only the awesomest book club ever discussion

Hi everyone! Just letting people share the books they are reading that are not part of the book club. Or books you want to read. Or anything else book related.

I'll start. Right now I'm reading , which is hilarious and I kind of wish I'd saved it for the book club picks. But probably no one else would read it. All I can compare it to is an adult version of the Georgia Nicholson books--Laugh out loud funny, diary format, weird British humor that sometimes I miss.

Next, I'm going to read more weird British humor as I'm going to start next. What is everyone else reading besides the book club picks?

i just listened to 2001 a space odyssey....that was pretty good for the most part. I didn't like the ending though. It was weird....but i recommend it....and i just finished blockade billy....not good...its a short novella by stephen king....i figured it out in the first 5 minutes it seemed....blah...would have rather watched fight club!

what? There's nothing to 'figure out' because it's about an unsolved mystery!

You didn't even bust Brad for the Fight Club reference!!

I got tired of it...

I'm listening to Watership Down now. The first couple hours...my mind wandered so much I probably only heard half the story. But it's gotten more interesting since then.

its not unsolved! the cops had figured out that billy was not billy! it was just a story about what had happened....and it was easy to figure out like 10 min in :P

Um, no!!!! the book was supposed to be about an unsolved mystery, which made it very unsatisfying, but...that was it. the point wasn't if billy was billy, it was that they never figured out who it was.

I just finished , which was a lot better than those shorts I was reading by Stephen King. I'm also reading since no one picked it for the next round of book club selections :(

I'm reading

Lena wrote: "I just finished , which was a lot better than those shorts I was reading by Stephen King. I'm also reading sin..."

I really liked (and own) The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - it was so simple, but really creepy, and even though it's probably been like 10 years since I read it, I still remember parts of it vividly. (Plus it tied into The Dark Tower series at the end, which was cool.)

I'm listening to Identical. And guess what--more freaking incest! Is every YA book now about incest? I"m so mad!

I am reading

i am reading my bio 101 book! want to join me anyone?

Um, no thanks.

I"m reading "Heart of a samurai" which is really really good. It's a young adolescent book and i highly recommend it to everyone!

I just started My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands, which was described as Judy Blume drinking vodka and sleeping with midgets. Or something like that. For the record, she did not have sex with a midget. Also, most of her 'one night stands' are actually more like 3-month relationships. I could totally write a book like this. My friend Amanda and me talked about a compilation book like this once. It could be done.

I made the group all pretty! I put all the books from Round One up top. And check out our to-read shelf for upcoming selections :D

I make me happy!

thanks for making the awesomest bookclub have the awesomest page :P

Yay! It's only fitting.

i just finished a book called the heart of the samurai, which was so awesome and everyone should read it! and i just finished wringer, which is about a little boy who has to kill pigeons, and it was creepy....

How do you people have all this time to read books????!

It's called an AUDIOBOOK! It's like reading for lazy people.

And Anna--you should be reading Enrique's JOurney!!!

I'm reading about ten books right now!

Let's see...I'm reading two books on paper, one during walks and one that i can bring to school and let kids see me reading. These books are: (child appropriate) and (not so much something i can read on my lunch break!)

I'm also listening to , which i saw a 5th grader reading the other day and i wanted to steal it from her! And I'm listening to which might be good except it's nonfiction and I've discovered that many nonfiction books (especially written by journalists, as Enrique's Journey and this one are) are too dry and poorly written.

Rose wrote: "How do you people have all this time to read books????!"

i only read when i'm in the bathroom, but all of my books lately have been really short

You should read Enrique's Journey on the toilet...that will take you a long time!

I'm listening to which I think Anna would really like! It's a YA book about the vietnam war. It's really good.

I started listening to "Carrie" by Stephen King.... so far its GROSS! :)

Lol...what's gross about it? I just listened to that. BTW, I'm pretty sure we're teh only ppl still participating in the book club.

I FINALLY finished the lonely polygamist, which took about 2 centuries...now i can finally listen to something delicious and scandalous! Like which I'm already in love with after only one disc out of ten.

I'm reading which Elana picked for the book club. It's way better than Moon Over Manifest!

My fav books TOTALLY depend on my mood :) But here's a few of them (and use these as recommendations too!)

The Tea Rose trilogy
The Bronze Horseman
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Still Missing
Before I Go To Sleep
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Nineteen Minutes
The Last Lecture

I read Nineteen Minutes recently and really liked it, too.