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message 1: by Jonathan, A dream within a dream (new)

Jonathan Terrington (thewritestuff) | 387 comments Mod
Obviously we've got a whole post for what you're currently reading but what about the book you just finished. Let us know if you read a good book, a shockingly terrible book or just an average book.


message 2: by Nancy from NJ (new)

Katz Nancy from NJ (nancyk18) I just finished Alys, Alwaysby Harriet Martin Alys, Always by Harriet Lane and have some ambicalent feelings. On the one Hand I thought the writing was beautiful but the plot did little for me and it had a rather predictable ending.


message 3: by Bev (new)

Bev (greenginger) | 296 comments Hi just finished The Thread by Victoria Hislop and I enjoyed parts of it but found the overall story a little predictable. I have a better understanding of Greek modern history now though.


message 4: by Sunny (new)

Sunny (travellingsunny) I recently read The Fault in Our Stars which was one of the best books I've read this year. Seriously, I plan to read everything John Green has ever written as a result of THIS BOOK!


message 5: by Jonathan, A dream within a dream (new)

Jonathan Terrington (thewritestuff) | 387 comments Mod
I really liked The Fault in our Stars too but it's not my preferred type of book. But it was really well written and thought out.


message 7: by Ariel (new)

Ariel (cannibalcutie) I just finished Darkest Powers Trilogy by Kelley Armstrong. <3


message 8: by Sara (new)

Sara I just finished Before I Sleep by S.J. Watson. Very good debut, and I think (hope) she will only get better.


message 9: by Nicole (new)

Nicole | 66 comments Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin 3 stars. I didn't enjoy this one as much as Something Borrowed, but I still liked it. For Chick lit, I think Giffin does a good job. Normally, I can't stand the genre, but her books I actually enjoy. I will read more of her in the future.


message 10: by Nancy from NJ (new)

Katz Nancy from NJ (nancyk18) I just finished Calling Invisible Women by Jeanne Ray and while I enjoyed this and rated with with 3 stars, I though her three earlier books were much better.


message 11: by Bev (new)

Bev (greenginger) | 296 comments Sara wrote: "I just finished Before I Sleep by S.J. Watson. Very good debut, and I think (hope) she will only get better."

Sarah I enjoyed that one too.


message 12: by Alex (new)

Alex I finished Shadowfever last night (the fifth book in Karen Marie Moning's Fever series) and I'm walking in the air. It was addictive, exceptionally well-thought and written. Everybody should read this series! I think I might be ruined for other books...at least for a week or so. Here are all the books in the series, get a move on and start reading! It's about fae.

Darkfever (Fever, #1) by Karen Marie Moning Bloodfever (Fever, #2) by Karen Marie Moning Faefever (Fever, #3) by Karen Marie Moning Dreamfever (Fever, #4) by Karen Marie Moning Shadowfever (Fever, #5) by Karen Marie Moning


message 13: by Nicole (new)

Nicole | 66 comments Finished Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan 4 stars! Liked it a lot.


message 14: by Miz (last edited Aug 09, 2012 01:01AM) (new)

Miz (marryallthepeople) Just finished
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson. A very different book written about madness (including scientology!) from a journalist point of view.

Also finished The Murderer's Daughters which I thought was an interesting concept, and I devoured the book, but it wasn't deep enough for me.


message 15: by ÁԱ (new)

ÁԱ | 3 comments The very last one was My Memories of a Future Life by Roz Morris - one of the most entertaining of the "modern" books I have read this year.


message 16: by Liz (new)

Liz Hunt Ive just finished [book:Death Comes to Pemberley|12875355. It was a very interesting book. I really enjoyed the plot and the characters. It tried to stay true to Austen's idea of the original story while adding something of its own and took the next step into the Darcy's lives.


message 17: by [deleted user] (new)

I've just read Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire.
I liked it until I read some bad reviews which were saying that this book doesn't give a good message to readers and it's about an abusive relationship but people just can't realise. Now I don't know what to think about it.
Maybe I am too voluble?

Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1) by Jamie McGuire


message 18: by Sunny (new)

Sunny (travellingsunny) Attya. wrote: "I've just read Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire.
I liked it until I read some bad reviews which were saying that this book doesn't give a good message to readers and it's about an abusive relat..."


Books are a very personal experience, and nothing will please everyone. I think you should review the book based on your own reaction to it -- then, when you read other's reviews about it, you have already written your unbiased review. You can always go back and revise if you feel like it.

I haven't read Beautiful Disaster yet, but it's one I've been hearing mostly good things about.


message 19: by [deleted user] (new)

Sunny in Wonderland wrote: "Books are a very personal experience, and nothing will please everyone. I think you should review the book based on your own reaction to it -- then, when you read other's reviews about it, you have already written your unbiased review..."

You're right.. nothing will please everyone. We all have different tastes and different reactions to everything.

Thanks for answering, I will follow your advice :)


message 20: by Sunny (new)

Sunny (travellingsunny) Happy to have helped!


message 21: by Sarah (new)

Sarah | 11 comments Just finished The Loom (free book on Amazon) and it was actually really good. Except for the ending I thoroughly enjoyed it. I feel like the author didn't know what else to do so he just wrapped it up as quick as possible. Really dissatisfying.

I am now reading Men-ipulation: A Memoir of Addciton and Recovery and it's going quite pleasantly.

I would just like to add that Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer was a major disappointment. I had such high hopes for that book and it didn't meet par at all


message 22: by Julie (new)

Julie  (gpangel) I just finished What Angels Fear (Sebastian St. Cyr, #1) by C.S. Harris . This is a very good historical mystery, set in Regency period London. This book is not for the faint of heart. Graphic violence, and SC. It has everything a good mystery needs though. Intrigue, a love story, secrets, lies, and a even though I thought I had figured out who was behind the murders, I wasn't sure until the end. There are more books in this series. I am looking forward to more Sebastian St. Cyr.


message 23: by Miz (new)

Miz (marryallthepeople) Just finished The Last Letter from Your Lover and it was an easy yet very good read. Five stars and would recommend it.


message 24: by Richard (new)

Richard Taylor | 17 comments Sarah wrote: "Just finished The Loom (free book on Amazon) and it was actually really good. Except for the ending I thoroughly enjoyed it. I feel like the author didn't know what else to do so he just wrapped it..."

Can't help but love that update on Men-ipulation. I've never heard anyone describe a book on recovery and addiction as going quite pleasantly. Thank you Sarah, you're a joy to read.


message 25: by John (new)

John The Totally Awesome Just finished Eragon for the second time. I was surprised by how much I missed the first time around. Paolini is full of wisdom as always.


message 26: by Sunny (new)

Sunny (travellingsunny) John wrote: "Just finished Eragon for the second time. I was surprised by how much I missed the first time around. Paolini is full of wisdom as always."

I really wanted to enjoy Eragon... so many folks that I know really got into the series. I couldn't finish it, but blamed it on being my first audio book and thought maybe it was the medium.


message 27: by Natalie (new)

Natalie Well, I just finished reading a Property & Casualty Insurance book for work, but I'm not going to count that snooze fest. ;)

I believe the last book I read before that was Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness. It was amazingggggg. I loved all the books in this trilogy despite them not being anything I imagined I would be interested in. I couldn't stop reading and would go from 8% to 79% on my Kindle in one night because I just couldn't stop. And then I'd say, "Well, I might as well finish it since I'm this close" and stay up until 2am.


message 28: by Nicole (new)

Nicole | 66 comments Finished Rebecca 4 stars, very enthralling read.


message 29: by Sharmini (new)

Sharmini Jesudas (sharjesu) hey guys. a few days ago i received an advance reader copy (i believe that's what it's called) for a book that's coming out sometime in december from what my dad said. it's called Dream Caster by a new author named Najeev Raj Nadarajah and lemme tell you, that book was just offfff the hoook!!! it was fantasy and paranormal and mystery and young adult and post apocalypse all blended in together to make a great, great read.

i normal won't say this but you guys all have to check out the book when it comes out. its gonna be the next best thing i found him on FB so if you think this story might be for you, add and keep up to date... i can't wait for the series to comt out



message 30: by Bev (new)

Bev (greenginger) | 296 comments Nicole wrote: "Finished Rebecca 4 stars, very enthralling read."

I am glad you enjoyed it. Good read.


message 31: by Julie (new)

Julie  (gpangel) i just finished The Snowman by Jo Nesbø . This is one of the best thrillers I've read in a while. I am adding Jo Nesbo's other books to my wishlist!
The author skillfully puts you a position of seeing the events about to take place. You want to scream at Harry. I was so frustrated. It was like watching an accident about to happen and you are helpless to stop it. I highly recommend this one to all lovers of mystery/thrillers. Just don't read it right before bedtime.


message 32: by Sharan (new)

Sharan (sharanmangalore) | 13 comments The Last book I finished was Amazonia and

Hanging Hill

This was my first book from James Rollins.. Loved it...
Hanging Hill was good, but did not enjoy it as much as her other book Birdman


message 33: by Richard (new)

Richard Taylor | 17 comments Julie wrote: "i just finished The Snowman by Jo Nesbø. This is one of the best thrillers I've read in a while. I am adding Jo Nesbo's other books to my wishlist!
The author skillfully puts you a position..."


Thanks. I'll try it.


message 34: by Sofia (new)

Sofia (fivesunflowers) | 26 comments Last book I read was Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn - I really really enjoyed it and couldn't put it down. Very well-written, great imagination on part of the author, and lots of twists and turns. Highly recommend :)


message 35: by Barbm1020 (new)

Barbm1020 | 57 comments I just read Three Hearts and Three Lions and enjoyed it very much -a classic from the 50's for anybody who likes history and mythology.


message 36: by Melissa (new)

Melissa Eisenmeier (carpelibrumbooks) | 64 comments I just finished We Dine With Cannibals. I liked it, but it seemed unrealistic at times.


message 37: by [deleted user] (last edited Oct 07, 2012 12:20PM) (new)

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

I loved this book when I read it years ago and was anxious to reread it. I love William Goldman, he's a great writer, of both novels and screenplays including 'Marathon Man', 'Butch Cassidy', 'The Princess Bride', 'Magic', 'Heat'.

Anyway I HATED the main character this time out! I think now we were always meant to hate him but I didn't see that before. This time I found him so full of self-pity I could not stand him.

However. Goldman is a great writer. And there were parts of the book that were as riveting as ever and he can make the hair on the back of your neck stand up and that is no small feat!

I may reread his book, 'Control' soon. I remember that protagonist as being a lot tougher.

Sigh...


message 38: by Irena (new)

Irena Atanasoska (IrenaAta) | 2 comments I finished the Animal Farm and loved it. Small, compact, precise and very Aesopian dystopia. I loved it!
And the last phrase, my god, it just killed me...


message 39: by Sharan (new)

Sharan (sharanmangalore) | 13 comments Just finished Night Stalker (Robert Hunter Series #3) by Chris Carter . The book was amazing. This is one author who does not disappoint. This is his third book, and I found it gets better...


Lynne - The Book Squirrel (squirrelsend) Just finished Of Men and Monsters by William Tenn for sci fi group, gave it 3 stars. It was an ok read. A bit like The Burrowers only with aliens.


message 41: by Kim (new)

Kim Peek Tori wrote: "I just finished Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1) by Lauren DeStefanoand honestly I didn't like it that much. I think my main problem with it was that I thought it was going to be some really cool book (because the premise s..."

Wow, that's too bad about this book. It is a good premise and sounds like a good read. It is something I would have liked to read, oh well, so many more books out there. lol


message 42: by Lesli (new)

Lesli Nelson (lesliann45) | 13 comments I just finished Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #6) by Charlaine Harris All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7) by Charlaine Harris they were great reads. Once I start a series I have to read all of the books in that series. The books aren't nothing like the HBO Trueblood series.


message 43: by Carol (new)

Carol (goodreadscomcarolann) Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James -- just terribly boring, flat characters. First time reading James, hopefully next time will be better.


Mrs. Bella Cullen 4ever (Vampire-addict) | 2 comments Every Day by David Levithan
I just finished Ecery Day by: David Levinathan
and i was really disappointed with the ending. the boy should have tried to stay w/her and see how it went but did he?
Noooo, he had to leave her and move to another country.


message 45: by Sean (new)

Sean Shapiro (PositiveID) | 3 comments The last book I read was a book my friend is trying to publish about a Monster Hunter and the Apocalypse and spirits jumping from body to body awesome piece of fiction especially for a 1st published if and when he does get published.


message 46: by Carol (new)

Carol (goodreadscomcarolann) The Little Russian by Susan Sherman The Little Russian by Susan Sherman -- excellent read!! (5 stars!)

Berta as a child lived with a wealthy Jewish family in Moscow (salons, balls - all upper class) but returned home in her teens to her family (being a grocer's daughter, lower class.) She falls in love with a handsome, smart, cultured wheat merchant and they live affluently -like her childhood. But trouble comes and her husband must flee. He desperately tries to convince his wife that she & the children must leave with him, but Berta refuses. Russia plunges into war and she loses everything, and realizes that she much find a new way to survive. Meanwhile her loving husband in America is doing everything he can to get his family out of the country and to America.


message 47: by Natalie (last edited Nov 09, 2012 08:47PM) (new)

Natalie Life of Pi by Yann Martel
I liked the beginning. I wasn't thrilled with the middle. I really liked most of the last bit. It was really hard for me to review. I'm not sure I understand all the hype of it, but I still ended up liking it more than I thought. It took a couple days for it to sink in that I actually enjoyed it. I don't think I'll be running to see it though - I'll wait for it to come out on dvd.


message 48: by Carol (new)

Carol (goodreadscomcarolann) Natalie wrote: "Life of Pi by Yann Martel
I liked the beginning. I wasn't thrilled with the middle. I really liked most of the last bit. It was really hard for me to review. I'm not sure I understand all the hyp..."


I like it, especially the ending where each individual sees the way they want.


message 49: by R.J. (new)

R.J. Askew (rjaskew) | 31 comments Just finished When the Siren Calls .. it's really well written, adult, intelligent, a sharp and at times witty insight into rich banker types and their bored wives n lovers. The great thing is that the writing is excellent though. I wrote a more detailed review about it.


message 50: by Lisa (new)

Lisa Degraaf (ldegraaf) | 3 comments I spent about an hour this morning and read The US Constitution & The Bill of Rights. I thought that it was a good time to re-read it before the new members of congress are sworn in. I have read The U.S. Constitution several times and each time though I am amazed by how simple, yet powerful this document is.


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