100 Books Challenge discussion

I am currently reading
Emma by Jane Austin and Lucky by Alice Sebold. I am enjoying them both.

i'm currently reading Perfect Chemistry

I've never heard of that before but I just clicked on it and it looks good. How is it??

It's a good book. I'm enjoying reading it. It teaches us that physical appearance isn't everything. The world does not depend on what others think about you. There are times that we should be just ourselves. :D

After reading this I'm gonna read The Lord of the Rings series. It's in the list, right?

I think so. i bought it (Lord of the Rings) the book with all of them in about a year ago and I still haven't got around to reading it yet.

i had it last year. a gift for my b-day...i still have here a lot of unread books...

Me too, at least 15.

i have 30 plus... i don't know when i would finish reading all of them!!!! grrrrrr....

Perfect Chemistry is a good book, and if you like it, you should also read Leaving Paradise by the same author. Right now, I'm reading Poison by Sara Poole. I picked it up cause it reminds me a bit of Poison Study by Maria Snyder, and I miss that series. =]

I am now reading The Time Traveler's Wife.

Leaving Paradise?...thanks, i'll read it^^

Haha your welcome =]

The Time Traveler's Wife? Hmm, how far are you?

Nearly half way, he has just been to dinner with his dad, Mrs Kimy and Clare.
Have you read it??
Why dont you make yourself a reading challenge page?!

Haha yeah I have read it. It was interesting, but I liked Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger better. It's really good and really strange.

Umm, I dont know how you make a page =P

Oh, nevermind, I figured it out. =]

I'm reading The Great Gatsby. Not amazing...

I am curently reading 'a tale of two citites' :D

I am currently reading Juliet

I'm reading several books right now:

Macbeth is good...

I'm reading Macbeth w/ my son. I read everything my boys read for school so we can talk about it. Plus it keeps them on task, even if they don't like it, we can complain together. We're about to start Lord of the Flies next. I hated that book! lol. I read it w/ my older son for his class, and I'm not exactly looking looking forward to it. But a promise is a promise. I'll survive. :)

Awww, I've heard LotF is an amazing book, though I haven't read it myself. I think that is a really good idea to read with your children, not just when they are tiny...I will do that when I (hopefully) have children.

I've just finished The Color Purple and it was so amazing.

Not sure what to read next fiction wise (as usually have a fiction book and a few non-fiction going at once)...Could be Eat, Pray, Love, The Glass Castle, Persuasion, The Stuff of Nightmares or another of the tons of books I have here....

Decided to read Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and though I am only about 20 pages in, it is so interesting and I just love the style it is written in.

Yes, Nicolle, I definitely agree. I love reading w/ him. It's just frustrating that alot of the books my younger son (16) has read for school, I just read w/ my older son (now 22). And some, in my opinion, are just not worth the repeat. But it's still worth it to read w/ them. I get so much from each of them, very different takes on books.

I am now reading:

Still trying to finish

and

The Hobbit is a really great book in my opinion.

Currently reading:

I love The Hobbit! This is my 3rd time reading it! It's my son's all-time favorite and we're reading it together. Then we plan to go right through Lord Of The Rings. I haven't read all of those yet, so I'm looking forward to it! :)

I started Extremely Loud and Incredibly Closelast night. Loving it so far!

I'm reading Golden Earrings. I enjoy Belinda Alexandra's historical fiction. This one is set in Barcelona and Paris. Both are cities that I have visited, so it is very cool to recognise landmarks etc...

Jill wrote: "I started Extremely Loud and Incredibly Closelast night. Loving it so far!"

I've always wanted to read this!

Currently reading Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac.

Hmmm let's see...I am currently reading:
Jane Eyre, Don Quixote and Where Rainbows end

Just started You Slay Me it is fab!

Chris Ann wrote: "Chris Ann wrote: "Just started The Catcher in the Rye"

Half way done, and I don't like this book!"

I didn't like this book either. And I feel bad saying that since I know so many people love it. And it is a classic, I just don't know why. :\

I also didn't like it!

Now I don't feel so bad!

I felt he just moaned ALOT.

I read it 15 years ago in high school (gosh, that makes me sound old!) and didn't much like it then, but will re-read it sometime in the future to see if I interpret it differently.

I think I will too, but by the future I mean waaaay in the future...decades away.

I didn't read it when I was in high school. I'm not sure why, my class just didn't. I read all the books my boys read for school, so I read it for the first time, a few years back when my oldest read it in high school. I hust hated it...hated the character! I thought he was so self centered! I'm probably going to have to read it again with my younger son...and I'm dreading it! :\

SOOO not reading a book on my list...not too sure why I wouldn't have added it, but I did get to cross one off....hoping to get more crossed off as the year goes!!

Anyone feel free to make a book topic in the book discussion folder at the bottom of the group.

Jill wrote: "I started Extremely Loud and Incredibly Closelast night. Loving it so far!"

I loved, loved, loved that book and the movie! I never read Everything is Illuminated but I really need to, the movie is one of my favorites of all time. Hope you enjoy the book as much as I did.

I am currently reading . So far I'm enjoying them all. I guess I'm in the minority here, I like Catcher in the Rye. :)

You are a real mulit-tasker Carrie!! One classic which is reasonably difficult to read is enough for me at one time.

I'm currently reading & . Really enjoying N&S & The Crystal Shard (love Salvatore). The other 2 are growing on me. :-)

How can you guys read so many books at once??

Just read A Wrinkle in Time and now starting The Husband by Koontz.

Is a Wrinkle in time good??

Nicolle wrote: "Is a Wrinkle in time good??"

It is good but it is odd almost so it may not be everyones cup of tea. I loved it.

I wish I had an answer for you, Nicolle. I have always done this. I actually have 7 or 8 on my currently reading list, but these 4 are the ones I'm concentrating on.

North & South is an audible book so that helps. Little Dorrit is an ebook and the other 2 are 'real' books. One thing that helps is they are all very different genres. It also helps when a book is difficult to get into or hard to read. I recently read one that dealt with abuse and that was difficult for me, so I would take a break from it and read something a little more fun for a while.

Nicolle wrote: "How can you guys read so many books at once??"

I read a few books at once but they're all so different (only one novel at a time) and part of a routine that it's quite easy.

I read:
* A novel as my main book
* A short story in bed (sometimes a poem/section of epic poetry/short bit of non fiction as well - it's actually a pretty important part of my sleep routine to read in bed)
* One chapter of non fiction in the evening (or I try to, have been rubbish with my current book)
* A paperback non fiction book in the bath that I can dip in and out of easily.

Oh and I find it very hard to sleep without background noise so I listen to audiobooks at night, but I don't count that as reading - I only pick books I've already read so I won't wake up and spoil the story.

So currently I'm reading:
A Storm of Swords
Atlas of Remote Islands and The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1 - in bed
The Classical World: An Epic History From Homer To Hadrian - in the evenings
Pirates of Barbary in the bath/drying my hair etc.etc.
and listening to the Percy Jackson series on audiobook to get to sleep.

I really don't like having more than one novel on the go at a time though. If I start reading more than one novel at once it means the first one isn't holding my interest.