I recently read:

I just finished "The Blue Nowhere" by Jeffrey Deaver. He's the same author who wrote the book, "The Bone Collector, and some other good ones.
It's about a computer hacker who creates a program to go into anyone's computer, get information on them, and then he "social engineers" them to make them think he's someone they know or trust, then he kills them. It's pretty interesting, all the stuff they do to try to catch this guy. (It's all fiction, of course.)

i went on a total reading kick lately. i've gotten really into Mary Higgins Clark. my favorite was "All Around the Town",
"Daddy's Little Girl" was pretty good. and i'm starting "I'll be Seeing You"

oh and i read this other book recently called "Toxin" by Robin Cook. it was really good but rather disturbing. in real life he is a doctor and it talks about the ecoli virus and the meat industry. if you ever wanted to go vegetarian, but didnt have enough willpower...read this book.

I recently read War of the Worlds. I read it on Saturday and Sunday. It's a shortie (212 pages) and I could have read it all Saturday but I'm trying to draw out books more and read slower.

I enjoyed it, definenetly see why it's a classic. Not that it's the best book I've ever read but it was pretty solid.

I just finished, The Army Officers Wife, its about a Jewish woman in the war time. Its really interesting if you like these kind of storys, . I love true life storys , and how people go through crazy times and crazy things that happened to them, I LOVE the watchtower articles on all the brothers and sister during this period they are so encouraging to me! I like war History books. I just started getting in to reading again thanks to me friend!

My husband recently finished the chronicals of Narnia i think its called. I'm not into those type of storys but he says it was pretty good. He said it was really easy to read compared to just finisheing all or Tolkins books.
There is another book he read called, Arragon,, or something like that, it was written by a teenager and made like best seller when it was published last year or something. I duno I don't read those kinds of books, I'm just sharing. He said that book was really good and can't wait for the next one.

I recently read Prep by Curtis Stittenfield.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400062314/qid=1118324385/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/103-0516738-0896667?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

It's about a girl going through boarding school. (Aptly titled, right?) Every now and then I like to take a break from classical reading and read a book about high school. This was extremely well-written, by an author who won the Seventeen magazine fiction prize when she was 16.

It follows the life of Lee, who feels like an outcast at a ritzy northeastern prep school. She's not cool, has only one friend, and longs for a guy named "Cross Sugarman" (the book is littered with very odd names. Another character is named "Gates Mendowski". Maybe the author was trying to hide people she knew with crazy names.).

It's the most stellar example of foreshadowing I've seen in modern fiction for a long time. Lee narrates the novel from a flash back point of view, so as she's talking about her classmates, she jumps to the present, talking about where they are now, or what significance they had later in her high school years. It really kept me interested and kept me reading.

(I should mention too, that the author is a woman. Some of the reivews on Amazon.com said that "Curtis" didn't write women well, but she just has an unfortunate name, and in my opinion, does write women well.)

Disclaimer: There is a little mention of sex in the book, so if that offends you, I don't recommend it. It's still rated as a teen book (it's probably in the category of "Catcher in the Rye" with regard to sexuality) but if that bothers you, don't read it.

has anyone ever read d.h. lawerence's women in love? my senior english paper is my own analysis of this book and i particularly picked it cuz i always wanted to read it and then when my teacher basically told me i would be too dumb to understand it, i went all out to make sure i'd understand it, but now i am not quite so sure that i get it. and i cant really look online or buy a book cuz it gets sent through to check for similiar ideas available online and such. so if anyone has read this, message me so we can discuss it!!! thanks!!!!

I'm starting The Beach House by James Patterson (whom I LUV)

just finished the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (just the first book). it was pretty good and funny. I'll probably read the others

I just read "State of Fear" by Michael Chrichton. fairly good book if you like his work.

Sum--just the fact that you can read an entire book in one day (maybe only a few hours) makes me feel totally inadequate as a human. :(

last night i read:
Crescent: A Novel by Diana Abu-Jaber
i dont know how to explain it. it was so elaborate. it made me hungry. the protagonist is a chef so there is a lot of food in the book, but it made me hungry for everything: food and travel and new ideas. i read fast, but the metaphors were so layered i want to read it again and savor it.
It's a positive relief to read a novel that treats Iraqis as real people. Diana Abu-Jaber's second novel, Crescent, is set in Los Angeles and peopled by immigrants and Iraqi-Americans. Thirty-nine-year-old, half-Arab Sirine is a chef in a Lebanese restaurant. Her uncle works at the university with Han, an Iraqi-born academic who begins frequenting Sirine's restaurant, drawn by her beauty and her exquisite cooking. Part of the book's charm is in its determination to impart the sheer glamour of Arabia, here personified in Han's face: "Sirine watches Han and for a moment it seems that she can actually see the ancient traces in Han's face, the quality of his gaze that seems to originate from a thousand-thousand years of watching the horizon--a forlorn, beautiful gazing, rich and more seductive than anything she has ever seen." Too, the book addresses head-on the one-dimensional view Americans possess of Iraq. I used to read about Baghdad in Arabian Nights," says one American character. "It was all about magic and adventurers. I thought that's what it was like there. And when I got older Baghdad turned into the stuff about war and bombs--the place on the TV set. I never thought about there being any kind of normal life there." As she falls more deeply in love with Han, Sirine discovers that part of being Iraqi now means learning to live with not knowing: not knowing where people have disappeared to, not knowing if your family is alive or dead. In the book's thrilling, romantic denouement, these lessons come perilously close to Sirine's Los Angeles home. Crescent brings alive a vibrant community of exiled academics, immigrants on the make, and optimistic souls looking for love.

Abu-Jaber (Arabian Jazz) weaves the story of a love affair between a comely chef and a handsome, haunted Near Eastern Studies professor together with a fanciful tale of a mother's quest to find her wayward son in this beautifully imagined and timely novel, which explores private emotions and global politics with both grace and conviction. Green-eyed, 39-year-old Sirine cooks up Arab specialties in a bustling cafe in Los Angeles where Arab students gather for a taste of home. When her doting uncle, who raised her after the death of her relief-worker parents 30 years ago, introduces her to his colleague Hanif, the placid surface of her life is disturbed. Their affair begins quickly and ardently, as Sirine, who has heretofore equated cooking with love, discovers the pleasures of romance, and the exiled Han struggles to feel grounded in a place far from the Baghdad he loved as a boy. In Abu-Jaber's sensuous prose, the city is as lush and fragrant as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and her secondary characters, like the wry, wise cafe owner Um-Nadia and the charmingly narcissistic poet and satyr Aziz, are appealingly eccentric. But a darkly troubled photographer drawn to both Sirine and Han, news of Saddam Hussein's latest atrocities and Han's painful memories of his imprisoned brother and his disappeared sister, for whose fates he feels responsible, cloud their affair, perhaps dooming it. Abu-Jaber's poignant contemplations of exile and her celebration of Sirine's exotic, committed domesticity-almond cookies, cardamom, and black tea with mint-help make this novel feel as exquisite as the "flaming, blooming" mejnoona tree behind Nadia's Cafe.

last night i read:
The Center of Everything : A Novel by Laura Moriarty
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786888458/qid=1113329255/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-9848053-9611313?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
total eighties flashback, but very excellent storytelling! i look forward to reading more from this author.
Laura Moriarty's debut novel is a simple story, but effectively told. Ten-year-old Evelyn Bucknow lives with her not very responsible young mother, Tina, on the outskirts of a small Kansas town. The Center of Everything follows a clean arc: How Evelyn, a gifted but poor student, negotiates the pitfalls of her background to become a college student. The book shows the scary tenuousness of poverty. When Tina's car breaks down, their life falls apart like a flimsy cardboard edifice. Evelyn can't get to school, Tina can't get to work, and unseemly relationships with men who own cars develop. The novel's other theme is the importance of teaching; when one of her teachers tells her she's gifted, Evelyn's life is changed. "She takes off her glasses, still looking at me. I take off my glasses too, because for a moment I think she is going to place them on my eyes, the way you place a crown on someone's head when they become queen. Welcome to being smart." As she heads into adolescence, Evelyn sees her best friend fall in love and become pregnant, just as Tina did when she was a teenager. Evelyn resists these traps, not without some lovelorn, lonely moments. The Center of Everything careens dangerously near fingerwagging at times, but the book's salvation comes from unexpected quarters: Evelyn's mom Tina. At the outset, she seems beleaguered and lost, but as the book progresses she develops a wry resiliency. We get to watch Evelyn and Tina grow up together, and it's a rare sight.

che
by jon lee anderson.
very good. long and intricate. and the movie the motorcycle diaries gives an exclusive interview with the man that traveled with che (alberto granado) and when he is writing at his desk, HE HAS THIS BOOK!! how cool is that? means it is definetely truthfull and a good version. sweet pictures. he was pretty sweet looking when he was that young doctor.

over the weekend, i read:
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1592400876/qid=1105367729/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-2136176-2863218?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
i found this book hysterical. i am not a stickler, but i know a few. this book reminded me of some grammar rules i used to know; plus i learned some i didnt. aside from her distain for the interrobang (?!), i liked the authors approach. it was entertaining and informative. three stars.
From Publishers Weekly
Who would have thought a book about punctuation could cause such a sensation? Certainly not its modest if indignant author, who began her surprise hit motivated by "horror" and "despair" at the current state of British usage: ungrammatical signs ("BOB,S PETS"), headlines ("DEAD SONS PHOTOS MAY BE RELEASED") and band names ("Hear'Say") drove journalist and novelist Truss absolutely batty. But this spirited and wittily instructional little volume, which was a U.K. #1 bestseller, is not a grammar book, Truss insists; like a self-help volume, it "gives you permission to love punctuation." Her approach falls between the descriptive and prescriptive schools of grammar study, but is closer, perhaps, to the latter. (A self-professed "stickler," Truss recommends that anyone putting an apostrophe in a possessive "its"-as in "the dog chewed it's bone"-should be struck by lightning and chopped to bits.) Employing a chatty tone that ranges from pleasant rant to gentle lecture to bemused dismay, Truss dissects common errors that grammar mavens have long deplored (often, as she readily points out, in isolation) and makes elegant arguments for increased attention to punctuation correctness: "without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning." Interspersing her lessons with bits of history (the apostrophe dates from the 16th century; the first semicolon appeared in 1494) and plenty of wit, Truss serves up delightful, unabashedly strict and sometimes snobby little book, with cheery Britishisms ("Lawks-a-mussy!") dotting pages that express a more international righteous indignation.
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Product Description:
"""You don't need to be a grammar nerd to enjoy this one...Who knew grammar could be so much fun?"" -Newsweek We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with."--This text refers to the Digital edition.

today i read:
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/015602943X/qid=1105226362/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/102-5987979-2573717
it was amazing! four stars!!! easily the best book ive read in about a year (and i read alot of books in case you didnt notice).
From Publishers Weekly
This clever and inventive tale works on three levels: as an intriguing science fiction concept, a realistic character study and a touching love story. Henry De Tamble is a Chicago librarian with "Chrono Displacement" disorder; at random times, he suddenly disappears without warning and finds himself in the past or future, usually at a time or place of importance in his life. This leads to some wonderful paradoxes. From his point of view, he first met his wife, Clare, when he was 28 and she was 20. She ran up to him exclaiming that she'd known him all her life. He, however, had never seen her before. But when he reaches his 40s, already married to Clare, he suddenly finds himself time travelling to Clare's childhood and meeting her as a six-year-old. The book alternates between Henry and Clare's points of view, and so does the narration. Reed ably expresses the longing of the one always left behind, the frustrations of their unusual lifestyle, and above all, her overriding love for Henry. Likewise, Burns evokes the fear of a man who never knows where or when he'll turn up, and his gratitude at having Clare, whose love is his anchor. The expressive, evocative performances of both actors convey the protagonists' intense relationship, their personal quirks and their reminiscences, making this a fascinating audio.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.--This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Product Description:
A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.

An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler's Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come.

whoops.

this week, i read the left hand of darkness (remembering tomorrow) by ursula k. le guin. its supposedly this great sci-fi masterpiece, but i was less than impressed. the story was very original, but i found the story telling to be blah and the ending anti-climactic.
Amazon.com
Genly Ai is an emissary from the human galaxy to Winter, a lost, stray world. His mission is to bring the planet back into the fold of an evolving galactic civilization, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own culture and prejudices and those that he encounters. On a planet where people are of no gender--or both--this is a broad gulf indeed. The inventiveness and delicacy with which Le Guin portrays her alien world are not only unusual and inspiring, they are fundamental to almost all decent science fiction that has been written since. In fact, reading Le Guin again may cause the eye to narrow somewhat disapprovingly at the younger generation: what new ground are they breaking that is not already explored here with greater skill and acumen? It cannot be said, however, that this is a rollicking good story. Le Guin takes a lot of time to explore her characters, the world of her creation, and the philosophical themes that arise.

If there were a canon of classic science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness would be included without debate. Certainly, no science fiction bookshelf may be said to be complete without it. But the real question: is it fun to read? It is science fiction of an earlier time, a time that has not worn particularly well in the genre. The Left Hand of Darkness was a groundbreaking book in 1969, a time when, like the rest of the arts, science fiction was awakening to new dimensions in both society and literature. But the first excursions out of the pulp tradition are sometimes difficult to reread with much enjoyment. Rereading The Left Hand of Darkness, decades after its publication, one feels that those who chose it for the Hugo and Nebula awards were right to do so, for it truly does stand out as one of the great books of that era. It is immensely rich in timeless wisdom and insight.

The Left Hand of Darkness is science fiction for the thinking reader, and should be read attentively in order to properly savor the depth of insight and the subtleties of plot and character. It is one of those pleasures that requires a little investment at the beginning, but pays back tenfold with the joy of raw imagination that resonates through the subsequent 30 years of science fiction storytelling. Not only is the bookshelf incomplete without owning it, so is the reader without having read it. --L. Blunt Jackson

Product Description:
Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning, groundbreaking science fiction classic takes us to the world of Winter, and introduces us to its inhabitants, the Gethenians-whose society is not based on gender roles.