Looking to add a few books to my to read list so I have something lined up after I finish my current book. I'm currently reading The 5th Wave and I'm really enjoying it! I'll probably read the 2nd book in the series if I can get my hands on it soon.
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Good choice! I loved The 5th Wave!
And since you're enjoying that, I would highly suggest Red Rising by Pierce Brown (warning: it starts off slow). The whole series is AMAZING. I just finished the last book, Morning Star!
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I"m doing a reading challenge this year, and one is a book you've read before. So I'm rereading Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone.
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Currently reading 'Under the Never Sky' Series by Veronica Rossi... It'd be a good read after the 5th wave series!
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I'm nearly finished with the 4th Elena Ferrante book, The Story of the Lost Child. I've loved the series so far. After this, I'm planning on reading Sword of Glass, which is the 2nd book in a fantasy series. And after that, The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman. I e read the 1st two books in the Magicians series but never got around to the 3rd. We are watching the Magicians show on SyFy, though, and it's rekindled my interest so I want to finish the series now.
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@Adira: My husband is obsessed with this series. He really wants me to read the books so we can talk about it!
@josina: I really liked that series!
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I just started Helen Rappaport's The Romanov Sisters. So far this year I've read The Nightingale, All the Light We Cannot See, The Martian, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, What's Wrong with the World and The Girl on the Train. I didn't care for the last but would recommend the rest.
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@twodoghouse: You're suggestion is why I'm reading it
Loving it so far.
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@josina: @twodoghouse: Oooh, totally approve of Under the Never Sky too! I just got the third book of that series for Christmas. I need to read it!
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I'm reading "A God Among Ruins" by Kate Atkinson, and "Above All Things" by Tanis Rideout.
@rattles: We have similar taste! Everything on your list I've either read or have on my Kindle waiting for me to make time, and I was also not a fan of Girl on the Train.
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@erinbaderin: oh I'll have to add yours to my list then! I'm running low on my "to-read" list and am glad for some recommendations
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I am reading the second Game of Thrones book, A Clash of Kings.
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Right now I'm reading "after you" by JoJo Moyes. It's the sequel to "me before you", which I just finished this week. Very good!
Right before that I read Big Little Lies by Lianne Moriarty. Great book! (I like her a lot).
I've really revived my love of reading lately. I haven't read anything since LO was born except on vacation. I've started turning off the TV a half hour before I want to go to bed and reading. It's lovely
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Currently about to finish The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. It's interesting, but dragging on a bit for me. I just found out it's going to be a Scorsese movie, which I think it will adapt perfectly too. A movie version might actually be better for the way the book is written.
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I tend to read thematically and my current topic du jour is mountaineering/mountaineering disasters. I just finished Left for Dead, which is about a guy who survived the Everest disaster of '96. Next I'll probably re-read Into Thin Air to refresh my memory of the disaster, then move onto a book about the K2 disaster of '08. Uplifting stuff, lol
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the japanese lover by isabel allende. it's a good read. and just finished the passage, a vampire post-apocalyptic book--fun but kind of dragged by the end, and i don't think i'm going to pick up the other books in the series.
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I'm reading Paper Towns. Not great, but good enough (and quick enough) that I'll finish it. It's by John Greene (The Fault in Our Stars).
My book club book is All the Light we Cannot See. So that will be next.
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I just recently read "Inside the O'Briens" from Lisa Genova. She wrote "Still Alice." It was a fast, sappy read.
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Little Women. I was just craving an old favorite
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Stuff my husband aptly calls "smut".
Last non-smutty book I read was Room. It was a great book and a great movie.
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@edelweiss: I've read almost all of Isabel Allende's books. Is this her newest?
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@Mrs Green Grass: I just finished All the Light we Cannot See. I liked it!
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All the Light We Cannot See
Sharp Objects
Inside the O'Briens
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@stiletto_mom: such a great movie!!! I want to read the book now
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@sandy: The movies stays pretty true to the book which I liked. The book has more details that the movie missed out on. Definitely a good read. I borrowed my copy from the library, but I wouldn't mind buying it!
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I'm currently reading a book called The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. It's about a very little known bible charactor Dinah that the author expands and fills in the blanks about her life. So the story is fiction but interweaves in the bible characters surrounding this Dinah. I'm not super religious and I'm not super aware of the more bigger bible characters in the book but it's an inferesting concept to take the perspective of a female and imagine what her life was like at the time.
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@Adira: I'm reading this now!! Love it! Almost done with the first book and can't wait to read more! Very fun book. Like Lord of the Flies meets Hunger Games in space.
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@BananaPancakes: looooved that book!! Keep reading, gets better!
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@SweetiePie: I didn't realize "Me Before You" had a sequel! I'm going to read it next! Did you read What Alice Forgot? It's my favourite Lianne Moriarty book.
I'm reading Lori Lansens' "The Mountain Story." Her book "The Girls" is one of my all time favs.
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@delight: Yes! I loved Me Before You so much. It was on my list for a while and then I heard the movie is coming out this summer so I knew I had to read it before it got spoiled for me. And at the end of the kindle book it had a preview for After You. I had to wait a few days to start it because I was too emotional from finishing the first one.
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I just finished "The Unspoken" (so good)!
Now I'm reading "A Head Full of Ghosts".
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Just finished guns germs and steel. Interesting but not really my style.
And the little princess for the book riot read harder challenge (challenge 5: read a middle grade book).
Best book I've read this year is church of marvels and the Cathill witches trilogy.
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Out of the Ice - a new thriller set in Antarctica, I think it's from an Aussie author?
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@hellobeeboston: Ooh, good to know. I've been dragging it out because the Worlds Fair part of the story has become a little tedious. I love history, so I was surprised I got annoyed by it, but I do want to know how it ends, so I'll try to get it done this weekend.
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@hellobeeboston: Yes!! It reminded me very much of The Hunger Games, but overall, I liked the Red Rising series better, if you can believe that!! Enjoy!
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@Adira: I do believe it. I feel like I already like the first book better than all of the hunger games books
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@hellobeeboston: Eeeeh!! Enjoy reading the rest of the series!!!
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@autumn865: i really liked the red tent! have you read anything else by her?
@Alba4: yes, i think it is! i like her writing style and her characters. do you have any favorites of hers? i've only read a few (house of spirits and eva luna). -
@rattles: how was the lusitania book? i was thinking of reading it.
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I just finished the Girl of Fire and Thorns series (suggested by @twodoghouse: in another thread) and LOVED it. I have no idea what to read next because I'm still hung up on Elisa! Lol.
Loving it so far.
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