What are you reading?

[The JD]

I very recently finished Anne of Green Gables. I can't believe I've never read these books before... damn my preconceived notions!

I've started Anne of Avonlea, but put it on hold yesterday when I realized that Morning Star was out, the third (and last) in the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown.

I'll be stepping back in Anne's world by the weekend, I'm sure!

[randrum]

Currently reading: "We Gotta Get Out of This Place - The Soundtrack to the Vietnan War", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", and "Star Wars: Annihilation".

I think I'm all over the genre spectrum.

[Glenn]

Patricia Cornwall"s Latest!- Scarpetta Series.- A must read for fans! Scarpetta's butch niece Lucy, is still being stalked by her psycho ex Carrie, who has been trying to murder her. This novel is all about them. Of course, Patricia dedicated this one to her partner Staci again. She looked too thin on her jacket photo though. I hope she is well.

[homoe]

The Light of the World, (Ellen Simpson)

After her grandmother’s death, Eva finds a series of diaries detailing the life of a girl caught up in the magic of the Roaring Twenties. She cannot reconcile the young woman in these diaries with the miserable old woman she loved so fiercely. What happened to change her grandmother so drastically? Eva is desperate to know more about this period in her grandmother’s life.

I'm enjoying this book even tho it started out with a funeral and flashbacks to a suicide attempt by Eva.

[cinnamongrrl]

I'm reading Room by Emma Donohue

I saw the preview for the movie and thought I should read the book. Its an incredible read. I really can't put it down. You literally feel the full spectrum of emotions...I'm laughing I'm sobbing Im really glad I'm reading it alone in my own Room....

See how I did that??

[dark_crystal]

Originally Posted by cinnamongrrl

I'm reading Room by Emma Donohue

I saw the preview for the movie and thought I should read the book. Its an incredible read. I really can't put it down. You literally feel the full spectrum of emotions...I'm laughing I'm sobbing Im really glad I'm reading it alone in my own Room....

See how I did that??

I watched the movie last night! it kind of loses something as the voice of Jack is not so dominant

[dark_crystal]

I am actually reading the "Fifty Shades" trilogy. Only five years late on that one

The writing is really bad--intrusively so-- but I am still into it

[cinnamongrrl]

I'm not all the way done with Room yet but almost...

But today I got an amazing book called Me, Myself and Why: searching for the science of self.

It seemed SO interesting that I read the forward...which I rarely do...

Its basically a look into what makes us US...it does a comparative of nature vs nurture which is a fascinating subject for my former psych major brain...

I can NOT wait to dive in head first....I'm super nerdy that way and I accept it

[Kobi]

An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works—and really doesn't.

As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacher—an ambitious goal, given her family's modest means.

Early marriage and motherhood seemed to put even that dream out of reach, but fifteen years later she was a distinguished law professor with a deep understanding of why people go bankrupt.

Then came the phone call that changed her life: could she come to Washington DC to help advise Congress on rewriting the bankruptcy laws? Thus began an impolite education into the bare-knuckled, often dysfunctional ways of Washington.

She fought for better bankruptcy laws for ten years and lost. She tried to hold the federal government accountable during the financial crisis but became a target of the big banks. She came up with the idea for a new agency designed to protect consumers from predatory bankers and was denied the opportunity to run it.

Finally, at age 62, she decided to run for elective office and won the most competitive—and watched—Senate race in the country. In this passionate, funny, rabble-rousing book, Warren shows why she has chosen to fight tooth and nail for the middle class—and why she has become a hero to all those who believe that America's government can and must do better for working families.

[Kobi]

Dark Money : The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right / Jane Mayer.

The investors -- Weaponizing philanthropy : the war on ideas, 1970-2008. Radicals : a Koch family history ; The hidden hand : Richard Mellon Scaife ; Beachheads : John M. Olin and the Bradley brothers ; The Koch method : free-market mayhem ; The Kochtopus : free-market machine -- Secret sponsors : covert operations, 2009-2010. Boots on the ground ; Tea time ; The fossils ; Money is speech : the long road to "Citizens United" ; The shellacking : dark money's midterm debut, 2010 -- Privatizing politics : total combat, 2011-2014. The spoils : plundering Congress ; Mother of all wars : the 2012 setback ; The States : gaining ground ; Selling the new Koch : a better battle plan.

[Nat]

Lord of the Rings
H is for Hawk
The 40 Rules of Love

[QueenofSmirks]

Essential of Human Anatomy & Physiology. Fun stuff.

[FireSignFemme]

Mary Baker Eddy by Gillian Gill

Messengers of the Wind Native Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories by Jane Katz

Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball

[cinnamongrrl]

I'm pretty good into a book called Neverhome by Laird Hunt.

Its a fictional account of a woman who disguises herself as a man so that she can fight in the American Civil War. So far so good

[easygoingfemme]

I'm reading Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper- loving it

Eighty-three-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots and begins walking the 3,232 kilometers from rural Saskatchewan, Canada eastward to the sea. As Etta walks further toward the crashing waves, the lines among memory, illusion, and reality blur.

Otto wakes to a note left on the kitchen table. “I will try to remember to come back,” Etta writes to her husband. Otto has seen the ocean, having crossed the Atlantic years ago to fight in a far-away war. He understands. But with Etta gone, the memories come crowding in and Otto struggles to keep them at bay. Meanwhile, their neighbor Russell has spent his whole life trying to keep up with Otto and loving Etta from afar. Russell insists on finding Etta, wherever she’s gone. Leaving his own farm will be the first act of defiance in his life.
- See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.com/Et....ykP5ak0y.dpuf

[dark_crystal]

I am reading the Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance) by Jeff VanDerMeer