So, What Are you Reading This Weekend?

Time again for me to be nosy and ask, what are you reading this weekend?

I have a list of things to try out, as I just read Truths and Roses in a marathon sprint. I also have a nonfiction book about storytelling arts that I want to read. 

While I was loving At Home in parts, I had to stop reading it for awhile, because the discussion was often so bleak. Here are all these amazing people who invented amazing things that we now take for granted and who have been entirely forgotten by history! Oy. So that'll sit for awhile until I feel like picking it up again. 

What about you? What are you reading this weekend? I hope it's awesome, whatever it is! 

Oh! And is anyone going to see One for the Money this weekend? I don't think it looks “babysitter worthy,” but I'm curious!

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  1. SandyH says:

    I am reading Enemy Within by Marcella Burnard – very good. Also trying to finish The Dragon Who Loved Me by G. A. Aiken – this will probably be my last one in this series it is just too silly.

  2. I’m finishing up both The Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon, and Devil’s Kiss by Zoe Archer (for my blog book club).  I hope to start Death, Taxes, and a French Manicure by Diane Kelly, and maybe make a dent in my NetGalley pile… So many books, so little time!

  3. Anna says:

    Just read Lessons in French.  It was my first Kinsale, and j’aime.  Clearly this weekend calls for a trek to the library to dig up more.

  4. Carolanne says:

    I’m plodding through Christine Feehan’s Dark series and I’m up to Dark Peril.

  5. Susan says:

    In response to cleo and Melissandre re Lord Foul’s Bane/Stephen R. Donalson.

    Agree w/ the “Thomas Covenant is a whiny asshat” assessment.  And the series should have ended w/ the original set of books w/out being resurrected for more.

    OTOH, I did like the 2 Mordant’s Need books—The Mirror of Her Dreams and A Man Rides Through.  It’s been a number of years since I’ve reread them, but they held up for me under several readings.

  6. pamelia says:

    I’m finishing up “The Cloud Roads” by Martha Wells and then I’m either going to dive into “Fifty Shades Freed” which is waiting on my Kindle or re-read “Lothaire”.  Choices…choices!

  7. MissB2U says:

    I’m reading “A Discovery of Witches”.  Like, really reading it.  As in I sat down this morning and read for about 5 hours with a break for lunch reading it.  Highly recommended.  ‘Nuf said.  I finished all of Elizabeth Hoyt’s four soldiers novels – I liked them all but the last one wasn’t as good as the first three for some reason.  Still waiting for “Lothaire” at the library and trying REALLY HARD not to buy it for my Nook tablet.

  8. Aliyah says:

    I’ve read Catherine Mann’s Elite Force: So That Other’s May Live series—books 1 & 2—Cover Me and Hot Zone. (Enjoyed them both a lot!) Off to read Defender, Hotshot, and Renegade now by her as well.
    ~Aliyah Burke

  9. Jennyb says:

    I’m strongly considering starting Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days) based on the Kindle sample. 

    I was also hoping to start Shine, but it doesn’t seem to be available in Kindle format right now.  Strange.

  10. dixiechikken says:

    I didn’t like Year of Wonder either! Thought it was pretentious. There’s a YA novel about the plague village by Joan Aiken Hodge called “A Parcel of Patterns” and it is WAAAAAAY better. A little jewel of a book.

  11. DreadPirateRachel says:

    I’ve been trying to find a book to read this weekend. I’ve started and discarded three so far. I think in the end I might just end up reading “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” so that I can get a jump on my homework for my Teen & Child Literature class (which is the best class in the world).

  12. Kelly S says:

    Well, currently I’m catching up on blog postings. I should clean out my Chrome tabs (40 currently open).  If that all gets done and there is still available time for reading, then I’m starting Heart of Steel by Meljean Brook.

    As for 1 for the $, I read the book and didn’t like it. I think the casting of Stephanie is off and not because I don’t like the actress but because she seems wrong for it.  Thus, nope, not planning on seeing it.

    Hmm, this is my first time posting to the new version of the site from my iPad. Login is much more limited.

    Thanks so much for the shoe lust today. Got hubby to agree to let me get at least 1 pair, the ones I tweeted

  13. Vicki says:

    Just finished Angelfall by Susan Ee (thanks for the buy list) and cannot rave enough. Great world building with nary an info dump, enormous tension between the two leads who start out as enemies and who do not end up with a HEA but still a great progression of the relationship.

    Before that, I finally read Spider’s Bite by Jennifer Estep and liked it, too.

    I find way too many books on this site – my Unread shelf on my nook is a mile long.

  14. Crystal F. says:

    I’m starting Crown of Crystal Flame, the last novel in the Tairen Soul series.

  15. Sarah Wegener says:

    Last weekend was terrible, because I broke my kindle. I’ve been kindleless for a week and I had to get PAPER books to read. The horror. I’m currently reading Julie Garwood’s Ransom, and next I have some paper back (the horror) that I picked up from the library. It is one of Marjorie Lui’s Dirk and Steele novels that was randomly sitting out on the counter—it is random because we carry very few paper backs and even fewer romances. My new kindle should be here soon and I can finish the new Heather Graham I was reading when the bottle of cleaner leaked all over the old one.

  16. Susan/DC says:

    What I’m going to read is Junot Diaz’ “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” for a class, but what I really want to do is finish Rebecca Cantrell’s “A Night of Long Knives” and then start on Imogen Robertson’s “Island of Bones”.  The Cantrell is a follow-up to her “A Trace of Smoke”, mysteries set in Germany in the 1930s.  She uses the politics of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis quite well to build an atmosphere of both excitement and menace as her heroine tries to find her brother’s murderer.  This one doesn’t seem quite as good as the first, but I’m still enjoying it.  The Robertson is the third in her Georgian-set mystery series.  I loved the first two and can’t recommend this series highly enough.

  17. ECSpurlock says:

    Just finishing up Redeeming the Rogue by Donna MacMeans. First time reading her and despite a few things that make the history nerd in me twitch a bit it’s a very meaty, engrossing book with a lot going on. The relationships are very complex with a lot going on internally in both the H/H, plus she uses some actual historical events as a nice little plot twist. I’m especially enjoying that it’s not a Regency for a change (it’s set in the 1880’s) and pursuant to earlier conversations on this site, the heroine is not a virgin when the story opens (she’s been deceived and abandoned) and had a realistically awful deflowering which adds to her issues in relating to the hero. Unless the ending totally falls apart on me I’m rating it a B+.

  18. I’m going to try and kill my Linda Howard reread jag with Now You See Her and Mr. Perfect (I’ve already reread Open Season, After the Night, and Dream Man in the last few days). I also plan on getting around to Touch of Crimson by Sylvia Day as I got that through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program a while back and it’s hanging over my head.

  19. Michelle C. says:

    I decided to reread some old Penny Jordan’s hidden at the back of my shelf. Thought that would be a great break for the weekend.

  20. I am reading Sense of Evil by Kay Hooper.  Early in the week, I finished reading Unraveled (loved it.  can’t wait for the chat on monday.), and I felt like I needed a change of pace.  I decided to read Out of the Shadows (again—I love Bishop and Miranda), and when I finished that one, I went on to Whisper of Evil.  Next, will be Hunting Fear.

  21. I only recently saw the movie and I’ve been looking for the book.  It’s that good?

  22. I only recently saw the movie and I’ve been looking for the book.  It’s that good?

  23. DianeN says:

    I’m about halfway through A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant. I like her writing a lot, the story is unusual and the characters interesting and layered, but for some reason I’m having a hard time getting through it. I find myself reading for twenty minutes then setting it aside to surf the net or cuddle with my kitten or whatever. I thought I was going to love this book, but at this point I’d say I admire it but it isn’t really stirring my emotions.

  24. ToppysMom says:

    I’m charging through Maya Banks’ KGI series. Read the first two in record time for me (because I can usually eek out time to read only a few pages at once … how DO you guys read so many books so quickly?!?!?) and am now eagerly looking forward to grabbing some quality moments with “Hidden Away.”

    Can I just say that the sex scenes in this series could easily work as “how to” guides? Not that after being married formoreyearsthanIcaretothinkabout I think i need such a guide, but still. Talk about hot flashes, LOL.

  25. brandy says:

    I’m on a Medieval kick right now, which was brought on by reading Elizabeth Lowell’s trilogy last week.  Last night, I started Juliana Garnett’s “The Vow” and should finish it up tonight.  My Medieval TBR pile is diminishing fast, so I may move from that to the Courtney Milan “Un-” series that I bought after the rave reviews here at SBTB.

  26. Kdugarm says:

    Having dinner with friends and watching Seigfried on DVD (Ring cycle opera #3) in preparation for HD broadcast of Gotterdammerung on February 11.  On my immediate TBR pile are some books from the dollar rack at Half Price Books – Touch of Fate by A.C. Arthur, Angels’ Blood by Nalini Singh, and Virtually His by Gennita Low.

    I usually read regencies (Mary Balogh, Carla Kelly), so am branching out on the cheap.

  27. Melissandre says:

    See, I loved Mordant’s need in high school, and recently reread with disappointment.  The female main character was such a doormat in the first book!  I get that you’re in the middle of an existential crisis, but that’s no excuse to let some skeevy magician paw at you.  And here I was remembering a great love story, and it was not as I remembered.

  28. RJ says:

    I am spending my weekend finishing Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and re-reading Judith Walkowitz’s Prostitution in Modern Society in order to write a paper linking the androids and prostitution in Victorian England as both being the Great Social Evil of thier time and how this ideology was created. Fun weekend ahead for me:/  Plus I am going to try to read Pint Sized Ireland, also for class.

  29. Merrian says:

    Sarah Black’s “Marlowes Ghost” m/m about a guy returning from war, doing street art and meeting the love of his life who is in remission from leukemia while they are both haunted by the ghost of Christopher Marlowe. This is a short novel with themes about life after near-death-experiences and how we make it and what meaning it has in the light of what has gone before.

  30. LenoreJ says:

    I have been going through my aunt’s library, winding up her estate.  I catch myself reading “Sonnets from the Portuguese” and Tennyson’s poems and all these long ago Victorians, whom we think of as so prim and prissy.  I’m only dipping here and there, but what a wealth of passion!  I’ll be getting back to my TBR pile soon, a wiser woman, I feel.  (Also one with a bigger TBR pile!)

  31. FairyKat says:

    I’m glomming Meredith Duran. Duke of Shadows was recommended on SB a while back and it’s been sitting in my Sample queue for a while.  I really want to read the story about the Earl who’d been in Australia with the missing wife, but couldn’t find it on Amazon. Is that a sequel that didn’t make it?

  32. Annika says:

    Noooothing! I have nothing to read! It feels empty and I’m bored. I’ve been window shopping at Amazon but haven’t found anything I really feel like reading, highly unusual for me! I think the problem is that I’m fixated on a couple of upcoming releases (Nightfire by Lisa Marie Rice, Alpha Instinct by Katie Reus and A Sliver of Shadow by Allison Pang just to name a few) and can’t concentrate on anything else..

  33. An Goris says:

    I’m reading Julia Quinn’s On The Way To The Wedding and then moving on to either Abandon by Meg Cabot or Love Story by Jennifer Echols.
    I’m also watching the first season of Chuck this weekend – fun times.

  34. KBR says:

    I just finished reading (last night until 2 am) UNRAVELED, Courtney’s best IMO. I am now reading MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN by Ransom Riggs. Author has two trailers on his website, one for book content and one for his travels to Europe to find the right site for the book. Unusual and can’t put down read for me.

  35. SonomaLass says:

    I just finished The Lady’s Secret by Joanna Chambers, aka Tumperkin. It’s a fabulous Regency from Carina Press with a cross-dressing heroine—my favorite historical trope, and she handles it really well. I highly recommend it!

  36. Reneesance says:

    I’m almost finished with Nightshine which is Lynn Viehl’s latest Kyndred installment.  I’m loving it much more than the last one lots of interesting plot developments.  Next up is The Night Circus which was getting tons of good reviews on GoodReads and seemed like an interesting premise.

  37. Julie says:

    I am hunkering down this weekend under a warm comforter after hitting the grocery store (ugh!) and grabbing a quick lunch with the BF.  Books I have on tap are An Affair with Mr Kennedy (Jullian Stone), Shadow Ops (Myke Cole), Above World (Jenn Reese), and When the Sea is Rising Red (Cat Hellisen).  Will I be able to finish all of them? Probably not.  Will I have fun trying? You betcha!

    I am not going to see One for the Money.  I will wait for the DVD 🙂

  38. Kristen F. says:

    Just finishing Darker after Midnight by Laura Adrian and going right to Marie Force’s Falling for Love which is the latest in her McCarthy series. Two great books to read and it’s not even my birthday!!  I love it when that happens!!

  39. Amelia says:

    I really liked that series. I ended up staying up all night to finish the last book.

  40. Morphidae says:

    I’m reading Archangel’s Blade by Nalini Singh and Progeny by R T Kaelin. I swore I’d never read a self-published book, but I know Progeny’s author from LibraryThing, there have been some good reviews and he sent me a free copy. It’s epic fantasy and quite enjoyable. Obviously a first effort in some ways, but he shows some real talent.

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