What Are You Reading?

[Bern. 3]

I'm currently reading a romance novel that I found in a used bookstore for $2.

It's called Desire Untamed by Pamela Palmer. It's a paranormal romance about shape shifters. I need something mindless. But I was reading Tuesdays with Morrie. This is book is simply INCREDIBLE and I suggest it fondly to everyone!

[Krikit 1,165]

I am reading "Julie & Julia". LOVE it. About 3/4 of way through.

Saw the movie over the weekend. It's close to the book but not perfect.

Oooh! I almost went to see Julie & Julia last week with my Aunt! Instead, we went to the casino. I won $50!! I'll read the book instead.

[Bern. 3]

The movie was quite good.

Julia Child and her shark repellent.

[*JG* 2]

I enjoyed the Time Traveller's Wife. It was quite different and sad in many ways too. I started reading " . . . And Ladies of the Club" by Helen Hooven Santmyer. It's going to keep me occupied for a while - it's 1076 pages long. "Set in a small Ohio town and spanning over sixty years (starting in 1867) it centers of the members of a woman's literary club and their struggles to understand themselves, each other and the tumultuous world they live in" It is a actually a very well written story with great characters and lovely historical anecdotes so far. I've only just started it so am on page 86.

I need to go see the Time Traveller's Wife. Probably wait for DVD.

The movie was quite good.

Julia Child and her shark repellent.

Meryl Streep was brilliant!

[Bern. 3]

While we're on the subject of movies...I greatly enjoyed District 9. I love Prawns! But too many people just exploded.

[Colleens 40]

I have become addicted to Wally Lamb. I recently finished reading his latest The hour I first believed. It is fiction but part of it takes place at the Columbine school shootings. I kept having to remind myself that it was not a true story, he portrays the events so well that it seems like it may have happened just like that. His book She's come undone is a great read. I had to keep reminding myself that it was not written by a woman. It amazed me that a male author was able to portray the issues a female teenager would go through so accurately. I have also read This much I know is true, and very much enjoyed that as well. I just finished a book I grabbed at the airport on my last trip. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. It was about the vel d'hiv round up that took place in Paris during WWII. A very sad story.

[Colleens 40]

I read in the last week:

The Stones Cry Out

Daughter of the Ganges

The Love Season

The Fifth Woman

Faceless Killers

Nothing really notable. The last two are mysteries written by a Swedish man. They take place in Sweden as well. So, the characters, description of police procedures and scenery are very interesting. Different.

I just started yesterday The Time Travelers Wife. I've got about half way, and while it's interesting, I don't know if I like it yet. I know many people on here rated it as one of their favourites, so I'm still plugging away on it. I also note that it's an upcoming movie as well in theatres shortly. I've never liked movies made from books however, so I highly doubt if I would go. BUT going to a movie where I didn't like that book that well might be something different! We'll see...I'm still only half way done the book....

I read the book and enjoyed it, but wen to see the movie on Monday and although I am usually somewhat disappointed in movies that were made from books....I think this one takes the cake!!! I definitely wouldn't recommend the movie. I did read and go see My Sisters Keeper last month, and although the movie was not as good as the book....I would recommend both. And a box of kleenex to go along with them!!

I couldn't get into Patricia Cornwell and her Kay Scarpetta series. I found myself getting annoyed at the character.

Lovely Bones was a really good book. Very different.

Wow. A bookmobile that stops a block from your house! That is awesome.

I read Lovely Bones as well....Very good. And it is also coming out on movie soon.

[Carlawarla 1]

I read in the last week:

The Stones Cry Out

Daughter of the Ganges

The Love Season

The Fifth Woman

Faceless Killers

Nothing really notable. The last two are mysteries written by a Swedish man. They take place in Sweden as well. So, the characters, description of police procedures and scenery are very interesting. Different.

I just started yesterday The Time Travelers Wife. I've got about half way, and while it's interesting, I don't know if I like it yet. I know many people on here rated it as one of their favourites, so I'm still plugging away on it. I also note that it's an upcoming movie as well in theatres shortly. I've never liked movies made from books however, so I highly doubt if I would go. BUT going to a movie where I didn't like that book that well might be something different! We'll see...I'm still only half way done the book....

I read the book and enjoyed it, but wen to see the movie on Monday and although I am usually somewhat disappointed in movies that were made from books....I think this one takes the cake!!! I definitely wouldn't recommend the movie. I did read and go see My Sisters Keeper last month, and although the movie was not as good as the book....I would recommend both. And a box of kleenex to go along with them!!

I couldn't get into Patricia Cornwell and her Kay Scarpetta series. I found myself getting annoyed at the character.

Lovely Bones was a really good book. Very different.

Wow. A bookmobile that stops a block from your house! That is awesome.

I read Lovely Bones as well....Very good. And it is also coming out on movie soon.

I'm an avid reader Colleens, and have read all of Wally Lamb's books. I agree that I was shocked when I first read She's Come Undone, and realized it was a man that wrote that as well! This Much I Know Is True, is my all-time number 2 favourite book.

I read the Time Travellers Wife, and finished it on Wednesday. WOW. I was almost half way through it when I last posted, and it seemed that right after I posted, I was SO into the book I just couldn't put it down. I think it's an incredible book, and love story. I LOVED it.

You wouldn't recommend the movie Colleens?

Now I'm reading Escape. It's written by Carolyn Jessop who at eighteen became the fourth wife of a fifty-year-old man and had eight children in fifteen years. She was part of Warren Jeff's compound of FLDS's. She escaped with all her children. This is her story.

[Colleens 40]

I read in the last week:

The Stones Cry Out

Daughter of the Ganges

The Love Season

The Fifth Woman

Faceless Killers

Nothing really notable. The last two are mysteries written by a Swedish man. They take place in Sweden as well. So, the characters, description of police procedures and scenery are very interesting. Different.

I just started yesterday The Time Travelers Wife. I've got about half way, and while it's interesting, I don't know if I like it yet. I know many people on here rated it as one of their favourites, so I'm still plugging away on it. I also note that it's an upcoming movie as well in theatres shortly. I've never liked movies made from books however, so I highly doubt if I would go. BUT going to a movie where I didn't like that book that well might be something different! We'll see...I'm still only half way done the book....

I read the book and enjoyed it, but wen to see the movie on Monday and although I am usually somewhat disappointed in movies that were made from books....I think this one takes the cake!!! I definitely wouldn't recommend the movie. I did read and go see My Sisters Keeper last month, and although the movie was not as good as the book....I would recommend both. And a box of kleenex to go along with them!!

I couldn't get into Patricia Cornwell and her Kay Scarpetta series. I found myself getting annoyed at the character.

Lovely Bones was a really good book. Very different.

Wow. A bookmobile that stops a block from your house! That is awesome.

I read Lovely Bones as well....Very good. And it is also coming out on movie soon.

I'm an avid reader Colleens, and have read all of Wally Lamb's books. I agree that I was shocked when I first read She's Come Undone, and realized it was a man that wrote that as well! This Much I Know Is True, is my all-time number 2 favourite book.

I read the Time Travellers Wife, and finished it on Wednesday. WOW. I was almost half way through it when I last posted, and it seemed that right after I posted, I was SO into the book I just couldn't put it down. I think it's an incredible book, and love story. I LOVED it.

You wouldn't recommend the movie Colleens?

Now I'm reading Escape. It's written by Carolyn Jessop who at eighteen became the fourth wife of a fifty-year-old man and had eight children in fifteen years. She was part of Warren Jeff's compound of FLDS's. She escaped with all her children. This is her story.

I didn't like the movie that much. So much was left out of the book (as usually happens) that it just was not the same. And I didn't think the acting was all that great either, which is a big reason why I didn't like it either.

[Bern. 3]

I'm currently reading Runaway Devil. It's about the murders that happened in Medicine Hat, AB in 2006 with the 12 year old girl and her 23 year old boyfriend. :'(

[Peachey 10]

I am reading The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman. It's the 3 in His Dark Material series. The first 2 are The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife. Both very good. I've never seen The Golden Compass movie and have been told not to watch it because I will be dissapointed (I don't want to be dissapointed like I was last week when I saw Harry Potter ) The trilogy has armoured polar bears, witches, animals that can talk. What else can you ask for?

I love fantasy books.

[MrsCat 6]

Now I'm reading Escape. It's written by Carolyn Jessop who at eighteen became the fourth wife of a fifty-year-old man and had eight children in fifteen years. She was part of Warren Jeff's compound of FLDS's. She escaped with all her children. This is her story.

I read Under the Banner of Heaven awhile back, and the story is just insane. Its about the murder of a woman who was a member of a extremist mormon group. The history about the faith and development of the more extremist groups was well put together.

[Udella&Wiz 325]

I am reading The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman. It's the 3 in His Dark Material series. The first 2 are The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife. Both very good. I've never seen The Golden Compass movie and have been told not to watch it because I will be dissapointed (I don't want to be dissapointed like I was last week when I saw Harry Potter ) The trilogy has armoured polar bears, witches, animals that can talk. What else can you ask for?

I love fantasy books.

Have you read David Eddings? Just a wonderful writer and his series are really gripping, I found myself very involved in the stories

[Autumnchik 6]

I always am reading several books at once .... one I leave in the den, one for the bedroom, one for the computer room. So I am reading (well, actually rereading because I love books so much, I get pleasure out of reading the stories again) Rough Justice by Jack Higgins, On the Road by Jack Kerouac and an anthropology book about the Hijras of India.

[L179 1]

Favorite book: On A Pale Horse