ers · Nov 16, 2009

On the Banks of Plum Creek...I realized the other day that I'd never read all of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, so I started checking them out of our school library.

childeroland · Nov 16, 2009

Ian Fleming, "Live and Let Die"

jodiodi · Nov 16, 2009

The Black Train by Edward Lee.

I also bought 2 more books when we went to BAM.
Kill for Me & Scream for Me both by Karen Rose. She has several books along the same vein. If I like these, I may read some of the others. I've never, to my knowledge, read anything by her.

Vandal · Nov 17, 2009

The Big Field by Mike Lupica

CaroGirl · Nov 17, 2009

Fall by Colin McAdam.

Chris P · Nov 17, 2009

What is the what

I am closing in on the end of Dave Eggers' "What is the what?"

It follows the true story of Achak Deng, a Sudanese boy caught in the middle of the Sudanese Civil War in the 1980s and 90s. The story is placed against events in Achak's current life in Atlanta. It is a powerful book that I at times had to put aside as it started messing with my head.

The popular buzz about the book is a little inaccurate; Achak was not a child soldier, although many of his friends were. Having my own interest in fiction about Africa, I could go on with my impressions about it, but that's probably beyond the point of this thread.

Worth a read!

CaroGirl · Nov 17, 2009

Chris P said:
I am closing in on the end of Dave Eggers' "What is the what?"

It follows the true story of Achak Deng, a Sudanese boy caught in the middle of the Sudanese Civil War in the 1980s and 90s. The story is placed against events in Achak's current life in Atlanta. It is a powerful book that I at times had to put aside as it started messing with my head.

The popular buzz about the book is a little inaccurate; Achak was not a child soldier, although many of his friends were. Having my own interest in fiction about Africa, I could go on with my impressions about it, but that's probably beyond the point of this thread.

Worth a read!

I recently finished reading this. There were some quirks in the prose style I didn't love, but overall I found it both shocking and engaging.

I hear Eggers' first work, the lightly fictionalized A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, is tremendous. It's on my to-read list.

S.J. · Nov 17, 2009

charlotte49ers said:
On the Banks of Plum Creek...I realized the other day that I'd never read all of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, so I started checking them out of our school library.

OMG, I used to adore these... now I have such a craving to read them! I used to want to live in the house on Plum Creek so badly!

I just finished reading Remembrance by Theresa Breslin, but am going to take a break from all this freaking WW1 history stuff with Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve.

Remembrance is very good by the way - the dialogue/prose seems old-fashioned and stilted at the beginning, but you gradually fall into the world and totally forget as the novel wears on.

Diana W. · Nov 18, 2009

I'm halfway through The Tomb of Hercules by Andy McDermott. I read his first novel Hunt For Atlantis last month. Gread reads both of them. A cross between Indiana Jones and James Bond! If you like pulse pounding action adventures you'll love these books!!

childeroland · Nov 18, 2009

Just finished Conrad's The Secret Agent, starting Fleming's Moonraker.

RunawayScribe · Nov 18, 2009

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy. Never read it before, and I'm liking it so far even though Eustacia borders on obnoxious. I'm about halfway through.

C.bronco · Nov 18, 2009

Absolute Poetry: Volume 1 and Sixty-Six

childeroland · Nov 19, 2009

Chandler's The Big Sleep.

Diana W. · Nov 20, 2009

I just started Open Season by C J Box.

Chrisla · Nov 21, 2009

Just finished See Jane Runby Joy Fielding, a psychological thriller. She did a great job on this one. I've also discovered and enjoyed Jan Burke's Irene Kelley series. Just finished her last one this week. (If I get my hands on a good book, I usually finish it in a couple of days.)

Diana W. · Nov 21, 2009

jodiodi said:
The Black Train by Edward Lee.

I also bought 2 more books when we went to BAM.
Kill for Me & Scream for Me both by Karen Rose. She has several books along the same vein. If I like these, I may read some of the others. I've never, to my knowledge, read anything by her.

I have The Black Train. I haven't read it yet though. Is it good?

jodiodi · Nov 21, 2009

MrWrite said:
I have The Black Train. I haven't read it yet though. Is it good?

It was OK. Not great. I don't want to prejudice your experience. I was fairly disappointed with it though it had some good moments. It's pretty disgusting at times and some of the characters are TSTL.

That's just my opinion, though.

YMMV.

childeroland · Nov 21, 2009

Diamonds Are Forever

Diana W. · Nov 22, 2009

childeroland said:
Diamonds Are Forever

Damn, you're flying through those James Bond novels!

childeroland · Nov 24, 2009

They're pretty quick reads, a lot more like lean crime novels than I'd expected.

jodiodi · Nov 24, 2009

I stopped reading until we go to Chicago for the holiday. It'll give me something to do when my mother-in-law's posse shows up and my husband and I have to hide. She always wants to parade us in front of her friends. While I like that she's proud of us, I loathe displays like that. I barely tolerate seeing family, much less a bunch of people I don't know who expect me to be outgoing.

mscelina · Nov 24, 2009

Three Days To Dead by Chaos Titan/Kelly Meding.

Ken · Nov 24, 2009

... bio on Henry Longfellow, the poet.

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