What did you just finish reading?
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March 14, 2011 4:52:48 PM PDT
I hardly ever have time to read, but I am currently reading The Hat Pin Murders by Joyce Caudel.
It is a Red Hat Mystery and I am loving it! 
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February 15, 2012 8:25:30 AM PST
What?! Where are all the sci-fi books? :)
I just finished "The Wanderer" by Fritz Leiber, another book like it is Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower/Talents
My goal is to read all of the Hugo/Nebula winners and I'm almost done, started in 2001. I have a few first editions too!
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February 23, 2012 10:18:55 PM PST
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close", ""Stories I Only Tell My Friends" and "The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother." Thank you, Sacramento County Library!
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February 24, 2012 8:07:25 AM PST
"44 Charles Street by Danielle Steele"
This is truly bubblegum for the brain. It is nice to escape into fictional drama occaisionally!
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February 24, 2012 11:45:54 AM PST
I just finished "The Hunger Games". Just started the second book in the trilogy "Catching Fire". I'm also currently reading "The girl with the dragon tattoo" and "Abraham Lincoln- Vampire Hunter"
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February 24, 2012 8:19:57 PM PST
I just finished reading Mockingjay (Third book in the Hunger Games series) and 11/22/63 by Stephen King. Both great books
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February 25, 2012 7:11:10 PM PST
I loved 11/22/63! I then read an advanced reader copy of 15 Seconds by Andrew Gross. He co-wrote the first Women's Murder Series books with James Patterson. Next was The 500 by Mathew Quirk. This read like an early Grisham nove. Next was The Book of Negros. This was a slavery story that started in 1700's Africa. Finally I am now reading Kill Shot by Vince Flynn and I have American Assasin lined up next.
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March 1, 2012 8:57:13 PM PST
I just finished listening to Skippy Dies...everything I ever wanted to know about a boys boarding school in Ireland. I'm about to finish Mockingjay, and I just started And One Last Thing by Molly Harper.
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March 22, 2012 9:12:28 PM PDT
I just started reading The Hunger Games and am about half way through it. I bought all three books in this trilogy. I just finished reading TGhe Appeal by John Grisham and also the first 10 Alex Cross books by James Patterson.
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March 23, 2012 8:56:02 AM PDT
Just finished the Hunger Games Trilogy! Wow it was great. My daughter and I read it together on our Kindles. It was difficult to put down.
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March 23, 2012 6:47:58 PM PDT
Just finished 11/23/63 by Stephen King. I second the earlier post-excellent book. Interesting premise. Just as I thought he had lost his way as some of his latest books haven't been that great he comes back in a big way. One of my favorite Stephen King books-right up there with The Shining and Misery.
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March 24, 2012 2:54:05 AM PDT
"Bossypants" by Tina Fey, a LOL read. Fast and fun.
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March 24, 2012 10:53:21 PM PDT
The Bigamist
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March 26, 2012 10:37:33 AM PDT
Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card, nicely filled in the gap in Ender's story.
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March 29, 2012 9:06:10 PM PDT
I just finished Holly's Inbox: Scandal in the City. By Holly Denton. Super funny, very much along the stylings of Sophie Kinsella. Loved it, quick read as the whole book is in email format. I LOVED it! It is the sequel to Holly's Inbox which I read first. Don't be scared by the 600 pages because with the email format it isn't as much text as you would think, but all the hillarity you can want!
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March 30, 2012 10:05:33 AM PDT
Read the "Fifty Shades" series, by E.L. James. Wow!
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March 31, 2012 12:44:58 PM PDT
Just finished Quinn by Iris Johanssen. I was very disappointed in this book. Halfway through, it changed from one set of characters to some old and some new and an entirely different situation of the same story with a different villain, unidentified, after the previous killer had already been executed. There was no explanation of the change. Then at the edge-of-your-seat ending, it left the heroine in an extremely precarious and dangerous position, leaving the readers completely ignorant of the identity of the villain, who was about to kill her, and with no answer to the main question of the whole plot, which was who killed the heroine's daughter and where was her body buried. Extremely frustrating and unprofessional writing, IMHO. It was like she started writing the story, then changed her mind about it's direction and switched gears, then left us hanging at the end like a Part 2 was imminent. I have enjoyed her other books, but this one was crazy.
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April 4, 2012 5:55:31 PM PDT
Must inform "Three Cups..." has fabricated parts. Another james Frey in the house. So mad I read the book.
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April 4, 2012 5:57:12 PM PDT
The Forgotten Garden
The Paris Wife
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
11/22/63 (Stephen King)
Luxe
Rumors
Envy
All worth your time.
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April 4, 2012 9:33:51 PM PDT
Reading Taylor Anderson's Firestorm, the latest in the "Destroyermen" series until the next one comes out this summer. If you like alternative universe/World War II Navy/fantasy you'll like this series about how the destroyermen of the USS Walker go from losing the Dutch East Indies battle to the Japanese in WWII to another world where they and their old ship lead a war of good against evil.
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April 6, 2012 5:17:49 PM PDT
I am "listening" to the Scarpetta novels in order...
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April 19, 2012 5:31:04 PM PDT
Mariana by Susanna Kearsley Her books are great
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April 22, 2012 10:35:31 AM PDT
For anyone who likes memoirs, I would wholeheartedly recommend an author -- Linda Yellin. Her most recent book is called "The Last Blind Date." Excellent read. After starting TLBD, I looked her up and found out she had a previously written book called "Such a Lovely Couple." I finished the first and then read Such a Lovely Couple, which also hinted at some "memoirish" moments. So then after finishing that, I went back and read The Last Blind Date again. I'm not usually a "two-timer," but it was really interesting to connect the threads in the two books. The characters are interesting. There are many funny moments. There are some heartbreaking ones in Such a Lovely Couple -- to the point where I sat with tears running down my face (not usually much of a crier at books), but there is no "locked in a closet, forced to watch my Dad kill the family dog" types of stories typical to memoirs. Hope you pick them both up (also available on Kindle) and let me know what you think!
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April 23, 2012 4:53:26 PM PDT
I am on the 2nd of a book, its called "Taking back". The first one that was quite good was "White Flag of the dead" by Joseph Talluto. It is a zombie, end of the world type book.
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April 24, 2012 7:21:05 AM PDT
Just finished Hunger Games, fast read, didn't like the premise and even more so after I saw the movie!!
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May 1, 2012 8:08:20 AM PDT
I highly recommend 'Steve Jobs' as an extremely interesting book, not only about him but how the company evolved.
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May 3, 2012 3:34:43 AM PDT
I just finished five point some one by chetan baghat
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May 4, 2012 6:19:27 AM PDT
Just finished "Seriously, I'm Kidding...' by Ellen Degeneres on audiobook. Not what I thought it would be, but had a few funny bits! Need to finish 'Unbearable Lightness' by her wife, Portia DeRossi. Hard to listen to as it so depressing!
I would rather start 50 Shades of Gray...
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May 4, 2012 11:41:05 PM PDT
On my Kindle I read Vanessa Williams book. A loving tribute to her dad.
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May 16, 2012 6:03:04 PM PDT
Just finished The Art of Racing in the Rain. Now starting an advanced copy of Winter of the World by Ken Follett. I had lunch with Debbie Macomber last week. She was in town with Random House as part of the launch of The Inn at Rose Harbor. She is a hoot!
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