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Submitted by Karin Calloway on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 11:06am.
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Looking for a good read? Share what you're reading now, what you are dying to read or your favorite book!
Right now I'm reading: "A New Earth," by Eckart Tolle. (Okay, call me queen of the Oprah Book Club.)
I'm dying to read: I want to finish "Anna Karanina" by Tolstoy. My book club read it for our February meeting, but I didn't have time to get past the first two chapters.
My favorite book: "The Last Convertible" by Anton Myrer has always been a favorite. It is really more of a "guy book," but I loved the story of the group of friends during WWII, how all the guys were secretly in love with the same female member of their group...It was the first non-assigned reading I did after college and I remember loving the freedom of actually reading something by choice.
Bookshelf
Well, I'm currently reading "The Other Woman" by Jane Green. It's about a "monster-in-law." I haven't got past the first few chapter because I just started it, but her other book "Swapping Lives" was great! Other authors that I love are:
Ann Maxted (British writer and really funny)
Mary Kay Andrews (She sets all her stories in Georgia- Peachtree City, one was in Tybee, so on.)
Emily Giffin (her books are Something Borrowed; Something Blue; and Baby Proof- check them out- she lives in Atlanta!)
I'm also really good at reading books that later become movies (even if the movies pale in comparison to the book):
I read "The Devil Wears Prada" and if you've seen the movie but not read the book- get the book! The movie is nowhere near as good!
I read "The Nanny Diaries" which is now a movie (that I haven't seen)
I read "P.S. I Love You" which is now a movie (that I also haven't seen) but the book is fabulous!
Just thought I'd share a few of my favorite books and now that I finally got my bookshelf put together I can get them back under the same roof as me- seeing as they've been in storage since I left Athens over a year ago!
What I'm Reading
Last book I finished: The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc by Loraine Despres; I followed it with Lake Woebegon Summer 1956 by Garrison Keillor, but the last few pages were missing from my copy, so I didn't finish it. I'm still wondering what happened at the end.
Currently reading: Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor
Authors I love: Ferol Sams, Pat Conroy, Faulkner, Welty, Carson McCullers (not a complete list); any writer who can evoke real emotion from me, laughter, tears, elation, surprise, while I'm reading; any writer who gets me so involved in the story and the characters that I'm disappointed when I finish the book; any writer who tells the story so that in my mind I can go there.
There's nothing like a good book!
Lucy Adams is a syndicated columnist and the author of If Mama Don't Laugh, It Ain't Funny (Palm Tree Press, 2007).
Reading?
I'm catching up on the Harry Potters—on tape—does that count?
I figured it was time I finally know what my kids know, not just what was in the movies.
Meg
What I'm Reading (and What I've Read)
Currently, I'm reading Run, by Anne Patchett (one of my favorite authors). Anything by her is worth reading.
I just finished The Diving Bell & The Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby. It's about what the author's life is like after he suffers a stroke that leaves him with a condition called "Locked-in syndrome," where his only means of communicating is by blinking his eye. It's a very sweet story. I thought it might be depressing but it definitely wasn't.
Before that, I read The Stolen Child, a really weird book about two children who swap lives. One leaves the comfort of his home and joins a tribe of woodland children who don't age, while the other takes his place and attempts to immerse himself in his new family without being caught as an imposter. It's an interesting read, that's for sure!