Tuesday Book Club
I’m still halfway through a book, so I can’t report it yet.
What did you guys devour this week?
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October 9th, 2007 at 6:23 am
Being on the Cybils YA Fic nominating panel has me knee-deep in books. I read Naomi & Ely’s No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, and Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern (a review copy I picked up at the Conference!).
October 9th, 2007 at 6:49 am
Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer. Though I don’t think anything can compare to Twilight, it’s still been a good read.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:29 am
Well,I finished Identical Strangers along with Once Bitten,Twice Shy by Jennifer Rardin(a really cool kickass novel with a psychic heroine working with a vampire for the CIA).
I’m now reading the following:Riders by Jilly Cooper,Tastes like Cuba by Eduardo
Machardo,The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold and Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo.
Granted,some books are getting alittle more attention at times than others(plus,I’m taking shots of Persuasion and The Golden Compass every now and then)but I should be able to complete one of them by next week-the Sebold,most likely.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:42 am
Just finished HOW TO TALK TO A WIDOWER by Jonathan Tropper and loved it. It was laugh-out-loud funny. Began but didn’t yet finish THREE CUPS OF TEA by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.
I gave up on my “I’m not reading until I finish my WIP” pledge, obviously!
October 9th, 2007 at 8:41 am
Lady T, that’s quite a simultaneous list! Now that you’ve passed the fifty mark, maybe you’re shooting for seventy-five!
Eisha, I read that and really enjoyed it. I’m guessing you can’t give opinions since you’re on the committee, but I’m glad to see you report in!
PJ, nice to see you on the book club! So I assume you read New Moon, too, and didn’t just skip from book 1 to book 3? Because you know that would be wrong, right?
Laura, who can resist reading? It was a brave pledge not to read until you finished your work, but come on. We all need to relax with a good book.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:13 am
While most of the rest of you were having what sounds like a fantastic time in Chicago (yes, I’m still pouting and yes, Annette, I do feel really really bad about missing out), I actually read a whole book: Veil of Roses by our own fellow blogger Laura Fitzgerald. Laura, it was terrific! Trully enjoyed it and can’t wait for your next book. Get writing, girl!
October 9th, 2007 at 10:13 am
Oh, no, we’re the Cybils, not the Printz. I can give opinions. You all realize I’m just one voice among eight, all trying to agree on a handful of the best YA novels out this past year, right? It’s not like my opinion alone carries all that much weight.
Anyway… I thought both were pretty good in their own ways: there were passages in Naomi & Ely that were quite powerful, and I liked most of the secondary characters very much. I had the same problem I had with Nick & Norah, though, in that I felt like the writing quality was inconsistent and there was a lot of repetition - a hazard of the two-author novel.
Is that the one you read and enjoyed? I could talk about Get Well Soon too, but I guess I do feel a little weird since I picked it up at the conference. Anyway, I’m writing it up now, so soon I can refer you to the review.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:37 am
I read a couple books by Luanne Rice, BUT the library called and it is finally my turn to have THE SECRET. So I will work on that this week.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:12 am
I read about a hostile takeover of a hotel in a city with a lot of wind where they smuggled in wine and cheese and overflowed the bathroom toilets.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:24 am
I’m nearing the end of Sir Thursday, the fourth book in Garth Nix’s Keys to the Kingdom series. It’s been an entertaining series so far. I have just begun Knights of the Black and White by Jack Whyte.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
I also read Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List this past week, actually. And I read Run by Ann Patchett, which I liked, but not as much as Bel Canto. Right now I am almost done with The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
i finished Letters from Rapunzel on the plane to Chicago. Loved it. Since Sara signed it to me (and I am thrilled) I will need to order for the library. I started The Green Glass Sea in Chicago and while I hoped to finish it last night, I fell asleep. I really wished I had yesterday to decompress from the weekend. I was in a fog all day.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
am almost done with an “i can’t put it down” present from laura fitz., “devil in the white city”. non fiction about chicago world’s fair–excellant. thanks laura
October 9th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
am almost done with an “i can’t put it down” present from laura fitz., “devil in the white city”. non fiction about chicago world’s fair–excellant. thanks laura
October 9th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Just finished The Courtesan’s Daughter by Claudia Dain, there had been quite a bit of buzz about it on some reviewers websites. It frustrated me at first because I would rather have heard more about the Courtesan than the daughter.
It does sound like there might be another book coming along, I hope.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Oh - envy Jone having The Green Glass Sea to read! It was one of my absolute favourites from some amazing books read during this year’s 48 Hour Reading Challenge. And the only book my mother (who doesn’t understand the whole kidlit reading thing at all) has ever asked to read after hearing me rave. She loved it too.
Anyway, I ended up reading Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie before Fairies of Dreamdark - not being disobedient, but misplaced the latter very briefly. Loved it (DG&DP) anyway. Interesting contrast between it and Fanboy and Goth Girl but neither suffered from being read so close together. And I finished Eat Pray Love and read about half of Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair. Good stuff all.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
I read Shattering Glass by Gail Giles. It was eh.
Right now I’m reading Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, because I’m moderating a table discussion at the PA Library Association conference on Sunday. It’s the One Book, One Conference selection and Chris Crutcher will be there. So yeah, I need to try really hard to finish it, despite the crazy weekend I have coming up!
October 9th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
am almost done with an “i can’t put it down” present from laura fitz., “devil in the white city”. non fiction about chicago world’s fair–excellant. thanks laura
October 9th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Extras by Scott Westerfeld,Bloom by Elizabeth Scott, and Math Doesn’t Suck by Danica McKellar are all books I’m reading but I havn’t finished anything in a while…
October 9th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
ah, no patrick, that’s the book that i’m reading. and laura fitz. giving you a present?–not likely. and, by the way, your spelling stinks.
October 9th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
OOOHHH, little (a)nnette and the Space Lord duking it out at the keyboard (did I spell duking correctly?)
October 9th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
I’m just about finished with That Girl Lucy Moon, which I picked up at the conference, and am enjoying. But so far, I haven’t even had time to list all of the other books I came home with, let alone actually reading them.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
I finished reading China Mieville’s Un Lun Dun last night. Many, many thanks to whoever it was who posted a review of it on her blog a few months back.
Still working on rereading Tight Lines (mystery, by William G Tapply.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
no, I’m sure I am reading it and Laura absolutely adores me. She sends me gifts all the time.
Ask me anything about Chicago or laura’s gifts.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Bugger. Please pretend there’s a right parenthesis between the final two characters of my last comment….
October 9th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
laura, please say it ain’t so. believe me no good will come from going down that path, save yourself before it’s too laaa…..
October 9th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
I’m probably the last person to finish reading all the Harry Potter books. The Deathly Hallows was amazing.
Glad you all had fun at the conference. I’m catching up on reading everyone’s posts…
October 9th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Vivian–lucky you!! And, Jone, you too! I loved Green Glass Sea, as did my mother AND my daughter.
I’m in here late. I’m slogging through the audio of Richard Russo’s latest. I ordered it as one of my audible selections because it was 26 hours long and I knew I had at least 14 hours in the car this week. Well, I sang along to oldies all the way home from Chicago to keep myself lively, so still have 10 hours to go of the Russo. It’s good, but it’s not particularly new.
Last week, though, I read Jonathan Coe’s “The Closed Circle” which was AWESOME. (Adult novel.)
October 10th, 2007 at 5:42 am
I’m nearly halfway through Stephenie Meyers’s Twilight and LOVING IT. The narrator’s voice sucked me in from the beginning. I loved a few “Edwards” myself in high school, though none were so gorgeous. I’ll hopefully finish it this week and be prepared to share my final opinion by next Tuesday.
October 10th, 2007 at 6:35 am
The Space Lord is Magnificent! Why isn’t eveyone sending him gifts and lavishing him with praises?
What? I am TOO Laura! Stop looking up my skirt! Perv!
October 10th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Glad your reading Twilight Kelley! It’s so lucky you met some Edwards! I wish I would….
Can’t wait to hear what you think of it!
October 10th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Last night I finished The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier. Very interesting book. I really, really liked it.
October 10th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Oh, my gosh, you guys–what an incredible list this week! Good job! I’m sure a lot of you will be hitting the 50-book mark by the end of the year.
October 10th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Feathered by Laura Kasischke - Due out next spring - Highly recommended
What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones
Stink and the World’s Worst Super-Stinky Sneaker by Megan McDonald, illustrated by Peter Reynolds
October 10th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
just finished Number the Stars by Lois Lowry!
October 13th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Oh, my gosh, you guys–what an incredible list this week! Good job! I’m sure a lot of you will be hitting the 50-book mark by the end of the year.
I hit that mark somewhere in the last week of February.
My stated goal was 150 books this year. Obviously not a very good goal, because I reached it at the end of September. Guess I’ll have to aim a little higher next year….