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  5. Stacy Clark says

    I'm reading the auto-bio "Let me Finish" by Roger Angell about the author's life in NYC…his mother was the founding editor of The New Yorker and his step-dad was E.B. White.

  9. Caleb says

    I just finished Brother Odd by Dean Koontz, 3rd in his Odd Thomas series. I'm almost finished with The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I'm about halfway through The Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon. I'm just starting Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander. Next on the list is A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.

  11. Sheila Cull says

    10 Best Books, NYT Book Review, Lit by Karr, I bought today! It cost $4.85 (for older books this sale price is consistent and great, select books are culled. Lakeview East, 3251 North Broadway, privately owned, been there awhile: Unabridged Bookstore.

    But I've gotta finish first what I'm finishing now, … Wicked by Chenoworth.

    Does anybody else hurry to finish a book so they can get to another one?

  16. Darlene Underdahl says

    I was given a batch of Clive Cussler novels from a friend (he knows I read more "male" than most females) and I'm enjoying them.

    I think I understand engineering better than the average lady.

  18. Mark says

    HANNIBAL RISING by Thomas Harris
    CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION by Walter M. Miller
    THREE MEN IN A BOAT by Jerome K. Jerome (am I really reading this to the end?)
    TWISTED by Jeffery Deaver (Shorts)
    FIRST THRILLS edited by Lee Child
    THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2008

  19. CG Blake, Author says

    I just finished, Maine, by J. Courtney Sullivan, and started, Northwest Corner, by John Burnham Schwartz. Sullivan and Schwartz are talented writers who capture the dynamics and inner tensions of family relationships. I recommend both books.

  20. CG Blake, Author says

    I just finished, Maine, by J. Courtney Sullivan, and started, Northwest Corner, by John Burnham Schwartz. Sullivan and Schwartz are talented writers who capture the dynamics and inner tensions of family relationships. I recommend both books.

  21. Kevin Lynn Helmick says

    "Sutree" Cormac McCarthy-but I'm also polishing the final draft on my last novel, so, I'm a little distacted and not to interested McCarthys' at this point.
    I did fing a first edition of "Giant" at a good will store and am looking forward to reading it, mostly cause it's my favorite James Dean movie.

  22. Jenny says

    Back to Our Future: how the 1980s explains the world we live in now. Not that I actually lived in the 80s, I'm more of a late product, but I grew up on the re-runs.

  23. Geoff says

    Reading Aaron Polson's Loathsome, Dark, and Deep on my Kindle and listening (finally) to Lev Grossman's The Magicians, which is comically and frightening like my own soon-to-be-released novel in a few ways… and both are like Narnia in a few ways, so whose keeping score.

  24. Gretchen says

    Just finished ENDER'S GAME. Pretty excellent, although I have been looking for something to live up to The Hunger Games series, and this wasn't it.

    Recently purchased for my Nook – OCTAVIAN NOTHING, JACOB WONDERBAR, and ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY.

    Also, I just read the first few chapters of Maureen Johnson's new book online for free. She totally left me hanging and I immediately pre-ordered it. Damn! Great marketing, Maureen.

  28. Tess Cox says

    A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
    Reaching Out: Three Spiritual Movements by
    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    Cutting for Stone by Abraham Vergese
    GREEN by Ted Dekker

    Right now I'm so far behind with the stack of books by my bed that I'll have to keep reading after I die. (and yes, Jacob Wonderbar is in the stack!)
    That, and starting a NEW JOB (woo hoo!), working on my own book, and trying to find a place to live in Denver before the BIG SNOW comes!

  30. Nadine says

    Just finished "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett. I'm starting the "Blood of Kings" series by Jill Williamson again (already read the first two once and I'm determined to read the last book. They're fabulous!!). Also, finished "Enclave" by Ann Aguirre a while back and loved it!

  31. Dix says

    Just finished Arthur Hailey's DETECTIVE. Incredible research! About to read the very last book in the Jesse Stone series by Robert B. Parker — RIP.

  32. Kate Austin says

    Just finished – 10 minutes ago – ZERO HISTORY by William Gibson, one of my favorite writers. I've put it back on my TBR pile because he's one writer I always re-read right away – probably in the next month – because I learn so much from his books but I need to read it the second time to get it all.

    Kate

  33. Mira says

    I recently discovered the Prydrain Chronicles, a childhood favorite, just came out on e-book (finally), so I bought and am re-reading the whole series.

    I also re-read Tamora Pierce's Terrier and Bloodhound last week, because her new one, and the third in the series, Mastiff, comes out in August. These are YA fantasy, women power books. Yay, YA women power.

    I'm halfway through the Ranger's Apprentice series, but I think I'm losing interest, not sure why.

    And I recently re-read Sense and Sensibility and thoroughly enjoyed it, although I do think Jane Austen totally gave Maryanne the shaft.

    I also spent some time yesterday going onto Amazon, and clicking old favorites that are not yet out in e-book form, because I want to buy them, re-read them and have them in my e-book library.

  35. Anonymous says

    The Night Circus and Truman by David McCullough, which won the 1992 Pulitzer prize. (I like to read a fiction and nonficiton book simultaneously. Don't ask me why!) Both are excellent.

  36. Julie says

    The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver…also The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason

    and listening to on audible: The City & The City by China Mieville

  40. Trish says

    I've started reading Dexter an Omnibus by Jeff Lindsey. (Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dearly Devoted Dexter, Dexter In The Dark)

    So far I'm loving it, great writing style, I just hope that it lives up to the TV series. On that, I'm halfway though series five. What a great show.

  42. chitrader says

    "Total Control" by David Baldacci. It's his second novel, following his blockbuster first, "Absolute Power."

    I thought A.P. was terrific, and wanted to see how T.C. stacked up. Quite frankly, it's not nearly as good. He's an excellent plotter, but the pace is slower, I think he put in too many characters to easily keep track of, and the writing lapses into repetitiveness at times.

    I've read a few of his later books, which are excellent, so my comparison of his first two is useful in that I understand better how hard it is to write a great book, especially when one eventually writes dozens of books. Not easy to maintain high quality from book to book.