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What Are You Reading?

I'm a big reader and I love to know what everyone is reading.  I'll update my list occasionally and I hope you keep my updated in the comments.

Here is the latest post about books I'm reading.

Here is a post about reader's recommended children's books.

56 comments:

  1. What Your SON Isn't Telling You (Unlocking the Secret World of Teen Boys) by Michael Ross and Susie Shellenberger

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  2. I'm a HUGE reader. Check out my blog if you get a moment. :) http://www.smashattackreads.com/

    Your Jay-Z / Beyonce rant earned you a new fan. Thanks for sharing your words. I couldn't have uttered them more perfectly.

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  3. Not on your list of authors but it is a easy read and inspirational - Heaven is for Real ...

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    1. Great book. Not exactly what I'd call"well written" but a great story and a quick read.

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  4. House of Night Series.. currently on book 7.

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  5. You can trade books at www.paperbackswap.com It's an awesome sight and where I get most of my books from these days., Four are waiting for me... Lynne Hinton, Kathleen Givens and "In the Bleak Midwinter"

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  6. "Oryx and Crake" and "The Year of The Flood" by Margaret Atwood.

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  7. I am totally addicted to the Anita Blake Series by Laurell Hamilton! Their are like 20 books in the series and I am on 14 I think! Love them they are like Vampire Porn! HA! A total escape from work and motherhood!!!

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    1. I love-love-love these up until Obsidian Butterfly. I still read the new ones but then I get mad, LOL. The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris and Queen Betsy books by MaryJanice Davidson are my new reads. The Hollows books are pretty good, too. Author is Harrison, I think.

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  8. I really enjoyed The Forest of Hands and Teeth (series) by Carrie Ryan. I couldn't put these books down, and ignored my family for days until they were completed!

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    1. Awesome Trilogy!! My husband even read those and loved them and he doesn't EVER read ANYTHING!! You are the first person I have seen recommend these books.

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    2. Just got the first one from the lib today. Looking forward to reading it this wknd.

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  10. I've been reading the classics (through last year). A Tale of Two Cities, an anthology of Poe, some Nathaniel Hawthorne. My favorites so far were The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged), Harry Potter, and the adventures of Sherlock Holmes (the grandfather of episodic stories like The Closer, CSI, etc.)

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  11. I recently read Stephen King's latest, '11/22/63'. I loved it!

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  12. Lady of the rivers by philippa Gregory

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  13. Wacky Chicks by Simon Doonan. Hilarious.

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  14. I just finished Legend by Marie Lu. It's a dystopian love story/action novel set in L.A. It got decent reviews and I thought I'd check it out. It was a very fast read. It kept my attention, but it wasn't as good as The Hunger Games (my favorite dystopian love story/action novel). I got it from the library and I was happy to read it, but it's not one I would spend money on.

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  15. I just read the 3rd Darynda Jones Charley Davidson series it's really good. I just started Die For Me by Amy Plum I admit it was the cover that got me its so pretty but so far sounds good.

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  16. Julia Spencer-Fleming series. REAL good!! And I got a kindle last week, so I have a TON waiting to be read.

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  17. Nick Pirog..."Unforseen" and "Gray Matter"...thrillers with a huge dose of humor....

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  18. Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, and Lamb by Christopher Moore

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    1. And the Night Circus - a very well written book.

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  19. I love the Dark Hunter Series from Sherrilyn Kenyon. Her books are always a great read.

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  20. Inheritance by Christopher Paolini. It's the fourth and final book in the Eragon series. It's a pretty decent Lord of the Rings knock off, and the author started writing it when he was 15 or something. The only problem is that the books are overly long. If he can learn a more succinct writing style, he'll be a much better writer.

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  21. I'm reading The Sun Also Rises and the first volume of Ernest Hemingway's letters, just published last year. Got inspired by Paula McClain's The Paris Wife. That book, combined with Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, sparked an interest in the expats like Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, etc.
    Two of the best books I've read this past year are Elegance of the Hedgehog (set in Paris) and Olive Kitteridge.

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    1. I did the same thing after The Paris Wife! Then I read Steinbeck's East of Eden...but my all time fave is The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
      Tell me if you cracked up in Sun Also Rises during the taxidermy conversation. :)

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  22. I read another blog besides your:

    http://www.imbringingbloggingback.com/

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  23. Kardashian Konfidential....HAHA just kidding!!! I know, lame joke...punch me! I'm currently reading Colleen Coble. She has a couple of series out and they're great!

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  24. The Fortunate Mistress, or Roxana, by Daniel Defoe. Talk about motherhood problems.. damn.

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  25. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. Historical fiction crossed with an adult version of Twilight. An easy read and occasionally steamy....

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  26. I just read "Bossypants" by Tina Fey. Hilarious and witty.

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  27. currently reading The Book Thief by Markus Zuszak

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    1. I love The Book Thief! I would definitely recommend it.

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  28. I want to call B.S. on your book list. You say you read ROOM a week before Jaycee Dugard was found. She was found in April, 2009 and ROOM wasn't published until September, 2010. Maybe you read it before that interview with her last year. Also, is it bad that I hated the kid in ROOM and wanted him to die?

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  29. Hey I'm reading a great self published author. R.L. Mathewson. Her books are funny and fresh. Best part is they're totally affordable. Try her Jen you'll love her!

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  30. Just got done reading Scarpetta. Love that series.

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  31. I just stared reading The Passage...so far it is really good. Listening to Abraham Lincoln Vampire Slayer during my commute...I think the movie will be good; the book is very entertaining.

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  32. Just finished "Fifty Shades of Grey: Book 1" (yes, I have become that person) and "MWF Seeks BFF". I blogged a bit about both in my last post and would be curious to get your thoughts on them if you'd read it.

    (http://hilarywithonel.blogspot.com/2012/04/recipe-friday.html)

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    1. Just started "Fifty Shades of Grey" and love it! ha! Soooo embarrassing, but I totally love this book. Easy and fun to read.

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  33. I'm reading a bunch of different things. Online (besides this here blog)www.nerdfitness.com as well as Monster and Careerbuilder. In that old fashioned paper form: housing ads (Craigslist cannot be trusted), "The Family" by Mario Puzo (source material for "The Borgias"), "Sudden Wealth" (preparation for lottery win) and the edits on MY novel.
    http://50tonormal.blogspot.com/

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  34. Just finished the Hunger Games and the Blindside. Both FANTASTIC books!

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  35. We are reading "Fifty Shades of Grey" at our online bookclub (love it!).

    Just finished "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel and "State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett

    I had to switch it up from serious to fun for now.

    Also, totally loved ALL of The Hunger Games books. Wish there was a 4th.

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  36. Forest of Hands and Teeth Trilogy was wonderful. Now reading the 2nd book in the series of Fifty Shades of Grey. . . and OMG, it's fantastic. I'm 40 something married for 22 years, and yummy is all I can say.

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  37. Come on Jen, blog about "Fifty Shades," I am anxiously awaiting your punch.

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    1. The SNL Amazon.com commercial spoof last Saturday was hilarious.

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  38. South of Bixby Bridge by Ryan Whitfield. His first book and the first chapter completely pulled me in.

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  39. Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott. First in a four book series about Boudica.

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  40. The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles #3) "Deadlocked" by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackouse series...lost count of which #)

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  41. I really enjoy your blogs and doubt I know you but I graduated from SM East in mid 80s. The Time Mag cover rant was spot on.
    Here's a book suggestion my book club just finished - The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson - a professor at Sewanee (Unv.of the South).

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  42. The Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin - great book (the first of four) with historical fiction.......picture Kay Scarpetta in the 12th century.

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  43. I'm sure you know about it already, but you should read the Bloggess's book, Let's Pretend this Never Happened. Honestly this is the one and only book I actually had to put down because I was laughing so hard.Hands down the best and funniest thing I've ever read!

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  44. I just read 50 Shades of Grey. Honestly I wanted to slap the crap out of the main female character myself for all her whining but it was an easy read. BTW it is porn. I don't usually like romance-y type books but after the first sweaty sex scene in the book I became inspired. I went and made out so hard with the hubs I had to ice my tenders. Never done that before...

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  45. Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow. George Washington's life beginning in early childhood,

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  46. Have you tried the books about Anita Blake, vampire hunter by Laurell K Hamilton yet? Or the Belgariad (5 books) and Mallorean (5 books) by David Eddings? Or the Valdemar-series by Mercedes Lackey (25 books and counting)?

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