• Me-Myself&I said on Mar 07, 2008....

  HI! right now my nose is in gardening and crafts books. i'm about to make sand-candles. so cool!  I don't read novels, everything else. Hope you have a great day. Take care! ~see ya

• Zayda said on Mar 07, 2008....

  I read books all the time.
  
  
  I just finished three:
  
  
  Fat Kid Rules the World ~~ K.L. Going
  
  
  The Catcher in the Rye ~~ J.D. Salinger
  
  The Language of Yoga: Complete A to Y Guide toe Asana NAmes, Sanskrit Terms, and Chants ~~ Nicolai Bachman
  
  Thanks to a reminder on GracefullyGrowing's blog by another user (I believe it was Irish-Eyes), I am about to start reading Irish Fireside Tales: Myths Legends and Folktales edited by Leslie Conron.
  
  I am also starting Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb.
  

• FutureGoddess said on Mar 07, 2008....

  MeMy - Sand Candles?  Que es Sand Candles? 

  Zayda - The only one of that group I have read is Catcher - if you liked that one, read Lord of the Flies and The Call of the Wild - you will love those.  As for the others - I am going to look into Fat Kids  I love the title. 

• Zayda said on Mar 07, 2008....

  I've read Lord of the Flies and The Call of the Wild. I was an English major in college and grad school. This was actually the third time I read Catcher. I can't say I liked it as much this go around.
  
  Fat Kid Rules the World is a young adult novel; it's probably geared for high school students, but I've enjoyed reading quite a few things geared toward that age group since I was in college and grad school and took several children's and young adult literature classes.
  

• FutureGoddess said on Mar 07, 2008....

  Zayda - I still read "high school lit" - I find it just fun.  I am a huge Harry Potter fan (Stood in line at midnight for the last book and cried when i finished it - Plus, I thought it was one of the most unsatisfying endings I had read and was a bit annoyed with JK Rowling because of it).  I love the Eragon series.
   
  A friend of mine just published her first book about a 13 year old heroine and it references many, many incidents in our childhood.  So that was fun. 

• Zayda said on Mar 07, 2008....

  The Eragon series is on my list of two reads, along with the Pendragon series and the Spyderwick Chronicles. :)

• Eilan said on Mar 07, 2008....

  I'm currently reading Will in the World, by Stephen Greenblatt; Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey; The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas; and The Queen's Fool, by Phillipa Gregory.  All of the books are on the end table of my favorite living-room chair, so I just pick up whatever I'm in the mood to read at the moment.
  
  Earlier this week, I finished The New Rules of Lifting for Women and Tom Perrotta's Little Children.
  
  I'm enjoying all of them so far.  The last book I read that I truly disliked was Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson; it was my February book group selection.  I blogged about my experience with the book a couple of weeks ago, but I've since put that post in draft mode.  I was afraid that I'd be the only member who disliked it, but it turns out that I was in good company.
  

• GrapeKoolaid said on Mar 07, 2008....

  There are several books I find myself reading over and over again.  It's like comfort food for me.  Right now, on this table by the computer is the Norton Anthology of Poetry(4th ed.), and The Divine Comedy by Dante.  By my bed is the Complete Chronicles of Narnia(currently reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader), World War Z and the Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks and The Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook.  In the bathroom is Theogony by Hesiod, and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.  I like to keep a varied reading list.  It keeps me sharp.  Though lately I've been on a big Sci-fi/fantasy kick. 
  

• _Candy_ said on Mar 07, 2008....

  The last book I read was "The Keeper".

  It was great.

  I'm reading a couple different books at the same time.

  -"Harry Potter and the Half-blooded Prince"

  -"Lisey's Story"

  -"Every Breathe You Take"

  -"Kill Me"

   But I don't have much time to because I am reading stuff for school too.

• FutureGoddess said on Mar 07, 2008....

  Grape - I get laughed at by visitors to my home because of my bathroom books.  Friends of mine ask me how much I can possibly get read?  But what am I supposed to to sit there and twiddle my thumbs?  I find it productive. 

  You and Eilan have some great books on your lists - many I haven't read yet but I believe that will change.

  Candy - great books!  I loved Lisey's story.   Much like Duma Key, it's a bit less gory than King's others.  Read THE CELL - by King! One of my favorites of his recent novels.  In fact, I believe there is a movie coming out based on the premise of the novel called The Signal - read the book first!!  (If you like horror movies/novels). 

• lfbno7 said on Mar 07, 2008....

  The last book I read was Shtetl. It is a collection of short stories about Jewish life in little European villages long ago. When it got closer to modern times I stopped reading and returned it to the library because I don't want to deal with that. Some of the stories were interesting and some were kind of stupid.
  
  Maybe my favorite was about a musician and playboy who went from town to town with a new girlfriend in every town, until one of the girls he led on actually followed him and demanded that he keep his promise to marry her. That was a sad day for him.
  
  The stupidest story was the one about a goat that the superstitious townspeople believed had more significance than it did. It was just a stupid goat, that's all.
  
  I also liked the story of the two silly Jewish men who ended up getting drafted by the army, kidnapped. They were both a lot more afraid of their wives than of any army.

• FutureGoddess said on Mar 08, 2008....

  LFB - there are some great books on that period of time, fiction and non - about the Polish Jews. 

• silverwhisper said on Mar 08, 2008....

  FG, i used to be an inveterate reader but i haven't really done much reading in a while now--i think the last new book i read for the first time was the last harry potter novel. i really need to pick up that jacqueline carey novel (kushiel's dart) on my bedside--i've heard such good things about her work. :>
  
  ed

• lfbno7 said on Mar 08, 2008....

  I got an email from Jacqueline Carey. I really like her books. I read the Kushiel books and also the Sunderer books, the ones that turn Lord of the Rings on its head.

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