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What do you like to read??

Started by Cameron , author of Ingenue Mom 8/8/2010 9:06:14 AM

I'm currently reading the Vampire Diaries books because I'm just cool like that. And I accidentally got all into the tv show...

I also recently finished Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin & I read Water for Elephants earlier this year!

I just got finished reading several things over at Gina's blog - Fantasy Casting & at Gnomeangel! They got me really excited about reading more books! Everyone keeps mentioning these Shiver books - what are they about?? Are they any good?

What do you all read - when & if you have time? It's much harder for me to find time to pick up a book, but I think it's important to read so I try to make time. I always have one fiction, fun kind of book that I'm slooooowly working my way through & then usually one Christian book or intellectual book. Right now I'm reading A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller.

What about you??

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Reply by Queenie

author of thePLANETpink 8/8/2010 10:05:15 PM

Right now I'm reading The Labor Progress Handbook - exciting, huh?  LOL

On my nightstand I have waiting for me Crazy Love by Francis Chan.  

For lighter reading I have Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella, The Beach House by Jane Green and Hope In A Jar by Beth Harbison checked out from the library.  


Reply by Cameron

author of Ingenue Mom 8/9/2010 3:06:12 PM

I also have Crazy Love sitting beside my bed!!! I love Francis Chan! I listen to his podcasts on my ipod all the time!


Reply by Gina

author of Fantasy casting 8/10/2010 8:20:34 PM

Oh my gosh! I was totally not expecting that shout out... you're making me blush :)

I read a lot of YA stuff. I'm like a 16 year old in my reading habits. I also love fantasy, a fact I would have taunted others for 10 years ago, but now I am totally and completely hooked.

I keep meaning to read the Vampire Diaries, everybody tells me I should. But, everybody told me to read House of Night, and those are terrible, so...


Reply by Melissa

author of another lunch 8/11/2010 7:55:18 PM

Is that Something Borrowed series really light and fluffy? I'd like something that's as silly and mind-numbing as the Shopaholic series.

I am usually drawn to dramatic novels, but I am just way to stressed out and tired to deal with any heavy reading right now!


Reply by Gina

author of Fantasy casting 8/11/2010 8:47:23 PM

If you want mind numbing- try Laura Weisberger. Very similar author to Sophie Kinsella, who wrote the Shopaholic series.


Reply by Cameron

author of Ingenue Mom 8/11/2010 9:19:23 PM

I thought Something Borrowed was pretty light! I really liked it a lot & it was really easy for me to read & get through. I don't usually read a whole lot of chick-lit books, but that was one I really liked!! I've also read The Devil Wears Prada by Laura Weisberger I think, but I haven't read the Shopaholic series. Maybe I should!


Reply by Gina

author of Fantasy casting 8/12/2010 9:17:29 AM

I actually preferred the Shopaholics, I don't know why, maybe something that reminded me of me?

And, I meant mind-numbing in a good way, of course :)


Reply by Tonya

author of You Asked For It... 8/12/2010 9:27:16 AM

another YA reader here...  just finished and reviewed Incarceron and was quite pleasantly surprised!  (www.whatallthekidsarereading.blogspot.com)

I'm having a hard time getting into anything right now because there's just 12 more days until MockingJay  (The Hunger Games series finale)...  maybe I'll do some re-reading instead?

I read The Help (even though it wasn't YA) and really loved it... 

I read WAY too much... I could probably spend a day just talking about what I've read this year alone :)


Reply by Queenie

author of thePLANETpink 8/12/2010 12:05:04 PM

Yeah, Something Borrowed and Something Blue are both easy reads.  Loved Shopaholic and pretty much anything by Sophie Kinsella.  Her Undomesticated Goddess and Remember Me? were hilarious.

I just finished up Hope in a Jar that I mentioned above.  It was ok.  So far I'm liking Beach House much more.


Reply by Mommycrat

author of Mommycrat 8/12/2010 8:01:19 PM

Oooh - maybe I'll get some tips here!  You're discussing my kind of reading :)

I've read all of Sophie Kinsella's stuff and liked it - but don't quiz me on any of it because it was all pretty forgettable - I think I own Something Borrowed.  I've also read and enjoyed Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing, but not the others Laura Weisberger has written so I'll probably hunt those down.   I was browsing in the Bookstore this weekend (when I was SUPPOSED to be grocery shopping - I decided if "grocery shopping" was counting as "me time" I was going to tag on something I'd actually enjoy) and almost bought Twenties Girl - probably will next time I'm there.

I ended up buying the first two books in Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series (ie: that Trueblood is based on).  I'm a huge vampire fiction fan and figure I should at least read them.

On that - Cameron - let me know what you think of the Vampire Diaries books.  I honestly didn't really like them - and was disappointed that I didn't like them because I like YA Fiction AND vampires so I was really READY to like them.  They were okay - but it was one of the rare moments where I really think the TV Series is better than the books.


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