SO from GTKY: What are you Reading?

PSU_Texan · October 2014

Since so many of us mentioned books/Kindle/Nook, I thought it would be interesting to see what everyone is reading now? What has been the best book you've read recently? Inspire our reading lists, ladies!

PSU_Texan · October 2014

I'm currently reading Dragonfly in Amber (2nd Outlander) after getting obsessed with the first one and the Starz series. I'm struggling a little bit right now and am about 1/2 way through but it's picking up.

I really enjoyed finishing the Discovery of Witches Trilogy when the last one came out earlier this year.

I'm a sucker for any trilogy by Nora Roberts... I reread them over and over. It's nice light reading.

I don't read anything serious if I can help it

chloebeth930 · October 2014

I like trash so I am rereading the Crossfire series. The new book comes out next month, and I have already preorded it.

vvvvvfee · October 2014

i listen to a lot of audiobooks while commuting. i'm currently listening to the goldfinch, by donna tartt and enjoying it a lot. the narrator is doing an excellent job. i do sort of wonder where she is going with the story, though.

a few others i've enjoyed on audio recently:
cooked: a natural history of transformation, by michael pollan (NF)- i'd recommend it to anyone interested in food and cooking, lots of interesting tidbits.

everything i never told you, by celeste ng- engrossing fiction about race and identity

i also read deep: freediving, renegade science, and what the ocean tells us about ourselves by james nestor in book form. incredibly fascinating info about how humans have evolved to dive, how whales and other sea life communicate, and just how little we know about the farthest depths of the ocean.

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jlaOK · October 2014

Disclaimer: I read a lot of YA fiction because I like to read mindless stuff that I can be doing while the kids are running around me.

I just finished Sea of Tranquility and Sisters' Fate (the 3rd book in the Cahill Witch Chronicles) and loved both.

I have just started Anna and the French Kiss but have had some trouble getting into it. Someone who ready similar things to me loved it (and the accompanying sequels) so I'm hoping to get past the hump and get into it.

2chatter · October 2014

Dumping Billy - Olivia Goldsmith

I like mindless fiction. I am kind of over dystopian YA fiction; just finished The Maze Runner and am not motivated to get the next book. Sad, because I love series.

Considering re-reading Outlander, then watching the show.

NLewis1 · October 2014

I just finished Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett (#3 of the Century Trilogy). AH-MAZ-ING. If you like historical fiction, these books are for you!

Now Im thinking about reading Gone Girl - but I haven't had a chance to look at some other options.

itsmevkb · October 2014

I felt Gone Girl was highly overrated.

Right now I'm reading the new collection of short stories by Margaret Atwood, The Stone Mattress. And, I just finished Sea Glass by Anita Shreve which I picked up from a free little library near my house. I've read a bunch of her books and enjoyed them.

I'm in a weird place with reading right now. I'm not in the mood for anything super heavy and yet fluffy stuff isn't really my style either.

PSU_Texan · October 2014

I also really enjoyed the Elemental Mysteries Series from Elizabeth Hunter.

@K3am - I think you are right about why YA fiction is interesting to those of us that don't fit the demographic. It's not smutty but still has romance.

acorn99 · October 2014

I just finished the Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett, and I am now starting on Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, which I have been meaning to read for a few years.

litzo27 · October 2014

I'm reading the Secret Piano right now. Just finished the Maze Runner trilogy - meh, I'm sick of all the youth dystopian/apocalypse series. Loved the Hunger Games but the others I tried were mediocre at best. Loved recently: Call the Midwife, The Rosie Project, Good Omens, Unbroken.

shakinros · October 2014

Working on The Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries by Dorothy Sayers. I'm a sucker for a period mystery novel, even better if it's set in Britain, and this one hits all the marks! (Why, yes, I have read the complete works of Arthur Conan Doyle and most of Agatha Christie.)

I also love YA fiction but find it wise to have a not embarrassing book I can say I'm reading if a work colleague asks.

groovygrl · October 2014

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

HobbityBarb · October 2014

I'm currently re-reading the Lucas Davenport and the Virgil Flowers novels by John Sandford - I love both series, very enjoyable plots and characters.

Those of you who are reading/have read the Outlander series, do you recommend them? I haven't seen any of the TV series, but being a bit of a Graham McTavish fan, I am intrigued

mommaoftrips · October 2014

Currently I am reading tons of research articles on oral health and seniors - would much rather have time for a good book but with working full-time and patently triplets this isn't possible

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I can't remember titles but the last book I read was while I was on bedrest - it was about conjoined twins, separated inutero during birth in Ethiopia and talked about the twins lives (fiction) but was a good read. If anyone has read this and knows the title - please help a girl out

NADA-H · October 2014

Just finished reading the perfect family, stereotypes from the daily telegraph and it was interesting. About to start reading the Carol Smillie's Working Mum's Handbook. I haven't been reading in the longest time, since I started uni and then work because I had "no time" funny how when I became a wife/mom/working full time that I can find more time to do things than I ever did.

I've managed to finish 4 books in the last 5 months that range from baby/pregnancy/fiction and I'm loving it!

itsmevkb · October 2014

LibraryChica said:

@itsmevkb‌ , I love Margaret Atwood! Have you read the Maddadam trilogy? I've been meaning to but keep putting it off because I don't feel like starting a trilogy. I'll have to check out those short stories instead.

I have read Oryx & Crake and Year of the Flood. A few months ago I started Maddadam but since I had just finished Year of the Flood I was a little tired of the story and needed to read something else. That's not to say I didn't like the books, I thought each was excellent, but I just needed to read something different. I'll probably go back and finish Maddadam soon.

The short stories are good, although they really leave me longing for more. The first three are inter-connected which is interesting and one of them that I haven't read yet harkens back to the Robber Bride so I'm excited to read that one.

Margaret Atwood is probably my favorite author. I just wish she were a little younger so that there would be new books for decades to come.

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