https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:34:53 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-10927 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:58:54 +0000 .twist. 10927@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ sorrycharlie: I loved the Sookie Stackhouse novels as well! Totally a guilty pleasure and actually some of the better vampire books I've read. </p> <p>I just finished reading the Millenium Trilogy! So fantastic. Some of the best books I've ever read. I didn't want them to end at all. The first movie comes out on December 21 and I'm SO EXCITED to go see if they did a good job! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-10926 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:53:46 +0000 sorrycharlie 10926@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The Help was phenomenal (as was the movie!), within the past year I read the Hunger Games (really good, couldn't put them down!) and all the Sookie Stackhouse novels (such guilty pleasure). </p> <p>I will also shamelessly admit to reading the Percy Jackson series. My brother read them and I was so bored, I figured what the hey. They were pretty good! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-10821 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:57:26 +0000 lavender 10821@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just finished Girl in Translation and The Piano Teacher, both were really good! Now I'm reading Simon Pegg's autobiography, Nerd do Well </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-10673 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:42:46 +0000 Adira 10673@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I recently read <u>Genesisi</u> by Benard Beckett. Sooooo good. Very different from anything I've read lately. Also a quick read - only about 150 pages. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-10583 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:20:09 +0000 MaisyMay 10583@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ Mrs. Green Grass - I've read that one! It was a really touching story. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-10568 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:21:35 +0000 Red 10568@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>All the books I've been reading lately are either baby-related (The Diaper-Free Baby, Nurture Shock, Toddler 411, etc.) or business books (The Handmade Marketplace), or relationship books (And Baby Makes Three). </p> <p>The last fiction books I read were Darkly Dreaming Dexter (just as good as the TV series), Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, and Heat Wave (from the TV show Castle - decent but not great). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-10539 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:03:17 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 10539@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak - A Holocaust novel from a young French girl's perspective. Beautifully written!</p> <p>I just downloaded The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks...excited to find time to start it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-10374 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:19:32 +0000 Killer b 10374@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I re-read all the Sookie Stackhouse books during the first two months of motherhood. Made those night-feedings fly right by! I bought the Hunger Games, but I'm having issues downloading it to my Nook with my wifi. Grrr. I need to go camp out at a McDonald's or something so I can start reading them! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-10365 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:02:15 +0000 mrstaffy 10365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just Kids by Patti Smith was incredible! Also, interesting timing with the closing of the Chelsea Hotel. I am almost finished with Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence by Paul Feig (creator of the show Freaks and Geeks), and it has been really hilarious. I also loved Role Models by John Waters. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-10362 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:36:37 +0000 tequiero21 10362@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>recently read "thirst" by christopher pike - vampire book. i thought it was a really fast read and i enjoyed it. bought it at borders for $3. i want to read the next installment. not sure i want to pay full price for it though haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-10290 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:47:38 +0000 SweetMamaM 10290@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The stand-out book to me lately was Room by Emma Donaghue... the narrator is a five-year-old boy so the reading isn't too full on, even though the content is heavy.</p> <p>I love big long saga books (Penny Vincenzi for example) and am dying to settle in during the holidays and read Bryce Courtenay's "Solomon's Song" after devouring "The Potato Factory" and "Tommo and Hawk" from the school library.</p> <p>I'm also very keen to get "The Wild Rose", the third novel in the Rose series by Jennifer Donnelly, but I'm yet to see it in paperback and would love to add it to my collection. OCD bookworm, who me? ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-10279 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:09:28 +0000 MaisyMay 10279@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Chopsuey - I was going to offer to send it to you too! Let us know if you change your mind. </p> <p>I read "Dreaming in English" which was very good. It's the sequel to "Veil of Roses" about an Iranian woman who comes to the US on a tourist visa with the intent of getting married. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-10220 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:54:38 +0000 mrsjyw 10220@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Life of Pi, Little Bee, Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Art of Racing in the Rain, The Help, Cutting for Stone, Blind Faith were all great Kindle reads! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-10208 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:38:06 +0000 chopsuey 10208@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@juliekim you're SO sweet!! my SIL has the book so I'm going to borrow it from her. THANKS so much for offering though! &lt;3 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-10135 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:36:16 +0000 yourekindapretty 10135@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i have the Tiny Fey's "Bossy pants" and the three "hunger games" books to read. ive been too lazy to start any of them!<br /> (i also have them in pdf versions if anyone wants me to share!)</p> <p>@chopsuey119 - i have "the help" in hard copy if you want to borrow it. i'd be happy to mail it to you - let me know! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-9903 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:04:10 +0000 looch 9903@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: I just finished At Home! I thought it was great too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-9864 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 04:57:22 +0000 Andrea 9864@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Looch - I am also reading a Bill Bryson, At Home. I always pick up one of his books when I can't decide what else to read. </p> <p>Before At Home, I read the Hunger Games series, highly recommend! </p> <p>I read The Help a while ago and thought it was just OK. I know a lot of people who really liked it, though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-9858 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 04:03:53 +0000 MH.Abroad 9858@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just finished "The Places In Between" by Rory Stewart. It's the true story of the author who walked across Afghanistan.<br /> I enjoyed it, great book. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-9856 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:33:28 +0000 looch 9856@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love to read, but post baby I find I don't have the time, so I end up reading nonfiction mostly because I can pick it up whenever and not have to remember plots and characters.</p> <p>Right now, I am reading Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson. It's the story of the English language, fascinating! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-9784 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:57:02 +0000 eeh 9784@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Inconceivable by Sean and Carolyn Savage is a heartbreaking book about their experience with IVF where the wrong embryo was put into Carolyn and they had to decide if they were going to have an abortion or carry the baby to term and have to give it up to the biological family. It was devastating to read. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-9769 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:34:39 +0000 chopsuey 9769@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I read about 35 pages of "The Help." Why only 35? I downloaded the preview on ibooks, but didn't wanna buy it. It was pretty good and I wanted to continue reading.. just didn't wanna pay $9.99 for it :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/read-any-good-books-lately#post-9762 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:23:51 +0000 mrbee 9762@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just read "Ready Player One", which is kind of a futuristic cross between "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" and "Snow Crash":<br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X</a></p> <p>Basically some guy has to solve a series of puzzles based on 1980's trivia... in order to win a huge prize. The '80s trivia part was right up my alley, so it was a fun read.</p> <p>I just bought Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, but I'm not sure I'll love it. I tend to love his shorter novels, but have found his longer novels to be too ambitious for the likes of me. But maybe I'm just not smart enough to appreciate them.</p> <p>Read any good books latley? </p>