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I've never read that series, but saw the movie and can tell that I would like them. Nearing 50 and will admit to loving Harry Potter AND the Twilight books.
Judge away!!!
No judging here! I've never read Harry Potter, but last year I read ALL the Twilight Books and watched all the movies. I'm 55.
I am not being too successful with my next book choice.
I started Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen. My stepdaughter loaned it to me awhile ago and I was in between books. Then yesterday I took my granddaughter to the Summer Reading program at my library and we got the Flipped DVD. We watched it last night and now I have no desire to read it
Then I was going to read The Other Story by Tatiana de Rosnay and then I read the reviews. I have to pass.
Next up I was going to read Conspiracies (Repairman Jack #3) by F. Paul Wilson but now I'm not sure if I need to read that series in order.
Soo….now I think I will give The Collector by Nora Roberts a try. Hopefully that one will click
Me too. I started a number of books last night, including Mr. Mercedes but I just didn't get anywhere with any of them. Of course, I am tired and busy too which probably doesn't help. But I enjoy being busy more when I know for a fact I have a book to dip into whenever I have a moment. When I don't, I feel a little panicked, wondering how long it will take me to find another book I can live in for a while.
Sounds like you are going through the reading circle like me and it seems like any book I pick up I hate here lately ..I guess we all go through this crap every once and a while .
I hate going through this. Fortunately I do have a pile of books and I will like some of them
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Me too. I started a number of books last night, including Mr. Mercedes but I just didn't get anywhere with any of them. Of course, I am tired and busy too which probably doesn't help. But I enjoy being busy more when I know for a fact I have a book to dip into whenever I have a moment. When I don't, I feel a little panicked, wondering how long it will take me to find another book I can live in for a while.
It's hard to read when you are tired. It sounds like you need a "light" getaway book. Typically I go back to old time authors I enjoy like Nora Roberts or Susan Mallery. They are always easy and fun reads.
Sometimes you just need to change it up a bit. Find a light read or a short YA book to enjoy.
Have tried several times since 6/9 to get into Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig, but just couldn't get interested in it,so yesterday I started "Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden
In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead Mountains and rode to school on horseback, often in blinding blizzards. Their students walked or skied, in tattered clothes and shoes tied together with string. The young cattle rancher who had lured them west, Ferry Carpenter, had promised them the adventure of a lifetime. He hadn’t let on that they would be considered dazzling prospective brides for the locals.
Nearly a hundred years later, Dorothy Wickenden, the granddaughter of Dorothy Woodruff, found the teachers’ buoyant letters home, which captured the voices of the pioneer women, the children, and other unforgettable people the women got to know. In reconstructing their journey, Wickenden has created an exhilarating saga about two intrepid women and the “settling up” of the West.
I am totally loving it! Almost finished already,so I tried "Dancing at the Rascal Fair" again and it seemed more interesting last night. Maybe I will be able to get into it now?
I'm reading Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell. It's a sweet little story about two misfits finding each other and falling in love. Nothing over the top but OK.
Well I checked to see if this was posted about on here and didn't see it- so I am reading The Mapmaker's Daughter by Laurel Corona.
It was on my library's email of new(ish) books. I have become a very slow reader and a very infrequent reader so books take me a long time to get through. This one is really very intriguing- takes place in the late 1400's in Spain/Portugal and has lots of historical and religious references which I am finding very interesting. I am about halfway through.
I find lately I only read on the weekends and I am so busy with stuff that I just don't get to it. In any case, it's a reflection of me not the books.
Before I Go To Sleep: A Novel
It's a psychological thriller by S.J. Watson.
I'm charging the kindle at this very moment so I can resume reading.
You can read while it's charging
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I've never read Harry Potter, but last year I read ALL the Twilight Books and watched all the movies. I'm 55. 
Me too. I started a number of books last night, including Mr. Mercedes but I just didn't get anywhere with any of them. Of course, I am tired and busy too which probably doesn't help. But I enjoy being busy more when I know for a fact I have a book to dip into whenever I have a moment. When I don't, I feel a little panicked, wondering how long it will take me to find another book I can live in for a while.
Not enough hours in the day to read.
