Book Geeks and Bookniks discussion

I've got Explosive Eighteen and Elizabeth Street: A Novel Based On True Events going right now. Both are good so far.

I'm reading How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn, which I am thoroughly enjoying and plan to read The Theban Plays: King Oedipus / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone by Sophocles this week too (taking part in a Classics Toppler Challenge hence the choices). After that who knows.

I am still ploughing my way through 7 books this week, will finish about three of them by the end of the week.

Tall, Dark & Dead by Tate Hallaway - bookmark challenge
11/22/63 by Stephen King - bookmark challenge
Breakfast at Darcy's by Ali McNamara - audio in the car 3.45hrs left.
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris - audio on laptop about 11hrs left
Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons by Vera Nazarian - kindle
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - ebook on sony, for bicentenary of Charles Dickens
The Glamorous (Double) Life of Isabel Bookbinder: A Novel by Holly McQueen - chick lit from my library

I'm reading Enchanted, Inc. and The Queen's Pawn right now. Enjoying both! Next up is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

I'm reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte bc I promised a friend I would read it if she read Rebecca. I'm struggling with it so I'm occasionally peeking into, "The Wilder Life," about a fans love for the Little House books. It is precious !

Just finished Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet which was the sweetest.

Starting The Darkest Night: The Murder of Innocence in a Small Town and I'm very excited about this one.

Then lurking in the wings are Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married and Ender's Game.

Gretchen, I love that you thought Corner of Bitter and Sweet was the "sweetest." I REALLY loved that book, and it has sure stuck with me!

I'm beginning Handling Sin and The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary.

i am finishing up on Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

I just started a really short book called Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. I've only read the first vignette but am liking it so far.

Andrea wrote: "i am finishing up on Zeitoun by Dave Eggers"

What do you think of Zeitoun? It was one of my favorite books from last year.

I am about half way done with The Language of Flowers.

Reading The New Jim Crow. Disturbingly informative book about our "war on drugs" and the mass incarceration of (non-white) citizens in the US.

I finished Let the Right One In, which was fantastic even though it is not in a genre I usually enjoy, and started The Last Jew, which is decent historical fiction set in Spain at the time of the inquisition. I also started a research assistantship and secured a position as a peer mentor (both at Wayne State University), which have severely cut into my reading time!

Heather wrote: "I finished Let the Right One In, which was fantastic even though it is not in a genre I usually enjoy, and started The Last Jew, which is decent historical fiction set in ..."

Glad you liked Let the Right One In (I just saw your post to me in the 1/9 thread). I found it entertaining, although I think it has too many subplots, many of which don't add much, if anything, to the main plot. I personally would have liked more development of the main characters (for instance, more about Eli's past which she/he gives Oskar inklings of in those visions). The story kept me turning the pages, though!

Whoa! Good luck on your new positions, Heather.
Hope you still find some time to read.

I'm currently reading Life Itself which I am quite enjoying. But I'll be ready for a good mystery after that.

Caroline wrote: "Heather wrote: "I finished Let the Right One In, which was fantastic even though it is not in a genre I usually enjoy, and started The Last Jew, which is decent historical..."

I agree. I would have liked more development of Eli's story, but I would have liked more development of some of the other subplots too. Pesky editors!

I've finished How Green Was My Valley and The Theban Plays: King Oedipus / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone and have now moved on to The Day of the Triffids, which I had a feeling I am going to absolutely love!

Caroline wrote: "Heather wrote: "I finished Let the Right One In, which was fantastic even though it is not in a genre I usually enjoy, and started The Last Jew, which is decent historical..."

Caroline- I agree there were a lot of subplots. I saw the Swedish film last year and they. Ut out a lot of those so the story flows better. I didn't mind the subplots too much but if they had all been included in the movie, it would've been 5 hours long:)

Annika wrote: "Caroline wrote: "Heather wrote: "I finished Let the Right One In, which was fantastic even though it is not in a genre I usually enjoy, and started The Last Jew, which is ..."

Yeah. The book could be half the size it is with some liberal editing. If I were the author, I'd cut out most of the subplots and tighten the main plot, which needs more of a lot of things.

Heather wrote: "Andrea wrote: "i am finishing up on Zeitoun by Dave Eggers"
I just finished - loved the book but hated that it really happened.
What do you think of Zeitoun? It was one of my favorite books from last year."

Caroline wrote: "I just started a really short book called Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. I've only read the first vignette but am liking it so far."

Read Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult this week. I liked it a lot. Next up is One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd.

Melissa - I LOOOOVED One Thousand White Women - enjoy:)

Annika wrote: "Melissa - I LOOOOVED One Thousand White Women - enjoy:)"

I've heard good things about it. I'm liking it so far...