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Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart.

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant, especially for anyone interested in themes of digital dystopia or the future of the human race vis-a-vis the interwebs.

I always have a "serious" book, a "read on the subway" book and an "improve myself" book going at once. Currently I'm reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, a murder mystery by British author Mark Billingham called Death Message and The 5 Love Languages.

I'm trying to finish up Cussler's latest adventure, Lost Empire, before it's due back at the library.

On the serious side....still working on my journal, Living the Truth based on Ablow's book of the same title.

Karen Armstrong's Buddha, Dostoyevsky's THe Brothers Karamazov (on the Nook - cheap $2 B&N Edition with scholarly essays, historical context, all the extras!!), The Invisible Gorilla (popular neuroscience, about the limitations of perception), and Joanne Dobson's The Northbury Papers (A Karen Pelletier Mystery).

oh a whim i bought myself a beautiful copy of wuthering heights a couple weeks ago

been busy, too busy to get into it... i tend to start a book and have to finish it by sunrise i don't like putting them down

so, my book and i have a date for tonight... finally

I am reading "Why My Third Husband Will Be A Dog".

ok that title just made me LOL!

I just finished The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, 3rd in the Steig Larsson Millennium Trilogy. I loved all three books

Enchanted Inc. for my book club.

It's an easy read. Which is good for me during the school year.

@Lucie. Me too. Just finishing the third Steig Larsson book. The character of Erica Berger was hard for me to take though, because I loved her character, but the cavalier attitude about the infidelity and sex the author's perspective was hard to take.

The Outsider by Albert Camus.

Great first line: "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."

ManA, what was the book you mentioned on Saturday? Was it something like "Hold me tight"? Cant remember...

Yup, that's it. Written by Sue Johnson.

Thanks - I'll check it out.

I just finished "Shanghai Girls" by Lisa See. She also wrote "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" which I enjoyed also.

Now I'm reading "Cutting for Stone" - so good. If you ever want to be transported to another time and place (anyone? anyone?) this is a great way to do it.

Finished The Lovely Bones last night. Susie Salmon will be with me for a little while in my thoughts. Today I started Pigeon Feathers by John Updike. Anyone else have a good short story collection they'd like to recommend?

Can someone help me with this? I am a voracious reader, and when the first Steig Larsson book Dragon Tattoo came out, I tried 2 separate times to read it. I got so bogged down in the detailed description of the paper shuffling business-speak about how someone got cheated through some monkeying with something or other, and all the business and finance machinations... quite frankly, I didn't understand it and couldn't follow or maintain any interest in the descriptions of financial dealings.

But people I know and trust tell me that the books are all very good, so I truly would like to read the series!

How important is it that I read through the laundry lists of money transfers in the beginning? Does the story hinge on me understanding what the first few chapters are about? Can I skip them and start reading from a further chapter in the book that starts talking about the story line? Or is the financial monkeying an important part of the story line itself?

Thanks!!!

I'm reading The Hunger Games. I think this is going to be this generation's Brave New World. Well, maybe that's an overstatement, but it is set in the future in a whole different kind of society than we're used to.

It is a very compelling book, but somewhat simplistic too, so it doesn't tax (challenge) me too much. That's nice sometimes, too.

wantmore,

I am reading The Hunger Games also! I am borrowing the other two books from my DS girlfriend .

I am really enjoying it so far and I enjoy talking about the book with my DS. He gave me several "fake" endings, the little brat.

On the subject of Short Story Collections, I just finished reading Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain. Warning: there's a lot of politics in it, so if global issues are not your thing, you may have problems with it. However, the author has won the O. Henry award, and if you enjoy irony, this is a very well-written book with plenty of irony to appreciate and just a teensy bit of hope.

The Secrets of a Fire-King was also entertaining and more of a social interest type of book. The characters' backgrounds vary widely, but the stories have similar themes.

One that I read recently that I was less impressed by was Everybody Loves Somebody by Joanna Scott. The first few stories were great, then she kind of veers off into fantasy land and rewrites the same story multiple times. Like 5 or 6. After a while, you kind of lose interest. She gamely sums it up in the last story in that sequence, but it lost something for me there. It was well-written, but I didn't enjoy it overall as much as I did the other two.