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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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/

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.

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

In the middle of William Barclay's book on the Book Of Mark

Love the series, haven't read Explosive Eighteen but is next on my list. :)

Reading book 2 of the Hunger Games. Movie will be out in March of 2012

The Goodbye Quilt by Susan Wiggs

Skipping through parts of Prime Time

Just finished "I am # 4". On waiting list for "The power of 6".

I just finished The Persian Pickle Club. I love Sandra Dallas' books. There is always a little bit of quilting going on in her stories. Reading Second Glance by Jodi Picoult now, about ghosts. Also, enjoying one of Monica Ferris books about running a handwork shop.

I really like the whole Hunger Game series. I haven't found any of my 7th grade students who don't like them once they start reading them. I hope the movie doesn't mess up the story too bad.

Full Black by Brad Thor

We read it in my book club and we all really liked it.

Just finished Sarahs Key

I have just started Sarahs Key.

I recently read "Netherland" and enjoyed it hugely.
http://www.amazon.com/Netherland-Nov.../dp/0307377040
Mostly I read non-fiction though.

I am reading "Bonnie" by Iris Johansen. It is a ongoing series that I've been reading a long time. Hopefully this will be the solution.

That was a good book! I hope to see the movie sometime.

I am reading "The help" and Crazy Love both are very good.

Against Medical Advice by James Patterson. Its about a little boy that develops Tourett's Syndrome at the age of 5.
All the meds the doctors give this child is astonishing, everything from blood pressure meds, antidepressants, etc.

Quilt As Desired by Arlene Sachitano

When Godly People do UnGodly things - by Beth Moore. Good book.

What I'm Reading Now
 

Just started (again) Pegasus in Space by Anne McCaffrey. Love her books, and am sad there will be
no others. She died last week at age 85. Her son thought he'd carry on, I wasted money on TWO with
his name on them and never, ever again!!!
Perhaps some day the publishers will get some of McCaffrey's old partners together she wrote with
and have them come up with some of Anne's ideas she mentioned while working with them. She and
they together wrote some powerful books.

Then I'll re-read Donna Andrews' "We'll Always Have Parrots" which is one of the funniest murder
mysteries I've ever seen. She's a marvelous writer, I have all her books. Also, she has another series
about a computer personality who teamed up with a middle aged secretary and they took over their
entire company, which was being ruined by the previous owners!!!!

Just finished "The Best of Me", by Nicholas Sparks.

I have just finished several of the books written by Tess Gerritson. They tend to be a bit on the dark side occasionally, but very good for mystery fans. Right now, I am reading the first three books of the Anne of Green Gables series. So fun and refreshing. I read them several years ago and am enjoying them just as much this time around.

Just finished Christmas Redemption by Paty Jager, Hide in Plain Sight by Marta Perry and Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo. All three were really good. Now I'm reading Mary's Son: A Tale of Christmas. Read all of them on my Kindle. All but Heaven is for Real was free for my Kindle.

[QUOTE=phyllvog;4729065]Just finished "The Best of Me", by Nicholas Sparks.[/QUOTEI

I just finshed this one last night. Most recent books - The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins), Minding Frankie (Maeve Binchy), Miles to Go (Richard Paul Evans), Silver Girl (Elin Hilderbrand), Look Again and Save Me (Lisa Scottoline), The Goodbye Quilt (Susan Wiggs).

Loved the suggestion for the "free book" (The Cat, The Quilt and the corpse) on kindle. If anyone else has suggestions for Kindle freebees, would love to hear about them.

Just Finished Sarahs Keys Very sad but keeps you wanting the next page.

I am listening to "Started Early, Took My Dog": by Kate Atkinson. It is a very good mystery book on audio

No longer "free". I have found this with several books. I ordered a couple of free ones and then tried to get them for my cousin and they were no longer free. I guess what we have to do is get them when we see them.

Christmas Jars. Love it!

I have just finished reading an Elm Creek book, Circle of Quilters, very good. I am now reading Suddenly It's Spring a true Alaskan Adventure Story by Mary T. Lovel. I am interested in Alaska as that is where my eldest daughter SIL and grandaughter live.

I started reading Rising Tides by Emilie Richards, but realizing it's a sequel, I got the first book, Iron Lace, from the library. I am so glad I did. It is a "can't put it down" book that takes place in New Orleans.

The immortal life of Henrietta Locks. It is easy read. It is about her immortal cervical cells that have helped discover all kinds of medical advances from Cancer to Cloning. Very good book Both these books could be read one after the other They kind of follow each other despite no relationship to each other.

The Paper Dollhouse By Dr Lesia Mattherson from the Drs. on TV. Very interesting read. If you are a landlord you should read this book. If you are a humanitarien this book is for you. Just plain interesting.

All of these were good reads.