What are you reading right now? I gave up reading Bill Bryson's 'Notes from a small island'. I've not read any of his others but I found this boring and repetitive. I've just started 'The Turnaround' by George Pelecanos. He's always very good and one of the writers on The Wire.

What are you reading?

Right now, I'm reading the words I am typing in this box.

But seriously, I am reading "No Ordinary Time, Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front In World War II". So far, it's a very good read.
[Edited 2/8/10 15:12pm]

I've been trying to get around to finishing this



Got this for Christmas, but haven't really read it at all



And a friend bought me this as a going away present...even though I ended up not going anywhere.

ZombieKitten said:

Have you read 'The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest' yet?

JDInteractive said:

yeeeees!!!!!



I'm waiting for the movie to come out March 3 on DVD

I saw the other 2 and LOVED them

ZombieKitten said:

Movies?! I know they made the first one. How does the last book compare?

JDInteractive said:

last book is a lot of words, it's a bit heavier going as in secret police backstory, but once it gets going it's just as pacey as the other 2

Just about to finish this:



And will either pick up where I left off on this one:



or start this one:

NDRU said:

don't bother with the other 2, get straight onto this one

even my dad liked it and he hasn't read a book in 39 years

ZombieKitten said:

yeah the Dan Brown one was not too exciting, but I only have 20 pages left. I like Jonathan Gash, but lost interest in this one, so I might just take your advice.

Actually I had it sitting around but hadn't read it yet, but on your recommendation I gave it to Allison, and she liked it a lot. She was all prepared initially to not take my suggestion, but I said the title, and she said "that's the book I was just looking for at the store!"

NDRU said:

you might need to make a diagram of characters and their relationships, there are a lot of names in it and they are swedish and kind of hard to remember, even for me

ZombieKitten said:

a diagram? That's not a good way to sell me on a book!

since i haven't been working, and a new avalon book came out. i reread the entire series in the order they happen in the universe it's set in and not the order they were printed in, so i'm just now rereading the last one which was really the first. Mists of Avalon.

NDRU said:

looking back, I think I should have done that, watching the movies has made it easier for me to remember who is who

it's also because I'm completely ignorant of roles in the police and governing bodies - like chief of police, chief police detective or whatever
that confuses me

ZombieKitten said:

Allison didn't mention that, but I'll keep it in mind. Of course, she had been reading Anna Karenina before that, so maybe this one's comparatively easy to keep track of.

NDRU said:

maybe she made secret diagrams when you weren't looking, or possibly skipped a few pages here and there to get to the good bits

I'm not reading, i'm singing. and i'm not that good at it.


plus, i can only read 3 or 4 chapters then i'm asleep.

ZombieKitten said:

you think maybe she's a secret diagrammer?

myfavorite said:

that's a lot I can manage 3 or 4 PAGES

probably also why the books I read don't make as much sense as I want them to

NDRU said:

check the backs of her bus tickets

I'm about 1/2 way through "The Ninth Circle" forget who it's written by.

"The Lovely Bones"
pretty good so far.....

shortnsweet said:

Very good book. I read it quite a while back, well before the movie was ever talked about.

Another recommendation is Janet Fitch's White Oleander. It was made into a movie w/ Michelle Pfeiffer, and a host of others. It very closely follows the book too.

Fingersmith - Sarah Waters - very interesting little story. I highly recommend it.

I just finished Push by Sapphire. Very hard to read. Extremely emotional.

The Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlene Harris they follow the show Trueblood

They are so awsome from start to finish I couldn't put them down!

Nothing, but I hope I'll get my hands on this one soon