What Are You Reading in 2010?

[Lyn]

Thought I had better update my list..

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Personal:

The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
The Bridge to Holy Cross by Paullina Simons
The Summer Garden by Paullina Simons
All Harry Potters (again)
Beadle of the Bard by JK Rowling
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Portaits in Sepia by Isabel Allende
Ensign (monthly )
New Era (monthly)
Twilight series (if I have time)

Scripture Study:

Old Testament (for Sunday School)
Book of Mormon (for Seminary)
Becoming a Great Gospel Teacher by Rob Eaton and Mark Beecher
Christ and the New Covenant by Jeffrey R. Holland

Book Club:

Feb - The Rice Mother by Rani Manika - read it in Nov
March - The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff - finished it last night

April -The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
May - The Séance by John Harwood
June - Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
July - The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
Aug - The Zoo Keepers Wife by Diane Ackerman
Sept- Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Oct- The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
Nov - The Best of Times by Penny Vincenzi
Dec -The Better Woman by Ber Carroll

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Savor the Moment--Nora Roberts
Third in the Brides Quartet, this was a disappointing read. Overall I'm enjoying the series, but this book was just OK. The overarching story arc is fun and interesting, but these two characters had all the chemistry of water and chicken broth. Some good moments, and very readable, but overall pretty ho-hum.

[EmilyD]

Update: May 5, 2010
Very sad *shakes head*
I have a really hard time reading anymore, not exactly sure why.
I think the puter has ruined me *sigh*
Need to do something about that ...

Finished
Various levels of partway read
Grafton used to never last over a week in my house without getting read.

For Jan:
U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton for my mystery fiction. She is a series author whom?I have read all the rest of her books, Have not started it yet, but will soon.

The Red Heart by James Alexander Thom is my regular fiction choice. I am about half way through it now. It took me a little while to get warmed up on it, but now it is getting really interesting. This book is about a pre-Revolutionary War young girl, stolen away from her parents by the Deleware Indians and raised in kind "captivity". She was "adopted" by an Indian woman who's daughter and husband had been killed by whites. Later, the "mother" sends her to her parents during military raids. The "mother" is then killed in a raid so the grandparents raise her. All this is going on in the foreground as the "birth" family is searching for her in the background.

I find this book to be very factual as I know history. It is also very readable. I read his book, Follow the River, and found this book to be every bit as good as the first.

Thin is the New Happy by Valerie Frankel my non-fiction choice. I have read bits and pieces from it and am sure it will be readable when I get to it.

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I just returned from the book store with three new finds:

Living Oprah by Robin Okrant (a memoir). Quite frankly, I almost didn't pick this book up. I have the 2 other books that this book is a take off of. Both are religiously based and I feared a "bashing" book. However, after reading several excerpts from it, I decided to purchase it. It is based an a year of her using Oprah shows, magazine, .com, and another Oprah source that I haven't heard of to "discover" her real-self. The places where I read (I generally choose a book by opening at random pages and seeing how easily it reads and I comprehend). I found many things that grabbed my interest immediatly. More on it later.

The Coupon Mom's Guide to Cutting your Grocery Bills in Half by Stephanie Nelson. It looks like a good book .. will report back in later on what I have learned.

Start Over, Finish Rich by David Bach. This is also a non-fiction book written by a serial writer about obtaining riches through sensible living and wise use of your money. I have read a couple of his books before and enjoyed them. This book is about getting "back on track" in 2010. Will let you know about it later also.

So I am set for this month on non-fiction.

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The four dailies are all non-fiction: Never made it past Jan on any of these.
Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Year to Success by Bo Bennett
First Ladies Fact Book by Bill Harris
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson compiled by Thomas Johnson

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Infamous--Suzanne Brockmann
I am a big fan of much of her writing, and have cheerfully devoured many, many of her books...but I can't recommend this one at all.

AJ's great-great grandfather, a legendary gunfighter, is back, and haunting him. He wants AJ to set his story straight with the historian that wrote a book about the legendary gun battle and the "hero" that everyone knows about. It's got likable, characters and an interesting premise, but that's about where she lost me.

1. She's always had a strong political point of view, but parts of this book read like rants--almost as if she's stepped out of the story to say "oh, and by the way...and that's not the only thing...." It gets tiresome, and it completely disrupts the flow of the story.

2. This book has the most random suspense plot ever. It is only thinly related to the main plot of the book, and for most of the book makes no sense whatsoever.

3. She delves into the supernatural by adding a ghost...but then has him break out of the third person storyline to speak to the reader in first person. It left me confused more than once, and was jarring every time it happened. The ghost also spends a ridiculous amount of time eavesdropping on the bad guys, which is quite dull.

The Search--Nora Roberts

Fiona Bristow, owner and trainer of search and rescue dogs, lives and works on Orcas Island. The sole survivor of a serial killer years before, she is now the prime target of his copycat. Simon Doyle, a grouchy, solitary wood artist with a puppy who will eat any-and-everything comes seeking her help.

I liked that this was set up here in my neck of the woods--it was fun to read about that. The plot was good, the main characters interesting, and overall it was a pretty good read. I was a little disappointed in the secondary characters this time--she normally has great secondary characters, and this time they were very forgettable overall. As always, her dialogue is fun, funny, and doesn't bog down.

One thing bugged me as a local. I live next to (not ON) a lake that she references as being a place that a police officer had a "weekend cabin." Technically it's a lake that's about 30 minutes outside Seattle, but we're in a huge suburb, next to one of the biggest computer companies in the world. The houses down on that lake are not "weekend cabins" that are owned by police officers. Even the small "fixer" houses on that lake come in close to a cool million.

[Lyn]

Thought I had better update my list..

= read
= reading

Personal:
The Candy shop War by Brandon Mull
The 5th book in the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull
Sunday at Tiffany's by James Patterson

The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
The Bridge to Holy Cross by Paullina Simons
The Summer Garden by Paullina Simons
All Harry Potters (again)
Beadle of the Bard by JK Rowling
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Portaits in Sepia by Isabel Allende
Ensign (monthly )
New Era (monthly)
Twilight series (if I have time)

Scripture Study:

Old Testament (for Sunday School)
Book of Mormon (for Seminary)
Becoming a Great Gospel Teacher by Rob Eaton and Mark Beecher
Christ and the New Covenant by Jeffrey R. Holland

Book Club:

Feb - The Rice Mother by Rani Manika
March - The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
April -The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
May - The Séance by John Harwood
June - Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
July - The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
Aug - The Zoo Keepers Wife by Diane Ackerman
Sept- Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Oct- The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
Nov - The Best of Times by Penny Vincenzi
Dec -The Better Woman by Ber Carroll