June: What are you reading?

[Trillian]

I just started reading Stephen King's "It."

[Spudd]

You're prompt, Trillian!

I'm reading a Canadian novel called "Nikolski". It was originally written in French but I'm reading the translation. So far, really good.

On audiobook I'm listening to "Water for Elephants" which is also amazing. I'd recommend it to anyone.

[Sílvia]

I'm still reading Dragonfly in Amber and I'm finding it painfully slow. Beverly, when does it pick up? I'm on page 357 and I feel like they've been in Paris doing basically nothing since the beginning of times!

[mellenhead]

Spudd I LOVED "Water for Elephants" - fantastic book.

I'm reading "Matterhorn" by Karl Marlantes. It's about the Vietnam War. I read fantastic reviews on this book and I HATE IT. I just cannot get in to it. I've been forcing myself to read it for the past few nights but I think I'm giving up. It's almost 600 pages and I just can't do it.

[mellenhead]

Anna did you like "Mennonite in a Little Black Dress"? It's on my list of books I want to read.

Ok, I hung on and kept reading "Matterhorn". OMG - FANTASTIC....once I got about 5 chapters in. I couldn't put it down. There is another book about Vietnam called "The Things They Carried" I want to check out now.

I just started "Then We Came to the End" by Joshua Ferris. I'm only about 20 pages in but I'm enjoying it so far.

[Spudd]

I finished "Nikolski". I didn't really like the ending, but I enjoyed the book overall.

Now I'm reading "Happenstance" by Carol Shields. So far I'm not loving it, hopefully it will pick up. It's an interesting idea... it's two novels about a married couple, one from the wife's point of view and one from the husband's. I'm reading the wife's first and I'm only a little ways in.

[Beverly]

Mellen, I LOVED Then We Came to the End! Joshua Ferris is such an amazing writer ... I just finished his second book The Unnamed, and it's just as fabulous as TWCTTE.

Earlier this week I read The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham. It's about a rebellious Hasidic girl growing up in NYC in the 70s. Pretty good.

Now I'm reading Words the Dog Knows by J.R. Carpenter. I think it was Blush who mentioned it a few weeks ago, and I couldn't resist the title ... I'm not far into it, but so far I'm liking it a lot.

[Bugsy]

I'm almost finished with my rereading of "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden. After Trillian mentioned it recently, it made me want to go back and read it again. Last time was in high school!

And today I picked up "The Monkey Wars" by Deborah Blum (nonfiction). She's a local author, and this one is about animal experimentation. I have a few of hers on my list, and since one of my goals for this year was to read more nonfiction books, this is the first one of hers that I chose.

[mellenhead]

I absolutely loved "Then We Came to the End" by Joshua Farris. I loved the writing and as an office drone I so related to all the characters and the set up in this book. I was so sad to finish it. I'm definitely going to check out his second book.

Right now I'm reading "Medium Raw" by Anthony Bourdain. I adored "Kitchen Confidential" and "A Cooks Tour" but all of his other books have kind of run together for me. "Medium Raw" is decent and he has some interesting stuff in there about other chefs and popular restaurants like French Laundry, Per Se, Alinea, etc but I find myself skimming a lot.