It's September...what are you reading?

[Rowan]

4 pages in August ladies...very exciting.

Got some good reading in this weekend:

The Expats: Chris Pavone
Dare Me: Megan Abbott
One More Thing Before I Go: Jonathan Tropper

I have a pile waiting for me at the library so I'll go pick those up this afternoon.

[Spudd]

I got Insurgent from the library, and so far I'm enjoying it (not as much as the first one, though).

Additionally, I'm still in the middle of Fall of Giants, but put it on hold since Insurgent came in for me. It's pretty good, I'm surprised at how interesting he's able to make history.

[mellenhead]

I'm about 1/4 of the way through A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin. It is excellent.

[Bugsy]

I've started but am barely into "A Feast for Crows" by George R.R. Martin. It always takes me a few chapters to get into these books, but then I love them. I'm about to go get hopefully two read before bed.

Glad you're enjoying this one too, Mellenhead! Some crazy stuff starts happening in book 2!

[Rowan]

Currently reading When She Was Good by Laura Lippman. I really like her stand alone books. She has a series but haven't been able to get into it.

[Rowan]

Finished When She Was Good last night and really liked it.

I grabbed a book from the pile for hockey tonight. Gone Missing by Linda Castillo - it's the 4th in a murder/mystery series that dabbles in Amish country.

[Annie]

I'm quitting both of my current books: Prophet's Prey and Nightwoods. The former is just a little to factual/dry for me when I'm tired (I read before bed). The latter is really clunky to read. Does not flow nicely and I keep getting bogged down trying to translate the awkward structures. I QUIT.

So now I'm on to The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian. I'll start it tonight or on the plane tomorrow.

[mellenhead]

I finished A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin. I'm so in love with these books. Anyway, it was awesome.

I stopped at the library tonight and picked up Laura Lamonts Life in Pictures and A Storm of Swords. I'll probably read the Laura Lamont book first before I fall down the rabbit hole of George R.R. Martin again.

[Bugsy]

You finished that book in a WEEK, Mellenhead?! Goddamn you're a fast reader!

And this:

...before I fall down the rabbit hole of George R.R. Martin again.

is such a good way to describe the experience of those books. Love it!

[Sílvia]

I don't know about Mellen, but Rowan reads like 3 books in an afternoon!

Those books are fantasy, right? I picked one of them up at the store the other day and was bored before I finished the blurb. Soooo not my thing.

I finished The Thirteenth Tale. It was a reread, I was reading it because someone compared it to The Forgotten Garden and I wanted to check it out, because I didn't remember much. They have some elements in common, but that's all. NOT the same story, like some goodreads reviewers said. The Forgotten Garden is better, though I did enjoy The Thirteenth Tale at the time. The latter is a bit too dark and depressing. It has gratuitous murders, incest, child neglect and abandonment, etc. Too many bad things. And man, I did NOT remember the plot. I thought I remember a twist at the end. Yes, there was a twist, but it's not as I remembered it. My memory sucks. Or maybe it's because I was pregnant when I read it.

Now I started The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards (the author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter). No opinion yet.

[Rowan]

Silvia, you just made me bust out laughing. I am a fast reader...but it would probably take a whole day before I finished 3 books. I daresay my deserted island honey mellen is a faster reader than me. Plus she has that awesome commuting time.

[Sílvia]

but it would probably take a whole day before I finished 3 books

[mellenhead]

You finished that book in a WEEK, Mellenhead?! Goddamn you're a fast reader!

I get obsessive when I'm reading a good book. Like I carry it with me and will read at any given opportunity, even if it's only for a few minutes. I have issues.

[Sílvia]

I gave up on the Kim Edwards. SO boring. I hate to abandon books, but when you're bored to death at page 90, that's not a good sign, is it? Then my cleaner misplaced it on Friday and I didn't find it until Saturday and didn't miss it one bit. Not a good sign either, uh?

Now I'm reading The Innocents by Laura Lippman, which is a little less boring but still not great It seems to be going EXACTLY where I thought it was. Sigh. I hope I'm wrong. Why don't I just start the 2 Stephen Kings I have waiting for me?

[Beverly]

Mostly I'm reading school stuff (early modern European history), but when I take a break from that I'm working on The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.

[Annie]

Still slogging through "The Double Bind". Oh my goodness...not sure what's going on. It's good but I guess it's just not that compelling. I only half care about all of the characters.

Next up is "Tell the Wolves I'm Home". From the LIBRARY. You guys would be proud of me. (Though as I flipped through the pages, I saw a 10pg section that has some water damage and I instantly though, I hope there aren't bedbugs in this book too.)

[Rowan]

Finished Gone Missing by Linda Castillo last night. I liked it but not as much as her others...she's getting a bit formulaic.

Not sure what's next. I didn't read at all last week - not sure why.

[Spudd]

I finished Insurgent last week. I thought it was good, but not nearly as good as the first one. Is that the general consensus?

At the same time, I got 3 investment books from the library:
How to Trade in Stocks by Jesse Livermore - not recommended (it is targeted at people who want to "play" the stock market rather than investors)
Your Money & Your Brain by Jason Zweig - This was very interesting. It was all about the relationship between psychology and your investing habits.
The Single Best Investment by Lowell Miller - I'm only part way through this one, so far it's interesting and seems useful.

I also picked up Cinder yesterday, but I'm going to finish that third investing book before I start on it. It will be my reward.

[Rowan]

Oooh...I hope you like Cinder!

Divergent was definitely better than Insurgent. But that doesn't mean I'm not looking forward to book 3!

[mellenhead]

I felt the same way about Insurgent. Parts of it dragged a bit and it just wasn't as interesting as Divergetn. I am looking forward to the next book though.

I really enjoyed Cinder as well!