running is bad for you
Read anything good lately?
All of my life I avoided 2 things - running and reading. I've started doing both in 2011. Hope reading doesn't end up like my running. Anyway.....
Have you read anything good lately? my tastes are kinda all over the place.....except for nonfiction. I'm easily entertained. I just finished Defending Jacob and the Maze Runner series. But I've also read some borderline trashy stuff like Jill Mansell and Sophie Kinsella and of course 50 Shades.....
Thanks!
EDITED:
Ok this is how we're going to keep track (and when I say we, I mean ME):
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand - downloaded and read 50 pages - not my thing
The Brief Wonderous Life Life of Oscar Wao- Junot Diaz - unavailable at the online library
The Book Thief - Just downloaded will start tonight
Life of Pi
11/22/63
The Passage and The Twelve
Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies
The Dovekeepers
Game of Throne Series
Boys Life
Confederacy of Dunces
Gone Girl
Great Expectations
11-22-63
Hunger games - already read and loved
Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series
A Dance with Dragons
The Passage
The Twelve
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
5 quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
Momentum is your Friend by Joe Kurmaskie
Chocolat
Girl With No Shadow
Shot In The Heart by Mikal Gilmore
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Blasphemy by Douglas Preston
Darkhouse by Karina Halle
The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
Wool by Hugh Howey.
Stephanie Plum series Janet Evanovich
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Replica by Lexi Revellian
Water for Elephants - read it - loved it
His Dark Materials- Philip Pullman
I, Cladius.
Helter Skelter.
Bared to You by Sylvia Day.
Schexy books.
Dresden Files by Jim Butcher.
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress by Susan Jane Gilman
Caravans by James Michener.
Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
Sugar Barons
Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth
World Without End
A Tale of Two Cities.
Siddhartha.
The Count of Monte Cristo.
The Fountainhead.
Wuthering Heights
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Divergent,
Insurgent.
Authors
Elizabeth George, Deborah Crombie, PD James, Peter Robinson, Val McDermid etc are excellent. For American authors in a similar genre, I like Michael Connelly Faye and Jonathan Kellerman, John Sandford and Robert Crai, David Sedaris, Jane Austen,Diana Gabaldons,Edward Rutherfurd,James Patterson
PHEW. I'm gong to be busy!
All of my life I avoided 2 things - running and reading.
That is a great line, and describes me perfectly! I still don't read, but I write until the cows come home. Go figure!
Village people
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand.
The Brief Wonderous Life Life of Oscar Wao- Junot Diaz
Two excellent books!
@runjerseygirl
Do you even run?
Tracy
The Book Thief
Are some of my recent good reads.
Jan, Unbroken is in my TBR list.
Misty
Ooh read Gone Girl!
Bless your heart.
Chief Unicorn Officer
I've actually been rereading some of the classics that I didn't enjoy in high school and college and finding them much more interesting and entertaining now. I just finished Great Expectations and loved it.
Mile 5:49 - 5K 19:58 - 10K 43:06 - HM 1:36:54
Gone Girl is also on my want list! I just can't pay $12.99 for an ebook... it was on sale on Amazon yesterday for 2.99, and I missed it.
Have you read her other books? Sharp Objects was very good, haven't read the other one though
Singer who runs a smidge
11-22-63 by Stephen King is turning out to be really good. Don't tell me how it ends, though!
When it's all said and done, no one remembers how far we have run. The only thing that matters is how we have loved.
I actually put Gone Girl on my library hold list - there are only 325 people ahead of me - so I might break down and buy it!
Ok, I'm starting in order from your posts and going to read the synopsis and picking and choosing! Starting with UNBROKEN.....
edited.....the library actually has Unbroken available so SNIP this one's first!!
Are we there, yet?
I'm finishing up the Hunger Games Trilogy.
Recently read Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen. I've like all her books.
2024 Races:
03/09 - Livingston Oval Ultra 6-Hour, 22.88 miles
05/11 - D3 50K 05/25 - What the Duck 12-Hour
06/17 - 6 Days in the Dome 12-Hour.
From the Internet.
Started C25K on 9/6/12. First 5K set for 1/13/13.
Canuck
Lots of good suggestions in here, recently I've read Gone Girl, The Passage and The Twelve and Unbroken and can recommend them all.
Do you have a particular genre you like? I'm particularly fond of what I would call British police procedurals, so anything by Elizabeth George, Deborah Crombie, PD James, Peter Robinson, Val McDermid etc are excellent. For American authors in a similar genre, I like Michael Connelly Faye and Jonathan Kellerman, John Sandford and Robert Crais.
A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones series) and Hunger Games are great as well and a novel that I read a few years ago and really enjoyed is Shantaram.
PRs: 47:54 (10K); 1:46:36 (HM); 3:50:52 (FM)
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http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Found-Pacific-Crest-Oprahs/dp/0307592731/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1354662683&sr=1-1&keywords=wild
http://www.amazon.com/Language-Flowers-Novel-Vanessa-Diffenbaugh/dp/0345525558/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1354662753&sr=1-1&keywords=the+language+of+flowers+vanessa+diffenbaugh
http://www.amazon.com/Five-Quarters-Orange-Novel-P-S/dp/B0028N72VW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1354662829&sr=1-1&keywords=5+quarters+of+the+orange
http://www.amazon.com/Seedfolks-Joanna-Colter-Books-Fleischman/dp/0780794826/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1354662937&sr=1-1&keywords=seedfolks+by+paul+fleischman
http://www.amazon.com/Momentum-Your-Friend-Pint-Sized-America/dp/1891369938/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1354663137&sr=1-3&keywords=joe+kurmaskie