It's Friday, What Are You Reading?

[dorothyinAus]

Are you reading anything Easter/Passover related?  Do you have anything exiting planned for the holiday weekend?

QOTW:  What was your favorite book to read (or be read) as a child?

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I'm reading Royal Flush, a next-in-series Lady Georgiana/Her Royal Spyness novel.  It's light and fluffy and I'm enjoying it, especially the portrayal of Wallis Simpson and David (King Edward VIII).

QOTW:  It's a timely question for me, because favorite book was The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes, which was a story about the Easter Bunny.  It was only when I was an adult that my mother admitted she hated the book, but read it dutifully for me once a year at Easter because she knew I loved it.

[charlatti]

Life, Love, and Elephants by Daphne Sheldrick, a memoir of her life in Kenya. It's pretty fascinating, though her take on politics and colonialism is a little disconcerting. Fortunately that's a very, very small part of the book and when she sticks to the animals it's a really good book.

QOTW: Willy Bear -- I still have my copy and read it to DD now.

[secretlyevil]

Finished Lovers at Last, haven't decided what to read next. My book club is reading River of Doubt  for April. That meeting isn't until the end of the month though. However, my reading has been of late...sporadic, so maybe I should get started over the weekend.

QOTW - I can't really remember any book from when I was a little kid but I re-read the Little House on the Prairie series often when I was young.

[duckduck]

I'm STILL reading A Feast for Crows, but I've made considerable progress and am hoping to finish it this weekend. I'm listening to Divergent and have been pleasantly surprised; it was so hyped, and YA is just not really my thing. It's not amazing or anything (IMO), but it is quite good.

QOTW-- When I was wee little, I had my grandfather read One Fish, Two Fish to me A LOT.

[Melissa W.]

Black Dagger Brotherhoods series Lover At Last. It is Quinn and Blays story.

QOTW- I read so much as a kid. I read anything and everything but I vividly remember killing spring day outside reading Anne of Green Gables.

[mdgirl]

Haven't participated in a while because I was on vacation, but I'd like to start again. I'm reading Wreck of the Minerva
by John P. Twyning, which is the author's account of being wrecked on a
reef in Fiji in 1831 and living there for the next 20 years. I got it
from the library with the intention of reading it before my trip to
Fiji, but it didn't work out. It's still quite interesting, though.

Mar 29, 2013 7:46:46 GMT -5 charlatti said:

 It's pretty fascinating, though her take on politics and colonialism is a little disconcerting.

Regarding the bold part, I read a travelogue about Fiji and other South Pacific Islands written in 1927, and along with the book I'm reading now holy crap the racism! And the authors both actually liked the islanders.

QOTW: When I was really little I liked Go Dogs Go!, and later I was all about the Little House series.

[rootbeerfloat]

I started Lover At Last last night.

Earlier this week, I finished Where'd You Go, Bernadette?, which I relly enjoyed.

QOTW: I don't remember what my favorites were, but I read a lot of Nancy Drew as a kid.

[5kcandlesinthewind]

I'm almost done with Jellicoe Road, but I don't want to finish it because I know I'm going to be a sobbing mess. I'm going to have to wait until I'm home.

QOTW: I have very fond memories of my mom reading me the Little House books over and over. Once I got older, I was a huge fan of the Anastasia books, and by the time I was 9 or 10 I think, Tiger Eyes was ZOMGMYFAVORITEBOOKEVER!!ELEVENTY!!!

[msmerymac]

I'm still reading The Last Werewolf. It's graphic. Violence and sex. I mean, I like Quentin Tarantino, but this is pretty disturbingly graphic.

I'm just organizing the house this weekend, watching Game of Thrones on Sunday. Visiting my parents next weekend.

Favorite kids book? I loved Little House, especially On the Banks of Plum Creek, which my mom read when I was 6. Later the Baby-Sitters Club series was my favorite, for sure. I just found out the first 20 in the series are on Kindle. I read the first 8 again last year. 

[christy082]

Are you reading anything Easter/Passover related?  Nope


Do you have anything exciting planned for the holiday weekend?  Not really- two family Easter dinners, one Sat, one Sun.

QOTW:  What was your favorite book to read (or be read) as a child?  The Velveteen Rabbit and Beatrix Potter books.


I just started reading Silver Linings Playbook last night.  

[dorothyinAus]

Mar 29, 2013 11:30:36 GMT -5 mdgirl said:

Haven't participated in a while because I was on vacation, but I'd like to start again. I'm reading Wreck of the Minerva
by John P. Twyning, which is the author's account of being wrecked on a
reef in Fiji in 1831 and living there for the next 20 years. I got it
from the library with the intention of reading it before my trip to
Fiji, but it didn't work out. It's still quite interesting, though.

Mar 29, 2013 7:46:46 GMT -5 charlatti said:

 It's pretty fascinating, though her take on politics and colonialism is a little disconcerting.

Regarding the bold part, I read a travelogue about Fiji and other South Pacific Islands written in 1927, and along with the book I'm reading now holy crap the racism! And the authors both actually liked the islanders.

QOTW: When I was really little I liked Go Dogs Go!, and later I was all about the Little House series.

Go, Dog, Go was one of my brother's favorite books.  We read it at least once a week when it was his turn to pick the bedtime book.  Even now we quote random bits of it -- especially the "Do you like my hat?" exchanges.  I have given that book to every one of my friends who have had children.

[aurora]

Mar 29, 2013 10:58:27 GMT -5 secretlyevil said:

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QOTW - I can't really remember any book from when I was a little kid but I re-read the Little House on the Prairie series often when I was young.

I just re-read Little House in the Big Woods when I visited my parents recently.  It was when I was reading The World According to Monsanto and I wanted a bedtime book.  Fun nostalgia!

I'm still working through the books from my poll a month ago.  Reading Gone with the Wind now and enjoying it.  Nothing special for Easter.

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I'm still reading East of Eden. I am in a funk and have been trudging through this one for a couple weeks now.

QOTW: Matilda! I read that one at least once a year probably from 3rd-8th grades.

[Deleted]

The Unruly Queen by Flora Fraser. It's a biography of Caroline of Brunswick and focuses mostly on her arranged (and notoriously miserable) marriage to the Prince of Wales and later George IV. Oh my lord, did they have a turbulent relationship! It reads like something straight out of the tabloids today. In fact, it keeps reminding me of Princess Diana and Charles because Caroline also presented herself as an unfairly maligned and scorned woman and for a while was more popular with the public than her husband.

If you're interested in British monarchical history though, this one is a must read. Chock full of intrigue, court politics, and juicy gossip.

QOTW: My first favorites that I really remember were the American Girl books that focused on Samantha (the Victorian orphan). They were what really instilled in my a love of reading that has lasted throughout my life.

[isabel]

Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman... very interesting autobiography about growing up as a Satmar Jew and leaving the community.

QOTW: First book that comes to mind is The Twenty One Balloons by William Pene du Bois. I've read it several times as an adult, too.