"Out of Sync" by Lance Bass

I've got 'He's Just Not That Into You' if you'd like me to send it your way. Not sure how soon it'd get there, but I could give it a shot.





I read that a while back - I thought it was pretty good. Gotta be a past or present *NSYNC fan to really appreciate it, though.

Yay! A thread I can really relate to.

I've always been a voracious reader. I started when I was very young...and never stopped!

On the plane ride to NY last weekend, I read "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky, on recommendation. Now I've got "Bringing Down the House" by Ben Mezrich.

I have to pick up the latest Jonathan Kellerman book. He's my favorite "pop" novelist!

That was an absolutely fantastic book! I read it when 21 came out in theatres - can't wait to catch the movie on DVD.

I'm enjoying it so far - very fascinating. And it's cracking me up too because the time frame in which Kevin came on board was right around when I started going to Vegas on a regular basis.

I wanted to see '21' in the theater, but I never got around to it. I'll put it on my Netflix list!

Currently reading The Facade by Michael Heisler. Not that far into it...but I hear it's good. Just finished Running with Scissors, which I LOVED! Also have started Mists of Avalon, which is soooooo long it will no doubt take me all summer. Anybody read it? I've got Eat, Pray, Love waiting in the wings as well.

Anybody on bookins.com? It's a site where you list your books to trade and every book you "buy" costs only $4.49 for postage. You print the postage paid labels when somebody requests your book...so it's a pretty painless way to keep reading and pass along what you don't want to keep. You earn points for what you send out...and then redeem them with your book requests.

Haven't heard of that site, but Paperbackswap.com is pretty much the same way, and I'm a very active member over there.

I'm a big non-fiction fan, so I'm trying to find time to read "Four Days in November" by Vincent Bugliosi. He was the prosecutor in the Charles Manson case and wrote Helter Skelter. He's a brilliant attorney and great writer. His narratives draw you in so you can't put the book down. This book is actually an excerpt from "Reclaiming History" which is an overview (OK, 20 years worth of research) into the Kennedy assassination. Basically he concludes Oswald acted alone, but you have to read through it as he dispels the conspiracy theories one by one.

This has always been of great interest to me since my Dad's first cousin was a motorcycle cop in the motorcade, directly behind JFK's limo, so he always gets mentioned in assassination accounts.

I'm hoping to get more of his books read this summer. He's got a new one out about how to try George W. Bush for murder......THAT will stir up some controversy, but like everything else he writes, he backs everything up with extensive, meticulous research.

Thanks to DC's performance of Music of the Night, I'm just starting to re-read an awesome book I read years ago, Phantom, by Susan Kay. Here's the book review on Amazon from Publisher's Weekly:

Retelling and expanding upon a well known and beloved classic is risky business, but Kay acquits herself with brio in this retelling of Gaston Leroux's 1911 tale, The Phantom of the Opera. In a powerful and moving tour de force, she adds a new depth and perspective, moving well beyond the familiar boundaries of the story. This version begins with the birth of the horribly disfigured Erik and continues into the years following his doomed romance with Christine, ending in an unexpected and triumphant redemption. The narrative encompasses Erik's disastrous formative years with his mother, his caged existence among a gypsy tribe and a period of relative happiness in Rome, where he perfects his skills as an architect and builder. He goes to Persia, where he masters his talent for torture and murder and, finally, he is involved in the construction of the Paris Opera House--and the creation of his labyrinthine world beneath that structure. Haunting and unforgettable, this is a book to be savored, a sensual and often poetic exploration of a man's internal conflict between good and evil and of a search for love amidst darkness and despair.

A fantastic book. You'll never think about Phantom of the Opera the same again after reading this amazing book!

I like biographies and autobiographies, these sound like great books. I will have to keep my eye out for them. I have been reading too many heart wrenching ones lately. The last one like that was Broken by Shy Keenan. It has to be one of the most tragic childhoods I have ever read about. How she is still standing on two feet I really don't know!

I'm going to have to mention that one to my Mom. I'm not into the trial-case non-fiction reads as much as she is, so I think she'd better appreciate something like that.





Oh, that sounds really good! Looking that one up right now...

I LOVE reading, I'll admit, I'm a total bookworm!
I read young adults, cause I am one. LOL.
I just finished two books today, Birthday by Koji Suzuki and Jason and Marceline by Jerry Spenelli. Birthday's so interesting, It's inspired by the Ring. Three short stories , and my favortie, I'd have to say is Lemon Heart. It's an AWESOME book, and if you ever saw it, I'd recomend you to read it!
And the other book, Jason and Marceline, I think alot of you heard of it, but I only read it now because I wasn't so interested in those kinds of books (You know, romance) But, oh my frickin gosh, the book was so darn ADICTING! I didn't sleep because I was busy reading the book. Why does Marceline have to break up with JASOOON? It's so irratating! But I'm so glad they got together again!

If Jason and Marceline was real, and they were a famous love team. I'd be their number supporter.

JASON X MARCELINE 4-EVER.

Just finished "Unholy Domain". Keeping my copy, though, because the author autographed it personally to me. That's definitely a keeper.

Review is here: http://bookshelfreviews.blogspot.com/2008/...-dan-ronco.html

Now? Ugh. I have to read Abigail Adams: A Revolutionary American Woman by Charles W. Akers for my history class. Not-So-Honest Abe follows that. Hopefully I'll be able to BS my way through it. But you never know - I might actually like it. There's a weird thought.

Huge bookworm here! I'm usually reading two books at a time. Right now, I'm reading 'An Unfinished Life', a really detailed biography of JFK, and I just finished the latest Stephanie Plum mystery. I like to read anything and almost everything!

I'm reading a few at the time. I'm re-reading the Twilight series. I can't wait for Breaking Dawn in August.
And I'm a huge Jackie Collins fan. I've read everything of hers and love the Santangelo Saga.

I typically have multiple books going at the same time. Currently, they include:

- Nonviolent Communication
- The Power of Now
- The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (don't ask)

Uuuuuummm reading the third book of the Twilight series which is called Eclipse! i am sooo pumped for the new book and movie.... WOOT! i am sorry ppl but i dont like edward i love jacob!! i dont know why so many ppl hate him!

Love the Twilight series - Eclipse was the best book! The movie should be fantastic.

I think Jacob's passion in making Bella his own is very admirable, but I'm not really crazy about either of the guys. Edward is nice, but a little too protective for my tastes. I do like Edward's family, though - they seem like a crazy bunch!

I love the Cullen clan with Alice and Emmet being my favorites of the clan...I'm really torn because I like Bella with both Jacob and Edward..for very different reasons.

I can't wait for the movie either but I'm just hoping that they don't ruin it.

i am just about to start the newest in the odd thomas saga from dean koontz.

i started reading "haunted" by chuck palahniuk about 2 months ago, but work got hectic and now i'm gonna have to start over, i fear.

simultaneously in the middle of "Vanity Fair"

anyone else find themselves picking up a familiar book just to read one chapter or even just a few words? I do this a lot with hemingway and harry potter... especially with DH.

it's like i need a mixed tape, but only with literature. lol

Just finished Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown, love that book. I like how he incorporates semi-fact and fiction and mystery. Brilliant.

Also reading Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards but the story isn't really holding my attention.

And The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin S. Sharma.



Ugh, I do that a lotlot with my Potter books. The problem is, I get sucked in and end up reading the whole book. I've read all the books to a total of more than 100 times. 118 to be exact. Huge Potter addict, before DC decided to mess with my head.

Currently reading Aphra Behn's Oroonoko for my Restoration Lit class.

I'm currently reading The Constant Princess by Phillipa Gregory. I also have read by her and highly recommend The Other Boleyn Girl and The Boleyn Inheritance. All excellent. Next up is Bringing Down the House which I've had forever, but wanted to finish The Constant Princess first.



Agreed. The Kite Runner was amazing - I read it in 2 days while I was traveling cross country - I did also enjoy A Thousand Splendid Suns, but I liked the Kite Runner a lot better.

I'm reading a book called Pretties by Scott Westerfield, and i read the first book in the series called Uglies, and they're just really good

thank God that i've come across your post and you mentioning Nora Roberts, 'cause after reading all the posts and concluding that y'all are "serious" bookworms...i was afraid to post my reply. I'm the "fluffy- cheesy- paperback romance" bookworm. i guess since my job is too serious and stressful that i tend to be drawn to these types of books. and I do love NORA ROBERTS...i mean i have a collection! I'm starting on the 2nd book of her current trilogy (Sign of Seven).

It's nice to know that there are so many bookworms on here. I usually feel completely out of place.

Currently I'm reading six different books.

For school:
New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors by Susan Brigden
The Making of England: To 1399
Wheelock's Latin (yeah, I'm a total nerd)

For fun:
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie

I'm a complete like, book guru lol, and it's awesome to see that other people here are too.
Anyway, my current self indulgence is "The Ice Limit" by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. And since I'm a nerd, I'm gunna tell you what the back of it says


"The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombe in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At four thousand tons, this treasure seems impossible to move, a nightmare of physics requiring incredible human ingenuity.
New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museam. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a flawless expedition.
But from the first approach to the meteorite, people begin to die. A frightening truth is about to unfold: The men and women of the Rolvaag are not taking this ancient, enigmatic object anywhere. It's taking them."

I'm only about halfway through and no one has died yet... It's kind of depressing. But anyway, it's a good book.... Check it out lol.

i love reading books too.. i read different varieties, from harry potter to dan brown's da vinci code..
but my favorites are the classic like wuthering heights (my favorite *they are gonna remake the movie*), scarlet letter, jane eyre, pride and prejudice, little women, house of seven gables, heidi, a little princess, and many more..
right now i'm reading charles dicken's great expectation..

Oh, my goodness - how do you do that? If I read just two books at a time (schoolbooks included), my mind usually forgets what I read in one. I'm not that ambidexterous, which is pretty unfortunate as I'm taking Humanities and U.S. History right now, both of which depend a lot on memory.





Off-topic, but...a Vincent Valentine avatar! So cool.

Off-topic, but...a Vincent Valentine avatar! So cool.
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oh thanks, i don't even know who vincent valentine is. .(just saw this one on photobucket, thought it's cool)
i googled it up, so it's a character from final fantasy..cool!

Now I'm reading the next item on my course list:
Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"

The Detainee's By Shaun Hughes

I'm reading two!

Between Georgia - Joshlyn Jackson
Yes Man - Danny Wallace (i'm re-reading this one!)

I highly recommend teh Twilight series Cassie, that's if you haven't read them before. The whole series is completely awesome.

I just finished Story of a girl and Great Expectations
and about 1/2 an hour ago, i started Stalemate



Twilight is amazing! im excited for the next book and the movie!

Gotta resurrect this thread. I FINALLY finished that Abigail Adams bio. It wasn't bad, but biographies really aren't my thing. I'll read an occasional one, but I don't make a habit of it.

Anyway, just for pleasurable reading (at least until I have to start up Abe Lincoln's bio), I'm beginning "What A Song Can Do: 12 Riffs on the Power of Music", edited by Jennifer Armstrong. We'll see how it goes.

the new earth - by eckhart tolken

I've not long finished my finals etc, so it's been so nice to get back to reading, just because I want to, not because I have to!

I'm currently reading Deception Point by Dan Brown. And then I'm planning on re-reading Pride and Prejudice for the millionth time as I haven't read it in a while!

I brought Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich to the beach last weekend and I am SO INTO IT. Its such a great story so far - I wanted to see 21 but it didn't happen before it left theaters. I'll have to check it out when it comes out on DVD.

Well, I started "In Her Shoes," but then the Cookie obsession kicked in, so ... um, the book has been untouched on my nightstand since I discovered this place! I've also been trying to read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged," but damn...that book is heavy! Literally... haha

To reiterate what I said earlier in the thread, I adored that book. Could not put it down!

Im finding that problem myself. Granted - I think part of the draw was because it's about kids from MIT, which isn't that far from me (Like, an hourish) so I recognize a lot of the Cambridge/Boston description. I find I'm drawn to books that are set locally a lot of the time.

I am reading both The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult and The Host by Stephenie Meyer.

Eventually, I will have summer assignments to read as well.

I just loved the complexity of the whole deal. It was amazing how far it went and how many close calls they had. It always left me in suspense.





Loved The Host! Stephenie Meyer is an exquisite writer.




"I'm beginning "What A Song Can Do: 12 Riffs on the Power of Music", edited by Jennifer Armstrong."

Nope, wasn't feeling it. I need to start a book for a review anyway. Next selection is "Divorcing Dwayne" by J. L. Miles.

Since I just stumbled onto this topic, I'm just going to paste my Book Worm section of my LJ.

Just finished:
The Host by Stephenie Meyer,
Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz
The Stand by Stephen King
The Mist by Stephen King
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

Currently reading:
Forever Odd by Dean Koontz,
Marked (house of night) by ???

Waiting to read:
Brother Odd by Dean Koontz,
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer,
Good Guy by Dean Koontz
The Husband by Dean Koontz

Before Cookie fever set in, I'd decided to read all of Jane Austen's six major novels. I read Pride and Prejudice years ago (but plan to re-read it), and I'd read Persuasion and Northanger Abbey and was about halfway through Sense and Sensibility. It's NOT like me to put a book down and not finish it!! And I do want to go back to it, when I can make time. And then Mansfield Park and Emma.

Yeah having trouble putting down The Host! XD

I have a list of books that I need to read over the summer, might pick up some Jane Austen for some summer fun.

I have to read a book for AP English too. :]

I just finished "Bringing Down the House" and now need something new to read. I may have to peruse this thread for suggestions. (Oh and it was totally awesome, you were right TC!)

I'm reading Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon, its for a book club so I need to finish it by next week but I seem to be on here too much!

before that I read 1000 Splendid Suns by Kahled Hosseni which is amazing.