I felt the same way...none of the characters are likeable. I'm glad I stuck with it, though...I was moved to tears by the end. I felt it explained J.K. Rowling's Lumos Foundation focus. Please come back and tell me what you think after you've finished reading it!

I chose Game of Thrones for a book club once... only one of us finished it, because they were into the show, which had just began on HBO. After that kid fell/got pushed off the wall, I was so lost.

Trying to finish "The Fault In Our Stars" so I can see the movie Tuesday!

Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg. It's a fantasy/historical fiction about the possibility of the Roman Empire never falling in the Middle Ages, nor the Hebrew Exodus from Egypt. It's rather dense, and every time the characters bring up certain ethnicities, they have to always stereotype them. It's getting annoying, but I really want to see how it turns out, because it ends up ending in about 1970 in our time.

That's the other annoying thing about it; all the dates are in A.U.C., so I have to constantly subtract 753 from the dates on the chapters. Right now I'm in the 1500's A.D., so I still have awhile.

"Past Imperfect" by Julian Fellowes. It's a very enjoyable read - perfect summer beachy book.

Just finished Toxic Bachelors and now reading Crossings.

I just finished "An Officer and a Spy" and it was GREAT. Novel-ized story of the Dreyfus Affair. It's by Robert Harris.

I was looking for some easy beach reading and I'm now on the last book of the Divergent series, Allegiant.

Decent, not too deep but a great quick read.

Written In My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon, the latest in her Outlander series.

I just finished it! I love the Outlander series.

Octagonal Raven .. SciFi by L E Modesitt

I just finished it, too! I hope we don't have to wait so long for the next one!

Well, I'd like to report back with my thoughts, but I simply never got into it enough to finish it. I very rarely start a book and not finish it - I feel like a quitter when I do that. But The Casual Vacancy just didn't do anything for me. When I had spare time, I wasn't inclined to read it. When I tried to read it, my mind wandered and I'd find myself reading the same sentence over and over. It just couldn't hold my attention when I was reading it, so I gave up.

So, now, I'm reading The Circle by Dave Eggers. I'm loving this one! I picked it up yesterday and am a third of the way through. It's tough to put down.

Mistress. ....by James Patterson

I'm reading Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku. I read his other book Physics of the Impossible and loved it. I love astronomy. I actually like it more than I do animals/wild life. :)

And all this time, I thought galaxy M-87 looked like a massive ball of stars with a strange tail emerging from it. It's just that since it emitted large quantities of radiation, at one point I though that weird "tail" thingy represented a stream of antimatter. But, according to Kaku (my other husband :p) it's actually energized by a huge black hole weighing perhaps 3-billion solar masses. And that strange "tail" is now believed to be a very large jet of plasma which is streaming out of, not into, the galaxy.

I am currently re-reading the first one (yet again!) in preparation for the TV series!

Just finished the last book in the Mortal Instruments series <3

True Love by Thich Nhat Hanh. For the zillionth time.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman.

I love celebrating with champagne because it means something awesome has happened. However, I don't really like the taste and it burns when the bubbles go up my nose. #Kanyeshrug

ETA: Ha! This clearly ended up in the wrong thread. Sorry guys, they have similar titles. :o


I'm about to start "Forever an Ex" by Victoria Christopher Murray. I got an autographed copy last weekend and can't WAIT to dive in. It's a sequel but Soror Murray said you don't need to read the first to understand this one. However, the first (The Ex Files) just got picked up to be a movie so I'll definitely read it.

Just finished Harvest and no into Grim Reaper.

Harvest about Jewish Familys from WWII to V N war.

Reaper in New Orleans.

Love to read books that are about places I have been which are a lot!
Brings back memories!!