What are you reading now?

[History]

I'm going to start reading some of my favorite series from the beginning.  James Patterson's Alex Cross books and Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta books.  I've read most of them, but not in order.  I gave B a list in order and my library card.   

[History]

Just finished reading the North and South trilogy by John Jakes.  LOVED them.  There's a little bit of unbelievability (probably not a word but I like it!) to them - the characters in the book seem to be connected to and know every major historical figure of the time - but overall they're really good.  And he does a really good job of describing the politics of that era through the every day lives of the characters.  Totally worth the read.

[Kapihopela]

I just finished re-reading Gone With The Wind and Scarlett.  I love those books.

[History]

Ooh!  I'll have one of the boys pick those up for me at the library!!  I was wondering what I was going to read next.  I haven't read those in YEARS!

[Kapihopela]

I also finished recently the little women trilogy and the Anne of Green Gable series.  I've been in a romantic mind lately.

[faemum]

Noodle is evil :) was in a charity bookstore the other day and saw volume 2 of forever Amber , had to re-read and did not put down for three days . <3 that selfish , slutty wench Amber

[Noodle]

<3 that selfish , slutty wench Amber

samesies! 

[nomorewirehangers]

i'm rereading harry potter and the deathly hallows 


but now I wanna read gone with the wind and scarlett...scarlett was an AMAZING book and a horifically bad made for tv movie... 

[Kapihopela]

I have never seen gone with the wind or scarlett on tv, and I fully intend to keep it that way.  Movies of books I love have a way of REALLY pissing me off lol.

[nomorewirehangers]

the movie of gone with the wind is WONDERFUl in comparison to the book and I adore both. But then it was made back in the day when authors were given an actual opinion on the screenplays... scarlett is just bad. horribly bad. Great amazing wonderful book but the cast was just NOT right...(the guy they had playing rhett looked like a child molester...he's no clark gable (mmmm...clark gable...sexysexy)  )

[Tuzla]

Kapi, have you read the further series such as Rilla of Ingleside?

Summer, for me, is deep reading time. I am wrapping up, "We Regret to Inform You that Tomorrow We Well be Killed with Our Families." I'm eying "1914" next.

[Kapihopela]

I own the whole series EXCEPT for Rilla   That is the last one right?

[Noodle]

I'm reading a cheesy teen book. I needed an easy read.

[Tuzla]

Hate to disappoint, but there are more...all about Anne waiting for her son to come home from the war and such. And all the other characters are connected to anne and her family in some way.

Check out amazon for LM Montgomery books. If I still had them I would send them on...and I would link you but it's a hassle on my bby.

The later movies are -not- true to the books at all.

I did just watch a fantastical movie that is supposed to be both a prequel and sequel to the AoGG series: Aogg: A New Beginning. It was okay, but they totally ripped off Jane Eyre which made me want to throw something at the TV. It's plausible, but not really in Montgomery's vision.

Let me check my compendium for other titles.

Noodle - What are you reading? For a fun (but not to teen-agey) read, check out Ruby in the Smoke and Shadow of the North by Phillip Pullman. I just found out there's a third book and will try to pick that up from the library this week. It's a little bit. Of a mystery set in the UK I believe during the Edwardian era (don't quite remember).

[Noodle]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_(book)

Fae, you have probably read this already.