Week of 9/16: What are you reading now? What's waiting on your nightstand?

[Caryl]

What are you reading this week? What are you looking forward to reading soon?

You can just list the book or books you're working on, or you can add a few sentences about them, or you can write a short review for us, if you like!

Share your book experiences with us here. http://www.storknet.com/boards/smile.gif

[SusanH]

I just finished House of the Spirits and Sex and the City. SatC was an utter disappointment and I don't know why I kept reading it. The characters were shallow, pathetic and totally uninteresting. What I like best about the show (the humor, the friendships) was completely missing here.

Now I'm reading The Lovely Bones and it is excellent! I was a little unsure about it at first (the first chapter is very upsetting), but now I'm completely absorbed.

Next up is probably Charms for the Easy Life or possibly Two for the Dough.

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[Ursula]

toh...sorrrrry

i'm starting fannie flagg's most recent book, Standing in th rainbow.

next is How to lose freinds and alienate people by toby young.

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[k-mom]

I just finished <u>Lord of the Rings</u> and I was so sorry for it to end. What a wonderful, magical read http://www.storknet.com/boards/smile.gif

I am now working on <u>Memoirs of a Geisha</u>. I just started it, so I haven't really gotten into the meat of it yet.

Then I have <u>The Nanny Diaries</u>waiting in the wings.

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Heather, 29
SAHM
DH - Sean, 31
DS - Tommy 12-10-99
DD - Gracie 03-09-01

[H'OHara]

Just finished the first section of The House of Spirits and I'm enjoying it.

[lissadivamama]

K-Mom - <u>Memoirs of a Geisha</u> is so wonderful! I really loved that book! I just got <u>Back When We Were Grownups</u> by Anne Tyler. My podunk library didn't have House of Spirits http://www.storknet.com/boards/frown.gif

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Melissa, 44
DH-Jesse, 45
Angel - 2/99
Benjamin James Primitivo
Born August 30, 2001, 5:44 pm EST
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[Caryl]

I just realized I hadn't replied to this post yet!

I'm still working on the same ones: Ahab's Wife, House of the Spirits and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Spirits. (I feel like I'm forever going to have the same reading news to report! http://www.storknet.com/boards/wink.gif )

Susan, I read Charms for the Easy Life years ago, and really enjoyed it. I'd like to read it again -- I don't remember much, except that it was about a grandmother, mother and daughter, and they were all very interesting people. (Esp. the grandmother!)

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Caryl
Mom to Charon, 7/19/99
Co-Moderator for the Reading Circle and Heart of the Home Forums
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
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[sandia]

Mind if I join in? http://www.storknet.com/boards/smile.gif
Right now I'm reading short stories by Somerset Maughan and am awaiting the arrival of a few books: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adams, The Story of Art by Gombrich, and the Aleph by Borges.

Edited because as a rookie I forgot to add my comments on the Somerset Maughan book http://www.storknet.com/boards/rolleyes.gif. It's not bad for short reads, although the stories seem to have the same structure after a while. Light reading. His later work is definitely better.

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Sandia, mama of:

Isabel feb.16,2000
Maya apr.10,2001

[This message has been edited by sandia (edited 09-19-2002).]