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i'm starting Life after Life by Kate Atkinson!

I'm reading the fourth Sookie Stackhouse book.

@FutureMrsMcK: I want to read that!!

I started "Bicoastal Babe" by Cynthia Langston - it was a free eBook on Amazon at one point. It's your typical chick lit type book and mindless reading but sometimes we need that

I think I'm going to read "Gulp" by Mary Roach.

I'm lately obsessed with Lionel Shriver. I started with 'We Need to Talk About Kevin', which is utterly gripping. Then I read her latest book, 'Big Brother', which was just as compelling without the violence and really tragic ending. I'm going back and reading some of her earlier stuff now, which is interesting. I really like everything I've read so far.

I'm reading The Tao of Martha by Jen Lancaster. She vowed to try and emulate all things Martha for a year -it's a fun read.

Um, a guide to hypnobirthing: the mongan method.

@sarac: Have you read the Post Birthday World? I loved it. I've been thinking about reading We Need to Talk About Kevin. I need to get on that.

@FutureMrsMcK: a friend just loaned me Defending Jacob. I have a few other books I was planning to read first like Gone Girl and Wild. It's great to hear your mom loved the book so much, I might have to bump it up to top of my list!

@sarac: I loved We Need to talk About Kevin and I have a couple of her other books sitting around my house that I've yet to read. I loaned "So Much for That" to a friend and she really liked that one.

As soon as I get some free time I'm going to start "The Eye of God", the latest in the Sigma series by James Rollins.

@delight: IMO Gone girl wasn't worth the hype and Wild is fairly good. I'd go with that one first.

Homeward Bound: New Domesticality

I am starting Divergent soon and I would recommend Case Histories by Kate Atkinson.

Just finished The Fault in Our Stars. It was beautiful but I sobbed reading it. Halfway through World War Z, I really like it but I'm struggling for some reason.

I only read non fiction these days. I am working on two books right now:

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures by Colin Woodward

The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples by David Gilmore

I loved Defending Jacob, but I was so mad I had no one to talk about it with at first.

The Kitchen House was amazing. I love Civil war era historical fiction. Blue Aslyum was really good too.

@Running Elley: @MrsKoala @IRunForFun I am JUST now reading The Post Birthday World, and so far I really like it. I loved We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Big Brother. So then I went to read The Female of the Species, and yeah, it's weird and not nearly as good. My edition of the book had an essay from the author about how it was her first book, and that she's glad to have evolved in her writing ability since then. She was pretty clearly saying 'this book is good, but it gets way better', which seems to be the case. I'm eager to go read all of her stuff to see the entire arc of her talent.

As an aside, I see the criticism of Big Brother. It was based on her real life experience with an obese brother who died, so I tried to excuse her feelings. But there is some really ugly sentiment about overweight people. I'd personally suggest avoiding it to anyone who would take that personally.

@IRunForFun: Oh and as far as not loving her early stuff, I definitely agree. I rank the ones I have read like this:

We Need to Talk About Kevin
Post Birthday World
Big Brother
So Much For That
Double Fault

I just finished reading Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan... I enjoyed it so much that I'm re-reading it again! It's s fictional tale about billionaires in Singapore and super entertaining. It also inspired me to start planning a trip to Singapore! Hoping to go later this year.