I just started reading A Thousand Splendid Suns. I have only heard good things about this book so I am excited. What are you reading?

Right now I am reading a Patricia Cornwell book...it is okay...a bit gory for my taste...I also have waiting in line No Country for Old Men, The Other Boleyn Girl and a Lee child book, and a Ken Follet book.

Let me know how your book is LMB...I have heard that it was good too.

Opinions on Cornwell from AP back on 03

Kitty, try reading earlier works by Cornwell. I found it much more readable.

I've been all over the place the last couple of weeks.

When I left for President's weekend I was reading the 10th book in the Left Behind series

By the time the weekend was over I was reading Stephen King's new book, "Duma Key"

Finished that by Saturday night, so on Sunday read "Blaze", who is also SK, writing as Richard Bachman.

Sunday afternoon I started "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer - and finished it a lunch today. Wonderful story! Now I can hardly wait to see the movie, part of which was filmed here

When I got home I went through my books to see what I haven't read yet, and found a Dean Koontz one that looks promising, "Sole Survivor"

Guess I've been in a bit of a reading mood lately

I finished, "A Thousand Splendid Suns" a few weeks ago, and it was every bit as good as Khaled Hosseini's previous novel, "The Kite Runner." I would highly recommend both of them.

Th only Cormac McCarthy I have read, Kitty is "The Road." It is incredibly well written but very bleak. So I have his 'No Country for Old Men" on my list to read as well.

A friend of mine is reading "The Other Boleyn Girl" and says it helps if you know a bit of British history.

If you want to read an interesting non-fiction book, try Elizabeth Gilbert's, "Eat, Pray, Love." Following a messy divorce, Gilbert decided to take a sabbatical from her work as a journalist, and spent 4 months living in each of Italy, India and Indonesia. A bit self-indulgent in places, but it's still an engaging and funny read.

Finally...I'm A Doctor by Neil Shulman. I actually knew him.

Thanks dg and DG..lol...I have read a few other Cornwell books but am also getting bored by her holier than thou and over the top characters...I think it was years ago that I last read her.


I haven't even read Kite Runner yet but want to get that one as well...and I have heard nothing but great reviews on Eat, Pray, Love.

Anyone like Ann Rule? Hers are good but she tends to go on a bit.

Just about to start Engleby by Sebastian Faulks. If his previous novels are anything to go by, I am in for a treat. Birdsong being one of the best books I have ever read. Anyone else read any of his?

Jenny, after your enthusiastic post about Sebastian Faulks, I took "Birdsong" out of the library. I'm only a little way into it, but so far it's good. I ordered Engleby too.

I'm also reading Bill Bryson's "Shakespeare".
Bryson is always amusing. Here's an extract:
Bill on Will

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Originally posted by dance girl:

I'm also reading Bill Bryson's "Shakespeare".
Bryson is always amusing. Here's an extract:
Bill on Will

It's excellent.It's my book of the year ( I only read one book a year).

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( I only read one book a year).

Would it kill you to read another one? It's only March

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Originally posted by dance girl:

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( I only read one book a year).

Would it kill you to read another one? It's only March

I mean tax year

That book is my quota for the year ending April 5th '08.It used up my allowance,just in time, otherwise I might have had to 'carry over' and read two next year.

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Originally posted by FredPuli:
That book is my quota for the year ending April 5th '08.It used up my allowance,just in time, otherwise I might have had to 'carry over' and read two next year.

My disappointment is profound. Get thee to a library, why woulds't thou be a breeder of illiterates?

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Originally posted by kittypal:
I have heard nothing but great reviews on Eat, Pray, Love.

Kitty, if you are interested in reading "Eat, Pray, Love," I have finished with my copy, and would be happy to send it to you.

Dancegirl, Birdsong was even more interesting for me because I had just toured all round the World War 1 battlefields mentioned in the book.

I can also recommend Human Traces and Charlotte Grey also by Faulks. Both very different genres.

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Originally posted by Jenny Roberts:
Dancegirl, Birdsong was even more interesting for me because I had just toured all round the World War 1 battlefields mentioned in the book.

Oh I'm sure it was, Jenny. I haven't got that far into it yet. At the moment Stephen and Mme Azaire are getting to know each other in the red room!
I really like this book

Carry on DG, it gets better!

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Carry on DG, it gets better!

Yikes! I see what you mean!

Anyway, I'm off to the Religions Forum to make a confession about impure thoughts now!

right now I am reading the "The I-5 Killer" by Ann Rule. I have a few other books of hers that are waiting to be read.

I go back and forth between my books and my Archie Comics. LOL

right now I am reading

a Biography on Jimmy Stewart(Marc Eliot)
Genius-by Harold Bloom
Saxons, Vikings and Celts(Bryan Sykes)
Failed States(Noam Chomsky)
Point to Point Navigation(Gore Vidal)
The Gulag Archipelago(1918-1956-Solzhenitsyn)
Notorious(the life of Ingrid Bergman)
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind-(Diana & Michael Preston
and
Crime Scene(Inside the world of the real
C.S.I.)