What are you reading in MAY?

currently reading:
Leaving van Gogh: a novel by Carol Wallace
The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont

currently listening to:
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Currently reading Look me in the eye by, John Elder Robinson

Currently listening to The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by, Rebecca Skloot Narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin~very facinating subject and story

I'm reading The American by Henry James...started it last month and hope to finish it soon!

I'm reading Safelight by Shannon Burke and have just begun Agnes Grey. Anne Bronte's heroine is somewhat cranky.

I'm reading Agnes Grey also. Kay you're right she is just a tad bit miserable isn't she? I'm also diving into One Was A Soldier.

#2, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was one of my favorites last year. It is an incredible story.

>5 lsh63: Hey Lisa! How are you enjoying the JSF?

I plan to start Agnes Grey tomorrow.

susie> Let me know what you think about Look me in the eye. I've heard it is good.

So is it the Agnes Grey group read now? I'm interested, but not a good time. Right now, I'm reading some short stories in Spanish, and between the language barrier and the quiet nature of the stories, it isn't going so well.

I'm reading Marabou Stork Nightmares, a story on three levels by Irvine Welsh. The narrator is a young Scottish man in a coma. He describes his present, his past, and his dreams. It's brilliant so far!

I am reading The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis for the Reading Through Time Challenge this month and, for Murder and Mayhem May I am reading The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo. Enjoying both.

#6 Hi Victoria: I am enjoying the JSF, however at approximately 150 pages in I'm wondering if anything is going to happen!

I'm reading Wide open by Nicola Barker, which is strange and funny, but demands a lot of concentration as it's pretty damn complicated too...

I've got two books going, volume 1 of Outlaws of the Marsh which is a very easy read and Yellow. Also, my daughter and I are taking our time to read The Secret Garden.

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Finished my Spanish short stories book, so now I'm onto Resurrection Code which is rather strange, being both a sequel and a prequel.

I'm now reading Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik, which is about a young family that moves to Paris and how they adjust to life in a new culture. I'm really enjoying it. He was there a few years after I was (I only lived there a year and I was a student, which is a different experience, but a lot of the things he mentioned, I recognize).

I'm reading Inkheart in Spanish, in wee chunks, and I am just about to decide what English book to pick up next. I am on a bit of a 1001 book roll, so might start another one.

I'm really enjoying The Ice Princess.

I am just about to start The Temptation of the Night Jasmine by Lauren Willig, really looking forward to this one.

I'm reading Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros, and plan to start Agnes Grey as soon as I finish it.

Just finished Agnes Grey and, on a whim, started The Mullah's Storm. Still plugging away at Leaving Van Gogh and The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril.

I'm now in the middle of the intriguing The Taste of a Man by Croatian author Slavenka Drakulic.

In the middle if How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu. Fun and unusual so far so I am enjoying it!

About to start Into That Darkness by Steven Price.

I'm reading Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes about to start This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer!

I'm finding Farm City by Novella Carpenter just hilarious! Love it!!

a little over half done with the new Sookie book Dead Reckoning by,Charlaine Harris

Just barely into I Shall Not Hate, which is a harrowing read, so I'm also read The Wheels of Chance by H G Wells, which is pretty funny. Neither one is great for my challenge, but the first is an ER book.

I'm starting Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay.

finished yellow blue tibia and almost finished embassytown by China Mieville (touchstone not working?) and am wondering which of my TBR I'll move onto next....

and the answer is 2666 :-)

listening to Wake by Lisa McMann.

re 29 - 2666 is amazing, I read it last year while travelling. It blew me away. I had had it a while, but the size put me off. I found thinking about it as the 5 books made it easier to handle, and, in the end, it flew by.

Just finished Suite Francaise, and have picked up Rebel Heiress for my bedtime book.

@30 - thats exactly how I'm thinking of it too :-0

I'm reading A Sundial in a Grave: 1610 by Mary Gentle, which ties in nicely with the Renaissance theme at the Reading Through Time challenge.

A few going simultaneously for me... Year's Best Science Fiction Fourteenth - because why not. That will go with my Books of Magical Timing category because it happened to be lying around when I went to visit my mom and I just picked it up then. Though I suppose this could go under Pack of Lies or under New Topics (short stories).

At the center of the storm - under Books I listen to ... not that this is current anymore, but thought it might be an interesting juxtoposition to read something from Iraq/Bush mistake now that Bin Laden has actually been found somewhere completely different. This could also go under Pack of Lies (oh the irony) or maybe American History.

On the origin of species - because it's been sitting in my iPod for too too too long. and I wanted to read this before graduating graduate school and didnt. So now Ill just have to read it as a postdoc. This will go under Science. Though it could also go under Books I listen to or Books I Meant To Read For Previous Challenges

I've started Fallen: A Novel by Karin Slaughter. She's my reward for making it through the week. A pizza, the hammock, and this weekend is off to a brilliant start!

I just finished The Body in the Gazebo, a cozy mystery by Katherine Hall Page and I'm starting The Queen's Gambit, a historical mystery by Diane Stuckart.

I'm reading Jane Eyre for my Bronte category and The Bourne Supremacy for my spies category. I like the movie version of the second book much, much better - not nearly as many italics as in the book.

I have nearly finished Inkheart, and picked up Death on a Branch Line yesterday. The latter is number 5 in the Railway Detective series, the right book for a lazy, sunny Saturday.

I've also started Fallen: Karin Slaughter and have picked Freedom back up to finish.

I'm halfway through Paris to the Moon, which is a series of articles and diary entries about moving to Paris with a young child and Adam Gopnik's thoughts on French culture. It's fantastic, at least I think so.

I'm also beginning One Day by David Nicholls, having just heard that it's been made into a movie.

re One Day - really? I hadn't heard that. I read it travelling last year and enjoyed it.

I'm slowly making my way through Suite Francaise for the group read and have also picked up Brothers by Bernice Rubens.
I finished a re-read of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock a few days ago and have won free tickets to the movie, though I'll also want to see the original 1947 film adaption.

Still waiting on Suite Francaise from the library, so I'm reading Great Souls.

I've started in on The Fall:Book Two of the Strain trilogy by Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro.

soffitta1--I saw the trailer last weekend. I can't see Anne Hathaway as Emma, but I am really enjoying the book.

I just finished Resurrection Code which I enjoyed a lot and am about to start Cave of the Jagua which is sort of an anthropological book. I'm going to sneak it into my biography section. It's about people, right? Extinct people, but who's being particular.

Suite Francaise is a personal favourite of mine!

I'm currently reading Cold Mountain, Left Neglected and will be starting Petals from the Sky / The Bone Cage and or The Crown of Swords shortly.

Currently listening to The Maze Runner by James Dashner.

I also read Hate that Cat by Sharon Creech

I'm almost finished with Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik and have started Swamplandia!.

I just finished the very good Fallen:Karin Slaughter and don't know what to read next..... Hmmmm

I finished The Gardner Heist and dreamed that I knew where the stolen Rembrandt self-portrait was. I was on my way to a million dollar reward! Sadly, I'm pretty sure that 'somewhere in the city of Liverpool - I know because I saw it in a dream' is not actually going to get me a check.

I wanted something gritty and so have begun The Whispering Wall by Patricia Conlon. It has an old-fashioned feel of a Hitchcock movie.

RidgewayGirl, I'm quite a fan of Patricia Carlon's psychological suspense.

I've just finished South Riding.

I just finished The Soldier's Wife by Margaret Leroy, which was my April ER book. Now I'm reading War for the Oaks by Emma Bull.

Currently reading Cirkeln on Gingerbreadman's recommendation. Wish I had known it was scary before I started reading it at night. :)

I'm reading and loving Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch, who has written Dr Who screenplays in the past. I'm also reading Suite Francaise for the group read.

I have just started Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead and I think I am in for something very special.

I'm just finishing Lethal Lineage by Charlotte Hinger and I'm getting ready to start Gutenberg by John Man, about his invention of moveable type.

I'm about to finish City of Bones ,love that Harry Bosch. Also on tap :Tenant of Wildfell Hall and To the Power of Three.

I finished Margherita Dolce Vita last night and currently have two books on the go: the non-fiction Brunelleschi's Dome : How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King and for fiction, The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander. Both are proving to be quite good so far.

Reading impulse buy The Drinker by Hans Fallada, jury's out so far whether I am going to love it.

I just started Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura. Prose translated from Japanese always seems to have such a lyrical quality to it, with this book being just like that so far.

I'm starting Cold Magic by Kate Elliott.

I've just started A Case of Exploding Mangoes, interesting so far. I finished So long, and thanks for the fish this morning and have the 5th Hitchhiker book ready to go.
I'm not sure what my next 1001 read will be, I keep picking them up and putting them back.

I just finished Swamplandia! by Karen Russell, full of alligators and hot weather, so for a change, I've gone to Greenland with Cold Earth by Sarah Moss.

I'm reading Pearl of China by Anchee Min for my Asian category. I should finish it tonight so I don't have to take a physical copy with me on a trip. I'm also reading Mansfield Park by Jane Austen on my Kindle for the Austenathon over on the 75 book thread. It will fit a couple of categories here so I'll decide where to put it later. I'll be reading a mystery on my Kindle after that, but I haven't decided which one yet.

I have just finished Death of Grass by John Christopher (aka No Blade of Grass) for my 'End of the World' catagory - only have two more catagories to finish - 'Kiss, Kiss' by romance catagory and 'Heavenly Inspiration' which is Christian fiction books.

Anyhow I am having a paranormal week this week - have just picked up The Accidental Demon Slayer by Angie Fox and The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan. I am balancing this all off with a non-fiction read Advance Australia Where by Hugh Mackay.

I just squeezed an anthropology book into my biography section, Cave of the Jagua and now I'm going to switch over to my books of the shelf challenge instead and read Arthur and George. I hope it's fast-moving, because I've done enough slow-paced for awhile.

I'm now reading The Conductor by Sarah Quigley and Brothers by Bernice Rubens, both are set in Russia.

I am listening to The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I thought I would be burned out on dystopian YA but happy to say that's not the case.

I've finished the amazingly excellent Cold Earth by Sarah Moss and am now moving from the near future to the 19th century in Charles Palliser's The Unburied.

I am thoroughly enjoying Tenant of Wildfell Hall. It's like 19th century Peyton Place!

I'm about halfway through The Iron Dragon's Daughter which is okay but not wonderful (so far). I don't dislike it enough to give it up, but keep hoping it will get better.

73 I love Tenant of Wildfell Hall! Enjoy. I just finished reading No More Dead Dogs, so I may pick up The Outsiders. I've read bits of it with several different kids, but have never actually read it. I'm also reading Arthur and George.

I'm starting Miss Buncle's Book by D. E. Stevenson -- I'm definitely in the mood for something light, humorous, and British!

I'm reading Mystic and Rider by Sharon Shinn and My Antonia for my book group. Loving that one, but since it's on my Kindle, and it's in a collection, I can't really tell how much more I have to go.

I'm reading Mystic and Rider by Sharon Shinn and My Antonia for my book group. Loving that one, but since it's on my Kindle, and it's in a collection, I can't really tell how much more I have to go.

I'm listening to I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.

I'm reading The Unburied by Charles Palliser, which is an intricate Victorian mystery, and Perfect Fifths, the newest installment in Megan McCafferty's series about Jessica Darling, an over-thinking and somewhat neurotic young woman. The series began (Sloppy Firsts) when she was in high school. She's in her mid-twenties now.

I've just started reading Digging to America by Anne Tyler. I'm also listening to the 3rd Flavia de Luce mystery, A Red Herring Without Mustard.

I'm now reading To the Power of Three which is going pretty quickly. I'm not sure what's next.

I've read a fair bit of non-fiction lately, and am in the mood for light escapism. I'm about a hundred pages into Changeless.

I've just started Theology and Sanity by Frank Sheed...I doubt I'll be able to finish it by the end of this month, though.

I'm loving The Sugar Queen, it's safe to say I will finish it before the month is over. Two other books on tap: Lily White and Sleeping Beauty.

I seem to be starting books left and right here.
Finishing What hath god wrought (awesome! highly recommended)
Starting Bossypants, and Arresting god in kathmandu
Also somewhere in the middle of The third chimpanzee and Louis D. Brandeis, and Not in my neighborhood and Shame of the nation

86 Is it still may where you live? ;-)

apparently.