LNC Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Not so sure I'll make it to the end. I do love her detailed writing - makes me want to travel. I'm happy I'm understanding a lot of her historical references too - thanks to SOTW! I would love to get more ideas for books! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiguirre Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I liked that book. You might like the Dante Club, it's a murder mystery in post civil war Boston. I just finished Pillars of the Earth and that's also a fun read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crissy Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm reading Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence and Dave Eggers' What is the What. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K&Rs Mom Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm halfway through These Three Remain by Pamela Aidan (another P&P takeoff). It's pretty good so far - different perspective on the story I know so well.... On my Cheerios box, I noticed this morning, they say 'by the time you finish that novel you can lower your cholesterol' - it's a 6-week program - does anyone really take six weeks to finish a novel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Rachel~ Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm on a Jane Austen kick because of the PBS series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KristineIN Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm reading Going Home by Wanda Brunstetter. Kristine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen in CO Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I am horrible. I am re-reading How to Read a Book. I am also reading Hamlet and Shakespeare & Co with my ds for British Lit. I'm reading Baby Island and Seven Day Magic with my dd and pre-reading The Boxcar Children for her. Hmm, for me I have my TOG year 2 unit 1 book tucked in my book bag. I need to get to the grownup section of the library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs. Readsalot Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I just finished Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. I am looking forward to seeing the film adaptation on PBS Sunday night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela in TN Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm reading Shadow Patriots by Lucia St. Clair Robson based during the American Revolution and centers on a woman becomes a spy for the rebellion. I'm itching to read the two others waiting on my side table Manchu Palaces and The Other Boleyn Girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Rachel~ Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I am horrible. I am re-reading How to Read a Book. I am also reading Hamlet and Shakespeare & Co with my ds for British Lit. I'm reading Baby Island and Seven Day Magic with my dd and pre-reading The Boxcar Children for her. Hmm, for me I have my TOG year 2 unit 1 book tucked in my book bag. I need to get to the grownup section of the library. I just finished the Spiderwick Chronicles :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritAnnia Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 ... does anyone really take six weeks to finish a novel? It took me a year to slog through Don Quixote. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet in Toronto Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 It's a historical novel based on the life of Mary Todd Lincoln. Very compelling reading! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crissy Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm reading Shadow Patriots by Lucia St. Clair Robson based during the American Revolution and centers on a woman becomes a spy for the rebellion. I'm itching to read the two others waiting on my side table Manchu Palaces and The Other Boleyn Girl. I've had The Other Boleyn Girl on my shelf for so long, I'm determined to get to it this year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTMCassandra Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm reading up for teaching an ASL class next fall. I'm also reading a lot of books about teaching writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I am still reading nautical fiction, set in the British Navy during war against Napoleon. Current author is Alexander Kent, and his Richard Bolitho series. Not quite as good as Forester's Hornblower series, which is not nearly as good as O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin series. I must have been a coxswain or midshipman in a former life ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin in Tx Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Just finished Zafon's Shadow of the Wind, and found it very enjoyable. I definitely recommend it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonia Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 On my table right now - Mary Poppins (never read before, way better than the movie - especially Mrs. Corry), The Iliad (just some light reading!), and The Arctic Event (Robert Ludlum's new Covert One book - dh has me hooked on these now!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracy in Ky Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm reading "You Can Farm" by Joel Salatin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen in CO Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm reading "You Can Farm" by Joel Salatin. I read that that month. My hubby laughed at it, but I was inspired. Now I have a new plan for when my job eventually gets off-shored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serendipity Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm reading Eat, Pray, Love and Love in the Time of Cholera. The first because it's been recommended to me several times and the second because my English professor recommends the author. :) I'm also reading through the bible and reading some fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennifersLost Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Just getting started. I love the lush descriptions. And "The Skeptical Environmentalist". I really like that one - all the statistics to look at really puts things in perspective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonia Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm reading Eat, Pray, Love and Love in the Time of Cholera. The first because it's been recommended to me several times and the second because my English professor recommends the author. :) I'm also reading through the bible and reading some fiction. How is "Love in the Time of Cholera"? I've got it on reseve at the library, but I'm waaaay down on the list. :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee in MI Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm on a Jane Austen kick, too. I just finished Northanger Abbey, and read Persuasion earlier this week. Northanger Abbey was kind of fun, but not nearly as well written as S&S, P&P, or Persuasion. I'm also reading Paul Johnson's A History of the American People and Plato's Laws. Such a nerd, I know. Read aloud is Jules Verne's Michael Strogoff. The Russian names are killing me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angela in ohio Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I am horrible. I am re-reading How to Read a Book. I am also reading Hamlet and Shakespeare & Co with my ds for British Lit. I'm reading Baby Island and Seven Day Magic with my dd and pre-reading The Boxcar Children for her. Hmm, for me I have my TOG year 2 unit 1 book tucked in my book bag. That's pretty much where most of my reading comes from - dc's book lists! I liked Baby Island, but not The Boxcar Children. :) I am re-reading bits and pieces of the Charlotte Mason Home Education series. I just finished Swiss Family Robinson and will soon start on Mere Christianity. I am also reading Valley of Vision slowly over the course of this year, and I adore it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillary in KS Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I just finished the "Twilight" series by Stephenie Meyer, and am waiting to pick up Robert Parker's "Then and Now" from the libray. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne in Hawaii Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm reading Habits of the Mind by James W. Sire and Macbeth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm reading The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien for my book group. Also reading Bill Bryson's latest book on Shakespeare. Both good but very different. Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lux Et Veritas Academy Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 John Milton- Paradise Lost I am also doing the course from the Teaching Company that I downloaded for $17.00! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm reading Oliver Twist. If you can believe it, I've never read it before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michellem Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 My book club picked The Count of Monte Cristo for this month, and I am struggling with it. For my fun book I am reading, Cause of Death by Patricia Cornwell. It is super easy compared to the "Count". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Nothing right now! How did that happen?!? Must go to library ASAP!! Recently finished re-reading In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden, one of my most favorite books ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Academy Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I finished Sense and Sensibility last night and am currently reading The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didon. I'm not far enough into it to know what I think of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara Mac Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I enjoyed The Historian once I got into it a bit further. It was one of those books that grow on you ;) I'm currently reading The Kings of Albion, The Adventure of English and Galileo Antichrist - A Biography. I love being able to understand all the historical references in these books; a huge thank you to SOTW :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendi Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 After seeing last Sunday's "Persuasion" on Masterpiece Theatre, I decided to re-read the novel. I haven't read it in a looong time. I'm enjoying it. Wendi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karensk Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Mostly school books here, too.... Famous Men of Greece, Greek myths I've been trying to start Andrew Lang's color fairy books. But ds10 is already way ahead of me (I'm a slow reader).... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristiana Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 My goal is also to get into the adult section of the library! Currently I'm reading Calvin Trillin's Travels with Alice and Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick. We're also almost done with Voyage of the Dawn Treader as a read aloud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amira Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm working through SWB's History of the Ancient World and really enjoying it. And today I read Yellow Star which turned out to be an excellent youth book on the Holocaust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Needleroozer Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I just finished Peter and the Secret of Rundoon. I was sad that it ended. I am just starting Trumpeter of Krakow. My love of juvenille (ack! where is the spellcheck??) fiction hasn't faded yet. I am also reading some art books: Acrylic Revolution by Nancy Reyner, Acrylics Workshop by Phyllis McDowell, and Collage Unleashed by Traci Bautista. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKinTX Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm reading See You in a Hundred Years (I really like it so far); Born Standing Up (Steve Martin's autobiography), and re-reading Christy. Sorry I can't tell you the author for the first one...it's Logan something. Too lazy to go in the other room and get it! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenschooler Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I just finished the "Twilight" series by Stephenie Meyer, and am waiting to pick up Robert Parker's "Then and Now" from the libray. :) I'm finishing up Middlesex, about to jump into Twilight. Of course, I'll have to change my 888 plan, as those weren't on it. That's becoming less a plan and more of a suggestion until something better comes along! :rolleyes: DD13 & I are about to start Little Women. Should we go for audio? I'm feeling a little fizzy on keeping up with my books and those of the 3dds. :eek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTMindy Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I just finished All Rivers Run to the Sea by Elie Wiesel and loved it. It was one of the best books I've read in a long time. I'm now reading Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendra Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 The Dangerous Duty of Delight And I'm really enjoying it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midwestbelle Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 because I've never read them. I was up until 1:30am last night finishing The Silver Chair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snickerdoodle Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I am reading The First Circle. I recently finished The Haj. They are two books I probably wouldn't have chosen on my own at a trip to the library, but they were given to me in a stack of books by a friend moving. They are both very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughCollie Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I just finished Patricia Cornwell's new book -- Book of the Dead -- and I enjoyed it. RC (formerly SoSo) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda (Australia) Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Titanic, from the Vision Forum. It's a book that was originally published just a few months after the Titanic sank; full of eye-witness accounts, that type of thing. While some facts are the same, the attitudes are very different than what is portrayed in the block-buster Titanic movie! This year, I am also determined to read 'Lord of the Rings'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PariSarah Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm reading Blood Done Sign My Name, a memoir by the son of a white desegregationist preacher who was active in the Civil Rights Movement around here. It's interesting to read about places where I've served churches, and how bad things were just 30 years ago. I'm listening to Cahills' Mysteries of the Middle Ages. Good stuff. And the family read-aloud is Peril and Peace by the Withrows. Then I'm reading a bunch of things for school, but they're no fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Virginia Dawn Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm reading The D Case: or The Truth About the Mystery of Edwin Drood. It's a novel within a novel. Supposedly all the main characters in the world of detective fiction get together and dissect Dicken's novel while trying to come up with a solution to the missing ending. I'm finding it a little contrived but entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie in Ma Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I have just discovered Bernard Cornwell's "Sharpe" series. The Authors site lists fabulous nonfiction books to supplement his stories and fill in the history behind the books. http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index2_print.cfm?page=1&seriesid=1I am an addict already and that they are also on dvd with Sean Bean, 3 whole sets of them was the icing on the cake. Having not read for just pure pleasure in some time, I am quite happy with these. Also reading Homeschooling High School, by Jeanne Dennis, The Narnian, by Alan Jacobs, and Having a Mary Spirit by Joanna Weaver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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