What are you reading? The Sequel.

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Originally Posted by Winchester

Forgive me if there's already a thread about books.....

What are you reading? Do you have any favorite authors? Genres? Anything interesting? Where do you find your books? At the library? Flea markets? Book stores? I'm always looking for new books to check out.

Right now, I'm working on Proof by Dick Francis. It's about a wine merchant who is helping the police uncover stolen shipments of scotch. Very interesting read.

I love to read Stephen King and finished Under the Dome, his newest book.

Other favorites on my list include Janet Evanovich (I adore the Stephanie Plum series!), Clive Cussler (all of them, not just the Dirk Pitt series, although they're my favorites), Laurell K. Hamilton (the Anita Blake vampire executioner series), Kim Harrison, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Christine Feehan, etc.

I like Dean Koonz, although some of his endings leave a lot of be desired. And James Patterson (the Alex Cross series).

I always check out our local library for good books. Flea markets, yard sales sometimes. I also go to the Book Barn in CT with my GF who lives in CT, a fascinating place to find great books for everybody. It's such a neat place.

So....what are you reading?
Same here regarding Clive Cussler but now I have all my books on MP3 from the local library. I put them on my phone and have books read to me. The readers they have (esp. for Clive) are fantastic. Regarding Dean Koonz, does this guy have a wife or what? Every book shows him with his Golden Retriever on the cover. If he does have a wife, I'd be pretty pissed.
 

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I can't get into audio books - one of my friends loves them, but everytime I try I just can't keep up with the storyline.
 

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Just started Dark Paradise by Tami Hoag and I'm already finding it a little hokey, so we'll see I guess.
I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would, but it was pretty predictable and the sex scenes seriously made me roll my eyes...
A guilty pleasure book I guess.


Now reading Empty Mile by Matthew Stokoe.
 

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Originally Posted by Kailie

Now reading Empty Mile by Matthew Stokoe.
This book was a little twisted and quite sad, but I enjoyed it all the same!


Now reading The False Friend by Myla Goldberg.
 

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Finally finished Pride and Prejudice with Vampires but didn't really enjoy it but didn't expect to as i don't like Jane Austen. Now reading some Peter Robinson books starting with Gallows View. It has been good so far.
 

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Reading two books at the moment (I almost always have one fiction and one non-fiction on the go at once), The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly and The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood.

I'm almost done The Great Mortality, and it was excellent for the most part. There was a lot of content from accounts written during the height of the plague and they truly awed me - I know that sounds melodramatic/trite, but I mean that genuinely. My only complaint is that Kelly used more speculation than I care for in a non-fiction work, including very vivid, detailed stories about what a situation "might" have been like to fill in the gaps where historical data doesn't exist. I found them distracting and meaningless. But overall, a worthwhile read.

I'm about half-way through The Edible Woman; it's an easy read but very interesting to me as an "artefact" from the era of second wave feminism. The content itself is mostly outdated, but reminding myself how relevant it was at the time makes it relevant again in that it provides a glimpse into historically important developments in social norms, and societal conflict, not from a history book but from a piece of art that was made from within that social context, instead of about it - a far better source of insight, in my opinion. I'm reading it as a sort of meta-story, I guess. The fictional one reveals a real one for me.
 

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I've gone in for some light reading now-Judith Krantz.

I recently learned that Scruples and Scruples II has a third companion novel, Lovers so I've started the set. Been a long time since I read Judith Krantz, I may re read her other novels after I finish the Scruples trilogy
 

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Just started Whiplash by Catherine Coulter. Her latest novel in her FBI thriller series.

After that I will be reading "American Assassin" by Vince Flynn. Again, the latest of his novels for his Jack Reacher CIA series.

Just finished "The Necromancer" by Michael Scott. The latest of his "The Alchemyst" series. The next one "The Warlock" comes out on May 24th. Can't wait!!!
 
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Originally Posted by Natalie_ca

Just finished "The Necromancer" by Michael Scott. The latest of his "The Alchemyst" series. The next one "The Warlock" comes out on May 24th. Can't wait!!!
Do you like that series? Would you recommend the books? Thanks.

I'm reading True Compass - Ted Kennedy (DH got it a few months ago at one of his seminars, but I haven't had a chance to read it til now. My MIL had it, then a friend borrowed it. Now it's my turn.)

Just went to the library on Monday:

Cat of the Century - Rita Mae Brown (with Sneaky Pie Brown)
Pale Demon - Kim Harrison (The newest in the Rachel Morgan series)

And three Kathy Reichs novels with Temperance Brennan:
Break No Bones
Bare Bones
Devil Bones
 

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Have just read Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson which was the best of the four of his i have read this week. Am now reading Caedman's song which seems linked so i have prob read them the wrong way round.
 

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Originally Posted by Winchester

Do you like that series? Would you recommend the books? Thanks.
Yes. It's a teen series, but it's well written. It goes at a good pace and leaves you on the edge of your seat, and always ends on a note that drives you to anticipating the next novel. They weave reality with mythology and I think it's done very well.

There are currently 4 books in the series. The 5th is released May 24th and I can't wait!!!
. You can find out about them here. You really need to start with the first one and read them in order though as it's a continuing story.

http://www.dillonscott.com/

http://www.dillonscott.com/the-secre...-flamel/books/
 

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Originally Posted by allroundthesun

Reading two books at the moment (I almost always have one fiction and one non-fiction on the go at once), The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly and The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood. .
I like to read nonfiction as well; I may have to check out the Kelly book.

As for Atwood, I wouldn't call her a favorite of mine, although there's no question that she's a great writer, one of the best writing today. I've read a few of her novels, but not The Edible Woman.
 

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I am readinv The Help by Katherine Stockett and Feed Your Pet Right by Marion Nestle and someone else whose name I cannot recall. I find myself switching because I get so in olved with a book, in this case, The Help, and I need a break.

The Help is about three women, two of whom are black and work as maids for white families. One of the white women recruits the other women and other maids to describe how they feel about working for white people. I find myself wanting to turn back time and sma k these white women till they're blue. I know it's reality and it happened and is still happening, albeit in different contexts.

Feed Your Pet Right is a fairly new book which aims to provide an honest view of the pet food industry. Interesting so far.

I have some other books on my shelf: The Book of Negroes, The Secret Daughter, The Secret Life of Bees- I was halfway through this wonderful book but I've seem to have lost it, ALong Way home- a true story from the point of view of a child soldier, Eat, Pray, Love. And tons more books I want to get.
 

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Originally Posted by Kailie

Now reading Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok.
Not a bad book, not incredibly in depth but an enjoyable, easy read.

Last night I finished The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch. It was really graphic in parts which I really enjoyed because I'm twisted like that.
The story itself was only ok though.

Now reading I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman and I am really enjoying it thus far.
 

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I am currently reading the Body Farm Novels by Jefferson Bass. I finished Flesh and Bone today and just started on The Devil's Bones! I am completely in love with these books! They are geeky, and Gory, and medical, and awesome! Oh and they are based out of Knoxville, so it is kind of weird to know where everything is in the book!
 

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Originally Posted by Kailie

Now reading I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman and I am really enjoying it thus far.
REALLY good book! I had a hard time putting it down and it kept me guessing right up until the end.


Now reading Finny by Justin Kramon.
 

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I just finished reading the girl with the dragon tatto, I never got around to reading it back when it was a best seller. I thought it was good but the ending was unsatisfying. The title in Swedish is "Men who hate women" and in the end the conclusions I made from the book about the nature of men in general werent' really all that favorable, even judging from the main character who was actually a likeable guy all throughout the book.
 

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Originally Posted by Kailie

Now reading Finny by Justin Kramon.
This book was REALLY cute! Some of the characters were a little strange, but I think that just added to the experience.


Now reading Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler.
 

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I finished A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris, and now I'm reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
 
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