What are you reading? (May 07)

Malanee · Post by **Malanee** » Sun May 06, 2007 2:03 pm

The Hungry Tide by Ghosh: I don't know if I'll finish it - I'm kind of bored

YOU on a diet: It has a lot of fluff, but if you just read the gray sections, it is very helpful

Back Roads: I read this a while ago, but didn't realize it was the same book until I was half way through. It was good, so I finished it.

I've got a stack I'm going to read, starting with The Labyrinth.

Lady Bug · Post by **Lady Bug** » Sun May 06, 2007 5:12 pm

Ruth,

I just bought You: On a Diet in audio format. I'm hoping to get some real knowledge from it . . .

I'm getting ready to start reading an anthology of travel essays by black women to prepare for my trip this summer to Paris!

Malanee · Post by **Malanee** » Sun May 06, 2007 5:17 pm

I didn't know you were going to Paris! I loved Paris! OMG - the food is so amazing.

Let me know what you think about YOU on a diet...

Post by **Spudd** » Sun May 06, 2007 5:55 pm

I'm *still* slogging through the damn Anne Rice book.

Crystal Meth · Post by **Crystal Meth** » Sun May 06, 2007 9:06 pm

Reading a yummy collection of short stories by a Toronto author. It's called "Natasha", the writer is David Bezmozgis.

Malanee · Post by **Malanee** » Tue May 08, 2007 11:03 am

I just finished Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. I loved it!

Here are the other books on my list:

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Storm of the Century by Stephen King
Are You Somebody? by Nuala O'Faolain
Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Lady Bug · Post by **Lady Bug** » Tue May 08, 2007 6:03 pm

Malanee wrote:
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

This is an incredible book. I think you'll enjoy it!

Crystal Meth · Post by **Crystal Meth** » Mon May 14, 2007 4:48 pm

I'm a little annoyed with myself. I just started reading "Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures". I was swayed by it, because it won the Giller Prize, and it IS well-written.

But it's medical fiction, and I am a wuss and should have known better. I put it down when they started (poetically) cutting open the cadavers.

Blush · Post by **Blush** » Tue May 15, 2007 12:38 pm

I read Because She Can by Bridie Clark. It's the Devil Wears Prada for the publishing world. It was fluff, but I needed fluff.

Now I'm reading the not-so-fluffy Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson. It takes place in Sweden and is about the unlikely friendship of an elderly woman and a younger one.[/u]

Crystal Meth · Post by **Crystal Meth** » Sat May 19, 2007 11:18 am

I'm reading "The Year of Magical Thinking" and it's very beautiful, but OH MY WORD it's sad. I keep thinking about my mother too, it's only as I get older that I can start to understand how it must have felt for her to have her spouse/life partner die at a young age.