So, what are you reading this week? Are you saving a book for the weekend? Still working on something you've been reading for awhile or is it New Book Time?
I had to stop myself from reading four or five books at a time – which is bad not only for my memory (“Wait, aren't there biker gangs in this Regency romance? Where'd they go?”) but also bad for my ability to remain interested in all of the books. Making a buffet of books is not a good thing for me, though I know some readers can do it easily!
So, what is on your reading agenda this weekend?
I finished Julie James’ “About That Night” this evening…a bit earlier than expected considering I started it last night and was *supposed* to be working all day. Oops. At the top of the pile was Kate Noble’s “If I Fall,” but then you people reminded me about Sherry Thomas.
/shaking my fist at all y’all
I also found some great deals on really random used historical non-fiction at Amazon this week, so I have a book on bananas, one on color, and one on London. And finally, I found one of the very first romances I ever read, a 1981 Harlequin by Anne Weale that I read as a teenager and I’m pretty sure it’s going to be fantastically terrible.
I am totally bummed about ‘reading’ this weekend. I just finished Fifty Shades of Grey and could slap my butt;) for not ordering Fifty Shades Darker sooner! But in all fairness, I had no idea I was going to finish it in a day and a half.
Thus the looooong wait for the UPS man begins…
I’ve been going through British historical spy romances lately—Andrea Pickens spy school for girls first grabbed my attention, and then I went though the Pink Carnation series. I’ve just discovered Joanna Bourne and LOVE her stories—great characters, plenty of plot action, and an incredible voice which changes to suit the character. I’m so impressed with the way the voice (not just character’s dialog, but author’s style) sounds French with a French character, and shifts from upper class to slums when a character revisits her roots. I’ve been saving The Forbidden Rose for the weekend because I knew it would distract me from my own writing if I started it during the week.
Finishing my re-introduction to steamy, trashy novels…will be closing out Bared to You, and am alternately sad and happy about that!
I’m close to finishing Fiona Walker’s Well Groomed. Hugo Beauchamp is to die for!!!
The buffet style sampling of three or four books bit me back this week when I read two very different books but each with a young woman named Jenny. One a light and frothy paranomal mystery…the other, not so much. It would take forever to re-scramble my brain everytime I picked one up (ie- ooh the sheriff pulled Jenny to him this is gonna be good- oh wait this sheriff is a meth addicted rapist! Run, other Jenny, run!)
So I’m sticking with Tempest Rising this weekend. at least I’ll know who’s who.
Born of Silence by Sherrilyn Kenyon. I bought the ebook but got the physical copy from the library because I just needed to hold the book in my hand. I WANTED to start this as soon as I got it on Tuesday, unfortunately I had to wait until the roommate left for the weekend so I could read in silence and without interruption!
Reading Naked in Death for the first time, thanks to the bitchery. Just finished Diane Chamberlain’s The Brass Ring. Both good.
I love the Remember Me series by Christopher Pike!!! I remember the second book being SUPER WEIRD! Enjoy 😀
After a whole bunch of stuff happened that sucked away my time, I was finally able to read (and just finished) Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King. And wow. It’s been so long since I’ve come to the end of a book feeling that satisfied, warm, and fuzzy. It just made me really happy after going through a group of DNFs, Cs, okay Bs, and an A-, to read a book that just rang all my bells. For me anyway, YMMV, of course. Already have the second book waiting in TBR.
About 40 pages into a YA called Servant to the Wolf by Sue Wentz. Not a paranormal, it’s about Marcus, an upper class slave boy in Ancient Rome, who gets knocked off his perch and comes to grips with his own discriminating outlook. Liking it so far, I may be a little in love with Marcus’ new master Lupus, we’ll see how it goes. I think it’s Sue Wentz’s first book, in Ebook only, here’s the amazon link, though I think it’s available elsewhere too:
http://www.amazon.com/Servant-…
Since that’s an Ebook, I’m thinking about going with Hook and Jill by Andrea Jones as my paper book read. Came across the title during the ‘Not Beauty and the Beast or Cinderella reimagined fairytales’ thread and sounded like an interesting take on Peter Pan.
Thanks!
I’ve read all of Courtney Milan’s books and really liked them. Yeah, the hold thing kind of sucks but usually I have enough going that I have a steady stream of books. I just got behing the eight ball this week. I’ll make a quick library run tomorrow and grab a few to get me through. Happy Saturday all.
When I was about 14 in the mid-80s I sneaked a copy of Cynthia Wright’s ‘You and No Other’ from a bag of books my mother and her friends were passing around. That book never made it back in the bag, it finally fell apart after numerous rereadings. I found it this week on BN, bought it, and am reading it again (25 years later).
Hey Sarah, just want to say thanks for starting these ‘Whatcha reading?’ posts. I find that when I feel down about my reading (like a slump, or a lack of time) these make me feel all energized to jump into a book and dwindle down the TBR stack a little.
And to everyone else who posts: Thanks for pointing out books that I may never heard of, or help steer me through buying decisions with quickie reviews of how you felt about a title.
Reading “Last Boyfriend” during breaks at work, feeling so-so about it. Finishing up Gini Koch’s “Alien Proliferation” (library), loved it. I’ve blown through that whole series in the last two weeks or so, and just downloaded the last one to my Nook. So much fun.
—Sugarless, that “College Girls” book is great!
I am reading The Trouble with Demons by Lisa Shearin, since the last Raine Benares novel ( Waah!) is out later this month.
I ended up choosing Bonnie Dee’s Captive Bride, and I’m already halfway through. Good stuff. I’m very curious as to what the HEA will look like.
I won’t have much time to read this weekend (being today is the Kentucky Derby and here in Louisville that means party after party to attend). I just finished the Long Shot by Ellen Hartman. I have a Jennifer Crusie bundle I’ll probally start reading tommorow.
I have assembled (from used bookstores and a few new) the Sandra Hill Viking books and I’m up to the third book of the second set. And Maya Banks’ Undone by her Tender Touch is sitting there taunting me so it might get read first.
I just finished reading the Last Boyfriend by Nora, and today plan to start Insurgent by Veronica Roth.
I always have too many things to read, but I started Lyon’s Bride, by Cathy Maxwell, finished the 2nd book in Lynne Graham’s new trilogy (liked it much better than the first one), just finished Sleepwalker by Karen Robards (very disappointed), and an re-reading Abigai Reynolds’ Morning Light (Miss Reynolds, PLEASE finish this series!)
In addition to the pile of titles on my Kindle, I must finish up the bio of Catherine the Great, but it’s all just marking time until May 8. Bring up the Bodies will appear on my Kindle that day, and all reading will cease while I immerse myself in Hilary Mantel’s masterpiece sequel to Wolf Hall. I hope it doesn’t take her three years to finish the trilogy. I’m not getting any younger.
I’m hoping to dig into a contemporary this weekend. Maybe About That Night by Julie James or Woodrose Mountain by RaeAnne Thayne.
Finished Deadlocked two days ago. I’m a big fan of the series and devoured the book as soon as I got it.
Wrapping up Pretty Pursuasion by Olivia Kingsley, which was a Kindle freebie. Good writing, engaging story – however – the heroine is totally annoying! She has constant mood swings and acts like a child, and this book has one of the most annoying tropes. There are pages and pages of conflict and the couple stubbornly not admitting their feelings when it’s SO obvious and it drove me crazy! What could have been a great novel fell flat. 🙁
Next up: That Scandalous Evening by Christina Dodd.
I finished Katie MacAlister’s Sparks fly last night, but now I have to go back and reread the first two books in the series (and maybe the two preceding trilogies) because there is so much plot and so many characters and piles of WTF that I have trouble keeping it all straight. Also just finished an old Kasey Michaels called The Butler did it, which I enjoyed enough to go looking for the sequel, plus I want to reread The Westing game, and finish an old British mystery I found called The bodies in the bookshop.
I’m finally getting to The Fault in Our Stars by John Green—-it’s been in my TBR pile since January and its from the Library (very bad of me). I kept putting it off because I’m 99% positive it will make me cry. Scratch that, 100%.
I got Lisa Kleypas’s Rainshadow Road to read next ans then it’s Nora Robert’s The Witness
I’m re-reading the Daniel Vartanian series by Karen Rose. Right now, I’m on Kill for Me, so I should be done tomorrow night or Monday. Then, I’ll start Lauren Willig’s The Garden Intrigue, which arrived yesterday.
I’m reading Courtney Milan’s “Unraveled” this weekend and enjoying it greatly!
I’m reading The Parisian’s Return by Julia Stagg..and- joy of joy’s -it’s as funny and lovely and utterly delicious as L’Auberge ! Bliss – no ironing for me this weekend !!!
I just finished The Woman Who Loved Jesse James by Cindi Myers and now I’m ready to go on a historical binge. Good thing I have more of her books loaded on my Nook!
Wow!!! I just finished A Lady Awakened by Cecelia Grant. What an amazing read. After listening to Jane and your podcast, highly recommending the book ,I gave it a try. It is a definite keeper! Thanks a million.
I’m reading A Fountain Filled With Blood by Julia Spencer-Fleming. I started it weeks ago and have been too busy to get back to it. But my TBR pile is getting out of control so I’ve got to get my butt in gear and start making my way through it.
I just finished When in Rio by Delphine Dryden – which is now one of my favorite bdsm romances – it was so good.
And now, for something completely different, I’m reading the new Anne Lamott memoir about her grandson’s first year – Some Assembly Required.
Just finished up the Wallflowers series by Lisa Kleypas and enjoyed it hugely altho I felt the last one petered out somewhat with a bit of a contrived villain. Let’s just say I felt she could have done better than that. Now I have to remember what I did with the first one in the series…
Currently taking another stab at Connealy with Out Of Control; this one is better and much more engaging altho I still get annoyed at her trope of the uneducated hero browbeating the (albeit improbably) better educated and more intelligent heroine just because he thinks he’s more sensible. Especially since she’s such a strong heroine I keep waiting for her to deck him for dissing her. Altho admittedly she does need to focus on the life-or-death problem at hand rather than her distant dream.
And just picked up Chris Wooding’s Retribution Falls as a Mother’s Day present to myself with a discount coupon. Looking forward to this as it looks like a Firefly clone and lots of fun; I kept hearing Nathan Fillion’s voice whenever I read the captain’s dialogue.
Right now I’m reading The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan. I heard so many good things about her, but I don’t usually read historicals. Since it’s a novella and only .99, I decided to start there. I really like it. I’m almost done with that, so after I finish I’m starting the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger.
I had this bright idea to hit the local thrift stores and pick up a bunch of older books to read, mostly due to my anthropology leanings and a budding theory about social trends as expressed through fantasy… and now I have I have a 30 book tall stack of “OMG, are you f’in serious!??!” that I am wading through.
So… I don’t even know what I’m reading any more, without looking through some notes. It’s all one big blur of heaving bosoms and manly thrusting, betwixt shy-feisty-sheltered-independent-abused heiress/orphan/widow/debutantes and arrogant-brooding-uptight-withdrawn-rakish Cowboy/Cajun/Viking/Space-Pilot/Viscounts. With the usual sides of raping, pillaging, manipulating, and being too stupid to live.
I would not even blink at biker gangs roaring through Regency Mayfair at this point. (Seriously… has that not happened in any of the convoluted Time Travel plots yet? Oh… wait. Maybe I had better check through the rest of my stack before I ask. It might yet be in there. 😛 )
I’m reading the third of the Fifty Shades Trilogy. There was a lot of good stuff in the first one, though I find the writing patchy; the second one began well but tailed off. The third one … Just about OK, but lacks a cohesive driving force, especially at the beginning. If there had been a fourth, I wouldn’t buy it.
This is where a Kindle and its instant gratification worked well for me. I finished Fifty Shades of Grey and downloaded Fifty Shades Darker, and went on reading.
i just reread ‘on the jellicoe road’ by melina marchetta, which is amazing. it’s a YA book but it is so emotionally complex and beautiful but funny at the same time…i don’t know how she does it. it’s nice to reread books and remember why you love them so much.