What are you reading right now?
14 posts
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caitlin 
6 posts
Posted about 1 year ago
Can be anything – fiction, non-fiction, for yourself, or to your kids!
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Piper
14 posts
Posted about 1 year ago
I am LOVING “Eat Pray Love”. Elizabeth Gilbert has a wonderful voice. I’ve laughed out loud, the kind of laughing when I’ve had to put the book down and laugh, not caring about the guy in the seat next to me on the plane, and even more, she writes in such a way that I want to go on her journey with her. She’s imminently likable and her writing is sharp and surprising.
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Brandie
767 posts
Posted about 1 year ago
I just finished up one Cherry Cheesecake Murder and like all of Joanne Fluke’s other books, I loved it. Although, it wasn’t my favorite of hers, it was still good!
Right now I am reading For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay!
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pamela
3 posts
Posted about 1 year ago
I’m reading “The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs” by Irvine Welsh, who also wrote Trainspotting. It starts out like an ordinary story then has a wild twist. Really looking forward to finding out how it turns out! Also, like half the country, I just finished reading the new Harry Potter.
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SarahE
1 post
Posted about 1 year ago
Pamela,
I recently read the new Irvine Welsh, too—tamer than his other stuff but still fun. Right now I am reading some non-fiction: “The World Without Us” by Alan Weisman.
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MammaLoves
11 posts
Posted about 1 year ago
Just finishing up Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, and I’m loving it. It is a family epic narrated by a hermaphrodite tracing the genetic mutation that resulted in his (using that pronoun because that is how he identifies) condition. It begins as a wonderful tale of greek immigrants setting off to the US in the early 1900s.
Don’t let it’s place on the Oprah book club list fool you. It’s fabulous.
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bianca bean
17 posts
Posted about 1 year ago
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without Country. I have never been a Vonnegut devotee, but I may just become one after this. His take on the nuclear family is so insightful, and his views on politics are highly interesting. It’s a quick read. In this case, brevity truly is the soul of wit.
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AmyE
23 posts
Posted about 1 year ago
Oh, I just read Slaughterhouse Five (I think it was #5….sorry it’s my time on the computer, can’t waste any of it to run upstairs and doublecheck) by Kurt Vonnegut. It was good, but not what I was expecting. I live in Williamsburg, so the local Barnes & Noble is actually the bookstore for the College of William & Mary and it was on their summer reading table.
I also just finished Running with Scissors. I almost put it down because I had just read The Glass Castle and felt like I had a problem being entertained by people growing up with such awful childhoods. It was also pretty gross, both sexually and hygenically (I mean poo). Anyway, the writer is really funny, so I couldn’t put it down and finished it quickly. I didn’t want to see the movie, but now I have to put it on my Netflix list because I have to see how they turned “that” into a movie.
I am now reading Leeway Cottage. I found it in the historical fiction part of my local used bookstore. I love to learn while I read. I was reading a book about Africa, but it was more like a text and it was huge and I just couldn’t read any more. I highly recommend “Don’t Let’s go to the dogs tonight” for anybody interested in Africa.
Ok, I just joined this blog and haven’t even introduced myself, so I better go post there.
Amy
Mother of 3
www.sofiabean.com
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bianca bean
17 posts
Posted about 1 year ago
I am also reading Mother Daughter Revolution: From Good Girls to Great Women by Debold, Wilson, and Malave. I am only on page 29 and I LOVE THIS BOOK. I am thinking about so many things new ways just from these few pages so far. It’s a challenging but highly readable text with excellent vignettes to illustrate their points. Thanks to Chaos for the suggestion.
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Emily
89 posts
Posted about 1 year ago
I’m heading to the beach in a few days and have a reading list for the week!!! Thank you everyone! I love the sound of all of these!!!!!!
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Karen
14 posts
Posted about 1 year ago
I just finished America’s Women (a history of women in America) by Gail Collins. Awesome.
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chaos
21 posts
Posted about 1 year ago
Karen, can we get a short book review or your favorite highlights?
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mama-noire
1 post
Posted about 1 year ago
I just finished reading The Queen’s Fool by Philippa Gregory and will be starting The Virgin’s Lover today. I love British royal history so I eat these books up.
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Brandie
767 posts
Posted about 1 year ago
Mam-noire … I LOVED those Gregory books so much! I just gobbled them up and thought they were fabulous! I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!
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