Friday book check-in!

[imoan]

So ladies... what are you currently working on?

I'm reading Swann's Way by Marcel Proust for my challenge. I'm REALLY enjoying it! I can't wait til I get to read the rest of In Search of Lost Time.

We're heading up to our cabin (in upstate NY) this weekend, so I'll have a lot of time to read. I'll most likely finish Swann's Way and maybe start a fun read (I'm thinking The Night Circus).

[duckduck]

The Portable Dorothy Parker! I work at a Catholic university and one of the short stories was all marked up in pencil-- I'm thinking a nun who was teaching an English class a few decades ago must have gone through and edited out half of the colloquialisms before using it as an assigned reading. Bizarre.

I'm listening to The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. Oh dear lord. I'm getting better at making some sense of his flowery nonsense, but I'm with Mark Twain in considering him a national embarrassment.

[charminglife]

I finished "A Test of Wills" by Charles Todd this morning. It was OK - I'm going to read the 2nd one, "Wings of Fire" and if it's better I'll continue with the series.

I have a feeling that my reading might slow down for the next two weeks since I'll be distracted by the Olympics!

[imoan]

YAY Dorothy Parker! And that IS odd!

I've never read JFC. But oh how I love Mark Twain. Hilarious!

[dorothyinAus]

Cover Her Face by P.D. James

DH and I are sharing Waiting for Gertrude and Life, the Universe and Everything during our weekly story time.

[chicacocodrilo]

I'm reading Phantoms On The Bookshelves by Jacques Bonnet. It's a cute little book about living with books (he has more than 40,000!), organizing them, discovering them, how we relate to them and place them in our lives, etc. It's translated from the French, so there are many, many authors I don't recognize, but I've been adding to my to-read list for some of the books that do have English translations. It's really short, but I'm taking my time reading it because it's striking a chord.

After this, I'm thinking about starting The Zookeeper by Alex MacLennan.

[sunshine608]

I'm reading Emily Giffin's Where we Belong. I picked it up Tuesday but only 4 chapter in- life keeps getting in the way.

I also plan to start Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots this weekend. I had it on hold at the library and it finally came in.

[briedrew]

I'm about to be done with two textbooks and I couldn't be more excited. Just have to get through this weekend. :-) Other than that, I'm reading Changeless (Parasol Protectorate #2) and really liking it. I'm listening to The Fire by James Patterson and will probably finish it today. It's good, and I think listening to all three in a row helped me enjoy the series more. I'm struggling a bit with Anna Karenina, but I think once the textbooks are out of the picture I'll be able to get back into it.

[specka]

Run by Blake Crouch which someone here recommended and I am really enjoying it so far so thank you!

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach - love.

[specka]

Jul 27, 2012 8:42:30 GMT -5 imoan said:

We're heading up to our cabin (in upstate NY) this weekend

Ooooh I'm so jealous! My family has a camp in the foothills of the Adirondacks (Kayuta Lake) and it's my favorite place in the world. Have fun!

[GilliC]

I'm about halfway through Game of Thrones, but I'm going to have sex all weekend, so I probably won't make much progress.

...Sorry. I have a long-distance boyfriend I haven't seen in over three months, so I'm a bit too excited!

[msmerymac]

I'm finishing "Dark Lover" today. I might poll you guys to see what I should read next.

[imoan]

Jul 27, 2012 9:38:05 GMT -5 specka said:

Jul 27, 2012 8:42:30 GMT -5 imoan said:

We're heading up to our cabin (in upstate NY) this weekend

Ooooh I'm so jealous! My family has a camp in the foothills of the Adirondacks (Kayuta Lake) and it's my favorite place in the world. Have fun!

We love it! H bought it about 9 years back. It's in the middle of the woods in the middle of NOWHERE. Just a great place to relax, read, eat, etc.

[charlatti]

I just finished Emily Giffin's Where We Belong and I really liked it. My secret inner book snob is a little embarrassed by how much I liked it, but I thought she really nailed the parent/child relationships in this book.

[charlatti]

Jul 27, 2012 9:57:59 GMT -5 GilliC said:

I'm about halfway through Game of Thrones, but I'm going to have sex all weekend, so I probably won't make much progress.

...Sorry. I have a long-distance boyfriend I haven't seen in over three months, so I'm a bit too excited!

Enjoy your reunion! Sounds much more exciting than my weekend plans, certainly!

[mdgirl]

I'm still slogging through Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. I've only been reading it on the bus this week, so it's taking forever.

[passthewine]

I just finished 11/22/63 last night and I loved it. I don't usually read SK because I'm not a fan of his writing style but this book was really just fantastic.

I'm starting Ivy by Julie Hearn now, I need something simpler after 11/22/63 and I saw this YA hist-fic at the library and figured I'd give it a shot.

[marytini]

Still chugging along with Anna Karenina.
Also reading Between Shades of Grey, not to confused with 50SoG.

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[aurora]

I finally admitted to myself that I did not have the attention span for finishing In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin after slogging all the way through IQ84, so I let it return to the library (I was reading on Kindle). Neither were bad, but I just needed something more escapist.

I then picked up Mistborn by Brian Sanderson. It's OK so far - at the very least, a much easier read!

[rootbeerfloat]

I finished The Other Boleyn Girl last night. I'm not sure what I'm going to read next.

[mayflowers22]

Jane Eyre and Fifty Shades Freed! Trying to get back into reading.

[sporklemotion]

Jul 27, 2012 8:47:11 GMT -5 duckduck said:

I'm listening to The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. Oh dear lord. I'm getting better at making some sense of his flowery nonsense, but I'm with Mark Twain in considering him a national embarrassment.

For real! I had to read so many of his books in college and I don't think I finished a single one.

I'm reading an old Sara Paretsky mystery and rereading The Book Thief.

[writingwithheld]

Jul 27, 2012 13:33:16 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

I finished The Other Boleyn Girl last night. I'm not sure what I'm going to read next.

Did you like it? I'm considering reading that as my next fun read.

I am almost done with The Picture of Dorian Gray. It. Is. Creepy. I like it a lot, though.

I am the opposite of most of you-- I read a lot more during the week than on the weekend. Every one is always saying how they read three books during the weekend and I barely read at all!

[5kcandlesinthewind]

I'm about 1/3 of the way through The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty. I'm hoping to finish it this weekend, because I've got Code Name Verity and Matched waiting for me at the library, and Caleb's Crossing borrowed on my Kindle.

[rootbeerfloat]

Jul 27, 2012 17:54:24 GMT -5 writingwithheld said:

Jul 27, 2012 13:33:16 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

I finished The Other Boleyn Girl last night. I'm not sure what I'm going to read next.

Did you like it? I'm considering reading that as my next fun read.

I disliked the first third or so... too much scheming and sibling rivalry, but I ended up enjoying it. Also, for a book about seducing the king, I expected better sex scenes

[whitemerlot]

I'm reading Spring Fever, by Mary Kay Andrews. It's OK, doesn't take much brain power. I have a newborn and can concentrate on it.

[SpartanGirl]

I just started The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel.

[pthermal]

Reading Salem Falls and not a big fan. Starting The Namesake for a book club for August next.

[secretlyevil]

Haven't really done a lot of reading lately so still on The House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe

[blueshirt2003]

I have just started reading "Lights Out". I just got done reading XVI and Truth.