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T.C. Robson
May 25 2008, 07:06 PM
I'm a huge bookworm, so I figured I'd start up a little thread like this so I could find out what my fellow DC enthusiasts also keep ready for reading on their nightstand.


Name the title and author of the book you're currently reading. Can't get much simpler than that. smile.gif


My current selection:

"Simply Irresistible: Unleash Your Inner Siren and Mesmerize Any Man, With Help from the Most Famous - and Infamous - Women in History" by Ellen T. White

(Before you start asking, I'm reading it for a book review. tongue.gif)
ajpr2
May 25 2008, 07:18 PM
Shoot at Loons the 3rd book in a series by Margaret Maron.

Up next is No Second Chance by Harlen Coben. (It's for a book club)
caro511
May 25 2008, 07:22 PM
QUOTE (T.C. Robson @ May 26 2008, 12:06 PM) *
I'm a huge bookworm, so I figured I'd start up a little thread like this so I could find out what my fellow Dc enthusiasts also kept ready for reading on their nightstand.


Name the title and author of the book you're currently reading. Can't get much simpler than that. smile.gif


My current selection:

"Simply Irresistible: Unleash Your Inner Siren and Mesmerize Any Man, With Help from the Most Famous - and Infamous - Women in History" by Ellen T. White

(Before you start asking, I'm reading it for a book review. tongue.gif)

I'm a big book reader too..

Ive got three on the go at the moment...

Patricia Cornwall - Book of the Dead
Kelly Slater - Pipe Dreams (nice photos in here!! biggrin.gif )

and....out of curiosity - this book will save your life by a.m. holmes
(yes I am a geek! - DC apparently recommended this on one of his blogs or something! Just wanna have a bit of a dig around that brain of his!!!)


BTW - I demand you post your book review!!!
StyleSteel
May 25 2008, 07:33 PM
I'm reading Slumming by Kristin D. Randle and so far it is a pretty interesting book.

For days though I have been thinking of reading Dispatches From the Edge by Anderson Cooper again. I read it a few months back, and loved it. It automatically went to the top of my favorites. It is an amazing book. Really makes one think. (plus I've had a huge crush on Cooper for years! haha) so I think I'm going to pick it up again after I finish Slumming.
T.C. Robson
May 25 2008, 07:51 PM
QUOTE (caro511 @ May 25 2008, 11:22 PM) *
and....out of curiosity - this book will save your life by a.m. holmes
(yes I am a geek! - DC apparently recommended this on one of his blogs or something! Just wanna have a bit of a dig around that brain of his!!!)


BTW - I demand you post your book review!!!



Ah, I have that on my wishlist because of DC! He had it on his MySpace blog - I looked it up too! laugh.gif

Of course! You'll be able to find it on this blog, run by a good buddy of mine who sets me up with book reviews: http://bookshelfreviews.blogspot.com/

I have a few others posted there as well. Let me list them here, in case you or anyone else is interested:

Goetia (Hellgate: London) by Mel Odom
Breaking A Sunbeam by Geoff Hunter
Me2 by M. Christian
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
The Mystery Method by Mystery
The Gospel According to Hollywood by Greg Garrett (has been published in a college newspaper)
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
History of the Millenium (So Far) by Dave Barry (also been published)

I have a bunch of other reviews I've written back from my blogging days stored in a notebook. Used to do it on a regular basis, but now I just review the ones that my friend sets me up with. A lot easier to enjoy the books that way.
pirate skittles!
May 25 2008, 07:56 PM
I'm reading Time Traveler's Wife right now. Well, I'm supposed to, but the thing is I procrastinated. x_x

I've started reading it 5 weeks ago, and then just stopped about two weeks ago. @_@;

Blah, better finish it before the movie is out.
lyndsey
May 25 2008, 08:07 PM
ahhh bookworms unite. haha

usually i read around 5 books at a time, but with the stress of exams coming up, i've narrowed it down to one tongue.gif

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

once exams are done i plan on rereading Holes by Louis Sacher and the Harry Potter series, as well as a new book, Never Mind the Goldbergs by Matthue Roth

smile.gif
T.C. Robson
May 25 2008, 08:10 PM
QUOTE (lyndsey @ May 26 2008, 12:07 AM) *
once exams are done i plan on rereading Holes by Louis Sacher and the Harry Potter series, as well as a new book, Never Mind the Goldbergs by Matthue Roth

smile.gif


I've been meaning to re-read the Harry Potter books, too. That was a truly fantastic series (and I know I'm not alone in that sentiment).
Krista
May 25 2008, 08:17 PM
the appeal - john grisham
Mandy
May 25 2008, 08:22 PM
Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris laugh.gif

QUOTE (Krista @ May 25 2008, 09:17 PM) *
the appeal - john grisham

what do you think about the book so far?
Rye
May 25 2008, 08:23 PM
Hahah, I'm a book worm too. Everyone I know - offline, that is - makes fun of me for it, but heck. tongue.gif

This Book Will Save Your Life... I actually didn't care for it. Gasp! I like some of A.M. Holmes's other works, but this one was just... bleh. I didn't like the way it was written, the way whatever the characters said seemed like a forced line fed to an actor... sigh. Even the characters themselves seemed like truisms. I have to say I'm glad my mum paid for it. :/

My favourite genre is fantasy, so I'm currently digging through a book called Legends (edited by Robert Silverberg), which is a compilation of short novels by popular fantasy authors. Almost done! And the first is still the best!
Gotta love Stephen King. Gooo gunslingers!

Also open are Merrick by Anne Rice and A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby. I'm really liking the latter. tongue.gif
I just finished rereading The Brethren by John Grisham, too. The Firm's the best of his novels (in my opinion, anyway - my dad thinks A Time to Kill is, heh), but, like all of them, The Brethren's good.


Am I the only one who isn't particularly crazy about the Harry Potter series? Granted, I really like The Order of the Phoenix, but that's about it. blink.gif
LoveSick17
May 25 2008, 08:25 PM
QUOTE (T.C. Robson @ May 26 2008, 12:10 AM) *
I've been meaning to re-read the Harry Potter books, too. That was a truly fantastic series (and I know I'm not alone in that sentiment).


Yes, you are def. not the only one. I've been meaning to re-read that series as well. Along with the Twilight series. But right now I'm reading Wuthering Heights and The Great Gatsby. I'm a big bookworm smile.gif
Krista
May 25 2008, 08:26 PM
QUOTE (Mandy @ May 26 2008, 12:22 AM) *
Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris laugh.gif


what do you think about the book so far?



i am actually almost done reading it.
i read it at school during lunch.
i think it's pretty good actually.
but im a john grisham fan. have been for years.
the only book i thoguht was really different of his was "innocent man" which was based on true events.
so yea, but that was still a great book.
amers19982
May 25 2008, 08:30 PM
I love reading too! I am a huge dork when it comes to books...I am a Harry Potter fan so keeping with the same sorta...kinda theme...I am currently reading the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher...I am on book 3...I am also reading the Ghost Hunters book and A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. I don't usually do Oprah's bookclub books but A New Earth got such great reviews, I couldn't help myself!
lyndsey
May 25 2008, 08:35 PM
QUOTE (T.C. Robson @ May 26 2008, 01:10 AM) *
I've been meaning to re-read the Harry Potter books, too. That was a truly fantastic series (and I know I'm not alone in that sentiment).


tell me about it. i've read the first 3 books no less then 13 times each.. no exaggeration.

wow.. saying that made me look like such a loser..
but it's true sad.gif
i love that series.
Bea
May 25 2008, 10:31 PM
I used to be a major bookworm as well. I never had a time where I wasn't reading something. Right now though, I haven't been reading all that much. I mean I'm in the middle of reading Victoria Beckham's autobiography, Learning To Fly, but I haven't thought about reading it for over a week already.
caro511
May 25 2008, 10:52 PM
I've never read any Harry Potter!

Do you think this would be the appropriate place to say I have also read a gazillion mills & boon books.

Do you think I would lose my word nerd number by posting that one!! laugh.gif
armychick34
May 25 2008, 11:28 PM
Naked in Death by JD Robb (Nora Roberts) for the ump-teenth time

I recommend this series to anyone who loves thrillers that involve crimes/forensics (murders mostly)

I LOVE Patricia Cornwell, but I haven't been as pleased with her last two books. She just seems so jaded.

I just finished the second book in the Sign of Seven trilogy also by Nora Roberts.

Jessica rolleyes.gif
Janni
May 26 2008, 01:55 AM
Nancy by Deborah Spungen

I've read it like 3 times, but I like it. smile.gif
CBB
May 26 2008, 05:17 AM
Hide by Lisa Gardner
Team D.C!
May 26 2008, 05:20 AM
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards biggrin.gif
seeknay
May 26 2008, 10:34 AM
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Right now I'm about a third of the way through it. I started reading it last summer but then i started my senior year of college so I couldn't finish it. Now that I graduated I started it again because I couldn't remember everything that happened and I'm about up to where I let off last time. I can't wait to finish it so I can move on to the last book. I hear like 20 people die in book 7 and I can't wait to see how it ends.
T.C. Robson
May 27 2008, 08:49 AM
Just posted my review for "Simply Irresistible":

http://bookshelfreviews.blogspot.com/2008/...en-t-white.html

Not sure what I'll be reading next, though.

EDIT: Yes, I do. I'll be reading (Not That You Asked) by Steve Almond. Can't read anything too seriously when I'm going to classes.
Yaara
May 27 2008, 09:20 AM
Well, about 2 books at once. "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk that I can't seem to finish, and "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk that I'm re-reading but can't seem to commit to that either.

I have too much on my mind to read, which is a damn pity because I love reading and I used to do a lot of that.

QUOTE (seeknay @ May 26 2008, 09:34 PM) *
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Right now I'm about a third of the way through it. I started reading it last summer but then i started my senior year of college so I couldn't finish it. Now that I graduated I started it again because I couldn't remember everything that happened and I'm about up to where I let off last time. I can't wait to finish it so I can move on to the last book. I hear like 20 people die in book 7 and I can't wait to see how it ends.


Well, I think a lot more than that but not 20 main characters I don't think. But yeah, hope you enjoy reading nevertheless. I wanna re-read the entire series again (for the God knows what time) but I can't be bothered. Oh well, hopefully the upcoming movie relights my HP passion.
caro511
May 27 2008, 10:04 AM
QUOTE (T.C. Robson @ May 28 2008, 01:49 AM) *
Just posted my review for "Simply Irresistible":

http://bookshelfreviews.blogspot.com/2008/...en-t-white.html

Not sure what I'll be reading next, though.

EDIT: Yes, I do. I'll be reading (Not That You Asked) by Steve Almond. Can't read anything too seriously when I'm going to classes.


After reading your review I think I will skip this one.

I'm lovin' how you used trite though! smile.gif
Val
May 27 2008, 10:23 AM
The Encyclopedia Of Crime

Cause I'm odd like that
sru_gal_8504
May 27 2008, 11:15 AM
i just finished four trials by john edwards and simon cowell's book.
T.C. Robson
May 27 2008, 11:43 AM
QUOTE (caro511 @ May 27 2008, 02:04 PM) *
After reading your review I think I will skip this one.

I'm lovin' how you used trite though! smile.gif


But of course. It's the quintessential Word Nerd word. smile.gif
VickieED
May 27 2008, 11:53 AM
Books and music are my two great passions. I started reading when I was four, and haven't stopped since.

I'm re-reading the Left Behind series right now. Then, it's on to the third on the Tree of Avalon series. Then, the new Christopher Paolini book when it comes out. No idea what I will read in between.

And, you're not a geek just b/c you read a book that David liked/recommended. Clay A. gushed about The Kite Runner in a blog, and the sales took quite a jump, and it got even more good word-of-mouth, as many of his fans took him up on his recommendation.

If you have never read it - or Hosseini's second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns - they are fantastic. TKR is one of the most intense, most deeply moving books I have ever read. It's very rare that a first novel is that amazing, especially from the first paragraph. I have only ever experienced it one other time - Christopher Paolini's Eragon.
DavidCook_UKFan
May 27 2008, 12:18 PM
I'm currently reading, 'Bridesmaids' by Jane Costello - a nice easy summer read.
T.C. Robson
May 27 2008, 12:40 PM
QUOTE (VickieED @ May 27 2008, 03:53 PM) *
I'm re-reading the Left Behind series right now. Then, it's on to the third on the Tree of Avalon series. Then, the new Christopher Paolini book when it comes out. No idea what I will read in between.


My father adored the Left Behind series. He still has it on his bookshelf, lined up in order. I've been contemplating checking out the first book, just to see if I like it. I do have the Left Behind Military subsidiary series by Mel Odom, though - he's a favorite author of mine.
VickieED
May 27 2008, 12:57 PM
QUOTE (T.C. Robson @ May 27 2008, 04:40 PM) *
My father adored the Left Behind series. He still has it on his bookshelf, lined up in order. I've been contemplating checking out the first book, just to see if I like it. I do have the Left Behind Military subsidiary series by Mel Odom, though - he's a favorite author of mine.


If you start with Left Behind, make sure you go back and read the prequels - The Rising; The Regime; and The Rapture.

I always wondered what Carpathia was like growing up; did their parents know what they had in their little boy? I always assumed he had normal parents and a normal childhood.
BSDCfan
May 27 2008, 12:59 PM
Short Straw by Stuart Woods

I always have a book to read, ya never know when you're going to have some down time...

I really want to get The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Six. On a whim I bought the CD The Heroin Diaries 'cuz I liked Life Is Beautiful and wondered what the rest of it sounded like. I don't know if I was just in the right (or maybe wrong) place when I started listening to it, but it just took my breath away.
fc0330
May 27 2008, 01:01 PM
Currently reading The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (haven't seen the movie, I always prefer to read the books), and soon hope to read A Thousand Splendid Suns for the second time. Khalid Hosseini is an AMAZING author. I've got a long list to get through this summer though, let's hope I enjoy them all. biggrin.gif
VickieED
May 27 2008, 01:10 PM
QUOTE (fc0330 @ May 27 2008, 05:01 PM) *
Currently reading The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (haven't seen the movie, I always prefer to read the books), and soon hope to read A Thousand Splendid Suns for the second time. Khalid Hosseini is an AMAZING author. I've got a long list to get through this summer though, let's hope I enjoy them all. biggrin.gif


Do you remember what month ATSS came out? B/c it just this week fell off the NYT best-sellers top ten for fiction.
fc0330
May 27 2008, 02:21 PM
QUOTE (VickieED @ May 27 2008, 06:10 PM) *
Do you remember what month ATSS came out? B/c it just this week fell off the NYT best-sellers top ten for fiction.


May of last year, if I'm not mistaken. That's awesome, a whole year in the top ten best-sellers. This man has a ridiculous talent.
VickieED
May 27 2008, 02:28 PM
QUOTE (fc0330 @ May 27 2008, 06:21 PM) *
May of last year, if I'm not mistaken. That's awesome, a whole year in the top ten best-sellers. This man has a ridiculous talent.



Yep. And, I emailed back and forth with him a few times, and he is a really nice guy, too.
fc0330
May 27 2008, 02:44 PM
QUOTE (VickieED @ May 27 2008, 07:28 PM) *
Yep. And, I emailed back and forth with him a few times, and he is a really nice guy, too.


I'm sure. We actually had to read ATSS for my Ethnic-American Lit class, and it was the first time I read anything by him. I got my hands on TKR once the semester was over and finished it in one day. His work is so, so powerful.
T.C. Robson
May 27 2008, 02:56 PM
QUOTE (BSDCfan @ May 27 2008, 04:59 PM) *
I really want to get The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Six. On a whim I bought the CD The Heroin Diaries 'cuz I liked Life Is Beautiful and wondered what the rest of it sounded like. I don't know if I was just in the right (or maybe wrong) place when I started listening to it, but it just took my breath away.


The Heroin Diaries, I found, was really good. It really helps get inside his head during some of his craziest and unstable times - it's scary in many ways like that. I couldn't put it down, though.
T.C. Robson
May 28 2008, 07:53 PM
Could not get into "Not That You Asked". Now reading 'Unholy Domain' by Dan Ronco for a book review.
danielle_
May 28 2008, 08:00 PM
well, for school i'm attempting to finish the last 200 pages of fahrenheit 451 in 2 days. dont think thats going to happen. in my free time i'm reading lullaby by chuck palahniuk
Mizz Afrikano
May 28 2008, 08:14 PM
QUOTE (pirate skittles! @ May 26 2008, 08:56 AM) *
I'm reading Time Traveler's Wife right now. Well, I'm supposed to, but the thing is I procrastinated. x_x

I've started reading it 5 weeks ago, and then just stopped about two weeks ago. @_@;

Blah, better finish it before the movie is out.


i'm trying to read it too, i've had it for weeks now and still have not started it!

QUOTE (Team D.C! @ May 26 2008, 06:20 PM) *
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards biggrin.gif


i'm currenty reading this one too.
CanadianCookie
May 29 2008, 05:27 PM
Shattered by Dean Koontz again!
I have every book by him and I've read them all. When I'm doin, I read them over again!
He's my favourite author!
Spike UK
May 30 2008, 04:50 PM
I'm reading The Woman in the Fifth by Douglas Kennedy. I've enjoyed all the books of his that I've read. It's turning into a bit of a mystery, I'm really enjoying it.
denise_kc
May 30 2008, 05:46 PM
Right now, I'm reading "The Hollow" by Nora Roberts. It's the 2nd book in the Sign of Seven trilogy - I'm loving it!
blankmind3
May 30 2008, 07:21 PM
The Host by Stephenie Meyer & Audrey, Wait by Robin Benway.
The Host I read a little every night before bed. Audrey, Wait I read at school after I complete my classwork an stuff.
Mandy
May 30 2008, 07:27 PM
QUOTE (blankmind3 @ May 30 2008, 08:21 PM) *
The Host by Stephenie Meyer & Audrey, Wait by Robin Benway.
The Host I read a little every night before bed. Audrey, Wait I read at school after I complete my classwork an stuff.


How do you like "The Host"?


I'm reading Some Enchanted Evening by Christina Dodd & Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruz
miss.gee
May 31 2008, 05:02 AM
I remember when i was in junior or senior high i read Oliver Twist, The Canterville Ghost, A Man with Three Finger, Hounds of The Baskerville, White Fangs, Dr. Hyde & Mr.Jeckyl, etc..to learn english.

Harry Potter series -- JK Rowling

24 Faces of Billy --still not finished

Sisterhood of The Travelling Pants series -- Anne Brashares (currently my fave, can't wait the 2nd movie release this year)

Ayat-Ayat Cinta -- Habiburahman El Shirazy (due to the movie become super famous in my country)

and currently read Global Warming for Beginner for my thesis needs...

i really want to read Middlesex/ Eat,Pray,Love / He's not that into you -- still not found em in my country.
Clairey
May 31 2008, 05:39 AM
I'm reading 'Gossip Girl: Nobody Does It Better' by Cecily vion Zeigesar. It's the 7th book in the series smile.gif
I just finished reading 'Magical Thinking' by Augusten Burroughs, & before that 'Running with Scissors' by Augusten Burroughs. He's an amazing writer.

I also just watched the movie 'Running with Scissors' which is absolutely fantastic!

My favourite book of all-time is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky
caro511
May 31 2008, 07:53 AM
QUOTE (miss.gee @ May 31 2008, 09:02 PM) *
I remember when i was in junior or senior high i read Oliver Twist, The Canterville Ghost, A Man with Three Finger, Hounds of The Baskerville, White Fangs, Dr. Hyde & Mr.Jeckyl, etc..to learn english.

Harry Potter series -- JK Rowling

24 Faces of Billy --still not finished

Sisterhood of The Travelling Pants series -- Anne Brashares (currently my fave, can't wait the 2nd movie release this year)

Ayat-Ayat Cinta -- Habiburahman El Shirazy (due to the movie become super famous in my country)

and currently read Global Warming for Beginner for my thesis needs...

i really want to read Middlesex/ Eat,Pray,Love / He's not that into you -- still not found em in my country.

Eat Pray Love is a great book - I read it a couple of months back after my last holiday to Bali. You might be able to buy it from Amazon or ebay - if you still can't get a hold of it when I get my copy back (not sure who I lent it too) I can alwayd send it to you! - I am in Australia so it is not too far away.
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