What are you currently reading??

**Novice** · July 3rd, 2012, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by hunterlovesgossip

Just finished Gone Girl and it was amazing. Lived up to the hype.

What hype is that?

**sluce** · July 8th, 2012, 10:00 AM

Has anyone read Before I Fall? My neighbor keeps saying that my daughter and I would both love it but warned it can be a painful read. She said it's like a mix of Mean Girls and Groundhog Day?

**Jexxifer** · July 8th, 2012, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by hunterlovesgossip

Just finished Gone Girl and it was amazing. Lived up to the hype.

I just finished this yesterday. I thought it was decent, but I figured out the "twist" after about the second chapter.

**sputnik** · July 8th, 2012, 07:54 PM

Finished super sad true love story by gary shteingart and then I read Julian barnes' latest, the sense of an ending. Loved both, especially the shteingart.
Right now reading number9dream by david mitchell.

**minime7** · July 9th, 2012, 03:19 AM

Originally Posted by sluce

Has anyone read Before I Fall? My neighbor keeps saying that my daughter and I would both love it but warned it can be a painful read. She said it's like a mix of Mean Girls and Groundhog Day?

I personally thinks it's pretty good book but it's somewhat repetitive since she is reliving the same day over and over again. My 12 year old sister loved it. The girl in the book is a mean girl but she undergoes changes after making different choices when reliving the same day.your neighbour is right it is a sad read but I can't say more about that without giving the ending away.

**Bellatheball** · July 11th, 2012, 12:16 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.

It took me a week to get past that depression.

**ConstanceSpry** · July 11th, 2012, 11:46 AM

Toby streams the Universe

A psychic in NYC, just trying to stay sane.

I love it so much, I am only letting myself read a chapter per day so I can make it last longer.

**Bellatheball** · July 11th, 2012, 11:30 PM

Trying to get into The Help but I'm failing.

**greysfang** · July 11th, 2012, 11:34 PM

Originally Posted by Bellatheball

Trying to get into The Help but I'm failing.

I actually found the first couple of chapters or so very tough to get into, but then you become invested in the characters and the rest is easy. It never picks up much speed though.

**angelais** · July 11th, 2012, 11:52 PM

I have just started reading P.G. Wodehouse. The Jeeves stories are very funny.

**greysfang** · July 12th, 2012, 10:50 AM

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel. This is the 2nd book in a serious focusing on Thomas Cromwell and this book centers on the Anne Boleyn years.

Amazon.com: Bring Up the Bodies (9780805090031): Hilary Mantel: Books

**sputnik** · July 12th, 2012, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by Bellatheball

Trying to get into The Help but I'm failing.

Not a big loss. Unpopular opinion: it sucked.

**witchcurlgirl** · July 12th, 2012, 01:59 PM

^^That's not unpopular with me.

I'm reading In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Daniyal Mueenuddin.

It's linked short stories describe the interwoven lives of an Pakistani landowner, his servants, and his family. It's excellent.

**tulip** · July 14th, 2012, 09:48 AM

I just read "A Land More Kind Than Home" by Wiley Cash. Read it because we were going to Asheville and I like to read books set where we are road tripping. I really enjoyed it. It's set in a rural NC mountain town and is about the death of a young boy in a church. It's told from three perspectives. It was very interesting.