Current Read

[Tena]

What are you currently reading?

[Literary Feline]

I am reading a crime fiction novel called Teaser by Jan Brogan at the moment. It's gotten off to a good start.

[Florinda]

I'm just over halfway through The Pages in Between: A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home, a memoir by Erin Einhorn. I like it, but not quite as much as I expected to based on other bloggers' comments.

[Wendy]

I'm about half way through the 2008 Booker Prize winner -- The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga. I'm reading it for two book groups...and I am happy I'll be able to discuss it with others because it is a little confusing to me (I think because I am not all that knowledgeable about Indian politics, government and caste systems).

[Lisa]

I'm about finished with The School of Essential Ingredients (very nice book) and will start The Brief LIfe of Oscar Wao tonight.

[Amy]

I"m reading Fault LIne by Barry Eisler which was a LT ER book....it's just alright so far, but I'm only about 2 chapters into it.

[Florinda]

I'm about halfway through Buffalo Gal, a memoir of growing up in Buffalo, NY by Laura Pedersen. She's about my age, and I'm relating to a lot of her memories of a Northeastern childhood in the late '60's/'70's. It's a fun read, and I'm really enjoying it.

[Lisa]

I'll have to look for that one, Florinda! It sounds like something I'd like too.

[Mary K. from L.A.]

Hi, Florinda ~ How was Buffalo Gal? For a long time I've avoided reading about the era of my misspent youth, but now that I'm older and, if not wiser, at least past some of the angst I've carried around for 40 years, I've been reading and thinking about that time again.

Anyway, I recently heard about another book about the 60s that sounded good, so I signed up with HGB to review and give away copies of Sway, which is a novel about the wild 60s scene, on my blog Just One More Page...Or Two, in case you're interested.

[Mary K. from L.A.]

I'm enmeshed in Sarum, a doorstopper of a historical novel (at 1056 pages) by Edward Rutherfurd. I'm also reading The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George, another doorstopper at 944 pages. I got them both on the same day from the library, read a chapter of each to see which one I wanted to read first, and decided that I couldn't decide because I wanted to read both first. So...I'm about 1/3 through Sarum and 1/5 through Henry VIII.

[Caitlin Martin]

I'm about halfway through A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins & the Missing Agents of WWII. I won it as a member giveaway on LT & I am absolutely riveted.

It's about a woman who was in charge of sending agents into France to work with the resistance - many of them women. After the war the powers that be sort of expected their agents to just wander in, but she pushed for & led a concerted effort to find out what happened to these people.

I expected it to be interesting, but maybe kind of dry. Instead I'm having trouble putting it down. Great book.

[LadyD]

I just finished reading another Max Lucado book and posted a review: His Name Is Jesus

http://ladyd-books.blogspot.com

[Mary K. from L.A.]

Just received my copy of "The Girl Who Stopped Swimming" and started reading it right away. I'm really liking it and had a hard time putting it down last night to go to sleep.