what are you reading?

[JJ77]

I have been on a Charlaine Harris kick lately. I'm also a fan of "True Bood" and so when last season ended I decided to check out the books the series was based on. Absolutely loved them, and so followed them up with other series by the same author.

Right now I am reading " Dead over heals" from the Aurora Teagarden series - written by Charlaine harris.
I have 3 more books to go in the series and am flying thru them. After this series , I have litterally read everything the woman has publlished to date lol so looking for some suggestions

What are you reading?

[leighere]

Just finished "Knock Out" by Suzanne Somers and "True Compass" By Ted Kennedy. I'm reading "Star" a biography on Warren Beatty now

[JJ77]

sounds like your on a biography kick leighere... any worth recommending?

[Nickifan]

I'm halfway through The Last Ember by Daniel Levine. My favorite authors are Laurie King, Barbara Kingsolver, Mary Doria Russell, Diana Gabaldon and Anne Perry. Love my Kindle!

[JJ77]

I've been resisting the kindle myself. I just dont know if i could get used to ebooks vs real, bound, paper books. I know, I know... but seriously did it take some gettign used to?

[aliensummer]

I have a lot of readings that I have to do for my classes. Two are requiring novels, while the others are just different journal articles every week (one is a novel plus journal articles). So what I'm reading isn't entirely what I would normally be reading, and I wouldn't normally rush through novels so quickly if I didn't have to have them finished by a specific date (I like taking my time and really getting into it).

I just finished Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. I'm currently reading Behaviour in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organizations of Gatherings by Erving Goffman, and tomorrow I'm starting Surviving Auschwitz by Primo Levi.

I really liked Waiting for Godot, and can't get through Behaviour in Public Places. It's killlling me! So brutal, but hopefully I'll get through it this week before I go away. If not, that's what I'll be reading on the airplane.

[zooxstation]

I just finished "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold and I enjoyed it a great deal.

[JJ77]

I've heard really good things about that one - "The lovely bones"

I just finished reading a few mormon / flds subject books. feeling al ittle burned out for the moment - so heading back to finish out the last of charlaine harri's books. just acouple more and i've read everything in her bibliography.

[zooxstation]

I've read all of the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris and want to read her other series as well. And I highly recommend "The Lovely Bones".

[JJ77]

Some of her other series are a bit darker than the sookie books, but my fave was the Lilly Bard / shakespeare series - with the Harper Connelly series a close 2nd.

I'm reading thru the aurora teagrden series but not getting as into it as the others

[Nickifan]

Feb 5, 2010 22:48:24 GMT -5 JJ77 said:

I've been resisting the kindle myself. I just dont know if i could get used to ebooks vs real, bound, paper books. I know, I know... but seriously did it take some gettign used to?

Not at all. Since it's not back-lit, it doesn't seem at all like an electroinc device, except page turns are by clicking a button. It's very comfortable to read - same size as many paperbacks, and so easy to carry around. I especially like sitting outside in the sunshine to read - no glare and no wash-out. Text is black on light gray. Because I mostly leave the wireless 3G off, my battery lasts about 3 weeks before a recharge is needed.

[JJ77]

i think i'd have to really check one out and play with it to get a feel for it and i havent to this point.

I just assumed they were back lit though, so thanks for the info Nice battery time too.

[jblovessharks]

anyone ever heard of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K Hamilton? This is so NOT twilight or true blood or any of that pansy poop that came out recently - nor is it a knock off of buffy the vampire slayer

it's very adult especially in later books (she's got about 18 out now) - where like mature adult content is involved *cough* sex *cough* but it's mostly a horror type series

it's really good and just wondering if anyones heard of it.

www.laurellkhamilton.org/

her site. im currently re-reading through them and trying to collect all the new editions (there have been at least a dozen different cover styles/book sizes since she's gone into print and as a painfully obsessive compulsive person when it comes to order and symmetry she's making it VERY HARD to own her entire collection just ONCE lol)

[JJ77]

I have heard of the series and thought about checking it out JB - but I havent really heard great things about it, basically that the story line is weak and vamp erotica is the main component of the books. I havent read them though so that's just what I've been told...and cant say if it's a fair assessment.

I actually like the "pansy-poop" charlaine harris writes in her southern vampire / sookie stackhouse series. The notion of vamps "coming out of the coffin" is what initally made me read them.Granted it's not The vampiric prose of Ann Rice's vampire chronciles , but it's not meant to be. If you havent read them, i could see how you would lump them in with buffy or twilight... but if so, i'd be surprised you would.

I have only read the first book in the twilight series... and that was enough for me.
Bufffy never entertained me either.
The souther vampire series / true blood books however i find funny, entertaining, and to have a nice touch of mystery and romance - without having so much as to fall directly into either of those catagories.

[jblovessharks]

okay sorry if i offended you with my pansy poop comment :/ I was really mostly referring to twilight with it's 'glittering' vampires and such. I actually liked Buffy for what it was (it was my generation - buffy/dawsons/7th heaven etc) but wanted to make it a clear distinction between those stories and the Anita Blake one.

I've been told to try the southern vampire series before once but by a person who hated the anita blake one so that could explain it as well. Maybe i will take a look... i'm not into gushy romantic stuff which is what i believed that series to focus more so on (i could totally be wrong)

the first few books in the anita blake series are really good and her world she's created with vampires and wereanimals is amazingly complex and thought out. as it goes on, yes, it does sort of adopt a "vampire erotica" theme but because the characters are so strong, i can accept that.

they've come out with comic books on her series that are awesome and i hear theres supposed to be a mini series... but it's sad cause if it came out now everyone would think it's copying twilight or true blood and maybe wouldn't give it a chance :/

images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Anita-Blake-comic-vampires-656990_600_210.jpg <-- a cute lil comic strip about the fans of the series... hehe. I can so relate. I just took a bus yesterday almost 2 hours out of my way to the nearest borders so i could get her most recently released novel. AND another one comes out in June! she's so spoiling us!

I have the first twilight book and was reading it from a researchers perspepctive. I want to see what the formula was to make something that really isn't that good, into something that's so popular! i can't figure it out tho ... and have since stopped trying to read it