What are you reading?

[Medusa]

Originally Posted by Sparkle

I'm about to start reading 'Room' by Emma Donoghue

In many ways, Jack is a typical 5-year-old. He likes to read books, watch TV, and play games with his Ma. But Jack is different in a big way--he has lived his entire life in a single room, sharing the tiny space with only his mother and an unnerving nighttime visitor known as Old Nick. For Jack, Room is the only world he knows, but for Ma, it is a prison in which she has tried to craft a normal life for her son. When their insular world suddenly expands beyond the confines of their four walls, the consequences are piercing and extraordinary. Despite its profoundly disturbing premise, Emma Donoghue's Room is rife with moments of hope and beauty, and the dogged determination to live, even in the most desolate circumstances. A stunning and original novel of survival in captivity, readers who enter Room will leave staggered, as though, like Jack, they are seeing the world for the very first time.

This is probably going to be next on my list too! I heard an interview with the author on NPR one day at work and her thought process behind the book was pretty fascinating

[Medusa]

Originally Posted by PinkieLee

I love the feel of the pages of a book in my hands, but I must admit, I'm really enjoying my new Kindle that my honey bought me for Christmas!

It's pretty cool that there are hundreds of FREE books that you can dowload! **yay**

I just started reading, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

RED ALERT! RED ALERT!!


I got a Kindle for Christmas too and did you know that TODAY they announced a new "book sharing" program?!!!!!

YES! If you bought a Kindle book, you can "loan" it to a friend for up to 2 weeks!!!!! It's a one-time deal and not all books are eligible for sharing (it's up to the publisher), so I'd LOVE to start a sharing list! WEEEE!

[Medusa]

I had forgotten how good a well-written piece of fiction would feel! It had been a long while since I read anything that wasn't an biography, a case study, a tech manual, or academia so imagine my surprise when I got my Kindle and dove back into the world of fiction

Jack had been reading some of the Kindle forums and saw a lot of chatter about a book called "Exquisite Corpse" by Poppy Z Brite. It's about 2 Gay Cannibalistic Necrophiliacs. I read it in 2 days. It was definitely different, not nearly as gross as most people made it out to be (well, except for that ONE part) and a totally wild ride! LOVED it.

I just started "The Passage" by Jonathan Cronin and am loving it already!

[Wryly]

Finished:
Chasing Darkness by Robert Crais.
An apparent suicide victim is identified as a possible serial killer. A private detective who helped free him a few years previously tries to determine if it is true.

Afternoons with Mr. Hogan: A Boy, A Golfing Legend and the Lessons of a Lifetime by Jody Vasquez
As a teenager, the author was hired to chase golf balls for Ben Hogan. Great insights into Hogan's character and some golf tips thrown in.

Currently reading:
Points of View by Rex Murphy
Collection of 30 years of his writings and speeches.

Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters by James M. Tabor
An examination of the doomed 1967 expedition to scale Alaska's Mt. McKinley.
For some reason I seem to be interested in extreme sports lately!

Family Knits - 25 Handknits for all seasons by Debbie Bliss
Looking for some new projects for the new year!

[katsarecool]

I do love this thread! It has to be my favorite on BFP! Almost finished with The Grass Crown and will start Ceazar's Women next; which is skipping around a bit. As I just finished reading Cleopatra by Stacy Schriff I want to refresh my memory about what Colleen McCullough had to say about her.

[Turtle]

Worlds in Harmony - The Dalai Lama

[Gráinne]

Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment. Surely the most intriguing study of an axe murderer ever.

[Medusa]

Im a little more than halfway through "The Passage". It's pretty creepy!

I have developed an thing for post-apocalyse storylines over the last few years. Does anyone have any good recommendations?

[Wryly]

Originally Posted by Medusa

Im a little more than halfway through "The Passage". It's pretty creepy!

I have developed an thing for post-apocalyse storylines over the last few years. Does anyone have any good recommendations?

Have you read The Road by Cormac McCarthy? I read it last year. Apparently there is a movie adaptation - haven't seen it though.

[afixer]

Originally Posted by Wryly

Have you read The Road by Cormac McCarthy? I read it last year. Apparently there is a movie adaptation - haven't seen it though.

I read that one night at work last year and liked it even though it's sad.

[afixer]

wanna find tons of free ebooks to download to your Kindle?

if you select the option to search by price (cheapest first)...tons and tons.

There's a humungous pile of books about the British industrial (r)evolution here, lots of them with post-it notes at points of interest. I can also see Val McDermid - A Place of Execution which sadly has been put onto the back-burner until the summer when I can do some reading for pleasure again.

[Greco]

"A People's History of the United States"
by Howard Zinn


This is on youtube as well in audio.

Greco

[Cowboi]

Originally Posted by Medusa

Im a little more than halfway through "The Passage". It's pretty creepy!

I have developed an thing for post-apocalyse storylines over the last few years. Does anyone have any good recommendations?

I have a book.... Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank in my on deck circle. It takes place after a nuclear holocaust in the US.

You might be interested in checking it out.

[Kenna]

After being the family caretaker and sole provider for many years, much of this book hits home. It isn't just about "stop controlling others".... it's about breaking a cycle and learning to nurture oneself...it's about learning to say No to those that constantly take advantage of your giving, caretaking nature.... and it's full of lessons that you tell yourself "WOW, I didn't know I was doing it that way...". It truly opened my eyes to many harmful habits and emotional stress and harm related to codependency that has been a part of my family and personal relationships since I was a child.

[justkim]

First I should mention I go a Nookcolor for Christmas and have been fondeling my Nookie since then... I LOVE her!
Right now I am doing mindless reading (since I really should be doing class work but this breaks up the study overload I put myself in to) I am also trying to figure out all of the perks of my Nookie...
I started reading the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward. Each book (I have only read the first two and I am currently reading the third one) takes a look at the men of the Brotherhood.
If anyone else has a Nookcolor and would be interested in trying out the lend feature I would gladly lend you the ones I have just finished.

[blush]

The Help-a slow start for me, but then I came to love it.

Water for Elephants-loved it from the start.

[Starbuck]

The one most interesting to me at this moment is Married to a Man & In Love With a Woman. It's "A guide for married women awakened to their attraction to other women." I'm learning A LOT from this book because most of it reads like my own diary.

[torchiegirl]

The Unexpected George Washington, His Private Life

~ Harlow Giles Unger


*squeal*

[Gentle Tiger]

This thread (honest!) lol
God's Armor Bearer, Vol. 1 & 2 - Terry Nance