Thursday Book Day!

pettycrocker

What are you currently reading? 

What are you planning on reading next? 

What is your favorite book? Why? 

pettycrocker

I just finished The Alchemist. I love this book, and the message is exactly what I need right now for dealing with this IF b/s. 

I started The Wall, yesterday. The 2nd book in The Woodlands series. Nothing to say about it (yet) I hope it's not as boring as The Woodlands :P 

I have a lot of favorites, but if I have to pick just one, I always go with Gone With The Wind- it is my all time favorite because my Grandmother LOVED the book, and she was kind enough to share her favorite thing with me. I love that I could love something she loved so much Sentimental shit. HA. 

Jen071407

I keep meaning to read, but get sucked into TB or my dumb Frozen game on my iPad.
@mrscastillo I LOVE Gone With the Wind! Hmmm maybe I should read that instead of Divergent again...
My favorite book(s) have got to be The Harry Potter series. I can pick up any of the 7, open to a random page, and be content 8->

tuscanbride2007

I am currently trying to finish Mockingjay (for over a month now). Work has been so crazy lately that when I get home, I feel like a zombie and reading seems really hard.

I am also a Harry Potter nerd and like @Jen071407 could read the series over and over. 
:-B

tuscanbride2007

Forgot to add that next on my list is the Book Thief.

almostamissus

So I haven't finished reading anything... I think the last book I read was Charlotte's Web to Dd8. Tonight (or very soon) we are starting the first of the Harry Potter books. And also yes, The Book Thief was hands down one of my favorite books evah! (haha autocorrect changed "evah" to evap)

AprilDrew04

I tend to read cheap (or free on my Kindle) romance novels. Recently read an interesting series on Mail Order brides, love historical ramances.

My favorite book is Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm...have loved that book since I first read it in like 6th grade. Recently, I have really enjoyed the Fairie Path books by Frewin Jones.

KC1212

I still need to finish Insurgent.

And because I'm OCD and have to read stuff in order - I'll read Allegiant next.

I could not pick a single favorite book. But some favorites are:

Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby
Harry Potter
The Trueblood series

Childhood favorites include :

Island of the Blue Dolphins

The Mixed up Files of Mrs. (Something) Frankweiler. (It's a really long title)

freakyfast

I think I read one chapter this last week. I am still reading The Body Thief by Anne Rice, and I just read yesterday that she is writing another book with the Vampire Lestat in it. (If anyone cares LOL) I have been lame at reading.  

I really liked the book 'If Tomorrow Comes' by Sidney Sheldon and that book always sticks out, BUT I love anything from Sidney Sheldon.  

As a kid I also LOVED James and the Giant Peach. 

KC1212

@freakyfast‌ I tried to read the interview with the vampire series but, I couldn't get through the first book

GraceyandTroy

Right now, DH is reading The Hollow City to me and DS in the evenings when as a part of our bedtime routine. DH and I used to read books together taking turns reading out loud, but now that we have a baby, DH usually does the reading while I nurse in the evenings. It's one of my favorite times of the day. The Hollow City is the sequel to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. It's a really fun read. And it's a super easy read as well.

I'm not sure yet what we'll read next. But my mom just finished the Book Thief and said she really liked it, so maybe I'll borrow that from her.

My all-time favorite book is the Red Tent. It's a historical fiction about the wives of Jacob in the Bible. So it's about Leah and Rachel and the daughter Dina who in the Bible was raped but in the novel there is a different explanation of what really happened. It's my favorite book because it's about sisterhood and motherhood and it's a love story, too. It brings me to tears in almost every chapter! Probably read it half a dozen times.

pettycrocker

tuscanbride2007 said:

Forgot to add that next on my list is the Book Thief.

Just read this recently! For a while I felt like every book I ever read is about Nazis lol. This is a good book, MUCH better than the movie. The movie was good, but the book is so descriptive you picture everything more vividly when you read it. 

pettycrocker

KC1212 said:

I still need to finish Insurgent. And because I'm OCD and have to read stuff in order - I'll read Allegiant next. I could not pick a single favorite book. But some favorites are: Pride and Prejudice The Great Gatsby Harry Potter The Trueblood series Childhood favorites include : Island of the Blue Dolphins The Mixed up Files of Mrs. (Something) Frankweiler. (It's a really long title)

Island Of The Blue Dolphins is my favorite childhood book too!!! I can't wait for N to read it! 

FFTC I still read it sometimes. It's such a good story 

:ar!

Jen071407

Too many things to quote!!
a big fat YAY to all the other HP lovers/nerds!
OMG Island of the Blue a Dolphins was one of my favorites, too!! Anyone else read Gone Away Lake??
I'm putting The Book Thief at the top of my to-read list.

KC1212

@Jen071407‌ I got married on July 21st 2007. The last HP was released the night before at midnight.

I was so busy with wedding stuff I had a friend pick my copy up at midnight.

Then on my wedding day my friend brought the copy to me. We had just had our BEER STOLEN out of the church hall (who steals from a church?!) so I had another friend hang onto for me throughout the ceremony because I was afraid it would get stolen too. Lmao.

I spent my honeymoon reading it on the beach - DH was not happy because it was taking up sexy time lol.

Clearly, you can see where my priorities were :P

Jen071407

@kc1212 that's awesome! And I'll add to it...I got married the weekend before on 7/14/07, so H and I spent a night of our honeymoon in line at a local bookstore and we bought two copies of the book! Spent the last couple days reading on the beach B-) :-B
Our first date was going to see HP and the Chamber of Secrets, too :x

tuscanbride2007

I was camping when the last HP book came out. I got up that morning and drove an hour to get it at a Walmart in BFE. :-B

Momarazzi007

Not reading anything, but I was working at Bed Bath & Beyond and I went next door to the bookstore bought it, read the whole thing in my day off and my hubs was mad I was reading the whole day so I totally crushed him by telling him which Weasley twin died and he is still pissed at that...
Next book- something good

Jen071407

Ahhhh talking HP gives me warm fuzzies 8->