What are you reading?

mum23 · Aug 13, 2007

Part of writing is reading, so I am told, so what are you reading? Is it something to help your work, are you learning from it? I have just finished Metro Girl- Janet Evanovich, and am currently reading bridget Jones The Edge of Reason. It is helping with my style.

A.M. Wildman · Aug 13, 2007

Currently reading our very own Jenna Glatzer's Make A Real Living as a Freelance Writer I think I've figured out a way to combine two things I enjoy.

JJ Cooper · Aug 13, 2007

Just started 'The Redbreast' by Jo Nesbo. (Crime Fiction)

Never heard of the Author before but inside cover says it's been translated from Norwegian. Read the first couple of pages and was hooked straight away.

JJ

dpaterso · Aug 13, 2007

Just finished Memoirs of a Geisha, which my other half insisted I read. To cleanse my mind I ordered 6 Robert Crais novels from Amazon, 4 of them arrived this morning (!) and I'm tearing open the jiffy bags now, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike can cure any ills.

-Derek

JJ Cooper · Aug 13, 2007

Robert Crais. Yep one of my favourite authors Derek. That's a big jump from the Geisha.

JJ

Prozyan · Aug 13, 2007

Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz

kristie911 · Aug 13, 2007

Sleeping With Fear by Kay Hooper.

I love her Fear series.

seun · Aug 13, 2007

Robert Rankin - Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
Stephen King - Cell

KTC · Aug 13, 2007

I am reading Something Bad by Richard Satterlie. (loving it!)

mum23 · Aug 13, 2007

I remember when James Herbert first came out. Think The Rats was his first, then The fog. I'm sure the magic cottage was one of his too. Seems ages ago since I've had a good book in my hand. Catherine Alliot A crowded Marriage was a good girlee book, and have Humble Pie- Gorden Ramsay on the nightstand. Not really getting into Bridget Jones but will persevere.
I watched Memoirs of a Geisha and thought it was a wonderful film. Harry Potter does noting for me as a read but I enjoy the films. Off to the library this afternoon to have a gander.

Willowmound · Aug 13, 2007

The Harry Potter thing.

But I was the one reading the books way before the hype and the movies. Back when only two were out. I wish you'd all stop copying me, actually. JK, of course, is happy you do.

larocca · Aug 13, 2007

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley

Can I address the unspoken fear? It isn't boring. That's what most people expect of "important" books, isn't it? Falling asleep. That's why it's been on my shelves, unread, for over a year. Bad Michael. No donut.

Kudra · Aug 13, 2007

The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart.

Shadow_Ferret · Aug 13, 2007

Currently reading:
Thraxas by Martin Scott
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Dead Angler by Victoria Houston
Fishing for the Complete Idiot
not to mention several other books that I'm half-way through but have set aside for the moment.

seun · Aug 13, 2007

What are you going to read next?

Yes, this thread is a total rip off from mum23's thread. Sorry.

What are you going to read after your current book? I'm going for Robert Rankin's The Toymanitor which is the sequel to Hollow Chocolate Bunnies.

Vandal · Aug 13, 2007

Just finished:
Absolute Power by David Baldacci and Lifeguard by James Patterson

Finishing:
Choke by Stuart Woods

Ready for Harry Potter 7

eldragon · Aug 13, 2007

I'm on a two-week break from school and loved being able to read for fun again.

I just finished Divided Minds by Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn S. Spiro, M.D., a memoir about identical twins - one becomes a psychiatrist and one has schizophrenia.

And I'm halfway through Raising Lazarus, by Robert Pensack, M.D., and Dwight Williams. It's a memoir about a man with genetic heart disease.

The second one is a better book, but both were worth reading.

Bubastes · Aug 13, 2007

Just finished The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides and HP7.

Next on deck: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving and Babyproof by Emily Giffin. I also hope to make a dent in my backlog of Glimmer Train journals.

mum23 · Aug 13, 2007

I thought I may have had some good 'toilet reading material' but sadly no. Am off to the library in a mo to have a gander. You rip off or high jack away seun.

ccarver30 · Aug 13, 2007

ccarver30 · Aug 13, 2007

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
I have Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer and there is no way I can't start that now too.

Willowmound · Aug 13, 2007

Don't know!

writeitdown · Aug 13, 2007

Just finished Joy School by Elizabeth Berg. Now reading Untamed Seas by Deborah Kiley

CaroGirl · Aug 13, 2007

I'm reading I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes by Jaclyn Moriarty. I love this style but fear I don't have the talent to emulate it. She's funny, sarcastic, ironic and true all at the same time, while writing a mysterious fairy tale. Good stuff!

writeitdown · Aug 13, 2007

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