[mom2kylenkatie]

[shmode]

I've been really trying to get into "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" but i'm having a helluva time. Anyone else read it?

[momski98]

shmode, on Jul 28 2007, 07:58 PM, said:

I've been really trying to get into "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" but i'm having a helluva time. Anyone else read it?

I haven't read that one, but I did attempt "Wicked" by the same author and had to give up.

I'm reading the 6th book of Harry Potter. My mom stopped by today and dropped off #7...I had Kayleigh hide it from me til I finished #6. LOL

This post has been edited by momski98: 28 July 2007 - 09:32 PM

[pygmyhippo]

I'm still reading "Memory Keeper's Daughter" and I'm also reading Janet Evanovich's "Two for the Dough", thanks to Brenda who got me hooked on a new series!

I just started Memory Keeper's Daughter -- just a few chapters.

[Sarah]

I finished up Maeve Binchy's Whitethorn Woods on Thursday and started Lee Smith's Agate Hill today. Whitethorn Woods was definitely not Maeve Binchy's best. It had her usual cast of thousands with their lives intersecting in various ways, but it didn't have the depth of her other books, and the overriding thread through the story (saving a shrine in the woods, or not) was weak.

[sages]

shmode, on Jul 28 2007, 10:28 PM, said:

I've been really trying to get into "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" but i'm having a helluva time. Anyone else read it?

I just started it today. I have only read the the first couple of pages. I wil let you know what I think once I get a little further into it.

I also just finished Sins of the Seventh Sister by Huston Curtiss. Big thumbs up! It is descirbed as "Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil meets To Kill a Mockingbird as directed by David Lynch." It is based on the author's childhood starting in 1929. It was really a good read!

Amanda

[mom2kylenkatie]

shmode, on Jul 28 2007, 08:58 PM, said:

I've been really trying to get into "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" but i'm having a helluva time. Anyone else read it?

I read it and enjoyed it--stick with it.

Not my favortie book but worth the read...I had to get used to his writing

[CrackofDawn]

shmode, on Jul 28 2007, 07:58 PM, said:

I've been really trying to get into "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" but i'm having a helluva time. Anyone else read it?

I tried and just couldn't do it. Tried a couple others too of his, including Wicked and couldn't do those either.



Finished HP #6 yesterday, started Object Lessons, it's not thrilling me. I pulled this out of my bookcase at home, nothing else looked good though. Must get to the library today!

[mom2kylenkatie]

I am reading Catching Genius for my IRL book club...I think its by Kristy Kiernan. Just started it so cant say if I like it or not

[brenintx]

I read so much the last 2 weeks that I'm taking a break and catching up on my magazines (Woman's Day, Family Circle, OK, Reader's Digest, Ladies Home Journal and Family Fun).

[babymax0103]

The Tender Bar

enjoying for the most part, but it's taking me a while to slog through it for some reason . . . work and kids maybe? lol

this after finishing Mary, the historical novel on Mary Todd Lincoln . . . (very good but a bit long and fluffy in parts)

I think I'm due for a non-biography next

[mom2kylenkatie]

babymax0103, on Jul 30 2007, 11:03 PM, said:

The Tender Bar

enjoying for the most part, but it's taking me a while to slog through it for some reason . . . work and kids maybe? lol

this after finishing Mary, the historical novel on Mary Todd Lincoln . . . (very good but a bit long and fluffy in parts)

I think I'm due for a non-biography next

I did enjoy The Tender Bar but it did take me awhile to finish it. I just read an 800 page book called Forever by Peter Hamill that took me only 3 days and I heard there is a new series starting based on this book....I think the series is called New Amsterdam? You should try that one out. Its about a guy who is given the gift of living forever and it starts out in the 1700s and goes through 2001

[babymax0103]

mom2kylenkatie, on Jul 31 2007, 12:23 PM, said:

babymax0103, on Jul 30 2007, 11:03 PM, said:

The Tender Bar

enjoying for the most part, but it's taking me a while to slog through it for some reason . . . work and kids maybe? lol

this after finishing Mary, the historical novel on Mary Todd Lincoln . . . (very good but a bit long and fluffy in parts)

I think I'm due for a non-biography next

I did enjoy The Tender Bar but it did take me awhile to finish it. I just read an 800 page book called Forever by Peter Hamill that took me only 3 days and I heard there is a new series starting based on this book....I think the series is called New Amsterdam? You should try that one out. Its about a guy who is given the gift of living forever and it starts out in the 1700s and goes through 2001

oooh Amy that sounds RIGHT up my alley! thanks for the tip!

[pygmyhippo]

All right, it's Brenda's fault...I finished "Two For The Dough", Evanovich -- picked up "Three To Get Deadly" by Evanovich and haven't picked up "Memory Keeper's Daughter" because of it!

DH wants me to read "The Blue Nile" but I'm glancing at "Three To Get Deadly" instead....Hm...choices.

[Elizabeth]

I'm reading A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf.

My dad recently had it sent to me because he sensed during our vacation together with my family that I could use some space and time of my own. Love that perceptive man!

[pygmyhippo]

Elizabeth, on Aug 2 2007, 09:03 AM, said:

I'm reading A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf.

My dad recently had it sent to me because he sensed during our vacation together with my family that I could use some space and time of my own. Love that perceptive man!

That is great. I miss my dad so much...wonder if he would have sent books to me. You are so so lucky.

[brenintx]

pygmyhippo, on Aug 1 2007, 09:55 PM, said:

All right, it's Brenda's fault...I finished "Two For The Dough", Evanovich -- picked up "Three To Get Deadly" by Evanovich and haven't picked up "Memory Keeper's Daughter" because of it!

DH wants me to read "The Blue Nile" but I'm glancing at "Three To Get Deadly" instead....Hm...choices.

Just wait there are 12 or so more to read after that one A friend of mine started reading them last week too. Two is out at the library so she has to wait until it comes back.

[pygmyhippo]

brenintx, on Aug 2 2007, 05:58 PM, said:

pygmyhippo, on Aug 1 2007, 09:55 PM, said:

All right, it's Brenda's fault...I finished "Two For The Dough", Evanovich -- picked up "Three To Get Deadly" by Evanovich and haven't picked up "Memory Keeper's Daughter" because of it!

DH wants me to read "The Blue Nile" but I'm glancing at "Three To Get Deadly" instead....Hm...choices.

Just wait there are 12 or so more to read after that one A friend of mine started reading them last week too. Two is out at the library so she has to wait until it comes back.

Well, the saga continues, DH put "The Blue Nile" on my side of the bed. It's still sitting on top of my pillow. I read one chapter of "Memory Keeper's Daughter" and then more of "Three to Get Deadly"...I also picked up "Four to Score" in case I get done with this other one and need it! LOL -- I'm hooked. (I even travel with the book...I put it in my purse and read it while waiting to drop off/pick up kiddos, etc.!) Thanks for the recommendation, Brenda.