What are we reading? [WARNING: SPOILER ALERT]

Post by **_silentkid** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:56 am

[MODERATOR NOTE: If you haven't finished reading the Harry Potter series to date, I recommend NOT reading any further. SPOILER ALERT!]

Here is where you get to post what you are reading this summer. List a book you have recently completed, one you are currently reading (if applicable), and one that you plan on reading soon.

Me:
Just finished: Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Currently reading: The Diviners by Rick Moody
Next book in line: Ghosts by John Banville

Post by **_skippy the dead** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:17 am

Oo - I love to read. Usually have at least two books going at once.

Recently finished:
Sammy's Hill by Kristin Gore
Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs (gotta have a little pulp)

Currently reading:
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

Next books in line:
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Shoeless Joe by W.P Kinsella

Post by **_Dr. Shades** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:35 am

Just finished: The Fraklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska by John W. DeCamp
Currently reading: Hitler's War: Germany's Key Strategic Decisions, 1940-1945 by Heinz Magenheimer
Next in line: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

Post by **_KimberlyAnn** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:17 am

I just moments ago finished J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, which I started this morning. (It's a short book.)

I'll be looking over Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is released. I'm so excited about that book and the new movie coming out Wednesday. Yesterday, I bought our tickets for Wednesday's noon showing. The girls and I are counting down the minutes!

KA

Post by **_Bond...James Bond** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:20 am

Currently about to begin a massive reread of all Harry Potter books before the new one comes out.....which I'll buy and finish before the day is out.

Post by **_barrelomonkeys** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:16 pm

My husband and I read to our children every night. I just finished To Kill a Mockingbird and we started A Wrinkle in Time two nights ago. I'm sorry to say I don't read much for myself anymore. The last book I read was Dr. Henry Lee's Forensic Book which was really disappointing, he's a terrible author. I read Go Dog Go earlier this morning. :)

We've reread all of the Harry Potter books too to prepare! Woop! Can't wait!

Post by **_gramps** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:34 pm

Just read Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.

I am currently wading through Nozick's Philosophical Explanations, while reading Sagan's Demon Haunted World (can you believe it, I haven't yet read that one?)

I have no idea what's up next.

Post by **_Who Knows** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:19 pm

Just finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy and "Letter to a Christian Nation" by Sam Harris.
Currently reading "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson.
Up next is the final Harry Potter book.

Post by **_KimberlyAnn** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:25 pm

Who Knows wrote:Just finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy and "Letter to a Christian Nation" by Sam Harris.
Currently reading "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson.
Up next is the final Harry Potter book.

Who Knows, I don't know how you finished McCarthy's book. I couldn't stand it. He writes in the strangest, choppy sentences. Like me.

It certainly looks like quite a few of us will be reading Harry Potter in the next few weeks. I'm anxious to read it, but disappointed that it will be the last one of the series.

KA

Post by **_Dr. Shades** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:37 pm

Bond...James Bond wrote:Currently about to begin a massive reread of all Harry Potter books before the new one comes out.....which I'll buy and finish before the day is out.

You can read an entire Harry Potter book in one day??