sitzy

Did you like the Hunger games and catching fire and Mocking Jay. I read them too Right after I read the Girl with the
Dragon tatoo and the other two books. I like the triolgy books.

Ladyjanedoe

I started "Fiery Cross" by Gabaldon but it bored me to tears. I liked the others in the series but this one is SLOW. So, I started the new Stephen King (11/22/63 ) and it's very good. I'm listening to "The Good House" by Tananarive Due and it is awesome-- I can't listen when anyone is around because I'm too afraid someone with inadvertently come up behind me and give me a heart attack. It's really, really spooky!

gzuslivz

Right now I am reading The Red Thread by Ann Hood. It's really good.

lovelyl

Loved the Hunger Games trilogy!!!!!!!!!!!

Ladyjanedoe

I really liked the first one but the second one was underwhelming. I'm still debating #3.

Lisanne

Yesterday, I finished Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks. If you don't recognize his name, he's the physician who wrote Awakenings, which was made into the movie. This book is the journal he kept on his trip to Oaxaca, Mexico. The trip was a tour for fern enthusiasts, so there is a certain amount of discussion of the ferns there and different types of ferns, but they also saw the ruins of some major ancient Zapotec cities and experienced modern-day Oaxaca as well. Yes, it's an intellectual group, and Sacks is himself a perceptive and reflective person, so many of the things they all talked about are academic, perhaps highbrow for some tastes. He is a great writer, so even when I wasn't as interested in a certain topic, he kept me reading. Overall, it's a very gentle, calming book to read. It left me with several things I looked up on the web afterwards - so it was thought-provoking, too.

Right now I'm reading a post-apocalypse science fiction novel called Faraday's Children. I bought it a few years back and hadn't read it. Now I'm a good way in. A natural phenomenon, something to do with a shift in magnetic fields, has caused floods and radiation. Some cities had enclosed themselves in domes, and two of these survived. Outside the domes, almost everyone died, though there are a few families who moved into tunnels, radiation-afflicted wanderers called Rangers and some farmer types called Aggies. The main character is a guy who flies his dad's old helicopter, a mail route between the Pittsburgh dome and a reclaimed dome in Erie, PA. He's been wanting more, to do some exploring, and the city officials finally grant him the permission to do so. So he's on his first trade and exploratory trip as the book starts.

Sandra in Minnesota

I am currently reading "The Help". Also saw the movie.

nativetexan

I finally got Russka by Rutherfurd onto my Kindle Keyboard and am reading it now. I read it years ago but like his writing. Sarum is another of his, about an area in England. He starts from almost the beginning of time to the present/

NancyBelly

The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs. It's quite interesting and funny. He spent a year trying to follow the Bible as closely as possible.

raynhamquilter

A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny. Latest in a series