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What Great Books are You Reading Right Now?

I've always got a list of books to read and books I'm currently working on. Right now I'm enjoying Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

What books are you currently reading? What do you recommend to be added to my ever lengthy to be read pile?

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Permalink Reply by MockingBird on October 6, 2008 at 6:28pm: A number of my boys (12-14 years) are all over the Mike Lupica sports books. I have started "Heat", with a promise to read "Summer Ball" as soon as it is returned. I'm enjoying the way Lupica captures a kid's pure love of baseball. Almost makes me want to root for the Yankees!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by GBeesch on October 7, 2008 at 3:58pm: After reading the Twilight series with my daughter I started rereading 'Sunshine' by Robin McKinley to see if I could give it to my daughter to read. Yeah, it's true, I try to read some of the stuff my daughters read to get a gauge on what I have to intervene and give some parental guidance. . .

'Sunshine' is just as incredible the second time around.

'Soon I Will Be Invincible' by Justin Grossman turned out to be above my expectations. Nothing earth shattering but still very entertaining.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kim Culbertson on October 9, 2008 at 3:41pm: Here are three books by awesome YA writers that I did a book reading with in LA this summer: I Want to Be Your Joey Ramone by Stephanie Kuehnert, Frenemies by Alexa Young, and Cruel Summer by Alyson Noel. Not only are these great books, but the women who wrote them are fabulous!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jonatha (LadyJay) on October 12, 2008 at 9:52am: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas....the movie comes out next month. The book is amazing....heartbreaking.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by val minnich on October 18, 2008 at 8:20pm: I'm finishing up JENNY GREEN'S KILLER JUNIOR YEAR which is pretty good. But those that like perfect grammatical writing styles, it's not for you.. and I have THE PACT OF WOLVES up next that I got from the library. I know it's not YA, but I just finished LUCKY ONE by Nicholas Sparks which was also pretty good..; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Liz on October 28, 2008 at 11:07am: I have read and review Alison Goodman's The Two Pearls of Wisdom recently and had the honour of meeting her over breakfast for an interview - what a fantastic lady! Two Pearls of Wisdom is to be released in the States very soon and this is the website: www.eonbook.com. Brilliantly written with an interesting main character. A must read!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robin Stevenson on October 30, 2008 at 8:58am: Just read Susan Beth Pfeffer's "Life As We Knew It". Wow. I have no idea about the accuracy of the science behind the global disaster in the book but it sure is convincing when you are reading it... Now I feel like I should be stocking my basement with bottled water and cans of tuna...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sarah Ockler on October 30, 2008 at 4:40pm: I recently finished THE HUNGER GAMES, which I loved, and now I'm on to Carrie Ryan's THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sarah Ockler on October 30, 2008 at 4:41pm: Cool - I recently picked up LIFE AS WE KNEW IT - a friend suggested I read it with all the lights off, under a blanket with a flashlight, to get the full effect! Sounds like that approach might work!

Robin Stevenson said:
Just read Susan Beth Pfeffer's "Life As We Knew It". Wow. I have no idea about the accuracy of the science behind the global disaster in the book but it sure is convincing when you are reading it... Now I feel like I should be stocking my basement with bottled water and cans of tuna...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robin Stevenson on November 2, 2008 at 12:58am: you are braver than i am! not sure i could handle the full effect... let me know what you think. i see that she has written another about the same events from a different POV in "the dead and the gone"-- i think i'll look for that one too.

on a lighter note, i just read "Alice, I Think" by Susan Juby and laughed out loud quite a few times... hilarious and quirky.

Sarah Ockler said:
Cool - I recently picked up LIFE AS WE KNEW IT - a friend suggested I read it with all the lights off, under a blanket with a flashlight, to get the full effect! Sounds like that approach might work!
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Permalink Reply by Sarah Quigley on November 3, 2008 at 8:57am: I'm currently obsessed with AMERICAN WIFE by Curtis Sittenfeld. I loved her first two books, PREP and MAN OF MY DREAMS, and had been eagerly awaiting AW for months. It's far more ambitious in scope than her first two, and she continues to dazzle with her thoughtful, observant prose. I'm in awe once again.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by paul volponi on November 5, 2008 at 1:53pm: I'm rereading Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, and on You Tube I can't get enough of a live edition of Shawn Colvin's Cry Like an Angel. --Paul Volponi; ▶ Reply to This

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