Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 "She's Come Undone" was a great book Pixie! Right now I am reading a book called, "Sleeping with Beauty". Totally not the kind of book I usually read. Picked it up on a whim. It's one of those summer type reads I guess. It's actually a pretty entertaining "chick book" if there is such a thing. It's about a gal who was a total geek in high school and still feels that she is even though she is 28. She goes to a place called "The Glass Slipper" for a makeover before her 10 year high school reunion. It's pretty funny. Predictable, but funny.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling Did I already mention I just finished "I don't know how she does it? by Allison Pearson? Eerie because it's the story of my life really. Okay, not exactly but way, way closer than I like to admit. I plan on the next book I read being JohnS1's book about Death Valley.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling I think I may put that ahead of Shipping News but I do plan on reading that one after JohnS1's book.
Originally Posted By MissCandice Alright Jafar! I still have not even got The Eldest in the mail so I can't even tell if it's as bad as you said.
Originally Posted By Labuda I'm now on page 82 of The Talisman. And left my new Caleb Carr (well, just bought from Amazon) book on one of the flights from here to Florida last week. ARGH! So just ordered it again from Amazon. *sigh*
Originally Posted By idleHands Three at once: "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell "The Search for the Giant Squid" by Richard Ellis "The Imagineering Workout" by The Disney Imagineers There's a strange, almost cosmic synergy between all three books, that I can't quite explain. But whatever it is... it works for me.
Originally Posted By Jafar30 Labuda that's were I'm at in the Talisman. Plus just for a fun read I've been glancing at Roger Ebert's I Hated Hated Hated Hated Hated This Movie.
Originally Posted By gardenrooms chickendumpling - quit reading and get back to writing your trip report - you've left us all hanging! lol In additiion to reading chickendumpling's very entertaining trip report, I just picked up at the library and started Inamorata, about a 1920's spiritualist, for a fun read. Apparently it's based on a true story. People seem to either really enjoy it or not like it at all. So far, it has piqued my curiosity. Miss Candace, I listen to the lady PI books you mentioned on tape at the gym. Don't allow myself to listen to them unless I'm working out which motivates me to work out so I can find out "who done it". The county library has many of them on tape (also like Paretsky). I tried "serious" books for this - my first was The Corrections - an award winning book on Oprah's Book Club - and it was all I could do to drag myself to the gym. The book was depressing and I didn't care about any of the people, none of whom I liked. I am sure this was not the best way to "experience" this book, so I decided that something light and entertaining, with a plot that was easy to follow, was the way to go. I'm currently listening to an old Sharon McCone - Where Echoes Live.
Originally Posted By MissCandice I just started Eldest, since I finally got it. We'll see how it goes. I am also borrowing "Rage" by Johnathon Kellerman, from my sister.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling Alright, I have to confess. I cheated. My husband called me into the den last night and he found the IFC channel. They were showing The Shipping News. I had no idea they made a movie out of it! Kevin Spacey, love him. It was good but I still want to read the book because I know it will be way better.
Originally Posted By MissCandice CD, I have not seen the movie. I hear it was not that good, even with Kevin Spacey in it. I have not wanted a bad movie to taint the book so I have not even tried to watch it.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling Well, *good* is relative. I always prefer *the book* to *the movie* so I think you're better off not seeing the movie. It was more okay than good so you are not missing anything.
Originally Posted By MissCandice I am still slogging through Eldest. After 175 pages it FINALLY picked up but boy howdy, this book is not as good as the first one by far.
Originally Posted By Jafar30 ^^^Kind of a bummer isn't it? I've got about 200 pages to go in The Talisman, I'm lovin it. And I just started Vector Prime again it's a Star Wars novel
Originally Posted By jasmine7 I'm working my way back through Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series. I'm on Soul of the Fire now, and I had forgotten that this one was one of my favorites of the series. Nothing says "fun" like a possessed chicken! ;-)
Originally Posted By chickendumpling <<Nothing says "fun" like a possessed chicken!>> Ya got that right!!! YAHOOOOOOOO!!!!! Oh, wait. You probably don't mean that in a good way...
Originally Posted By MissCandice I finished Eldest. The second half of the book is much better than the first but compared to the first book in general, the 2nd book is a letdown. I will read the third when it comes out. Hopefully that book will be good all the way through. Now I am reading my Entertainment Weekly that came in the mail today.
