Do you like to read?

[Cheri]

I am getting some new books to read today from the used bookstore up the street from us, and it got me thinking what is everyone reading?
Favorite book?
Favorite author?
I am always looking for good books to read

[Cheri]

The last book I read was "Time Travelers wife" I liked it
I am getting Heartsick tonight which looks great from the review I read on Amazon.
Favorite author, don't really have one. I used to really like Stephen King before he started writing for himself and not his fans.

[Stacey]

I love to read... I just wish I had more time to do it!

My favorites are Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (I also really like Anthem & The Fountainhead), and The Dragon Riders of Pern series by Anne McCaffery.

[khanson]

I love to read! Maeve Binchy, Nicholas Sparkes, Stephanie Meyer :giggle, John Grisham, Stuart Woods, Jeffrey Deaver, James Patterson, Richard North Patterson, Robin Cook. OMG I could go on and on and on :giggle

[PixiesPlayhouse]

I always have a book with me.....

I don't have a favorite book, the list would be too long.

My fave author is/was Stephen King. I don't like anything he has written since his accident.

Right now I am really loving Diane Mott-Davidson's stuff....great for humorous light reading......which is what I need right now (don't want anything to heavy)

[Kellie_MO5]

I love to read! Maeve Binchy, Nicholas Sparkes, Stephanie Meyer , John Grisham, Stuart Woods, Jeffrey Deaver, James Patterson, Richard North Patterson, Robin Cook.
:yeah I've always loved reading

[Cheri]

thanks, i will check out Diane Mott-Davidson's.
I just love reading almost anything
Until I read how much Colleen liked the Twilight series I wasn't going to start it, but now I think I will

[PixiesPlayhouse]

I was Twilight resistant as well.........but once I started, I couldn't stop. She does such a good job of describing the attraction.......without touching on the whole "sex" thing....LOL

Another (supposed) tween series is Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass) Not a love story, but very good. I did not find them kid appropriate at all......but still interesting.

[lornabrown]

I really need to get into a new book. I haven't read one forever. I've followed a whole series about the Amish by Beverly Lewis. Haven't veered away from that author for a couple years.

[wyattsmama]

my all time favorite authors: tracy chevalier and lorna landvik

favorite books: time traveler's wife, the virgin blue, ender's game, the davinci code, the red tent

[erin anne]

I love to read but usually I don't buy books b/c I read (usually) fast and books are so expensive...or I buy then used.

I was an avid Stephen King reader as a youngin.

This reminds me we should resurrect Bookwoem Babes, it never seemed to take flight.

[PixiesPlayhouse]

the red tent


I love that book!!!!!

Another good one (but very short) is The life of a pagan nun

[wyattsmama]

i really want to rad the other boyeln girl next. i have to wrangle it away from my best friend.

[Lynette]

I love that book!!!!!

Another good one (but very short) is The life of a pagan nun

I read that :D I like to read but I get compulsive about it at the expense of everything else so I can't do it much these days. I like Dan Brown's stuff and can't wait for his new book....whenever that is :rolleyes

[weg'smom]

I loved, loved, loved, The Time Travelers Wife and The Red Tent. I am also a huge Twilight fan. I haven't read for pleasure since the school year started though, I am ALWAYS reading for work. I am hoping to knock out The Historian (http://www.amazon.com/Historian-Elizabeth-Kostova/dp/0316067946/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228879189&sr=8-1) over winter break. I am also hoping to read the books that inspired the TV show True Blood (http://www.amazon.com/Sookie-Stackhouse-Boxed-True-Blood/dp/0441017770/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1_s9_rk?ie=UTF8&s=books&s9r=8a10809b1cf5c2cb011d1bfdbe5a043c&itemPosition=1&qid=1228879524&sr=8-1).

[becky]

if reading wasn't so hard for me i would read more. its not that i can't read but its hard to retain the info. I really like reading though.

[colleen&Kail]

i never read for fun until twilight, now i think i might start.

[Maritza]

I have a lot of favorite books and authors...Times Traveler's Wife is a great book, I hope to see a movie based on the book some day:)

Favorite book? : "Le Petit Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry"; "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan; "Un Mundo para Julius"; by Alfredo Bryce Echenique; "Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée" (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter) by Simone de Beauvoir; An Intimate History of Humanity, by Theodore Zeldin; "El Mundo de Sofia" by Jostein Gaarder, "El Zahir", by Paulo Coehlo, "The Goodfather" by Mario Puzo....

Favorite author? Alfredo Brice Echenique; Simone de Beauvoir, Isabel Allende, Paulo Coehlo, Sanaya Roman, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Sartre; Charles Dickens...

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[Leigh]

I love to read... I just wish I had more time to do it!

My favorites are Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (I also really like Anthem & The Fountainhead), and The Dragon Riders of Pern series by Anne McCaffery.

YEA! Me too! Atlas Shrugged changed me fundamentally. My mantra has become, "By whose standards?"

Have you read any of McCaffery's "Crystal Singer" series? I didn't find them quite as engaging as Pern, but still fun. Along the same lines, I have read all seven books in "The Chronicles of Narnia" several times through.

I also really liked "Clan of the Cave Bear." Forget the movie. It has entertainment value, but pales in comparison to the book. I guess there are five books in that series, but I only read the first three. She lost me when I recognized a whole passage -- like a page or more -- in the third book (The Mammoth Hunters) as being word-for-word out of the second book (The Valley of Horses). According to wikipedia, the fourth and fifth are "The Plains of Passage" and "The Shelters of Stone."

I also devoured all of Stephen King's early work, and all the Richard Bachman too. Anyone else like H.P.Lovecraft? Maritza, I need to read more non-American/British authors.

I can't recall the last time I read a novel. It's been magazines for a while now. I miss curling up with a good book (or even a mediocre one, can't win em all!) The last couple titles that I recall are "Sailor Song" by Ken Kesey (a GREAT read!), and "The Brothers K" by David James Duncan. I would probably have enjoyed "Brothers K" even more if I had read the book to which the title alludes, "Brothers Karamozov."

So speaking of books, I'll stop writing one here!

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[Lynette]

I also really liked "Clan of the Cave Bear." Forget the movie. It has entertainment value, but pales in comparison to the book. I guess there are five books in that series, but I only read the first three. She lost me when I recognized a whole passage -- like a page or more -- in the third book (The Mammoth Hunters) as being word-for-word out of the second book (The Valley of Horses). According to wikipedia, the fourth and fifth are "The Plains of Passage" and "The Shelters of Stone."


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O.M.G. I waited YEARS for that last one, I thought she would never write it and was so excited when it came out. It sucked so freaking bad that I almost couldn't finish it, I was just wading through it hoping it would become good. It made me wonder if when I was a teen if I had really bad taste in books and they all sucked. I dunno what happened maybe the author lost some of her facilities but it was horrible.

[Debbie]

I am reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown right now.. 2nd time reading it and I love it, I dont wanna put it down. Better than the Davinci Code I think...

I love the Wit'ch series by James Clemens, another one that you just cant put down..
Another fun series are the Xanth novels by Piers Anthony.

(Can you tell I like my fantasy worlds....)

[PhreSpirit]

i really want to rad the other boyeln girl next. i have to wrangle it away from my best friend.

I have this book Nicole if you wanna borrow it - I can bring it with me when we're able to get together.

I'm a huge reading fan! I have a very diverse taste in books, Fantasy, Romance, etc. I love series' too!

[juliansmom]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Charles Dickens...

I really like Marquez too and I can't decide between a favorite being 100 Years of Solitude or Love in the Time of Cholera. You've probably read it in Spanish and have the insight of being a south american. I love to read and among some of my favorite writers are Tom Wolfe, Nick Hornby, Haruki Murakami (a lot like Marquez but in a Japanese way), Jhumpa Lahiri, Victor Hugo, Doris Lessing, George Eliot and Jane Austen. Right now I am reading Edith Wharton's House of Mirth.

I spend a lot of time driving certain times of the year and I also listen to many books on cd, which is not the same as reading them but very enjoyable. I have listened to really long books that way, Moby Dick, Anna Karenina, Ulysses, Brothers Karamozov and all the Dickens. The reader doing the different voices really bring the story to life and really passes the time on long drives.

[Marisa]

Great thread! I love to read too but haven't much lately. I'm about 3/4 through Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Amy Tan and it's really good. I also loved a lot of the ones mentioned: The Red Tent, Time Traveler's Wife, 100 Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Memoirs of a Geisha and Dan Brown's books too. With the exception of Time Traveler's Wife the common theme that seems to grab me most is the element of history mixed with fiction. After reading a really good book, I usually end up finding a non-fictional book that is related and reading more about the period/phenomenon, etc.

I'd love to start Bookworm Babes back up. If anyone wants to host, let's say for January, go ahead and jump in!

[Maritza]

Haruki Murakami (a lot like Marquez but in a Japanese way), (a lot like Marquez but in a Japanese way.

Yes that's right, I have heard people comparing the 2 of them. They say that "Momorias de mis Putas tristes" from GGM has some type of resemblance to one of Murakami's books/style. I have never read Murakami, so I don't know, but would love to:)

Camus and Borges are also among my favorites...;)

[Leigh]

I am reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown right now.. 2nd time reading it and I love it, I dont wanna put it down. Better than the Davinci Code I think...

I love the Wit'ch series by James Clemens, another one that you just cant put down..
Another fun series are the Xanth novels by Piers Anthony.

(Can you tell I like my fantasy worlds....)

Ooooohhh! I forgot about those! Haven't read ALL of them, but I enjoyed them very much. Was it also Piers Anthony who did the "Incarnations of Immortatily" series? THAT was a really fun series! (yes, I looked it up to be sure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnations_of_Immortality)

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Speculative fiction is my favorite genre.


oh oh oh oh .... along those lines another MUST read is Neuromancer by William Gibson.

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[Kerrypluskids]

What used bookstore???? I neeeeeeeed to know!

Kerry


I am getting some new books to read today from the used bookstore up the street from us, and it got me thinking what is everyone reading?
Favorite book?
Favorite author?
I am always looking for good books to read

[PixiesPlayhouse]

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Speculative fiction is my favorite genre.



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You have to read His Dark Materials Trilogy then......it is very steam punk!

[Lynette]

Ooooohhh! I forgot about those! Haven't read ALL of them, but I enjoyed them very much. Was it also Piers Anthony who did the "Incarnations of Immortatily" series? THAT was a really fun series! (yes, I looked it up to be sure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnations_of_Immortality)


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I loved that series when I was a teenager, I wish he kept going with it! I liked it better than Xanth.

[Debbie]

I have all the Xanth books up to Geis of the Gargoyle. Copperfields has a huge used section of them.. I havent picked up one of those books in soo long though... I think the puns started to get out of control :duh

[LogansMommy]

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