What are you reading?

[samssugarmomma]

I'm reading the Divergent series. I'm eagerly awaiting the second book to come in at the library.

[ladymoreta]

I'm reading the Divergent series. I'm eagerly awaiting the second book to come in at the library.

I loved it! I can't wait for the third one to come out!

I just finished The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls. It was recommended in almost every magazine I read at the beginning of the summer, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I give it a big "Meh". It wasn't too terrible, but the first half read like a bunch of vague-booking, and the story wasn't that interesting. I'm sure I'll forget it by fall.

[WolfpackWife]

Laurie - I saw on Goodreads that you also read The Age Of Miracles, which I finished last night. I felt so "meh" about it. Where you as underwhelmed as I was?

[ladymoreta]

Laurie - I saw on Goodreads that you also read The Age Of Miracles, which I finished last night. I felt so "meh" about it. Where you as underwhelmed as I was?

I was. It started with such a great premise, and just fizzled out into nothing. It takes a certain amount of skill to make the end of the world boring though, so I guess there's that…

[WolfpackWife]

I was. It started with such a great premise, and just fizzled out into nothing. It takes a certain amount of skill to make the end of the world boring though, so I guess there's that…

You're exactly right. It had such potential and fell so flat. I was really disappointed and I'm glad that I didn't spend any $$ to read it!!

[Pollyanna]

I'm currently reading iMsn, All recipes, and Facebook. I'm amazed y'all have reading time!

[WolfpackWife]

I'm currently reading iMsn, All recipes, and Facebook. I'm amazed y'all have reading time!

It's supposed to rain all weekend here and my goal is to read three books. I haven't had a do-nothing weekend since February and I can't wait. DH has lots of studying to do so he won't bother me with "what are you doing? What are you reading? Do you want to hang out? I'm done studying? Are you listening to me?"

My typical weekly reading times include the six block walk to and from my parking deck to my office building, my lunch time, the time I'm on the elliptical, and that's just about it! Unless it's an audiobook I would LOVE more reading time!!

[SuzySunshine]

Glad this thread is here so while I'm sitting in airports this weekend I can have some suggestions for my Kindle

[WolfpackWife]

UGH. I just finished and awful, trite, predictable, and poorly written book via my library's audibook loan. I wanted to stop so many times but I hate abandoning books halfway through. It wasn't taking up too much of my time since I was just listening to it but about 2/3 of the way through I could only mock it. IT SUCKED and I'm angry that it was so bad, haha.

[Curegirl]

WPW, what was it? I'm reading a biography of Josephine Butler right now...she was a bad ass!

[WolfpackWife]

UGH, CG...it was this awful, predictable, banal, and insipid book called "Summerland" (should have been my first clue) by Elin Hilderbrand. I wrote a scathing review of it on GoodReads because it was just...blech. Any and every predictable coming-of-age, perfect life on Nantucket, teenage rebellion, etc. storyline she could think of she used in this one book. It was my own fault - I snapped it up really quickly as an audiobook through an app on my phone because I like to have stories when I cook/clean and it was just ewwww. DO NOT RECOMMEND!

[ladymoreta]

LOL I had to go read your review, and I think it must have been much better than the actual book! I read a book like that as my first and only experience with the free Amazon Prime books. Just so awful, but it's almost impossible for me to walk away from a book I've started.

[BonBon]

LOL I had to go read your review, and I think it must have been much better than the actual book! I read a book like that as my first and only experience with the free Amazon Prime books. Just so awful, but it's almost impossible for me to walk away from a book I've started.

I was going to ask if it was one of those free books. I stopped getting those because they universally suck!! I mostly get the non-fiction books and they're so trite and redundant...the authors clearly are trying to make a book-length book out of nothing. I have no problem cutting those short and deleting. Ain't nobody got time for that.

[MsSassyBaskets]

I was going to ask if it was one of those free books. I stopped getting those because they universally suck!! I mostly get the non-fiction books and they're so trite and redundant...the authors clearly are trying to make a book-length book out of nothing. I have no problem cutting those short and deleting. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Oh yeah... I have trouble stopping in the middle of most books, but Amazon's free books are like the entire world's slush pile. Everybody's saying that the e-publishing revolution is going to make traditional publishers obsolete... I'm sorry but I like my books to be screened by someone other than the author's mom and EDITED. (And on paper, but that's a different story )

Let's see, I'm in the middle of Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver but I'm not in a big reading mode right now so it is slow going.

[DrBandMe]

Currently readying the "Breathe" trilogy but recently finished "The Book Thief" and absolutely adored it! Looking forward to the film adaptation as well.