What are you reading?

AH · Post by AH » Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:59 pm

Finished "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro.

AH

AH · Post by AH » Fri Apr 16, 2010 5:17 pm

Thanks to Minde & LysaC I found Harlan Coben. I read "The Woods" this week and I thought it was soooo good. I hope his other books are as good. I am so ready to have an author who I look forward to reading. Thanks you two!

AH

mindehankins · Post by **mindehankins** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 6:16 pm

You're welcome! His newest, "Caught" debuted on the NYT bestsellers list at #1.

sherban · Post by **sherban** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:35 pm

I read The Help while I was in St Thomas last week and I LOVED IT...couldn't put it down. I was sucked in from the first few pages until the end.

Highly Reccomended!

This is a book anout the realities, issues, relationships between blacks and whites in 1960's Mississippi. It is revealing, painful, touching, and hopeful...wow it really moved me and held me tight until I was done.

This is a subject I find so very interesting because segregation and prejudice was so common in my parent's generation but not all all common or accepted in mine....sometimes I wonder how can we change that much...how could we have been that far off that recently...how did things get that way...

Great read!

LysaC · Post by **LysaC** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 10:05 am

just finished harlen coben's "hold tight" (yes another harlen coben). it was good. sometimes i flip ahead, i just can't help it. but his books keep me reading the page i'm on and i never want to flip ahead.

also finished the new joe hill "horns". now i LOVED his last one "heart shaped box" but "horns" did NOT do it for me. i was looking for creepy this was not. it was very religious and philosophical and i was not mentally prepared for that at all. maybe i'll revisit it another time but i read it just to get through with it, ya know.

PA Girl · Post by **PA Girl** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:20 pm

I just finished The Big Short by Michael Lewis. I really like him as an author and as a finance/economics person, the subject interested me.

Another recent read was Cooking Dirty by Jason Sheenan. (Might have the last name wrong) It reminded me in a way of Kitchen Confidential but more real. Having worked in bars and restaurants through college, I could really relate to Cooking Dirty. Very funny.

AH · Post by AH » Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:12 pm

Read "Half Broke Horses" (after being on a waiting list at the library since January!) Also read "Joy School" by Elizabeth Berg. Elizabeth Berg is my go-to author when I want something that makes me smile.
AH

Terry · Post by **Terry** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:29 pm

Okay, headed for a family reunion on my husbands side to Marquette, MI. Need a good book referral to read while getting out of family discussions and sitting on the deck overlooking Lake Superior. Any suggestions would be welcomed. Something relaxing.

LysaC · Post by **LysaC** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:20 am

Anita Shreve is very relaxing to me. Her writing is very ephemeral and feminine.

KatieH · Post by **KatieH** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 4:49 pm

I just finished Chris Bohjalian's "Secrets of Eden", which I loved almost as much as "The Double Bind"

AH · Post by AH » Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:34 pm

LysaC wrote:Anita Shreve is very relaxing to me. Her writing is very ephemeral and feminine.

I agree! I love everything by Anita Shreve.

AH

AH · Post by AH » Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:39 pm

I just flew through another book by Elizabeth Berg, "True to Form". If you were a female growing up in the 50's or 60's I think you could so relate to the feelings and thoughts expressed by Berg as an adolescent in this book and in "Joy School". I read these books when they first came out and now I am reading them again.

AH

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PA Girl · Post by **PA Girl** » Wed May 05, 2010 9:16 am

Having just finished The Big Short, I am reading another Michael Lewis book, The Blind Side. I am about 1/3 into it. I haven't seen the movie yet. The book is breaking my heart, I hope there is a happy ending.

I just finished Game Change. It was ok. I am not hyper-into politics but I did find the descriptions of how champaigns work interesting.

Post by **Anthony** » Wed May 05, 2010 9:25 am

How was "The Big Short" - I am a big fan of his writing, starting back with Liar's Poker. I want to read The Big Short this summer - and 13 Bankers.

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