I'm glad I'm not the only one who cried during the beginning of The Lovely Bones. It definitely got a bit weird towards the end, but I'm very excited about the movie

1/9/2010 2:54:32 PM

I cried at the beginning, but not the end.

1/9/2010 6:36:30 PM

ya the fourth harry potter book was pretty damn awesome, quidditch is still stupid

ima take a break and go back to non fiction before i continue reading the harry potter series

i also wish i read them before i saw the movies, that percy jackson movie looks pretty interesting, maybe ill try reading the book before/if i see the movie

1/9/2010 7:46:36 PM

1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
3. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I am going to try to read Running With Scissors, Kite Runner. But for now I think I'm going to be rereading some books. Unless my school library has any of those books.

1/9/2010 7:50:06 PM

Quote :

"I was just asking the people who said they hated reading fiction or that it was pointless "

Oh, I guess I didn't read your post that well. I thought you were quoting those people because you agreed with them.

1/10/2010 10:57:26 AM

I'm up to four books now.

The blind side and 3 Nicholas sparks novels.

For some reason, I get started on an author - and I want to read all the books they've written

I might do kite runner next.

1/10/2010 10:59:59 AM

^^ no worries! that is exactly how I assumed you read it after I saw your response. The majority of what I read is fiction. I certainly read some non-fiction and I enjoy historical books (military strategy, weapons, musical biographies etc.) but it only makes up probably 20% of what I read.

I just have never understand how people can say fiction books serve no purpose, and then go off and do something like play PS3 for 3 hours. (And I enjoy video games too, but I think you know what I'm saying). They either A) don't have a big enough imagination or B) are too afraid to admit they don't enjoy reading.

[Edited on January 10, 2010 at 11:39 AM. Reason : ]

1/10/2010 11:31:37 AM

What I'd Say to the Martians: And Other Veiled Threats by Jack Handey

next:

Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman

1/10/2010 1:26:44 PM

After I finish the book I am on now, I think I might dive into Lewis Caroll's "Adventures of Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" before I move onto the sequel to my current book. They are both very short, and my wife's thesis was based on those two books so I feel like I should read them

1/11/2010 10:26:39 AM

Dur, after glancing at this thread again, I made a misnomer. Should read "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

1/11/2010 11:11:29 AM

why is kite runner just now getting so popular, the movies 2 years old and the book is even older


the movie was really good btw so i'll prolly read the bpook this year too

1/11/2010 11:12:56 AM

Books go through phases I've noticed.

Especially when you get in communities that share a lot of things. Like at Lutheridge there would be some books that would get really popular over the summer there but not be popular other places yet, or be kinda old other places and be popular there.

Basically you see someone reading a book and ask if it's good, they say it is and you should read it, you will then either borrow the book from them or buy it yourself.

That's what happened with me and Kite Runner, people were reading it a lot this summer and everyone wanted to read it.

Also The Unlikely Disciple, that's a good book, it's about a guy that goes to Brown University and then transfers to Liberty "under cover" and writes a book about it...saps, if you're getting into books that deal with religious stuff now (looking at your list) you would probably like that book.

1/11/2010 11:56:07 AM

I thought the Kite Runner was popular a few years ago, hadn't heard anything about it recently until someone mentioned it on here.

1/11/2010 12:10:52 PM

^^ive read about that book and wanted to read it, thanks for reminding me

mainly my immediate interest is in early christian history and christian apologists, but i do wanna read that book too

1/11/2010 1:53:11 PM

just finished My Sister's Keeper. didn't cry until the last few pages. I might hold off on reading anymore tear jerkers for awhile. EMCE keeps making fun of me.

1/11/2010 10:16:14 PM

i have already failed at this, maybe ill double up?

1/11/2010 10:46:09 PM

I wouldn't worry too much about the # of books per year or a hard and fast rule of a book a week. There are certainly plenty of books worth reading that take more than a week when you have a full time job and other obligations.

1/11/2010 11:04:00 PM

Almost finished reading my first book of the year:

1/12/2010 4:09:59 AM

What I'd Say to the Martians: And Other Veiled Threats by Jack Handey
Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman

next:
I, Fatty: a novel by Jerry Stahl

1/13/2010 6:29:55 PM

I have a goal to read more than 2 books this year...... I just ordered:



Next will be:

1/13/2010 6:34:58 PM

^ How was A Piece of Cake? That is a pretty cover...and yes I only pick books by how they look, so go ahead and judge me!

Finished

1. The Other Woman....Jane Green
2. You Could Do Better....Stephanie Lehmann

Also, from these titles it looks like I just got cheated on which is wrong....I just pick nonsense chick lit to read!

1/16/2010 11:04:02 PM

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2. The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus

1/17/2010 10:30:24 PM

since jan 1...

(the first bunch are all vampire. i wanted to see what the twilight craze was all ab and was pretty disappointed. i thought it sucked. however, i very thoroughly enjoy the sookie stackhouse series by charlaine harris (hbo's true blood is based on the series) i'm not done with them yet but im darn close and im sad its ending!)

finished

1. twilight by stephenie meyer


2. new moon by stephenie meyer


3. dead as a doornail - book 5 by charlaine harris


4. definitely dead - book 6 by charlaine harris


5. all together dead - book 7 by charlaine harris


in progress (do tour books count? lol i do intend to read most of it)

6. under the dome by stephen king (its on the ereader, will be reading it for awhile)


7. frommers hawaii from $80 a day by jeanette foster


8. frommers kauai by jeanette foster


in the library/bookshelf queue in no particular order

9. tokyo vice: an american reporter on the police beat in japan by jake adelstein (still need to get my paws on this... will buy if i cant find a free way to read it)


10. eclipse by stephenie meyer (not looking forward to it but already bought it with the first two. will not be reading the last one, breaking dawn)


11. what the dog saw by malcom gladwell


12. shoptimism by lee eisenberg


13. think & grow rich by napoleon hill


14. memoirs of a geisha by arthur golden


15. lost on planet china by j. maarten troost


16. lord of the flies by william golding (never read it in school, has always been on my long list of books to read)


17. fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury (again, never read in school, on the long list)


18. from dead to worse - book 8 by charlaine harris


19. dead and gone - book 9 by charlaine harris


20. a touch of dead - series of sookie stackhouse short stories by charlaine harris


21. dead in the family - book 10 by charlaine harris (due out in may, will have to wait a little for this one)


22. waiter rant by steve dublanica


23. the lovely bones by alice sebold


24. dear john by nicholas sparks


well, that everything on my list right now. its kind of fluid and changes pretty often but it will help keep me on track with whats on my list

1/18/2010 5:36:34 PM

wish i had time to sit around and read

actually, id settle for time to sit down

1/18/2010 6:42:50 PM

lol

1/18/2010 6:44:15 PM

you're never too busy to get what you want

i enjoy reading and i make time for it. simple as that. i also read pretty fast so i can finish a book in a day or two pretty easily

i also spend a lot of time on airplanes & when i do the stairmaster at the gym i just read the whole time anyway. 2 birds 1 stone yo

[Edited on January 18, 2010 at 6:52 PM. Reason : sdkjfkdfj]

1/18/2010 6:52:20 PM

Quote :

"^ How was A Piece of Cake? That is a pretty cover...and yes I only pick books by how they look, so go ahead and judge me!"

Oh don't feel bad, that's pretty much only how I pick my books. And so far, it has worked out wonderfully

Honestly, "A Piece of Cake" is the saddest book I've ever read - and that's topping Alice Sebold's memoir "Lucky" which had graphic details of her rape.

It's pretty much this woman's life story about how she was put into the foster system at age 11, abused, raped, turned her first trick at age 11, joined a gang, shot, etc etc etc. (Now she's a big time lawyer, crazy huh)

[Edited on January 18, 2010 at 6:57 PM. Reason : Even though it's sad, it's still funny... the woman has a great writing style]

1/18/2010 6:56:48 PM

Quote :

"you're never too busy to get what you want"

not always true

sometimes i get home from work so exhausted i pass out before i can jerk it

1/18/2010 6:57:41 PM

yeah, i disagree. maybe if youre settled in a groove.

but own a business, toss in a move and simple things like eating and sleeping get pushed aside.

1/18/2010 7:00:19 PM

^^ sounds wonderful. I love books about sad stuff....I especially love reading journals and diaries about drugs and stuff like that.

1/18/2010 11:07:07 PM

what do you like ab them?

1/18/2010 11:09:16 PM

^^i do too...that's my favorite kind of book for some reason

1/18/2010 11:19:00 PM

I am sucking it up on this challenge.

I'm still trying to get through The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls...it's very well written, it's just kinda slow for me. When I do finish I hope to pick up some faster reads so I can get back on track.

1/18/2010 11:19:53 PM

i read depressing books very very rarely

and any description or display of drug use beyond marijuana is highly disturbing to me. i cannot watch intervention without feeling ill

i guess im a big baby lol

1/18/2010 11:21:34 PM

^^I'm behind too...school started back and it screwed up my whole reading schedule.

^hmm, I guess it's personal taste...but for some reason I like books about horrifying ordeals people have been through.

1/18/2010 11:22:55 PM

just finished "The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death" by Charles Huston

It was ok but I don't know if I would seek out his next book like crack

1/19/2010 8:53:56 PM

dammit hoebag, dont post pictures of every book you own, nobody wants to scroll through that shit

1/19/2010 8:57:16 PM

adding one amazing thing by chitra banerjee divakaruni to my list

saw a write up in the usa today and it caught my eye

http://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Thing-Chitra-Banerjee-Divakaruni/dp/1401340997/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263952717&sr=8-2

Quote :

"Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an unexpected gift. An upper-class Caucasian couple whose relationship is disintegrating. A young Muslim-American man struggling with the fallout of 9/11. A graduate student haunted by a question about love. An African-American ex-soldier searching for redemption. A Chinese grandmother with a secret past. And two visa office workers on the verge of an adulterous affair. When an earthquake rips through the afternoon lull, trapping these nine characters together, their focus first jolts to their collective struggle to survive. There's little food. The office begins to flood. Then, at a moment when the psychological and emotional stress seems nearly too much for them to bear, the young graduate student suggests that each tell a personal tale, "one amazing thing" from their lives, which they have never told anyone before. And as their surprising stories of romance, marriage, family, political upheaval, and self-discovery unfold against the urgency of their life-or-death circumstances, the novel proves the transcendent power of stories and the meaningfulness of human expression itself. From Chitra Divakaruni, author of such finely wrought, bestselling novels as Sister of My Heart, The Palace of Illusions, and The Mistress of Spices, comes her most compelling and transporting story to date. One Amazing Thing is a passionate creation about survival--and about the reasons to survive."

feb 2 pub date

1/19/2010 9:00:21 PM

(1)

and

(2)

two down....50 to go

1/19/2010 9:38:07 PM

if oyu like krakauer you should read "under the banner of heaven"

1/19/2010 9:44:56 PM

Four down, 48 to go! So far:

1) He's Just Not That Into You
2) The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle
3) It's Not About The Bike, by Lance Armstrong
4) Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk

And now I'm 200 pages into The World is Flat, by Thomas Freeman.

Trying to branch out from True Crime, which is what I usually read.

1/19/2010 10:09:09 PM

Quote :

"BITCHES LOVE BOOKS"

1/19/2010 10:17:44 PM

Has anyone mentioned "Good In Bed" by Jennifer Wiener??? Excellent book if anyone is looking for some lighthearted sarcasm and good humor. It's the story of a witty fat girl...among other things.

1/19/2010 10:18:42 PM

Quote :

"i read depressing books very very rarely and any description or display of drug use beyond marijuana is highly disturbing to me. i cannot watch intervention without feeling ill i guess im a big baby lol"

You would absolutely hate "A Piece of Cake" then. This girl has gone through some ridiculousssss shit and here are the drugs (that I can remember) that she had taken by the time she 18 (most by the time she was 15):

cocaine, LSD, PCP (sherm), weed, crack, uppers (black beauties, yellow jackets, etc), acid, heroine

I feel like there's more that I'm forgetting

and Shawna/babycam: I totally understand where yall are coming from... I like sad books that are also funny

1/19/2010 11:22:40 PM

^*heroin

1/20/2010 12:25:18 AM

lololololol didn't notice that... she did the drug heroin, not a super girl

although she didn't have sex with girls for money

1/20/2010 8:35:03 AM

I haven't had much time with work, house hunting, and some random other endeavors. So far I still just have Lies of Locke Lamora and I'm counting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass as one "book"

1/20/2010 8:39:19 AM

thanks saps.....I am reading Killing Yourself to Live right now, then under the banner of heaven is next.

1/20/2010 9:59:04 AM

lucy, its not about the bike is REALLY good! if you haven't already bought it, i can mail you my copy for the cost of shipping if you're interested

also, i highly recommend the book alive. its a true story & just an incredible read

http://www.amazon.com/Alive-Seventy-two-Insurmountable-Odds-Adventure/dp/B000ECXDWQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264001063&sr=8-1

Quote :

"On October 12, 1972, an Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote snowy peaks of the Andes. Ten weeks later, only sixteen of the forty-five passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without food and with scarcely any hope of a rescue. The survivors protected and helped one another, and came to the difficult conclusion that to live meant doing the unimaginable. Confronting nature at its most furious, two brave young men risked their lives to hike through the mountains looking for help -- and ultimately found it."

1/20/2010 10:25:32 AM

set em up

1/20/2010 10:26:50 AM