It's November! What are you reading?

[Rachael]

I just finished "Where the Heart Is" by Billie Letts. Way better than the crappy movie with Natalie Portman. Now I'm reading "The Psycho Ex Game". It's coauthored by a TV writer and dude that was in the band Wall of Voodoo.

[mellenhead]

I just finished Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella. It was a cute fluff book. I also read Perfectly True Tales of a Perfect Size 12. It sucked and I have no idea why I read the whole thing.

Right now I'm in the middle of The Venetian Betrayal by Steve Berry. It's really good, but I love his books.

I have The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and The Children's Book: A Novel by A.S. Byatt waiting for me at the library. Hopefully I can get up there tomorrow.

[Crystal Meth]

I'm never going to make 50 books by the end of the year.

I'm reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog. It's a bit dry and philosophical, but I like dry and philosophical. Maybe that's why I can't blow through more books more quickly.

Blush, I saw Nick Hornby read from Juliet, Naked last month, and I liked the parts he read. He signed my copy of The Polysyllabic Spree.

[Rachael]

I'm reading The Hunger Games now. It is SO GOOD!

I had previously started "Made in the USA" by Billie Letts, but left it home yesterday. I was in the shop with tire repairs all afternoon and "The Hunger Games" was waiting for me at the library so I picked it up and was so disapointed my car only took an hour!

[mellenhead]

I just finished The Hunger Games. AWESOME BOOK. I loved it. I picked it up last night and finished it at lunch today - I couldn't put it down. I'm buying it for my Dad for Christmas, I think he'll like it.

I'm going to start on The Children's Book tonight.

EDITED TO ADD: After looking on Amazon to see the reviews on other books that Suzanne Collins wrote I realized Book 2 "Catching Fire" of The Hunger Games is already out! I'm going to go buy it tomorrow. There are over 80 holds already at the library and I just cannot wait that long. Rowan did you already read Book 2?

[Spudd]

I finished "First Meetings in the Enderverse" by Orson Scott Card. It was a quick fun read. Nothing to write home about.

Now I've just started the final book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. This is gonna take me a while. The book is huge.

[Rachael]

I just finished The Hunger Games. AWESOME BOOK. I loved it. I picked it up last night and finished it at lunch today - I couldn't put it down. I'm buying it for my Dad for Christmas, I think he'll like it.

I'm going to start on The Children's Book tonight.

EDITED TO ADD: After looking on Amazon to see the reviews on other books that Suzanne Collins wrote I realized Book 2 "Catching Fire" of The Hunger Games is already out! I'm going to go buy it tomorrow. There are over 80 holds already at the library and I just cannot wait that long. Rowan did you already read Book 2?

That's exactly what I did! Finished Hunger Games, saw online that the second book was out then ran to Target to buy it! My library doesn't have Catching Fire yet and I just couldn't wait. I'm about 100 pages in. Hopefully I can make some progress on it during the boring parts of Biggest Loser tonight.

[mellenhead]

Rach, I finished "Catching Fire" in 2 days. It was excellent and the story line towards the middle/end was totally not what I expected. I wonder when Book 3 will come out since it's a trilogy.

I just started reading The Third Secret by Steve Berry. I'm not liking it very much though so I may bail on it if I don't get more into when I read before bed tonight.

[Rachael]

I finished "Catching Fire" last night! I am so bummed that we have to wait for the third book to come out!

[Spudd]

I added "The Hunger Games" to my Amazon wishlist thanks to you guys's recommendations. I hope someone gets it for me for xmas!

[Beverly]

I finished People of the Book last week, and it was so, so good. Now I'm trying to get into fantasy novel called Humility Garden by Felicity Savage (that HAS to be a pen name). I found it on one of Olof's bookshelves and was drawn in by the title. I'm not much of a fantasy reader though, so we'll see how it goes.

[Rachael]

I added "The Hunger Games" to my Amazon wishlist thanks to you guys's recommendations. I hope someone gets it for me for xmas!

Add the next book, "Catching Fire". You'll want it right away about you finish "The Hunger Games"!

[Rachael]

Finished "Made in the USA".

Next up, "King of Lies" by John Hart.

[Rowan]

Can't believe it's the middle of the month and I'm just posting now. Didn't get to read much at Disney but I'll update what I did get through later.

Regarding Hunger Games/Catching Fire....loved, loved Hunger Games (one of my fave reads this year) and enjoyed Catching Fire but didn't love it like Hunger Games. I felt that the story was rushed.

[Spudd]

Rach, I considered that, but then I thought maybe someone would get me the sequel and not get me the original, not realizing they were a series. So I thought I better play it safe and just put the first one on there.

[Rachael]

Regarding Hunger Games/Catching Fire....loved, loved Hunger Games (one of my fave reads this year) and enjoyed Catching Fire but didn't love it like Hunger Games. I felt that the story was rushed.

I agree with that, but am still anxiously awaiting book 3!

[Crystal Meth]

Beverly - I looked up People of the Book. It has now been wishlisted.

[mellenhead]

I gave up on The Childrens Story - could not get into it.

I picked up The 19th Wife by Dave Eforgettherestofhisname and The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer. I started 19th Wife last night - it's good so far.

[Bugsy]

I finally finished that Oliver Sacks book last week sometime. I was kind of disappointed in it (a lot, actually), because I'd just start to get interested in a case that was discussed when the section would stop and he'd go onto the next patient. I wanted to know more about some of them!

fwiw, I also find that this is what bugs me about short story collections. I'm always like, "But I was enjoying that story! Why'd it stop so soon?"

I also got the second Sookie book ("Living Dead in Dallas") and finished that today. I was in the mood for some lighter reading, and it sure fit the bill. I sped right through it and enjoyed this one much more than the first.

Not sure what I'll be digging into next.

[mellenhead]

Bugsy that is why I can't read short stories....that drives me crazy.

And I got much more into the Sookie books as I went along. Jeff got me the box set of the first 6 or 7 books and the first two I was kinda of "eh" over but starting really getting into the characters as I went along.