What are you READING?

[duck walk]

Recently read Glen Beck's Common Sense and Col David Hunt's On The Hunt

"A Thousand Splendid Suns" by the same Afghani who wrote "The Kite Runner" and I highly recommend both..."Suns" is a real depiction of the plight of Afghan women...

Love King, Patterson, Nora Roberts, Nevada Barr...I have been an avid reader all of my life...recently found and recovered one of my favorite books from junior high called, "Beyond Rope and Fence" by David Grew...wonderful horse story and it has to do a lot with personal freedom...really influenced my life as a teen...a sleeper of a book...but a good one...I read a dozen times and recently again...I love it just as much today as I did 50 years ago...

Also read most of Koontz and Grisham...

 

[Sunny Side Up]

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The whole family recently watched the newest movie made from that story and afterwards the boys & I wanted to know how that movie compared with the book. We listened to it read on CD by Jim Dale, who did a masterful job of bringing the story to life with both the voices & the narratives.

And I just finished Lottery by Patricia Wood. It's a fantastic story with great characters and a surprising but satisfactory conclusion. Learn more at http://www.amazon.com/Lottery-Patri...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260282917&sr=1-1 I love good fiction that leaves your soul feeling nourished & enriched from reading it. So much new fiction involves murder, adultery, divorce, immorality, and/or extremely detailed descriptions of intimacy, all of which I have little appetite for reading. I thoroughly enjoyed Lottery but I wouldn't recommend it for my teen, but maybe in a few years. It does have some profanity and some brief descriptions of intimacy, but not too graphic in its description. So read it before recommending it to your teens & other friends.

I just realized both these novels will leave you feeling fortunate after reading them.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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I love the Gabaldon series, here they are in order,
Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, and the new release in the series is An Echo in the Bone.
I thought that A Breath of Snow and Ashes was to be the final book in the series but was in Wal Mart a few weeks ago and saw the new release.

 

[accio! chickens]

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ohhhhh.......i've been wanting to read, "Precious."
how was it?

It's fantastic. I actually meant to say Push by Sapphire because Precious is the book based on the movie (odd? since the movie is based on the book Push).

 

[PineappleMama]

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Oh I've been wanting to read a Beck Book... his show cracks me up (and depresses)... but which one... I figured CS would be a good start.

King, Patterson, Roberts, Koontz, Grisham I've got tons of. I'll have to look into Barr, Hunt, Khaled Hosseini (the Afghani), and Grew.

Thanks for the ideas. Drives me nuts when I don't have anything to read that I haven't already read at least twice... and probably have already read in the last year. OY. If all else fails I go back to Dickens... he cracks me up, sarcastic booger.

 

[jojo54]

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I read Marion Zimmer Bradley's The FireBrand lately. It is about the battle of Troy from the female perspective. Have only read Mists of Avalon not others in the series.

My cousin lent me Philippa Gregory's, the Wideacre trilogy but haven't read them yet.

 

[jojo54]

Another interesting book I finished recently was Long Knife by James Alexander Thom. It is the based on the life on George Rogers Clark. He was pretty amazing.

 

[CTChick]

Notes from the Universe by Gordon-Michael Scallion. He's been called the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce. Fascinating reading - available on his website for $9.95 at www.earthchanges.com - I highly recommend! Whenever someone can combine the metaphysical world with principals of sustained living, I'm hooked!

Laura

 

[chickenpea]

just finished Law of Nines by Terry Goodkind

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

Eclipse.

the only reason is because I have NOTHING else to read. NADA!