It's Friday! Again! What are you reading?

[msmerymac]

I'm still 4 books behind for the year.

I finished Fear of Flying by Erica Jong yesterday and started Fingersmith by Sarah Waters.

[marytini]

Just started Home to Woefield by Susan juby. So far I like it.

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[lemondrop]

I'm actually reading! I started The Giver a couple days ago. Normally, I'd be close to done, but I'm only about 30 pages in. I consider it a win just to be reading.

[charlatti]

Just finished a mystery, A Place of Execution by Val McDermid. It was just ok for me. I'm not sure what I'm starting next. I picked up Penelope by Rebecca Harrington but I don't think I'll stick with that one.

[mel726]

I just finished 11/22/63 and I am sad it is over.

[imoan]

Will finish East of Eden (Steinbeck) today and will then continue Poems by Emily Dickinson (I'm about halfway through).

[chicacocodrilo]

I'm finishing American Emperor by David O. Stewart. After that, it's Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple.

[sarahpirate]

I just fInIshed the Dex Files from the Experiment in Terror series by Katrina Halle. I am starting the City of Whispers series by Katherine Morin.

Any other Experiment in Terror fans?

[duckduck]

I just started Master of the Universe (the fanfic that became 50 Shades). I am on page 9 and already laughing. Girlfriend obviously didn't find an American beta-reader before she published the FF; there are so many British terms that your typical college girl in Seattle would NOT be using.

I might start Grapes of Wrath when I get home, but I finished a book on my lunch break and all I had was my Nook. I figured I might as well finally check this thing out.

[whitepicketfence]

Nook Color: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling

Hardcover: Night Road by Kristin Hannah

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Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters

[rootbeerfloat]

I'm still working on 11/22/63. It's fine, but not so awesome that I can't stop reading.

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Aug 24, 2012 13:44:14 GMT -5 mel726 said:

I just finished 11/22/63 and I am sad it is over.

I just finish 11/22/63 last night and I said the exact same thing to H. I loved it and couldn't put it down but now I am sad that I am done.

[imoan]

I loved 11/22/63 as well. Though... I feel that way about everything SK writes.

[mayflowers22]

I'm 56 books behind :/ Checking library's kindle list now!

[writingwithheld]

I am about halfway through House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende. I am enjoying it, probably more than I thought I would.

[Pippin]

Just finished Entwine this week and started Anna Dressed in Blood. It's a really entertaining ghost story and I should be done with tonight:) Not sure what I'll start next maybe Lord of the Rings.

[sparrowsong]

I loved Fingersmith!

I'm just about finished with Native Son (audio) and Ahab's Wife (paperback). I absolutely loved both of them, but in very different ways. Native Son is a hard story to hear, but an important one. And Ahab's Wife is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read.

[msmerymac]

Aug 24, 2012 20:14:15 GMT -5 sparrowsong said:

I loved Fingersmith!

I'm just about finished with Native Son (audio) and Ahab's Wife (paperback). I absolutely loved both of them, but in very different ways. Native Son is a hard story to hear, but an important one. And Ahab's Wife is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read.

I'm going to read Native Son soon. Just came in from the library!

[christy082]

Actually I'm not reading anything right now, but Thursday I finished reading The Dark Monk (#2 in The Hangman's Daughter series). I really enjoyed it!

[5kcandlesinthewind]

Aug 24, 2012 15:44:28 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

I'm still working on 11/22/63. It's fine, but not so awesome that I can't stop reading.

This is me, too. I like it, but I'm not overwhelmed by how awesome it is or anything. I just keep looking at my Kindle and thinking, "siiiigh." I just picked up The Second Empress at the library (the new Michelle Moran), so I will either power through 11/22/63 today and hope to finish it, or take a break and read TSE.

[mdgirl]

I finished Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars yesterday and started Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-occupied Paris. Full Service was awful. There was such a big wait for it at the library I don't even remember signing up for it, and I thought it was supposed to be really juicy gossip about old Hollywood (it's non fiction). I'll sum it up for you: "I was repeatedly molested as a child but that was OK because it was the Depression and they paid me, then I was a Marine at the invasion of Iwo Jima, then I had sex with everyone in Hollywood, male or female, between 1945 until people started dying of AIDS. The end."

Aug 24, 2012 10:38:12 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

I finished Fear of Flying by Erica Jong

I read that in college but I bet I'd get a lot more out of it now.

[apelila]

I recently finished We Need to Talk About Kevin.
Now I'm reading The Art of Racing in the Rain.

[msmerymac]

Aug 25, 2012 12:12:41 GMT -5 mdgirl said:

Aug 24, 2012 10:38:12 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

I finished Fear of Flying by Erica Jong

I read that in college but I bet I'd get a lot more out of it now.

I actually really liked it. There's a lot that's dated and makes you realize at every turn that it takes place in the early 70s, but I liked the character (Isadora), despite some of her not-so-great choices. And despite the fact that I'm in a perfectly happy marriage, I could kind of get the issues she was having. Sympathy, I guess, not empathy.

The reviews on goodreads are mixed and I've heard others say they hated it. But I'd recommend it.