What are you currently reading??

**witchcurlgirl** · June 13th, 2012, 02:28 PM

Our Lady of Alice Bhatti- Mohamed Hanif.

I really loved his A Case of Exploding Mangoes, so I picked this up. Just started it yesterday.

**Thighs** · June 14th, 2012, 08:01 AM

i just started the fifty shades of grey book

**Polyester Pam** · June 14th, 2012, 10:16 PM

^^ I like how you say that with the name "thighs" and your current post number is 69. Integral plot points to that book I hear!

**charlottenicole** · June 15th, 2012, 03:35 AM

The Great Gatsby! Reading it again and looking forward to the movie!

**LaraP** · June 16th, 2012, 12:00 AM

Just started The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern) -- friends are raving about it and so far, so good. And now I'm thinking perhaps I should also re-read The Great Gatsby before the movie...

**sputnik** · June 16th, 2012, 10:00 AM

super sad true love story, by gary shteyngart.
i'm about half way through and love it so far. it's a dystopian love story and so smart and funny and full of hilariously astute observations about a totally possible and imaginable near future.

**levitt** · June 17th, 2012, 01:11 PM

Just finished the Hunger Games trilogy (yeah, yeah). Wtf. It's depressing. I feel empty and lost in melancholy. Can't believe that's a kids book.

**SHELLEE** · June 22nd, 2012, 03:30 PM

The True Sea by F.W. Belland. It's set in the Florida Keys in the years 1909 till 1925 about Flaglers railroad linking Key West to the rest of America. Pretty good so far.

**Waterslide** · June 22nd, 2012, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by SHELLEE

The True Sea by F.W. Belland. It's set in the Florida Keys in the years 1909 till 1925 about Flaglers railroad linking Key West to the rest of America. Pretty good so far.

ooh, I bet I'd love that! I'll have to check it out!

I'm reading Nightwoods by Charles Frazier about small town North Carolina in the 1960s. Haven't gotten far yet.

**yanna** · June 23rd, 2012, 06:07 AM

Mauthausen - Iakovos Kampanellis

Kampanellis was a concentration camp survivor. He's a Greek poet and playwright. The book starts with the liberation of Mauthausen by the Americans and the afternath for the prisoners as they get to mix with the female prisoners for the first time. The main character had fallen in love with one of the girls from afar and gets to finally be with her. We get a lot of snapshots of the life in the camp in flashbacks but in general, I thought it was a good idea to start with the liberation, it definitely makes it easier to read. It's a true story.

I don't know if the English translation is any good but it's truly a brilliant book. I've never read or watched anything about the Holocaust that came alive the way this book does.

**sputnik** · June 23rd, 2012, 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by levitt

Just finished the Hunger Games trilogy (yeah, yeah). Wtf. It's depressing. I feel empty and lost in melancholy. Can't believe that's a kids book.

i finished about a month ago and loved it. yes, they are harsh and violent, especially for a kids' book, but i like that the author didn't sugarcoat and act like the heroes were perfect human beings who lived happily ever after.

**Waterslide** · June 23rd, 2012, 02:00 PM

I really loved The Hunger Games Trilogy, too. I liked the premise before I picked it up, but I was surprised how much I actually enjoyed the characters and the overall writing. I even read the first book over again even though I had other things to read, and I hardly ever do that.

**witchcurlgirl** · June 25th, 2012, 04:23 PM

A Partial History of Lost Causes- Jennifer duBois

A soviet dissident chess champion, and an american girl with Huntington's disease. I loved it, it was smart and sad.