Robin M Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Calling all readers. We haven't done a what's on your nightstand in a while. So what books are sitting in your tbr pile waiting to be read. What did you finish this month and what did you think about it. What are you planning on reading. How about some pictures. 52 books participants can post at the 52 books blog or link to their blogs. Everyone else: What are you reading? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudoMom Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I finished Against Medical Advice last week. I also finished Stroke of Insight recently. Both were interesting. I'm in the middle of Ibid: A Novel, Respectable Sins, and Don't Waste Your Life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yslek Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I am currently reading The Road to Serfdom by Hayek. I have a Stella Gibbons novel to read after that. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E_Edgerton Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 A Spot of Brother by Mark Haddon, Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn, Shopgirl by Steve Martin. My Dh and I have also been reading aloud to each other bits of The Man-Eaters of Tsavo by John Henry Patterson. I don't recommend reading this many books at once...it makes for strange dreams, but life is short and I love reading.:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paisley Hedgehog Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crissy Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Here is my list of books read so far this year. Today I am starting A Pig in Provence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I just started re-reading the entire Chronicles of Narnia series (a friend gave it to me for my birthday Saturday). I just finished The Other Boleyn Girl. I liked it much better than A Rose for the Crown which I started in November and still haven't finished. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I haven't updated my book a week thing yet. I've read the first four in the Mitch Rapp series, Transfer of Power, Separation of Power, The Third Option and all but the last 3 chapters of Executive Power. I think that is them in order. And I started the first two chapters of The De Vinci Code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth in SW WA Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 The Odyssey (Fagles trans) 1776 (McCullough) I'm taking twaddle on my vacation next week!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1bassoon Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 just finished Emma (first reading ever!) About to dive back in reading Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth in Central TX Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Here's my list to read so far: Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life by Margaret Kim Peterson Self Talk, Soul Talk by Jennifer Rothschild Know Why You Believe: Connecting Fatih & Reason by Paul E. Little Know Who You Believe: The Magnificent Connection by Paul E. Little Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionfamily1999 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I've read, "The Man Who Was Thursday" and tried to read it a second time, but just couldn't do it. I also read, "The Husband" by Dean Koontz, good book ;) Oh, and a Patricia Cornwell book..... but I forgot the title and if I start digging through the pile of books next to my bed I may not escape... I'm reading, Dean Koontz "Velocity" right now :) Next month will be "Snow Falling on Cedars" and whatever junk novels I pick up :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellifera Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 The Great Cat Massacre. This is actually a book about 1750's France. It's quite good if you speak French. The author likes to quote French sayings and not translate a lot. Notes on a Small Island - Bill Bryson I'm getting ready to start some more soon, but I haven't picked them out yet.;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Literally *on my nightstand, or the so-called "to be read" pile that's scattered around my nightstand, dresser, loft railing, desk, coffee table and bookshelf? :tongue_smilie: Life of Pi, The Hypothyroid Sourcebook, and Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools are the ones I'm really trying to get to. I'm reading The Magician's Nephew with the girls, and I've been flipping through Jabberwocky and Other Poems. I SHOULD be reading my Psychology and Algebra books b/c I keep telling myself I'm going to take the CLEP tests! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritAnnia Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I started Fingersmith by Sarah Waters last night and am enjoying it already. I also have two others that I started but haven't read more than a page or two these past few weeks. Dead as a Scone by Ron Benrey (supposed to be a cozy mystery... it's so cozZzzzy it's putting me to sleep Zzz :closedeyes: and The Darling Buds of May by HE Bates which is little more than lots of eating and lots of Pa saying the word "perfick". ) My TBR pile is my 999 Challenge list, which is posted on the sidebar of my blog. http://marginallyme.blogspot.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I just finished Pride and Prejudice a couple of nights ago and started Oliver Twist. I'm avoiding picking The Iliad back up. :glare: I've also made it to book 3 in Livy's The Early History of Rome I-V. I just needed a little break from all the tribunes and revolts and uprisings and fighting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pqr Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 In progress: Affair of the Poisons - Somerset Korsum Pocket - Zetterling Flashman on the March - Fraser Stalin and his Hangmen -Rayfield Beyond the Khyber Pass - Waller More Guns Less Crime - Lott In the hopper: Lost Victories - mannerheim Eleanor of Aquitaine - Weir My Grandfather's Son -Thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amira Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I am currently reading Salt: A World History I have waiting: Tender at the Bone Foreign Correspondence March Mornings on Horseback Banker to the Poor In Search of Islamic Feminism Serve the People This month I read: Pomegranate Soup- good The Heretic's Daughter- meh Driving Over Lemons -great Persepolis 2- good The Swallows of Kabul- good The Hundred Secret Senses- good Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper- excellent The Spice Merchant's Daughter- good Persepolis- great The Hunger Games- great Near a Thousand Tables- good The Joy Luck Club- great Book of a Thousand Days- good The Goose Girl- good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athena1277 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I finished reading "Villette" by Charlotte Bronte last week. It was pretty good, but I struggle sometimes to get what the exact point of her novels are. This morning I finished "Twilight". I had to see what the big deal was about. It seems like it should be a silly teenager book, but it is not. It has an intensity about it that is hard to resist. My next book will be the next in the Twilight saga, if a friend of mine remembers to bring it to Bible class tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slug hollow Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 On my nightstand there are 7 books. The 2 I'm actively reading are Don Quixote (Trans: Edith Grossman) and A History of the Ancient World. Recently finished: Dune (for the umpteenth time) Current read aloud: The Hobbit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyDay Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 To Serve the President by Patterson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frelle Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I am reading Parent's Guide to Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism by Ozoloff Passionate Housewives Desperate for God by Stacey MacDonald and Jennie Chancey When the Brain Can't Hear by Teri Bellis Esther by Dee Brestin (sunday school bible study) I have recently read: The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer Echo in the Darkness books 1 and 2 by Francine Rivers Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin Raising a Sensory Smart Child by by Lindsey Biel Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World by Joanne Weaver (sunday school bible study) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laylamcb Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 On the nightstand, currently reading: The Chronological Bible Frankenstein Tanglewood Tales (aloud) The Story of Doctor Dolittle (aloud) On the nightstand, about to begin: The Man Who Was Thursday The Good Earth Pharaohs on Ancient Egypt (aloud) The Golden Goblet (aloud) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamnkats Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I don't believe in heaven, but if I did, it would be ala Twilight Zone with the guy who survives a nuclear blast at a library. Well, except about the part where he crushes his reading glasses. :( To have unlimited supply of English language books would be my heaven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhonda in TX Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I'm enjoying Little Women more than the other. :) My TBR pile? Goodness. Too tall to even think about. The last book I read was Deconstructing Penguins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendi Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Just finished The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman. Excellent! Waiting to be read: Bellwether by Connie Willis Here, There Be Dragons by James A. Owen Interred with Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka See You in a Hundred Years by Logan Ward Wendi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle T Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 loving it! I loved "Marley and Me" too, even though it made me cry. Michelle T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2a&z Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I'm reading: Dangerous Surrender by Kay Warren The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton The Well Educated Mind Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck To Be Read: Twilight Series Same Kind of Different as Me (my church book club) Bon Appetit by Sandra Byrd Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza Don Quixote Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson No pressure or anything :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Currently reading Spook by Mary Roach. Next in the pile: Killing the Imposter God by Donna Freitas & Jason King More Harm than God by Alan Zelicoff & Michael Bellomo Harry, A History by Melissa Anelli Also reading tons of books on Golden Retrievers and dog training. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I finished Against Medical Advice last week. I also finished Stroke of Insight recently. Both were interesting. B Both of these are on my list for this year. Glad to hear they were interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Governess Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Right now I'm reading To Kill a Mockingbird to dh. And I'm 3/4 of the way through Don Quixote. After those, I think it's time for some light reading. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest janainaz Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I just started A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. My dh read it and was driving me nuts talking about, so I thought I'd read it so I could understand his thoughts. I also just received in the mail Fearless Living by Rhonda Britten. That one's next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I'm reading The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop. It's a good read. I also just read Nine Days a Queen about Lady Jane Grey - it's a junior book, but I found it quite interesting. Not sure what I'll read next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFP Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 My latest book stack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margaret in GA Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Reading: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (somehow I missed this one growing up and I'm really enjoying it now). Just read: Twilight Books, March -geraldine brooks, Age of Innocence (e wharton) Margaret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvbnhome Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Love & Respect Covenant - (k.arthur) Respectable Sins Lord Heal My Hurts (k.arthur) Microbiology textbook - I'm taking a class :) Grace-Based Parenting Celebration of Discipline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vida Winter Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I'm pre-reading The Bronze Bow so I can discuss it with my daughter in a couple of weeks. I'm also doing a lot of reading for Classical Writing/Older Beginners, so I can attempt to (competently) teach it. Not a lot of time for much else, I'm afraid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Herbal Healing for Women The Male Herbal Herbal Antibiotics The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook Sacred and Healing Beers Nutritional Herbology (huh. there seems to be a pattern forming. :D) Oh, and the Financial Peace workbook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 I don't believe in heaven, but if I did, it would be ala Twilight Zone with the guy who survives a nuclear blast at a library. Well, except about the part where he crushes his reading glasses. :( Yes, that was a sobering episode! To have unlimited supply of English language books would be my heaven. I enjoy that type of book, too. I just finished Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Punchier, More Engaging Language & Style by Arthur Plotnik. Other books read recently include: 1001 Books for Every Mood: A Bibliophile's Guide to Unwinding, Misbehaving, Forgiving, Celebrating, Commiserating by Hallie Ephron -- a great source for new books to read! Lulu in Marrakech by Diane Johnson -- I read this for my book group but found it only ho-hum I'm finishing, and enjoying, Cast in Fury (Chronicles of Elantra, Book 4) by Michelle Sagara Just brought home from the library: The Imperfect Homeschooler's Guide to Homeschooling: A 20-Year Homeschool Veteran Reveals How to Teach Your Kids, Run Your Home and Overcome the Inevitable Challenges of the Homeschooling Life by Barbara Frank and Susan Wise Bauer's The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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