moving on to another dystopian book... 36% done and it's good thus far.


"Under the Never Sky" by Veronica Rossi

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Oh - it's part 1 of a trilogy. The other two books are not yet available.

Finished "Under the Never Sky" - I will definitely be getting book 2 when it is released. It's a different take on the YA Dystopian genre. Anyone who has ever "stepped foot" into Second Life will appreciate aspects of it. One plot device draws to mind "Twilight" (not the saturated teenage angst part, and not the sparkly vampire part either...). It's a good opening book.


Now starting "Hollowland" - the first book of a series (not sure how many there are / will be) and it was a free kindle book! So far you can tell it's not as polished as the other books, but it's entertaining.

the Scoop: YA Dystopian. Zombies. And a kick ass (from the get go) female lead. (who named her pet lioness [yes a bloody LIONESS] Ripley... and yes that's after Sigourney)

a lil erotica .. and dang she can write! must stay off n the morning lol :|

I bought this last year and picked it up a couple of weeks ago - now I can't put it down!!

A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness

For those Sookie fans or those into Vamps, Daemons or Witches, its actually a good read!

I always have at least 3 books on the go! They're all rereads, but those are most comforting.

Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin

Mary Wakefield - Mazo de la Roche

Anne of the Island - Lucy Maud Montgomery (I love you, iBooks)

Quentin Tarentino and Philosophy

Imagine Kill Bill analyzed from the viewpoint of western and eastern moral theory.

It's part of the series Philosophy and Pop Culture. If there's something you watch (from family guy to house to twilight and about 100 more), they've probably given it the philosophical once-over. Enlightening and entertaining, though it's good to know a bit about the major philosophical movements.

I just finished the Hunger Games-- Its really a good book. I would let my kids read it. There is nothing really awful in it.. Its strange and interesting. I am an avid reader and a local DJ was dared to read it on the radio, made me curious as I heard them talking about it.. I bought the next book its a trilogy! You might like it if you have time to read! Just offering my opinion. Let me know how it goes =)

Just finished Jane Lynch's memoir Happy Accidents....was pretty disappointed, actually. On the one hand, I appreciated the honest display of her every insecurity... that's not so typical of celebrity memoirs. But as I read anecdote after anecdote that showed her lack of self-love, I kept hearing Wayne and Garth whining, "We're not worthy! We're not worthy!" If she was trying to prove she's not like Sue Sylvester, she showed me. Over and over. And over.

Next up: A Dance with Dragons, the 5th book in the Game of Thrones series. Let's hope I finish before the library wants it back.

JD

i was really disappointed in it. Loved all the scholarship stuff and there were some good ideas, but the characters and the language were so conventionally romance novel. Like Sookie better.

How interesting, is this a memoir or a novel?

The movie Inn of the Sixth Happiness was based on her life. With Ingrid Bergman.

"The Tipping Point" -Malcolm Gladwell

"The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

I am on the first book, "In the Eye of the Pyramid"

Finished Hollowland by Amanda Hocking and started Hollowmen (book 2) last night. Already 40% through.

These are not the books you want to read if you're looking for complex plots or characters. Think "Resident Evil" in book form... If you're looking for a kick ass protagonist and lots of gory zombie killing... this book is for you.

Better than Popcorn with heavy butter...

I'm currently half way through 'The Hypnotist: A Novel" by Lars Kepler

It is a Swedish noir-crime-thriller, it was described as "methadone for readers suffering from Steig Larrson withdrawl" :)

It is very well written & riveting.

Fingersmith.........Sarah Waters

The new Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz, M.D.

Just finished The Hunger Games Trilogy.

The 37th hour by Jodi Compton.

Food Matters
A guide to conscious eating

By Mark Bittman

So far, so good. I'm reading this as part of our local library's winter reading program. Also, using it to grow inspiration for this year's garden.

Finished up Hollowmen last night - today I start on Enclave by Ann Aguirre... looking forward to it. :)

just finished behind the mountains by edwidge danticat, trans/love (ed. morty diamond), upstate by kalisha buckhanon, and wellness recovery action plan by mary copeland.

still reading open veins of latin america by eduardo galeano. and i think i'm going to start the hunger games next (got a loan on kindle).

Just starting...

The Forgotten Garden
by Kate Morton

The Sound and the Fury... for American Lit... Someone save me...

Shiver by Lisa Jackson. I just started it. Very creepy.

I am starting the hunger games today...I want to read it before I see the movie

A Mercy
by Toni Morrison

True poetry in the writing, but gut wrenching and sad.

Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher

Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children by Ransom Riggs.

finished the hunger games trilogy. i can relate a lot to what katzchen wrote about it, being a survivor myself. i was kind of underwhelmed by the writing and found a lot of things frustrating (the ends of the books felt rushed, as though the author wanted to explain the plot tie-ups rather than actually writing them, the beginning of the last book is corny and boring, etc.). some of the violence wasn't written very believably. (some of it was.) i did really like the world creation and dystopian aspects, though, and i think by the middle of the final book the characters were all very realistic to me - especially the main character - not always likeable but very realistic. i enjoyed the last 2/3rds of the final book a lot. the rest was kind of meh.

think i'm going to read drag king dreams next.