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Reading is a huge hobby of mine....I have tons of books....what are you all reading right now?

I'm currently on the first "In the Garden" book from the Nora Roberts Trilogy......Triss didn't you buy them and read them a while back? Did you like them? I'm about halfway thru the first book and so far it's okay, not blowing me away but not bad.

Tonya, I bet audio books would work great!!! You can even get them from the library for free!

What are you favorite things to read?

I love pioneer type books, stories told from the olden days or Mennonite farms and such.

I hate romance books though.

I like the genre too Tamara.....I have a book upstairs that takes place in Amish Country....it was pretty good.

My favorites though are vampire books.....and chic lit like Bridget Jones Diary. I don't do harlequin type books, but I do like Nora Roberts.

Do you read often? It's a huge passion of mine. I go thru about a book every couple of days.

I used to Loz, but there is no library near by and books are expensive. I try to hit a few yard sales in the summer and buy some then.

My daughter is an avid reader, she reads a book every few days as well. The girls at school share so she only has to buy a book month and they switch off.

She's a VC Andrews fan.

I've read most of VC Andrews work.....I don't like a lot of her newer stuff though....she passed away years ago and there is someone that writes in her name now and it's just not as good to me.

Yard sales are GREAT places to get cheap books. That and the Goodwill. I used to get a ton of them there when I lived in my apartment years ago.

If they weren't so heavy I'd send you some of mine, I have hundreds and hundreds of books.

It would cost you more to ship them then for me to buy them new

Destroyer Goddess huh? That sounds interesting. What's it about.

that sounds good triss,

i love all books, romance, mystery, history, adventure, fantasy, gardening of course.
right now im reading a romance by johanna lindsey. i love her malory series.
were waiting for the last harry potter book to come out, me and my daughter always read those together.
and im desperately waiting for the next eragon book to come out. i have to say the books are alot better then the movie! but then they usually are.

I've read Nora Roberts but I find her storylines to be predictable. When VC Andrews died, whomever is writing on her behalf just recycles the same story over-and-over. I used to read lots of Dean Koontz but even he is extremely predictable. So now, I'm author-less.

I will have to check out the Goddess books, and when I was 10 I started Lasher by Anne Rice and my mother took it away. I need to remember to get that so I can finish it. I got about half way through. When I was little I was homeschooled and would read about 5-10 adult books a week. We lived in a small town and it was always so frustrating to have to order books in from bigger libraries. Thank god I'm in a bigger town now!

I love this thread, please post your favorite books and authors, I'm always looking for something good to read (and for the time to read it in). I don't do romance. There is not a romantic fiber in my body.

I like to read too, joined reading clubs in elementry school...love dan brown! mostly into mystery and romance ( so i'm a guy...get over it :P lol)

Very true Sarah.

Kenny, I think your choice of books is just fine---doesn't matter if you're a guy or woman.

My fav. author is Laurell K. Hamilton. She's amazing. Her Anita Blake series is about vampires but mostly romantic, not scary stuff really.

Her Merry Gentry series is about fairies....they're very romantic too, but can get sort of dark.

I'm waiting for the next book in each series and it's killing me!!!!!

kenny, guys can read, and like romance...

one of my favorite coworkers is a young man who has been married about 3 years. i'm always telling him things like "you want some extra brownie points?" and then giving him romantic hints. he wants to be romantic, but doesn't know how! so if you read, you'll know how when the time comes

and my husband likes mysteries as much as i do!

What's everyone reading now? I'm reading a good book but I can't remember the authors name....I'll update when I go look later.

loz - I read Nora Roberts garden trilogy - I liked it pretty much. Just finished her vampire series, but I have a real problem with it!!! You know how it starts off with an old man telling the story to children??? Well... really... one would not be telling a romance story to children in such great detail of the romantic parts, you know? Since I used to be a pre-school teacher, that aspect of this series really really bothered me!!!

I'm not into vampire stories, but this series was not bad otherwise. I need to find something fun and interesting to read next...

you know how many times i tried to get my hubby to read romance just to give him pointers! hasnt happend yet!

im done with the johnna lindsey it was a good book! i loved when she took his ship! served him right!
im on a look out for another book, maybe somthing in fantasey,

Anyone reading the new book by Mitch Albom - author of Tuesdays with Morrie, and The Five People You Meet in Heaven? It's called "for one more day". I saw him on Oprah last Wednesday and put a hold on the book immediately at my library. Just got around to reading it today - am half way through and have been crying since PAGE ONE!!!

WOW, does this book ever hit home with some of the feelings and things. It's a very easy read, but not exactly what I need to be reading right now with "stuff" going on here for several months now... I'm going to finish it, because I do think it's good though.

Anyone know of a good humorous book?

My all time favorite humorous books are The Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella! I laughed hysterically through almost all of them. Plus the main character, Becky, is English and I liked that.

I haven't read the new Mitch Albom book. Five People you Meet in Heaven put me off him a bit....I didn't like it, but I adored Tuesdays with Morrie.

I just finished DarkFever by Karen Marie Moning...It was excellent and all about the Fae---the Seelie and Unseelie Court--and was pretty dark at times but it was still good.

Read the James Herriot Vet book.. He is an English Vet who tells of the humor and problems in the neighborhood , back in the olden days....If your an animal lover..You will love all his books.

My brother got me a barnes and noble gift card for my birthday so I finally was able to get some new books. I've been going through reading withdrawl. Anyway, I got the next book int the Merdith Gentry series, I got the first book to the Anita Blake series, got a Stephen King book I've been wanting to read and I got Bram Stoker's Dracula. I've always heard that it was a really good classic and it was only $3! Now I just have to wait for them to be shipped to my house, should have them all by Thursday. The next thing is deciding which one to read first.

Oooooo, ooooooooo-----I've read ALL of the Merry Gentry series and I LOVE them! AND, they just shipped me the Harlequin---newest release in the Anita Blake Series(I'd preordered it)...I should have it soon! Love BOTH series!

Sounds like you got a nice selection of books to read! Very nice of your brother.

With all the trouble with my car I haven't been able to afford any books so I told my brother that's what I wanted for my birthday. I'm proud that he actually got me something. I've read the first 2 Meredith Gentry books and I have the 4th one but didn't want to read it before getting the 3rd one. I was going to get the 5th one as well but it doesn't seem to be available in paper back yet so I got the 1st Anita Blake one instead. I know you said those are really good books. I'm so excited, I want them to be at my house right now.

I like them! If you like Merry Gentry then you will like Anita Blake...there are a lot of similarities in them. There are LOTS of books in the AB series....about 15 I think.

Happy Reading Cheryl! I hope you get them really soon! BTW, I HATE reading out of series order too....that happened to me once with the Anita series....I didn't get the next one I needed, I got the one after that....so I read it and went back and read the last one...but I don't like doing that at all.

I love to read---I esp. like series type so I know if i will end up liking a book or not.

I am mainly into Mystry so i can try to figure out the "who did it" myself.

I read Rex Stout-- Caludia Bishop- Marcia Mueller, Diane Mott Davidson
and I have every Agatha Chisty book she ever wrote. The rex stout (Nero Wolfe) I read again & again--I also have the DVD's of the movies that were on A & E. :wink:

Then there is the 7 or do of the NW books put out by Robert Goldsboro---not so good but not so bad---

My husband & I read various books--taking turns reading chapters aloud, so we both get to enjoy the book-

if I had a book type encyclopedia set, i would be reading those as well.

love just to read----

thanks for telling me about the new book--i was not aware of it---I have read the other Mitch Albom books---and yes they are very good. i loved them.--I have a friend who buys them--i just read them (lucky me) I guess i will have to go to the library for this one---

if you like funny mysteries, joan hess's maggody series will tickle you pink. i love it. and her claire malloy series is pretty good too.

i tried a new author this week, (new to me) janet evanovich and really liked that book. it was called hot stuff and was sort of a mystery, with a mystery type romance thrown in. at one point i was laughing out loud.

i've read all sue grafton, all agatha, and all joan hess, and quite a few added, but i like "lite" mysteries myself.

:/

Don't mysterys scare you?

I like non fiction........Hate fiction.......Dont read much now that I have a computer to check out the world........It's right at the finger tips.

b

the really graphic ones, like patricia cornwell and dick francis do. but the lite ones like joan hess are nice. and that one by janet evanovich that i read this week was really just funny. the short of the plot line was about a woman who was trying to live up to her own dreams while juggling her families desire to get her married off. i know, there isn't much mystery in that, but if you through in a roommate that is a thief... it gets good without being gory.

I LOVE TO READ! I have never checked this part of the forum out until today!

I am actually in my last year at Boise State University (it will be my ninth year, BTW...) to be an English teacher!

Tamara, I saw that you like pioneer novels, and if you haven't ready My Antonia by Willa Cather yet, I really suggest you do, (I got my copy at Barnes and Noble for about $5). I read it this last year, and I really loved it! It's a classic, and it's all about two children growning up on the Missouri Prarie. Good book.

I like literature. I am not into a lot of non-fiction, but some REALLY interesting stuff will get me hooked. (I like history, so history books that are almost like novels will get me hooked, as well as some biographies.)

any one read R.A. Salvatore books? i was thinkin of tryin them.

i still love marry Higgins Clark mysterys:}

I loved the Mrs. Pollifax series of spy mysteries. Anything by Phyllis Whitney is a treasure.
Dodge, I LOVED all of the James Herriot books, and read his biography, but I kind of lost the old interest when I learned that the books were highly fictionalized.
I had the same let-down when I found out that all of the Little House books were also mostly fiction.
They're all still classic reads though.

That is news to me, fictionalized.....I understood they were for real years back and the true life Herriot lived.

Well there were lots of drunk stories, but if you love animals, it is heartwarming.I have one here"Dog stories" and I refuse to give it up.. I just bought a friend a Herriot book at the Book store and she loves it.

You miss some heart warming stories.

b

Thanks manderlyh, I'll check for it.

Dodge, James Herriot was a real person, and a vet as he described in his books.
I meant that the stories were fictionalized. In other words, one zany character in a book might be a composite of two people whom Herriot really knew.
Or, a touching piece about an animal might be behaviors from more than one animal.
Herriot's real name was James Wight. There is a biography written by his son and includes many photographs of Herriot and the people and places of his life.

:ding: :ding:

I still love THe Herriot books......They aren't really fiction like the Fiction storys on the market today......(My idea of fiction) Stupid love stories in fiction, like my darling has come out of the closet just in time to ride me off on a grey horse into the sunset.........Trash.

He did actually at some time or other do most of the stuff he says.. Maybe not in the style you consider......It doesnt matter how it is said.. But would you have any idea how boring a book would be if it involved only daily doing?/

PS......What is the name of his sons book I will hunt it down?

Love Herriot..Or jimmie wright.

Sorry, us farmers stick together..

Right now I'm reading the Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kennyon. Very good...at least for me, because I like vampire/werewolf books....and this has an ancient twist to it with Greeks, and Romans and flashbacks in time.

Not sure what I'll switch to when I'm done this series....I hate finishing a series. It's so hard to find other good books.

To each his own.......I couldnt sleep with that type of literature.
I am reading 2 garden books ..

Black & Decker creative landscape
and
Garden rooms
by Catriona Tudor Erler......

I love VC Andrew I have just about all of them,
really love to read too.We have a store here and
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i havent picked up a book since harry potter! im gonna have to check when eargon 3 comes out, i cant make up my mind what to read next!