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Finally got around to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and it is charming. It is amazing to me that the island was cut off from almost all communication for 5 years.

Donna wrote: "Finally got around to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and it is charming. It is amazing to me that the island was cut off from almost all communication for 5 years."

I really want to read that one. Hope you tell us about it in the What Book Have You Finished part :D

Beth wrote: "Christina Stind wrote: "Katie, I didn't know 'Rebecca' was made into a movie - but I can easily see why. The plot is very good - about half way through and not completely sure what's going on... Bu..."

Isn't the old version of Rebecca directed by Alfred Hitchcock?

Going to begin Catch 22 shortly. Hopefully it's as funny as everybody seems to think!

I am reading The Tuesday Club Murders (Miss Marple) by Agatha Christie.

I am reading Sacred Scripture. It is about a 100 year old Irish woman in a mental institution and her psychiatrist. It is well written but it is boring me to tears. I'll finish it but it is bloody boring.

Kim, I'm taking it you mean The Secret Scripture? :D

I loved it, but agree it takes some effort. It's almost like meditating - you let go of all else and eventually it takes you away. Although to a sad place - I'll admit it was depressing at times.

Julie and Julia My Year of Cooking Dangerouslyby Julie Powell - Almost done and I can't recommend it enough. Full of light hearted humor and relatable situations that just happen in life.

I just started Outlander, but may have to put it down to finish up The Help that I got from the library. :)

I've started reading Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Angel's Game yesterday and it's pretty interesting. The atmosphere's different but I love the sense of mystery and the dialogue in it =)

I'm also reading The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan.

Lauren wrote: "Kim, I'm taking it you mean The Secret Scripture? :D

I loved it, but agree it takes some effort. It's almost like meditating - you let go of all else and eventually it takes you a..."

Lauren,
You are right, I used the wrong word for the title.
It is getting better and the pace is quickening. It is such a tragic story.It is haunting.

Yep, haunting is exactly what it is. I'm glad you're getting in to it.

I just started reading Kafka on the Shore.

LOL Fiona, I couldn't wait to start Kafka, even though I'm reading two other books (Paper Towns and Burned) right now. In Kafka, I've just "met" Nakata and the cat. So far, the book is intriguing. Luckily I'm taking Jacob to the pool today so I'll have a lot of reading time while he's swimming and playing with his friends. I can tell this one's going to be good and I'm going to have to read everything by Murakami!

I'm finally reading the girl with the dragon tattoo and so far so good. People have said that it was rough in the beginning but that it gets better and so far they were right!

Taking a break from Hollywood Wives - Jackie Collins and gonna read Meredith's Treasure - Philip Harbottle. A Western genre book lol.

Fiona wrote: "That's great! I'm really enjoying Norwegian Wood at the moment. I love how Murakami writes - well anyway how the translater translates I suppose. :/ But I like the style. I think that counts for a ..."

I loved that book! I have to put it on my list for a reread...

Right now I am halfway through Me Talk Pretty One Day. I am enjoying it so much.

I laughed out loud while reading Me Talk Pretty One Day especially at the episode on the Metro.

I'm rereading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I read it as an assignment in ninth grade. I've forgotten a lot of the detail.

Donna wrote: "I laughed out loud while reading Me Talk Pretty One Day especially at the episode on the Metro."

I had the same experience, Donna! In fact, I made sure not to read this in public because I would have such frequent outbursts of laughter! I got so cracked up over his attempt at explaining Easter to his classmates I thought I was going to pee my pants :)

I'm reading The Ghost by Danielle Steel....(I like it....Sarah's story is intense,interesting...the stores connect)

If you like witty, sometimes edgy, comedy writing then I think you would like the writings of David Sedaris. The book Me Talk Pretty One Day is about his time in France and the title refers to his struggles with learning French.

I love Me Talk Pretty One Day, I think it's his best book.

I'm reading In The Woods by Tana French. Also, will be starting Playing With the Enemy by Gary W. Moore for my book club this month.

I Am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak.

Must say, it's a pretty good book. I had some doubts about it at first, but now I can't wait to finish it.

In The Kitchen by Monica Ali

I am reading, A Dangerous Liaison by Carole Seymour Jones. It is a bio about Jean Paul Satre and Simone de Beauvoir. Wow they really took sexual freedom to another level!!!!

The Time Traveler's Wife and The Girl who Played with Fire. I'm getting quite bored with Traveler right now, but I only have 200 pages left, it's due back at the library this coming week, and the movie's coming out soon, so I'm gonna force myself to finish it.

I'm still reading David Anthony Durham's Acacia Book One The War with the Mein at the moment but I've also been re-reading Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre for a while now; been meaning to re-read it for some time now.

I'm also re-reading segments of Federico Garcia Lorca's poetry from my copy of Selected Verse Revised Edition =) Am in a poetry mood at the moment =D

Kris wrote: "The Time Traveler's Wife and The Girl who Played with Fire. I'm getting quite bored with Traveler right now, but I only have 200 pages left, it's due back at the library this coming week, and the m..."

Is it really boring? I'm planning on buying it.

Kris wrote: "The Time Traveler's Wife and The Girl who Played with Fire. I'm getting quite bored with Traveler right now, but I only have 200 pages left, it's due back at the library this coming week, and the m..."

My grandma was trying to force TTTW onto me today. I glanced at the blurb and was having none of it! (Plus the movie looks like pure cheese.)

Just finished up the girl with the dragon tattoo going to start water for elephants

Lauren wrote: "Kris wrote: "The Time Traveler's Wife and The Girl who Played with Fire. I'm getting quite bored with Traveler right now, but I only have 200 pages left, it's due back at the library this coming we..."

galya wrote: "Kris wrote: "The Time Traveler's Wife and The Girl who Played with Fire. I'm getting quite bored with Traveler right now, but I only have 200 pages left, it's due back at the library this coming we..."

Don't get me wrong, Traveler is interesting and Henry's time traveling is amusing, but at this point in the book where I am right now, I'm finding it a bit slow and the time traveling is getting somewhat tired to me. I started reading the book because I wanted to see the movie (Bana!), but right now Girl who Played with Fire is calling to me more than Traveler.

Now I am gonna carry on readin Over The Edge - Jonathan Kellerman.

Kris, got to agree about Eric Bana (ever since Munich...

:D

galya wrote: "Kris wrote: "The Time Traveler's Wife and The Girl who Played with Fire. I'm getting quite bored with Traveler right now, but I only have 200 pages left, it's due back at the library this coming we..."

No, it's not borring. It is a good book.

Started The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson. Hoping it will be more than a light typical Richard & Judy Bookclub read.

Ana wrote: "No, it's not boring. It is a good book."

I'm hoping to read it before the movie comes out.

After going back and forth between Gaskell and Sansom, I decided to start reading C.J. Sansom's Winter in Madrid. Am in a Spanish sort of mood so this book fits in perfectly with it =D

I'm going back and forth between Austen's Mansfield Park and Neuromancer by William Gibson. Two totally different books.

Right now I'm reading Kafka on the Shore, Milkweed, and last night I finally started Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Reading The Girl Who Played with Fire and enjoying it.

Kathy wrote: "Reading The Girl Who Played with Fire and enjoying it."

YAY!

Fiona wrote: "Yay Kathy - it really doesn't let up at all throughout either. "

Good to know. Thanks.

I started reading Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters. Been meaning to read it for some time now, especially after reading her other book North and South and watching the BBC adaptation of Wives and Daughters =)

Li, I'd also recommend Mary Barton. Glad to see another Gaskell fan, anyway :) I think the miniseries (and Richard Armitage's loveliness) have done wonders for her popularity.

I'm reading Charlotte Gray by Sebstian Faulks. I adored the film so it makes sense to read the book. So far so good.

I just started The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. I'm liking it so far.

About to start Cut. After that Eat, Pray, Love One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia!