What Are You Reading For November?

**Libby** · 10-26-2007, 07:41 PM

Just thought I'd jump start this thread for the readers and those who have forgotten how fun it is to read and may be interested in starting up again

I plan on reading AT FIRST SIGHT by Nicholas Sparks which will be purchased with a gift card

Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the course of this young couple's marriage.Dramatic, heartbreaking and surprising, this is a story about the love between a man and a woman and between a parent and a child. More than that, it is a story that beautifully portrays how the same emotion that can break your heart is also the one that will ultimately heal it.
While the novel picks up the tale of Lexie Darnell and Jeremy Marsh that started in True Believer and will delight fans of that novel, it stands on its own as one of Nicholas Sparks's most deeply moving love stories.

Synopsis:
Now in paperback, the #1 "New York Times" bestseller by Sparks asks the question: Is love at first sight truly possible? Central characters Lexie Darnell and Jeremy Marsh were first introduced in "True Believer."

**cab54** · 10-27-2007, 04:06 PM

I'm working my way through the classics, and just started The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

**miss_thrifty** · 10-28-2007, 03:41 PM

Shorty-- I love Nicholas Sparks he's awesome. Cab--Hawthorn is a good writer didint like his House of the 7 gables though.( way too much description of everything and every one), Scarlet letter was really good so was the movie.
Im reading East of eden-John Stienback-so so Im not overly excited about this book it s alot of reading but Ill finish because I want to know the ending.
Finished this last 2 weeks-The Scout by Lynna Bonning(romance), The Hand of Robin Squires by Joan Clark( oldest son wanted me to read his novel from school really good, .Bride of willow Creek (Maggie Osborne) was excellent, and Glory by Lori Copeland, Secrets of the Heart by (Al and Johanna Lacy)- her mail order bride series.
Reading over the next 2 weeks-
A Christmas sleigh Ride--Tracey Bateman/Jill Stengl
Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs-Max McCoy
Beyond the Gathering storm-Janette Oke
Mystique -Amanda Quick
Heart Of the West-Penelope Willamson

I love Historical novels more then anything even if its not non fiction. Romance early 1700's if I can get my hands on them lol

**baxjul** · 10-29-2007, 06:40 AM

I'm finishing up the Janet Evanovich books, they are really good!

**changed4life** · 10-30-2007, 05:33 AM

I'm reading Joel osteen's newest book called, "Become a Better You." He also wrote, "Your Best Life Now."

I'm also reading, "The Glass Castle," by Jeanette Walls. She's a news journalist whose story is atuobiographical. As a child, she lived with a mentally ill mother and an alcoholic father. It's sad, but it proves how one can emerge and succeed out of a grave situation.

Enjoy your reading!

**TheRootedNomad** · 10-30-2007, 07:01 AM

Blind Alley - Iris Johanason (sp) (catch the bad guy type )
The Alibi Man - Tami Hoag (catch the bad guy type)
Frugal Luxeries - Tracey McBride (re-read on living well while making do)

After that it will probably be tons of reciepe books. Baking season is upon us!

**emily_hope** · 10-30-2007, 07:12 AM

Originally Posted by shorty

I plan on reading AT FIRST SIGHT by Nicholas Sparks which will be purchased with a gift card

Central characters Lexie Darnell and Jeremy Marsh were first introduced in "True Believer."

shorty...I've read both of these books, At First Sight and True Believer. They are wonderful reads. Enjoy.

I just started on a new book yesterday. I am reading Jan Karon's Mitford series. A Common Life: The Wedding Story was next in the series and I checked it out from the library yesterday.

From Publishers Weekly
Fans of Mitford, Karon's delightful fictional village in western North Carolina, will be thrilled with this newest installment, which relates an episode she skipped over in her earlier books: Father Tim and Cynthia's wedding. (He proposed at the end of the second Mitford book, and at the beginning of the third, they were already happily married.) Finally, readers get to see the stunned expressions of most Mitford residents when they hear Father Tim has actually popped the question. Readers learn about Cynthia's anxieties over the pending nuptials, share Esther Bolick's delight when Cynthia asks her to bake her famous orange marmalade cake and hum along as the Lord's Chapel parish belts out "Praise my soul the King of Heaven" at the ceremony. And as usual, Karon works in a few snippets of convincing mountain dialect. While Mitford die-hards will welcome this installment, however, the unconverted won't find much to bring them around; one has to already know Karon's eccentric characters, with all their foibles, to fully appreciate the book. Even Mitford devotees may be a touch disappointed that the trademark lessons about Christian faith that Karon weaves so seamlessly into most of her tales are more or less absent from this slim volume. (When they do appear, they stick out, as when Bishop Cullen pointedly discusses the role of sex in Christian marriage.) Still, don't be surprised if Mitford fans begin serving orange marmalade cake at their weddings, and sing hymn 410 at every opportunity.

**miss_thrifty** · 10-30-2007, 08:26 AM

I started last night"The first Human by ann Gibbons" its about real fossil hunters looking for the oldest humans related to the apes. 2002 is the latest form of man that they found in this book of about 6-7 million years ago. I thought at first when I ordered the book online from the libary it was going to be hard with lots of lingo I didnt understand. No way, its for the modern man not scholar type.

**Libby** · 10-30-2007, 07:54 PM

Im excited, I bought my book over the weekend as well as two other N. Sparks books.

Tonight Im going to bed early just so can I start "At First Sight"

**mander** · 10-30-2007, 08:09 PM

I just got first sight but didn't realize it is a sequel so I have to find the one before it, then I have a Carly Phillips book, sealed with a kiss and Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral.

**mcphlips** · 10-30-2007, 08:14 PM

I'm still working on Sandstorm. I is pretty good...just no time to read lately. Hoping to finish it within the next week or so!

I did finish A Thousand Splendid Suns.. on audio ..really really good book! I would highly recommend it!!!!

**AheeK** · 10-30-2007, 09:56 PM

I'm rereading all of my L.M. Montgomery short story collections right now. After that, I'm going to go on gutenberg.org and see what's new in the last month. There's always something neat on there to read!

**guest002** · 10-31-2007, 05:27 PM

I'm reading A Thousand Splendid Suns. I'm behind a lot of the FV members on reading it. I was waiting a log time to get it on my paperbackswap site.

Someone mentioned that At First Sight is a sequel. What is the 1st book?

**mander** · 10-31-2007, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by PaulaPAFW

Someone mentioned that At First Sight is a sequel. What is the 1st book?

The back of the book says that the story began in True Believer and continues in At First Sight.

**miss_thrifty** · 10-31-2007, 07:48 PM

finished Indiana Jones this morning and started and finished the sleigh ride one. Theres 2 small historical romance ones in it. I read tonite Stephen Kings-the cycle of the werewolf. It was for teens with pictures, but pretty good. Ill try to get at lest 5 chapters tonite of East of Eden ,after twitches 2 is over on family channel.
I like working on romance or smaller novels every so many chapters on thicker books or ones that are so so.