Grab a Book & Play Booktivity! discussion

Here's the place to share the books you are currently reading?

January 20 - currently reading
TEXT - "I Heard You Paint Houses" / Charles Brandt
AUDIO in the car - The Women / T.C. Boyle
Portable AUDIO - 13½ / Nevada Barr

Currently Reading:
A Doctor in the House: My Life with Ben Carson by Candy Carson

Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s by Jennifer Worth

Diana S wrote: "Currently Reading:
A Doctor in the House: My Life with Ben Carson by Candy Carson

Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s by Jennifer Worth"
Diane
I loved the Call of the Midwife books. I also am watching the tv series.

Currently Reading:
for a F2F book club
My choice

Reading SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard.

Patty wrote: "Diana S wrote: "Currently Reading:
A Doctor in the House: My Life with Ben Carson by Candy Carson

Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s by Jenn..."

Me Too Patty, I enjoyed reading the book so much I started watching the tv series on Netflicks. Its really good.

I am currently reading and listening to Uprooted by Naomi Novik. I am halfway through The Folding Knife by K.J. Parker, but I have set it aside until I am done Uprooted.

Beverly wrote: "Currently Reading:
for a F2F book club
My choice"

FINSHED by Sharyn McCrumb 5 stars
STARTED: Floating in My Mother's Palm by Ursula Hegi

Beverly wrote: "Currently Reading:
My choice"

FINSHED by Sh..."
FINISHED "My choice" by Gregory Maguire 3 stars
FINISHED Floating in My Mother's Palm by Ursula Hegi 4 stars
STARTED Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
STARTED Welcome to Night Vale

Currently reading Of Mice and Men and waiting for Lord of the Flies to arrive in the mail. I change my reading list depending on what comes available from OverDrive or I find something on Amazon.

Marti wrote: "Currently reading Of Mice and Men and waiting for Lord of the Flies to arrive in the mail. I change my reading list depending on what comes available from OverDrive or I find something on Amazon."

Going to see a performance of Of Mice and Men tonight at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre.

How was the performance?

Diana S wrote: "How was the performance?"

Spectacular! One of the best "Lennie"s I've ever seen (and I've seen the play three times, and two movie versions). Even though I know what's coming it still hits me like a punch in the stomach ... crying as I left the theater.

FINSHED by Sh..."
FINISHED "My choice" by ..."

FINISHEDWelcome to Night Vale
STARTEDIf Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy O

The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings I picked this up on Bookbub this week. The speed of their ships was their most effective advantage.

January 31

TEXT - The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop / Lewis Buzbee

AUDIO in the car - Theft: A Love Story / Peter Carey

Portable AUDIO - The Girl on the Train / Paula Hawkins

Finished by Sharyn McCrumb

Started by Jenny Milchman

Currently reading

Finished by Karen Abbott

Started by Ian McEwan

Finishing
The 13th Hour

Starting
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Finished Of Mice and Men, still in the middle of Chattanooga and started Lord of the Flies last night late! I need to get organized!

Finished by Jenny Milchman

Started by Michael Punke

Finished by Michael Punke

Started by Beth Pattillo for a book club discussion.

Feb 7, 2016 currently reading:
Text: The Color of Water by James McBride
Audio in the car: Radiant Angel by Nelson DeMille
Portable audio: The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Night People, book 1- Things We Lost In The Night: A Memoir Of Love And Music In The 60's Night People, Book 1

Have also started listening to by Charles Dickens

and reading by Mary Rose Wood

Feb 8 - currently reading

TEXT – Hail to the Chef / Julie Hyzy
AUDIO in the car - All the Light We Cannot See / Anthony Doerr
Portable AUDIO - The Girl on the Train / Paula Hawkins

Finished by Beth Pattillo

Started by Camara Laye

Finished by Ian McEwan

Started by Helen Macdonald

Finished No Other Darkness and started In the Shadow of the Glacier

Finished by William Golding, still plugging away at by Chet Rayno, and am thoroughly enjoying by George Papashvily.

Finished by Camara Laye

and started by Ann Turner

Finished by Ann Turner

and started by Jennifer Chiaverini

February 15: currently reading
Text-- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Audio in the car-- The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
Portable Audio-- My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Feb 15 - currently reading

TEXT – A Brief History of Montmaray
AUDIO in the car - All the Light We Cannot See / Anthony Doerr
Portable AUDIO - Dream When You're Feeling Blue

Feb 18 - currently reading
TEXT - The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
AUDIO in the car - The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck (this promises to be a long, slow slog but I'm reading for 2 different book clubs!)
Portable AUDIO - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

BOOK

CAR AUDIO

KINDLE

COMPUTER AUDIO

Feb 28 – currently reading

TEXT – Just Shy of Harmony / Philip Gulley
AUDIO in the car - Everything I Never Told You / Celeste Ng
Portable AUDIO - Dance Hall of the Dead / Tony Hillerman

March 8 -- currently reading:

TEXT-- You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz and The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom (both for book clubs that meet next week)

AUDIO in the car -- Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

Portable AUDIO -- Stella Bain by Anita Shreve

March 13 -- currently reading:

TEXT-- The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

AUDIO in the car -- still Thunderstruck by Erik Larson--not enjoying it as much as the first time I read it. The characters aren't coming alive.

Portable AUDIO -- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell to satisfy a Monthly Challenge

I'm currently reading:

The S-Word by Chelsea Pitcher and

Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff

Both suspenseful and deals with very serious issues that can teenagers face.

March 15: currently reading:

Text -- This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! by Jonathan Evison

AUDIO in the car -- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson--couldn't take any more of boring Thunderstruck

Portable AUDIO -- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

March 16
TEXT - Peyton Place / Grace Metalious
AUDIO - Roots: The Saga of an American Family / Alex Haley

March 19: currently reading:

TEXT -- The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

AUDIO in the car -- still listening to Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson and really enjoying it

Portable AUDIO -- Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham

Currently starting this one. She is one of my favorite authors but this is her first standalone book.

Dark Promise by Christine Feehan

Will be done with this by noon I'm sure. They're starting to all be the same even some of the sentences have been used in other books...I went back and looked. I'll have to think about if I want to read any more of this series.

No One Knows by J.T. Ellison
I liked the book a lot. The plot was nothing new...life was good...husband suddenly was missing and wife was the main suspect. The difference in this story from all the others like it was the back story that lead up to this. At time you thought "What does this have to do with anything?" ... and then down the road the author ties it all together. The last half of the book had so many twists that you never saw happening. I believe that this is J.T. Ellison's first standalone novels and I had my doubts when first starting it but suddenly I became so engrossed in the story that I found I was on the last page. I highly recommend that the fans of her series novels...as well as 'newbies" ...give this one a try.

I'm currently reading Dark Places

I hate the characters. I'm assuming it must be a good book if it enrages me this much.

Book Concierge wrote: "March 16
TEXT - Peyton Place / Grace Metalious
AUDIO - Roots: The Saga of an American Family / [a..."

Update March 23 ... still reading the same two books. I'm all the way up to page 86 on the first ... still on disc #2 on the audio. Just no time for reading these days ...