Rachel's Holiday is one of my all-time favourite books.

I was once booked on a weekend writers' workshop with Marian Keyes in Donegal, but I spent the time snowbound at Bristol Airport instead.

It was a couple of years ago now, but the wound is still fresh . . .

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, for about the 8th time, Sense and Sensibility, for I think the 4th time, and (theoretically) The Brothers Karamazov, my 4th? attempt. One of these days I'll make it to a bookstore and buy Tana French's second book, The Likeness, at which point all the others will probably fall to the side.

A friend brought by The Hunger Games for me to borrow so I've started that. I'm pretty excited - I saw the movie last week.

Also a book called "Another Mother Runner".

I finished The Hunger Games. Awesome. Now I need to borrow the next...

Picked up and am browsing a book called "Blink" fascinating look at how brains process and are influenced. Kind of peels back the layers to look at intuition as well.

Ariel

If you mean the book by Malcolm Gladwell, keep in mind that the book has been highly criticized, including by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, an expert on judgement and decision making. Not saying it isn't worth the read, just that it's worth keeping in mind.

Hi Kate,

Thanks for the tip - I've read it a couple of times. I got the sense, especially from the marriage prediction article that it was very much about science - at least in that particular chapter. But he definitely acts like the sculpture is a fake and everyone knows it, so that isn't right. Read the bit about Daniel Kahneman's criticism. Okay, veering off topic here!

The other thing I'm re-reading is "Siblings Without Rivalry" - I love that book. Great for life in general, not only raising kids.

Ariel
How I Met Your Mother

This reminds me of a book I read many years ago that really stuck with me. It's called, Growing Up First Born by Dr. Kevin Leman. I'm the oldest of five and it really resonated. The dynamics of birth order is fascinating.

Just finished The Hunger Games trilogy. I thought I wouldn't get emotionally involved in the story because it was aimed at young adults, but in fact, I read them back to back.

Harrowing is the word that came to mind when I'd finished. People are always predicting the death of the book, but if these are typical of what teenagers are reading, I'm impressed. Very thought-provoking.

Hi Clare! I've resisted "The Hunger Games" just because they're such a phenomenal hit, but you're persuading me to join the crowd!

Hey, Shelby! That book of yours looks intriguing as heck! I'm going to check my library - see if I can find it!

Back to an old fave, "The Sixth Commandment" by Lawrence Sanders. Detective story with a cynical miserable investigator, but the insights into people are amazing. Really like it!

Catching Fire - the second Hunger Games book. I've been trying to borrow them for 2 weeks but everyone who owns them already loaned them to someone else. Today we bought the amazon version and I'm reading it on my phone. Of course that drains the battery so right now my phone is plugged in. I'm more than 1/2 way through and got the book about 1:00, then went swimming. Great series.

Hmm, where have I heard that book mentioned before?

I have been reading through the Harry Potter series. I have read 1-4 before, but I never actually finished it. I'm on book 5 now.

Hey, unique_individual - HP rocks! I've only read them about 9 times each! Glad you're on book 5 - very angst-y! : pinky

Okay, I'm reading "Inviting Disaster" which is about several famous disasters and what human factors and mechanical failures led to their occurring. Yep, weird. But I'm a safety professional. It's got Three Mile Island, the Piper Alpha failure, Challenger, everything from Mississippi steamboats to Bhopal. Actually

And as for YOU, Laragh! Sorry your memory is failing! That's so terrible. I weep for you!

A book called Yellow locus or Yellow Crocus or something on my kindle (on my phone). A friend had it and wanted to loan it to me and sort of wouldn't take no for an answer and now I feel like it would be so wasteful to not read it. It's ok.

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James Joyce - A Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man

But I just can't seem to get 'into' it...

My coworker just lent me Bag of Bones By Stephen King. I have only read a couple pages, but I'm a huge Stephen King fan so I think I will like it

Ash

Soul Surfer. It's the book by the surfer who had her arm bitten off. It's basically written by a 14 year old evangelical Christian but if you can get past that, it's interesting and inspiring. I think I'll send it to Rachel's niece when I'm done with it.

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Just discovered Chris Anne Wolfe, and am half way through Shadows of Aggar, on my Kindle.

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Kinda straight now, still not narrow...

Re-reading "Freakonomics" wild, radical fascinating ways to crunch numbers and see the world differently - very quirky!

Ariel
How I Met Your Mother

(I'm not sure if this is the right thread, so I'm sorry if I'm interfering with the rules of the board.)

I've just returned from my bookstore raid. I used the basic technique, I opened each book that interested me on its 99th page and read it. I tried dozens and dozens of books, spent there nearly two hours but I haven't found anything interesting... I did consider buying Leo Tolstoy's War And Peace though, but then I realised I could get it in iBooks, since it's old, or in a library. (Economical much, huh?) And yeah, I know I'm a big literature sinner, not having read such a work and all, but then again - brace yourself - I haven't seen Dirty Dancing (yet!) either so... that makes me a huge cultural sinner in general.

I wanted to ask if you have any recommendations? I'm much into fantasy, sci-fi and history novels (WWII and so on) and if you've read Inheritance cycle by Paolini, then you have exact idea of which writing style I like the most. Well that, and if you've read some of TaraThePhoenix's gorgeous work. She's... OK, no words here. Such beauty cannot be described with words.

So if you have something to suggest, I would be really, really glad.

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Awakening

To everyone here, please, for your own well being, DON'T ever read '50 Shades of Grey'. I just read the first chapter online and I'm on the verge of crying really loud. I never read anything so poorly written. I don't know what all the fuss is about, I just don't understand.

Finally someone who agrees. My friend and I were completely horrified by it...


OT: I'm reading the Nikki Heat novels by "Richard Castle".

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They don't believe in us, but I believe we're the enemy... ~ My Chemical Romance - Destroya

The Hunger Games series, Serpent's Storm and of course, a lot of philosophycal books

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My Heart Draws a Dream
True Colors of Love
A Crazy Little Thing Called Mutation

Just about to start "Phantom" - book 8 in the vampire diaries series plus am also reading some other stuff including a charlaine Harris novel thats not related to the sookie stackhouse series. Vampires = MMmmmmmmm

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I just started The Likeness by Tana French and The Hollow Men by Stephen Topping and Martin Day. The Likeness is a mystery novel and very awesome so far; it's a sequel to Into the Woods, which I read a couple months ago, but it seems like it could be easily read as a stand-alone, and so far I like it even more than the first. The Hollow Men is a Doctor Who novel, my second, and I'm not quite sure what I think yet; it's always interesting seeing different fans' interpretations of the characters and the world, as they're basically published fanfic (although some of them are written by people who have actually written for the show). I'm also still re-reading the Harry Potter series.

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"To days to come."
"All my love to long ago.

I hope, we'll have more happy ever after
I hope, we can all live more fearlessly...

~Jas

I gave into the hype. Oh dear lord. Suffered my way through until it got to the "...as he rips through my virginity" line.

Going off to light this book on fire now.

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Check out my finished fics

Love, The Series … Two For Joy/21+/Joy To The World … Inevitable/Infinitely …

Confidential Eternal … A Twisted Date … Dachsund Through The Snow

The 100 thing challenge.

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"Still Alice", by Lisa Genova.

Still have about half to go through and I'm not sure I'll read it...the premise looked great, touching and all but the characters are cold and present an appalling lack of depth. Disapointed.

Finished "Heat Rises" (the third book in the Nikki Heat series) earlier today. Quite sad it ended so soon, but there's still the next novel coming out in September to look forward to.

Going to start reading "You Can't Hide" by Karen Rose now. Let's see if it's as good as it sounds. Not that she has ever disappointed me before.

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You don't believe God, I don't believe in luck,
They don't believe in us, but I believe we're the enemy... ~ My Chemical Romance - Destroya