Originally Posted By Tinkeroon sarahwithbaloo...finally am starting Voyager (#3 in series) and am loving it. I totally drew out the last one (Dragonfly in Amber) 'cause I didn't want it to end! I would read a paragraph here and a page there. Should have been done with it a month ago or more but just wanted it to last. So now I have the Voyager and it's a really long book too. It'll take a while for me. But I know I'll love every page. I have so many others I should be reading but they'll just have to wait. Those of you who've read "Water for Elephants" what did you think of it? I have gotten mixed messages on it. It should be my next book. I loved "Kite Runner" from beginning to end. But then, too, that is one of those books where you either really liked it or you didn't. I've had so many people tell me it was one of the best books they've ever read and just as many tell me they couldn't get into it. Kinda like Ayn Rand's "Fountainhead". Same thing. I get just as many nae's as yae's. And I can't quite decide if I want to embark on such a lengthy book. I know once I start it I will make myself finish-like it or not.
Originally Posted By alexbook Re: Water for Elephants I liked it. Made me feel a little better about aging, oddly enough. Here's an LP Book Club thread discussing it (discussion starts at post #153): <a href="http://mb.laughingplace.com/MsgBoard-T-92738-P-16.asp?c=1" target="_blank">http://mb.laughingplace.com/Ms....asp?c=1</a>
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes 1415 posts ahead of me. I don't think I'll go back and read them.I'm reading "Life on the Mississippi" by Mark Twain. Great reading.
Originally Posted By MissCandice xppx! How is P&P going for you? Still boring? I love that book so much that I can't imagine anyone not liking it. What is boring about it? I just finished reading "World Without End" by Ken Follett. I don't know what I will read next.
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin Pride and Prejudice is my favorite book. Now starting: Dolphins of Pern by Anne McCaffrey I really like fantasy and classics (English mostly, some American and some French)
Originally Posted By Kira <<These books are great, aren't they? Did you know that a movie version of "Twilight" will be out in December this year? >> Yes! I've been watching all the on set videos (fan and professional) on youtube ever since they began filming last month haha I can't wait!
Originally Posted By Kira <<Concurrently reading: Julie Andrews An Intimate Biography>> Is that one any good? I am reading her book "Home: A memoir of the early years" right now.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 I just finished up The Last Guardian (it's a World of Warcraft novel; I wouldn't normally have read it, but it had to do with Karazhan, one of my favorite dungeons in the game). I'm now working on The Gunslinger by Stephen King. Weird thing is, I've read the comics based on the series & I've read the third book, The Waste Lands, but none of the others. Trying to fix that now, lol.
Originally Posted By JenniBarra >><<These books are great, aren't they? Did you know that a movie version of "Twilight" will be out in December this year? >> Yes! I've been watching all the on set videos (fan and professional) on youtube ever since they began filming last month haha I can't wait!<< Ah, I see now. I'm thinking you're probably familiar with the various "Twi-hard" sites then. <g>
Originally Posted By mele My dog likes to steal kleenex wads out of the bathroom garbage can. It makes me think of characters in the Dark Tower series. (I can't remember which book had characters that liked to eat snot. LOL) I am trying to read "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle but haven't gotten too far. I keep falling asleep which is more because I am reading it in bed at night than the content.
Originally Posted By alexbook "The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain." I'm actually a little sceptical about this book's title. I mean, Mark Twain wrote an awful lot of stories--can you really fit them all in one book?
Originally Posted By 1disneymom3boys Mouse Tales-A Behind the Ears Look at Disneyland, By David Koenig
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin <<<<Concurrently reading: Julie Andrews An Intimate Biography>> Is that one any good? I am reading her book "Home: A memoir of the early years" right now.>> This is the first biography I have ever read and I had a had time choosing one. I have not gotten very far in it and have been picking up other books. That's not a good sign but my life is hectic now too. I will report again when I have read more. Currently reading for silliness: The BOOK of General Ignorance by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson. I really like it. It is about common misconceptions most of us have and the real facts. Like, the tallest mountain in the world is actually in Hawaii, it's not the highest because most of it is below seas level.
Originally Posted By beamerdog >>My dog likes to steal kleenex wads out of the bathroom garbage can.<< Must be related to one of my dogs, lol. I'm reading The Dante Club for my book club. It's a little slow, but the author is building the story. I'll stick it out since I *have* to read it.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 I'm almost done with King's The Drawing of the Three, and then I'll be rereading The Waste Lands (can't wait to see if it's even better than I remember, now that I'm reading the series in order, lol).
Originally Posted By mele The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel They are the "frozen Chosen," two million people living, dying and kvetching in Sitka, Alaska, the temporary homeland established for displaced World War II Jews in Chabon's ambitious and entertaining new novel. It is—deep breath now—a murder-mystery speculative-history Jewish-identity noir chess thriller. I keep falling asleep while trying to read this in bed at night. I have insomnia so falling asleep is great...not being able to enjoy any books is kind of the downside. I'm very intrigued by the idea of 2 millions Jews living in Alaska (since I used to live there) but I haven't read enough of it to get hooked yet.
Originally Posted By mele Oops, the plot description was a quote from Amazon, not my words. I forgot quote marks.
