Books: what are you reading?

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I just finished Amy Poehler's book a couple weeks back and have now returned to very slowly reading Oliver Sacks' 'Hallucinations'.. Would love some recommendations!

[babybarlow2014]

Servesafe Alcohol.
Exciting stuff.

[kittyriot]

Books I have read recently that I've really enjoyed...
The Birth House by Ami McKay
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Any Known Blood by Lawrence Hill
Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (loved her TedTalks too...)

[britab]

I'm trying to finish the last Divergent book and I can't. It's so terrible.

Next on my list is Interrupted by Jen Hatmaker.

[rainbowsockmonkey]

I've just finished reading the divergent series and the fifth game of thrones book. Need something New to tide over till the next book is out.

[emmagk]

Currently reading - bringing up bebe
Recently read and enjoyed - and the mountains echoed

I finished the divergent series a few months back and actually quite enjoyed them. But I do actually like YA fiction

[becole]

I loved Half of a Yellow Sun as well. Agreed Allegient is not good. Trying to finish OITNB. I just have no time for reading!! I've read more Ferber than OITNB at this point.

[sstwinklinglites]

+1 for The Art of Racing in the Rain

[helmink0804]

Motorcycle Man- book #4 in the Dream Man series by Kristen Ashley

[typeset]

Shut Up About Your Perfect Kid

[becole]

Jan 26, 2015 11:36:56 GMT -5 typeset said:

Shut Up About Your Perfect Kid

I was scrolling up trying to figure out who you were talking to. Duh- book title.

[sisterjanet]

Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs, The Odyssey (best new book of 1996! says so on the cover! *tiny little snortlaugh*), Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, Indulgent in Death by J. D. Robb (audiobook version, Susan Erickson is an engaging narrator even though some of her male voices are a little ridiculous) and Maddie Kettle and the Adventure of the Thimble Witch by Eric Orchard (a graphic novel that's a little simplistic in writing but entertainingly random so far). Usually I nibble away at about three books at a time, so I need to hurry up and finish the graphic novel.

[athn64]

Currently Reading: Clariel, the Lost Abhorsen by Garth Nix.

If you haven't read and are in to YA, read The Abhorsen trilogy, it's a great read. (I'm reading the prequel which just came out recently)

[ns1]

Listening to audio of Scowler - a young adult novel. Horrific, but good.

[lissiehoya]

We're reading the complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to DS at bedtime. Other than that, all my reading is for my dissertation.

[miles]

The Goldfinch.

I'm debating which to start next: the next Green Rider (id have to go look at the title) or Ready Player One.

[ho11yday]

Waiting for the last book of sanderson's mistborn trilogy. Just finished the Well of Ascendancy.

[athn64]

Jan 26, 2015 14:10:44 GMT -5 ho11yday said:

Waiting for the last book of sanderson's mistborn trilogy. Just finished the Well of Ascendancy.

He's DH's favorite author! We met him a couple years ago at a convention. Nice guy.

[mamarazziof3]

Jan 26, 2015 9:53:12 GMT -5 britab said:

I'm trying to finish the last Divergent book and I can't. It's so terrible.

Next on my list is Interrupted by Jen Hatmaker.

It was awful.  And finishing doesn't make it any better, although the reason that I don't like it is not the same as the reason that most people don't like it.  It thought that whole last book was a HUGE letdown.  


I just finished reading Confessions of Marie Antoinette, which was the last in a historical fiction trilogy based very closely on her life.  I really liked all three of them!  (I love historical fiction.) The first one is Becoming Marie Antoinette.

Also good ones recently (or not so recently) have been:

The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley (Read a couple others by her and didn't like them nearly as much.)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
Orphan Train
The Snow Child

I am currently reading Mortal by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee.  Ted Dekker is one of my favorite authors, but I'm not so sure what I think of this series yet (it's the second book in a set a trilogy).  His Circle Series (Black, Red, White, and Green) is so good.  

If you liked Hunger Games and Divergent (at least the first two books of Divergent) The Selection series is a fun, very light and quick read along the same lines.  Don't expect any intellectual depth or though-provoking passages though. ;-) 

[yayglitter]

I'm reading Chelsea Handler's Uganda Be Kidding Me. Easy reading and has pee yourself from laughing moments.

[pinkstarbursts]

I just finished Looking for Alaska. I have The Goldfinch and whistling past the graveyard next on my list.

[veganlady]

I just finished a book that didn't have to do with gestating, delivering, or raising a baby for the first time since LO was born. It was Skin Game, the most recent installment in the Dresden Files. This series is light and fun, about a wizard for hire in modern day Chicago.

[ho11yday]

athn64 which convention?

veganlady I love Dresden

[athn64]

ho11yday GenCon in Indy

[kittyriot]

Jan 27, 2015 12:50:37 GMT -5 athn64 said:

ho11yday GenCon in Indy

This summer will be my husbands 6th GenCon athn64 - do you and your hubby go every year?? For him, it's his yearly guys trip. He says "soon" I can join with the babe. But every year it's getting more and more like ComicCon with how hard it can be getting your hands on passes and booking your hotel accommodations. 

[athn64]

kittyriot Not a yearly thing yet. Didn't go last year because of DD. And we promised to use vacation time to go to my grandparent's second house in OK this year after my grandpa's diagnosis. DH wishes though.

We do have a small convention in town in a couple of weeks though, so we'll get some good game time.

[kittyriot]

athn64 we play most weekends, either on Saturday or Sunday aft for a couple of hours (we have a great group of couples who all play together, so it's nice, they know the babe, if she's awake, she joins and tries to stuff all the pieces in her mouth).

MH games every Wednesday, usually Battlestar.

What are your favourite games?

[athn64]

kittyriot We play Pathfinder. Almost exclusively for our RPG.

We also play a lot of MtG, Munchkin, and a bunch of other nerdy games.

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I honestly haven't read a book in a long time. DS is nearly walking now (takes three steps before falling) and getting into everything. And if we aren't watching him, we are catching up on chores or sleep.

I have a few Gabriel Garcia Marquez books I want to read - not sure where I put them though. I'll have to find them and have them ready for the late night wake-ups where I end up having a hard time getting back to sleep.

OH! I am kind of reading the no-cry sleep solution when I pump. We are co-sleeping right now and we do not want to CIO. I found this book is pretty helpful, but it does seem to take awhile to see results. I plan on finishing the book first before deciding what exactly we want to use from it.

[kittyriot]

Jan 27, 2015 15:52:05 GMT -5 athn64 said:

kittyriot We play Pathfinder. Almost exclusively for our RPG.

We also play a lot of MtG, Munchkin, and a bunch of other nerdy games.

athn64 it sounds like you would fit in quite well at our house. 

MH and his friends play Battlestar and D&D pretty exclusively.

Our couple gaming group is a little milder... a lot of Lords of Waterdeep, Cataan and all the expansions, Dominion, Ticket to Ride, Trains, Seven Wonders, Bang. We have a ton of other games, but I am not a fan of the more complicated ones. Or the long ones. 

I actually have a special hate for Munchkin!!! I hate how everyone just ends up trying to screw over the person whose winning. A 40 minute game should not last 2 hours!