what are you reading now?

I just got the email that the new John Grisham book - The Litigators - is available for me to pick up - I put it on hold a month ago and was #66 so I am excited to start that 

I also have the most recent Clive Cussler book that I just picked up at the library (his books are fast entertaining reads)

I am reading the Harry Potter series right now. Next up, The Hunger Games.

I haven't read John Grisham in ages! What type of stuff does  Clive Cussler write?
I'll check out Lorna Landvik  too....

I really want to read Hunger Games too!  I have heard great things about that

I love Hunger Games.  But I like those type of books (dystopian society stuff).

Mansfield Park is the least approachable Jane Austen book in my opinion.  The first time I read it I barely made it through and I gave myself permission to skip boring pages. I should try it again and see if my opinion changed. 

I go through phases of interest. A couple months ago I read a lot on healthy eating and in turn where our food comes from. Then I was wanting to learn more about prayer - journaling, types of prayer, etc. Now I am reading books on homemaking and motherhood (trying to refill my sails I guess). I am also doing a Bible plan where I read through the OT once and NT twice in a year which has been good for me - I've learned more in 5 weeks than I have since I became a Christian in college! All those points are finally connecting in my head. I have so many other non-fiction things I want to read that I rarely get into fiction anymore. DS, ODD and I have been reading a chapter or two of Little House in the Big Woods so I hope to continue with some of the classics with them (one of DS's faves is a 14 chapter abridged version of Moby Dick). I have found a lot of them for free on my Kindle so I'll save those for those 2 AM nursing sessions I guess. I actually downloaded a couple that I remember from HS so I can reread them - Sense and Sensibility, Woman in White, one or two others.

I loved the Hunger Games.  I read all 3 in just a few days and so did DH, and he's a super slow reader.  I had a friend who was appalled the first chapter, but after about 3 chapters she didn't put it down.  I highly encourage you to push through a few chapters before you decide!

I will soon be reading Wild Thing -- because my friend wrote it.

I am reading Jeffery Eugenides "Marriage Plot".
Next up is Jane McCafferty "First You Try Everything" (which just came out and was written by my teenage son's girlfriends mom. This woman could be his future MIL!!!--anyway, Donovan told me that this mom "liked books" after he met her, but never mentioned that she had five of them published!)

diaperpin-jen wrote: I haven't read John Grisham in ages! What type of stuff does  Clive Cussler write? I'll check out Lorna Landvik  too....

Clive Cussler is just a like adventure type book. Usually someone is trying to destroy the world in some crazy way (like tilting the earth off its axes so that it will create a climant change and people on these huge cruise ships will be the only survivors) and the main character has to save the day. He has a few different groups, some are Dirk Pitt and there is the Organ Series, Fargo Mysteries, NUMA adventures... They are not heavy but fun reads! I can read one in a weekend which still shocks DH, but I remind him they are not "deep" but fun.

ambrose wrote: I will soon be reading Wild Thing -- because my friend wrote it.   His first book was Beat the Reaper -- some disturbing stuff in it that i'm not sure everyone on the Pin would get into, but he's an awesome writer, if you have a taste/tolerance for a certain degree of sex/violence. Though, actually know very little about the new book. Expect DH says it's more political and involves a loch ness monster type phenomenon.

So tell us the author's name already!