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I just finished The Namesake.

Started Pride and Prejudice on Audio.

Reading 1984

Reading Give it Up also, when I can.

I just finished Walking Shadow by Robert B. Parker. It's not at all the type of book I'd normally read (mass-market mystery), but my neighbor loaned it to me and therefore I felt obligated to read it. It was actually surprisingly good... completely far-fetched and ridiculous, but a really fast read that provided a relaxing mindless way to pass a couple of evenings.

Next up? I'm undecided. Leading candidates include...

Three Junes by Julia Glass (chicklit)
Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon (travel memoirs)
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear (scifi, suggested by a friend)
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
No Logo by Naomi Klein

I'm too 'blah' to read tonight, so we'll see what I'm in the mood for when the reading bug hits tomorrow.

I've read "Main Street" and "No Logo". They're both really dense books; you'll never read them straight through. But they're good.

I think you should start with "Three Junes".

Dense or not, I always read books straight through

We'll see what kind of mood I'm in tomorrow - dense or fluffy.

I just finished my Maeve Binchy (Evening Class) and I've started on "From a Buick 8" by Stephen King.

I ordered Interpreter of Maladies from Amazon, but they say it won't arrive until mid-March! Bastards!

Argh, Pride and Prejudice started skipping on the first CD! I quit listening (couldn't get through several parts...) and started For Laci by Sharon Rocha.

Still reading 1984 but momentarily pausing to squeeze in some short stories by Nikolai Gogol (because I read The Namesake and got interested).

Also reading Give it Up still.

Update: I cancelled my Amazon order and ordered from Chapters instead. It should be here this week! I'll definitely have time to read it in Cuba.

I just read A Paper Life, Tatum O'Neal's biography. She strikes me as a bit of a wingnut, but her life is really sad, and Ryan O'Neal comes off as a complete a**hole. I was also obsessed with "Bad New Bears" when I was little.

Now I have a self-help book called Complete Confidence, but I need some fiction to offset it. Any thoughts?

Read out book club book!

Crystal Meth wrote: I was also obsessed with "Bad New Bears" when I was little.

Me too!

That and Paper Moon.

I am reading The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. This guy is a genius. Here's the entry on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Gladwell

He also wrote Blink, which I read last week, and loved as well.

I am still reading Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley. It is very interesting.

I'm reading Shantaram, the best novel ever written according to a lot of amazon reviewers and a bunch of other people. I hope they're right, since it's 940 pages long and I'm only on page 138! I found the beginning boring, but I find most books boring in the beginning, so we'll see.

I am reading a fantastic book called Somebody's Someone by Regina Louise - it's a memoir of a black girl growing up in foster care in the South. This is one of those so-good-you-miss-you-train-stop books!

I'm reading The Hungry Ocean about a female fishing boat captain. It's really good!

Blush, I really liked The Tipping Point. It's a pretty popular book here at work. I actuall just started Blink by the same author.

I actually enjoyed The Tipping Point more.

I just finished The Bitch Posse by Marth O'Connor. This was definitely a darker look into the lives of teenage girls than is usually portrayed in novels. Sheesh.

Now I'm reading Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani. I think it's a character driven novel about a small town.

I just got Interpreter of Maladies from the library. It's really good so far; the language is beautiful.

Hey Crystal, that's short stories, right? I'm not crazy about short stories, but I LOVED The Namesake, so I might give Interpreter... a try.