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Currently reading Bite Me by Christopher Moore. Yes, it's silly, raunchy and juvenile, but I love it. He truly makes me laugh out loud. It's the third in his vampire series.
I also recently read Fluke, or I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Moore and I liked it the least of all the things of his I've read. It's like he got lost in the middle and made up the absolutely most ridiculous ending ever.
Speaking of, I read Dead Reckoning, the last book in the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. At this point I feel obligated to see how it all plays out with Sookie and her supernatural buddies, but it feels like Harris got bored about 3 books ago. The first books of the series were fun, witty and sexy. Now there's a real "whatever" feel to them.
Just finished Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman, the Hasidic Jewish girl who left the community after she reached young adulthood. Quite interesting to read about these closed communities and how they function internally. Most often, what it's really like to live in such communities is largely unknown to the outside world.
I'm just starting Escape by Carolyn Jessop who left the FLDS community and, after that, I'm going to read Infidel by Ayaan Ali.
Every time I read a story by someone raised in closed communities such as Hasidic Jewry or the FLDS, I am profoundly grateful to have been born to average, middle class, Baptist parents and to have attended public school.
Oh, Oh, Oh, CB! Escape is soooo good. I read it twice. If you like it then I also recommend Stolen Innocense by Elissa Wall.
I just finished a book that I started yesterday and finished this morning. I was so involved with it that I stayed up all night reading.
The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly. It's fiction but could someday be true. Basically it's about a Maine family. Dad is a Marine veteran working for a big drug company. A pandemic starts in Jakarta (big surprise) and it is a flu strain that wipes out a lot of the population of the world.
The story is about big pharmaceuticals, the breakdown of the American power grid and how one mom and dad have prepared for it when very few others have. It's an exciting story with well defined characters. Fast read.
I loved An Available Man by Hilma Wolitzer. It's a novel about a 62 year old widower who navigates the world of dating after his wife dies. Intelligently written in a wry manner with lots of compassion.
Yippee! Arthur and George sounds like a real winner. I just ordered it.
I'm so bad. It's not like I don't have anything to read. I have between 25-30 books waiting to be read but there are times when I'm not in the mood for a particular book and it seems this is a time when I'm not interested in about 25 of the ones I have.
I have an old biography of Ethel Kennedy that I want to read but I don't want to read it right now. Many others, too.
I am always reading a book. I'm never without one (or 30).
I have to switch gears and start chowing down on them.
I know exactly how you feel. I'm kind of going through that now, although luckily I'm finding something to read. It's just that I have a list of books I want to get through but I don't feel like reading any of them right now. Instead of feeling bad about not getting through those books (why do I let myself feel bad about things like this, I don't know) I'm just reading what strikes my fancy. Like the Hunger Games.
I just finished the Hunger Games trilogy last night. I really liked it; I kept wanting to read and read until I found out what happened. I know there was a moral to it all but I enjoyed it more as entertainment rather than a social and political commentary. I still think the Harry Potter series is far superior but I definitely see what all the fuss is about. I really liked the main character, Katniss.
Speaking of Harry Potter, I've been wanting to re-read the series (for about the 5th or 6th time) but I need to take a non-fiction breather before I start it, since this non-fiction reader is getting a fiction overload. I started Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld and Jim Dywer. Scheck and Neufeld are the Co-Directors of the Innocence Project. Then I'll go to Harry.
Just finished "The Confession" -- John Grishham which was a good read. Now moving on to "Digging to America" -- Anne Tyler, which someone here recommended. So far, so wonderful!
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