Books

[My3cents]

What is everyone reading these days for Adult books

for me nothing right now. Reading puts me to sleep. Summer coming up I would like to start a book that takes me away-

[dEHmom]

well i borrowed 2 from the library,

1. the power of losing control by joe caruso which I have brought up in a few posts. it's a very good book and i'm not done it yet.

2. women are crazy, men are stupid by howard j morris and jenny lee. haven't read this one yet though.

[Blackcat31]

I read a lot of True Crime book and books about pychopathic behavior.....wow, that sounds relaly weird..LOL!

My favorite author is Anne Rule but right now I am re-reading "A Wolf at the Table" by Augusten Burroughs http://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Table-Mem.../dp/0312342020

(He was the guy in that movie Running with Scissors) This book takes place before that time period of his life.

...otherwise I read a lot of Janet Evanovich, Stephen King, John Grisham, Stuart Woods and anything else that strikes me as interesting. I will basically read anything I guess.

[dEHmom]

I read a lot of True Crime book and books about pychopathic behavior.....wow, that sounds relaly weird..LOL!

My favorite author is Anne Rule but right now I am re-reading "A Wolf at the Table" by Augusten Burroughs http://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Table-Mem.../dp/0312342020

(He was the guy in that movie Running with Scissors) This book takes place before that time period of his life.

...otherwise I read a lot of Janet Evanovich, Stephen King, John Grisham, Stuart Woods and anything else that strikes me as interesting. I will basically read anything I guess.

if you like true crime stories, i recommend this book....


i enjoy TRUE crime stories, as much as i sometimes hate the content.


another awesome but short read was this book....

[Blackcat31]

I have read the second one but will defintely check out the first one looks like a good read!

[dEHmom]

I have read the second one but will defintely check out the first one looks like a good read!

note of caution: there is a very very sad picture in the center of the book.

[Solandia]

The Name of the Wind, by Rothfuss. Excellent read. Dh has the second one in the series on his kindle, and waiting for him to be done with it.

I have The Hunger Games on hold at the library. Curious about that one. I have been reading a lot of old historical romances...ones that I have read years & years ago...*shrug* I can read a 300+book in an evening, so it has been fun going through all the old mega series of books from johanna linsey, stephanie laurens, et al.

[MsMe]

I got curious and started Hunger Games.....its worth most of the hype so far. I just started #3 and am really excited to know how it ends.


I don't have any other recomendations right now other than STAY AWAY from Water for Elephants. Worst book ever.

[dEHmom]

1000 Splended Suns was a good book too. I couldn't put that one down.

[AfterSchoolMom]

If you want light summer reading, I highly recommend anything by Marian Keyes ("Watermelon", in particular, is my fave by her). I also like Nora Roberts for a quick, well done romance, though she does get a bit formulaic if you read a bunch of them. My favorites by her are the more "supernatural" ones, like the In The Garden Trilogy (Blue Dahlia, Black Rose, Red Lily).

My all time favorite, if you've never read it, is The Bridges of Madison County. Fantastic story.

I just finished reading a couple by Joyce Magnin - The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow and Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise. Both small-town type stories, which I enjoy.

Some of my other favorites, but not so lighthearted:

The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls

Me and Emma, by Elizabeth Flock (This one is very moving and shocking)

The Mercy of Thin Air, by Ronlyn Dominique

Anything by Anita Shreve, particularly Fortunes Rocks

Anything by Maeve Binchy, particularly Light a Penny Candle


A couple of really good biographies:

A Girl Named Zippy
and
She Got Up Off The Couch, both by Haven Kimmel


My "guilty pleasure" is young adult books.

Beautiful Creatures
Beautiful Darkness
Beautiful Chaos, all by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl


The Night Circus, by Erin Morganstern

A Great and Terrible Beauty
Rebel Angels
The Sweet Far Thing, all by Libba Bray


Ok, I'll stop there, because I could go on and on for days!

[Meyou]

Hunger Games was gooood! I read it last year after one of my dd's did. I'm currently rereading the Eragon series so I can read the final book and follow it. .

[Blackcat31]

Hunger Games was gooood! I read it last year after one of my dd's did. I'm currently rereading the Eragon series so I can read the final book and follow it. .

My son LOVED the Eagon books and has reread them several times.

[Christian Mother]

I got curious and started Hunger Games.....its worth most of the hype so far. I just started #3 and am really excited to know how it ends.


I don't have any other recomendations right now other than STAY AWAY from Water for Elephants. Worst book ever.

Ohhh...I got that book a while ago and I haven't read it yet but want to bc I saw the movie...

I like anything from PC Cast series, Beatrice Small, Francine Rivers is one of my favorite Christian authors ..I could go on and on!!

Right now I am reading a series called:The Iron Fey by Julie Kagawa

I am reading the last book right now called The Iron Knight and it's really good!! It's the 4th book in the series.

After that I want to read The Hunger Games books. I am a book hoarder though and I need to get rid of the boxes of books I know my husband is going to freak out about when we get around to moving them. He's going to flip!!

[Luna]

My all-time favourite is The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. For easy, fun reading I like anything I've read so far by Laurie Notaro...sort of Erma Bombeck-ish.

[KDC]

[QUOTE=MsMe;213104]I got curious and started Hunger Games.....its worth most of the hype so far. I just started #3 and am really excited to know how it ends.


I just read all three as well... Good Read!

Jane Green - Pieces of me was good too. Nice light, fun read! =)