What are you reading right now?

[Jenny318]

I saw in the thread about everyone's other hobbies a lot of people mentioned reading, and as an avid reader myself I wanted to know what everyone is currently reading.

Reading before I go to bed is a part of my nightly routine, it helps me go to sleep, so I always get a little bit of reading in during the day, but I wish I would make time for more reading!

I am currently reading The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe by Sarah Churchwell. It's not a biography, it's actually a scholarly look into the fascination that surrounds Marilyn Monroe and how biographers and novelists have interpreted her. I started reading it because I was reading Joyce Carol Oate's Blonde, a fictional interpretation of Marilyn Monroe.

I am also reading A Life Inspired, which was a book given to me by my Peace Corps recruiter, it's just a collection of vignettes by various Peace Corps volunteers.

What about everyone else?

[~Julie~]

Right now I am reading Twilight ( I know I know Im a little late LOL )

[Jenny318]

I haven't read any of the Twilight series!

I didn't hop on board the Harry Potter bus until the fifth book was out, then I fell madly in love.

[Mellykat]

Seriously I rarely read. I get so into a book I don't want to put it down. I end up staying up until the wee hours and I have a reading hangover the next day.

So in the past few years I've switched to staying up until the wee hours on the computer!

But when I did read books I liked thrillers like a few of the Stephen King books and I read a few John Grisham ones. A couple James Paterson ones too.

[MissPotts]

I am reading Stephen King's Skeleton Crew. I have a weird obsession with his books and have decided I am going to read every single one.

[Mellykat]

I am reading Stephen King's Skeleton Crew. I have a weird obsession with his books and have decided I am going to read every single one.
The weirdest one I read was ''Gerald's Game''...did you read that one? I got very wrapped up in it and soooooooo much happened in only the first couple dozen pages!!!

[Jenny318]

I use to have several of King's books, but the only one I ever actually read was Carrie, which I did enjoy.

[MissPotts]

The weirdest one I read was ''Gerald's Game''...did you read that one? I got very wrapped up in it and soooooooo much happened in only the first couple dozen pages!!!

Yes that was an awesome book. I love how it was almost all set in that one room with the one woman. Amazing writing skills. I did find it rather disturbing though and felt kinda yucky about it for a couple of days afterwards. I am the type to devour a Stephen King book. I will decide to buy one at the store, open it in line and read it nonstop if I can.

[Mellykat]

LOL me too. That's why I rarely pick up a book anymore. It's all-consuming!
I definitely felt yucky too but wow it was riveting and hard to believe it all happened in that room!

[mturnidge]

Ummmmm.... I have enough academic reading to do for school, the last thing I want to do is some extra reading! lol So.... right now I'm reading Contemporary Family Law, Sociology of Religion, and a whole lot of other junk! :gah:

[Mellykat]

Ummmmm.... I have enough academic reading to do for school, the last thing I want to do is some extra reading! lol So.... right now I'm reading Contemporary Family Law, Sociology of Religion, and a whole lot of other junk! :gah:
Snore! you lost me at 'academic'. LOL Kidding. But yikes. You are busy!

[KirstieGai]

I used to read Stephen King but got sick of them a few years ago. I also haven't read the Twilight series! I've got Kathy Reichs latest book next to my bed to start next.

[ashleyhawkes85]

I LOVE Stephen King! About 6 months ago we were TIVO-ing "The Langoliers" and missed like the last 20 minutes...so we RENTED the other night out of sheer suspense and we wished we hadn't! The movie was pretty okay until the pac man dudes came and then we just laughed our heads off!! Does anyone else know what I'm talking about?? Anyways, that was off on a tangent...right now I'm reading "psycho-cybernetics" by Dr. Maxwell Maltz...seriously has helped me change my life! And Don't feel bad about just starting Twilight...I didn't even know what it was until about a week ago!!!

[MissMint]

Right now I'm reading....this thread. LOL

Emails and the trashy mags in the checkout line - bout all I get to these days!
lol2

[MissMint]

What's Twilight?

[mj.johnston]

Does Pottery Barn count? That and books for my twins are about the only thing I read these days!

[KirstieGai]

What's Twilight?

well I guess you have been pretty busy lately with the new site and stuff. It's only the latest BIG thing that almost EVERYONE has been reading. Vampires basically. I think it was 3 or 4 books in the series and a movie is about to come out soon. Bigger in the US, not so here in Australia.

[Mellykat]

I think that is the series that Christy (BSD) is reading. Sounds like some bizarre stuff. She gets really mad at the characters! :)

[MissPotts]

wow Miss Mint i am surprised u have not heard of Twilight. I feel like i caught that storm at the end. I have not given in yet but if u decide to go off on that trip i may join u.

[Jani22]

I just finished reading all the Twilight books. It is vampires, but not crazy gorey bloodsucking vampires. I'm SO not into vampire stuff and I am in LOVE with these books. I never would have read them if I hadn't been persuaded by someone else, but I am glad I did. They are REALLY good. And they do suck you in and get you invested in the characters.

[mj.johnston]

My little sister is reading the Twilight series, she's totally hooked! We went to the movies and the new trailer for the Twilight movie played; I thought she was gonna pee her pants! She was soooooo excited, LOL!

[MissPotts]

lol2 thats funny!

[Mommy2Talesia]

Right now I'm finishing James Pattersons 7th Heaven (7th book of The Womens Murder Club Series)

[MissMint]

Well now I feel like I'm missing out!! LOL. I don't think I'd have time to read a book right now :sniffle:

[MissPotts]

Well now I feel like I'm missing out!! LOL. I don't think I'd have time to read a book right now :sniffle:


lol2 Thats what I like about u Miss Mint, u always seem to be doing your own thing without a concern for what everyone else is doing.

[Jenny318]

Ummmmm.... I have enough academic reading to do for school, the last thing I want to do is some extra reading! lol So.... right now I'm reading Contemporary Family Law, Sociology of Religion, and a whole lot of other junk! :gah:

I never had the time to read for fun when I was in school either. I miss academic reading, le sigh. I'm such a nerd.

[~Julie~]

I want to see the twilight movie too but I highly doubt I will have anyone to go with me. :( I guess I will wait till it comes out on DVD.

[audscraps]

Well now I feel like I'm missing out!! LOL. I don't think I'd have time to read a book right now :sniffle:

dont worry i had no idea what it (twilight) was either! and that makes two of us who love those trashy mags! :happydance:

Im finishing up Slummy Mummy by Fiona Neil -HILARIOUS. Sippy Cups Are NOT for Chardonnay by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor -even MORE HILARIOUS. Great for first time moms who have a sense of humor. ;) She wrote a second book for mom's of toddlers called Naptime is the New Happy Hour. I plan on reading that very soon.

I also love books on LOA (law of attraction). The Secret, Happy for No Reason... very powerful books.

[audscraps]

Ummmmm.... I have enough academic reading to do for school, the last thing I want to do is some extra reading! lol So.... right now I'm reading Contemporary Family Law, Sociology of Religion, and a whole lot of other junk! :gah:


I feel your pain, or at least I used to... I finished my BA last Spring and I SO have no intention on going back to school ANYTIME soon! Lets just say I was on the 12 year program... good for you for working on your post-grad!

[Mellykat]

Funny because I would never have ever heard of the Twilight series if it weren't for Christy's blog. And then I was at my sister's house today and one of her girls had a humongous book in her hand. I go, ''Are you reading that?'' and she said it was one of those Twilight books.

That and reading about it on here, and I'm hearing of it everywhere I go now!

[Mommy2Talesia]

Im finishing up Slummy Mummy by Fiona Neil -HILARIOUS. Sippy Cups Are NOT for Chardonnay by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor -even MORE HILARIOUS. Great for first time moms who have a sense of humor. ;) She wrote a second book for mom's of toddlers called Naptime is the New Happy Hour. I plan on reading that very soon.

These sound good, I'll have to see if our library has them. Any Goodreads.com people, my user name is the same as here if anyone wants to add me. :)

[MissMint]

lol2 Thats what I like about u Miss Mint, u always seem to be doing your own thing without a concern for what everyone else is doing.

Or maybe I'm just totally clueless!! ROFL...In good news just got back from the grocery store...long line up so I got caught up on the latest people mag. Nothing all that interesting. Desperate Housewives on tonight! Yipppeee!

[goldengirls2]

What's reading?!?!?! :) I wish there were more time in a day to read...oh well!

[glumirk]

lol! I'm with Meeeegan! Anyone up for "Fundamentals of Thermodynamics" or "Introduction to Heat Transfer"? I also read lots of vendor submitals at work and then have to research what we're buying so that I can give the technical bid analysis on it. That or write/edit specifications!

Twilight sucked me in (no pun intended). I had a friend that kept telling me about it so I finally borrowed it from her. The first two books were my favorites. The 2nd one was hard to read because my dh was working in another city at the time, but both of those kept me up until about 3:30am. DH was back by the time I got the 3rd one, and it was the last week before school started, so I was a little more distracted.

After college I want to get back into reading. I really want to read a lot more of the classics. I've found a new love for Dickens, whom I thought I hated in high school. I started reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" the night before I got Twilight, so I want to read that. Eventually, I also want to read Les Miserables.

[JamWest1007]

I have to admit, I read anything I can get my hands on. Seed catalogs, People magazine, the back of the toothpaste tube...whatever is handy. And usually I have several things going at once.

Lately it's been Special Education and Autism books, because I homeschool and my youngest has special needs. the Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun is great! I am also reading lots of teen science-fiction because my 13YO son LOVES to read and I like to have something to talk to him about that I actually understand (unlike video games). Pendragon is our latest passion. I am also reading the Twilight series because I heard it was the new Harry Potter, which I love. I am on Eclipse which is book 3, and I am hooked. I also read adult fiction when I find time. I really enjoy John Grisham, Kathy Reichs, Terry Brooks. Oh to have days to myself with nothing to do but read...

[Dawn]

I just finished reading "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn". It's not my norm.....at all, but I loved it. Up next is a little Jonathan Kellerman.

Edited to ask: Has anyone read Janet Evonovich? Her Stephanie Plum series is HYSTERICAL!!! I love her books.

[paperboutique]

I love escaping into someone else's fictional life right before bed! LOL

I'm scrambling through the last of my Jodi Picoult books ( I LOVE HER!) - read Perfect Match, Picture Perfect and I'm getting ready to start Change of Heart (or something like that). I am addicted to her books!!

I've also got Memory Keepers Daughter on my table waiting for me and I'm reading my Family Dynamics text book, plus whichever story books the kids bring home from school.

[jenn7]

Right now I am reading Twilight ( I know I know Im a little late LOL )


LOL Me too! I just started and only get to read during lunch so I am not real far into it yet.

[Dianne]

Just finished Steve Martin's bio - - it was really good!

[JamWest1007]

I love escaping into someone else's fictional life right before bed! LOL

I'm scrambling through the last of my Jodi Picoult books ( I LOVE HER!) - read Perfect Match, Picture Perfect and I'm getting ready to start Change of Heart (or something like that). I am addicted to her books!!

I've also got Memory Keepers Daughter on my table waiting for me and I'm reading my Family Dynamics text book, plus whichever story books the kids bring home from school.

Ooooh...forgot Jodi Picoult. I love her books, too.

[AquaRuby]

I am currently reading a Jodi Picoult book called The Tenth Circle -- I am almost done with it and it is definitely not turning out like I had expected -- which is good. I hate when books become predictable. Once I am done with it -- I am going to start book 2 of the Twilight series.

Julie -- you so know if we lived closer I'd go with you to that movie.

[MissPotts]

My sStephen King books are overdue as of today! :shake:! I already owe them 9 bucks! And my kids books are spread all over the house! :rant:

[~Julie~]

I am currently reading a Jodi Picoult book called The Tenth Circle -- I am almost done with it and it is definitely not turning out like I had expected -- which is good. I hate when books become predictable. Once I am done with it -- I am going to start book 2 of the Twilight series.

Julie -- you so know if we lived closer I'd go with you to that movie.

Come up to PA for the weekend in late November :)

[kc_happymom]

I'm in between fiction books right now. I finished the newest Mercedes Lackey book "The Phoenix Endangered" and I just picked up "Cry Wolf" by Patricia Briggs from the library and can't wait to start it. That Twilight series sounds neat too from the descriptions in this thread... I'll have to look for it on my next library run.

For non-fiction I'm reading "The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Asperger's Syndrome" by William Stillman. It's good so far. And I need to read and return "Asperger Syndrom in Adolescence" by Liane Holliday Willey. Both my kids are on the spectrum - my son has high functioning autism and my daughter has aspergers so I'm hoping both books will give me some insights.

And I can hear them coming back from the store right now. I sent them off for brownie mix and milk chocolate chips. Now I get to see what they came back with LOL.

Kathleen in Canada ::yipee::