What are you reading?

[doxie]

I love Maeve Binchy as well. One of my favorites is "Nights of Rain and Stars". I wonder if she has a new book coming out soon? Anyone know?

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[myrosiedog]

Originally Posted by brunette trixie

I just finished Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy. I really enjoyed it. Reading her books is liking having a long chat with an old friend.

I just LOVE her books and what you say is so true. Like having a long chat with an old friend. I especially loved Scarlet Feather and Quentins, but all of her stuff is great.

I have just read Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes and The Secret lives of the Kudzu Debutantes, by Cathy Holton. They are fun reads, probably good beach material. Not great literature or even great fiction. But they were fun and light reading. Not nearly as fun as Celia Rivenbark, but fun. If you are looking for the meaning of life or other deep hidden meanings, you won't find it in these books, but they were an entertaining way to spend a rainy afternoon.

I would dearly LOVE to attend a Kudzu ball now as it sounds like a LOT of fun.

[marybethp]

Reading Water for Elephants now. So far, so good!

[Bandy]

I just finished all the books by Joel Rosenberg starting with the last Jiihad. That man is amazing! He basically wrote 911 and had it in his publishers hands days before it happened. He also has a lot of other eerie parallel happenings in the political world landscape in these books and he wrote them before they happened. The books are great and thrilling!

In his case the headlines are ripped from his books rather than the other way around ala law and order.

[myrosiedog]

Originally Posted by Bandy

I just finished all the books by Joel Rosenberg starting with the last Jiihad. That man is amazing! He basically wrote 911 and had it in his publishers hands days before it happened. He also has a lot of other eerie parallel happenings in the political world landscape in these books and he wrote them before they happened. The books are great and thrilling!

In his case the headlines are ripped from his books rather than the other way around ala law and order.

His books are very good. The Last Jihad is spooky in the fact it was written BEFORE 911.

[Bandy]

Did you read the most recent Dead Heat? Wow! Sad but WOW

[myrosiedog]

Originally Posted by Bandy

Did you read the most recent Dead Heat? Wow! Sad but WOW

No, it's on my reading list. I can only request 10 books at a time from the library and currently I am in a long queue waiting on certain books, so I keep a written list of books I want to read (but that I don't want to buy) and that is on my written list and will move up to my library request list when I can start requesting more books.

[Delphyne]

The Ruins by Scott Smith

[Critical]

I just started Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott. A vendor rep sent it to work and I absconded with it. So far, I'm enjoying it, although I haven't had much time to read it. The story begins when the author's family moves to Botswana when she's seven. I think the family ends up moving to South Africa later. It seems like they have a kind of quirky, adventurous, slightly dangeous life that's totally different from my own childhood. I love books like this, so I'm looking forward to really getting into it.

Marybeth - I LOVED Water for Elephants! It totally (okay, kind of ) made me want to run away and join the circus...70 years ago! Please give your review when you finish.

[lildago]

Originally Posted by marybethp

Reading Water for Elephants now. So far, so good!

I can't tell you how much I loved this book. In fact, I read it twice because I had a strange dream about it and just had to reread it because I couldn't stop thinking about it.