Whatcha Reading?

JillRock96

YAY for summer and actually being able to READ again!  I just devoured the Hunger Games series, and I have the second book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series waiting for me.  I could use something a little lighter (i.e., less likely to give me nightmares).  I like just about anything fiction.  Any newish (within the last two years) recs?  TIA!

katezta

I think these are older and one an autobiography, but this is what I have just read.  All I would recommend to people, but I also tend to like historical fiction.  The Nazi Officer's Wife is an autobiography, but it reads like fiction.

1.  The Diary of Mattie Spencer (Sandra Dallas)

2.  Day after Night (Anita Diamant)

3.  The Nazi Officer's Wife (Edith Hahn Beer)

cjsbdl

I'm reading Presumed Innocent, an oldie but goodie.

dundasgirl

I read Room last weekend.  It is by Emma Donogue.  Really good.

I also read Annabel by Kathleen Winter.  Amazing. 

howleyshell

Not light but my follow ups to HG were The Maze and Divergent.  Both YA and kinda HG-ish.

Also not light but "If I Stay" and now the sequel "Where She Went"

On order from the Library:

Memoirs of a Geisha

Game of Thrones (huge raves about this one on the book board)

Name of the Wind (Harry Potter-ish apparently)

 

Million$$Baby

I'm reading The Help right now and I am loving it.

KYRN

I love Emily Giffin.  I think her most recent came out last year.  Her first book was "Something Borrowed" (recently a movie).  I think she has 5 books out and I LOVE them all.  Easy fun reads. 

LisaMarisa

Did you read Outlander?  I initially thought I didnt want to read the Lord John books after it but I read the first one this week and liked it.  I also just read the first book in Charlaine Harris's new series Aurora Teagarden - the book is Real Murders and I liked it a lot, like I did when I first started reading the Sookie series which then went downhill. 

Have you read Janet Evanovich's numbers series?  They are fun reads that will literally make you laugh out loud.  The first one is One for the Money. 

JillRock96

KYRN:

I love Emily Giffin.  I think her most recent came out last year.  Her first book was "Something Borrowed" (recently a movie).  I think she has 5 books out and I LOVE them all.  Easy fun reads. 

I LOVE her books!  Something Borrowed and Something Blue are my favorites.  I don't think I have read her newest one...thanks for the reminder!

JillRock96

Thanks for the great recs, ladies!  I ran to the library and just borrowed a few on the shelf -- a Chelsea Handler one I haven't read (Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang) and one by Jennifer Weiner -- Fly Away Home.  I'm requesting a bunch of your recs through interlibrary loan right now.  I'm trying to get back into reading so that I can be worthy of a kindle come Christmas time. 

LisaMarisa:

Did you read Outlander?  I initially thought I didnt want to read the Lord John books after it but I read the first one this week and liked it.  I also just read the first book in Charlaine Harris's new series Aurora Teagarden - the book is Real Murders and I liked it a lot, like I did when I first started reading the Sookie series which then went downhill. 

Have you read Janet Evanovich's numbers series?  They are fun reads that will literally make you laugh out loud.  The first one is One for the Money. 

Yes, I LOVE Outlander (OMG -- Jamie?  SWOON).  But, it has been so long that I think I need to start the series over to pick it up again.  I read the first book in the Sookie series, then lost interest (love the show, though).  I'll give Real Murders a try.  I've also read One for the Money, but I didn't read any after that.  I should pick that series up again, too.  Thanks for all the reminders!

yankee42

have you read Life of Pi? or secret life of Bees? or the Kite Runner? those are older, but i haven't had time to read in so long, those are some of the more recent ones i have read! haha

i actually have been reading sophie kinsella when i have time...the shopoholic lady...i loved "can you keep a secret" but that may be because i read it  all through my pregnancy with A, and finished it when i was in the hospital with her...so its kind of a nice association  

artygirl

I just read The Good Thief and The Beekeeper's Apprentice (a series where Sherlock Holmes has a female apprentice).  I really enjoyed both of these books.