what cha readin??

I've had an awful cold and, since work was slow, came home early. Didn't have anything new to read so started Wuthering Heights, an antique volume my Mom passed on to me. I've never read it before or seen any of the movies. Well. My my. Quite melodramatic and a bit stilted, but curiously engrossing. I don't think I like any of them, and they certainly don't behave very well!

a real classic!. I remember the production with a young and brooding Timothy Dalton playing Heathcliff. (Be still, my heart)

I've been trying to ceoncentrate on reading a bunch of fanzines I unearthed so I can bring them with me to Michigan and try to sell them off.. Used zines can be big business there. LOL. I try to buy as many of the ones i read used. It's lots cheaper

Hi jeane, I was just reading that the movie ONE FOR THE MONEY starring Katherine Heigl is coming out on DVD. I never realized that the movie was based on the Stephanie Plumb books. I know you like them

Little over halfway through Innocent Traitor.....about Lady Jane Grey. She was queen for only 9 days.

a friend gave me a few mysteries. I read The Cluttered Corpse by Mary Jane Maffini, part of a series about a professional organizer who solves murders on the side. it also gived decluttering tips. LOl I really need them

also read Let's Play dead (forgot the author's name. this one has the president of the Philadelphia Historical Society solvng murdes, this one is in a children's museum called let's Play. A nice pun there.

fiffur wrote:Little over halfway through Innocent Traitor.....about Lady Jane Grey. She was queen for only 9 days.

I read that! Very powerful book, I thought. Fictionalized, of course, because who knows what was said back and forth, but historically accurate, from all I've read; Alison Weir is a respected Tudor scholar. Thank you for reminding me of her, Fif. I want to read more of her books.

I once again ran out of book before I ran out of weekend, so took Catcher in the Rye off the shelf. I'd forgotten how raw and poignant it is, wrapped in Holden's barely maintained blase demeanor. I only read about a fifth of it; I don't think I'll read any more just now. It's just too painful.

I started a regency I picked up on a freebie table at the con, then realized it was one I had already read with a different cover., but I'd already gotten into it again so will finish and not just put it aside

finished the regency, then read 1125 Christmas tree lane by Debbie McComber, the final book in her cedar Grove series.
I'm now reading The MacGregor Brides by Norah Roberts

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fiffur wrote:Little over halfway through Innocent Traitor.....about Lady Jane Grey. She was queen for only 9 days.

I read that! Very powerful book, I thought. Fictionalized, of course, because who knows what was said back and forth, but historically accurate, from all I've read; Alison Weir is a respected Tudor scholar. Thank you for reminding me of her, Fif. I want to read more of her books.

I'm reading her story "The Life of Elizabeth I". It picks up where the Lady Elizabeth book left off.

I hate driving to and from work, about a 25 minute drive -- it's so boring! I finally figured out that books on tape are the answer. I've been listening to non-fiction books I don't have the patience to read on my cosy weekend reading afternoons -- I want mysteries and fiction for those times. But non-fiction is perfect for the car. I just finished The Orchid Thief, the book that sparked the movie Adaptation. It was informative, engaging and very entertaining.

I read Games of Thrones and Clash of Kings again and both are by George R.R. Martin. I got the books for my birthday and my parents still don't know that I bought the electronic versions of said books last year when I had a gift card. I started to read Exile by R.A Salvatore yesterday.

just started reading a book I picked up in Michigan (for free)The Gilded Web, a regency by Mary Balogh

I was looking at the books in Duane Reade today...and I discovered these books:

http://www.humanesociety.org/news/news/2012/04/penguin_read_humane_043012.html


I didn't buy any of them but that is a great campaign...and those books look good.

Fire Flower wrote:I was looking at the books in Duane Reade today...and I discovered these books:

http://www.humanesociety.org/news/news/2012/04/penguin_read_humane_043012.html


I didn't buy any of them but that is a great campaign...and those books look good.

That looks like a great campaign! And some likely book reads for our reading lists, too.

I finished reading Exile today. It may be awhile before I start reading another book.

finished the balogh and read two "Light" romances which I got at the Book Expo (autographed)
Donovan's Child by Christine Rimmer and A Mother's Homecoming by Tanja Michaels , both are RITA nominees

Now reading a library castoff called The Italian's Rags-toRiches_Wife. by Julia James. Where do they come up with some of these titles? LOL

finished the italian. now reading another library cast off with another stupid name
Wedlocked:Banished Sheikh, Untouched Queen !!!!!!!

I know Jeane really likes the Ender books. I just heard they are making a movie of Ender's Game starrung Harrison Ford

I did find out months ago that the local library has ebooks and downloadable audio books. I checked out It by Stephen King as a ebook.

I'm re-reading Barbara Rogan books at the moment. They are VERY good. As for my car "reading" (books on tape, er, CD) I'm listening to Alan Alda's autobiography, read by the man himself. Apparently there are 2, and this is the first. I've been a MASH fan 40 years (or however long it's been), but I had NO IDEA of Alda's upbringing. A burlesque trunk baby? A schizophrenic mother? Taught by nuns? Oy, who knew? Needless to say, it's fascinating.

read a few more stupid named romances. LOL
Currently reading another book thrown out by Duane Reade
Adam:Nightwalkers by Jacquelen Frank . prt of her Nightwalkers sries. Vampires, demons, werewolves., oh my

finished Adam and picked up a book I ordered from the library, one of the dragonriders of Pern books
this one is Dragons Time by Anne and Todd Maccaffry. read it yesterday. It was okay, but same old same old, back and forward in time to save the weyrs again. I'll still order the sequel, though

now reading The Memory Orb, a fan novel featuring characters from The Sentinel, Stsargate SG1 and the Shadow Chasers

I read a couple of cozy mysteries my friend gave me, one is a crochet theme, the woman who solves the murder is a member of a crochet group . she also works at a bookstore where the group meets, and in this book is in charge of a "creative retreat" run by the book shop, that offers workshops in crochet, knitting, creative writing, tai chi, and some other stuff, The woman who is supposed to be giving the crochet workshops is murdered.
they include some crochet directions and recipes at the back
the other book is an embrodery theme. the woman sleuth has just opened up an embrodery shop and someone from the opening party is found dead in her storeroom the next day

I also read the Lost Hero by Rick Riordin, book number one in his new Heroes of Olympus series (a continuation of the Percy Jackson series