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Topic: The Bookworm's Reading Room
bookworm Joined Thu 07/05/07 Posts: 2748	Thu 01/31/08 06:23 PM
Okay, so I know there are LOTS of literate people here, and I don't see any other library or reading room, so.... What are you reading? Do you like it? Why (or why not)? Would you recommend it to fellow JSHers? And when you're done with it, come on back, put it on the shelf and take another. The library here is free!

robinlynn42 Joined Tue 01/01/08 Posts: 2251	Thu 01/31/08 08:16 PM
i just bought Stephen King's new one BLAZE written under Aka Richard Bachman most of his books r good.

hikerchick Joined Sat 12/22/07 Posts: 13206	Thu 01/31/08 08:19 PM
just finished "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe". I know they made a movie but I never saw it. It was good because it touched on a lot of matters like racism, feminism, lesbianism, without ever preaching. I enjoyed it.

theotherbachelor Joined Sun 12/09/07 Posts: 267	Thu 01/31/08 08:28 PM
The Authorative Calvin And Hobbes By: Bill Watterson

AaronzDad Joined Sat 12/15/07 Posts: 10182	Thu 01/31/08 09:21 PM
Re-reading some old Edgar Rice Burroughs stuff I enjoyed as a kid. Recently dipped into "The Measure of a Man" by Sidney Poitier too - gotta get back to that one and finish it.

Shaden Joined Sat 09/29/07 Posts: 6118	Thu 01/31/08 09:44 PM Edited by Shaden on Thu 01/31/08 09:45 PM
This is a question? I received Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, as a gift. Getting ready for a family members serious medical ordeal(s), with emphasis on the plural. Is it a downer or just interesting? I like Patricia Cornwell's novels. Have read all, but her newest one.

LexFonteyne Joined Thu 12/07/06 Posts: 32131	Thu 01/31/08 09:50 PM
Rereading Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals."

AaronzDad Joined Sat 12/15/07 Posts: 10182	Thu 01/31/08 09:54 PM
Rereading Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals." Now Lex why doesn't it surprise me that you're reading Nietzsche??

lulu24 Joined Sun 02/11/07 Posts: 6033	Thu 01/31/08 09:56 PM
hmmm... currently reading forest mage by robin hobb, lisey's story by stephen king, the magician's guild by trudi canavan, servant of the shard by r. a. salvatore, and the outstretched shadow by mercedes lackey and james mallory. i have seven more to start on very shortly...

LexFonteyne Joined Thu 12/07/06 Posts: 32131	Thu 01/31/08 10:09 PM
Now Lex why doesn't it surprise me that you're reading Nietzsche?? Nobody is ever shocked to hear that.... What does seem to surprise them is when they find out that my favorite author is John Updike.... Followed by Douglas Adams....that's a little incongruous, I suppose....!!

AaronzDad Joined Sat 12/15/07 Posts: 10182	Thu 01/31/08 10:23 PM
Not really Lex... it follows.

jellybean1021 Joined Thu 01/31/08 Posts: 52	Thu 01/31/08 10:25 PM
I have recently read Hiding My Candy written by Lady Chablis, who was in the Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil- the book and portrayed herself/himself in the movie. It was a fairly good book.

Tob77 Joined Sun 11/11/07 Posts: 236	Thu 01/31/08 10:29 PM
this forum..lol

bookworm Joined Thu 07/05/07 Posts: 2748	Fri 02/01/08 06:39 PM
I am reading "Sharp Teeth", which is new. It's a kind of a werewolf book, about a group of people who morph between dog and human. There's a gang-style theme in it, and it's kind of creepy (a la Stephen King's early years). The thing that sets it apart is that it's written in verse. Not rhyming verse, but free-form. It's actually pretty good, and because of the style of writing, it goes really FAST.

Snugglesbyfire Joined Sun 04/15/07 Posts: 24422	Fri 02/01/08 08:33 PM
I am reading Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark He Sees You When You're Sleeping

izzie Joined Wed 02/21/07 Posts: 31834	Fri 02/01/08 08:34 PM
just read teh new grisham... i love grisham... definately worth the read.. the apeal... (gotta learn to friggen spell!!)