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Beth, not sure you can say you like the book The White tiger but I finished it today. It should make for interesting discussion.

Fiona, did you not like Capture the Castle? a book group I was in did it years ago and we liked it. I have not seen the newer movie version but plan to.

Lisa - Graceling is pretty good I just finished that last week.

KrisT, I will go back to it, just not at the moment. I read Black Beauty and had a problem of readin. I just feel its not my kind of book at this moment. Cos of a challenge I am doin and have loads of books I wanna read rite now lol.

KrisT: did you say you did the audiobook of The White Tiger? From reading it myself I'm not sure how well it would have worked on audio. It seems to me it would have been a little confusing. Then again, I do better with reading abook rather than listening to one. With audiobooks I tend to "drift off" too much!

I'm shocked that was in the young adult section. Keep reading Richard!

I'm not too far into Handmaid's tale yet haven't decided if I like it or not. Love Prodigal Summer!

i am reading
the mysterious benedict society
a handmaids tale
my brother sam is dead and others! wayyyy to many

I just finished The Hobbit (great read) and am now on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Finished Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esqivel. Now reading The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.

Finished Tim - Colleen McCullough & The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.

Last night I had finished King Edward VIII: The Official Biography - Philip Ziegler. Now I am carrying on reading The Rainmaker - John Grisham.

Today, I am listening to Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman

Just finished Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman I am now listening to Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier

im reading Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill and I'm almost done with it. It's actually a very depressing book at times. Next is Three Cups of Tea

Just finished listening to Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier and now I am listening to Making Money - Terry Prachett

I just finished Q and A by Vikas Swarup (Slumdog Millionaire) and it was really good.

I'm currently reading, The Northern Clemency, by Philip Hensher. It was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. This is our bookclub book for the monthe of March. I'm finding it very interesting. It's about two families who live in the same neighborhood in Sheffield in northern England. It begins in 1974 and spans two decades. The Glover family is pretty disfunctional and the Sellers family have recently moved into the neighborhood. I'm only one-fourth through the book. Looks promising!

Megan wrote: "Just finished 'How to be Lost' - I totally enjoyed it."

Megan wrote: "Just finished 'How to be Lost' - I totally enjoyed it."

I read this a few ago and loved it! I sat down one evening and read it from start to finish! I am always loaning out my copy! I read Vanishing Acts, by Jodi Picoult shortly afterwards and found them somewhat similar.

I read The Handmaid's Tale many years ago. I was reading everything by Margaret Atwood at the time. This one was quite different than anything I had ever read before. I wasn't one to read futuristic type books but it held my interest to the end.

Proust is on my to read list. I want to read more from the French since I love Camus, Dumas, and Celine.

Just finished The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen - amazing book. Just started reading Man gone Down by Michael Thomas. It was picked by NY Times Book Review as one of the Top 5 fiction for 2007 and I'm very excited about it.

Currently, Marshmallows for Breakfast -by Dorothy Koomson. (The book jacket made me want strawberry marshmallows by the handfull :)

I really like see what everyone is reading!

I'm just starting "The Tenth Circle" by Jodi Picoult. I have read a few of her books, so looking forward to getting into this one.

Finished The Lipstick Killers - Lee Martin Will now carry on reading Cold Granite - Stuart MacBride

I am reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Just finished reading a nonfiction called Factory Girls about the young girls leaving their villages to come to a bigger city to do factory work and send money home to their families. It tells about their jobs and education and wages and how crazy it all is today.
I just started reading The School of Essential ingredients for something lighter hopefully!

Just read A Dish Taken Cold - Anne Perry.

Fiona. Did you like the Anne Perry book? She is my favorite author.

Perpendicularandi wrote: "Fiona. Did you like the Anne Perry book? She is my favorite author."

This is the 1st book of hers I have read. I am not sure what I thought of it, as I have never read books by her or about the French Revolution.

Factory Girls sound good.

So does A Dish Taken Cold.

A Dish Taken Cold - Anne Perry

It is 1792 in the terror-ridden Paris of this deftly executed novella. In the three years since the storming of the Bastille, the economy has failed and the power of the monarchy has withered into utter ineffectuality. Chaos reigns in the steamy summer streets. The city is hungry - for justice, for vengeance, for bread. So is Celie.

Employed in the household of the celebrated Madame de Stael, the young, unwed Celie daily leaves her baby in the care of a friend, Amandine. One day, grievously, Celie's infant suffers an accidental, inexplicable death, which apparently occurred, so Celie learns later, while Amandine lay in the arms of her lover, Georges. Her woe flaring into rage, Celie plots a sure but horrific revenge among revolutionaries ready to put to death any woman or man named traitor.

Finished "The Tenth Circle" by Jodi Picoult last night. LOVED IT. Going to start "Poison Study" by Maria Synder today.

I am reading Step on a Crack - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge.

Step on a Crack was one of my favs. He has a sequel to it now but it was not as good but okay.

I am looking forward to reading that 1 as its out in the UK now.

I'm still trying to finish The Little Giant of Aberdeen. It's pretty good but I've been restless lately so maybe I need to read something else. Maybe it's just that spring is coming!

Ken: tell me how Seeing is when your done. My dad bought me Blindness and Seeing so i just need to read them.

Emilie, I chose Seeing as I could still see the faces of loved ones and we could communicate by writing. If I were blind I would never again see a familiar face or familiar place. That would be unbearable.

Blindness was really good, Emilee. Now I want to read Seeing too.

Just finished Step on a Crack - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge. Will now read Judge & Jury - James Patterson & Andrew Gross.

Just finished - Look Me in the Eye-my life with Asberger's - John Elder Robison and The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende. Will start The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon. All in CD form. Vision problems.

I just finished Lolita and now need some fluff so I'm reading book 5 of the Sookie Stackhouse series.

Emily wrote: "I just finished Lolita and now need some fluff so I'm reading book 5 of the Sookie Stackhouse series."

I tried Lolita on CD and had to stop halfway. The narration became too unbearable. It made me feel he was close by. Most felt it was good book but with a horrible subject

currently reading Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Piccoult. Good so far :)

Finished Man gone Down last night - very good book about a father trying to get his life together so he can provide for his wife and three children in today's New York. A powerful debut novel!
Currently reading a book by a contemporary Swedish writer - Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist. So far it's okay - an easy read about the dead raising...

Just finished Judge & Jury - James Patterson & Andrew Gross. Will now read Honeymoon - James Patterson & Howard Roughan.

Finished The help by Kathryn Stockett and it was wonderful. If you like 60's southern fiction you might be interested. I listened to this one and the readers are wonderful!

I am reading Secrets in the Attic and Water for Elephants this week.Both I am liking very much.

I don't think Lolita would be as good on cd because it's so well written, the language is so poetic. But yes it is a little creepy.

Just finished:
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion.
Currently reading:
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
Last Night by James Salter