The Complete Idiots Guide to the Ultimate Reading List discussion

This is the place to discuss books you finished in May

I have finished two books so far this month.
Vanish by Tess Gerritsen.
This is yet another great book by this author, I find myself not picking up her books for some reason then I do and I can't believe how good her books are again! I tend to jump around in her series but I don't find that I'm lost.

I also just finished If I Stay by Gayle Forman
This book at first reminded me of The Lovely Bones but then after reading it.... OMG it was a great book!

I just finished Stolen by Kelley Armstrong. I really like this books and reccommend them to anyone that likes reading Paranormal/Urban Fantasy.

For May I have read: Nefertiti, Island of the Sequined Love Nun and Vampire Academy.

I've now started The Heretic Queen. Michelle Moran is part of the Historical Fashionistas group and it's been great being able to discuss her novels with her.

Hello, I just finished and am now reading

I finished Beachcombers by Nancy Thayer - a first read novel won on Goodreads. It was good. I also finished Chris Bohjalian's Secrets of Eden. WOW OH WOW. I am now reading a coule of Debbie Macomber books about a yarn shop in Seattle.

Marti, lucky you I am dying to read Beachcombers: A Novel. I have already read Secrets of Eden: A Novel.

Since 5/9 I have read

Someone Knows My Name
Lover Unbound
Alex Cross's Trial
Shutter Island

Now I have to figure out what to read next.

I just finished Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris

I just finihsed The Killing Game by Iris Johansen and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Both very good book.

Amber wrote: "I just finihsed The Killing Game by Iris Johansen and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Both very good book."

I LOVE the book "A Wrinkle in Time" that whole series is just wonderful, I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger. I liked it more than "Time Traveler's Wife" and found it easy to read - not sure how I feel about the ending.

Finished Animal Farm by George Orwell. Friday 5/21/2010. It was just OK... Everyone kept telling me this was such a good book and I just felt let down!

I just finished Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead. I love this series. This is book 5 and the 6th and last one comes out in December. I use to know how I wanted the series to end but know im very conflicted.

I just finished Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang . Absolutely hysterical. I had already read her first two books and loved them but this one got me to laugh out loud for a majority of the book.

I've been alternating the fantasy and literary lists. Finished in May:

Fantasy : I had started reading Novik's Temeraire books in April--I moved it up on my fantasy to read list since through LibraryThing I got an early review copy of the sixth book coming out in July. Loved the series overall which starts with His Majesty's Dragon . Also adored Beagle's The Last Unicorn . Tried Drake's Lord of the Isles but didn't finish since I found it a Lord of the Rings wannabe and a crashing bore. Don't even get why it's on the list--at least Brook's Shannara series are famous in fantasy even if I thought the first awful and a Tolkien rip-off. But Drake's? I liked Edding's Pawn of Prophecy and Feist's Talon of the Silver Hawk but not enough I want to read more of the series.

Literary : Adored Chabon's Adventures of Kavalier and Clay , a moving story and a fun read, and loved Cunningham's The Hours (read Woolf's Mrs Dalloway before it to better appreciate it since that's its basis but hated it).

I hated Don Delillo's Underworld with the heat of a thousand suns and didn't finish it. I don't care if Harold Bloom finds it "sublime" and it won runner up in a New York Times survey of critics for best American novel of the last 25 years--such a pretentious badly-written piece of crap as I've ever read. The only way I can understand its status as a modern classic and bestseller is a really bad case of the Emperor's clothes. Fortunately, de Berniere's Captain Corelli's Mandolin , which I just finished, took the bad taste out of my mouth.

Outside the lists, I also read and enjoyed Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris--the latest Sookie Stackhouse book.

Edit: May 30 - finished Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven --collection of connected short stories set in the Spokane reservation. Interesting, but bleak.

I finished Forever Odd by Dean Koontz. It was the last book I got in for May! It is the second in the series and a great read! I now have to go find the first in the series so I know where it all started! LOL

Amber wrote: "I finished Forever Odd by Dean Koontz. It was the last book I got in for May! It is the second in the series and a great read! I now have to go find the first in the seri..."

I LOVE this series Odd Thomas is one of my favorite fictional characters! I'm so glad you like the book and I hope you find the first one in the series.