Daily Diary discussion

Yesterday I started Swing by Opal Carew. It's about a swingers resort on a tropical island. The book came highly recommended by someone in another one of my groups but I'm a little disappointed. The sex is great but I'm not sure I really care about the characters. The main female character willingly goes to a swingers resort but then walks around shell shocked the whole time. Hello?!! What did you expect? They are swingers not missionaries. I guess we're supposed to be witnessing her transformation from prude to pervert but I find her too whiny for my taste. I just want to smack her. The sex is hot though so of course I will force myself to continue reading LOL.

Reading Pratchett's Sourcery...light, funny book which is part of the discworld series. I was reading something less light and just kept putting it down for the Pratchett book.

reading Albuquerque. It is okay but dragging and not usually the kind of book I pick up to read. I am looking forward to my next book.

Finished Swing and while it was entertaining, it did not live up to my expectations.

Next up is Interstellar Service & Discipline: Victorious Star, another erotica novel that has received great reviews. I hope this one lives up to the hype.

Started Interstellar Service & Discipline 1: Victorious Star last night and OMG. This book is so awesome. It's SciFi and like an X-rated version of Star Trek with a hot captain and an alien first officer who is a specialist in erotic discipline. Love it!

You finished a book and started another before I even read a page. lol Interstellar sounds great!

I have to retract some of what I said about Alburquerque, it is getting better now that magic realism is becoming part of the book. The brief glimpse of history is also a plus. I just wish the author, Rudolfo Anaya could have developed a stronger story line. I might feel different by the time I finish.

I'm reading The Heretic's Daughter now and although I haven't really gotten far into it it seems like it will be good.

Hello all! I am currently reading both Lightning by Dean Koontz and The Shack by WM. Paul Young. I have a short attention span, so I usually read more than one book at a time.

Finished Victorious Star a couple of days ago and it's one of my top 10 favorites for 2008. Next I got caught up on a couple of short stories and a novella in the Heaven series my Jet Mykles. I can not get enough of the Heaven Sent boys, so yummy. Today I'll finish One Silent Night and start on A Fistful of Charms.

I have several books I am reading right now. As I finish this stack, I am going to read only one at a time....

Currently reading:
Mrs. Lincoln & Mrs. Keckly
A Fever In The Heart
Dixie Betrayed
Everyday Life During The Civil War
The Last Juror
Team of Rivals
and a couple of others....

I am now officially reading 3 books:
War and Peace
The Gargoyle
The Gate House
talk about variety!

Currently reading:The Host.

Currently reading:The Host.

Courtney, let us know how you like it. I really enjoyed the book but the first part is a little slow. Once it picks up though it's awesome.

I'm currently re-reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell as well as Snow Crash.

I'm trying to get in as much reading before uni starts back up tomorrow.

SMALL CRIMES by Dave Zeltserman
very good hard boiled to the point crime noir in tradition of James Cain/Raymond Chandler

I’m reading The Princess of Burundi, which I feel like I’ve been reading forever. In actuality, it’s only been a week but doesn’t that seem a bit excessive for a book that’s only 300 pages long? The sad part is that it took me about 5 days to read the first 100 pages because I kept falling asleep (reading on the bus during my commute) and the second 100 pages yesterday once I finally starting getting into it. I like it, but I’m still bitter that it took me so long to get into the story and that I still have another 100 pages to go until I’m done with this sucker and can move on to The History of Love, which is due back at the library this weekend, so I have to get crackin’.

After that, I plan to dig into Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I’ve only read the first chapter and want to hold off until I can commit my full attention to it, because it seems like that kind of book.

Is Jonathan Strange good? I just bought it because everyone is talking about it.

Currently reading:
War and Peace (I'm pacing myself at 15 pages a day)
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sex and the City (because I needed some fluff to get me started)

I'm itching to start my David McCollough boxed set that I bought yesterday, but I'm not giving up on Sylvia, no matter how long she is (close to 700 pages)

Lori are we going to hold hands together while we read War and Peace. My friends think I am nuts but they are willing to be cheer leaders.

I love David McCollough. Have you read John Adams yet?

Totally agree about The Host being slow to start -- and then once it got going, I went back and reread the beginning and it made a lot more sense.

I'm rereading The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but maybe I shouldn't be reading that one while on mega-pain killers -- it's loopy enough already!

i'm currently reading East of Eden for my book club. i'm on page 60 and book club is next week - i need to get crackalackin'!

Heck yes Meg! We are going to hold hands through W&P. I'm excited and scared at the same time.

I haven't read John Adams yet. I'll probably read his bio first after I finish Sylvia's journals.

Currently reading Red Tide by G.M. Ford. It's the fourth in his Frank Corso mystery series. Frank is a newspaper reporter in Seattle. I've read them one after another because I love the writing and so far the plots have been fantastic.

I started A Breath of Snow and Ashes (#6 in Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon)... when I read one of those (way long), I usually read a few others along the way... haven't decided what my secondary read is yet.

I think The Host was better written than the Twilight series.. and hang in there with East of Eden... one of my favorite Steinbeck novels.

The thing that keeps bugging me is that my mom complains about me just sitting on my butt all day and reading this break. I have done other stuff, but reading is all I wanted to do on my break because last semester was so awful. I don't know; it just kind of hurt my feelings.

Meg, I recently finished The Gargoyle and loved it. It's one I'll re-read.

Rachel, East of Eden for a classic is actually a very fast and fun read. I read it decades ago and remember how much I enjoyed it.

Lori, if you've got the time off spend it the way you want to spend it. If I could I'd sit and read for about a week straight. But I can't do this even when I'm on vacation because I've got other priorities with a husband and child and housework. I keep thinking about checking into a hotel like Laura Brown did in The Hours just to read my book.

Tressa, Even though I don't have a husband or children, sometimes I want to just take off like Vivi in Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood to a motel in a different town and lose a couple of days. Except I'd probably read instead of sleep. But I imagine that must feel amazing.

I think both ideas are amazing and it doesn't matter if one is single, attending high school or college, married with or without kids, people need their ME time! I'd love a "lost weekend."

Amen to that.

Oh...um...I'm going to try The History of Love. I'll give it my required 50 pages before deciding whether to finish it now or later. I'm tired of frittering away my time by randomly reading 3 pages of a book and then picking up something else. Action must be taken!

Lori--I am 110 pages into W&P have you started?

I am now reading Messy Spirituality and also Narnia the 5th book. The Voyage of The Dawn Treader.

I am almost finished with The Time Paradox
Also working on:

Conspiracy in Death _ JD Robb
bitter Pill


Listening to on audio = Haunted by Chuck Paulanauk

Meg...NO!...Not yet. I moved back into my house for the semester and have been too brain dead to try to understand Tolstoy. But I've finished the introduction. I'll start when I get back to my house.

I'm starting Jessica Z now after just finishing The Heretic's Daughter.

I rarely have more than one book going at a time; however, I am reading Diminished Capacity by Leighton Rockafellow for review, Plum Spooky because I love Evanovich's books and I started an E-book because I was intrigued by the 1001 books to read before you die. Dailylit.com offers many classics free via e-mail, my current e-book is Frankenstien.

Rachel....I really enjoyed East of Eden. Didn't think I would,but I was pleasantly surprised.
I bought the Heretic's Daughter last year and have NO clue why, but it's still sitting in my "to be read" stack and I've read so many others. I'm originally from Salem, Mass. too, that's why I wanted to read it.
Due to some great reviews here of The Thirteenth Tale, I got it at the library the other day. OH WOW! I can't put it down! I just hope I won't be disappointed with the ending......because at 3/4 of the way through, it's SO good!

I loved it too Terri....I'm hoping she writes more!!

Holli I want to know about Jessica Z, if you like it etc. it is on my list.

I'll let ya know what I think ;)

Holli do you own it? If so, and it is good, can I borrow it?

Cheryl, I'm checking out DailyLit. I think it sounds amazing. And nice for my checking account.

I'm reading Snuff by Chuck Pala-whatever and Searching for Schindler by Kenneally.

I don't own it Meg....sorry!! I borrow everything from the library......cheaper that way........

Holli wrote: "I'm starting Jessica Z now after just finishing The Heretic's Daughter."

Holli, how did you like the Heretic's Daughter? I gave it a 5 star rating - a very different perspective from, let's say, The Crucible. Living in the town next to where these witch trials took place peaks my interest ...

I gave it a 3....it was just an ok read for me. Here's my review.......

"I am going to say right off the bat that had this been written from Martha Carrier's perspective I think I would have liked this book more. Instead it was written through her daughter's eyes and because of that you only know what her daughter knows. Which isn't much considering she's under 13 for much of the book and living in the 1600's for God's sake where kids weren't privy to the adult information. This book was for me the life of a young girl on a farm in the 1600's with a bit of "Salem Witch Trial" thrown in with that story. I loved the writing and I'm impressed by this first time author for doing a wonderful job of making me feel like I was living in a dungeon and without a shower for most of the book for that matter. I just think I would have enjoyed the adult perspective better because there were alot of things (as the reader)I had questions about that I feel only Martha could have answered for me."

I am starting both Ecstasy by Jacquelyn frank and Drood by Dan Simmons

Well, I finished The Thirteenth Tale and it'll be awhile, I'm sure, before a book equals that one.
So I'm back to reading The Road to Litchfield, by Penelope Lively. It's okay. Just okay, not great. I need another blockbuster.

I am reading "The Brass Verdict" by Michael Connely, which interrupted my reading "The Witching Hour" by Anne Rice.

I am almost finished with Conspiracy in Death by JD robb