What are you reading?

**Maine Girl** · 03-31-2009, 01:59 PM

I always love to see what everybody is reading so i will start.

Last week i finished Harlan Coben Hold tight and now i am reading Tribute by Nora Roberts. Both books are very good. How about you?

**hotprincesscm** · 03-31-2009, 02:16 PM

The Complete Tightwad Gazette...Just borrowed it from the Library on Sunday, and I love it...Next will be a Stephen King Novel From a Buick 8. I have a few more lined up...but I better wait and see what I can finish before I borrow anymore books! LOL

**DJ1972** · 03-31-2009, 02:18 PM

Starting The Shack (have had it forever, just haven't started it)

**Spirit Deer** · 03-31-2009, 02:43 PM

Red Knife by William Kent Krueger. I love reading novels set in our neck of the woods.

I just finished Winter Study by Nevada Barr, also set in our area. Her novels bring the wilderness alive and I adore her protagonist, Anna Pigeon.

**guest002** · 03-31-2009, 03:08 PM

I'm reading:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

**brennasmom** · 03-31-2009, 03:47 PM

Just Finished: Scratch Beginnings. Interesting, although I wished it had been longer...

Now reading: Alone in the kitchen with an Eggplant. Enjoying it so far!

**checks** · 03-31-2009, 04:00 PM

I finally finished Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet. I had mentioned on another forum that I had stopped reading Follet years ago because every book had sexual violence in it and it upset me too much. He was known for spy and intrigue novels, so when I heard he wrote a long novel about cathedrals, I thought I'd give him another try. Well, the story line was fantastic, but again, he had at least five or six instances of woman being raped. I think this guy has a problem with women. Honestly, I do. I skipped over those parts and thought it could have been a classic, IMO, had he left out all the rapes. But, I doubt if I will read the sequel. The guy really gives me the creeps.

Also read, The Whole Truth, by David Baldacci. Good read. Lots of political intrigue and present day events mixed in the story. As always, these stories have some James Bond type unbelievable stuff.... But, this one rang true. It deals with political powers not just putting a spin on the truth, but actually creating truth and then using the media to spread the word. This story involved an Arms/weapons manufacturing tycoon who creates a fake story in a plan to plot Russia against China so that his business will benefit from world wide sales. Very believeable and it makes you wonder how much of this stuff goes on around the world.

**ilovechocolate** · 04-01-2009, 09:30 AM

John Adams by David McCullough

**TexasPeanut** · 04-01-2009, 09:40 AM

I'm reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. I've had it forever tucked in our "classics" group but have never read it....and don't remember doing so in my younger days lol. I've seen numerous versions of it in movie form and enjoyed them so a few weeks ago when I seen it sitting on the shelf while searching for something to read I decided to give it a try. So far I'm enjoying it far more than I thought I would.

**tervsforme** · 04-01-2009, 10:25 AM

I'm reading Unspeakable by Sandra Brown. I'm planning on reading Twilight next!

**Maine Girl** · 04-01-2009, 10:28 AM

I like Sandra Brown i have read many of her books the latest one was White Hot...i have not read unspeakable.

**onencgirl** · 04-01-2009, 11:57 AM

I really like James Patterson but lately I've been reading alot of Luanne Rice.

**lovestoread** · 04-01-2009, 11:57 AM

Checks , I understand about the Pillars situation....I did read World without End, last summer, and honestly , I really don't remember if it was the same situation or not....but try WwoE, it is really good too....just skip over those parts if there are any....Loved the Twilight series, and didn't read John Adams, but I got the series on DVD from my library (free) and it was wonderful....would highly recommend it....