Kathryn Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Not this thread, I mean what book(s) are you reading? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embassy Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I'm listening to Oliver Twist while I work at night. Does that count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyerin Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissel Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I just finished the second book in the Melanie Middleton mystery series by Karen White (The House on Tradd Street is first, The Girl on Legare Street is second). I'm currently waiting for the third--The Strangers on Montagu Street--to come from the library. Total fluff, but I'm hooked :D I'm also in the middle of The Entitlement Trap, a parenting book. Oh, and Moby Dick, which I'm actually REALLY enjoying! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest inoubliable Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Watership Down, the sixth book in the Wheel of Time series (Lord of Chaos), World Without Ice, and Make Room! Make Room! I can never just sit and read through one book at a time. There's always a good sized stack right next to my side of the bed and a Nook and Kindle with dead batteries laying around. DH is convinced it's a mental disorder. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amyco Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Currently reading The Children's Blizzard by Laskin, and listening to The Mysterious Benedict Society for our family read-aloud. Dh is such a great reader! (read alouder? reader aloud?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warneral Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I just finished The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens and it took me forever! Not nearly as good as David Copperfield but it had quite a bit of humor that I enjoyed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chepyl Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Stuart Little and A Dog Called kitty. I finished all three Hunger Games books in a week and then had to get through recital. This week I will pick back up with Total Truth, I plan to start Pilgrim's Progress. I am looking for a fun book for me....but nothing has caught my interest yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakia Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I read The Custom of the Army, Diana Gabaldon's new novella, yesterday. It was just ok. :/ Now I'm reading Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. I'm only a few chapters in, but I don't know if I'm going to like it. I picked up The Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin at Goodwill last week. I'm itching to read it, but I wanted to read the other one first since I checked it out from the library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissKNG Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 The Love Dare by Stephen Kendrick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Finishing Quiet, finishing reading The Great Brain to the kids, listening to Goblet of Fire in the car with the kids, and about halfway through Insurgent, which is okay so far, but I'm not sure if I like it as much as Divergent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonshineLearner Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Reasons for Our Hope: An Introduction to Christian Apologetics I haven't often actually finished a book my dad has written, after all, I have him around :) But, I'm planning to finish this one... ;) I started it yesterday, when we had no internet. Funny how much time you have when there's no tv, netflix, WTM threads...etc... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Rat Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I just finished Matched by Ally Condie. For all you Hunger Games fans, check it out. I really liked it! Out loud we're reading The Serpent's Shadow by Rick Riordan. It's his new one in the Kane Chronicles (Egypt). Ds9 is finishing up the first book in the Uglies series. Ds9 is reading the third How to Train Your Dragon book aloud to me. :) I'm going to start a new Carl Hiaasen mystery tonight if the library doesn't have the next Ally Condie book waiting for me. I requested it 2 whole days ago. Geez! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forget-Me-Not Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 re-reading Sense and Sensibility. . . when I can keep my eyes open to read. This pregnancy and the accompanying all-day sickness are kicking my butt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenangelcat Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Just finished Insurgent and now I'm reading Game of Thrones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I just finished the last book in the Flanigan series by Karen Kingsbury and it annoyed me somewhat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in TX Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder and A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in TX Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I just finished the second book in the Melanie Middleton mystery series by Karen White (The House on Tradd Street is first, The Girl on Legare Street is second). I'm currently waiting for the third--The Strangers on Montagu Street--to come from the library. Total fluff, but I'm hooked :D I'm also in the middle of The Entitlement Trap, a parenting book. Oh, and Moby Dick, which I'm actually REALLY enjoying! I fullly expected to hate Moby Dick, but when I read it last year I absolutely loved it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erica in OR Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson. Erica in OR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Pure by Julianna Baggott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heart_Mom Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I'm reading through the Storytime books from the curriculum that my son will be doing this year. (He'll be doing Heart of Dakota's Preparing Hearts for His Glory and doing all the reading independently.) They're quite interesting books! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen in PA Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I am reading Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer. With the kids, I'm reading the second Mysterious Benedict Society book -- we will finish it tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Anna Karenina. Also just read Ella Enchanted for younger dd's book group, and have to start Dracula for older dds' book group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmiraGulch Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Jeneration X by Jennifer Lancaster, and Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum by Chantal Sicile-Kira. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butter Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan. I'm rereading the first two Kane Chronicles and then I'll read the new one. I finished reading Criss Cross earlier today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder and A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth The first is already on my Nook waiting to be read, the second will be added soon. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jar7709 Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 With DS: The Long Winter. Wow, that was a *really* long winter, for real. The thing feels like it is taking forever. With DD: Kenny and the Dragon. For family time: Ragweed and Unbuilding. For myself, I'm reading The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman and Searching for Yellowstone by Paul Schullery. Oh, and also Attack of the Smart Pies, which DS assigned me to read. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renee in NC Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Financial Accounting and Reporting Aren't I the party animal!:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Free Range Kids. Finally ;). The most protective father I know recommended it to me over the weekend so I had to pick it up today. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamagirl Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I'm reading The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler, bought it at Goodwill a few weeks ago...so far, it's just so-so, hasn't sucked me in yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I am switching back and forth between Personal Demon by Kelley Armstrong; Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levinson; and today started Heroine of the Titanic: The real unsinkable Molly Brown by Elaine Landau. We are nearly done with Call of the Wild audio book as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kathy_overman Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I just finished The Masterwork of a Painting Elephant and LOVED it. http://www.amazon.com/Masterwork-Painting-Elephant-Michelle-Cuevas/dp/0374348545/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337731070&sr=8-1 Now, I am trying to get through Unbroken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petepie2 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I love read aloud time. We are working through the Gregor series (Suzanne Collins), Basher: Human Body, and Alice in Quantumland. Alice in Quantumland brings back some memories! I read that book in college. :) I'm reading Gulliver's Travels and Feminine Threads: Women in the Tapestry of Christian History. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathryn Posted May 23, 2012 Author Share Posted May 23, 2012 In answer to my own question, I'm reading BFSU and "The Orthodox Church" by Timothy Ware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughing lioness Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Technopoly by Postman and another Lord Peter Wimsey by Dorothy Sayers; Murder Must Advertise. Cheaper by the Dozen as a read-aloud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyNellen Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Jane Eyre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwallowTail Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I am reading A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and The Gift of Dyslexia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tristangrace Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Just finished The Man Who Was Thursday, by GK Chesterton this afternoon. The Mysterious Benedict Society, by Trenton Lee Stewart. Liturgical Theology, by Simon Chan (though I'm not sure I can still count this! It's great, but I've kinda stalled out . . .) The Water's Lovely, by Ruth Rendell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WistfulRidge Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Just finished The Scottish Prisoner (Diana Gabaldon) this afternoon. Next up is Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut), though I probably won't actually start it until tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fischerl Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I almost always read classics or non-fiction, but I browsed Pioneer Woman's "Black Heels to Tractor Wheels" the other day at B/N, then got it from the library to finish it. Hilarious and just a sweet read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen in CO Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I'm reading Overthrow by Kinzer. It is on my ds's reading list for a class he's taking about the history of Superpower America. I love it when he starts a new semester because he sends me his reading list which gives us new books to talk about together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Michelle* Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Next up is Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut), though I probably won't actually start it until tomorrow. That's what I'm starting tonight. What I should be reading is Montaigne's Essays, but I'm hugely pregnant and tired and cranky and I don't feel like it. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Right now I am most of the way through Orthodoxy by Chesterton, and I've got a garden book on the go as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acablue Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Tonight, I'll be pre-reading a few books for my oldest, but I'm right in the middle of A Storm of Swords and Stephen Fry's The Hippopotamus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth Ooh. There's a book I'd love to read again for the first time. One of my favorites ever. I used to give it to people as gifts and enjoy seeing the look on their faces that I said this 1000+ page Indian novel was a "quick read." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melbotoast Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 The Mysteries of Udolpho. :001_smile: I've always wanted to read it after seeing it referenced in Northanger Abbey, and I found it for free on Kindle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieB Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I am reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (enjoying this one though I find the plethora of Swedish surnames confusing at times) and The Hobbit (to discuss with one dc; trudging through this one). And the current read-aloud is The Children of the New Forest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebunny Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 What I talk about when I talk about Running- Haruki Murakami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissel Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I fullly expected to hate Moby Dick, but when I read it last year I absolutely loved it! I did too, and was so surprised at how easily I got caught up in it. I was expecting a slog on the level of Don Quixote (uuuuuugggghhhhhh--four attempts and I'm still not even close), but it has been a pleasure to read. I'll admit I struggle with classics (even Austen :blush:), but this one has been easy--not at all what I expected based on the discussion here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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