What Are You Reading? (Part Three)

[catspaw66]

Gosh. That's an old book. Was it Ernest Heminngway?

Cannery Row is John Steinbeck.

The Ernie Pyle was printed just 2 years after his death on IeJima on April 18, 1945.

 

[jcat]

This weekend's reading was The Sun in Splendour by Jean Plaidy and Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper. I'd read the latter before, when it first came out.

 

[natalie_ca]

 
Well, I'm reading "Catcher in the Rye".  I really have no clue what it is about. I'm about 25% done and to me it's just rambling.

I finally finished this book today!!!!! OMG! What an awful book to read! Nothing but 193 pages of non stop, nonsensical rambling and swearing.  Normally it would take me about 2 hours to read 193 pages of a good book. This one took me a week!

And after all that, I still don't get it!  All I got out of it was a slacker  kid who keeps failing classes and getting kicked out of school after school and is afraid to go home in the end.  And it ends where you don't even know if he does or not.

If I had to give a medical diagnosis to the kid, it would be "Bipolar".

I'm now starting the "Bourne" series that the movies are based on.

 

[stewball]

Gosh. That's an old book. Was it Ernest Heminngway?

Cannery Row is John Steinbeck.

The Ernie Pyle was printed just 2 years after his death on IeJima on April 18, 1945.

Oops. Showing my ignorance. Yes of course it was Steinbeck

 

[catspaw66]

Oops. Showing my ignorance. Yes of course it was Steinbeck

Don't feel bad, I had to look on my Nook to see who the author was.

And I am in the process of reading it off and on.

 

[stewball]

I'm reading a book called 'The Garden of Evening Mists' by 'Tan Twan Eng'. It's about Malaysia after the Japanese had surrendered. It's not an easy book to read but I'm enjoying it.

 

[mservant]

The Mankell novel I planned to read a couple of months ago never got opened.  Once I got back to work anything needing more than 15 minutes concentration of an evening was doomed. 

    I have now decided to meander through a book I was given for my birthday:  The Many Days, selected poems of Norman MacCaig.  Gentle snippets that paint the Highlands of Scotland, nature, animals, life, love, and places around Edinburgh in my mind.  I can dip in and out of it at leisure.

 

[stewball]

Poetry not my thing unless I'm at school. Not anymore thank goodness.
I'm just past half way and am now getting to wear I want to read it all the time. I recommend it.

 

[luciafernanda]

I'm reading Orange Is The New Black. I loved the series on Netflix and the book is very different but very interesting. Anyone else read it? I want to talk about it with someone.

 

[stewball]

I don't think I'd want to. Seen the programme.
I've finished the book and loved it. I'm now about to start 'The Woods' by Harlan Coben. A very highbrow book ;-)

 

[mservant]

............
I've finished the book and loved it. I'm now about to start 'The Woods' by Harlan Coben. A very highbrow book ;-)

I've read that one - so I have read a highbrow book!  

 

     Thought it was quite good as far as I can remember.

 

[stewball]

I've read that one - so I have read a highbrow book!    :lol3:      Thought it was quite good as far as I can remember.

I just started it and it's very quick to get into. I'm not sure if I bought it or my sister. Still it'll be finished quickly I can see.

 

[sugarsandz]

I just started " Star Wars The Old Republic Revan" by Drew Karpyshyn, so far it's way better than Darth Plagueis which was by a different author. I've enjoyed all of Drew's other books for Star Wars and Mass Effect so I think I will be pleased with this one as well.

On another topic though, has anyone here read "The Night Circus"?

 

[stewball]

I'm finding my new book very readable.

 

[larussa]

I just went to the library and picked up 12th of Never by James Patterson.  It is his 12th book in this series of a Women's Murder Club.  I have read the past 11 books so had to pick this one up. 

Happy reading everyone.

 

[jcat]

I've just finished "Anne Neville" by Amy License and Ann Rule's "Practice to Deceive". It's neither one of her best nor one of her worst books, but wasn't one of those books I couldn't put down. Now I've started "Words with Fiends (A Black Cat Bookshop Mystery)" by Ali Brandon, which is definitely light reading. I enjoyed her other two books.

 

[natalie_ca]

 
I just went to the library and picked up 12th of Never by James Patterson.  It is his 12th book in this series of a Women's Murder Club.  I have read the past 11 books so had to pick this one up. 

Happy reading everyone.

I've read it. It's not bad. Not his best book, but not the worse one either.

 

[larussa]

 
I've read it. It's not bad. Not his best book, but not the worse one either.

Hi, yes not all of his books are fantastic but all are good reading.  I've read some that were better than others but whenever I can get his books from the library, I have the library put them on 'hold'.  Altho I read many other authors books, he is still my favorite.

 

[happybird]

Finally! I picked up my copy of Dr. Sleep from the library! I told my husband that I will be MIA for a couple days...

 

[ritz]

I have a Kindle Keyboard, and download freebies, including this one (now 99 cents). It is "written" by a cat, who has gone through a lot of suffering in his short life. It is fairly well written, and the author seems to know a lot about: animal shelters, using cats as test animals, the life of a cat on the streets, FIV, etc.
What I found most facscinating was the part about the kittens recognizing the meow of their siblings and mother, even if neither are visible. And apparently being able to tell what barks mean.
I wonder how much poetic license the author took.