Reading Roundup, Anyone?

[isadorab]

I am hoping to read some more of Girlfriend's Guide to pregnancy this weekend, but I also have a ton of stuff to do around the house and we're helping my aunt move some stuff out of "storage" in our spare room. Plus football on Sunday.
I also want to start reading my happiest baby on the block book that i picked up at the consignment store.

[billyhorrible]

Soooo big surprise, I'm still doing Storm at the Door. But hey, 1/3 down!

[Karou]

I work from home and have been pretty busy the last couple of weeks. I'm still reading the third Gentleman Bastards book and I'm still listening to Steelheart. I also started reading my Mayo Clinic Guide to Baby's First Year.

billyhorrible I was listening to The Dresden Files on audio awhile back. James Marsters does a fantastic job with the narration. There was a really awkward sex scene. I just stopped. I kind of wish that I'd been reading the actual book so that I could have just skimmed that section. I keep meaning to pick the series up again and just haven't.

[nchauhan]

I just finished a fluff book called fatal affair. Not bad for a free iBook, especially if you like suspense with a love story. Not sure what to read next...I hear the girlfriends guide to pregnancy is really funny.

[littlegrapey]

I am reading A Dance with Dragons (my day time read) and A Girlfriends Guide to Pregnancy (my before bed read). My DH came in the other night while I was reading, looked at the cover and gave me a funny look, "Girlfriends?! What is that suppose to mean?"
Me: "Girlfriends, as in female friends, not as in I am a Girlfriend and not a Wife."

[billyhorrible]

Jan 17, 2015 7:56:04 GMT -5 Karou said:

billyhorrible I was listening to The Dresden Files on audio awhile back. James Marsters does a fantastic job with the narration. There was a really awkward sex scene. I just stopped. I kind of wish that I'd been reading the actual book so that I could have just skimmed that section. I keep meaning to pick the series up again and just haven't.

You know, I honestly have not had the last bit of interest in The Dresden Files, DH and I have very different book tastes. But I love the idea of listening to James Marsters.

[Karou]

Jan 17, 2015 13:46:59 GMT -5 billyhorrible said:

Jan 17, 2015 7:56:04 GMT -5 Karou said:

billyhorrible I was listening to The Dresden Files on audio awhile back. James Marsters does a fantastic job with the narration. There was a really awkward sex scene. I just stopped. I kind of wish that I'd been reading the actual book so that I could have just skimmed that section. I keep meaning to pick the series up again and just haven't.

You know, I honestly have not had the last bit of interest in The Dresden Files, DH and I have very different book tastes. But I love the idea of listening to James Marsters.

So. Interesting fact. Storm at the Door is not a Dresden Files book. Oops. I thought I remembered someone was reading that series (when we checked in at TB a couple of weeks ago.) I assumed that it was you. (There is a DF book called Storm Front.) 

I'll do my due diligence and Google the book next time I reply. 

On another note - love your avatar - I like to listen to the Laundry Day song from Dr. Horrible on occasion. It cheers me up when necessary.

[billyhorrible]

Jan 17, 2015 15:36:00 GMT -5 Karou said:

Jan 17, 2015 13:46:59 GMT -5 billyhorrible said:

You know, I honestly have not had the last bit of interest in The Dresden Files, DH and I have very different book tastes. But I love the idea of listening to James Marsters.

So. Interesting fact. Storm at the Door is not a Dresden Files book. Oops. I thought I remembered someone was reading that series (when we checked in at TB a couple of weeks ago.) I assumed that it was you. (There is a DF book called Storm Front.)

I think you're right about someone reading it.  I thought you were referring to the fact that I got DH the television series of the book for Christmas, and I've had several conversations on the board about him reading the series.

Storm at the Door is a semi-biographical novel about the author's grandparents - a man institutionalized in a mental hospital due to some imbalance (manic-depression? bipolar?) and his wife trying to raise their daughters and keep up appearances in society.

[Karou]

Jan 17, 2015 19:36:13 GMT -5 billyhorrible said:

Jan 17, 2015 15:36:00 GMT -5 Karou said:

So. Interesting fact. Storm at the Door is not a Dresden Files book. Oops. I thought I remembered someone was reading that series (when we checked in at TB a couple of weeks ago.) I assumed that it was you. (There is a DF book called Storm Front.)

I think you're right about someone reading it.  I thought you were referring to the fact that I got DH the television series of the book for Christmas, and I've had several conversations on the board about him reading the series.

Storm at the Door is a semi-biographical novel about the author's grandparents - a man institutionalized in a mental hospital due to some imbalance (manic-depression? bipolar?) and his wife trying to raise their daughters and keep up appearances in society.

Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt.

I think I did read that you bought the series. I have a soft spot for Officer Lance in Arrow because he's the actor who played Harry.

The book you're actually reading sounds pretty heavy. You'll have to let us know if you like it.

[billyhorrible]

Karou - I think you and I would be great friends in real life.  One of the reasons I was excited to get the series for him was because it had Officer Lance in it.

[suzysurparis]

I haven't finished it but I'm on book 7 of the Wheel of Time. Though all this board drama is cutting into my reading time. I've got tons of house chores that I made a small dent in today, so I'm feeling pretty good.

[blasto!]

I finished Amy Poehler's Yes Please last week and am still working on The Girlfriends' Guide as well.

[mrskblack11]

Still reading Interview with a Vampire. I should finish by next weekend.

[bluediamond]

I'm reading The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. Kind of a psychological thriller, pretty good so far. Anyone read it?

[andreap525]

I just finished reading The Good Girl last week - I laid in bed way too late crying my eyes out while finishing it. It was pretty good at the end.

Now I'm reading Interview With the Vampire - a book I've been wanting to try for a long ass time so I'm happy to be in it finally.

[sordidvolition]

Finally finished 7/8 of the outlander series. Started 8/8 and so excited to be almost done.

Looking at starting The Game trilogy next.

[mixnmatch372]

Just finished "Baby Proof" last night and downloaded a sample of "Little Big Lies", so we'll see if I stick with it or choose a new book!

[gigi3126]

I feel like I only read whatever I'm teaching my 9th graders during the school year, but I started listening to Mr. Mercedes on Audible during my commute, so I guess that counts.

[elvinnoe]

Currently reading Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge. It was recommended to me and the person who recommended it was spot on, I can hardly get through one chapter at a time without getting emotional lol.

[bendherova]

I finished The Art of Racing in the Rain in 2days last week. I was unprepared for the depressive nature of the plot. Not what happens to the dog, but what happens to his owner. Woah.

I moved on to the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (speaking of depressing).

[Flick]

Jan 21, 2015 23:50:55 GMT -5 @badwolf321 said:

I'm probably the only one here who still reads books from the 'Young Adult' section. (atrb_partsz) I was reading through the last of the Mortal Instruments series before we moved and then like an idiot (I blame pregnancy brain) I left my book back at our house. Now I need to find something new.

You are not the only one!! I LOVE TMI!!! You should read the infernal devices if you liked the world building from the mortal instruments, it's a spin off series and a lot of things from the third book to the last one makes more sense.

[pghtruelove]

I'm rereading Summer Sisters by Judy Blume. I haven't read it since high school.

[leenziepops]

I'm reading Gone Girl

[schnurette]

Jan 18, 2015 13:06:17 GMT -5 suzysurparis said:

I haven't finished it but I'm on book 7 of the Wheel of Time. Though all this board drama is cutting into my reading time. I've got tons of house chores that I made a small dent in today, so I'm feeling pretty good.

I'm re-reading the Wheel of Time series right now! I'm on book three but I've read it...more than I care to admit.

Also just finished reading The Maze Runner series which was terrible.

[turtletyme]

Just finished "How To Survive a Heatwave" by Maggie O'Farrell. Now I am obsessed with the name "Aoife," which is making DH shoot me some major shade and side-eye.

Started "Me before you" by Jojo Moyes. Excited!

[Karou]

Jan 21, 2015 23:50:55 GMT -5 @badwolf321 said:

I'm probably the only one here who still reads books from the 'Young Adult' section. (atrb_partsz) I was reading through the last of the Mortal Instruments series before we moved and then like an idiot (I blame pregnancy brain) I left my book back at our house. Now I need to find something new.

You're not the only one.

Read Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor. It's the first of a trilogy. Very good. I also like The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater. That's the first of a four-book series. The last hasn't come out yet. 

I second schnurette's opinion of the Maze Runner series. Don't waste your time.

[tatersalad]

Jan 21, 2015 23:13:26 GMT -5 bendherova said:

I finished The Art of Racing in the Rain in 2days last week. I was unprepared for the depressive nature of the plot. Not what happens to the dog, but what happens to his owner. Woah.

I moved on to the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (speaking of depressing).

I loved the Art of Racing in the Rain. There was another book from a dog's perspective that I liked even more but I can't remember the title. Henrietta Lacks is waiting for me to read next.

Happy to report I finally finished Boys in The Boat on vacation last week and started The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan. Slowly making reading progress again.

[teenybird]

I'm reading The American Plate (because who doesn't want to read about food right now) and starting a book called Operating Instructions, which is a mom's story about how there's no such thing as perfect parenting. I've also been dabbling in Spiritual Midwifery - a chapter at a time.

[suzysurparis]

leenziepops I got half-way through Gone Girl before the library took it back and it would have been a month before I could get it again. Let me know if you like any of the characters at all by the end of the book.

schnurette I'm really loving the Wheel of Time, but I'm also getting scared of what to read when I'm done (same problem I had with GoT, Discworld, LoTRs, and my library's collection of Asimov's stuff). I read Divergent while waiting on this WoT book to be available but I doubt I will enjoy the whole series (especially after seeing the movie, it was just awful). I also read City of Ember and enjoyed that so I'll read all those books, but that'll take like two days compared to WoT reading levels. Maybe I'll join the book club.

[tatersalad]

Jan 22, 2015 9:21:59 GMT -5 @imapenguin said:

Jan 22, 2015 9:13:56 GMT -5 tatersalad said:

I loved the Art of Racing in the Rain. There was another book from a dog's perspective that I liked even more but I can't remember the title. Henrietta Lacks is waiting for me to read next.

Happy to report I finally finished Boys in The Boat on vacation last week and started The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan. Slowly making reading progress again.

My favorite sad dog book are A Dog's Purpose and A Dog's Journey. Roam was also very good.

A Dog's Purpose was the title I was looking for. Nice work Penguin.